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• What I Learned in 2025

  05-12-2025 12:22 via article.wn.com
  Ezra Klein answers your questions on the year’s political lessons, the struggles of young men and handling heat on the show. ......
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Moscow refuses to give up land after Trump claims peace deal ‘closer than ever’

  16-12-2025 10:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Zelensky expects talks in the US as soon as this weekend - as the Kremlin says it is still waiting on an update from Washington
  
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• Donald Trump ‘strongly’ considering marijuana law change

  16-12-2025 10:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump spoke about the cannabis industry in the Oval Office on Monday
  
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• International Human Rights Day: FG Recommits to Free Expression, Access to Information

  16-12-2025 10:03 via article.wn.com
  Nigeria | 10 hours ago Bennett Oghifo Nigeria, on Wednesday, joined the global community to commemorate the 2025 International Human Rights Day, with the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, stressing that freedom of expression and access to information remain the bedrock of democratic governance. The event, held in Abuja and read on his behalf by a senior official of the Ministry of Justice, brought together justices of the Court of Appeal, members of
  
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• Australian PM says 'Islamic State ideology' drove Bondi Beach gunmen

  16-12-2025 10:01 via article.wn.com
  A father and son were driven by "Islamic State ideology" when they fired on crowds at Bondi Beach in one of Australia's deadliest mass shootings, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday. Sajid Akram and his son Naveed opened fire on people thronging the famous beach for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah on Sunday evening, killing 15 people and wounding dozens more. Authorities said the attack was designed to sow panic among the nation's Jews,...
  
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• 1 killed in school stabbing in Moscow region

  16-12-2025 10:01 via article.wn.com
  MOSCOW, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A student was fatally stabbed by a minor, who also wounded a security guard, at an educational institution in the Moscow region early Tuesday, the...
  
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• Russia knife stabbing: Teen kills 10-year-old student; assassin sports in 'no lives matter' t-shirt

  16-12-2025 10:00 via article.wn.com
  A teenager stabbed a security guard and killed a 10-year-old primary school student at an educational institution in the village of Gorki-2 in the Odintsovo urban district this morning, the Russian...
  
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• "Rob Reiner Was Bad For US": Trump's Shocker After Hollywood Director's Death

  16-12-2025 09:59 via article.wn.com
  The United States President Donald Trump has caused outrage by linking the killings of Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner to their personal dislike of his presidency. ......
  
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• Floral Tributes Pour In For Australian "Hero" Who Disarmed Bondi Shooter

  16-12-2025 09:59 via article.wn.com
  Flowers were laid on Tuesday in front of the shuttered shop of Ahmed al Ahmed, the 43-year-old tobacco shop owner who locals hailed as the "Bondi hero" after he wrestled a gun from one of the... ......
  
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• World Darts Championship Day 6 order of play: Full Tuesday schedule and start times as ...

  16-12-2025 09:56 via article.wn.com
  Full Tuesday schedule and start times as Premier League duo Gerwyn Price and Chris Dobey on stage at the Alexandra Palace ......
  
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• Woman's sickening discovery inside home she inherited from relative

  16-12-2025 09:56 via article.wn.com
  Eileen Stukane only became aware of Bob Stukane's death nine months after the tragedy, by chance ......
  
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• Urgent public alert after prisoner escapes and police scale area

  16-12-2025 09:56 via article.wn.com
  Liam Wall was sent to prison in 2017 ......
  
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• Islamic State-inspired Bondi Beach terrorists travelled to Philippines 'for military training'

  16-12-2025 09:56 via article.wn.com
  Homemade IS flags were found in a vehicle registered to Naveed Akram, police say ......
  
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• Donald Trump files $5billion defamation lawsuit against BBC over Panorama speech edit

  16-12-2025 09:56 via article.wn.com
  The defamation lawsuit claims the BBC broadcasted a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump”. ......
  
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• Ho Chi Minh City proposes installing 20,000 e-motorbike battery swap cabinets on sidewalks

  16-12-2025 09:52 via article.wn.com
  HANOI, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in Vietnam's southern hub of Ho Chi Minh City have proposed installing about 20,000 battery swap cabinets for electric...
  
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• Hands, feet shackled: Indian-origin woman, living in US for 32 years, detained

  16-12-2025 09:50 via article.wn.com
  Hands, feet shackled: Indian-origin woman, living in US for 32 years, detained ......
  
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• Bondi massacre: How did shooters get 6 guns from single licence

  16-12-2025 09:50 via article.wn.com
  Bondi massacre: How did shooters get 6 guns from single licence ......
  
