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• CCP’s History of ‘Broken Promises,’ Human Rights Abuses Harms US, World: Congressional Commission

  10-12-2025 17:39 via article.wn.com
  China has regressed with respect to rule of law, according to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China’s (CECC) 2025 annual report, released Dec....
  
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• Thieves boost $19K worth of bronze plaques from Missouri Humane Society park

  10-12-2025 22:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  One Missouri Humane Society employee called the alleged theft ‘a real kind of gut punch’
  
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• Johnson reveals House GOP won’t allow extension of Obamacare subsidies, leaving 24M Americans at risk

  10-12-2025 22:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  This comes as the Senate tees up a vote on its plan for its own health care bill
  
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• Suspects haul stolen Matisse artworks through Sao Paulo

  10-12-2025 22:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  CCTV footage shows the moment suspected thieves hauled stolen Matisse artworks through the streets of Sao Paulo.
  
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• IOC president Coventry sets early 2026 target for new Olympic policy on gender eligibility

  10-12-2025 22:17 via article.wn.com
  By GRAHAM DUNBAR, Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The IOC set a target Wednesday of early 2026 to detail a new policy on eligibility in female sports that could see transgender athletes excluded from the Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry also stressed the in access to sport being a human right for all people at grassroots and recreational level. The two-time Olympic champion swimmer created a working group after taking office in June to review “p
  
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• Why RHOSLC Jen Shah was released early from prison. Explaining fraud case and sentence

  10-12-2025 22:16 via article.wn.com
  Former reality-TV star Jennifer Shah was released from the minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, on December 10. She was released after nearly completing three years of her six-and-a-half-year sentence for her role in a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme. Jennifer Shah was released early from jail on December 10. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)(AP) She has been moved to a community-confinement program run by the Phoenix Residential Reentry Management Office, according to the U.S.
  
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• Trump: US seized oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela

  10-12-2025 22:16 via article.wn.com
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• Krispy Kreme offers Colorado doughnut lovers dozen for $1 on 1 day only

  10-12-2025 22:16 via article.wn.com
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• Foreign tourists required to disclose 5 years of social media activity in US proposal

  10-12-2025 22:16 via article.wn.com
  The effort is the latest example in the Trump administration's tightening of immigration enforcement since the president returned to office. ......
  
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• Andy Dick family: Who is comedian's wife, Lena Sved? All on their children

  10-12-2025 22:16 via article.wn.com
  Comedian and actor Andy Dick hit the headlines on Wednesday after he suffered an apparent overdose on a California street and was found passed out by a pedestrian. Dick has spoken to the media after the incident on Tuesday (December 9) afternoon saying he is "alive" and recovering. Actor and comedian, Andy Dick.(shquib and andydick on Instagram) The incident, which was captured on video by a passerby, has propelled the comedian and his family into the media limelight. Andy Dick,...
  
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• Widespread protests emerge against Portugal's participation in Eurovision 2026

  10-12-2025 22:15 via article.wn.com
  LISBON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- A majority of the musicians and performers competing in Festival da Cancao 2026 (Song Festival 2026) announced on Wednesday that they will refuse to represent Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 if they win the national competition, in protest against Israel's participation. According to Lusa News Agency, 17...
  
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• U.S. Fed cuts interest rate by 25 basis points

  10-12-2025 22:15 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday decided to lower the target range for the federal funds interest...
  
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• Urgent: U.S. Fed cuts interest rate by 25 basis points

  10-12-2025 22:15 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal...
  
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• Trump says U.S. seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela

  10-12-2025 22:15 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The U.S....
  
