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Sunset bathed the north of Gaza City in golden light Tuesday evening as Izzat Al-Qawasmeh and his 11-year-old son Mohamed climbed through rubble to the top of a building that once housed hundreds of people. The duo had decided to visit the tent city with gifts, dressed in Santa Claus costumes.
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The U.S. Justice Department revealed it has 5.2 million pages of Epstein files left to review and needs 400 lawyers from four different department offices to help with the process through late January, according to a government document reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.
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The U.S. Coast Guard is still in pursuit of an oil tanker over a week after they first tried to intercept the ship. U.S. officials said the tanker now has a painted Russian flag on its side in an attempt to draw protection from Moscow. This is the latest in President Trump's pressure campaign on Venezuela after he indicted that the United States...
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For much of the last two years, the U.S. Democratic Party has been on its back foot, enduring painful electoral defeats to an omnipresent Republican opponent while grappling with a troubling decline in voter registration and a listless party base. But in the closing days of 2025, the political pendulum appears to be swinging in their direction.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday insisted Ukraine and Russia are "closer than ever before" to a peace deal as he hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his Florida resort, but he acknowledged that negotiations could still break down and leave the war dragging on for years.
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While Democratic legislators, victims of Jeffrey Epstein and their lawyers have complained about the number of blacked-out pages and passages in the files released by the U.S. Department of Justice, internet sleuths have figured out ways to un-redact some of the documents.
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Turkish authorities said Friday they've apprehended a suspected ISIS member who was planning attacks on celebrations ushering in the new year. It comes a day after the prosecutor's office said authorities carried out raids and then detained over 100 people linked to the militant group.
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Southern California is bracing Thursday for another powerful storm system that could cause more flooding and mudslides, a day after heavy rain and gusty winds were blamed for at least two deaths, as people reported getting trapped. "We're a little sad and upset that we're not going to be home with our families," said one resident.
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Below the long-isolated and neglected Neapolitan neighbourhood of Rione Sanità, a vast underground network of ancient burial chambers remained mostly forgotten for centuries. Today, a social co-operative ihas turned the cultural heritage of the Catacombs of San Gennaro into local jobs, skills and a steady draw of tourists.
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Russian state media reported that the theatre is slated to officially reopen on Dec. 25, and that plays will start being staged there at some point in the new year. Russian occupation authorities have renamed it the Mariupol Republican Order of the Badge of Honour Russian Drama Theatre, and on its website write that the theatre is being reborn,...
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A powerful winter storm swept across California on Wednesday, with heavy rain and gusty winds leading to evacuation warnings for mudslides in the south, bringing near white-out snow conditions in the mountains and hazardous travel for millions of holiday drivers.
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It's rare for anyone to say they've lived through one mass shooting, let alone two.But at just 20 years old, Zoe Weissman now belongs to a growing club that no one would ever choose to join.The sophomore says she was in her dorm room on Brown University's campus Dec. 13, when she got a frantic phone call from a friend. Weissman says she suspected...
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It's rare for anyone to say they've lived through one mass shooting, let alone two.But at just 20 years old, Zoe Weissman now belongs to a growing club that no one would ever choose to join.The sophomore says she was in her dorm room on Brown University's campus Dec. 13, when she got a frantic phone call from a friend. Weissman says she suspected...
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Fear and violence permeate Culiacán, Sinaloa, and its surrounding area in northwestern Mexico. The sun-seared state capital, with a population of a little more than one million, is also known as the cradle of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most powerful organized crime groups in the world, which has fallen into a vicious civil war.
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Piracy off the coast of Somalia is back in the headlines after European Union naval forces seized an Iranian fishing vessel last month that Somali pirates used to briefly hijack a Malta-flagged tanker carrying gasoline from India to South Africa. Fishermen insist the bigger problem in the region is that foreign vessels are fishing in waters...
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A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, in southern Ukraine, killed eight people and wounded 27, Ukraine's emergency service said Saturday, as a Kremlin envoy was set to travel to Florida for talks on a U.S.-proposed plan to end the nearly four-year war.
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Luigi Mangione's lawyers contend Attorney General Pam Bondi's decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer's parent company.
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Canada's growing profile in Antarctic research may get another boost in early 2026, as the commander of the Royal Canadian Navy confirms a possible second expedition is in the works, in collaboration with the Chilean navy. Climate scientists from the first all-Canadian expedition in March hope it offers the chance to collect more samples, as...
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Tensions between the United States and Venezuela are escalating as the U.S. continues to strike alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking boats and signals the possibility of a ground invasion. Andrew Chang breaks down the geographical, logistical and political challenges involved in ratcheting up the conflict to this level.Images provided by The...
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Finland's government is facing heavy pressure and accusations of racism from several Asian countries after its representative to the 2025 Miss Universe pageant was seen pulling the corners of her eyes in a photo — and some Finnish politicians posted their own photos repeating the gesture.
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While any debate over imposing the death penalty is bound to be emotional and contentious, Israel's proposal to impose lethal punishment only on Palestinians makes new legislation before the Knesset especially egregious, say rights groups. One called it a "celebration of death and revenge."
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European Union leaders have decided to borrow cash to loan 90 billion euros ($145 billion Cdn) to Ukraine to fund its defence against Russia for the next two years rather than use frozen Russian assets, sidestepping divisions over an unprecedented plan to finance Kyiv with Russian sovereign cash.
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A weekslong ICE operation in Minnesota is getting a chilly reception from activists in the Twin Cities who are organizing to thwart detainments. Operation Metro Surge began the U.S. president called the state's large Somali community "garbage” and said he didn't want them in the country.
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A man suspected in the fatal shootings at Brown University and of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after a five-day search that spanned several New England states, authorities said Thursday.
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In an interview with CBC News, an operative with the Sinaloa cartel says he only recently heard the name of Ryan Wedding from news reports and social media posts about the alleged Canadian drug kingpin U.S. authorities say is likely living under the cartel's protection in Mexico.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington's leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House said, in a move that was quickly denounced as a "disgrace" by the Democratic leader of the House, who is on the board.
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Over 1,000 civilians were killed when a Sudanese paramilitary group took over a famine-stricken displacement camp in Sudan's Darfur in April, including about a third who were summarily executed, according to a report released by the UN's Human Rights Office on Thursday.
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President Donald Trump has affixed partisan plaques to the portraits of all U.S. commanders in chief, himself included, on his Presidential Walk of Fame at the White House, describing Joe Biden as "sleepy," Barack Obama as "divisive" and Ronald Reagan as a fan of a young Trump.
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The U.S. military said Wednesday that it attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people, on the same day the House rejected efforts to limit U.S. President Donald Trump's power to use military force against drug cartels.
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