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• Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Trump adversary, to seek US Senate seat in Texas

  09-12-2025 02:04 via article.wn.com
  By Bill Barrow and John Hanna | Associated Press Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a campaign Monday for the U.S. Senate in Texas, bringing a national profile to a race that may be critical to Democrats’ long-shot hopes of reclaiming a Senate majority in next year’s midterm elections. Crockett, one of Congress’ most outspoken Democrats and a frequent target of GOP attacks, jumped into the race on the final day of qualifying in Texas. She is seeking the Senate seat held
  
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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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• 'This is the end': Australian teens mourn loss of social media as ban begins

  10-12-2025 07:17 via article.wn.com
  SYDNEY, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Australian...
  
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• Russian bombers join Chinese air patrol near Japan as Tokyo-Beijing tie strains

  10-12-2025 07:17 via article.wn.com
  Japan has scrambled jets to monitor Russian and...
  
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• Games-Cambodia pulls team out of SEA Games in Thailand over border conflict

  10-12-2025 07:17 via article.wn.com
  BANGKOK, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Cambodia on Wednesday withdrew its team from the Southeast Asian Games in Thailand for safety reasons, as a border conflict between the two neighbours raged for a third day.� Read full story ......
  
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• Cambodia pulls team out of SEA Games in Thailand over border conflict

  10-12-2025 07:17 via article.wn.com
  Cambodia on Wednesday withdrew its team from the...
  
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• Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

  10-12-2025 07:17 via article.wn.com
  Australia on Wednesday became the first country to ban...
  
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• The horrors of El Fasher echo Sudan’s genocidal past

  10-12-2025 07:15 via article.wn.com
  The civil war in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The region is still grappling with past traumas. ......
  
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• Over half a million evacuated in Cambodia, Thailand during border clashes

  10-12-2025 07:15 via article.wn.com
  More than 500,000 people have fled...
  
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• Australian mum of late teen says social media ban

  10-12-2025 07:15 via article.wn.com
  Mia Bannister said she...
  
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• Strange developments on Victorian streets are important reminders of London’s war past

  10-12-2025 07:12 via article.wn.com
  Southwest London, including my local neighbourhood of Balham, is lined with neat terraces of Victorian houses. But the symmetry on some streets is interrupted by standalone, incongruous blobs. They are newer buildings, different from the rest. Often I would stroll around my locale, see one of these streetscape scars and wonder: “Why did they give permission for that, and why demolish part of such a nice terrace?” A wiser man than I set me straight one Saturday afternoon. We were walk
  
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• Republican Rep. Nancy Mace claims police report of her expletive-filled rant at airport staff was ...

  10-12-2025 07:12 via article.wn.com
  Republican Rep. Nancy Mace claimed...
  
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• Japan earthquake live: Megaquake warning issued along 800-mile coastline as PM urges public to be prepared

  10-12-2025 07:12 via article.wn.com
  The warning covers approximately 800 miles (1,300 kilometres) from Chiba to Hokkaido...
  
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• Cambodia accuses Thailand of violating Trump-led ceasefire: ‘We have to stop’

  10-12-2025 07:12 via article.wn.com
  At least three Thai...
  
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• 2 dead, 16 injured in separate road accidents in Afghanistan

  10-12-2025 07:12 via article.wn.com
  KABUL, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- At least two commuters were killed and 16 others injured in multiple traffic accidents reported across Afghanistan over the past 24...
  
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• Who was Mark Allen Geralds? Florida man executed for brutal 1989 murder of Tressa Pettibone

  10-12-2025 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Florida executed Mark Allen Geralds, a Bay County man convicted of the 1989 killing of 33-year-old mother Tressa Lynn Pettibone. Geralds, 58, died by lethal injection on Tuesday, 6:15 pm ET at Florida State Prison, according to USA Today and The Mirror US. Geralds was 22 when he murdered Pettibone on February 1, 1989.(Photo by Florida Department of Corrections / AFP) Geralds' execution was the 18th carried out in Florida this year – the highest annual total under warrants signed by Gov. Ro
  
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• What is ‘scromiting’? What to know about painful condition linked to heavy cannabis use

