World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 12th November 2025
Today : Tanzania protest deaths. Nigeria cocaine. South Africa Zuma trial. Angola Argentinians blocked. India explosion investigation. Malaysia Thailand Rohingya. Thailand ceasefire paused. South Korea rescue continues. Georgia Turkish plane. Turkiye Imamoglu 2000 years. Poland independence. Brazil COP Newsom. Favela raif. Argentina long sausage.
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Today : Tanzania protest deaths. Nigeria cocaine. South Africa Zuma trial. Angola Argentinians blocked. India explosion investigation. Malaysia Thailand Rohingya. Thailand ceasefire paused. South Korea rescue continues. Georgia Turkish plane. Turkiye Imamoglu 2000 years. Poland independence. Brazil COP Newsom. Favela raif. Argentina long sausage.
SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you.
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Our supporters get access to our weekly news quiz made by us once per week.
We give 10% of our profit to Effective Altruism charities.
You can become a supporter at send7.org/support
Contact us at podcast@send7.org or send an audio message at speakpipe.com/send7
Please leave a rating on Apple podcasts or Spotify.
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Since 2020, SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) has been telling the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Juliet Martin and Niall Moore every morning. Transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets and our weekly world news quiz are available for our amazing supporters at send7.org. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated daily news in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, TEFL teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they use SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is Send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devincenzi. Today is Wednesday, the twelfth of November
twenty twenty five. Starting in Africa today in Tanzania, the
(00:22):
United Nations Human Rights Office has said that it believes
that hundreds of people were killed in protests against disputed
elections last month. Opposition parties and rights groups have previously
stated that more than a thousand people were killed in
the protests. However, this is the first time that the
(00:45):
United Nations has recognized this. In Nigeria's Tinkhan Port in Legos,
a cocaine shipment worth two hundred and thirty five million
dollars has been seized. Nigeria's Drug Enforcement Agency has said
that one thousand kilograms of cocaine was discovered and they
(01:07):
are working with drug agencies from the US and the
UK to determine the origins of the cocaine. In South Africa,
Dudozilla Zuma Sambudla, the daughter of former president Jacob Zuma,
is in court over charges that she incited public violence
(01:28):
and terrorism during riots in twenty twenty one. In July
twenty twenty one, after the arrest of Jacob Zuma. Protests
against his arrest turned into general riots, with many shops,
supermarkets and businesses being looted, which is when many people
steal from a business at the same time. The South
(01:50):
African government says that three hundred and fifty four people
died during the riots. Dodozilla Zuma Sambudla is accused of
using social media to encourage people to riot in Angola.
Three Argentinian footballers, who all play for Athletico Madrid, will
(02:10):
not be able to play a friendly football match against
Angola on Friday because they didn't complete their yellow fever
vaccinations on time. The Argentinian Football Association has said everyone
visiting Angola is required to be vaccinated against yellow fever,
which is a disease carried by mosquitos Asia. India's Prime
(02:37):
Minister Nourendra Modi has said that those responsible for the
car explosion in Delhi on Monday evening will be brought
to justice. Thirteen people are now known to have died
in the explosion near Deli's Red Fort. Indian media was
reporting yesterday that the car belonged to a doctor from
(02:58):
Kashmir and that he was a currently driving the car. However,
his family members said that he was not the type
of person to take part in terrorism. Delhi police have
said that they are treating the explosion as terrorism. Malaysia
and Thailand are searching for missing people in the underman
(03:18):
sea to the west of their shared border after at
least two boats carrying Rohingia refugees have either sank or
gone missing. There are more than a million Rohinggia Muslim
refugees living in refugee camps in Bangladesh after escaping violence
in Myanmar. Malaysia is a common destination for those refugees
(03:42):
to try to reach by boat, despite the long, dangerous
journey that normally takes more than a week. Over the
last few days, twelve bodies have been found in Malaysia
and nine in Thailand. Thailand has announced that it has
paused an ongoing seas fire process with Cambodia after the
(04:02):
explosion of a land mine injured four soldiers on Monday.
Thailand has accused Cambodia of laying more land mines in
border areas since the agreement of a ceasefire in October.
