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• Canada’s Air Transat to suspend flights following strike notice from pilots union

  07-12-2025 16:01 via article.wn.com
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• Trump blasts European leaders as weak and claims countries are decaying in row over Ukraine deal

  10-12-2025 08:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  US president launches tirade against European nations over migration and the war in Ukraine
  
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• ‘Going to make a call’: Trump to intervene amid renewed Thailand-Cambodia clashes

  10-12-2025 07:59 via article.wn.com
  United States President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (local time) that he has to “make a phone call” on Wednesday over renewed clashes between Thailand and Cambodia. He made the remarks while addressing his supporters in Pennsylvania. While talking about the clashes between Thailand and Cambodia, Donald Trump said, "Who else could say, 'I'm going to make a phone call and stop a war of two very powerful countries'?" (Getty Images via AFP) The recent clashes between Thailand and Cambod
  
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• Rafa Marquez to take charge of Mexico after World Cup

  10-12-2025 07:55 via article.wn.com
  MEXICO CITY, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Rafael Marquez will take over as manager of Mexico's national team after next year's FIFA World Cup, the head of the country's football...
  
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• Pumas near deal for Colombia's James Rodriguez

  10-12-2025 07:55 via article.wn.com
  MEXICO CITY, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Pumas UNAM are close to signing Colombian midfielder James Rodriguez on a free transfer,...
  
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• Australian teens bid farewell to social media as world-first ban comes into force: ‘See you ...

  10-12-2025 07:49 via article.wn.com
  Ban requires 10 largest social networks to lock out children under 16 or face hefty fines...
  
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• Cookie palooza Numbers revealed for World’s Largest Cookie Exchange

  10-12-2025 07:48 via article.wn.com
  Cookie palooza Numbers revealed for World’s Largest Cookie Exchange Organizers of what was billed as the World’s...
  
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• Taoiseach tells Trump: European Union is strong, not weak

  10-12-2025 07:45 via article.wn.com
  The Taoiseach has said he disagrees with US President Donald Trump, who described the European Union as "weak" and accused member states of letting Ukraine fight "until they drop". Mr Trump made the claims in an interview with Politico, in which he also suggested "decaying" European countries had failed to control migration. Speaking today in Dublin, Micheál Martin said: "Europe is strong, not weak." He said that "new challenges" had emerged, when it came to defence and security, but he w
  
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• Doctors Back Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Citing Youth Mental Health Issues

  10-12-2025 07:44 via article.wn.com
  Australia’s national prohibition on social-media accounts for children under 16 formally began on Dec. 10, with the Royal...
  
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• Donald Trump says he will ‘make a phone call’ on Cambodia-Thailand clashes

  10-12-2025 07:42 via article.wn.com
  During a rally speech to supporters in the northeastern U.S. State of Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump listed various conflicts he has become involved with diplomatically ......
  
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• ADB trims Philippines' GDP growth outlook for 2025, 2026 as infrastructure spending slows

  10-12-2025 07:38 via article.wn.com
  MANILA, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has revised downward the Philippines' economic growth forecasts for 2025 and 2026 amid reduced public infrastructure spending and tighter scrutiny of government projects, according to the Asian Development Outlook December 2025 released on...
  
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• Nigel Farage’s American dream

  10-12-2025 07:32 via article.wn.com
  When Nigel Farage flew into New York’s JFK Airport for the first time in 1988, he was travelling into the future. Ronald Reagan was the global figurehead of a conservative counter-revolution sweeping the West, one that merged tradition with new money and black-tie balls with the mantra “greed is good”. It was the close of a glossy go-go decade. The Reagans had waltzed on the cover of Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair magazine. John Travolta had swept Princess Diana off her feet in
  
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• Australian teens bid farewell to social media as world-first ban comes into force: ‘See you when I’m 16’

  10-12-2025 07:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ban requires 10 largest social networks to lock out children under 16 or face hefty fines
  
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• Trump's crackdown on immigration is taking a toll on child care workers

  10-12-2025 07:30 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Not long after...
  
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• Supreme Court hears Alabama's appeal to execute a man found to be intellectually disabled

  10-12-2025 07:30 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled. ......
  
