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Reuters
Dec 25, 2024

King Charles thanks medics for his and Kate’s cancer care

The year has been traumatic for the royals after the 76-year-old was diagnosed with an unspecified form of cancer

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Reuters
Dec 25, 2024

Hamas and Israel blame each other for ceasefire delay

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Hamas of going back on understandings already reached

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AFP
Dec 25, 2024

Syria authorities say 1 million captagon pills torched

Amphetamine-like stimulant drugs industrial-scale production flourished under ousted president Bashar al-Assad

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Reuters
Dec 25, 2024

Russia launches ‘inhuman’ Christmas Day attacks, Ukraine says

Half a million people in Kharkiv region were left without heating, in temperatures just a few degrees Celsius above zero, while there were blackouts in the capital Kyiv and elsewhere.

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Reuters
Dec 25, 2024

Pope Francis calls for end to Ukraine and Israeli-Hamas wars

Pope says: “May the sound of arms be silenced in war-torn Ukraine!”

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Reuters
Dec 25, 2024

Dubai’s stock index hits 10-year high as Gulf markets stay muted

Dubai’s benchmark share index jumped on Wednesday to its highest level in more than a decade, while most other markets in the Gulf were muted as investors braced for fewer rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve in the coming year.

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Web Desk
Dec 25, 2024

Bitcoin reverses some losses but stays below $99,000

On Christmas Day, Bitcoin started in the red, trading below its previous close of $98,688.11 after fluctuating significantly.

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Web Desk
Dec 25, 2024

Passenger plane crashes in Kazakhstan

A passenger plane has crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning, according to the country’s emergencies ministry.

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Reuters
Dec 25, 2024

China’s Squid Game-style scams: Desperate players lose big

In China’s take on Squid Game, fraudsters are preying on the financially distressed in a slumping economy with promises of prize money, debt restructuring and other schemes that are not always what is promised.