The people of 26 November

Bissau-Guinean president Umaro Sissoco Embaló is detained following a coup d'état one day before provisional election results were expected to be released.

Politics · 26 Nov

Bosnian defence minister Zukan Helez denies approval for Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó to land his military aircraft in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, citing Hungary's support for former Srpska president Milorad Dodik, whom Helez accuses of undermining Bosnia and Herzegovina's sovereignty.

World · 26 Nov · with Péter Szijjártó, Milorad Dodik

Pope Leo XIV begins his first papal trip, first to İznik and Nicaea in Turkey, then to Bkerké, the Monastery of Saint Maron, and the Port of Beirut in Lebanon. The trip will include an ecumenical commemoration of the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea and a mass in honor of the victims of the 2020 Beirut explosion.

Culture · 26 Nov

Nigerian president Bola Tinubu declares a nationwide security emergency and orders the recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers and the deployment of specialised units in response to recent killings and kidnappings.

Politics · 26 Nov

U.S. president Donald Trump announces that South Africa will not be invited to the 2026 G20 summit in Doral, Florida, and that U.S. payments and subsidies to the country will cease, citing South Africa's refusal to transfer G20 hosting responsibilities to a U.S. embassy representative at the 2025 Johannesburg summit and criticizing its treatment of Afrikaners, among other reasons.

World · 26 Nov

A Peruvian court sentences former president Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes from construction companies while serving as governor of Moquegua between 2011 and 2014.

Crime & Justice · 26 Nov

Justice Geoffrey Venning of New Zealand's High Court sentences 45-year-old mother Hakyung Lee to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years after convicting Lee of murdering her two children in 2018.

Crime & Justice · 26 Nov

Georgia's Tbilisi Appeal Court sentences opposition leader Nika Melia to an additional 18 months in prison for contempt of court after he threw water at a judge during a hearing, adding to the eight-month term he has been serving since May for refusing to appear at a parliamentary inquiry.

Crime & Justice · 26 Nov

Uzbek chess grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov wins the 2025 World Cup in Goa, India, at the age of 19, becoming the youngest player to win the event.

Sport · 26 Nov