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New Zealand mother jailed for life after murdering children and hiding bodies in suitcase
A mother in New Zealand who killed her two children and hid their bodies in suitcases has been sentenced to life in prison.
3 min readThe Telegraph
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Brazil’s Supreme Court orders Bolsonaro to begin 27-year prison term
Prosecutors charged Bolsonaro with plotting to violently subvert Brazil's democracy and target rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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Global demand for rare earths is wreaking havoc on one of Asia’s mightiest river systems
Global demand for rare earth minerals is driving the toxic pollution of some of Asia’s most important rivers, threatening the health and livelihoods of tens of millions of people.
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Taiwan puts $40 billion toward buying US weapons and building a defense dome
Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday announced a special $40 billion budget for arms purchases, including to build an air defense system with high-level detection and interception capabilities called Taiwan Dome, as the U.S. pressures the island to increase its defense spending. The budget will be allocated over eight years, from 2026 to 2033, and comes after Lai already pledged to raise defense spending to 5% of the island's GDP, as part of his strategy amid China's threats of invasion. “China’s threats to Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region are escalating,” Lai said Wednesday.
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Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Israeli Soldiers Burning an American Flag
Does a viral video of Israeli soldiers setting an American flag on fire show a real-life event? No, that's not true: The clip was likely created using AI, probably Sora, whose watermark appeared to have been covered by an emoji...
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Brazil's Bolsonaro begins 27-year jail term for coup bid
Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a failed coup, after he exhausted all appeals.The Supreme Court rejected an appeal to his sentence earlier this month, and on Tuesday ruled the judgment was now final.
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France says ‘Bon voyage’ to 2 giant pandas as they head back to China
A couple of star giant pandas who lived in France for 13 years and gave birth to three cubs were on their way back to China on Tuesday, the Beauval Zoo said.
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Landslides and flash floods on Indonesia’s Sumatra island leave at least 23 dead and dozens missing
Rescuers recovered more bodies in the search for dozens of people buried under landslides or swept away after torrential rains unleashed flash floods and triggered landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, increasing the death toll to 23 and leaving more than two dozen people missing, officials said Wednesday. Rescue teams were struggling to reach affected areas in 11 cities and districts of North Sumatra province after the monsoon rains over the past week caused rivers to burst their banks, tearing through hilly villages as mud, rocks and trees tumbled down, leaving destruction in their wake, as mudslides that covered much of the area, blackouts and lack of telecommunications were hampering the search efforts, the National Search and Rescue Agency said in a statement.
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India intensifies crackdown in disputed Kashmir after New Delhi bombing
Hours after police in Indian-controlled Kashmir released shopkeeper Bilal Ahmed Wani but kept his son in custody in this month's deadly New Delhi blast investigation, Wani set himself on fire, members of his family said. Police said Wani died due to “self-inflicted burn injuries.” The Nov. 10 explosion near New Delhi’s historic Red Fort killed at least 10 people and wounded 32 others.
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Cuba condemns ‘aggressive’ US stance towards Venezuela as tensions rise
Cuba has accused the US of preparing a violent intervention in Venezuela as Washington expands its military presence.
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Indonesia’s Jakarta now the world’s largest city, Tokyo falls to third: UN
Nine of the top 10 mega-cities are in Asia, with Bangladesh’s Dhaka projected to be the world’s largest city by 2050.
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A woman who murdered her 2 children and left them in suitcases is jailed for at least 17 years
A woman in New Zealand who was convicted of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for years before they were discovered will spend at least 17 years in prison, a judge ruled Wednesday. Justice Geoffrey Venning told Hakyung Lee at the High Court hearing in the city of Auckland that she would begin her sentence as a patient in a locked psychiatric facility, under New Zealand's compulsory mental health treatment law. In New Zealand, a successful insanity defense requires a murder defendant to prove they were incapable of understanding what they were doing or that it was wrong.
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Pentagon boss to visit Dominican Republic amid US-Venezuela row
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday will visit the Dominican Republic, a close US Caribbean ally, for talks on combatting drug trafficking amid a standoff between Washington and Venezuela, officials said.The Dominican Republic has been cooperating with the US operations.
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China's pressure on Japan is a familiar tactic that could last for some time
Just days after China issued an advisory against traveling to Japan, the cancellations started. “I just hope the Chinese tourists return by Chinese New Year," she said, referring to the major holiday period in February. China's government is turning to a well-used playbook to express its displeasure with Japan for refusing to retract a statement by its new prime minister on the hot-button issue of Taiwan.