In South Korea, four workers are still missing six days
after part of a power plant collapsed. It is expected
(04:26):
that two of the workers have died. However, it is
not known what has happened to the other two. Since
the building collapsed last Thursday, three bodies have been recovered
from the site and other workers have been rescued. Europe.
In Georgia, a Turkish military cargo plane crashed yesterday after
(04:50):
taking off from Azerbaijan. Twenty people are believed to have
died in the crash. In Turkya mayor of istanbul Ekrum
Imamor is facing more than two thousand years in jail
after the public prosecutor accused Imomongolu of one hundred and
forty two corruption offenses. Imomongolu has been in prison since March,
(05:15):
with his party saying that this is politically motivated and
an attempt to stop Immamogolu from running for president. In Poland,
around one hundred thousand people, including President Karl Nabrotsky, took
part in an independent Day March yesterday. Americas in Brazil
(05:37):
COP thirty. The United Nations thirtieth Climate Change Conference is continuing.
United States President Donald Trump, who has previously called climate
change a hoax or a con job, is not traveling
to Brazil. However, the Democrat governor of California, Gavin Newsom,
(05:57):
is in Brazil and has spoken about the fires in
Los Angeles earlier this year, how climate change is making
home insurance more expensive, and he also criticized Trump for
not sending any representative of the government to Cop thirty understunned.
I got four kids. The hell's going on in my
(06:18):
country now? One person from the administration to show any
respect to any of you. Forget politics, disrespect. We're in Brazil,
one of our great trading partners, one of the world's
great democracies. I mean, how horng to all the you
need rare earth mineral. This is the country we should
be engaging instead of Middle Finger with fifty percent territs.
(06:43):
That's shameful. Also in Brazil, a deadly police raid two
weeks ago did not kill or capture the leaders of
the gangs that it targeted. According to Reuter's News agency's
interpretation of police reports. On the twenty eighth of October,
thousands of police and security services raided gangs in favelas
(07:06):
in Rio de Janeiro, and at least one hundred and
twenty one people were killed, including four police officers, according
to the police, making it the deadliest raid in Favela's ever.
Reports say that none of the senior members of the
gang Commando Vermeo were arrested or killed. And in Argentina,
(07:28):
the city of Tandil has broken the world record for
making the longest salami. Tandil is known for its salami
the cured sausage. At the Chakinad festival in Tandil, there
were various competitions involving salami like speed wrapping, and the
city came together to make the world's longest salami, breaking
(07:52):
its own record from last year with a length of
four hundred and eighty seven meters. A big thangqu to
Stefan in France for becoming our newest supporter. If you
enjoy this podcast, please consider becoming a Send seven supporter
like Stefan. As well as keeping this podcast running, you
(08:13):
will also get access to our transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets,
and a weekly world news quiz. Just go to sendseven
dot org tomorrow you will be with niall Moore. Have
a great day.
Good morning. This is Send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devincenzi. Today is Wednesday, the twelfth of November
twenty twenty five. Starting in Africa today in Tanzania, the
(00:22):
United Nations Human Rights Office has said that it believes
that hundreds of people were killed in protests against disputed
elections last month. Opposition parties and rights groups have previously
stated that more than a thousand people were killed in
the protests. However, this is the first time that the
(00:45):
United Nations has recognized this. In Nigeria's Tinkhan Port in Legos,
a cocaine shipment worth two hundred and thirty five million
dollars has been seized. Nigeria's Drug Enforcement Agency has said
that one thousand kilograms of cocaine was discovered and they
(01:07):
are working with drug agencies from the US and the
UK to determine the origins of the cocaine. In South Africa,
Dudozilla Zuma Sambudla, the daughter of former president Jacob Zuma,
is in court over charges that she incited public violence
(01:28):
and terrorism during riots in twenty twenty one. In July
twenty twenty one, after the arrest of Jacob Zuma. Protests
against his arrest turned into general riots, with many shops,
supermarkets and businesses being looted, which is when many people
steal from a business at the same time. The South
(01:50):
African government says that three hundred and fifty four people
died during the riots. Dodozilla Zuma Sambudla is accused of
using social media to encourage people to riot in Angola.
