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Europe News

Sweden to contribute warships to NATO Baltic Sea patrols

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at an annual security conference on Sunday that Sweden is not at war but there is also no peace, the news agency TT reported.

Europe News

Zelenskyy ready to swap North Korean troops for Ukrainian POWs

The Security Service for Ukraine announced on Saturday that it had captured two soldiers from North Korea in Russia’s Kursk region and they are being questioned in Kyiv.

Europe News

Croats divided on Milanović's landslide re-election victory

Milanović won more than 74% of the vote compared to his challenger, conservative HDZ party's Dragan Primorac, who received nearly 26%, according to near-final results released by the state election authorities.

USA

Los Angeles officials say wildfire death toll has risen to 16

Strong winds have been largely blamed for turning the wildfires into infernos that destroyed entire neighbourhoods around a city which has seen no significant rainfall in more than eight months.

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Europe News

Dozens injured in Strasbourg tram collision

The exact cause of the collision was unclear but local media reported that one of the trams was reversing at the time.

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Mayotte on red alert as islands brace for Cyclone Dikeledi

Mayotte has not yet recovered from the impact of Cyclone Chido, which ripped through the archipelago a month ago, causing extensive damage to France's poorest department.

Israel

Ambassadors join Tel Aviv rally to demand Gaza hostage release deal

The protest comes on the same day that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire talks in Doha.

Europe News

Soldiers' arrest 'evidence' of North Korean involvement in Ukraine war

Comments come after Ukrainian forces detained two North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia’s Kursk region who have since reportedly been sent to Kyiv for questioning.

World News

Biden extends stay in US for 800,000 Venezuelans, Salvadorans

The Department of Homeland Security also extended Temporary Protected Status for more than 103,000 Ukrainians and 1,900 Sudanese that are already living in the US.

World News

Tanker hit by Yemen's Houthi rebels burning in Red Sea salvaged

The MV Sounion carrying one million barrels of crude oil was struck in August and later sabotaged with explosives by the Houthis as part of their solidarity campaign with Hamas over the war in Gaza.

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UK's Rachel Reeves in China in bid to reset economic ties

Officials said Prime Minister Starmer wants a 'pragmatic' approach to working with Beijing on global stability, climate change and the transition to clean energy.

Tech News

US Supreme Court looks likely to uphold TikTok ban on security grounds

TikTok has been "on notice" since 2020, during Donald Trump's first term, that its sale could be required if it couldn’t satisfy national security concerns.

Europe News

Italy's Antonio Tajani meets Joseph Aoun for talks in Beirut

Tajani's talks in Lebanon come on the same day he met Syria's de facto leader in his first visit to Damascus since the fall of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad.

USA

Death toll from California wildfires rises to 11, officials say

Dozens of blocks of the scenic Pacific Palisades area have been flattened to smouldering rubble while in neighbouring Malibu, blackened palm strands were all that was left above debris where oceanfront homes once stood.

Europe News

Greenland's PM says his people don't want to be Americans

The United States is a strong ally of the European Union and the leading member of NATO and many in Europe were shocked by the suggestion that an incoming US leader could consider using force against an ally.

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More than 30 dolphins dead in Kerch Strait oil spill

Fuel oil spilled out of two tankers nearly three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait, about 250 kilometres from Sevastopol on the southwest of the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

World News

Syria's new foreign minister visits Qatar for diplomatic talks

Asaad al-Shibani's trip to Doha comes after he hosted the French and German foreign ministers in Damascus on Friday.

North Korea

South Korean police take charge to detain impeached President Yoon

Dozens of anti-corruption agency investigators and assisting police officers attempted to detain the impeached president on Friday but retreated from his residence in Seoul after a tense five-hour standoff with the presidential security service.

Europe News

Montenegrins demand security officials resign after mass shooting

Wednesday's shooting came after a bar brawl and saw a 45-year-old man go home to get his gun before returning to the bar and opening fire.

USA

Trump's plan to pardon 6 January rioters sparks backlash

More than 1,250 people pleaded guilty or have been convicted after trials in connection with the Capitol breach, with more than 650 receiving prison time ranging from a few days to 22 years.

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