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Jimmy Carter, former US president, dies at 100
New York [US], December 30: Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad...

Jeju Air boss says crash not down to...
Seoul [South Korea], December 30: The crash was not due to "any maintenance issues", the head of Jeju Air's management...

Israel's attack on Gaza hospital kills seven, prompts...
Gaza [Palestine] / Tel Aviv [Israel], December 30: The Israeli military killed seven people in a missile attack on a...

Twenty-day-old baby dies from severe cold in Gaza;...
Gaza [Palestine], December 30: A 20-day-old baby in Gaza has died from severe cold, the fifth such fatality from hypothermia...

Taliban reiterate ban on women working for non-governmental...
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 30: The Afghan Ministry of Economy on Sunday reiterated its call for all non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in...

What's a bird strike in aviation?
London [UK], December 30: A bird strike is a collision between a plane in flight and a bird. They are...

179 people dead as plane crashes in South...
Seoul [South Korea], December 30: Rescuers suspect 179 people died when a plane veered off a South Korean airport runway...

Aliyev calls on Russia to fully admit causing...
Moscow [Russia], December 30: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has demanded a full admission of responsibility from Russia for causing the...

French officials say three people dead in Channel...
London [UK], December 30: At least three people have died attempting to cross the Channel in small boats, French authorities...

S Korea's Yoon again ignores summons to appear
Seoul [South Korea], December 30: South Korea's suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has for the third time in a row...

Pakistan Defence Minister slams Imran Khan, questions his...
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 30: Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif lashed out at former Prime Minister Imran Khan, accusing him of...

Afghan Taliban strike targets inside Pakistan
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 30: Afghanistan's Taliban government said on Saturday that it struck "several points" inside neighbouring Pakistan.

South Korea's acting president Han Duck-Soo impeached as...
Seoul [South Korea], December 29: South Korea's parliament impeached acting President Han Duck-soo on Saturday, less than two weeks after...

North Korean troops experience mass casualties on Ukraine...
Pyongyang [North Korea], December 29: North Korean forces are experiencing mass casualties on the front lines of Russia's war against...

German president dissolves parliament for Feb. 23 snap...
Berlin [Germany], December 29: President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved Germany's lower house of parliament to pave the way for snap elections...

Trump sides with Elon Musk in H-1B visa...
New York [US], December 29: President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday sided with key supporter and billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk...

At least 28 dead in fiery aircraft crash...
Seoul [South Korea], December 29: At least 28 people died on Sunday after an airliner went off the runway and...

Thousands protest in Georgia ahead of political showdown
Tbilisi [Georgia], December 29: Thousands of Georgian protesters have formed a human chain in the capital, Tbilisi, ahead of a...

India mourns former prime minister Manmohan Singh in...
New Delhi [India], December 29: Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister widely regarded as the architect of the country's...

China approves the construction of world's largest hydropower...
Beijing [China], December 29: China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, stoking concerns...

Israel detains north Gaza hospital director as WHO...
Gaza [Palestine], December 29: Israel's army has detained the director of one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza,...

PM Fico offers Slovakia's 'hospitality' in possible Ukraine,...
Bratislava [Slovakia], December 29: Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has offered his country as a meeting place for possible talks...

Finland brings tanker suspected of damaging undersea cable...
Helsinki [Finland], December 29: Finnish police on Saturday transported a Russia- linked suspected of intentionally damaging a Baltic Sea power...

Trump asks Supreme Court to delay law that...
Washington [US], December 29: US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday stepped into the ongoing dispute over the potential ban of...

'Alarming' rise in climate disasters in Brazil: Study
Brasilia [Brazil], December 29: Brazil has seen a dramatic rise of climate disasters in recent years, compared to two previous...

World Health Organization finds no mysterious 'Disease X'...
Geneva [Switzerland], December 29: International health experts believe the wave of illnesses in a remote region of the Democratic Republic...

Record number of children living in conflict zones:...
New York [US], December 29: More children than ever before live in conflict zones or have been forcibly displaced from...