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Popemobile transformed into Gaza mobile children's clinic
The popemobile used by the late pope Francis on his 2014 visit to Bethlehem re-emerged on Tuesday as a mobile children's clinic to be deployed in Gaza.- Pope's 'final wish' -In May 2014, Francis visited Amman, Bethlehem and Jerusalem, on his second international visit as pontiff.
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US to slap big surcharge on foreign visitors to national parks
Foreign tourists visiting US national parks including the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone will now pay a hefty surcharge, the Trump administration announced Tuesday.Non-US residents who buy an annual pass will not be subject to the $100 surcharge on entry to the most visited parks, including Florida's Everglades, Maine's Acadia and California's Yosemite, but that fee will apply to all other foreign visitors.
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France arrests two men, two women over Louvre heist: prosecutor
French authorities Tuesday arrested four more people in the probe into last month's spectacular daylight theft of imperial jewels from the Louvre museum, the top Paris prosecutor said.The first two men arrested earlier were also known to the police for having committed thefts.
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Mother sentenced to life in prison for New Zealand's 'suitcase murders'
A mother who murdered her two children and stuffed them into suitcases stashed inside a storage locker was on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment in New Zealand. She wrapped her dead children in plastic bags before stuffing them into suitcases that were then hidden at a suburban storage warehouse on the outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand's largest city.
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Judge gives Justice Department a day to detail Ghislaine Maxwell trial materials to be released
A federal judge in Manhattan is demanding more information from the Justice Department as he weighs its request to unseal records from the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer on Tuesday ordered the Justice Department to tell him what materials it plans to publicly release that were subject to secrecy orders in the British socialite’s case. Engelmayer's order came after the Justice Department on Monday asked for his permission to release grand jury records, exhibits and discovery materials in the Maxwell case.
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Global airlines cancel Venezuelan flights amid military tensions
Tensions between the United States and Venezuela prompted many airlines to cancel flights to the South American nation and strand some passengers.
2 min read - World
Bolsonaro ordered to begin serving 27-year prison sentence for attempted coup
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled Tuesday.
2 min read - Politics
Health care plan circulated by the White House runs into familiar GOP divisions
A health care proposal circulated by the White House in recent days is running into the reality of Republican divisions on the issue — a familiar struggle for a party that has been trying to scrap or overhaul the Affordable Care Act for the past 15 years. The tentative proposal from President Donald Trump would extend expiring ACA subsidies for two years while adjusting eligibility requirements for recipients. The plan has so far been met with a stony silence on Capitol Hill as Republicans debate among themselves whether to overhaul the law, tweak it or simply let the subsidies expire.
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Russia warns it may reject US-Ukraine peace plan if it fails to uphold Alaska summit 'understandings'
Russia is threatening to reject President Donald Trump's Ukraine peace plan unless "key understandings" from his Alaska summit with President Putin are upheld.
3783 min readFox News
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Two dozen schoolgirls freed after kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria last week
Two dozen schoolgirls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria’s northwestern Kebbi state last week have been freed, according to officials, as the country grapples with a wave of mass abductions in recent days.
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Colombian court sentences Alvaro Uribe’s brother to 28 years in prison
A panel of three judges found Santiago Uribe guilty of homicide and criminal conspiracy for his ties to paramilitaries.
4 min read - World
Bolsonaro behind bars: the fall of Brazil's polarizing firebrand
Jair Bolsonaro always swore he would never be imprisoned."By God who is in heaven, I will never be imprisoned," he said that same year.
3 min read - World
Four more arrested in Louvre heist
Four more people have been arrested and are accused of participating in the Oct. 19 heist of valuable historical artifacts from the Louvre in Paris.
2 min read - World
U.S. mountain climber among 2 killed in a fall on New Zealand's highest peak
Specialists from rescue organizations and government agencies recovered the dead climbers' bodies late Tuesday.
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US climber among 2 killed in fall on New Zealand's highest peak
A U.S. climber was among two people killed in a fall on Aoraki, New Zealand's tallest peak, authorities said Wednesday. The men were part of a four-person group climbing near the summit of Aoraki, also known as Mount Cook, on Monday. Specialists from rescue organizations and government agencies recovered the men's bodies later on Tuesday, Police Area Commander Inspector Vicki Walker said.
