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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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The Department of State sent the foreign affairs committees of the House and the Senate the notification on Friday, US media reports. The weapons will include 500-pound (226kg) warheads, precision-guided munitions, artillery shells, missiles for jets and attack helicopters, and bomb fuses. In August, Washington approved a separate $20bn arms package to Israel. Since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October 2023, at least 45,717 people have been killed. 108,856 others have been wounded.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Russia pledges to retaliate after it claims to have shot down eight ATACMS missiles fired by Ukraine at Belgorod border region. Russia said on January 3, an attempt was made from Ukrainian territory to launch a missile attack using US-made missiles. Biden is expected to announce additional security assistance for Ukraine in the coming days. US President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview last month he was “very vehemently” opposed to Ukraine using the arms. Kyiv will also reportedly receive its first French Mirage 2000-5F multirole fighters this month. Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened last year to strike central Kyive with a hypersonic ballistic missile if Ukraine continued hitting Russian territory with long-range Western weapons. Sumy borders Russia’s Kursk region and has been regularly shelled by Russian forces for months. Russian forces also launched attacks near the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in an effort to bypass it from the south.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 18:41:07

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Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer says he will resign in the coming days. The announcement comes after talks on forming a new government failed a second time. "Unfortunately I have to tell you today that the negotiations have ended and will not be continued by the People’s Party," he said.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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The announcement comes a day after the liberal Neos party withdrew from the negotiations with Nehammer’s conservative People’s Party (OVP) and the Social Democrats. In a video posted to his social media accounts, the outgoing chancellor said “long and honest” negotiations with the centre-left failed despite a shared interest in fending off the gaining far right.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 14:21:44

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Israeli airstrikes kill at least 15 people in southern Gaza, hospital staff say. A small boy cried over his father, and a woman draped herself over one of the bodies. There is no immediate comment from Israel's military. Hamas militant group warns against misinformation. Families of hostages and others have rallied weekly for months to press Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire deal that would bring loved ones home. Israeli soldier and hostage Liri Albag, speaking under duress, expressed anguish over her situation. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 45,717 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. 7, 2023, have killed more than 800 Palestinians. A fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has held up for over a month.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Yoon Suk-yeol defied attempts by South Korean investigators to detain him on Friday. It was the latest confrontation in a political crisis that has paralysed South Korean politics. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of central Seoul on Saturday. Yoon, a former prosecutor, has resisted investigators’ attempts to question him for weeks. The last time he is known to have left his residence was on 12 December. The National Police Agency has said it plans to investigate the chief and deputy chiefs of the presidential security service on suspicion of obstructing official duty. Yoon has defended martial law decree as necessary act of governance. He has remained defiant, ignoring requests for questioning and vowing to fight.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 13:40:00

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Russia-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea announce a regional emergency. Fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers nearly three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait. Oil was found on four beaches in the region and was “promptly eliminated” by local authorities working together. In 2021, Russia closed the strait for several months. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office, described the oil spill as a “large-scale environmental disaster”

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Tomiko Itooka died on December 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo prefecture, central Japan. She became the oldest person last year following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas, according to the Gerontology Research Group.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Israeli army statement admitted that the military incinerated five Palestinian journalists. The five victims were Ibrahim Sheikh Ali, Faisal Abu al-Qumsan, Mohammed al-Ladaa, Fadi Hassouna, and Ayman al-Gedi. Israeli army made no claims that they were actually carrying weapons. 201 have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Other counts put the number at 217. CPJ has listed Israel as one of the top “jailers of journalists”. Israel, the self-proclaimed “only democracy in the Middle East”, massacres journalists with impunity. The 2022 assassination of Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin is a case in point.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 16:58:00

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Pope Francis warned that bullying in schools prepares students for war rather than peace. Speaking to about 2,000 Italian teachers, educators and parents, Francis stressed his message against bullying.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Arsenal blew a chance to make up significant ground on Premier League leaders Liverpool. Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal travelled to the south coast on Saturday hunting a fourth straight win. Ethan Nwaneri, seventeen-year-old Bukayo Saka, put them on course for all three points in the first half. Man City have won successive matches for the first time since October. The defending champions beat West Ham 4-1 earlier on Saturday. Newcastle United came from behind to clinch a fifth straight Premier League win. Alexander Isak scores what turned out to be the winner towards the end of the first period. Newcastle have slumped to 12th in the table after five defeats in seven matches. Aston Villa beat Leicester 2-1 at home with goals from Ross Barkley and Leon Bailey.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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The German and French foreign ministers have met Syria's de facto leader in Damascus. The European officials conveyed a message that lifting of sanctions on Syria would depend on how the country’s political future develops. So what do both sides want from each other – and what divide them? Presenter: Haid Haid – Columnist and consulting fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme.

