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White Christmas at risk: How climate change is impacting winter tourism
A white Christmas may increasingly become a nostalgic memory as the Northern Hemisphere sees ever fewer snowy winter days due to climate change, with Europe warming quickest, a report warned on Tuesday.
Driven primarily by humanity's mass…
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Donald Trump’s message to India over high tariffs: ‘They tax us, we tax them’
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Trump emphasised that if other nations tax US products, the US will respond in kind.
“Reciprocal. If they tax us, we tax them the same amount. They tax us. We tax them. And they tax us. Almost in all cases,…
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Pope reveals he was target of suicide bomb attempt during 2021 Iraq visit
Pope Francis has revealed he was the target of an attempted suicide bombing during his visit to Iraq three years ago, the first by a Catholic pontiff to the country and probably the riskiest foreign trip of his 11-year papacy.
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Cyclone Chido kills at least 34 people in Mozambique
Cyclone Chido claimed at least 34 lives after sweeping across Mozambique, the National Institute of Risk and Disaster Management announced Tuesday.
The cyclone first hit the country on Sunday at the Cabo Delgado province, where 28 people…
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NATO takes over coordination of military aid to Kyiv from US, source says
NATO has taken over coordination of Western military aid to Ukraine from the US as planned, a source said on Tuesday, in a move widely seen as aiming to safeguard the support mechanism against NATO skeptic US President-elect Donald Trump.…
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Ukraine’s security service behind bomb blast that killed top Russian general: Report
Kirillov's death came just a day after the Ukrainian security service, SBU, opened criminal probe against him.
Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the 54-year-old chief of the Russian military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was…
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Massive earthquake of Magnitude 7.3 hits Vanuatu, deaths feared
A massive earthquake of magnitude of 7.3 struck the coast of Vanuatu, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, leaving several buildings damaged along with witnesses claiming to have seen ‘bodies’ lying on streets .
The major city of…
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Russia to boost its ballistic arsenal with new missiles and testing, commander says
Russia is boosting its ballistic arsenal with new strategic missile systems, plans maximum-range launches and may increase testing in response to growing external threats, a senior Russian military commander said on Monday.
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Judge denies Trump’s bid to throw out hush money conviction
A judge on Monday ruled that Donald Trump’s conviction for falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal should stand, rejecting the US president-elect’s argument that a recent Supreme Court ruling nullified the verdict, a court filing…
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At least 100,000 bodies in Syrian mass grave, US advocacy group head says
The head of a US-based Syrian advocacy organization on Monday said that a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by the former government of ousted President Bashar Assad.
Mouaz Moustafa,…
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