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US plans to send astronaut to moon this...
Washington [US], December 22: The United States has announced that alongside American astronauts, it plans to land an international astronaut...

Venezuela releases 10 US hostages in exchange for...
Washington [US], December 22: Venezuela has agreed to release 10 US hostages and extradite a fugitive billionaire in exchange for...

Australia must make remand 'exception' and ban use...
Sydney [Australia], December 22: The United Nations Committee against Torture has slammed Australia for the "extraordinary number" of people on...

Argentina's ultra-liberal President Milei issues hard reform decree
Buenos Aires [Argentina], December 22: The new Argentinian government of ultra-liberal President Javier Milei has begun to restructure the South...

Gunman kills 15, wounds 24 at Prague university
Prague [Czech Republic], December 22: A gunman opened fire at a university in the centre of Prague on Thursday afternoon,...

Hundreds battling wildfire near Cape Town in South...
Cape Town [South Africa], December 21: Hundreds of firefighters were battling a wildfire for a second day Wednesday on a...

German authorities shut down illegal darknet marketplace
Berlin [Germany], December 21: German authorities have shut down the server infrastructure of the illegal darknet marketplace "Kingdom Market," the...

Vietnam to increase regional minimum salary
Hanoi [Vietnam], December 21: Vietnam will lift regional minimum salary for laborers by 6 percent next year, local media reported...

S. Korea's top court orders Japanese firms to...
Seoul [South Korea], December 21: South Korea's top court on Thursday ordered Japanese firms to compensate the victims who were...

UNICEF chief raises alarm about drinking water crisis...
United Nations, December 21: The head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday issued a dire warning that the...

Hurricane Otis kills 52 in Mexico
Mexico City [Mexico], December 21: Hurricane Otis has killed 52 and left 32 missing in Mexico, Governor of Guerrero state,...

EU migrant pact hailed by Italian gov't, slammed...
Rome [Italy], December 21: The European Union's (EU) New Pact on Migration and Asylum has been welcomed by government officials...

Polish gov't dismisses public media chiefs
Warsaw [Poland], December 21: Poland's Culture Minister sacked the heads of three state media outlets on Wednesday, leading to protests...

Cambodia records 11,506 new business establishments in first...
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], December 21: Cambodia issued operating licenses to 11,506 new companies and enterprises in the first 11 months...

Australia rebuffs U.S. request for warship in Red...
Canberra [Australia], December 21: The Australian government has announced that it will not send a warship to the Red Sea...

Behind the 'revolution' led by Myanmar's ethnic minority...
Namhsan [Myanmar], December 21: Pickup trucks carrying ethnic minority fighters rolled into a town in Myanmar's northeastern Shan state...

Survivors of China's deadliest quake brave freezing cold
Jishishan [China], December 21: Survivors of China's deadliest earthquake in years huddled in makeshift aid tents despite freezing temperatures on...

Egypt seeks to broker Gaza ceasefire as Hamas
Cairo [Egypt], December 21: The U.S. said "very serious" negotiations were taking place on a new Gaza ceasefire and release...

Polish government takes public TV news channel off...
Warsaw [Poland], December 21: Poland's new government took a public news channel off the air on Wednesday and dismissed executives...

Macron defends new French migration law despite political...
Paris [France], December 21: French President Emmanuel Macron defended a bill to toughen immigration laws despite an embarrassing parliamentary vote...

Trump urges US Supreme Court not to expedite...
Washington [US], December 21: Former President Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request by federal prosecutors...

Anti-war candidate Duntsova applies to run in election...
Moscow [Russia], December 21: Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova put her name forward on Wednesday to stand in a Russian...

Biden attacks Trump's anti-immigrant 'blood' comments in Wisconsin...
Washington [US], December 21: U.S. President Joe Biden criticized presidential opponent Donald Trump's recent anti-immigrant comments as he visited a...

Ukrainians prepare for first wartime Christmas on new...
Kyiv [Ukraine], December 21: Ukrainians are gearing up to celebrate their first Christmas according to a new calendar, another step...

Kazakhstan starts building new railroad to China
Astana [Kazakhstan], December 21: Abai region of Kazakhstan started building a new 272 km-long railway line en route Bakhty-Ayagoz, a...

German court orders repeat of 2021 election in...
Berlin [Germany], December 20: Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that the 2021 national election must be repeated in...

NASA to launch new mission to help build...
Los Angeles [US], December 20: NASA is preparing to launch a new mission that will stare at the space between...