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People wave US and South Korean flags during a rally to support impeached South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol

Martial law declaration

South Korea investigators vow to execute Yoon arrest warrant

Migrants make the dangerous journey across the Channel on flimsy boats

Surging numbers

Migrants crossing Channel to UK in 2024 soar by 25 percent

Suspect was US citizen, carried ISIS flag

Ten dead as man drives truck into New Year crowd in New Orleans

Firefighters and recovery teams work at the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport

Aviation disaster

South Korea to send Jeju Air crash black box to US

Students and supporters shout slogans during a 'March for Unity' organised by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in Dhaka on New Year's eve

Growing intolerance

Bangladesh saw surge of mob killings in 2024: rights groups

US President Jimmy Carter (C) congratulates Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (R) on March 26, 1979 on the north lawn of the White House after the signing of a historic peace treaty

Diplomatic ties

Carter's Middle East peace legacy survives, but mostly in name

Puerto Rico was hit by a major blackout on New Year's Eve, and the cause remains under investigation

Faulty underground cable

Island-wide blackout hits Puerto Rico on New Year's Eve

Emergency workers at the scene where a 14-year-old boy was killed by fireworks. The incident happened in the Watergeusstraat in Rotterdam's Delfshaven neighborhood.

14-year-old boy dies in firework accident in Rotterdam

Finnish authorities have been investigating the Eagle S oil tanker that sailed from a Russian port over suspected

Undersea power cable

Finnish police probing seven sailors over cut cables

The FBI uncovered more than 150 homemade bombs on a farm in Virginia in what is thought to be the largest such seizure in the agency's history

'Recipes' for explosives

FBI makes its largest bomb bust on Virginia farm

Thousands marched in Belgrade and two other Serbian cities during a New Year's protest, demanding accountability over the fatal collapse of a train station roof

Serbia enters new year with student protests over train station tragedy

People celebrate the New Year near Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria

Following 13 years of civil war

New year hope and joy reign in a Damascus freed from Assad

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine 'will do everything to stop Russia and end the war' in 2025

Zelensky vows Ukraine will do everything in 2025 to stop Russia

More than 1,500 people have been charged in connection with the 2021 assault on Congress

Hoping for pardon

US Capitol riot fugitive seeks asylum in Canada

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is due to be sworn in for a third six-year term on January 10

Venezuela opposition urges protests against Maduro's inauguration

Suriname's former leader Desi Bouterse photographed during a press conference in Paramaribo on April 9, 1987

No state funeral

Suriname ex-dictator Bouterse to be cremated on Saturday

New Year's Eve from across the globe

The Panama Canal generates six percent of Panama's national economic output and 20 percent of its fiscal revenues

Panama marks canal handover anniversary in shadow of Trump threat

Man shot by police after suspected rampage with excavator

Russia ceded tens of small villages to Russian forces in 2024

Russian advances in Ukraine grew seven-fold in 2024, data shows

Kamal Adwan hospital chief, Hossam Abu Safiyeh, checking an injured child on October 24, 2024 amid the ongoing war in Gaza

Global attention

Gaza hospital chief held by Israel becomes face of crumbling healthcare

N. Korea's Kim 'feasts his eyes' on new resort project: state media

Around 2.4 million people work in farming in the United States, 44 percent of whom are undocumented, according to a survey by the US Department of Labor

Immigrant workers

US farmers fret over Trump's deportation plans

Abdullah Ocalan, seen here in 1993, set up the Marxist-inspired Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the late 1970s

Kurdish militant

Ocalan: PKK chief held in solitary on Turkish prison island

Yemenis carry a mock missile during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians, in the Huthi-controlled capital Sanaa

Yemen's Huthis a 'menace' for Israel despite weakened Iran: analysts

Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol gathered outside his residence after a court issued an arrest warrant for him

S. Korea court issues arrest warrant for impeached president Yoon

Police forensics personnel and National Bureau of Investigation officials work at the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in Muan

Amid seven days of mourning

S. Korea investigates barrier hit in Jeju Air crash

Morning Roundup

Luxembourg disaster support, S Korea plane crash, and New Year's Honours

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