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  • Soldiers of the 58th Artillery Command mobolize the HIMARS missile system to a tactical position, as part of the ongoing Han Kuang military exercise, in Taichung, Taiwan, on July 12, 2025.
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    Rockets, howitzers and suicide drones: US and Taiwan announce one of their biggest-ever arms deals
  • Loved and forever remembered. These are the victims of the Bondi Beach antisemitic massacre
  • Youngest Bondi shooting victim buried as Australian leader vows to crack down on hate crime
  • Venezuela’s Maduro says Trump’s comments on land and oil reveal his true motives
  • Myanmar’s military junta charge hundreds with breaking election law as voting date nears
  • Israeli PM Netanyahu announces $35 billion gas deal with Egypt as US pushes for summit
  • The Yarlung Tsangpo river in Xizang, China, on November 5, 2025
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    China is building the world’s most powerful hydropower system deep in the Himalayas. It remains shrouded in secrecy
  • Daughter of Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai tells CNN she is devastated by guilty verdict handed down to her father
  • New dashcam video shows couple confronting Bondi Beach gunman before deadly rampage
  • Myanmar junta says Aung San Suu Kyi ‘in good health’ after son raises alarm
  • Second near midair collision reported near Venezuela involving US Air Force tanker
  • Bondi terror suspects driven by ‘Islamic State ideology,’ recently traveled to Philippine island wracked by extremism
  • ‘Heroic’ bystander who wrestled gun from Bondi Beach attacker is son of refugees and father to two
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    Australia’s Jewish community saw an attack coming but no one expected the Bondi Beach horror

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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participates in a joint news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room at the White House on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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    Israeli PM Netanyahu announces $35 billion gas deal with Egypt as US pushes for summit
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  • A juvenile Masai giraffe stands inside a transportation crate with its eyes covered by a blanket as rangers from Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) attempt to load the crate onto a vehicle during an exercise to translocate large herbivores from Kedong Ranch due to land subdivisions and corralling that have disrupted wildlife migratory routes in Naivasha, Nakuru County, on November 16, 2025.
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  • UVIRA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - DECEMBER 15: An M23 fighter looks on as Wazalendo militants are transported following their surrender to the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group on December 15, 2025 in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo. Fifty-two members from the coalition of Congolese and Burundian militias known as the Wazalendo joined M23 following the rebels' capture of the South Kivu city on December 10. Human Rights Watch has reported abuses perpetrated against civilians by fighters from both sides of the conflict during the offensive on Uvira, and has called for the safe passage and humanitarian assistance for those caught up in the fighting.  (Photo by Daniel Buuma/Getty Images)
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    Rwanda-backed M23 group says it will withdraw from seized Congo town after US request
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    Machado has left Oslo after the Nobel Prize ceremony, her spokesman says
  • Chile elects Kast as president, deepening regional shift to law-and-order politics
  • Special forces veteran who rescued Machado begs her not to return to Venezuela
  • Venezuela says US has suspended deportation flights; US denies it

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  • An Indian tigress wearing a radio collar wades through a river after being released by wildlife workers in Storekhali forest in the Sundarbans, some 130 km south of Kolkata, on February 24, 2010.  The tigress had been caught close to human habitation nearby a few days previously. Conservation group WWF-India has enlisted the support of sports stars and celebrities to raise awareness of the threat, citing government estimates that there are just over 1,400 tigers left in the wild.  AFP PHOTO/Deshakalyan CHOWDHURY (Photo by Deshakalyan CHOWDHURY / AFP) (Photo by DESHAKALYAN CHOWDHURY/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Their husbands were killed by tigers. Now these women are restoring the big cat’s habitat
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  • A drone view of a neighborhood flooded by the failure of a temporary flood barrier along the White River, after multiple atmospheric rivers brought rain and flooding to the Pacific Northwest, in Pacific, Washington, U.S., December 16, 2025.  REUTERS/David Ryder
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    Second levee fails in Washington, forcing more evacuations, as atmospheric river renews flood threat
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    Mikaela Shiffrin wins record-extending 105th World Cup race, takes slalom in dominant fashion
  • Ticket prices raise the question: Will this be the ‘prawn sandwich’ World Cup?
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  • US government launches ‘Tech Force’ to hire AI talent
  • Trump signs executive order blocking states from enforcing their own regulations around AI
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