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Author: Ian Austen
Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Newsletter Canada Letter Jimmy Carter and Canada’s Worst Nuclear Reactor Accident The former American president, who died this week at 100, was among those who came to clean up a partial meltdown at Chalk River, Ontario. In the wide range of articles published by The New York Times this week after the death of Jimmy Carter, a fragment of largely forgotten Canadian history resurfaced. A yellowed certificate issued in 1953 by the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in New York State proclaiming Mr. Carter The NRX had a capacity of 30 megawatts that day, which was powerful by the standards of its time. On the day of the accident, the reactor was powered down for an inspection of its cooling system. In the basement, a worker mistakenly raised a few control rods that can reduce and, if necessary, completely shut down the chain reaction in the reactor. But the lights were wrong: Two or three of the rods were stuck and had only partly returned to safety. The NRX had been designed in Montreal in a joint Canadian-British project. But they provided equipment Canada lacked, like closed-circuit television, and they gained experience and training for themselves in dealing with the unprecedented situation. Lieutenant Carter, then 28, and his group worked on a “header” that fed cooling water from the river into the reactor, Mr. Brown said. Bryant Rousseau, an editor on the International desk, picked two from Canada. Suzanne Smith of Ajax, Ontario, is one of three owners of small coffee shops. TikTok food critic Kim Rosenberg of Toronto tells why "having a late December birthday sucks" Jimmy Carter redefined what a president can do after departing the White House. After Carter’s ascension to the white house, he witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans came to dominate. Habitat for Humanity: After Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, linked themselves to the group, it grew and built homes for millions.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 12:47:00

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he's staying cool against comments made by Elon Musk. Scholz was reacting after Musk called the chancellor a “fool” after his coalition government collapsed in November. The AfD is monitored by Germany’s domestic intelligence service on suspicion of being right-wing extremist.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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An investigation into the exact causes of the crash is currently underway. Brazilian investigators are working with colleagues from three other countries to analyse the plane's black box data. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev accuses Russia of trying to "hush up" the issue.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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The protesters faced-off outside the presidential residence and along major roads in the South Korean capital on Saturday to either demand Yoon’s arrest or call for his impeachment to be declared invalid. The widening political division comes as investigators from the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) for High-Ranking Officials pressed the country’s acting President Choi Sang-mok to order the presidential security service to comply with an arrest warrant for Yoon. Yoon faces criminal charges of insurrection, one of a few crimes not subject to presidential immunity, meaning he could be sentenced to prison or, at worst, the death penalty. His lawyers decried Friday’s arrest attempt as “unlawful and invalid” and said they would take legal action.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 03:27:55

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China is redoubling efforts to undermine confidence in the self-governing island’s democracy. The National Security Bureau said the number of pieces of false or biased information distributed by China increased 60% last year. Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter, were the main conduits for disinformation.

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Author: Martin Fackler
Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Tomiko Itooka of Japan, World’s Oldest Person, Dies at 116 Born in 1908, she raised four children, ran a family textile factory during World War II, and remained an avid hiker into her 80s. In a statement released on Saturday, the mayor of Ashiya said she died peacefully of complications related to old age. Growing up in prewar Japan, she played volleyball in high school before marrying the owner of a textile company, Kenji Itooka. During World War II, she stayed in Japan to run the business while her husband went to Korea, then a Japanese colony, to oversee a factory there. In 1979, her husband died after 51 years of marriage.

