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Indonesia China Panda
Photos of first panda cub born in Indonesia released
A zoo on Java island released photos of Indonesia’s first locally-born giant panda cub, and said the male cub was showing signs of being in good health.

Sun, 07 Dec, 2025

An Asos parcel waiting to be opened at home
Asos using AI stylists to help boost flagging sales
It pledged a “new era of customer re-engagement” and initiatives to win over more cautious consumers

Sun, 07 Dec, 2025

India Goa Nightclub Fire
At least 25 people dead after nightclub fire in India
At least 25 people including tourists have been killed in a fire at a popular nightclub in India’s Goa state, the state’s chief minister said on Sunday. The blaze occurred just past midnight in Arpora in North Goa, a party hub.

Sun, 07 Dec, 2025

Palestinians Daily Life Holiday Lights
‘Life coming back’ to Bethlehem as Christmas celebrations muted by war return
Christmas celebrations are returning to Bethlehem as the shaky ceasefire holds in Gaza. For the past two Christmases, most businesses in the traditional birthplace of Jesus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank were shuttered and eerily empty.

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

Ireland Ukraine
Ukraine will ‘keep working in good faith’ to achieve peace, says Zelenskyy
The Ukrainian president said on Saturday he had been given an update over the phone by US and Ukrainian officials at the talks, which have entered a third day

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza
Qatari leader says Gaza ceasefire is at a critical moment
Qatar’s prime minister has said the Gaza ceasefire has reached a “critical moment” as its first phase winds down, with the remains of just one Israeli hostage still held by militants in Gaza.

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

Russia Ukraine War Servicewomen
Russia unleashes massive overnight attack on Ukraine as peace talks continue
Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Ukraine overnight into Saturday, after US and Ukrainian officials said they will meet for a third day of talks on Saturday.

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

Close-up of SAPS Police officer's shoulder badge, Scenic route, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Three children among 11 people killed in mass shooting at South African bar
At least 11 people, including three children, were killed in a mass shooting at a bar in a township near the South African administrative capital of Pretoria, police said on Saturday.

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

Russia US
US and Ukraine officials to meet for third day after security framework progress
US President Donald Trump’s advisers and Ukrainian officials say they will meet for a third day of talks on Saturday after making progress on finding agreement on a security framework for post-war Ukraine.

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

Afghanistan Pakistan
Pakistan, Afghanistan exchange heavy fire along border, officials say
A spokesman for Pakistan's Prime Minister accused Afghan forces of "unprovoked firing" along the Chaman border

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025

Obit Frank Gehry
Celebrated architect Frank Gehry dies aged 96
Frank Gehry, who designed some of the most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died aged 96.

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025

Trump Epstein Takeaways
Grand jury transcripts from Epstein investigation in Florida ordered released
US District Judge Rodney Smith said a recently passed federal law ordering the release of records related to the cases overrode a federal rule prohibiting the release of matters before a grand jury

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025

Germany Military Protest
German MPs rubberstamp military service plan amid school pupil protests
All 18-year-old men to be screened for suitability for armed forces, but proposal falls short of conscription

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025

Donald Trump,Volodymyr Zelenskyy,Emmanuel Macron
'Cultivate resistance': policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right
Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025

Greece Farmers Protests
Greek police fire tear gas at farmers in airport road protest
Riot police have fired tear gas at farmers attempting to block the main access road to the international airport in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, as protests escalated over delays in the payment of European Union-backed agricultural ...

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025

France Ukraine
'No mistrust' between Europe and US over Ukraine, Macron says
French president’s remarks come a day after a report claimed he had warned Washington could betray Kyiv

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025

Stuttgart, Germany, 06-17-2023: Person holding cellphone with logo of US ICT company Cloudflare Inc. on screen in front of busin
Global websites down as Cloudflare ‘investigating’ fresh issues
A host of websites, including LinkedIn, Zoom and DownDetector, went down on Friday morning after fresh issues at Cloudflare.

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025

Watch: US military kill four men in strike on suspected drug boat in Eastern Pacific
Watch: US military kill four men in strike on suspected drug boat in Eastern Pacific
The U.S. military said it killed four men in a strike on a suspected drug vessel in international waters in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday (December 4).  The video appears to show the boat being hit and erupting in flames in international waters. 

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025

India Russia Putin
Putin and Modhi to discuss Russa-India trade and defence ties
Russian president Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi at an annual summit aimed at strengthening bilateral ties on the second day of his state visit.

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025

Trump
Experts urge release of boat strike video as US admiral denies 'kill them all' order
Democrat Jim Himes calls footage ‘one of the most troubling scenes’ he’s observed in public service

Thu, 04 Dec, 2025

FBI Pipe Bomb Investigation
Man charged after arrest connected to January 6 Capitol pipe bombs
The pipe bombs were placed on the evening of January 5 2021, near the offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees

Thu, 04 Dec, 2025

APTOPIX Vatican Pope
Vatican commission opposes ordination of women as deacons
A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to Catholic women who hope one day to be able to preside at weddings, baptisms and funerals.

Thu, 04 Dec, 2025

APTOPIX France Ukraine
Macron reportedly warned European leaders against potential US betrayal on Ukraine
Emmanuel Macron has reportedly warned European leaders that “there is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory, without clarity on security guarantees,” German magazine Der Spiegel reported, quoting a leaked note from a recent call.

