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Trump to attend Jimmy Carter state funeral
US President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he plans to attend the state funeral of former president Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday aged 100.
Trump shared his intentions with reporters during New Year's Eve celebrations at his…
New year hope and joy reign in a Damascus freed from Assad
Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people brandishing "revolution" flags as Syria saw in the new year with hope following 13 years of civil war.
Gunshots rang out from Mount Qasioun overlooking the capital where…
31 Kurdish, Turkish-backed fighters killed
A Syria war monitor said 31 combatants had been killed since Sunday in ongoing battles between Turkey-backed groups and Kurdish-led forces.
Swathes of northern Syria are controlled by a Kurdish-led administration whose de facto army,…
South Korea court issues arrest warrant for impeached president Yoon
A South Korean court has issued an arrest warrant for impeached, suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol, investigators said Tuesday, over his short-lived bid to impose martial law on the country.
Yoon briefly suspended civilian rule this…
More than half of Syrian children out of school
About half of school-age children in Syria are missing out on education after nearly 14 years of civil war, Save the Children told AFP on Monday, calling for "immediate action".
The overwhelming majority of Syrian children are also…
66 dead in Ethiopia road accident
More than 60 people have died after a road accident in southern Ethiopia, the local health authority said on Sunday.
Sidama state is in the south of Ethiopia, some 300 kilometres (180 miles) south of the capital Addis Ababa.
The Sidama…
Flags fly at half-mast as South Korea probes its worst plane crash
Flags flew at half-mast on Monday as South Korea mourned 179 people killed in the worst plane crash on its soil, as investigators probe why the Jeju Air plane crash-landed and burst into flames.
The country has started seven days of…
Key moments in the life of Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter's 1977-1981 presidency included successes like the Camp David peace accords, but also enough controversy for US voters to see him as weak -- and send him packing after only one term.
Carter's legacy however was largely built…
UK study warns of perils in AI-driven ‘intention economy’
Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) tools may soon "covertly influence" users' decision making in a new commercial frontier called the "intention economy", University of Cambridge researchers warned in a paper published Monday.…
Gaza hospital shut after Israeli raid, director held: health officials
An Israeli military raid targeting Hamas members has forced a major hospital in northern Gaza out of service and led to the detention of its director, the WHO and health officials said Saturday.
The assault on Kamal Adwan Hospital…