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Author: Aaron Boxerman
Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Syria’s main international airport in Damascus will reopen next week. The announcement comes amid tensions along the border between Syria and Lebanon. Lebanese military said that Syrian militants had fired at Lebanase soldiers. Ahmad al-Shara faces the challenge of imposing order on a country. In eastern Syria, Turkish-backed fighters are continuing to fight Kurdish forces. At the same time, there have been scattered clashes between the new regime and holdouts still loyal to Mr. Al-Assad. Israeli forces have bombarded military sites across the country and sent their troops into a once-demilitarized buffer zone. Jordan also partly closed its ground crossing with Syria. Syria's new administration has stepped up its campaign to arrest members of the ousted Assad dictatorship. Looking Nervously to the Future: Amid an outcry for justice and accountability, Syria’s Alawite minority, favored by the Assads, is feeling deep anxiety after the ouster of the country’s dictatorship.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Shamsud-Din Jabbar rammed crowds with a rented Ford F-150 pick-up truck. The 42-year-old suspected driver was a United States citizen and US Army veteran. But within hours of the attack, President-elect Donald Trump speculated that he entered the US illegally. Fox News reported that the pick-up truck Jabbar rented came into the US at the Eagle Pass, Texas, border crossing. At 10:40am ET (15:40 GMT) on January 1, a Fox News reporter said federal sources had licence plate data placing the suspect and the truck at the southern border days before the attack. The suspect drove a truck with the Texas licence plate right through Bourbon Street. Fox News corrected the timeline on air, saying that the truck crossed the border in mid-November and confirmed that it wasn’t driven by Jabbar. PoliticiFact did not find instances of Fox News on-air personalities repeating the original erroneous report.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 14:20:13

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Malaysian authorities say they have turned away two boats attempting to enter the country. 196 Rohingya refugees landed on a beach on the northeastern resort island of Langkawi. They were all detained by authorities.

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Published on: 03/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case is set for 10 January. Judge Juan M. Merchan indicated he wouldn't be jailed. Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors said it would otherwise pose unconstitutional "disruptions" to incoming president's ability to run the country. The hush money case was the only one of Trump's four criminal indictments to go to trial.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Saturday that 18-year-old Muhammad Medhat Amin Amer was shot dead during the overnight raid on the camp. Nine people are in “critical condition” after being wounded in the raid, which began on Friday night. Israeli military said soldiers fired on “terrorists” who had “hurled explosives, molotov cocktails and rocks” and shot fireworks at the forces. Palestinian Authority (PA) has been conducting raids in the Jenin refugee camp since December. There have been clashes for weeks, with both civilians and security forces killed. The family of a Palestinian father and son killed in the camp blamed the PA for their deaths.

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Mizo Games has launched a crowdfunding campaign raising more than 4 million New Taiwan dollars ($121,707 USD) the board game simulates a Chinese invasion of Taiwan 20 years in the future and players role-play characters over the 10 days leading up to an attack. The game, named “2045”, will be released in Taiwan this month. Players in 2045 can participate in different aspects of modern warfare, including cyberwarfare, economic meltdown and civil upheaval. The game’s controversial subject prevents its manufacture in China, a departure from the usual production practices of Taiwanese board game companies. Mizo Games launched its first warfare-themed game, Raid on Taihoku, in 2017. “The Landlord’s Game”, created in 1902 by Elizabeth Magie, was crafted to teach players the negative effects of land consolidation under private monopolistic control and land seizure. In 1935, the game was adapted and commercialised by Charles Darrow and Parker Brothers, who modified its rules and themes to emphasise competition and wealth accumulation. It’s not just board games that are capturing the imagination of Taiwanese media companies when it comes to the idea of a Chinese invasion. China is opposed to any kind of “reunification” and regards increasingly frequent Chinese military drills in the Taiwan Strait as “provocative” In August 2022, China launched missiles over Taiwan in response to a visit by then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan. Under its “one China policy”, the US does not recognise Taiwan’s independence from China. The military exercises around Taiwan involved 111 aircraft, 46 naval vessels and operations including sea assaults, land strikes, air defence drills and anti-submarine activities. In October 2024, China said the Eastern Theatre Command of the PLA launched new military drills off the coast of Taiwan as 'punishment'

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Published on: 04/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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The blaze at the Liguang market in Hebei’s city of Zhangjiakou broke out on Saturday. The injured have been sent to hospital for treatment and are currently not in life-threatening danger.

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