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Travel disrupted, thousands without power after Storm Gerrit
London [UK], December 29: Thousands of homes remained without power and motorists and rail passengers faced continued disruption after Storm...
Thousands of Palestinians flee central Gaza as Israeli...
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 29: An estimated 150,000 Palestinians are being forced to flee areas of central Gaza, the UN...
US military's secretive X-37B spaceplane ready for launch...
Washington [US], December 29: After weeks of false starts and delays, SpaceX teams prepared again to launch the military's secretive...
Terraform Labs sold unregistered securities, US judge rules...
Washington [US], December 29: A federal judge ruled in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on claims that...
Israeli tanks push deep into central Gaza town,...
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 29: Israeli tanks thrust deep into a town in the central Gaza Strip after days of...
ongo rules out election re-run as observers flag...
Washington [US], December 29: The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) refused opposition calls for a re-run of...
US, Mexico agree to keep border crossings open
Washington [US], December 29: Mexican and U.S. officials agreed to keep border crossings open.
US allies reluctant on Red Sea task force
Washington [US], December 29: U.S. President Joe Biden hoped to present a firm international response to Yemen's Houthi attacks on...
German hospitals face record insolvencies due to rising...
Berlin [Germany], December 28: The situation in Germany's hospitals is "worse than ever before," with insolvencies expected to reach record...
Turkey hits 71 targets in Iraq, Syria in...
Ankara [Turkey], December 28: Turkey has hit 71 sites allegedly linked to Kurdish groups in Syria and northern Iraq during...
In Gaza, 'people lost everything': UNRWA
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 28: The UN agency's director of communications Juliette Touma says people's needs in Gaza are "huge".
Architect of modern EU Jacques Delors dies aged...
Washington [US], December 28: Former European Commission President Jacques Delors - described as the architect of the modern EU -...
Many reported dead in strike in southern Gaza
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 28: A suspected Israeli strike on a building near a hospital in Khan Younis in the...
Dutch Dy PM Sigrid Kaag named UN Humanitarian...
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 28: A veteran Dutch diplomat and outgoing minister who previously held top UN positions has been...
Gaza conflict more than a war of annihilation,...
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 28: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has called the ongoing Israeli onslaught in the Gaza Strip "more...
Iran rejects IAEA report on increased highly enriched...
Tehran [Iran], December 28: The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization has rejected a report by the International Atomic Energy...
Trump wins Michigan state court battle to qualify...
Washington [US], December 28: Donald Trump scored a victory in his fight against challenges to his eligibility to run for...
Turkey's Erdogan says Israeli PM Netanyahu no different...
Ankara [Turkey], December 28: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was no different from Adolf...
Israeli attacks in Gaza add to heavy Palestinian...
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 28: Israeli forces pounded central Gaza by land, sea and air and Palestinian authorities reported dozens...
Moldova's president says Putin must be stopped
Moscow [Russia], December 28: Russian President Vladimir Putin must be stopped in his war against Ukraine or all of Europe...
Russia tells South Korea not to be surprised...
Moscow [Russia], December 28: Russia told South Korea not to be surprised if Moscow retaliates against Seoul for expanding the...
Gold rises on weaker U.S. dollar
Washington [US], December 27: Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose on Tuesday as...
S. Korean banks' lending rate rises for 3rd...
Seoul [South Korea], December 27: South Korean banks' lending rate rose for the third successive month on the prolongation of...
'World not prepared for another pandemic'
Geneva [Switzerland], December 27: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said the world is not yet prepared for a possible...
Over 50 killed in strikes on Gaza
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 27: Dozens of Israeli fighter jets have attacked more than 100 targets in Gaza, the Israel...
33-year-old man held in France for murdering wife...
Paris [France], December 27: French police have arrested a 33-year-old man suspected of murdering his wife and four children.
UN 'gravely concerned' by Israeli bombardment
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 27: The UN's human rights office spokesperson, Seif Magango, said the agency was "gravely concerned" by...