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Jan 01, 2025

Yoon’s senior aides offer to resign after court shake-up

Senior aides to South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol offered to resign en masse on Wednesday, a day after his office expressed regret over acting President Choi Sang-mok’s approved of two new judges to a court set to decide Yoon’s fate.

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Web Desk
Jan 01, 2025

Bitcoin tumbles below $93,000 after reaching $94,234

On the first trading day of 2025, Bitcoin rose by $749.55 to $94,234.01 around 01:00 UTC, compared to its previous close of $93,484.46.

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Reuters
Jan 01, 2025

Trump to attend Carter’s funeral, expects Johnson to stay speaker

“I do. I’ll be there. We were invited,” Trump said, declining to say whether he had spoken with any of Carter’s family members since his death.

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Reuters
Jan 01, 2025

Oil prices post 3 per cent annual decline, slipping for second year in a row

Oil prices fell around 3 per cent in 2024, slipping for a second straight year, as the post-pandemic demand recovery stalled, China’s economy struggled, and the US and other non-OPEC producers pumped more crude into a well-supplied global market.

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Reuters
Dec 31, 2024

Recovering Netanyahu gets up from hospital to rally support for Israel budget

The Israeli budget next goes to the Knesset finance and other committees, where it could face changes

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Reuters
Dec 31, 2024

Nepal’s kung fu nuns kick off reopening of nunnery to public

Monk Gyalwang Drukpa decides to train women in kung fu to improve their health and spiritual well-being

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Reuters
Dec 31, 2024

US sanctions Iran, Russia over election interference

The US Treasury Department says that Iran and Russia were involved into socio-political tensions of the US electorate amidst 2024 US elections

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AFP
Dec 31, 2024

World greets 2025 after sweltering year of Olympics, turmoil and Trump

It is all but certain that 2024 will go down as the hottest year on record, with climate-fuelled disasters wreaking havoc from the plains of Europe to the Kathmandu Valley