Month: December 2024

Doomed from the start: the Amalthea aid corridor

THE HORRORS inflicted upon Gaza in the last 15 months have invoked an urge to do something to feel like…

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Croats vote in presidential election, with incumbent favoured in polls

Croats are voting to elect a new president on Sunday in a race that incumbent President Zoran Milanovic is leading…

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Syria’s de facto leader says holding elections could take up to four years

Holding elections in Syria could take up to four years, Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview…

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New Georgian president sworn in; predecessor says he is not legitimate leader

Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, was sworn in as president of Georgia on Sunday amid a political…

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EV boom stalls, leaving battery metal miners in the dust

It’s been a brutal year to be in the battery metals business. Prices of lithium, nickel and cobalt collapsed in…

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At least 120 dead in fiery South Korea airliner crash, two crew rescued (video)

At least 120 people were killed when an airliner landed without wheels, veering off the runway and erupting in a…

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UK business confidence dips in December

British business confidence fell to its lowest level of 2024 in December but employers were a bit more optimistic about…

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South Korean airliner crashes, bursts into flames

SEOUL, South Korea – Dozens of people have been killed in a fiery plane crash just off the tarmac at…

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USS Cole sailors greeted with cheers on return home before Christmas

NORFOLK, Virginia: Hundreds of sailors and their loved ones got an early Christmas present when the USS Cole docked at…

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Biden signs bill naming bald eagle the national bird of US

WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Joe Biden signed into law legislation that gave an overdue honor to the bald eagle as it…

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