On February 7 in Dubai, Alfie Davis of Great Britain and Usman Nurmagomedov of Russia will contest the PFL lightweight title.
The 33-year-old Davis will win $500, 000 (£369, 000) in his first fight since defeating Gadzhi Rabadanov in the PFL lightweight tournament final in August.
Nurmagomedov, 27, made his fourth comeback against Irishman Paul Hughes last month, winning a close fight.
The winner of the match at Coca-Cola Arena will be Nurmagomedov, who is cousin to former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.
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Three months prior, Davis and Nurmagomedov’s teammate Radadanov had a major upset.
He described the prize money he won from the tournament as “life-changing” and said it was his best career so far.
After 2022’s featherweight Brendan Loughnane and women’s flyweight Dakota Ditcheva last year, Davis is the third Briton to win an annual PFL championship.
The headliner in Dubai will be Usman Nurmagomedov’s third appearance, but this time around he faces a new challenge, according to PFL CEO John Martin. “Usman Nurmagomedov is an undefeated and dominant superstar,” he said.
The Federal Government must adhere to certain requirements before the ongoing strike can be suspended, according to the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD).  ,
Mohammed Suleiman, the president of Nard, argued on Thursday’s morning program on Channel Television that only full implementation of the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) would lead to progress.
The federal government must reinstate “Logoja 5,” release the implementation professional allowance table, pay promotion arrears, and pay outstanding salary arrears, make sure all conciliation decisions are made accurately, pay the specialist allowance to conmess 5 officers, and resolve the membership certificate issue.
The President stated that there are 19 demands for the Association, noting that there have already been three conciliation sessions with the federal government.
He claimed that both parties agreed on timelines for all 19 issues, stating that “there is nothing new on the table” because the issues have persisted for years and have repeatedly been violated.
There are 19 demands, according to the federal government, and of those 19 demands, the federal government has met with the federal government for three conciliations. There is nothing new on the table because these discussions have been ongoing for years, and previous agreements have been broken by the government.
According to Dr. Suleiman, Nard discussed paybacks for federal government medical officers who had been promoted up until 2018 but still haven’t received payment.
He noted that the minister of finance, who had promised to send the arrears to the association, “I can’t pay right away, but I can create a payment plan,” both sides agreed that the arrears would be compiled by Friday. He pointed out that Nard was unaware that the compilation was even finished as of Thursday.
We talked about medical officer promotions that were in arrears. These doctors who serve in the federal government have been promoted from 2018 to 2018, with no promotions due.
We agreed that these promotion arrears will be calculated, that they will be compile as at Friday last week, and that the finance minister will be able to negotiate a payment plan after one of the conciliations. As of Friday, we made the concession that was agreed to occur. Although it is Thursday, we are still unsure whether the compilation has been completed, nor whether it was even sent to the Ministry of Finance for their own input so that we can work through it.
He claimed that some doctors are owed between three and twenty months in various institutions in the area of pay arrears. Contrary to the assurances and agreement made by Finance Minister Wale Edun, he confirmed that the arrears had been completed and verified by Friday, but they have not been forwarded to the Ministry of Finance or the Budget Office for the next stage of processing.
The issues with the salary arrears are what some doctors in various institutions have between three and twenty months of salary arrears. We also agreed that the compilation would be finished on Friday, which the ministry of finance and the budget office have confirmed but that neither the ministry of finance nor the budget office have been notified. According to the misnister of finance chief wale edun, who was very willing to provide us with a pay plan that hasn’t been implemented, “we have agreed that this will be done.”
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Dr. Suleiman described the professional allowance table dispute as “an injustice of over seven years,” noting that the practice has been changed since 2014 to include adjustments to allowances as well.
He claimed that only 45 to 60% of doctors’ allowances are currently received. and added that delays persist despite the fact that calculations and tables have been completed and that everyone has agreed they should be made available and put into use.
We with the federal government agreed that the professional allowance table was an injustice of more than seven years. since 2014, the review of the basic salary. As I’m chatting with you right now, doctors only receive about 45 to 60 percent of their paychecks. Everyone agreed that the calculations had been made at the final salary that was given. You start to hear a lot of stories once the tables have been set up, they are released, and they are put into practice.
He claimed that the federal government had already called a national executive council meeting ahead of the release of the tables and other agreed items, but that another two weeks later that the document would be “required” by the president.
In light of the release of some of these tables and agreements, we even called a national executive council meeting, but we were informed that an MoU would be signed by all of us, and that it would only be available for another two weeks. What’s the plan then? The MoU was signed by us. We suspended the strike, and within two weeks, we were hearing yet another story.
Numerous international news outlets claim that the US and Russia have come up with a new strategy to end the Russian-Ukraine conflict.
