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Members of a displaced Palestinian family warm themselves around a fire outside their shelter in the city of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, 27 December, 2025.   — EPA
Fierce winter weather brings more death and despair to Gaza
JERUSALEM — Fierce rain and bitter cold continued to batter Gaza this weekend, as the number of Palestinians killed by the harsh winter weather continues to rise, CNN reported.Sunday saw two people killed, including a seven-year-old child, when a wall collapsed due to the cold weather, according to Gaza’s civil defense.As Palestinians seek shelter from the heavy rain in bombed-out ruins, aid agencies have warned of the risks posed by the dilapidated buildings which are prone to collapse during the cold weather.Twenty people have been killed by homes and buildings collapsing over the heads as they sought shelter from the severe weather conditions, the Hamas-run Government Media Office in Gaza (GMO) said in a statement on Sunday. At least 49 buildings have collapsed due to the weather...
December 29, 2025

Fierce winter weather brings more death and despair to Gaza

Myanmar electoral officers count early voting ballots after closing the first phase of general election at a polling station in Naypyitaw, the capital city of Myanmar, 28 December 2025. (EPA)
Myanmar holds first election since 2021 coup
YANGON — Voters in Myanmar went to the polls Sunday for the first phase of the country’s first general election in five years. The election, being held in three phases through late January, is widely expected to pave the way for junta leader Min Aung Hlaing to formally assume the presidency. Final results are expected to be announced in February. The military has portrayed the vote as a step toward restoring electoral democracy after it seized power in February 2021, ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Critics, however, say the process is designed to legitimize continued military rule, pointing to the exclusion of major opposition parties, tight restrictions on free expression and reports of voter intimidation. More than 4,800 candidates from 57 parties are contesting...
December 28, 2025

Myanmar holds first election since 2021 coup

People line up to cast their votes for a constitutional referendum in an elementary school in Coyah Somayah, Guinea, 21 September 2025. (EPA)
Guinea votes in first post-coup election as junta leader tipped to win presidency
CONAKRY — Guineans voted on Sunday in the country’s first presidential election since a 2021 military coup, with junta leader Mamadi Doumbouya widely expected to win amid a weakened and sidelined opposition. The vote marks the culmination of a four-year transition that began when Doumbouya seized power and ousted then-president Alpha Condé. Critics say the junta has since tightened its grip by suppressing dissent and marginalizing opposition parties, leaving Doumbouya with little serious competition among the nine candidates. Despite Guinea’s vast natural wealth — including its status as the world’s largest exporter of bauxite, a key component in aluminum production — more than half of its 15 million people face acute poverty and food insecurity, according to the World Food...
December 28, 2025

Guinea votes in first post-coup election as junta leader tipped to win presidency

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during the annual Army Day celebration, in Tehran, Iran, 18 April 2025. (EPA)
Iran’s president says country is in ‘full-scale war’ with the West
TEHRAN — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday that Iran is engaged in what he described as a “full-scale war” with the United States, Israel and Europe, days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington. In an interview published on the website of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Pezeshkian said the confrontation facing Iran is more severe than the 1980s war with Iraq. “We are in a full-scale war with the U.S., Israel and Europe; they don’t want our country to remain stable,” he said. Pezeshkian described the pressure from Western powers as “more complicated and more difficult” than the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq war, which left more than one million people killed or wounded on both sides. His...
December 28, 2025

Iran’s president says country is in ‘full-scale war’ with the West

People walk down a road amid strong windy conditions in Vaesterbotten as Storm Johannes moves into northern Sweden, in Hemavan, Sweden, 27 December 2025. (EPA)
Winter storm kills two in Sweden, knocks out power across Nordic region
STOCKHOLM — Two people have died in Sweden after a powerful winter storm swept across parts of the Nordic region, triggering widespread power outages and major travel disruptions. Sweden’s Meteorological and Hydrological Institute issued strong wind warnings for large areas of the northern half of the country as Storm Johannes moved through the region. One man in his 50s was killed after being struck by a falling tree at the Kungsberget ski resort in southern Sweden, according to police and local media. Separately, regional utility company Hemab said one of its employees died in a work-related accident while responding to storm conditions in the field. Tens of thousands of homes across Sweden, Norway, and Finland were left without electricity as high winds damaged power infrastructure....
December 28, 2025

