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• Inside Ukraine’s Daring ‘Operation Spiderweb’ Attack on Russia

  10-12-2025 03:58 via article.wn.com
  Kyiv’s plan to smuggle more than 100 drones into enemy territory required meticulous planning, high-tech gadgets—and luck. ......
  
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• MIT professor fatally shot at his home and police launched a homicide investigation

  17-12-2025 01:25 via article.wn.com
  BROOKLINE, Mass. — A...
  
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• White House rallies around Susie Wiles after unguarded interviews

  17-12-2025 01:23 via article.wn.com
  Trump Administration officials have lined up to defend White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, including leaders she insulted over the course of 11 on-the-record interviews with a writer for the magazine Vanity Fair. Wiles and her allies said the two resulting articles, published today took her out of context and cast the team in a negative light. Joining an outpouring of supportive statements from Cabinet secretaries and White House staffers, United States President Donald Trump praised Wiles a
  
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• Netflix takeover bid: CEO vows to keep Warner Bros films in cinemas

  17-12-2025 01:23 via article.wn.com
  Netflix will continue to distribute Warner Bros films in cinemas if its takeover bid for the esteemed studio is successful, the streaming service’s chief executive Ted Sarandos said in an interview today in Paris. “We’re going to continue to operate Warner Bros....
  
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• Why do H-1B applicants get 221(g) slips? US social media checks explained

  17-12-2025 01:22 via article.wn.com
  Why do H-1B applicants get 221(g) slips? US social media checks explained ......
  
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• Trump defends Susie Wiles after she says he has alcoholic's personality

  17-12-2025 01:22 via article.wn.com
  Trump defends Susie Wiles after she says he has alcoholic's personality ......
  
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• Kash Patel under fire for podcast with girlfriend amid Brown shooting probe

  17-12-2025 01:22 via article.wn.com
  Kash Patel under fire for podcast with girlfriend amid Brown shooting probe ......
  
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• Australia to hold funerals for the 15 victims of an antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi Beach

  17-12-2025 01:21 via article.wn.com
  Australia is preparing for the funerals of some of the victims of an antisemitic mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. The first funerals were to be held on Wednesday. Authorities say the attack was inspired by ......
  
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• Flooding triggers evacuations in U.S. Washington state, 1 killed

  17-12-2025 01:20 via article.wn.com
  SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Around 2,100 residents of Pacific town, 32 kilometers south of Seattle, were under a Level 3 "Go Now" evacuation order on Tuesday following flooding caused by a levee failure along the White River in the U.S. state of Washington, authorities said....
  
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• More Europeans favor stronger China ties in tech: report

  17-12-2025 01:17 via article.wn.com
  MADRID, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Public...
  
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• Federal judge allows Trump's White House ballroom construction to move forward

  17-12-2025 01:17 via article.wn.com
  A federal judge is allowing construction of the White House ballroom to move forward, rejecting a request by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to temporarily halt President Donald Trump's $300 million project. The preservation group sued the Trump administration last week in a bid to halt an expansive revamp of the White House property that's drawn sharp criticism from Democrats. The lawsuit alleges the administration broke ground before plans were submitted to the National Capital Pl
  
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• Belarusian president calls for fast action on Ukraine war while US is engaged

  17-12-2025 01:17 via article.wn.com
  Dec 16 (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, in an interview made public in part on Tuesday, called for swift action to end the conflict in Ukraine while the United States remained engaged in diplomatic efforts. Read full story ......
  
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• Former doctor receives sentence in connection with U.S. Hollywood actor's death

  17-12-2025 01:15 via article.wn.com
  LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A former doctor charged in connection with U.S. Hollywood actor Matthew Perry's fatal drug overdose was sentenced to eight months of house arrest on Tuesday. Mark Chavez, one of...
  
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• Flash: Trump says ordering total, complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela -- media

  17-12-2025 01:15 via article.wn.com
  Flash: Trump says...
  
