Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal that will pause fighting in Gaza after 467 days at war and lead to the phased release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners. A panel of journalists and experts, gathered at Hong Kong’s iconic Foreign Correspondents’ Club on Wednesday, painted a bleak picture of what lies ahead in 2025 - especially when it comes to kickstarting the slowing Chinese economy.
Read MoreFirefighters are in a critical stage of their almost week-long battle against deadly Los Angeles blazes. EU shipyards are repairing Russian ice-class tankers and offering them dry dock facilities, enabling Moscow to continue moving gas despite western sanctions
Read MoreA day after making some progress containing fires, firefighters across Los Angeles County were bracing for another round of powerful winds that could threaten new communities and hamper efforts to contain the firestorm. Philippine economic growth is expected to accelerate this year & in 2025
Read MoreChina appears to be taking a page out of Russia’s playbook by signing growing numbers of visiting Taiwanese people up for local resident or even identity cards. Ukraine has launched a fresh offensive in Russia's Kursk region, the Russian defence ministry says. Jubilation broke out on the streets of Vietnamese cities and villages as the country celebrated its win over arch rival Thailand in the ASEAN Championships football match.
Read MoreAnn Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said she was resigning after the newspaper rejected a cartoon depicting owner Jeff Bezos genuflecting toward a statue of Donald Trump
Read MoreRussian missile brought down Azerbaijani airliner, emerging evidence suggests. A lead organization monitoring for food crises around the world has pulled a new report warning of imminent famine in north Gaza under what it called Israel’s “near-total blockade,” after the U.S. asked for its retraction
Read MoreThousands of Syrian insurgents took over most of Aleppo on Saturday, establishing positions in the country’s largest city and controlling its airport before expanding their shock offensive to a nearby province. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned home after his meeting with Donald Trump without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner
Read MoreLawmakers in Britain voted on Friday to allow assisted dying for terminally ill patients in England and Wales under strict conditions. Vladimir Putin has an illegitimate daughter living under a pseudonym in Paris
Read MoreHere in Eastern Europe, it’s the day after of the last day of voting in the U.S. elections - and perhaps nowhere else are the results being watched as anxiously as in Ukraine. Thousands of people in Tel Aviv took to the streets late Tuesday after the beleaguered Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, fired the hugely popular defense minister Yoav Gallant
Read MoreThe pro-Russian Georgian Dream party is set to extend its control of parliament, but there are cries of a "stolen election" from the pro-Western opposition. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022
Read MoreThe beleaguered UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Russia on Wednesday to attend the BRICS summit, where he’s expected to meet with Vladimir Putin. The U.S. Justice Department warned Elon Musk that his $1 million sweepstakes to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law.
Read MoreA US-made munition was used in a strike on central Beirut that killed 22 people and wounded 117. Russia has confirmed that Donald Trump sent the Kremlin sample Covid-19 tests in the early days of the pandemic
Read MoreU.S. intelligence believe that Russia is likely to retaliate with greater force against the United States and its coalition partners, possibly with lethal attacks, if they agree to give the Ukrainians permission to employ long-range missiles for strikes deep inside Russia
Read MoreFrench protesters rage at ‘stolen election’ as Macron picks conservative Europhile for PM. Iran recently transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use in the war against Ukraine
Read MoreThe widely-respected foreign minister of Ukraine has been shuffled out of his position. French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday named Europhile and centre-right politician Michel Barnier as the country's new prime minister
Read MoreUK suspend a series of arms shipments to Israel against the background of the war in Gaza and the fear of widespread harm to civilians and a violation of international law
Read MoreIndian PM Narendra Modi urged diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine, pledging India's support and saying that no conflict can be solved on a battlefield. The German government has come under increasing pressure at home to roll back its support for Ukraine and push harder for negotiations to try to end its war with Russia
Read MoreVenezuela’s opposition claimed victory in Sunday’s presidential election, setting up a showdown with the government, which earlier declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner. Tensions high in the Middle East as Israel poised to strike further after Hezbollah rocket attack on Golan
Read MoreThe Olympics get underway in Paris with an unprecedented outdoor ceremony but marred by an arson attack on the French high-speed rail system and athletes complaining of lousy food
Read MoreVice President Kamala Harris, in the first rally of her 2024 presidential campaign, behind full throttled attack on Donald Trump.
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