A wildfire whipped up by extreme winds swept through a Los Angeles hillside dotted with celebrity residences Tuesday, burning homes in Pacific Palisades and prompting evacuation orders for tens of thousands.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns as leader of the ruling Liberal Party, bringing his time leading the country to a tumultuous end.
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China 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.
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Ann 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
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The Palestinian Authority says it will temporarily bar Al Jazeera from operating in its areas. Experienced pilot questions safety design of runway where Boeing 737-800 crashed
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The Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans acted alone, the FBI said. The cut-off of Russian gas supplies to Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region has forced the closure of all industrial companies except food producers
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A U.S. Army veteran driving a pickup truck wrought carnage on New Orleans’ New Year’s celebration, killing 15 people. Gaza's population has fallen by about 6% since the start of Israel's war on the enclave. Drug cartels are now Mexico’s 5th-largest employer.
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2025 began with jubilation in Syria, a 20km marathon in Hanoi and with a march for peaceful change in Bangladesh. In Singapore, they rang in the New Year with fireworks, drone shows and even a K-pop mass dance event.
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Jimmy Carter, who rose from Georgia farmland to become the 39th president of the United States died on Sunday. The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday, when an airliner belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at Muan International Airport.
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A Boeing passenger plane carrying 181 people crashed while landing at an airport in southwestern South Korea on Sunday. As of 10am GMT, there were at least 176 dead.
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The Azerbaijani passenger jet which crashed Christmas Day likely brought down by a Russian missile. Israeli forces have raided a hospital in Gaza, ordering dozens of patients and hundreds of other people to evacuate
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Russian 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
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An Azerbaijani commercial jet which crashed yesterday killing 38 people may have been shot down by Russian defences. Detour destinations" — oft-overshadowed places near perennial hotspots — will likely be one of 2025's hottest travel trends.
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On Christmas morning, Russia launched a massive wave of missiles and drones across Ukraine. Elsewhere, worshippers held subdued Christmas Eve celebrations amid conflicts
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Santa was spotted entering Australian airspace just after 1230GMT. A Russian cargo vessel operated by the Ministry of Defence’s logistics fleet sank on Tuesday in international waters between Spain and Algeria. Hong Kong offered bounties of $128,728 for six more pro-democracy campaigners and revoked the passports of seven more
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U.S. President elect Donald Trump has threatened to retake the Panama Canal. The end of an era approaching in Canada as party support for PM Justin Trudeau collapses
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Some two days after an alleged massive Russian cyberattack, Ukraine is said to be struggling to recover. Senior U.S. diplomats met with Syria's de-facto new ruler and held a "good" and "very productive" meeting with him. Sweden cuts off funding to UN agency focused on Palestinians
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Scores of people have been injured and at least four people were killed on Friday after a car ploughed into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in eastern Germany, in what local officials are describing as a terror attack. Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
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One of the worst Russian strikes on Kyiv in almost three years occurred in the early hours today. European security guarantees without U.S. involvement will not be “sufficient “ to ensure the long term protection of Ukraine from Russian aggression, Volodymyr Zelensky warned
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