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Japan’s cabinet approves record $785 billion budget, vows to keep debt in check
TOKYO, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s cabinet on Friday approved a record $785 billion budget for the next fiscal year, aiming to strike a balance between […]
Libya, Türkiye to send black box of crashed plane to Germany for analysis: authorities
TRIPOLI, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) — The Libyan Interior Ministry said on Thursday that the Turkish chief public prosecutor and a Libyan committee investigating the crash of a plane carrying Libyan […]
US launches strikes against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria, Trump says
Dec 25 (Reuters) – The United States carried out airstrikes against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday, claiming the group had been targeting […]
2nd LD Writethru: 10 killed, 32 injured as bus overturns in eastern Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) — Ten people were killed and 32 others injured after a bus plunged into a ravine in the municipality of Zontecomatlan in the eastern Mexican […]
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un signals continued missile development in next 5 years
SEOUL, Dec 26 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signaled the country will continue to develop missiles in the next five years, as he visited major munitions enterprises […]
Four members of Liechtenstein family found dead
ZURICH, Dec 25 (Reuters) – Two men and two women from Liechtenstein found dead this week all belonged to one family, police said on Thursday as they investigate the unusual […]
Urgent: At least 8 killed, 19 injured as bus overturns in eastern Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) — At least eight people were killed and 19 others injured after a bus overturned in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, state authorities said […]
8 killed in building collapse in Egypt
CAIRO, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) — The death toll from the collapse of a five-story residential building in Egypt’s Giza Province, south of Cairo, has risen to eight, Egypt’s state-run Ahram […]
Drought, fires, illegal logging threaten Lebanon’s forest resources
BEIRUT, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) — Lebanon’s forests are under mounting pressure from prolonged droughts, recurring heatwaves, wildfires, and illegal logging, experts have warned, as widespread forest decline becomes increasingly visible […]
5.6-magnitude quake hits off Japan’s Aomori Prefecture
TOKYO, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 struck off Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan early Friday, the country’s weather agency said. Read full story […]