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A tsunami around 1m high has struck areas along the Sea of Japan, with waves up to 5m high predicted, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK. It urged people to flee to high ground or the tops of nearby buildings as quickly as possible.
New Year’s Address of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
The North Korean leader has vowed to boost national defense to cope with what he called an unprecedented U.S.-led confrontation.
A member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party has offered one of the party’s first public apologies for the internal strife that preceded Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack
Defence secretary says UK would not hesitate to take ‘direct action’ after US sank boats targeting a container ship
No injuries were reported from the New Year's rocket attack.
The Novosti Sevastopolya news website quoted the Russian Black Sea Fleet's press service on December 29 as saying that 74 Russian sailors were killed and 27 were injured in Ukraine's missile attack on Russia's Novocherkassk landing ship near the Crimean port city of Feodosia.
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Krišjānis Kariņš, Latvian Foreign Minister, said that even if Ukraine liberates all the occupied territories, the military threat to Europe from Russia will remain.
Earlier this month, Mr Milei slashed car purchases for government officials by 50 per cent.
Margrethe II, who has reigned for 52 years, will step down on 14 January to be replaced by her son.
US and British military chiefs have been surprised by both the quantity and quality of the missiles and weapons used by the Houthis, reports Robert Fox
The Russian Defence Ministry has claimed that an attack on Kharkiv “has killed representatives of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) and the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) who were involved in the planning and execution of the attack on the city of Belgorod, Russia”. Ukrainian intelligence has dismissed these remarks as the sick delusions of the terrorist regime.
Nation is phasing out engineered stone, as more young workers develop silicosis
The decision, originating from President Macron's early 2020 address in Les Mureaux, Yvelines, was part of a broader strategy to combat "separatism."
During an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in response to an alleged attack in Belgorod, U.S. official John Kelley stated that "ordinary Russian civilians are also bearing the brunt of the Kremlin’s brutal war."