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Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Star forward Victor Osimhen delivered a dazzling display on Thursday, scoring twice in extra time to secure a 4-1 semifinal triumph for Nigeria over Gabon and booking a spot in the Confederation of African Football (CAF) 2026 World Cup qualifying final against the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Nigerian side now prepare to face a resilient...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Israel has identified the hostage body returned by Hamas on Thursday as that of Meny Godard, who was 73 when he was killed during the 7 October attacks. Red Cross vehicles collected his body hours after Hamas issued a joint statement with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad saying it had been located in the Khan Younis area of southern...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online As France commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Bataclan attacks, the nation is confronted once again with the enduring reality of jihadist threats. The memory of that horrific night in November 2015 remains vivid, not only in the minds of survivors and the families of victims but also in the consciousness of a country that continues to grapple...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Swiss ministers and business leaders have descended on Washington in a high-stakes effort to persuade the Trump administration to reduce the punitive 39% tariffs imposed on Switzerland’s exports to the United States, the steepest levies in Europe. The tariffs, introduced under former President Donald Trump, have hit the Swiss economy hard, affecting a range of industries from luxury...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Germany’s coalition government has reached a landmark agreement to implement a new military service plan aimed at increasing the country’s troop numbers, a decision that follows months of intense debate and negotiation among political parties. The plan, which reintroduces aspects of military service after years of voluntary enlistment, will require all 18-year-old men to fill out a questionnaire...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online In a dramatic and unexpected political shake-up, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has removed Vice-President Benjamin Bol Mel from his position, stripping him of his military rank and other key roles in a move that has intensified concerns about the stability of the world’s youngest nation. Bol Mel, widely considered a potential successor to the 74-year-old Kiir, was...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The Nigerian government has officially reversed a controversial educational policy that mandated the use of indigenous languages as the primary medium of instruction in the early years of schooling, opting instead to restore English as the standard language from pre-primary levels through to university. The abrupt policy change marks a significant shift in the country’s education strategy and...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The United States has called on the international community to take immediate action to cut off the supply of weapons to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have been accused of committing mass atrocities in the city of el-Fasher. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the appeal following a G7 foreign ministers meeting held in Canada,...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online In a dramatic development hours before a scheduled execution, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has commuted the death sentence of Tremane Wood, a 46-year-old prisoner, to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The clemency decision came just as Wood was preparing to face lethal injection on Thursday for his 2004 conviction in a first-degree murder case. Wood had...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The United States Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the state of California over new congressional maps approved by voters last week, alleging that the redistricting gives Democrats an undue advantage and violates constitutional protections. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California, comes amid an intensifying national debate over gerrymandering and the fairness of...