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Ecuador's president has ordered that criminal gangs be "neutralised" after days of violence culminated in an attack on a television studio.Masked gunmen broke into public television channel TC's live studio during a broadcast, forcing staff to the floor. Police made 13 arrests foll...
A landmark legal case about whether Donald Trump should be immune from criminal prosecution will be heard in Washington on Tuesday.The Republican former president's lawyers will argue that the office of the White House shields him from his 2020 election fraud charges.Mr Trump, who says he will a...
Gabriel Attal has been named France's next prime minister, as Emmanuel Macron aims to revive his presidency with a new government.At 34, he is the youngest PM in modern French history, outranking even Socialist Laurent Fabius who was 37 when he was appointed by François Mitterrand in 1984...
India summoned the high commissioner of Maldives after a row broke out over derogatory posts made by three officials about PM Narendra Modi.The deputy ministers, who have been suspended, called Mr Modi a "clown", "terrorist" and a "puppet of Israel".A foreign ministry s...
China has announced sanctions on five Western defence firms over the latest round of US arms sales to Taiwan.The announcement comes as Taiwan prepares to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on 13 January.US weapons sales to Taiwan are a frequent source of tension between Beijing and Washin...
UN peacekeepers are due to finish their withdrawal from Mali on Sunday, after a long-running mission lasting a decade.Minusma - the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission - began in 2013 after an armed rebellion, but has been asked to leave by the country's ruling military government....
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Venice is to ban loudspeakers and tourist groups of more than 25 people, in a bid to ease the impact of mass tourism on the Italian city.The new rules will come into effect from June, the city said in a statement.The use of loudspeakers have been banned as they can "generate confusion and distu...
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The past 12 months have seen a number of setbacks for the US, Europe and other major democracies on the international politics stage. None has been disastrous, for now. But they point to a shifting balance of power away from the US-dominated, Western values that have held sway for years.On many fron...
A court in Qatar has commuted the death sentences of eight former Indian naval officers, India's foreign ministry has said. A ministry statement said the "sentences have been reduced" but did not specify what new penalty they would face.Neither Qatar nor India have revealed the specifi...
The White House has approved another tranche of US military aid to Ukraine worth some $250m (£195m).The latest package includes air defence, artillery and small arms ammunition, and anti-tank weapons, US officials say.But it marks the last funding available without fresh approval from Congress...
Thousands of migrants have set off on foot from southern Mexico in an effort to reach the United States border.Around 7,000 people mainly from South and Central America, including thousands of children, are estimated to have joined the migrant caravan.They left just days before US Secretary of State...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will intensify its fight against Hamas in the coming days.He told members of his party that he had visited Gaza on Monday morning and that Israel's military campaign there was "not close to being over".His comments come days after ...
A plane carrying about 275 Indian nationals who were held for four days at an airport in France has taken off.The chartered Airbus A340 had been grounded since Thursday over suspicions of human trafficking.The flight, from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Nicaragua, had stopped at an airport east o...
The Chinese capital, Beijing, has experienced its coldest December since records began in 1951.Temperatures in the city have frequently fallen below -10C this month.It has been a year of extremes in the capital: six months ago, Beijing recorded its hottest ever June day, at just over 40C.China has b...
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The atmosphere in Bethlehem is heavy with absence.Christmas celebrations have been cancelled this year and the thousands of tourists and pilgrims who would normally fill Manger Square are nowhere to be found."The city is empty from happiness, from joy, from kids, from Santa. There is no celebra...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Gaza war has come at a "very heavy price" for his side.The military says 14 more soldiers have been killed in the Palestinian territory since Friday, bringing the total of the ground assault to 153.Saturday was one of its deadliest days - ...
A US woman with a rare double uterus has given birth twice in two days - after a "one in a million" pregnancy and a total of 20 hours in labour.Kelsey Hatcher, 32, delivered one daughter on Tuesday, and a second on Wednesday, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospi...
Japan is going through a "once in a generation" political crisis, analysts say, as the government fights to clean up its image in the face of a corruption scandal.Four cabinet ministers from the long-term ruling party have resigned in the past fortnight, as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fig...
A US jury has cleared three police officers of all criminal charges in the death of an unarmed black man who died in police custody in 2020.Prosecutors accused the officers of using deadly force on Manuel Ellis during his arrest in Washington state.Mr Ellis, 33, was beaten and restrained face down o...
The UK is at risk of recession after revised figures showed the economy shrank between July and September.Gross domestic product, which measures the health of the economy, contracted by 0.1% after previous estimates suggested growth has been flat.Meanwhile, there was zero growth between April and Ju...
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