Chile’s President Gabriel Boric travelled to Antarctica’s South Pole on Friday, a place where no other Latin American president has set foot, according to the Chilean government. Boric led the historic two-day trip, named Operation…
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Russia has vowed retaliation after claiming to have shot down eight US-made ATACMS missiles fired by Ukraine on Saturday morning. Moscow sees the use of such missiles, which have a range of up to 300…
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Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly…
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Thousands without heating in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region, after Russian gas supplies cut
The head of Moldova’s breakaway region Transnistria has urged residents to burn firewood for heating and warned that blackouts cannot be avoided, after Moscow stopped supplying gas via Ukraine. Vadim Krasnoselskyi, the president of the…
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Mexico opened the possibility Friday of receiving non-Mexican migrants deported by the United States after initially saying they would push President-elect Donald Trump to return other nationalities directly to their countries of origin. President Claudia…
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Russia alleges journalist killed by drone attack in occupied Ukraine, calls on UN to condemn Kyiv
Russia is demanding the United Nations condemn Kyiv following an alleged drone attack that it claims killed a journalist working for a Russian outlet and injured several others. Russia’s Izvestia newspaper reported Saturday that its…
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It was not the start to 2025 that Keir Starmer wanted or expected: in the early hours of New Year’s Day, Elon Musk lobbed a series of angry posts and allegations towards the British prime…
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The Santa Claus Rally may be iffy, but a 23.31% gain in the S&P 500 ($SPX) for the year isn’t too shabby. It was a stellar year in the stock market, especially for the top…
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A huge fire that erupted at a clothing market in Ghana’s capital, Accra, has destroyed hundreds of livelihoods and businesses. The fire at Kantamanto Market – one of the world’s largest secondhand clothing markets –…
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He says he won Venezuela’s presidential election. Now he’s returning to South America as his rival prepares for inauguration
Venezuela’s exiled former presidential candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, returns to South America Friday in a show of defiance as Caracas prepares to inaugurate current President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in office since 2013. González’s…