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• Roundup: Amid war and poverty, Beirut's artists keep the city's spirit alive

  10-12-2025 22:15 via article.wn.com
  BEIRUT, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- In Beirut, the Lebanese capital scarred by war and battered by economic collapse, a community of artists is turning personal and collective hardship into works that convey creative defiance and persistent belief in the resilience of the city's cultural spirit. For Syrian painter Lina Deeb, who has returned to Beirut after first exhibiting her work in the city in 2019, the city offers a vital space for connection. Deeb's elongated figures and muted tones translate the
  
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• Romania's constitutional court clears tax hikes to take effect on Jan. 1

  10-12-2025 22:15 via article.wn.com
  BUCHAREST, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Romania's Constitutional Court on Wednesday cleared a tax-hike package to take effect on Jan. 1, dismissing an appeal by the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) against the sweeping fiscal law backed by...
  
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• Morocco building collapse death toll rises to 22

  10-12-2025 22:15 via article.wn.com
  RABAT, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from the collapse of two residential buildings in the Moroccan city of Fez has risen to 22, the public prosecutor said on Wednesday, revising an earlier figure of 19. The incident occurred late on Tuesday in the...
  
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• Flash: U.S. Fed cuts interest rate by 25 basis points

  10-12-2025 22:15 via article.wn.com
  Flash: U.S. Fed cuts...
  
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• 2025 Nobel Prizes awarded at Stockholm ceremony

  10-12-2025 22:15 via article.wn.com
  HELSINKI, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The 2025 Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel were awarded on Wednesday at a ceremony held in the...
  
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• UNIFIL condemns Israeli gunfire near peacekeepers in S. Lebanon

  10-12-2025 22:14 via article.wn.com
  BEIRUT, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Wednesday that Israeli forces fired on peacekeepers patrolling the Blue Line in southern...
  
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• Trump’s National Security Strategy Memo Declares Global Culture War

  10-12-2025 22:14 via article.wn.com
  The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy is a pivot to the agenda of online reactionaries. ......
  
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• Russia's foreign trade surplus down 7.8 pct in first 10 months of 2025

  10-12-2025 22:14 via article.wn.com
  MOSCOW, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Russia's foreign trade surplus fell by 7.8 percent year on year to 115.4 billion U.S. dollars from January to October in 2025, the Federal Customs Service (FCS)...
  
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• ‘Rocky’ Statue to Move to Where It Started: Philadelphia’s Art Museum Steps

  10-12-2025 22:14 via article.wn.com
  It’s a symbol of the city. But is it art? ......
  
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• Portugal's exports to the U.S. extend downward trend in Q3

  10-12-2025 22:14 via article.wn.com
  LISBON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Portugal's exports to the United States fell by 50 million euros (about 58 million U.S. dollars) year-on-year in the third quarter of...
  
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• Norwegian PM discusses regional stability, trade with Latin American leaders

  10-12-2025 22:14 via article.wn.com
  OSLO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store held separate bilateral meetings on Wednesday with the presidents of Ecuador, Panama, and Paraguay, discussing regional stability, trade, and international cooperation, the Norwegian government said in a...
  
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• Japan provides $5.37 million to support sustainable return and reintegration in Syria

  10-12-2025 22:14 via article.wn.com
  Damascus, Dec. 11(SANA) Chargé d’Affaires of the Japanese Embassy in Syria, Tsuji Akihiro, and Special Coordinator for Syria, together with Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, UNHCR Representative in Syria, signed the partnership grant documents provided by Japan to Syria under the project “Humanitarian Protection for Sustainable Return and Reintegration,” valued at approximately US$5.37 million, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus. Tsuji told SANA that Japan and Syria share a long
  
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• France and Germany honour “Caesar” with Human Rights Award

  10-12-2025 22:14 via article.wn.com
  Paris , Dec. 10 (SANA) French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, and...
  
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• Breaking: US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Trump says

  10-12-2025 22:14 via article.wn.com
  US President Donald Trump says it is "the largest one ever seized". ......
  
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• Australia prompts US to consider kids' social media ban

  10-12-2025 22:14 via article.wn.com
  As Australians under 16 lose their social media accounts, influential Republicans and Democrats are pushing the US Congress to consider a similar ban for children under 13. ......
  
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• Zelenskiy says he discussed with Ukrainian parliament ways of holding election

  10-12-2025 22:13 via article.wn.com
  Dec 10 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
  
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