By Keith Coffman Santa Claus took off early Christmas Eve aboard his reindeer-powered sleigh to deliver presents around the world. That is according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), a joint-U.S. and Canadian military command at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs that for 69 years has provided a whimsical report tracking Father …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French officials raised the death toll in Mayotte to 39 from 35, about 10 days after the islands were battered by a devastating cyclone. Authorities have said thousands may have died in Storm Chido when it hit the islands, a French overseas region off the coast of East Africa. They have said …
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(Reuters) -A ballistic missile struck an apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring 15, four of them seriously, officials said. Ukrainian officials denounced the Christmas Eve attack on the city, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown. “The monsters landed a direct hit on a four-storey residential block …
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By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The man accused of killing a woman on a New York City subway train by setting her on fire was charged with murder and arson in an initial court appearance on Tuesday. Sebastian Zapeta, a 33-year-old man who police say lives at a homeless shelter in Brooklyn, was …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian court has sentenced U.S. citizen Eugene Spector to a total of 15 years in jail after convicting him of espionage in a closed-door trial, Russian state news agencies reported on Tuesday. Already serving a 3-1/2-year sentence in Russia for bribery, Spector, who was born in Russia and then moved to the …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli troops forced the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and many patients, some of them on foot, arrived at another hospital miles away in Gaza City, the territory’s health ministry said on Tuesday. The Indonesian Hospital is one of the Gaza Strip’s few still partially functioning hospitals, …
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By David Gauthier-Villars, Nidal al-Mughrabi, John Davison -Israel has failed to crack down on armed gangs attacking food convoys in Gaza, despite a pledge to do so in mid-October to help ward off famine in the Palestinian enclave, according to three U.N. and U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The commitment, made behind closed doors, …
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Heavy snowfall left thousands of homes without power across Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday, blocking roads and disrupting traffic, with access to some towns and villages entirely cut off. The authorities banned heavy vehicles from main roads and appealed to citizens to avoid traveling, warning that fallen trees and vehicles without proper …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine said Russia had attacked it with 60 drones overnight, of which 36 were downed, 23 were jammed by electronic warfare and one was still in the air. The Ukrainian air force said drones had been shot down in eight regions across the country in a statement posted on the Telegram app …
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ZURICH (Reuters) – A member of Switzerland’s national snowboard cross team has died in an avalanche at the mountain resort of Arosa in the east of the country, the Swiss-Ski federation said on Tuesday. Sophie Hediger, 26, was caught up in the avalanche in Arosa, which lies west of Davos, on Monday, the federation said. …
