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Zoran Milanovic casting his vote in Zagreb on Sunday

Casting ballots

Croatia elects president as incumbent looks favourite

The year's death toll from clandestine Channel crossings stands at 76

Overcrowded vessel

Three die in clandestine Channel crossing attempt

This picture taken during the period of December 23 to 27, 2024 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 29 shows Kim Jong Un attending the party meeting

North Korea calls for 'toughest' US strategy at party meeting

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

No national mourning

Suriname rules out state funeral for ex-dictator Bouterse

Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from Kamal Adwan Hospital to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City

Kamal Adwan Hospital

Israeli military says Gaza hospital chief held in raid

A delegation from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul

Turkey's pro-Kurd party meets jailed PKK leader

Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from Kamal Adwan Hospital to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City

Israel army says ends raid against 'Hamas centre' in north Gaza hospital

Russia has said its air defence was working in Grozny when an Azerbaijani Airlines flight attempted to land there before crashing

'Tragic accident'

Putin apologises to Azerbaijan without claiming responsibility in plane crash

A Guatemalan migrant deported from the United States waits at the Returnee Reception Center upon arrival at the Guatemalan Air Force Base in Guatemala City

Guatemalan Migration Institute

US deported record 61,680 Guatemalans in 2024: agency

Mass street protests gripped Georgia since November 28

Central Tbilisi

Thousands in Georgia human chain as pro-EU protests enter 2nd month

Serge Atlaoui (L) was initially sentenced to life in prison but Indonesia's Supreme Court increased the sentence to death in 2007

France asks Indonesia to transfer national on death row

A doctor in Abu Dhabi cares for a Palestinian child injured in the Gaza Strip during the war between Israel and Hamas

Gaza child amputees get new limbs but can't shake war trauma

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was visiting Yemen as part of a mission to seek the release of detained UN staff and assess the health and humanitarian situations

UN Health Agency

WHO chief says narrowly escaped death in Israeli strikes on Yemen airport

President Yoon Suk Yeol is under investigation for his short-lived attempt to scrap civilian rule, which plunged the country into political turmoil and led to his impeachment

Indictment report

S. Korean prosecutors say Yoon authorised 'shooting' during martial law bid

Manmohan Singh was an understated technocrat who was hailed for overseeing an economic boom in his first term as India's prime minister

Seven days of mourning

Indian state funeral for former PM Manmohan Singh

Smoke billows skywards after an air strike on Yemen's capital Sanaa late on December 27

'Will continue until job is done'

Israel says intercepted missile from Yemen, day after Sanaa hit with strikes

Friday's vote was South Korea's first impeachment of an acting president

South Korean lawmakers impeach second president in two weeks

Thge control tower of Sanaa international airport was damaged by the strikes on December 26

Civilian flights

UN official denies Israeli claim Yemen airport was military target

Slovakian premier Robert Fico met with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on December 22

Slovakia says ready to host Russia-Ukraine peace talks

South Korea's military believes that North Korea is seeking to modernise its conventional warfare capabilities through combat experience gained in the Russia-Ukraine war

'Minimal protection'

Several wounded N.Korean soldiers died after being captured by Ukraine: Zelensky

South Korea's military believes that North Korea is seeking to modernise its conventional warfare capabilities through combat experience gained in the Russia-Ukraine war

N. Korean soldier captured in Russia-Ukraine war dies: Seoul

Russia claimed the plane was hit by shrapnel during a Ukrainian drone attack

Probe suggests Azerbaijan plane crashed due to 'physical external interference'

A man was given six lashes in a mosque in Malaysia after being convicted by a Sharia court for spending time alone with a woman who was neither his wife or relative

Sharia court-ordered whipping

Malaysia man flogged in mosque for crime of gender mixing

Oleksandr left his unit without permission after six months of hard fighting, but later returned to the army

Tales from the frontline

Desertions spark panic, and pardons, in Ukraine's army

Raytheon's Canadian and Australian subsidaries have been sanctioned in China

Seven companies

China sanctions US firms over Taiwan military support

Hot air balloons rise in the sky during the International Hot-Air Balloon festival in Pokhara

Idyllic setting

Nepal hosts hot air balloon festival

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh died at the age of 92 at a hospital in New Delhi

Seven days of state mourning

India announces state funeral for former PM Manmohan Singh

An image taken from a handout video provided by the Huthis' official Al-Masirah TV station shows the damage to the airport from an Israeli strike

On international airport

Israeli strikes hit Yemen as Netanyahu fires warning

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