November 12, 2025

Reuters. A Turkish C-130 military cargo plane crashed in Georgia after taking off from Azerbaijan on Tuesday (November 11), prompting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to offer condolences for “our martyrs” as search and rescue crews headed for the scene.   Turkey’s defence ministry announced the crash, near Georgia’s border with Azerbaijan, and said it was…

Reuters. The U.S. Senate on Monday (November 10) approved a compromise that would end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, breaking a weeks-long stalemate that has disrupted food benefits for millions, left hundreds of thousands of federal workers unpaid and snarled air traffic.   The 60-40 vote passed with the support of nearly all…