South Korean investigators probing a Jeju Air crash which killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on its soil said on Wednesday they will send one of the retrieved black boxes to the United States for analysis. The plane was carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea when it issued a mayday call […]
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Emmanuel Macron issues mea culpa over French legislative elections Financial Times Calling snap elections created more instability for France, Macron admits FRANCE 24 English Macron acknowledges error on early elections in New Year’s speech Reuters France’s Macron acknowledges snap elections backfired The Hill Macron Says Dissolving Parliament Sowed Division, Urges Unity Bloomberg Source link
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Auckland was the first major city to welcome 2025 with thousands of revellers counting down to the New Year and cheering at colourful fireworks launched from New Zealand’s tallest structure, the Sky Tower, and a spectacular downtown light show. Countries in the South Pacific are the first to ring in the New Year with midnight
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Ismail’s last message to the world Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Rifi were killed in an Israeli air attack on July 31, 2024. The reporters were killed when their car was hit in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, according to initial information. Ismail and Rami were wearing
North Korean leader expresses hope that Moscow will defeat ‘neo-Nazism and achieve a great victory’ in Ukraine. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has paid homage to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a New Year’s message extolling deepening ties between Pyongyang and Moscow, state media has reported. In a letter to mark the New Year,
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Carey Mulligan, Sarah Lancashire, and Stephen Fry are among the stars to receive recognition in King Charles III’s New Year honors list. Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) and Lancashire (Happy Valley) have been made Commanders of the British Empire for their services to drama. Fry has been knighted for his environmental, charity, and mental health work.
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IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi lit Hanukkah candles on Monday with injured soldiers from the war in Gaza at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, the IDF announced Monday. IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi lights Hanukkah candles with injured soldiers at Sheba Medical Center. (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT) “I
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Israel carries out hospital attacks in northern Gaza and Gaza City. Aid groups are warning Israel is in the late stages of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza. Only 12 trucks have managed to distribute aid, to desperate Palestinians there in nearly three months. Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north has been stormed and bombed by
Russia has ground through repeated waves of soldiers in Ukraine. It lost some of its most experienced troops at the very start of the invasion, then shipped off tens of thousands of convicts without seeming to care whether they survived. Now, still desperately seeking sufficient manpower to maintain pressure on Ukraine, Russia has expanded recruitment
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For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy. Women displaced from their homes by Israel’s ongoing bombardment struggle to dress modestly while crowded into tents with extended family members, including men, and with strangers only steps away in neighbouring tents.
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