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Thousands marched in Belgrade and two other Serbian cities during a New Year's protest, demanding accountability over the fatal collapse of a train station roof

Serbia enters new year with student protests over train station tragedy

People celebrate the New Year near Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria

Following 13 years of civil war

New year hope and joy reign in a Damascus freed from Assad

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine 'will do everything to stop Russia and end the war' in 2025

Zelensky vows Ukraine will do everything in 2025 to stop Russia

More than 1,500 people have been charged in connection with the 2021 assault on Congress

Hoping for pardon

US Capitol riot fugitive seeks asylum in Canada

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is due to be sworn in for a third six-year term on January 10

Venezuela opposition urges protests against Maduro's inauguration

Suriname's former leader Desi Bouterse photographed during a press conference in Paramaribo on April 9, 1987

No state funeral

Suriname ex-dictator Bouterse to be cremated on Saturday

New Year's Eve from across the globe

The Panama Canal generates six percent of Panama's national economic output and 20 percent of its fiscal revenues

Panama marks canal handover anniversary in shadow of Trump threat

Man shot by police after suspected rampage with excavator

Russia ceded tens of small villages to Russian forces in 2024

Russian advances in Ukraine grew seven-fold in 2024, data shows

Kamal Adwan hospital chief, Hossam Abu Safiyeh, checking an injured child on October 24, 2024 amid the ongoing war in Gaza

Global attention

Gaza hospital chief held by Israel becomes face of crumbling healthcare

N. Korea's Kim 'feasts his eyes' on new resort project: state media

Around 2.4 million people work in farming in the United States, 44 percent of whom are undocumented, according to a survey by the US Department of Labor

Immigrant workers

US farmers fret over Trump's deportation plans

Abdullah Ocalan, seen here in 1993, set up the Marxist-inspired Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the late 1970s

Kurdish militant

Ocalan: PKK chief held in solitary on Turkish prison island

Yemenis carry a mock missile during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians, in the Huthi-controlled capital Sanaa

Yemen's Huthis a 'menace' for Israel despite weakened Iran: analysts

Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol gathered outside his residence after a court issued an arrest warrant for him

S. Korea court issues arrest warrant for impeached president Yoon

Police forensics personnel and National Bureau of Investigation officials work at the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan

Amid seven days of mourning

S. Korea investigates barrier hit in Jeju Air crash

Morning Roundup

Luxembourg disaster support, S Korea plane crash, and New Year's Honours

Crowds have begun gathering to greet 2025 after a year of Olympic glory, the return of Donald Trump and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine

A turbulent twelve months

World greets 2025 after sweltering year of Olympics, turmoil, and Trump

British actor and comedian Stephen Fry is among those knighted by King Charles III in the traditional New Year's Honours list

New Year's tradition

UK Post Office scandal victims recognised in honours list

Former US President Jimmy Carter, pictured at a 2004 press conference, was a noted humanitarian in his post-presidency

Following death

US prepares state honors for late president Jimmy Carter

Children check the site of an Israeli strike on a broadcast truck in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on December 26, 2024

International law defied

Israel must face consequences over Gaza campaign: UN experts

The accident took place in southern Ethiopia

Tragic incident

More than 70 killed in Ethiopia road accident

The initials of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) are seen on a bullet-riddled wall in Mexico's Michoacan state

Mexico probes public thanks to drug lord for children's gifts

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said the suspect appeared to be mentally disturbed

More than 200 wounded

Signs Christmas market attack suspect mentally ill: German minister

Fighters affiliated with Syria's new administration at a military parade in Damascus

'Foreign jihadists' in Syria leader's pick for army officers: monitor, experts

Biden and his administration announced nearly $6 billion in aid disbursed to Ukraine, as Trump's imminent return casts doubt on future support

To fight Russian aggression

US announces $5.9 bn in military, budget aid for Ukraine

Nine children and a security guard were killed at an elementary school in Belgrade last year

Grave offence against public safety

Serbian court jails parents of Belgrade school shooter

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