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Libya, Türkiye to send black box of crashed plane to Germany for analysis 26 Dec 2025 - 04:53 pm
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Arteta eager to avoid repeat of Rice red card against Brighton 26 Dec 2025 - 04:44 pm
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Qatar condemns terrorist bombing targeting mosque in Homs, Syria 26 Dec 2025 - 04:40 pm
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UN says Guinea election campaign marked by 'intimidation' 26 Dec 2025 - 04:19 pm
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Syria says Homs bombing 'desperate attempt' to destabilise country 26 Dec 2025 - 04:00 pm
This handout photograph released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on December 26, 2025, shows the aftermath of the explosion inside Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque in the Wadi al-Dahab neighborhood of Homs. A deadly explosion hit a mosque in a predominantly Alawite area of Syria's Homs on December 26, said authorities who reported at least six people killed. (Photo by HANDOUT / SANA / AFP
Thailand PM expresses hope for ceasefire with Cambodia 26 Dec 2025 - 03:55 pm
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China launches internet satellites into space 26 Dec 2025 - 03:28 pm
A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying a group of internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 26, 2025. The rocket successfully placed the payloads, the 17th group of low-orbit internet satellites, into preset orbit. (Photo by Liu Jianqiu/Xinhua)
Ukraine's Zelensky says to meet Trump in 'near future' 26 Dec 2025 - 03:01 pm
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Explosion at mosque in Syria's Homs kills 3, injures 5 26 Dec 2025 - 02:51 pm
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Fuel shortage forces Gaza hospital to suspend most services 26 Dec 2025 - 02:26 pm
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Egypt's grand museum begins live restoration of ancient boat 26 Dec 2025 - 02:14 pm
Museum employees install antique wooden planks from King Khufu’s second boat onto a metal structure at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, on December 23, 2025. Photo by Ahmed Hasan / AFP
Nigeria gave US intelligence for strikes on militants: FM 26 Dec 2025 - 01:39 pm
(Files) Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar speaks during a press conference on November 4, 2025 at the Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Odd Andersen / AFP)
14 injured in Japan after stabbing, liquid spray attack: emergency official 26 Dec 2025 - 01:27 pm
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Elusive wild cat feared extinct rediscovered in Thailand 26 Dec 2025 - 01:16 pm
This handout picture taken with a camera trap and released on December 26, 2025, by Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) and Panthera Thailand shows a recently rediscovered flat-headed cat in southern Thailand's Princess Sirindhorn Wildlife Sanctuary. (Photo by Handout / various sources / AFP) /
Shanghai's elderly waltz back to the past at lunchtime dance halls 26 Dec 2025 - 12:21 pm
This photo taken on December 11, 2025, shows couples dancing at the Paramount Ballroom in the Jing'An district of Shanghai. (Photo by Hector Retamal / AFP)
Hooked on the claw: how crane games conquered Japan's arcades 26 Dec 2025 - 12:00 pm
In this picture taken on November 22, 2025, stuffed toys are seen inside claw crane game machines inside a shop at Tokyo's Shinjuku district. (Photo by Philip Fong / AFP)
North Korea's Kim orders factories to make more missiles in 2026 26 Dec 2025 - 11:48 am
This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 26, 2025 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) visiting major munitions industry enterprises to acquaint himself with the missile and shell production at an undisclosed place in North Korea. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)
Inside Chernobyl, Ukraine scrambles to repair radiation shield 26 Dec 2025 - 11:32 am
This photograph shows the containment vessel of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) which contains radiation from the remains of reactor 4 of the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Chernobyl, on December 22, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo by Tetiana Dzhafarova / AFP
US launches Christmas Day strikes on IS targets in Nigeria 26 Dec 2025 - 11:25 am
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China's high-speed rail network passes 50,000km mark 26 Dec 2025 - 10:24 am
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 26, 2025 shows the C3132 passenger train bound for Hangzhou running along the Hangzhou-Quzhou high-speed railway in east China's Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)