Under the plan, which covers 28 points, Kyiv would be required to concede weapons and territory.
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The news comes one day before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to meet US army officials in Kyiv on Thursday.
What we currently know about the plan and what concessions Kyiv would have to make.
Is this a formal proposal, or not?
No. Russia has even refuted the existence of such a peace plan, and the US has not yet made an official announcement about it.
However, unnamed sources have been cited in reports from a number of news outlets. US digital news outlet Axios and the United Kingdom’s Financial Times newspaper were the first to report details of the plan on Wednesday.
The US has “signalled” to Zelenskyy, according to two unnamed sources with knowledge of the situation who later obtained a Reuters quote from a source close to the investigation. According to other reports, this would be exchanged for US security guarantees.
The Financial Times quoted an unnamed official saying the proposal is “heavily tilted towards Russia” and “very comfortable for]Russian President Vladimir] Putin”. The official’s name is not specified. According to the Financial Times, the plan’s authors claimed that only Russian and US officials had been involved in the process.
The newspaper added that the US had informed Ukraine of the plan via Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, this week.
According to an unnamed US official with “direct knowledge,” Axios reported that the plan would grant Russia access to areas of eastern Ukraine that Moscow does not currently control in exchange for a security guarantee for Ukraine and Europe against upcoming Russian aggression.
However, according to Keir Giles, a Russian military expert at Chatham House in London, the idea may not even be from the US. He described the way news of the plan had emerged as a “Russian information operation rather than the basis of reality, which Western media has willingly bought into yet again” in an interview with Al Jazeera.
Witkoff said on Wednesday in response to a post on X with a link to the Axios story: “He must have got this from K.” The 28-point plan’s existence was not explicitly confirmed or refuted by him.
The post, which Witkoff may have “thought was a direct message” to someone else, Giles said, has since been deleted.
According to Giles, “K” could refer to Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), or Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy for the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Dmitriev is listed as one of the “architects” of the new proposal in a report from the Financial Times.
Students preparing to be firefighters gather in front of an apartment building that was hit on Wednesday by a Russian missile in Ternopil, Ukraine, November 20, 2025]Thomas Peter/Reuters]
What have Ukrainian and US officials said?
The White House has not made any comment on the situation.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on X that the US “will continue to develop a list of potential ideas for ending this war based on input from both sides of this conflict”.
Rubio continued, “Ending a complex and deadly war like the one in Ukraine calls for a lot of serious and realistic ideas exchange. And both parties will need to consent to difficult but necessary concessions in order to reach a lasting peace.
Zelenskyy, who was holding talks in Turkiye with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, has also not commented on the alleged proposal.
After meeting with Erdogan in Ankara, Zelenskyy said on Telegram that the key to stopping the bloodshed and achieving lasting peace is that we work together with all of our partners and that the American leadership stays strong and effective.
Only the US and Trump “have sufficient strength to finally put an end to the war,” Zelenskyy claimed.
What has been reported about the terms of the plan?
The plan includes 28 specific, unidentified points, according to Axios. Overall, it would give Russia complete control of the Donbass region, which includes Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, and Crimea in the south, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014 but which is still litigious.
In Donbas, Russia currently controls all of Luhansk and most of Donetsk. Overall, Ukraine still has control over 14.5 percent of the Donbass region, including parts of Donetsk around the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, according to the Institute for the Study of War.
Russia would also be unable to station its troops there, making Ukraine have to completely withdraw its forces from the Donbass. This would also make the area a demilitarized zone.
Axios quoted an unnamed Ukrainian official saying the plan also imposes longer-term limits on the size of Ukraine’s military and its possession of long‑range missiles.
Russia now controls 75% of Zaporizhia and Kherson in southern Ukraine, which border the Black Sea, along with Crimea and the majority of the Donbass region. The existing battle lines in these two regions would be permanently frozen, according to the plan. The return of any of this territory to Ukraine would be subject to later negotiations.
Would Ukraine benefit from this strategy?
On the surface, analysts claimed that this strategy does not at all benefit Ukraine. “If the plan, as has been suggested to media were implemented, this would leave Ukraine defenceless against the next Russian attack”, Giles said.
He added that Ukraine would become too vulnerable if its army size was reduced and its long-range weapons were restricted. He called the strategy “catastrophic to European security.”
“It seems that Ukrainian armed forces will have to be reduced by 2.5 times]reduced by 60 percent] of its size – that means Ukraine cannot have more than 400, 000 personnel”, Marina Miron, a postdoctoral researcher at the defence studies department at King’s College London, told Al Jazeera, based on what she has read about the plan. Additionally, it states that Ukraine shouldn’t possess long-range missile capabilities capable of attacking Russia. Then Crimea and the regions under Russian control would both be officially recognized.
