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Boletín 379
07 Nov - 14 Nov 2025

Syria to join US-led coalition to defeat IS group after Trump meeting
BBC NEWS
The announcement came as President Donald Trump met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House - the first such visit from a Syrian leader in the country's history.

Las explosiones en India y Pakistán ponen en vilo a la región
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Los atentados en las capitales de India y Pakistán sucedieron solo con un día de diferencia y fueron casi idénticos en daños y repercusiones: hubo una decena de muertos en cada explosión, las más mortíferas en ambas ciudades en más de una década.

China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
THE JAPAN TIMES
Tensions between Tokyo and Beijing have escalated further over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks suggesting Japan could intervene militarily if China uses force against Taiwan, this time prompting Beijing to warn that such a move would trigger a military response against Japan.

South Africa starts clinical trials on first locally developed oral cholera vaccine
AFRICA NEWS
Researchers and scientists in South Africa on Tuesday have launched clinical trials on the first domestically manufactured vaccine in over 50 years.

Trump’s US boycott of G20 summit is ‘their loss’, South Africa says
ALJAZEERA
The US has ratcheted up tensions with South Africa over widely rejected claims of persecution of white minority Afrikaners, which it vehemently denies, and its push for Israeli accountability over the genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Ivory Coast sees 'unusual' flow of refugees fleeing Mali violence
REUTERS
Ivory Coast said it is strengthening security along its northern border in response to "unusual refugee flows" thought to be caused by armed groups' attacks on civilians in neighbouring Mali, which is battling a jihadist insurgency.

El impulso de Australia hacia la energía verde y las relaciones con el Pacífico sufren un revés por estancamiento de la COP31
FORBES
Australia corre el riesgo de socavar sus esfuerzos por consolidarse como líder en la transición hacia la energía verde y de defraudar a sus vulnerables vecinos insulares del Pacífico si fracasa su candidatura para albergar la mayor cumbre climática del próximo año, afirman diplomáticos y analistas.

Cook Islands tourism industry concerned by NZ funding pause and lack of govt clarity
PACIFIC MEDIA NETWORK
The tourism industry is calling for transparency from the Cook Islands government after New Zealand quietly extended its funding freeze to $29.8 million in the latest twist to the diplomatic fallout between the two governments.

Vanuatu flags expulsion of foreign advisers from government buildings as Nakamal Agreement hangs in balance
ABC
The decision could complicate implementation of the long-delayed and still unsigned Nakamal Agreement, although Vanuatu's government has struck an optimistic note on the pact, saying it is likely to be inked by both countries before too long.

La Gran Muralla Verde para frenar la expansión del Sáhara avanza, pero se topa con la falta de fondos y la inseguridad en el Sahel
EL PAÍS
Galadima Bulama ya había perdido la cuenta de cuántas veces los fuertes vientos polvorientos del desierto del Sáhara arrancaron el techo de su casa y afectaron la parcela donde cultiva. Cada vez que esto ocurría, él, sus dos esposas y sus siete hijos buscaban un refugio temporal. Bulama vive en la aldea nigeriana de Madugumsumi, en el estado de Jigawa, fronterizo con Níger. En esta aldea de 7.000 habitantes, dedicada a la agricultura, muchos cultivadores han abandonado sus tierras, lo que ha provocado escasez de alimentos y pérdida de ingresos. Cada año, Nigeria pierde unas 35.000 hectáreas de tierra debido al avance de desierto hacia el sur.

‘Reframes history’: fears Māori knowledge diluted in plan to revise New Zealand curriculum
THE GUARDIAN
As cows grazed sleepily in a nearby paddock, then-14-year-old Leah Bell watched as a local Māori elder cried. She was standing at the site of the massacre at Rangiaowhia, where Māori were deliberately burnt to death by the British crown in 1864. The site was just down the road from her Waikato high school. But she had never heard about it; in history, they’d been learning about the American civil war. That “shameful” realisation led Bell and her classmates to organise a 13,000 strong petition to parliament in 2015, as part of a groundswell of young people pushed for the teaching of accurate New Zealand history, including the wars over land, in schools. This was made compulsory in 2023. Now, the government wants to rewrite the history curriculum, removing and revising Māori history content and cutting some Māori words and references to the country’s foundational document, the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) from the overall syllabus.