Winter storm kills two in Sweden, knocks out power across Nordic region

Handout photo made available by the Presidential Press Service shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meeting with Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney in Halifax, Canada, 27 December 2025. (EPA)
Zelenskyy to meet Trump in Florida as US pushes updated Ukraine peace plan
WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday for talks aimed at ending nearly four years of war between Ukraine and Russia. The meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence comes as Washington advances an updated, U.S.-brokered peace proposal that Moscow has yet to endorse. Discussions are also expected to cover possible U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine. The talks follow a wave of heavy Russian strikes on Kyiv over the weekend, which Zelenskyy said underscored that Moscow “doesn’t want peace.” Ukrainian authorities said a 10-hour missile and drone barrage late Friday killed two people and injured at least 32 others in the capital. Additional Russian attacks were reported Saturday night, damaging energy and...
December 28, 2025

Zelenskyy to meet Trump in Florida as US pushes updated Ukraine peace plan



Voters line up outside a health center to cast their votes for the presidential election in a health center in Hargeisa, 13 November 2024. (EPA)
Arab, Islamic and African states reject Israel’s recognition of Somaliland
RIYADH — Representatives of 21 Arab, Islamic and African countries on Saturday condemned Israel’s decision to recognize Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent state, warning that the move violates international law and threatens regional stability. In a joint statement released by the Foreign Ministry of Qatar, the countries said Israel’s decision set a “serious precedent” that endangers international peace and security. The statement said the recognition violates the principles of international law and the United Nations Charter, which affirm the sovereignty of states and their territorial integrity, and accused Israel of pursuing an expansionist agenda. It described the move as a sign of Israel’s “blatant disregard for international law” and warned...
December 28, 2025

Arab, Islamic and African states reject Israel’s recognition of Somaliland

A Palestinian woman watches members of the Palestinian Civil Defense removing the rubble of a destroyed home as they search for the bodies of Palestinians killed during the conflict in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 20 December 2025.  (EPA)
Storm-related building collapse kills Palestinian woman in Gaza
GAZA — A Palestinian woman was killed and several members of her family were injured on Sunday after part of a damaged building collapsed during severe weather in the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources. Medics said a wall from a residential structure weakened by previous Israeli strikes collapsed onto a tent sheltering a 30-year-old woman in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City. Heavy rainfall and strong winds have swept across the enclave since late Saturday, flooding and uprooting thousands of tents housing displaced Palestinians. In southern Gaza, hundreds of tents erected along the beach in Khan Younis were inundated as rough seas and rising waves, driven by a low-pressure weather system, surged inland. Aid workers and residents warned that the harsh weather poses growing...
December 28, 2025

Storm-related building collapse kills Palestinian woman in Gaza

Members of the Alawite community gather to protest violence against Alawites following the Homs mosque bombing, in the city of Latakia, Syria, 28 December 2025. (EPA)
Syrian authorities arrest alleged member of former-regime-linked militant cell in Latakia
DAMASCUS — Syrian authorities said Sunday they arrested a member of what they described as a “terrorist cell” in the northwestern province of Latakia, as part of ongoing security operations targeting remnants of the former Assad-era security apparatus. The Interior Ministry said the suspect, identified as Basel Issa Ali Jamahiri, was detained in the village of Duweir Ba‘bada in the Jableh countryside on charges of belonging to a group known as “Saraya al-Jawad,” which authorities say is affiliated with former special forces commander Suheil al-Hassan. The ministry said several weapons and quantities of ammunition hidden in multiple locations were seized during the operation. Al-Hassan was a senior commander in the army of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and is widely...
December 28, 2025

Syrian authorities arrest alleged member of former-regime-linked militant cell in Latakia

More than 200 killed in ethnically motivated RSF attacks in Sudan’s Darfur: Report
KHARTOUM — More than 200 people, including women and children, were killed in ethnically motivated attacks carried out by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in parts of Darfur, according to a statement issued Saturday by the Sudan Doctors Network. The network said it documented the killings based on testimonies from survivors who reached displacement camps in Tina, near the Sudan-Chad border. Civilians were targeted on an ethnic basis in the areas of Ambro and Abu Qamra in North Darfur and Sirba in West Darfur, it said. “The victims included children, women and men who were deliberately targeted and killed on ethnic grounds,” the statement said, describing the attacks as grave violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. The reported killings came amid...
December 27, 2025

More than 200 killed in ethnically motivated RSF attacks in Sudan’s Darfur: Report

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