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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...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Israel has confirmed that the body returned by Hamas on Thursday belongs to Meny Godard, a 73-year-old Israeli who was killed during the devastating attacks launched by Hamas on 7 October 2023. The identification was confirmed through forensic testing, following the retrieval of the body by Red Cross vehicles in southern Gaza, specifically in the Khan Younis area....

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Early indications from vote counting in Bihar, one of India’s most politically significant states, show that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its alliance partner, Janata Dal (United) or JD(U), are ahead in the race to form the next state government. Counting began at 08:00 local time (02:30 GMT) and is expected to continue for...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has categorically denied committing crimes against humanity during a deadly crackdown on last year’s uprising that ultimately led to her ousting, speaking to the BBC just days before a special tribunal is set to deliver its verdict. The tribunal, which has been conducting trials in absentia, is expected to rule on allegations...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online England extended their flawless record in World Cup qualifying with a seventh successive victory as they comfortably defeated Serbia at Wembley in a rain-soaked evening that had little drama but plenty of significance for Thomas Tuchel’s squad. With qualification for next summer’s tournament already secured, the match offered an opportunity for the England head coach to experiment, evaluate...