- Monday, 29 December 2025
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German life expectancy decreased during pandemic years
Average life expectancy in Germany dropped noticeably between 2019 and 2021, the national statistics office said Tuesday, a change that is attributed to unusually high numbers of deaths during the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump returning to Washington to deliver policy speech
Former President Donald Trump will return to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a policy speech before an allied think tank that has been crafting an agenda for a possible second term.
Young Ukrainians use techno parties to rebuild villages
In a village in northern Ukraine that was devastated by Russian occupation only months ago, a techno party is in full swing.
Mideast nations wake up to damage from climate change
Temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world’s average in the past three decades. Precipitation has been decreasing, and experts predict droughts will come with greater frequency and severity.
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North Korea pushes traditional medicine to fight COVID-19
As a medical student in North Korea, Lee Gwang-jin said he treated his fevers and other minor ailments with traditional herbal medicine. But bad illness could mean trouble because hospitals in his rural hometown lacked the ambulances, beds, and even the electricity at times needed to treat critical or emergency patients.
Russia FM visits Egypt amid Ukraine conflict
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Cairo for talks Sunday with Egyptian officials as his country seeks to break diplomatic isolation and sanctions by the West over its invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov landed in Cairo late Saturday, the first leg of his Africa trip that will also include stops in Ethiopia, Uganda and the Democratic
Governor declares emergency over wildfire near Yosemite
A fast-moving brush fire near Yosemite National Park exploded in size Saturday into one of California’s largest wildfires of the year, prompting evacuation orders for thousands of people and shutting off power to more than 2,000 homes and businesses.
UN health agency chief declares monkeypox a global emergency
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision on calling monkeypox a global emergency despite a lack of consensus among experts on the U.N. health agency’s emergency committee, saying he acted as “a tiebreaker.”
Japan warns of rising global tension
Japan warned of escalating national security threats stemming from Russia’s war on Ukraine and China’s tensions in an annual defense paper issued Friday, as Japan tries to bolster its military capability and spending.
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Rajapaksa ally named PM in Sri Lanka as protest site cleared
A Rajapaksa political ally was appointed Sri Lanka’s prime minister Friday, hours after army troops and police forcefully cleared the main protest site occupied for months by demonstrators angry at the Rajapaksas over the country’s economic collapse.
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World’s oldest male giant panda dies at age 35 in Hong Kong
The oldest-ever male giant panda in captivity has died at age 35 at a Hong Kong theme park after his health deteriorated.
American Airlines earns $476 million
American Airlines earned $476 million in the second quarter on record revenue from summer travelers and said Thursday that it expects to remain profitable in the third quarter. It was American's first quarterly profit without government pandemic aid in the COVID-19 era.
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Trump spurned aides’ pleas to call off Capitol mob
The next day, he declared anew, “I don’t want to say the election is over.” That was in a previously unaired outtake of a speech he was to give, shown at Thursday night’s prime-time hearing of the House investigating committee.
GOP candidate for NY governor Lee Zeldin attacked, uninjured
U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was attacked by a man who apparently tried to stab him at an upstate event Thursday but the congressman managed to escape uninjured, his campaign said.
WHO again considers declaring monkeypox a global emergency
As the World Health Organization’s emergency committee convenes Thursday to consider for the second time within weeks whether to declare monkeypox a global crisis, some scientists say the striking differences between the outbreaks in Africa and in developed countries will complicate any coordinated response.
