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Investigators photograph a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the lobby of President-elect Donald Trump's hotel in Las Vegas on 1 January 2025.

Loaded with fuel cans

One dead, seven injured in vehicule explosion outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas

Morning Roundup

At least 15 killed in New Orleans attack, snow alert in Luxembourg, and PM gives New Year's interview

Police and civil defence cordon off the scene of the fatal shooting in Bajice, near Cetinje in southern Montenegro, on 1 January 2025.

Update – Cetinje

Montenegro shooting rampage leaves 12 dead, including children

Police block off the French Quarter in New Orleans after a truck rammed into a crowd of New Year's revellers in a deadly attack

Suspected 'act of terrorism'

New Orleans truck attack: what we know so far

Afghan refugees returning voluntarily from Pakistan wait at the UNHCR centre in Nowshera

Afghan refugees suffer 'like prisoners' in Pakistan crackdown

Early morning on New Year's Day as police cordon off the intersection of Canal Street and Bourbon Street in New Orleans after a truck plowed into a crowd of revellers, killing at least 15 people

A grieving city

'Numb' New Orleans grapples with horror of deadly truck attack

Germans celebrate New Year's Eve with particularly intense usage of fireworks

New Year's fireworks accidents kill five in Germany

Workers unload humanitarian aid supplied by Saudi Arabia at the airport in Damascus; a high-ranking Syrian delegation has traveled to Saudi Arabia on the first foreign visit by the country's new Islamist rulers

Syria FM hopes first foreign visit to Saudi opens 'new, bright page'

Saudi Arabia carried out a record number of executions in 2024 with at least 338, according to an AFP tally of official reports

Saudi executes at least 338 people in 2024: AFP tally

Palestinian children inspect damage after an Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the north of Gaza where several displaced Gazans said they also fear falling temperatures and heavy rains

New year, same destruction

Israel threatens to step up Gaza strikes

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

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