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• Climate talks start with call for faster action and more togetherness, but without the US

  10-11-2025 07:05 via article.wn.com
  U.N. climate negotiations begin Monday...
  
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• Taiwan attacker planned assault that killed 3 and injured 11, authorities say

  20-12-2025 07:17 via article.wn.com
  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese...
  
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• Prisoners freed by Belarus say their passports are taken away in a final 'dirty trick' ...

  20-12-2025 07:17 via article.wn.com
  TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The only...
  
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• Bangladesh violence: Canada issues updated travel advisory

  20-12-2025 07:14 via article.wn.com
  Toronto: The Canadian government has cited the threat of “and politically motivated violence” and attacks on minorities in an updated travel advisory related to Bangladesh. People gather to look at the building of the vandalised office of Prothom Alo newspaper, following the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a student leader, who was undergoing treatment in Singapore after being in shot the head, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Friday. (REUTERS) The fresh outbreak of violence occurred in...
  
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• Explainer: Key takeaways from Putin's annual year-end press conference

  20-12-2025 07:12 via article.wn.com
  MOSCOW, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual year-end press conference in Moscow on Friday, taking nearly 80 questions from domestic and foreign reporters and Russian citizens on a wide range of topics, including international relations, geopolitical landscape, and Russia's economic and military development. The following are the key takeaways from Putin's remarks during his four-and-a-half-hour press conference: RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT Putin reiterated a tough Ru
  
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• Chilly weather claims 4 lives in W. Afghanistan

  20-12-2025 07:12 via article.wn.com
  KABUL, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall have claimed...
  
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• 196,000 stimulant tablets seized in southern Myanmar

  20-12-2025 07:11 via article.wn.com
  YANGON, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar authorities have seized 196,000 stimulant tablets...
  
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• High-speed passenger train kills 7 elephants crossing railway tracks in northeast India

  20-12-2025 07:09 via article.wn.com
  Seven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd in Assam, India. The accident occurred early Saturday. The train's driver saw the herd of about 100 elephants and used ......
  
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• Christmas spirit returns to Bethlehem after ceasefire in Gaza

  20-12-2025 07:09 via article.wn.com
  At midnight on Christmas Eve, the hymn “The Night of Christmas” will ring out in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was born. As a choir rehearsed ahead of this year’s service, members ......
  
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• Artist's battlefield collection captures the lived experience of Ukraine's resistance to invasion

  20-12-2025 07:09 via article.wn.com
  Ukrainian street artist Maxim Kilderov is...
  
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• US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price

  20-12-2025 07:08 via article.wn.com
  Nepal is just one of at least 150...
  
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• Russia Ukraine War Battlefield Museum

  20-12-2025 07:08 via article.wn.com
  Ukrainian street artist Maxim Kilderov holds a Russian ceremonial uniform in his private museum containing collection of battlefield artifacts documenting Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. ......
  
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• Digital Cage Nepal Photo Essay

  20-12-2025 07:08 via article.wn.com
  Nepalese Buddhist women walk back to their homes after an evening walk through monasteries in Lo Manthang village, Mustang, Nepal, April 18, 2025. ......
  
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• Digital Cage Nepal

  20-12-2025 07:08 via article.wn.com
  Sonam Tashi shouts slogans during a demonstration to commemorate the anniversary of the 1959 uprising in Tibet against Chinese rule, in New Delhi, India, March, 10, 2025. ......
  
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• US Afghans in limbo after Washington soldier attack

  20-12-2025 07:07 via article.wn.com
  Afghans who worked alongside US troops during almost two decades of war were once promised a home in the United States to shelter them from the extremist intolerance of the Taliban. ......
  
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• UNSC condemns drone attacks on UN peacekeepers in Sudan

  20-12-2025 07:07 via article.wn.com
  United Nations: The UN Security Council denounced last week's drone strikes on a UN logistics station in Sudan, which killed six Bangladeshi peacekeepers and injured nine others. Members of the Security Council issued a press statement expressing their heartfelt sympathies to the families of the slain...
  
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• England dig in as they chase a record 435 to keep Ashes alive

  20-12-2025 07:07 via article.wn.com
  Zak Crawley and Joe Root dug in Saturday to keep England's faint hopes alive as they chase a record 435 to win the third Test against Australia and save the Ashes. ......
  
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• What to know about the man authorities say fatally shot 2 Brown students and an ...

  20-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Several days of investigations into the Brown University mass shooting and the slaying of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor ended when authorities discovered evidence they say indicates the killings were committed by the same man, who was then found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The attacker at Brown killed two students and wounded nine others in an engineering building on Saturday. Some 50 miles (80 kilometers) away MIT professor Nuno F.
  