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• Social media ban for children under 16 starts in Australia

  10-12-2025 07:30 via article.wn.com
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian...
  
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• Rod Paige, nation's first African American to serve as secretary of education, dies at 92

  10-12-2025 07:30 via article.wn.com
  Rod Paige, an educator, coach and administrator who rolled out the nation's landmark No Child Left Behind law as the first African American to serve as U.S. education secretary, died Tuesday. ......
  
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• Pacific Northwest braces for more heavy rain, after powerful storm caused flooding, rescues

  10-12-2025 07:30 via article.wn.com
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Pacific Northwest residents braced for another round of heavy rain Wednesday after a powerful storm clobbered the region the day before, swelling rivers, closing roads and prompting high water rescues. ......
  
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• Syria Alawite Women

  10-12-2025 07:27 via article.wn.com
  FILE- Syrian security forces inspect...
  
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• Southeast Asia Offshore Wind

  10-12-2025 07:27 via article.wn.com
  FILE -Participants wear wind turbine headgear to raise peoples awareness on renewable energy, fix their costumes during the Global Day of Action Against Climate Change ,Dec. 8, 2007 in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. ......
  
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• Nepal Corruption

  10-12-2025 07:27 via article.wn.com
  A general view of the Pokhara Airport in Pokhara, Nepal, April 20, 2025. ......
  
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• More glittering royal jewels displayed while Paris is still uneasy over the Louvre robbery

  10-12-2025 07:27 via article.wn.com
  A glittering exhibition of royal...
  
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• Australia 'taking back control' from tech giants with social media ban

  10-12-2025 07:27 via article.wn.com
  Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said the country is "taking back control" from powerful tech giants with landmark laws banning children under 16 from social media. He said the move was "Australia showing enough is...
  
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• UNICEF calls for urgent action for 5 mln displaced children in Sudan

  10-12-2025 07:19 via article.wn.com
  UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday called for urgent action to safeguard 5 million children displaced by conflict in Sudan, where famine has been declared in parts of Darfur and Kordofan regions. UNICEF estimates that 10 million people have been displaced in Sudan -- half of them children, marking the highest level of child displacement in the world. The agency said children trapped...
  
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• UK Retail Sales Growth Slows Despite Black Friday Promotions

  10-12-2025 07:19 via article.wn.com
  Retail sales in Britain rose 1.4 percent year on year in November, the weakest growth in six months despite heavy Black Friday promotions, the British Retail Consortium said Tuesday. The figure fell below the 12‑month average growth rate of 2.5 percent. Food sales increased 3 percent, compared with an...
  
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• Russia Says 374 Terrorism-Related Crimes Prevented in 2025

  10-12-2025 07:19 via article.wn.com
  Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee said Tuesday it prevented 374 terrorism-related...
  
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• EU Opens Antitrust Probe Into Google’s AI Practices

  10-12-2025 07:19 via article.wn.com
  The European Commission on Tuesday launched an antitrust investigation into whether Google violated European Union competition rules by using content from web publishers and YouTube on unfair terms. The probe will examine whether Google relied...
  
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• Democrat wins Miami mayoral race for 1st time in nearly 30 years

  10-12-2025 07:19 via article.wn.com
  NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Democratic candidate Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayoral race Tuesday night, marking the first time a Democrat has won the office in nearly three decades, according to preliminary election results and projections from multiple U.S. media. Higgins, a...
  
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• 2 U.S. fighter jets enter Venezuelan airspace: media

  10-12-2025 07:19 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Two U.S. F-18 fighter jets entered Venezuelan airspace on Tuesday, circling for about 40 minutes, according to a report from the Miami Herald, a newspaper based in the U.S. state of Florida. FlightRadar24 showed them flying over the northern tip of Lake Maracaibo, above the waters of the Gulf of Venezuela, right between the cities of La Guajira, in Zulia, and Coro, the capital...
  
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• Vietnam set to make it harder for media to protect sources, to expand state secrets

  10-12-2025 07:17 via article.wn.com
  HANOI, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Vietnam's...
  
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