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Israeli army calls on more Khan Younis residents...
Gaza [Palestine], January 26: The Israeli army is calling on more Palestinian residents of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza...

Train driver strike paralyses rail transport in Germany
Berlin [Germany], January 26: Germany's state-owned railway Deutsche Bahn faced massive disruptions and widespread cancellations on Wednesday as train drivers...

US, UK sanction senior Houthis; rebels say Red...
Sanaa [Yemen], January 26: The United States and United Kingdom have issued new sanctions on leaders of Yemen's Houthis, as...

At least 12 dead in incident at UN...
Gaza [Palestine], January 26: The death toll at a UN facility that was sheltering civilians in the south of the...

Woman gets 27 years in prison for murder...
Moscow [Russia], January 26: Darya Trepova was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Thursday for a deadly bomb attack...

Russia risked lives in downed plane, says Ukrainian...
Kyiv [Ukraine], January 26: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Moscow of "playing with the lives of Ukrainian prisoners", after...

US Supreme Court allows execution with nitrogen to...
Washington [US], January 26: The US Supreme Court on Wednesday did not move to stop the planned execution, using nitrogen,...

US support for Taiwan 'firm', lawmakers tell president-elect...
Taipei [Taiwan], January 26: Two US lawmakers met Taiwanese president-elect Lai Ching-te on Thursday to reaffirm Washington's support for the...

Russia jails nationalist critic Girkin for 4 years
Moscow [Russia], January 26: Russian nationalist and ex-rebel commander Igor Girkin, whose pro-Moscow militants sparked a decade-long armed conflict in...

S Korean ruling party MP attacked in street:...
Seoul [South Korea], January 26: A South Korean ruling party lawmaker was struck on the head with a rock by...

Florida lawmakers vote to restrict children's access to...
Florida [US], January 26: The Florida House of Representatives approved on Wednesday a bill aimed at barring children aged 16...

Trump opens up lead over Biden in rematch...
Washington [US], January 26: Donald Trump leads Democratic President Joe Biden by six percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll that...

Russia says Ukraine had 15-minute warning on PoW...
Moscow [Russia], January 26: A senior Russian lawmaker said Ukrainian military intelligence had been given a 15-minute warning before a...

Gaza starves as Israel presses war on Hamas
Gaza [Palestine], January 26: In battered, hard-to-reach north Gaza, rare aid deliveries get mobbed by desperate, hungry Palestinians and aid...

Cyprus rescues 60 migrants lost at sea
Nicosia [Cyprus], January 25: Sixty migrants were rescued from a small boat off Cyprus on Wednesday after being stranded at...

Zelensky, Scholz discuss defense support for Ukraine
Kiev [Ukraine], January 25: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday discussed defense support for Ukraine...

U.S. stocks end mixed, S&P 500 hitting new...
New York [US], January 25: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Wednesday, as the S&P 500 notched its fourth consecutive record...

Russia says Kiev killed 65 Ukrainian POWs by...
Moscow [Russia], January 25: The Russian Defence Ministry accused Ukrainian forces of shooting down a Russian military transport plane, killing...

Hamas official reiterates rejection of any proposal for...
Gaza [Palestine], January 25: A member of Hamas' political bureau, Osama Hamdan, on Wednesday reiterated that the Palestinian movement would...

Train driver strike paralyses rail transport in Germany
Berlin [Germany], January 25: Germany's state-owned railway Deutsche Bahn faced massive disruptions and widespread cancellations on Wednesday as train drivers...

Iraq rebukes US over strikes on Iran-backed groups
Baghdad [Iraq], January 25: Iraq accused the United States of contributing to a "reckless escalation" of violence in the region...

Iran's Raisi flies to Turkey for delayed Gaza...
Ankara [Turkey], January 25: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi flew to Turkey on Wednesday for twice-delayed talks aimed at ironing out...

3-year drought persists in Spain's Catalonia
Madrid [Spain], January 25: Although Atlantic storms regularly sweep through Spain they always seem to peter out before reaching Catalonia,...

Turkey's lawmakers approve Sweden's NATO membership
Ankara [Turkey], January 25: Turkey's parliament on Tuesday ratified Sweden's NATO membership after more than a year of delays that...

Israeli attack on UN refuge in Gaza prompts...
Gaza [Palestine], January 25: Israeli tanks struck a huge U.N. compound sheltering displaced Palestinians on Wednesday, causing "mass casualties", the...

39 killed, 9 injured in east China building...
Beijing [China], January 25: Thirty-nine people were killed, and nine others injured after a building fire broke out Wednesday afternoon...

Jailed Polish ex-ministers released after being pardoned again
Warsaw [Poland], January 24: Poland's former Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski and his deputy Maciej Wasik were released from prison on...