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World French President Emmanuel Macron faced widespread frustration and anger from residents of Mayotte during his visit to the Indian Ocean archipelago, which is still reeling from the damage of the strongest cyclone to hit the region in nearly a century. Clean water a concern after last week’s cyclone devastatedContinue Reading

World Malaysia’s government has agreed in principle to accept a second “no find, no fee” proposal from a U.S. company to renew the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean more than 10 years ago, Transport Minister Anthony Loke saidContinue Reading

World·Updated Senior U.S. diplomats visiting Damascus on Friday met with Syria’s de-facto new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and held a “good” and “very productive” meeting with him about Syria’s political transition and decided to remove a bounty on his head. Al-Sharaa, better known as Al-Golani, came across as ‘pragmatic,’ U.S. topContinue Reading

World In Gaza, where banknotes are in short supply, Palestinians are forced to digitally transfer money to men known as exchangers who give them cash after taking a large cut for themselves. What’s left doesn’t stretch very far as wartime inflation has sharply increased the price of scarce food andContinue Reading

Lock up political critics? Donald Trump is open to it. But his prevailing tactic entering his second term is suing the media into submission. We’re not just talking about run-of-the-mill libel lawsuits. We’re talking about Trump now suing an Iowa newspaper for a bad poll. And suing the pollster for consumerContinue Reading

World A spending bill backed by Donald Trump failed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday as dozens of Republicans defied the U.S. president-elect, leaving Congress with no clear plan to avert a fast-approaching government shutdown that could disrupt Christmas travel. 38 Republicans vote against proposed bill, defying U.S.Continue Reading

World U.S. and Arab mediators are working round-the-clock to hammer out a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, sources close to the talks said. Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip medics said Israeli strikes had killed 41 Palestinians on Thursday. At least 41 Palestinians killed in separate strikes on 2 homes, refugee camp andContinue Reading

World U.S. president-elect Donald Trump delivered a likely death blow to a bipartisan congressional budget negotiation, rejecting the measure as full of giveaways to Democrats after unelected billionaire ally Elon Musk whipped up outrage toward the bill and cheered on Republican lawmakers who announced their opposition to it. Republican saysContinue Reading

World In marathon press conference, Putin says he is ready to meet Trump and is open to negotiations on UkraineDuring a carefully choreographed annual press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about Ukraine, Syria and U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. Putin answers questions from citizens, journalists and state media during annualContinue Reading