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• This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley

  16-12-2025 09:47 via article.wn.com
  The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out...
  
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• David Sharaz bankrupted by Linda Reynolds in federal court days after his wife Brittany Higgins

  16-12-2025 09:47 via article.wn.com
  Former journalist’s estate be sequestrated after he was ordered in September to pay Reynolds $92,000 for social media posts found to be defamatory...
  
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• Couple in dashcam footage who tried to fight off Bondi shooter identified as Boris and ...

  16-12-2025 09:47 via article.wn.com
  Dashcam footage shows the moment Boris Gurman tackles shooter Sajid Akram and wrests a gun from him...
  
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• Maduro Speaks Out on US Oil Tanker ‘Theft’

  16-12-2025 09:45 via article.wn.com
  Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has accused the United States of “kidnapping” crew members after the seizure of an oil tanker, calling the act a threat not only to his country, but to global trade and respect for international law. Maduro said he believes the American people will restrain the “warmongers” pushing for a war over oil in South America, as tensions over resources have come to the forefront in the U.S.-Venezuela standoff. Newsweek contacted t
  
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• Philippines confirms Bondi Beach shooting suspects' visit before attack

  16-12-2025 09:43 via article.wn.com
  MANILA, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) - The Philippines' Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Tuesday confirmed that the two gunmen in one of Australia's deadliest mass shootings visited the Philippines last month. Naveed Akram and...
  
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• Newmark Expands APAC Presence with Korea Launch, Appointing John Pritchard as Country Head

  16-12-2025 09:41 via article.wn.com
  NEW YORK and SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 15,...
  
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• Did Rob Reiner call for Trump to go to prison? Truth behind resurfaced post shared ...

  16-12-2025 09:38 via article.wn.com
  In the aftermath of the murders of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, Laura Loomer has of what appears to be an X post the famed director shared about Donald Trump. Loomer shared the post at a time when President Trump is under fire for his comments on Reiner after his tragic death. Did Rob Reiner call for Trump to go to prison? Truth behind resurfaced image(REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci, Photographer: Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg) The post, purportedly shared by Reiner in the past, reads, “Until
  
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• British man vacationing in the Philippines films himself handling world’s deadliest octopus. He had no idea

  16-12-2025 09:38 via article.wn.com
  Andy McConnell, a British tourist, had a scary moment while swimming in the Philippines. He saw a small, colorful octopus and, not knowing it was dangerous, picked it up. He filmed himself holding it, quickly grabbing it whenever it tried to swim away. Andy McConnell's video of the octopus in the Philippines has garnered over 3 million views.(Instagram/@decanterman) “I’ve never seen it before,” McConnell said in the video, showing his curiosity and lack of awareness of the risk
  
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• Qatari Embassy in Damascus holds reception for National Day

  16-12-2025 09:37 via article.wn.com
  Damascus, Dec. 16 (SANA) The Qatari Embassy in Damascus held a reception on Monday evening at the Dama Rose Hotel to mark Qatar National Day, with the attendance of several Syrian ministers and officials, heads of diplomatic missions,...
  
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• Human Rights Council appoints two new members to Syria Inquiry Commission

  16-12-2025 09:37 via article.wn.com
  Geneva, Dec. 16 (SANA) The President of the Human Rights Council, Swiss Ambassador J�rg Lauber, appointed Monia Ammar, a Tunisian judge and expert in humanitarian law, and...
  
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• Oprah Winfrey's Sydney comments draw ire

  16-12-2025 09:36 via article.wn.com
  The pro-Israel group Israeli-American Council took issue with Oprah Winfrey today regarding her social media posts about the terror attack near Sydney, pointing out her failure to acknowledge the Jewish identity of the victims, the festival of Hanukkah, or the antisemitic motivation. With a combined...
  
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• Trump signs executive order classifying fentanyl as ‘weapon of mass destruction’

  16-12-2025 09:35 via article.wn.com
  Washington: US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order, classifying fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction”. The order was signed in the Oval Office on Monday in the presence of Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen Dan Caine, White House border czar Tom Homan and other top military officials. Trump says his administration is “formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what it is....
  
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• Floral tributes for Australian ‘hero’ Ahmed al Ahmed who disarmed gunman during Bondi beach shooting

  16-12-2025 09:35 via article.wn.com
  Flowers were laid on Tuesday in front of the shuttered shop of Ahmed al Ahmed, the 43-year-old tobacco shop owner who locals hailed as the Bondi hero after he wrestled a gun from one of the attackers during a mass shooting on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Ahmed was identified on social media as the bystander who...
  
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