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'World not prepared for another pandemic'
Geneva [Switzerland], December 27: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said the world is not yet prepared for a possible...

Over 50 killed in strikes on Gaza
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 27: Dozens of Israeli fighter jets have attacked more than 100 targets in Gaza, the Israel...

33-year-old man held in France for murdering wife...
Paris [France], December 27: French police have arrested a 33-year-old man suspected of murdering his wife and four children.

UN 'gravely concerned' by Israeli bombardment
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 27: The UN's human rights office spokesperson, Seif Magango, said the agency was "gravely concerned" by...

More generals were killed, Iran threatened to retaliate...
Tehran [Iran], December 27: Tehran accused Israel's new attack in Syria of killing a veteran general of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary...

Blizzards threaten the North American plains
Washington [US], December 27: CNN reported that more than 1.1 million people in the North American Great Plains of the...

US warns of 'zombie deer' disease
Washington [US], #December 27: The discovery of the first case of chronic wasting disease (CWD), also known as 'zombie deer'...

Mr. Trump launched a series of attacks on...
Washington [US], December 27: Former US President Donald Trump expressed many grievances on his social networking platform on Christmas day.

Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief spoke amid controversy over the plan...
Kyiv [Ukraine], December 27: The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army expressed dissatisfaction with the performance of military recruitment offices, while...

Israel expands campaign to refugee camps in Gaza
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 27: Israeli forces began targeting refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, while casualties continued to mount.

Sweden moves closer to NATO after important move...
Ankara [Turkey], December 27: The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish parliament accepted Sweden's request to join NATO on December...

Russia confirms damage to warship in Black Sea
Moscow [Russia], December 27: Russia has confirmed one of its warships has been damaged in a Ukrainian attack on a...

Gaza war to last months, Israel says, as...
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 27: Israel's war on Hamas will last months, Israel's military chief said, as a string of...

Serbian opposition figure to press on with hunger...
Belgrade [Serbia], December 27: A leading figure in Serbia's main opposition party vowed to press on with a hunger strike...

Death toll at Indonesia smelter fire rises to...
Jakarta [Indonesia], December 27: The death toll from a fire at an Indonesian nickel smelter has risen to 18 as...

No embassy staff hurt in blast near Israeli...
New Delhi [India], December 27: An explosion near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi did not kill or wound any...

Ukraine strikes Russian naval landing warship, Moscow admits...
Kyiv [Ukraine], December 27: Ukraine struck a large Russian landing warship in Crimea with cruise missiles in an overnight attack...

Egyptian, Iranian FMs discuss situation in war-ravaged Gaza
Cairo [Egypt], December 26: Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian discussed on Monday...

2 Hezbollah fighters killed, 5 civilians wounded in...
Beirut [Lebanon], December 26: Two Hezbollah fighters were killed and five civilians were wounded on Monday in confrontations on the...

Iraq condemns drone attack on U.S. base in...
Baghdad [Iraq], December 26: The Iraqi government on Monday condemned an attack by a bomb-laden drone on an airbase housing...

Russia commissions 3 new warships into its navy
Moscow [Russia], December 26: Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a flag-raising ceremony for three new warships that are set to...

Ukraine denies loss of Maryinka to Russia
Kiev [Ukraine], December 26: Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksandr Shtupun on Monday denied the reports that Russian forces have gained full...

Russia lambasts "unacceptable" U.S. claims in Arctic region:...
Moscow [Russia], December 26: Russia is taking all necessary measures to secure its national interests in the Arctic amid Washington's...

Loud blasts heard in Crimean town of Feodosia...
Beijing [China], December 26: The Feodosia region of Crimea has been attacked, resulting in the blockade of the port area,...

U.S. witnesses elevated flu cases: CDC
Los Angeles [US], December 26: Seasonal influenza activity is elevated in the United States and continues to increase in most...

New COVID variant JN.1 makes nearly half latest...
Los Angeles [US], December 26: A new coronavirus subvariant JN.1 is spreading fast in the United States, and is...

'Unprecedented' scale of human devastation in 2023: Red...
London [UK], December 26: A top aid worker has described the "unprecedented scale" of human devastation in 2023 as he...