“This plan seems to obviously favour Russia, and it is interesting to see whether the United States can exert enough leverage on Ukraine and on Zelenskyy to accept this plan”, Miron said.
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How has Trump’s position evolved over time?
Trump has flip-flopped on the issue of Ukraine ceding land to Russia several times this year.
Trump suggested late last month that Ukraine’s current battle lines be frozen, and what not.
You let it continue as it is now. They can … negotiate something later on down the line”, Trump told reporters on Air Force One in October. Russia, which has made it clear that it is determined to achieve its war goal of removing Ukraine’s military from Moscow’s eastern regions, rejected this strategy.
This plan was initially supported by Ukraine and its allies in Europe. “The current line of contact should be the starting point of negotiations”, they said in a joint statement. Ukraine, which had previously urged reclaiming all of its land, saw a change in this regard.
Trump’s position on the matter also changed, and on September 23 he asserted that the European Union and NATO could assist in bringing back all of its territory, which Russia had seized since the start of the war.
“With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option”, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform back then.
Trump stated on August 11 that the two countries would have to renounce their respective territories in order for the war to end. He stated to reporters that Russia had taken some of Ukraine’s “very prime territory” and that it would “try to get some of that territory back.” At this point, Zelenskyy rejected the idea of conceding any land.
Trump and Zelenskyy met in the Oval Office in February of this year. Zelenskyy was berated by Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, at this meeting for not showing up enough to win the American war so far.
Trump indicated that ending the war would require Ukraine to give up some territory, telling Zelenskyy: “You should be grateful. You are trapped there, your people are dying, and you have a shortage of soldiers.
Trump vowed to end the Ukraine war in his first 24 hours of presidency, in preparation for the US election last year. Trump was inaugurated in late January this year, and about 11 months later, all his attempts at peace talks have been unsuccessful.
Since February 2022, the conflict in Ukraine has been dragging on. At least 26 people were killed and several others were hurt in a Russian aerial attack on Ternopil in western Ukraine on Wednesday, according to Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko.
What will happen next?
Miron said that because of its significant favoring of Russia, Ukraine and Europe will reject this plan if it is presented.
“Ukraine and Europe will have their own demands as we go through a second cycle of rewriting the plan.” Allegedly, Zelenskyy had a plan of his own in Turkiye which was put together with his European allies”, Miron said.
The plan will likely start a “diplomatic game,” she continued if the reports about the plan are accurate.
Trump can always say, “Well, we came with a plan to you and you rejected it,” if Ukrainians and Europeans reject the plan. And so you are in the way to achieve a lasting peace'”.
More than 170 climbers were safely evacuated as a result of Mount Semeru’s sudden eruption, according to Indonesian authorities.
The Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation’s head, Priatin Hadi Wijaya, stated in a video news conference on Thursday that “they are safe and are now being helped to return.”
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On Wednesday, at least 178 people climbed the 3, 676-meter (12, 060-foot) mountain in the Lumajang district of East Java province, including climbers, porters, guides, and tourism officials, and left stranded at the camping area Ranu Kumbolo.
Hetty Triastuty, a representative at the center, added that Ranu Kumbolo is a safe haven away from the crater’s main danger zone, 8 kilometers (5 miles).
A pyroclastic flow appears on an aerial photograph of the Mount Semeru’s eruption in Lumajang, East Java, on November 19, 2025.
The camping area is located on the mountain’s northern slope, which is not in the way of the observed south-southeast moving hot cloud flow.
The climbers may have been exposed to volcanic ash, though.
On Wednesday afternoon, the eruption of Mount Semeru in eastern Java caused officials to raise the alert status to its highest level by dumping ash and gas more than 13 kilometers (8 miles) away.
Semeru is Indonesia’s highest peak, and it is located on the “Ring of Fire,” a seismically active arc where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common.
Still being traumatized
According to Sultan Syafaat, a representative for the disaster management agency, nearly 900 people were sheltered after the eruption in schools, mosques, and village halls.
They spend the night [in shelters], he said, likely because they are still traumatized.
Faiz Ramadhani, a resident, claimed the eruption had been “very horrible”.
It was like midnight at that time, four in the afternoon, four. The 20-year-old described the situation as “very dark.”
Some of the homes close to the volcano had rock fragments and volcanic ash buried in places.
The village leader of Supiturang, Nurul Yakin Pribadi, described how shocked he was to discover that his home had been damaged.
He told AFP that his house had a metre-high spill of [volcanic] materials. “Many people’s homes were ruined,” the statement read.
In the past 200 years, Semeru, also known as Mahameru, has erupted numerous times, most recently in the deadly 2021 episode that left 62 people dead and encircling villages in hot ash.