Three Argentinian footballers, who all play for Athletico Madrid, will
(02:10):
not be able to play a friendly football match against
Angola on Friday because they didn't complete their yellow fever
vaccinations on time. The Argentinian Football Association has said everyone
visiting Angola is required to be vaccinated against yellow fever,
which is a disease carried by mosquitos Asia. India's Prime
(02:37):
Minister Nourendra Modi has said that those responsible for the
car explosion in Delhi on Monday evening will be brought
to justice. Thirteen people are now known to have died
in the explosion near Deli's Red Fort. Indian media was
reporting yesterday that the car belonged to a doctor from
(02:58):
Kashmir and that he was a currently driving the car. However,
his family members said that he was not the type
of person to take part in terrorism. Delhi police have
said that they are treating the explosion as terrorism. Malaysia
and Thailand are searching for missing people in the underman
(03:18):
sea to the west of their shared border after at
least two boats carrying Rohingia refugees have either sank or
gone missing. There are more than a million Rohinggia Muslim
refugees living in refugee camps in Bangladesh after escaping violence
in Myanmar. Malaysia is a common destination for those refugees
(03:42):
to try to reach by boat, despite the long, dangerous
journey that normally takes more than a week. Over the
last few days, twelve bodies have been found in Malaysia
and nine in Thailand. Thailand has announced that it has
paused an ongoing seas fire process with Cambodia after the
(04:02):
explosion of a land mine injured four soldiers on Monday.
Thailand has accused Cambodia of laying more land mines in
border areas since the agreement of a ceasefire in October.
In South Korea, four workers are still missing six days
after part of a power plant collapsed. It is expected
(04:26):
that two of the workers have died. However, it is
not known what has happened to the other two. Since
the building collapsed last Thursday, three bodies have been recovered
from the site and other workers have been rescued. Europe.
In Georgia, a Turkish military cargo plane crashed yesterday after
(04:50):
taking off from Azerbaijan. Twenty people are believed to have
died in the crash. In Turkya mayor of istanbul Ekrum
Imamor is facing more than two thousand years in jail
after the public prosecutor accused Imomongolu of one hundred and
forty two corruption offenses. Imomongolu has been in prison since March,
(05:15):
with his party saying that this is politically motivated and
an attempt to stop Immamogolu from running for president. In Poland,
around one hundred thousand people, including President Karl Nabrotsky, took
part in an independent Day March yesterday. Americas in Brazil
(05:37):
COP thirty. The United Nations thirtieth Climate Change Conference is continuing.
United States President Donald Trump, who has previously called climate
change a hoax or a con job, is not traveling
to Brazil. However, the Democrat governor of California, Gavin Newsom,
(05:57):
is in Brazil and has spoken about the fires in
Los Angeles earlier this year, how climate change is making
home insurance more expensive, and he also criticized Trump for
not sending any representative of the government to Cop thirty understunned.
I got four kids. The hell's going on in my
(06:18):
country now? One person from the administration to show any
respect to any of you. Forget politics, disrespect. We're in Brazil,
one of our great trading partners, one of the world's
great democracies. I mean, how horng to all the you
need rare earth mineral. This is the country we should
be engaging instead of Middle Finger with fifty percent territs.
(06:43):
That's shameful. Also in Brazil, a deadly police raid two
weeks ago did not kill or capture the leaders of
the gangs that it targeted. According to Reuter's News agency's
interpretation of police reports. On the twenty eighth of October,
thousands of police and security services raided gangs in favelas
(07:06):
in Rio de Janeiro, and at least one hundred and
twenty one people were killed, including four police officers, according
to the police, making it the deadliest raid in Favela's ever.
Reports say that none of the senior members of the
gang Commando Vermeo were arrested or killed. And in Argentina,
(07:28):
the city of Tandil has broken the world record for
making the longest salami. Tandil is known for its salami
the cured sausage. At the Chakinad festival in Tandil, there
were various competitions involving salami like speed wrapping, and the
city came together to make the world's longest salami, breaking
(07:52):
its own record from last year with a length of
four hundred and eighty seven meters. A big thangqu to
Stefan in France for becoming our newest supporter. If you
enjoy this podcast, please consider becoming a Send seven supporter
like Stefan. As well as keeping this podcast running, you
(08:13):
will also get access to our transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets,
and a weekly world news quiz. Just go to sendseven
dot org tomorrow you will be with niall Moore. Have
a great day.
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