Thu, 04 Dec, 2025

FBI Pipe Bomb Investigation
Man arrested in connection with pipe bombs placed before US Capitol riot
The FBI made an arrest in its nearly five-year-old investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington on the eve of the January 6 2021, riot at the US Capitol, a law enforcement official said.

Thu, 04 Dec, 2025

Belgium Europe Corruption
Former EU foreign policy head quits roles amid fraud investigation
The European Union’s former foreign policy chief has resigned from her post as the head of a prestigious institute of European studies after becoming embroiled in a fraud investigation.

Thu, 04 Dec, 2025

Russia US
Vladimir Putin says he cannot agree to some proposals in US peace plan
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that some proposals in a US plan to end the war in are unacceptable to the Kremlin, indicating that any deal is still some way off despite intense shuttle diplomacy by American envoys.

Thu, 04 Dec, 2025

Brazil Palm Tree
Decades-old palm trees in Rio de Janeiro flower for the first – and only – time
Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx introduced them in the 1960s.

Thu, 04 Dec, 2025

New Zealand Seal In A Bar
Baby seal waddles into bar in New Zealand
The baby fur seal waddled into the Sprig + Fern The Meadows craft beer bar in Richmond, at the top of New Zealand’s South Island

Thu, 04 Dec, 2025

Donald Trump
Path to peace in Ukraine unclear, says Trump, as US envoys prepare to meet Kyiv official
Trump’s comments come after an hours-long meeting at the Kremlin between US envoys and Vladimir Putin failed to achieve a breakthrough

Thu, 04 Dec, 2025

Obit Steve Cropper
Celebrated soul guitarist Steve Cropper dies aged 84
Steve Cropper, the guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T and the MGs at Stax Records, has died at the age of 84.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Matthew Perry
Doctor who sold ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry jailed
A doctor who pleaded guilty to selling ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the Friends star’s overdose death has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza
Israel launches air strike in southern Gaza after attack by militants
Israel says it has launched an air strike on a Hamas militant in southern Gaza in retaliation for an attack earlier in the day that wounded five Israeli soldiers.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

China France
Macron arrives in China for talks on trade and Russia’s war in Ukraine
Emmanuel Macron arrived in China on Wednesday for a three-day state visit focusing on trade and diplomatic talks as the French president seeks to enlist Beijing in pressuring Russia toward a ceasefire with Ukraine.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Australia Social Media
Australia to enforce social media age limit of 16 with fines of up to £24M
Social media platforms must report monthly how many children’s accounts they close once Australia begins enforcing its 16-year age limit next week, a minister said.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Lebanon Prime Minister
Lebanon ‘far from’ normalising relations with Israel, prime minister says
Lebanon’s prime minister said his country was “far from” diplomatic normalisation or economic relations with Israel, despite a move towards direct negotiations between the two countries aimed at defusing tensions.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Belgium-EU-Arrests
Former EU foreign policy chief arrested in corruption probe
The European Union’s former foreign policy chief faces corruption accusations alongside two other people arrested this week as part of a fraud investigation, prosecutors said on Wednesday, in the latest scandal to hit the 27-nation bloc.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Hamas says it has handed over body of Gaza hostage, Israel indicates Rafah crossing could open
Hamas says it has handed over body of Gaza hostage, Israel indicates Rafah crossing could open
Hamas had also handed over remains on Tuesday, which prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office later said were not of any hostage

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 search to resume 11 years after jet went missing
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 search to resume 11 years after jet went missing
Malaysian transport ministry says robotics company Ocean Infinity will restart search operation on 30 December

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

YEMEN HOUTHIS CONFLICT.
Yemen’s Houthis release mariners held since July ship attack
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released a group of mariners held since a July attack on the ship Eternity C in the Red Sea, an assault that killed at least four on board and sank the vessel.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Pakistan Afghanistan
Fresh round of Afghanistan-Pakistan talks fails to reach a deal, officials say
The talks in Saudi Arabia last weekend were the latest in a series of meetings hosted by Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia aimed at cooling tensions following deadly border clashes in October

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Oshkosh, WI - 24 July 2017: A US customs and border control homeland security sign on a boat
Trump administration halts immigration applications for migrants from 19 nations
The changes were outlined in a policy memo posted on Tuesday on the website of US Citizenship and Immigration Services

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Indonesia Extreme Weather Asia Flooding
Rescue teams race to reach flooding victims in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand
Rescue teams are racing to reach communities isolated by last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand as more than 800 people remain missing and economic damage becomes more clear.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza
Hamas to hand over more remains as Israel allows re-opening of Rafah crossing
Hamas said it would hand over the remains of a hostage as Israel announced it will start letting Palestinians leave Gaza through the Rafah border crossing, signs the US-backed ceasefire was holding despite an earlier issue over returned remains.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Russia US
Europeans accuse Putin of feigning interest in peace after talks with US envoys
Ukraine and its European allies accused Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday of feigning interest in peace efforts after five hours of talks with US envoys at the Kremlin produced no breakthrough.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Hong Kong Fire
Infant among 159 killed in Hong Kong apartment fires
The death toll of Hong Kong’s high-rise apartment blaze rose to 159 on Wednesday, as authorities arrested six people on suspicion of deactivating some fire alarms during maintenance work at the housing complex.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

Iran
Iran’s currency falls to new low as nuclear sanctions squeeze ailing economy
Iran’s rial currency fell on Wednesday to a new low of 1. 2 million to the US dollar as nuclear sanctions squeeze Tehran’s ailing economy.

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025

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