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The blast at the facility that makes munitions, explosives and flares for the domestic and international markets

Shards of glass and metal

12 killed in blast at Turkey explosives plant

Political dissent in Hong Kong has been quashed since Beijing imposed a sweeping national law in 2020 after huge, sometimes violent democracy protests the year before

National security crimes

Hong Kong police issue fresh bounties for activists overseas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the fifth day of testimony in his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv

14 months into war

Netanyahu tells Israel parliament 'some progress' on Gaza hostage deal

Police forces take part in an operation against powerful gangs in the city center near the National Palace in Port-au-Prince on July 9, 2024

Haitians massacred for practicing voodoo were abducted, hacked to death: UN

US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during Turning Point's annual AmericaFest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 22, 2024.

Disruptor-in-chief

Is he serious? Trump stirs unease with Panama, Greenland ploys

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi (C-L) is received by new Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (C-R) in Damascus

Senior diplomats

Jordanian, Qatari envoys hold talks with Syria's new leader

Elisabeth Borne denounced sexism after leaving office

Education minister

France's second woman premier makes surprise frontline return

Police remove a woman demanding the release of children taken by authorities from an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect in Guatemala

Ultra-orthodox Jewish sect

Guatemalan authorities recover minors taken by sect members

The bridge, connecting Brazil's northeast states of Maranhao and Tocantins, collapsed on Sunday

Tragic incident

Acid complicates search after deadly Brazil bridge collapse

Mozambique has been riven by some of the worst post-election unrest in its history

Tensions rising

Mozambique top court confirms ruling party disputed win

Syrian orthopaedic surgeon Mohammed al-Hanash, at his Douma clinic on December 21, 2024, says he and other medical staff were summoned by national security after the 2018 chemical attack

2018 chlorine attack

Syrian medics say were coerced into false chemical attack testimony

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, observe a minute of silence for the victims of cyclone-hit Mayotte

Devastating cyclone

France's new government to be announced Monday evening: Elysee

Luigi Mangione wore a white shirt, burgundy sweatshirt and was shackled during his appearance

Facing federal charges

Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder

A fjord in Nuuk, Greenland -- could the US buy the territory?

Strategic island

Not for sale. Greenland shrugs off Trump's new push

US President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates, taking action ahead of the return of Donald Trump

Taking action ahead of Trump's return

Biden commutes sentences for 37 of 40 federal death row inmates

The Yi Peng 3 had been anchored in the international waters of the Kattegat strait between Sweden and Denmark

With regional authorities

Sweden says China blocked prosecutors' probe of ship linked to cut cables

Israel's government has faced accusations that it systematically hinders aid reaching Gaza

Shocking numbers

Only 12 trucks delivered food, water in North Gaza Governorate since October: Oxfam

The alleged $5 billion embezzlement was linked to the Russian-backed Rooppur nuclear power plant, Bangladesh's first

Russian-backed nuclear power plant

Bangladesh launches $5bn graft probe into Hasina's family

Philippine and US Marines take part in a live fire exercise during annual joint military drills in the northern Philippines in May 2024

For maritime protection

Philippines says to acquire US Typhon missile system

New York police arrested a man suspected of setting fire to a woman on the Brooklyn subway

Grotesque crime

Police arrest suspect who set woman on fire in New York subway

US President-elect Donald Trump's speech at Turning Point USA's annual AmericaFest convention amounted to something of a victory lap

A push against LGBTQ rights

Trump vows to 'stop transgender lunacy' as a top priority

Israeli security personnel in Jerusalem disperse ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters opposed to conscription, on October 31, 2024

Following 14 months of war

Israeli women mobilise against ultra-Orthodox military exemptions

The demonstrators want those responsible for a deadly rood collapse at a train station to be held to account

Tens of thousands protest in Serbian capital over fatal train station accident

During a press conference with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (L), Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) said all weapons must be under state control, including those from 'revolutionary' and Kurdish-led factions

Syria's new leader says all weapons to come under 'state control'

Kremlin insider Pavel Zarubin posted a short video showing the two leaders smiling and shaking hands

Slovak PM Fico on surprise visit to Kremlin to talk gas deliveries

A relative of the Abu Samra family looks on as Palestinians search for survivors after a strike on their home in central Gaza

Civil defence agency

Gaza rescuers say Israeli strikes kill 35

Israeli emergency responders inspect a crater at the site where a projectile fired from Yemen landed in Tel Aviv on December 21, 2024

Following missiles at Tel Aviv

Netanyahu vows to act with 'force, determination' against Yemen's Huthis

France's new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, appointed on December 13, is racing to name a new government by Christmas at the latest

Francois Bayrou

France kept on tenterhooks over new government

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