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• AI Effect on Voting Intentions Three Times Greater in Canada Than in US: Study

  24-12-2025 06:49 via article.wn.com
  Conversations between humans and AI chatbots can significantly influence voters’ decisions, with the impact in Canada potentially...
  
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• Trump team plans to renovate industrial warehouses so they can hold up to 80,000 migrants: report

  24-12-2025 15:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  The warehouses would serve as a second stop for detainees who are being deported
  
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• ‘It’s perpetuated this news cycle’: Frustration mounts in Trump’s orbit about messaging on latest Epstein documents

  24-12-2025 14:57 via article.wn.com
  When the Justice Department released a first batch of Jeffrey Epstein files on Friday that included photographs of former President Bill Clinton, White House officials raced to amplify the importance of the new documents. But days later, amid a second trove that contains several references to President Donald Trump, the White House is pushing a different view: Don’t believe everything you see. Trump officials on Tuesday downplayed the latest disclosure of more than 30,000 files related to
  
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• Greta Thunberg arrested for pro-Palestinian protest under UK terrorism law

  24-12-2025 14:57 via article.wn.com
  Reuters — Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was released from custody after being arrested on Tuesday in London at a pro-Palestinian protest, police said. UK-based campaign group Prisoners for Palestine said Thunberg, 22, was earlier arrested under the...
  
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• China has condemned Trump’s Venezuela blockade. But it may also see some upsides to a ...

  24-12-2025 14:57 via article.wn.com
  Beijing — China has ample reason to oppose the ramp-up of American military pressure on Venezuela and the recent US interceptions of tankers tied to its oil. The US manoeuvres, part of President Donald Trump’s “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned vessels around Venezuela, strike at the economic heart of one of Beijing’s closest Latin American partners – and target an industry that has long benefited China, which in recent months took in roughly 80% of V
  
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• Bomb blast in Moscow kills two police officers, days after apparent assassination of general

  24-12-2025 14:57 via article.wn.com
  Two police officers were killed early Wednesday by a bomb in Moscow, close to the scene of a car bombing that killed a top Russian general two days ago. The two police officers approached a suspicious person who detonated an explosive device near a police car, Russia’s...
  
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• They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.

  24-12-2025 14:53 via article.wn.com
  The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States. ......
  
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• Powerball jackpot soars to $1.7B for Christmas Eve

  24-12-2025 14:53 via article.wn.com
  The Powerball jackpot has soared to $1.7 billion. Since Sept. 6, there have been 46 straight drawings without a big winner. ......
  
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• Turkish FM meets Hamas delegation to discuss Gaza peace plan

  24-12-2025 14:50 via article.wn.com
  ANKARA, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met on Wednesday with a Hamas delegation led by the group's senior member Khalil al-Hayya in Ankara to discuss the situation in Gaza and exchange views...
  
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• More than a third of states sue HHS over a move that could curtail youth ...

  24-12-2025 14:50 via article.wn.com
  It's the latest in a series of clashes between an administration that's cracking down on transgender health care for children and advocates who say the care is medically necessary. ......
  
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• 12 killed in migrant boat capsize off Senegal's coast

  24-12-2025 14:50 via article.wn.com
  DAKAR, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Twelve bodies were recovered early Wednesday off the coast of Joal-Fadiouth in the Mbour...
  
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• Bethlehem celebrates first festive Christmas since Gaza war

  24-12-2025 14:48 via article.wn.com
  Scouts marched under a clear blue sky in Bethlehem on Wednesday, as the Palestinian city emerged from the shadow of the war in Gaza to celebrate its first festive Christmas in more than two years. Throughout the Gaza war that began with Hamas's attack on Israel in October 2023, a sombre tone marked Chistmases in Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus Christ. But celebrations were in full swing again in the occupied West Bank city, as a fragile truce held in the Gaza Strip where hundreds of
  
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• Search teams in Turkey recover recorders after plane crash that killed Libyan military officials

  24-12-2025 14:47 via article.wn.com
  Search teams in Turkey have recovered...
  