  10-12-2025 07:10 via article.wn.com
  A growing number of emergency room cases are drawing attention to “scromiting,” a slang term for a painful condition reported among heavy cannabis users. The word combines “screaming” and “vomiting.” It refers to episodes where patients experience severe nausea, uncontrollable vomiting, and intense abdominal pain, sometimes so extreme it causes them to cry out in distress. What is ‘scromiting’? All about painful condition linked to heavy cannabis u
  
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• Thai-Cambodia clashes force thousands to flee homes, both vow to keep fighting

  10-12-2025 07:10 via article.wn.com
  The renewed border clashes between Cambodia and Thailand have driven tens of thousands of people away from the border areas, with the Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen vowing a fierce fight. People take shelter inside a bunker amid deadly clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along a disputed border area in Sa Kaeo province, Thailand, December 10, 2025. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha(REUTERS) According to an AFP report, almost 180,000 Thai nationals have been evacuated from the border as the fight
  
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• Pakistan spokesperson ‘winks’ at woman journalist during briefing, sparks outrage

  10-12-2025 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Pakistan's Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, has sparked outrage after he winked at a female journalist during a press conference. The wink came as a journalist asked Ahmed about his allegations against the jailed former PM Imran Khan. The gesture triggered outrage on social media, with many users calling out the unprofessional behaviour of Ahmed Sharif.(X) The video clip of the incident also went viral,...
  
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• Iain Douglas-Hamilton, the scientist who saved the elephants

  10-12-2025 07:10 via article.wn.com
  FEW ANIMALS scare full-grown . But bees are among them. So it was to bees that Iain Douglas-Hamilton looked when he sought to draw a line between those pachyderms’ domain and humanity’s. The farmers of Samburu, the Kenyan county where his research was based, bear elephants no ill will as long as the beasts keep out of their smallholdings. But the elephants do not know that. Bee fences—hives established at regular intervals on a farm’s perimeter—not only deter the in
  
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• Former senior banker executed in China for taking $155 million in bribes

  10-12-2025 07:10 via article.wn.com
  China on Tuesday executed Bai Tianhui, a former general manager, for taking bribes. According to reports, the execution was carried out by a court in north China's Tianjin Municipality after it was approved by the Supreme People's Court. The former Chinese senior banker was executed after being convicted of taking 1.1 billion yuan in bribes. (Representational image). (Unsplash) He was the former general manager of the asset management firm China Huarong...
  
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• Donald Trump’s flawed plan to get China hooked on Nvidia chips

  10-12-2025 07:10 via article.wn.com
  In the race to dominate artificial intelligence (AI), China is neck and neck with America in software. Chinese models now routinely outperform many American ones on popular benchmarks. But on hardware, a gap remains. America’s chipmakers, led by Nvidia, are far ahead. PREMIUM Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.(AFP) Chart. Although the H200 lags behind Nvidia’s latest chip, the Blackwell, and will soon be eclipsed by its next, the Rubin, it is more than six times as powerful as t
  
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• Carrie Romney's cause of death revealed: How did Mitt Romney’s sister-in-law die? Details emerge

  10-12-2025 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Former presidential nominee and Utah senator Mitt Romney’s sister-in-law Carrie Elizabeth Romney’s cause of death has been revealed about two months after her passing. Carrie died by suicide, medical examiners revealed weeks after she jumped from a California parking garage. Carrie Romney cause of death: How did Mitt Romney’s sister-in-law die? Details emerge (Pexel - representational image) Read More | Republican Mitt Romney gets...
  
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• YongKang International Trading Co Ltd strengthens global presence with strategic expansion into UAE’s energy storage sector

  10-12-2025 07:08 via article.wn.com
  The company specialises in the development and supply of energy storage equipment and high-pressure gas handling solutions, with a core focus on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) systems and related infrastructure.Launch of 40-Foot LPG ISO Tanks Now Available in Dubai As part of its initial rollout in the Gulf region, YKI has introduced a fleet of 40-foot LPG ISO Tanks, now available for both lease and sale. These tanks are currently stocked in Dubai, providing immediate availability for clients acr
  
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