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• Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, Dec. 6

  06-12-2025 22:55 via article.wn.com
  ALGIERS -- At least 12 people were killed, and 23 others injured Saturday when a passenger bus overturned in Algeria's western Beni Abbes province, the Civil Protection service said. The crash happened around 1:50 p.m. local time (1250 GMT) on National Road 50 near...
  
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• Dad describes son’s ‘anguish’ before dying after being stuck by lightening at New Jersey golf course in wrongful death lawsuit

  08-12-2025 02:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  The suit accuses the course owners of causing ‘severe pain, anguish, and fear of impending death’ in golfer who was struck by lightning
  
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• US winter storm warnings: Urgent alerts issued for Alaska, Colorado, Illinois and other states

  08-12-2025 02:38 via article.wn.com
  Winter storm warnings have been issued for various US states across the West and Northwest. This comes amid upward of 10 inches of snow and winds as high as 65 miles per hour, and also "life-threatening" conditions in certain regions for unprepared individuals. US winter storm warnings: Urgent alerts issued for Alaska, Colorado, Illinois and other states(Pixabay - representational image) The National Weather Service (NWS) issued the urgent alerts on Sunday, December 7, which are active for Alask
  
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• Trump's Christmas 'naughty list' has many names; 'could cause problems'

  08-12-2025 02:38 via article.wn.com
  US President Donald Trump on Saturday brushed aside a question about his “naughty list,” offering a light remark about its length and the trouble it might cause. The comment came as he presented medals to the 2025 Kennedy Center Honours recipients during a ceremony. President Donald Trump talks to the media while walking the red carpet before the 48th Kennedy Center Honors.(AP) Asked by a reporter about who features on his “naughty list” this year,...
  
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• George Strait family: Who are singer's wife Norma and children Jenifer Lyn and Bubba?

  08-12-2025 02:38 via article.wn.com
  Country legend George Strait will be among several luminaries being celebrated Sunday at the annual Kennedy Center Honors, with President Donald Trump hosting the event. Others getting the honors are Sylvester Stallone, Kiss and Gloria Gaynor. US country music singer and Kennedy Center Honoree George Strait and his wife Norma Strait (AFP) “It’s going to be something that I believe, and I’m going to make a prediction: This will be the highest-rated show that they’ve ever d
  
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• Trump says Zelenskyy 'isn't ready' yet to accept US-authored proposal to end Russia-Ukraine war

  08-12-2025 02:35 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump is claiming...
  
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• The first giant panda cub born in Indonesia is noisy and squirmy in zoo images

  08-12-2025 02:35 via article.wn.com
  The first giant panda cub born in...
  
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• Japan revises Q3 GDP contraction to 2.3 pct

  08-12-2025 02:35 via article.wn.com
  TOKYO, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Japan's economy shrank an annualized real 2.3 percent in the third quarter of 2025, revised government data showed on Monday, compared with an initially...
  
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• Trump takes spotlight as Kennedy Centre honours Stallone, George Strait and others

  08-12-2025 02:29 via article.wn.com
  Trump takes spotlight as Kennedy Centre honours Stallone, George Strait and others ......
  
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• Trump says Zelenskyy isn't ready to accept US peace plan to end war in Ukraine

  08-12-2025 02:29 via article.wn.com
  Trump says Zelenskyy isn't ready to accept US peace plan to end war in Ukraine ......
  
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• Send Usha back to India: Vance sparks row calling migration theft of American dream

  08-12-2025 02:29 via article.wn.com
  Send Usha back to India: Vance sparks row calling migration theft of American dream ......
  
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• Barnaby Joyce joins One Nation as sitting MP with promise of future Senate ticket

  08-12-2025 02:29 via article.wn.com
  Barnaby Joyce has confirmed his move to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, completing his defection from the Nationals. Joyce and Hanson confirmed the widely anticipated news on Monday, less than a fortnight after Joyce officially quit the Nationals following a major...
  
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• Anika Wells claimed more than $8,500 for family travel to Melbourne during AFL grand final weekends over three years

  08-12-2025 02:29 via article.wn.com
  Anika Wells claimed more than $8500 in family travel expenses to Melbourne during AFL grand final weekends in 2022, 2023 and 2024, when she received free suite tickets to the matches. The minister for communications and sport has stood by her use of family travel expenses as within the rules, but the Coalition opposition is demanding reforms to expense rules and an inquiry into Wells’ spending by the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority, the parliamentary body which tracks and repo
  
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• Trump Kennedy Center Honors

  08-12-2025 02:23 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump talks to the media while walking the red carpet before the 48th Kennedy Center Honors, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. ......
  
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• Brazil Femicide Protest

  08-12-2025 02:23 via article.wn.com
  Women protest femicide following a series of high-profile cases in the country, on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. ......
  