Indonesia has nearly 130 active volcanoes, more than any other nation, and Semeru’s frequent activity is closely monitored due to the dangers it poses to nearby towns, transportation routes, and aviation.
In Supiturang village in Lumajang, East Java province, Indonesia, on November 20, 2025, locals ride motorcycles as Mount Semeru spews volcanic ash in the background [Dipta Wahyu/Reuters]
Following a request from the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, US President Donald Trump says he will support efforts for peace in Sudan. His pledge comes as the UN calls for justice for the victims of the “horror show” and “crime scene” in El-Fasher, which the UN has referred to as “a crime show.”
In a recently revealed bombshell email exchange, convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein talks about Andrew with Landon Thomas Jr., a New York Times reporter, and makes claims that the former prince engaged in “consensual sex” with an Epstein employee.
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As pressure mounts on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, an email exchange has emerged which discusses claims the former duke having ‘consensual sex’ with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s employees(Image: PA)
A private email exchange claiming that the former Duke of York and one of Jeffrey Epstein’s employees had “consensual sex” has become a public as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is under increasing pressure to testify in court regarding the Epstein files has emerged.
The 65-year-old’s titles were removed last month as a result of King Charles III’s unprecedented decision, and all other Crown-related official patronages and military appointments were terminated. Andrew, who no longer adheres to the ‘His Royal Highness’ style, has also been ordered to move to a property on Norfolk’s Sandringham estate.
This upheaval comes after Andrew’s friendship with the late paedophile Epstein, who passed away in 2019, has sparked years of controversy. Most significantly, Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein whistleblower, claimed that Andrew had sex with her on three separate occasions while she was a teenage trafficking victim, and that she has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
In his now-infamous 2019 Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, Andrew has consistently refuted these claims, saying, “I have no memory of ever meeting this lady, none at all.” Virginia, who passed away in April of this year, reiterated her claims in her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, saying that he was “friendly enough but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.”
An email exchange between Epstein and a former New York Times reporter, Landon Thomas Jr., which discusses Andrew, has gained attention this week as US lawmakers voted 427 to 1.
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According to The Telegraph, Epstein wrote to Thomas Jr. in January 2015, warning him that he might be cleared of any guilt over accusations that his ex-girlfriend had traveled with him to have trafficked young women for sex. Epstein’s former life, which he fought with international elites, had long since completely lost its foundation.
He admitted guilt in 2008 to the state’s charges of soliciting prostitution with a minor under the age of 18 and both of those counts. The pedophile was four years away from his second arrest, this time facing federal charges for sex trafficking of minors in both Florida and New York, when this email exchange occurred.
Thomas Jr, who was advising Epstein at the time, wrote, “I believe the biggest issue is separating yourself from Andrew. I mean, I get the point where a statement might be helpful, but Andrew is keeping the story going, not Clinton and the rest.
The story lives on until you can come forward and address that, Thomas Jr wrote in an email to Epstein, which appears to point to a close relationship between the two. In the end, he and [redacted] had consensual sex. And [redacted] was successful for you. The atmospheres are what. You’ve advanced a lot! People don’t understand that and won’t accept it unless you say so themselves.
Thomas Jr. claimed Epstein hadn’t informed him that the employee had sex with Andrew, clarifying that he was repeating what he had been told in the news when contacted by the publication for comment. He continued, “She never told me that she had sex with Andrew.” I just read in the press that he had consensual sex with her, which is exactly what I said.
Last week, President Donald Trump called for the Justice Department and the FBI to “investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton”. However, no Epstein survivor or associate has ever made any public allegations against the former president, who has denied having knowledge of the serious crimes committed by Epstein.
A Clinton Foundation spokesman told ABC News that the emails he sent and received were discovered by the House Oversight Committee last week, which included thousands of documents from Epstein’s estate. The rest is noise intended to obstruct shutdowns, backfiring elections, and whatnot.
Officials claim that the US could take lessons from King Charles and the UK’s “urgency” by sacking Andrew and removing Peter Mandelson, the former UK ambassador to Washington. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna warned Andrew that he might be dragged before the House of Congress to give testimony while speaking outside the Capitol building alongside Republican Rep. Thomas Massie.
He added, “I do believe Prince Andrew needs to testify before our oversight committee, which can be bipartisan.” However, I agree with Massie that the urgency that the British people have shown to bring justice needs to be sparked by this urgency here in America.
Today (November 20) marks the formal deadline for Andrew to respond to a letter, sent by Representative Robert Garcia, of Congress’s House Oversight Committee, who has requested the royal partake in a “transcribed interview” regarding his established relationship with Epstein.
We request that you respond to the Committee’s interest by November 20, 2025, given the urgency and gravity of this matter. The House of Representatives’ principal oversight committee, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
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