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• Terminator Survivors is delayed indefinitely and will now be a single-player only survival game with ...

  17-12-2025 01:14 via article.wn.com
  Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Flipboard Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google The open-world survival game Terminator: Survivors has been delayed out of 2025 as developer Nacon Studio Milan reveals sweeping changes to its plans for the title. Nacon shared a development update on Steam, and man, any time a game developer posts something titled "what's next" for its game, you know it's not going to be good, especially when that
  
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• Biden: 'If we don't lead, who leads the world? Russia? China?'

  17-12-2025 01:13 via article.wn.com
  Former President Biden, during a Monday...
  
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• Trump orders blockade of ‘sanctioned oil tankers’ into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Maduro

  17-12-2025 01:11 via article.wn.com
  Donald Trump said he is...
  
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• Iran Opposes Grossi’s UN Secretary-General Candidacy, Accuses Him of Failing to Uphold International Law

  17-12-2025 01:11 via article.wn.com
  UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi holds a press conference on the opening day of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) quarterly Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, Sept. 8, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Elisabeth Mandl Iran has publicly opposed International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi’s potential appointment as UN Secretary-General next year, accusing him of failing to uphold international law by not condemning US and Israeli strikes
  
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• Trump calls for ‘total and complete blockade’ of sanctioned oil tankers from Venezuela in escalation of tensions

  17-12-2025 01:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Trump administration has placed hundreds of American troops and ships near Venezuela’s coastline
  
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• GOP mounts revolt against Mike Johnson over healthcare - but they aren’t ready to join with Democrats, yet

  17-12-2025 01:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Republicans in tough elections want to force a vote on their legislation, but aren’t receiving much help from leaders in either party
  
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• Bronx rapper Kay Flock sentenced to 30 years in prison for shootings

  17-12-2025 01:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  His music career was just taking off before his 2021 arrest
  
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• Joe Ely, Texas country-rock legend and collaborator with the Clash and Bruce Springsteen, dead at 78

  17-12-2025 01:04 via article.wn.com
  LOS ANGELES — Joe Ely, a...
  
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• ‘I am just Eric’: NYC Mayor Adams bids farewell to a tenure marked by achievements ...

  17-12-2025 01:04 via article.wn.com
  NEW YORK — In a free-wheeling farewell press conference Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams and his top aides waxed nostalgic about his years in charge of the country’s largest city, reminiscing about all the good, bad and ugly that came with ......
  
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• Hegseth Says Video of Sept. 2 Boat Strike Will Be Released to Select Lawmakers

  17-12-2025 01:04 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON—Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Dec. 16 that the Pentagon will release to select lawmakers...
  
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• Couple shot while trying to stop Bondi Beach attack died in each other’s arms

  17-12-2025 01:04 via article.wn.com
  A couple just weeks away from celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary were shot — and then died in each others arms — while trying to disarm a gunman on Bondi Beach, where more than a dozen people were killed during ......
  
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• Analysis: Trump has not endorsed Venezuela regime change as Wiles stresses ‘blowing boats up’

  17-12-2025 01:04 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON — Two words have been missing...
  
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• 5.3-magnitude quake hits Gulf of Alaska -- GFZ

  17-12-2025 01:02 via article.wn.com
  BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted the Gulf of Alaska at 2335 GMT on Tuesday, the GFZ German...
  
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• Opinion | ISIS Rears Its Head Once More

  17-12-2025 01:01 via article.wn.com
  From Australia to Syria, the fight against Islamic State isn’t over. ......
  
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• Opinion | Europe Wakes Itself Up on Defense

  17-12-2025 01:01 via article.wn.com
  Some European leaders finally see the dangers clearly, but do voters? ......
  
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• AI romance blooms as Japan woman weds virtual partner of her dreams

  17-12-2025 00:59 via article.wn.com
  JAPAN-AI-WEDDING:AI romance blooms as Japan woman weds virtual partner of her dreams ......
  
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