Major arms exporter South Korea is not ruling out providing weapons directly to Ukraine, President Yoon Suk Yeol said Thursday, signalling a possible shift in Seoul’s stance on the issue.Yoon also revealed he had discussed North Korea with US president-elect Donald Trump in a phone conversation that laid the groundwork for a meeting in the …
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A Thai court on Thursday cleared a woman of involvement in a 2015 bomb attack on a popular shrine in Bangkok that killed 20 people, most of them tourists.Wanna Suansan was accused of complicity in murder, attempted murder, and possessing an illegal explosive device over the blast at the Erawan shrine in the heart of …
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Supporters of former Bolivian president Evo Morales, who have been blocking roads in the center of the country for three weeks in a standoff with the government, on Wednesday announced a 72-hour “humanitarian” pause.The protests began on October 14 after prosecutors charged Morales, who led the country from 2006 to 2019, with statutory rape over …
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Germany enters a period of political uncertainty Thursday after its fragile three-party ruling coalition collapsed on the same day Donald Trump won the US election.Chancellor Olaf Scholz — who announced a January confidence vote, likely followed by snap elections in March — will seek to reassure his European partners at a summit in Budapest.Scholz said …
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Australia’s prime minister on Thursday vowed to ban children under 16 from social media, saying the pervasive influence of platforms like Facebook and TikTok was “doing real harm to our kids”.The tech giants would be held responsible for enforcing the age limit and face hefty fines if regulators notice young users slipping through the cracks, …
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Israel launched fresh strikes on south Beirut early Thursday, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US president-elect Donald Trump spoke about the “Iranian threat”.The Israeli premier was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Trump, calling the re-election “history’s greatest comeback”.Over the phone on Wednesday, the pair “agreed to work together for Israel’s …
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In his stone house perched on a hill in northern Ethiopia, Amanuel Hiluf puts on his protective suit, carefully adjusting the hood and gloves. “We have to hurry up, it starts to be hot, and the bees will be upset,” he says. In his garden in Hawidela, a village about an hour from Mekele, capital of the …
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European leaders converge on Budapest Thursday for two days of high-level talks that will seek to rise to the challenges posed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House — but also risk exposing the continent’s fault lines.The leaders of the European Union will be joined by others from the United Kingdom to Turkey, as …
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Donald Trump’s crushing presidential victory heralded a new era of uncertainty in the United States and the world Wednesday, as defeated Kamala Harris gave a defiant concession speech while vowing to help his transition to power.An emotional Vice President Harris told tearful supporters in a speech in Washington to “not despair,” urging them to “keep …
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The Brazilian Amazon experienced its smallest amount of yearly deforestation in nearly a decade, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government reported Wednesday, in line with its promise to combat forest loss.Deforestation fell by 30.6 percent in the year-to-year period beginning in August 2023, according to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).During that time, 6,288 …
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