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Malibu fire evacuees start returning home as blaze now 30% contained
Some 3,700 evacuees from the Malibu wildfire returned home on Thursday as firefighters made progress in battling the blaze that has...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Demoralised and abandoned by allies: why Assad’s army failed to fight in Syria
DAMASCUS/AMMAN/BAGHDAD - Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army...
Dec 13, 20248 min read
Brazil's Lula has head drain removed after second surgery, doctors say
SAO PAULO - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had a drain removed from his head on Thursday evening, his doctors said, as he...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Senior Ukraine official says Kyiv not yet ready for talks with Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said in an interview broadcast late on Thursday that Kyiv was not yet ready to...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
China says will decide to hold military exercises around Taiwan "according to the situation of the struggle"
BEIJING - China said on Friday that it would decide whether to hold military exercises in response to Taiwan President Lai Ching-te's...
Dec 13, 20241 min read
UCLA police chief who was criticized over Gaza protest violence is out
WASHINGTON - The police chief for the University of California at Los Angeles, who was criticized for the handling of a violent mob...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
US announces new arms aid package for Ukraine worth $500 million
WASHINGTON - The administration of Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden announced another package of weapons aid for Ukraine on Thursday,...
Dec 13, 20241 min read
Blinken meets Erdogan as forces backed by US, Turkey clash in Syria
ANKARA - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Turkey on Thursday for talks focused on a critical aspect of establishing...
Dec 13, 20243 min read
Facts-Tariffs, tax cuts core to Trump’s economic agenda
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to make tariffs and tax cuts the key elements of his economic agenda when he takes office...
Dec 13, 20244 min read
Trump says he will use military for deportations to fullest extent of law
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump will use the U.S. military to the fullest extent of the law to support his mass deportation...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
US claims North Korea put workers in US companies to extort money for weapons
WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday offered a $5 million reward for information about an alleged scheme in which North Korean ...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
US House passes bill to expand judiciary despite Biden veto threat
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday to add 66 new judges to understaffed federal courts nationally, a bill that...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
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