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Syrians protest after attacks on Alawite minority
Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday across Syria's coastal Alawite heartland in protest at recent attacks targeting the minority community, AFP correspondents said.Demonstrations also took place in other coastal areas such as Tartus and Jableh, where hundreds of people held banners demanding "federalism" and "the liberation of prisoners", an AFP correspondent said.
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N.Irish town to drop ex-prince Andrew from street name
A Northern Irish council has voted to rename a street in the town of Carrickfergus called after Britain's disgraced former prince Andrew. The council voted unanimously on Monday to rename a main road in the town, 10 miles (16 kilometres) northeast of Belfast, called Prince Andrew Way.
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Colombian operation rescues 17 minors tied to extremist Lev Tahor sect
Colombian authorities said 17 minors linked to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor were rescued during an inspection at a hotel in the northwest.
3 min read - World
Brazil’s Supreme Court orders Jair Bolsonaro to begin prison sentence
The ex-president was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for trying to foment a coup after his election loss.
4 min read - World
Starmer demands British boots on ground under Ukraine peace deal
Sir Keir Starmer has demanded that Britain be allowed to send troops to Ukraine under any peace deal with Russia.
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X's new feature raises questions about the foreign origins of some popular US political accounts
Elon Musk’s X unveiled a feature Saturday that lets users see where an account is based. Online sleuths and experts quickly found that many popular accounts posting in support of the MAGA movement to thousands or hundreds of thousands of followers, are based outside the United States — raising concerns about foreign influence on U.S. politics. Researchers at NewsGuard, a firm that tracks online misinformation, identified several popular accounts — purportedly run by Americans interested in politics – that instead were based in Eastern Europe, Asia or Africa.
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Israel says Gaza hostage coffin received
Israel said on Tuesday it had received the coffin of a hostage held in Gaza, with the remains undergoing forensic examination to determine their identity.The coffin was handed over to the Israeli military and security services inside the Gaza Strip, then transferred to Israel where it was received in a military ceremony.
3 min read - World
Twenty-four schoolgirls released after northwestern Nigeria kidnapping
President Tinubu urges intensified efforts to rescue other captives, after release of schoolgirls seized in Kebbi State.
2 min read - World
Jakarta surpasses Tokyo as world's biggest city
In just seven years, Jakarta, Indonesia, took a giant leap from 33rd biggest city in the world to surpass Tokyo at the top of the list as it has grown to 42 million residents.
3 min read - World
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins 27-year prison sentence for coup attempt
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday started his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, to the surprise of many in the South American nation who doubted he would ever end up behind bars. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has overseen the case, ruled Bolsonaro will remain in custody after being preemptively arrested on Saturday. Supporters and detractors of the embattled leader gathered outside the federal police headquarters after the order was issued, some calling for Bolsonaro's release and others toasting to his imprisonment.
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Volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years: "Like a sudden bomb"
"While no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their animals have little to eat," an official said.
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Woman found alive, moving in coffin as she was taken to be cremated
After the woman's brother drove her to be cremated, a faint knock was heard coming from the coffin, an official at the temple said.
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Possible hostage remains returned to Israel for ID
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad transferred the remains -- which they identified as belonging to an Israeli hostage -- to the Red Cross.
2 min read - World
Macron revamps army with national service
Emmanuel Macron will this week announce an overhaul of national service to bolster France’s army numbers.
4 min read - World
All 24 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls rescued after armed attack in Kebbi, president says
All 24 schoolgirls kidnapped from Nigeria's Kebbi state have been rescued, President Tinubu announced, calling for increased security in vulnerable areas.
2 min read - US
Brazilian court orders Bolsonaro to begin serving 27-year prison sentence for attempted coup
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled Tuesday.
1 min read - World
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses
5 min readThe Guardian
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Israel’s push to displace thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank
Displacement and Israeli settler violence against Palestinians has surged to record levels in occupied West Bank.
2035 min read - Politics
New U.S. ambassador arrives in Chile, sparks controversy with government
A diplomatic controversy with the United States spilled into Chile's presidential campaign after the new U.S. ambassador, Brandon Judd, used his first public appearance to level sharp criticism at President Gabriel Boric, prompting a formal protest from the government.
3 min read - World
EU's top court rules same-sex marriages must be recognized across all member states
The EU's highest court delivered a historic ruling requiring member countries to recognize same-sex marriages, directly challenging Poland's laws.
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