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• Dog walker’s priceless reaction to bumping into Prince William goes viral

  24-12-2025 14:47 via article.wn.com
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• Cambodia slams demolition of Lord Vishnu statue by Thai army: ‘Was inside our territory’

  24-12-2025 14:47 via article.wn.com
  Cambodia has slammed Thailand for destroying a Hindu statue in the disputed border area amid the ongoing military clashes between the countries. The Vishnu statue, built in 2014, was toppled by a bulldozer by Thai military engineers. (X) The statue of Lord Vishnu was allegedly destroyed by Thailand military on Monday after over two weeks of military clashes between the two nations. “The statue was inside our territory in the An Ses area,” Kim Chanpanha, a government spokesman in the
  
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• Air India will resume flights to Rome after six years

  24-12-2025 14:45 via article.wn.com
  Mumbai: Air travellers are set to get an enhanced connectivity between India and Europe next year with Tata Group-run Air India announcing resumption of flight services to Rome (Italy) and IndiGo announcing plans to launch its services to London Heathrow from Delhi. Air India, which used to operate its flight services to the Italian capital city from Delhi till early 2020, had to suspend them in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. IndiGo already operates daily, direct flights between Mumbai and L
  
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• Russia plans to create lunar power station by 2036

  24-12-2025 14:40 via article.wn.com
  Russia plans to create a lunar power station by 2036, the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced on Wednesday. The station aims to supply...
  
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• Zambia's economy grows by 3.6 pct in Q3 2025

  24-12-2025 14:35 via article.wn.com
  LUSAKA, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Zambia's economy grew by 3.6 percent in the third quarter of 2025, up from 2.7 percent recorded in the same period last year,...
  
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• Yearender: Resilience, rupture, recalibration -- 2025 through Middle Eastern eyes

  24-12-2025 14:35 via article.wn.com
  by Xinhua writer Guo Yage CAIRO, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- In the closing days of 2025, the Middle East navigates an uneasy transition. In some places, the dust of rebuilding hangs in the air; in others, a constant hum of drones fills the ears. A fragile quiet has settled where ceasefires hold, but it is a nervous stillness, tense and thin. This was a year that ended several major conflicts but delivered no true peace, only a precarious, uneven aftermath where personal resilience is tested daily again
  
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• View of Mount Kilimanjaro through airplane window

  24-12-2025 14:35 via article.wn.com
  Mount Kilimanjaro is pictured through an airplane...
  
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• Time For New Delhi To Choke Dhaka? Bangladesh Turns To India For Rice, But Exporters ...

  24-12-2025 14:35 via article.wn.com
  Bangladesh may be engaged in a diplomatic...
  
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• Tesla drivers are buying emergency tools to avoid being trapped inside

  24-12-2025 14:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tesla’s chief designed said in September that the company was considering potential redesigns to its handles
  
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• Sri Lanka to renovate, relocate schools damaged by Cyclone Ditwah

  24-12-2025 14:35 via article.wn.com
  COLOMBO, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka will renovate schools that can be restored quickly and relocate those in high-risk areas to...
  
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• Chinese Food Festival held in Astana, Kazakhstan

  24-12-2025 14:35 via article.wn.com
  A chef makes hand-pulled noodles during the Chinese Food Festival held in Astana, Kazakhstan, Dec. 24, 2025. The Chinese Food Festival was held on Wednesday in Astana,...
  
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• What corporate media refuses to say about how the world is run

  24-12-2025 14:33 via article.wn.com
  Please share our story! Corporate media dogma perpetuates a false narrative that the West consists of democracies where the popular will is expressed, when in reality,...
  
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• Pope Leo expresses 'much sadness' about Russia refusing Christmas ceasefire

  24-12-2025 14:33 via article.wn.com
  Pope Leo said on Tuesday that he feels "much sadness" that Russia did not agree to a Christmas...
  
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• IN PICS | Christmas celebrations from underwater to around the world - Clone

  24-12-2025 14:32 via article.wn.com
  With a few hours until Christmas, those who celebrate the holiday are doing last-minute preparations to immerse themselves in the festivities on Thursday. Below are pictures from around the world showing how people choose to observe...
  
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• Today in History: December 24, World War I ‘Christmas truce’ begins

  24-12-2025 14:31 via article.wn.com
  Today is Wednesday, Dec. 24, the 358th day of 2025. There are seven days left in the year. This is Christmas Eve. ......
  
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• Kevin Baxter: Nearly a century ago, the first World Cup went off with many hitches

  24-12-2025 14:31 via article.wn.com
  LOS ANGELES — Next summer's World Cup will be the largest, most complex and most lucrative sporting event in history, with 48 teams playing 104 games in three countries. The tournament is expected to draw a global TV audience of ......
  
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• ‘Zelenskyy moves towards dimilitarised zones’: US and Ukraine reach consensus on key issues aimed at ending the war

  24-12-2025 14:29 via article.wn.com
  Providing details of the...
  
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