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• Train collides with car at rail crossing in Japan's Kyoto

  20-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  TOKYO, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- An express train collided with a car at a railway crossing in the town of Seika, Kyoto Prefecture, on Saturday, police and fire...
  
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• The Latest: Justice Department releases some case files on Jeffrey Epstein

  20-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  The Department of Justice on Friday released some of its records related to its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. The convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world’s most powerful people, including President Donald Trump, who long sought to keep the files sealed. Among the thousands of records released are photos, call logs, grand jury testimony and interview transcripts. Many of the documents have been redacted and at least some have already
  
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• Suspect in Brown University shooting and MIT professor\u2019s killing was once a physics student

  20-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Thirty years ago, Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno F.G. Loureiro were classmates with bright futures. Both excelled in physics and made their way from their home country of Portugal to the U.S., settling on the campuses of prestigious East Coast universities. But Neves Valente’s path took a darker turn than his former peer. Investigators say the 48-year-old fatally shot two students last week at Brown University in Providence, where he was a graduate student in
  
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• Los Angeles Angels settle lawsuit with family of pitcher Tyler Skaggs over fatal overdose

  20-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels reached a confidential settlement Friday with the family of late pitcher Tyler Skaggs after a lengthy trial that detailed drug use by players. The two-month trial centered on whether the Angels bore responsibility for Skaggs' 2019 overdose death on a team trip to Texas after he'd been given a counterfeit oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl by the team's then-communications director, Eric Kay. The last-minute settlement was reached as jurors we
  
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• How surveillance technology and the 'Reddit Detective Agency' helped search for a killer

  20-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — More than a decade ago, a frenzied 5-day search for the Boston Marathon bombers left some lessons in its aftermath. One was that increasingly pervasive surveillance technology could help catch the culprits. Another was that amateur online sleuths on Reddit could not. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. kAmqFE E96 :?E6?D6 D62C49 E9:D H66< 7@C 2 DFDA64E
  
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• AP Trending SummaryBrief at 6:48 p.m. EST

  20-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  Pete Davidson and Elsie Hewitt welcome their 'perfect angel girl' Pete Davidson and Elsie Hewitt have announced the birth of their baby, a girl. Their newborn is named Scottie Rose Hewitt Davidson. They shared the news Thursday on Instagram. The baby is the first for both and was born Dec. 12. Model Hewitt called Scottie her “best work yet.” Davidson added: “wu tang forever.” The baby's name appears to honor Davidson's late father. The New York City firefighter died in th
  
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• AP News Summary at 12:13 a.m. EST

  20-12-2025 07:03 via article.wn.com
  Justice Department releases limited set of files tied to Epstein sex trafficking investigation WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has released thousands of files about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the incomplete document dump Friday did not break significant ground about the long-running criminal investigations of the financier or his ties to wealthy and powerful individuals. The files included a small number of photos of President Donald Trump, sparing the White House
  
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• What If the Future Looked Back at Us? A New Sci-Fi Project Explores Gender, Power, ...

  20-12-2025 07:02 via article.wn.com
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• US tech enabled China\u2019s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price

  20-12-2025 07:02 via article.wn.com
  KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The white dome of Boudhanath rises like a silent guardian over the chaotic sprawl of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, crowned by a golden spire that pierces the sky. Painted on each of the spire’s four sides are the benevolent eyes of the Buddha — wide, calm, and unblinking — said to see all that unfolds below. Those eyes have served as a symbol of sanctuary for generations of Tibetans fleeing the Chinese crackdown in their homeland. But today, Ti
  
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• Trump announces lower drug price deals with 9 pharmaceutical companies

  20-12-2025 07:02 via article.wn.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that nine drugmakers have agreed to lower the cost of their prescription drugs in the U.S. Pharmaceutical companies Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis and Sanofi will now rein in Medicaid drug prices to match what they charged in other developed countries. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your br
  
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• PHOTO ESSAY: Under watch by Chinese tech, the Tibetan community in Nepal is slowly suffocating

  20-12-2025 07:02 via article.wn.com
  KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — In Nepal, the unseen eye has changed Tibetan life. The cameras are not just machines perched on the thick bundles of wires that twist through narrow lanes of Kathmandu in Nepal. They are a presence, an unseen watcher that Tibetans have learned to fear. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for...
  
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• Epstein files released by Department of Justice — latest

  20-12-2025 06:16 via article.wn.com
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