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• President Donald Trump says Zelenskyy ‘isn’t ready’ yet to accept US-authored proposal to end Russia-Ukraine war

  08-12-2025 02:21 via article.wn.com
  KYIV, Ukraine — President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “isn’t ready” to sign off on a U.S-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Trump was critical of Zelenskyy after U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators completed three days of talks on Saturday aimed at trying to narrow differences on the U.S. administration’s proposal. But in an exchange with reporters on Sunday night, Trump suggested that the Ukrainian
  
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• ‘Send Usha back to India’: JD Vance blasted for 'theft' claim on mass migration; netizens point to his wife’s Indian heritage

  08-12-2025 02:21 via article.wn.com
  US Vice President JD Vance has once again wandered into the political buzzsaw, declaring that “mass migration is theft of the American Dream,” a line that instantly lit up the internet, drew accusations of hypocrisy, and launched a thousand memes before breakfast. Vance set off a political fire alarm this week after declaring that...
  
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• “He told me really dark stuff”: Benny Johnson backs Tim Pool after apology call and fears for his family's safety

  08-12-2025 02:21 via article.wn.com
  Tim Pool, one of the most followed political podcasters in the United States, is again in the spotlight after a shooting scare at his home in West Virginia. Now, a new voice has joined the story.On Sunday, conservative commentator Benny Johnson shared an update on X that quickly drew attention. Johnson said Tim Pool personally called him after the reported shooting and offered an apology. “Tim Pool called me and apologized. We’re cool. He’s a good dude,”...
  
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• Real-World Asset (RWA) Tokenization: The $10 Trillion Bridge Between TradFi and DeFi Accelerates

  08-12-2025 02:20 via article.wn.com
  Explore how Real-World Asset (RWA)...
  
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• Centenarian Navy nurse looks back on Pearl Harbor attack

  08-12-2025 02:14 via article.wn.com
  By Chris Smith HONOLULU — Alongside Pearl Harbor on Sunday, long-ago Navy nurse Alice Darrow of Danville peered out to the watery spot where, amid the lethal chaos of the surprise attack 84 years earlier, a machine gun bullet struck a young sailor but didn’t kill him. Instead, it sparked an epic wartime love story. At age 106, Darrow is a remarkably vibrant and engaging member of America’s nearly depleted corps of World War II veterans. She came to Pearl Harbor as a VIP guest f
  
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• Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Dec. 8

  08-12-2025 02:09 via article.wn.com
  NEW DELHI -- At least 25 people, including four tourists, were killed and many others injured around midnight Saturday in a devastating fire at a nightclub in India's western state of Goa, police said on Sunday. The fire tore through a popular nightclub, Birch by Romeo Lane, in Arpora village of North Goa district, about 16 km northwest of Panaji, the capital city of Goa. (India-Goa-Nightclub fire) - - - - JERUSALEM --...
  
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• Urgent: Japan revises Q3 GDP contraction to 2.3 pct

  08-12-2025 02:09 via article.wn.com
  TOKYO, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) --...
  
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• Trump defends tariff strategy as "direct, less cumbersome, and much faster" to protect US national security

  08-12-2025 02:09 via article.wn.com
  Washington, DC: US President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his approach to imposing tariffs, saying his administration's strategy is designed to deliver results swiftly and effectively. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: "While the United States has other methods of charging TARIFFS against foreign countries, many of whom have, for YEARS, TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF OUR NATION, the current method of Tariffing before the United States Supreme Court is far more DIRECT, LESS CUMBERSOME, and MUCH FASTE
  
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• Musk Strikes Back At EU ‘Tyrants’ After X Fine

  08-12-2025 02:08 via article.wn.com
  Musk Strikes Back At EU ‘Tyrants’ After X Fine “I didn’t do the Twitter purchase because I thought it was a great way to make money. I knew that there would be a zillion slings and arrows coming in my direction.” ~Elon Musk (ZH) – Elon Musk is not taking the outrageous fine from Brussels bureaucrats lying down, lashing out at EU officialdom for taking on Nazi characteristics and oppressing their own citizens’ best interests The tyrannical, unelected bure
  
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• McLaren’s Lando Norris is 2025 F1 world champion

  08-12-2025 02:06 via article.wn.com
  Norris becomes the 11th world champion from Great Britain, with the 21st championship for a British driver overall . ......
  
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• UK Foreign Secretary Cooper visits Washington to meet Rubio

  08-12-2025 02:05 via article.wn.com
  British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper will meet her American counterpart Marco Rubio in Washington on Monday, the UK Foreign Office announced, amid intensified diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. UK Foreign Secretary Cooper visits Washington to meet Rubio The visit her first to the US capital since becoming Britain's top diplomat in September comes as Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosts Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of France and Germany in London....
  
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• Kennedy Center Honors 2025: When and where to watch, and who is being honored tonight?

  08-12-2025 02:05 via article.wn.com
  Kennedy Center Honors 2025 is set to take place on Sunday, December 8, at the popular Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump will host the event, and it is the first time a president will be doing so instead of watching in the audience. During his first term, Trump skipped the honors. U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump pose on the red carpet for the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors at the John F. Kennedy Center for...
  
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• Chinese jets directed fire-control radar at Japanese aircraft, Japan says

  08-12-2025 02:05 via article.wn.com
  TOKYO > Chinese fighter jets...
  
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• 4 arrested at Tower of London after apple crumble and custard thrown

  08-12-2025 02:05 via article.wn.com
  LONDON > Four people were arrested at...
  
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• Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she’s not MAGA and has ‘zero interest’ in running for president ...

  08-12-2025 02:00 via article.wn.com
  The interview...
  
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