When her children, trembling with fear, ask where the family can go to escape Israel's continued bombardment in southern Gaza's Khan Yunis area, Umm Ahmed has no answer. In her small, devastated village near Khan Yunis city, recent Israeli drone and artillery strikes shattered the tenuous sense of »»»

CARACAS (Sputnik) - The European Union's intention to seize frozen Russian assets is eroding the bloc's position on the international stage, Venezuelan lawmaker and Chairman of the People's Electoral Movement party Gilberto Gimenez told Sputnik. "The assets and funds that Russia held in European ba»»»

There will be no more tax increases next year if the Government and Parliament maintain the measures established at the coalition level and if these measures are backed by budget discipline, Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan declared on Monday.He responded this way when asked whether he would keep his pr»»»

The US economy is expected to post another solid economic growth reading Tuesday, but the much-delayed figures likely will not settle debate on the labor market, AI and other variables. Forecasters expect Tuesday's third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) report to show 3.2 percent growth, accord»»»

Colombo, Sri Lanka: India has committed $450 million in humanitarian assistance to help Sri Lanka recover from the devastating damage caused by Cyclone Ditwah, foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said Tuesday on a visit to the country. The cyclone killed more than 640 people when it swept acro»»»

Copenhagen: President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated that the United States needed Greenland for "national security" after his appointment of a special envoy to the Danish Arctic island triggered a new spat with Copenhagen. Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has repeatedly said»»»

Unification Minister Chung Dong-young adjusts his glasses during a forum on peaceful coexistence and unification at the National Assembly Members' Office Building in Seoul, Dec 12. Photo by Asia Today Dec. 22 (Asia Today) -- South Korea's Unification Ministry has outlined a "peace package" for Nort»»»

President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated that the United States needed Greenland for "national security" after his appointment of a special envoy to the Danish Arctic island triggered a new spat with Copenhagen. Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has repeatedly said the United »»»

California: PayPal is seeking a banking charter that would allow it to boost its lending business, offer savings accounts that can earn interest and make customers’ deposits eligible for federal insurance coverage, the payments company said yesterday. PayPal has submitted applications to authoritie»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) index gained for the second consecutive day this week, ending 0.79% higher at 10,801.39 points, yesterday. The index concluded Sunday’s trading at 10,716.39 points. During yesterday’s session the volume of shares traded stood at 94,895,985 from 78,183,932»»»

A number of families in the Republic of Ireland living in houses made with defective concrete blocks have said they are facing another Christmas in homes that are "unsafe and crumbling around them". Thousands of homes, mostly in counties Donegal, Clare, Limerick, Mayo and Sligo are affected by the »»»

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam urged cabinet to swiftly approve a draft law allowing depositors to gradually recover funds frozen in the banking system since a financial collapse in 2019, a move critical to reviving the economy. The collapse - the result of decades of unsustainable financial p»»»

This year brought major progress for CPI Romania, from large-scale upgrades across its retail and office assets to a strengthened tenant mix and sustained leasing activity. Country Manager Fulga Dinu talks to Business Review about the initiatives that marked 2025 and the priorities guiding the comp»»»

Liverpool: Liverpool are awaiting scan results they fear will confirm record signing Alexander Isak has suffered a broken leg after he was injured in their win against Tottenham, reports said Monday. The Sweden forward was hurt in the act of scoring the opening goal in Saturday’s 2-1 victory in Lon»»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar is poised to reinforce its position as a global energy powerhouse in the coming year, as analysts note that a sharp increase in liquefied natural gas (LNG) production capacity comes on stream through the North Field expansion, strengthening export volumes, boosting market flexibi»»»

1 of 2 | A New York State Lottery PowerBall sign displays the jackpot $1.6 billion on Monday in New York City. The Powerball jackpot jumped to an estimated $1.6 billion ahead of Monday night's drawing, making it the fifth-largest prize in U.S. lottery history. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License »»»

Chairman of South Korean builder Booyoung Group, Lee Joong-keun (L), joins a photo session with group employees who gave birth in 2024 after providing them with 100 million won (US$75,000) per birth, during a ceremony to mark the start of business for the new year at the company's headquarters in S»»»

The US Justice Department said on Sunday it had restored an image of President Donald Trump that it had removed a day earlier from the public release of Epstein-related files. The photograph was reposted as lawmakers accused officials of withholding key information in files related to the late sex »»»

Lawmakers from both parties escalated pressure on the US Department of Justice on Monday over its handling of the release of Jeffrey Epstein documents, threatening contempt proceedings against Attorney General Pam Bondi as demands for full disclosure intensified. Bipartisan anger over the US Depart»»»

Israel has approved 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, bringing the three-year total to 69. The move comes despite UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's recent condemnation of what he called the "relentless" expansion of settlements in the occupied territory. Israel approved the establ»»»

US President Donald Trump on Monday warned Colombian President Gustavo Petro to "watch his ass" and further accused him of sending cocaine into the United States. "He's [Petro] no friend of the United States. He's very bad, very bad guy, and he's got to watch his ass because he makes cocaine and th»»»

Bollywood’s top stars are driving production costs sky-high with private trailers, personal chefs and massive entourages, insiders say. The hefty fees are hiking up production costs and straining the Indian film industry's already fragile finances.  From fleets of private trailers to personal »»»

US Senator Lindsey Graham has urged Washington to ramp up restrictions against Russia, including sanctioning China over its energy imports from Moscow and seizing tankers carrying Russian oil. Last month, US President Donald Trump proposed a roadmap to resolve the Ukraine conflict, which Kiev and i»»»

US President Donald Trump on Monday said he convinced French President Emmanuel Macron to accept his demands on drug prices as he pushes for lower costs for Americans. Speaking from his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, the 79-year-old Republican told the story he had previously shared at a rally Fr»»»

Myanmar's junta is set to preside over voting starting Sunday, touting heavily restricted polls as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government, triggering civil war. Former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains jailed and her hugely popular party dissolved after »»»

WASHINGTON: The Federal Communications Commission on Monday said it would ban new foreign-made drones, a move that will keep new Chinese-made drones such as those from DJI and Autel out of the U.S. market. The announcement came a year after Congress passed a defense bill that raised national securi»»»

A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a 1-year-old medical patient along with seven others, crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least two people, officials said. Emergency officials rescued four people and were searching for two that were inside the aircraft, Mexico’s Navy said in a stateme»»»

Kilmar Abrego Garcia delivers remarks during a rally before his check in at the ICE Baltimore Field Office in Baltimore Maryland, on August 25. On Monday, a federal judge allowed the Salvadoran native to remain free through Christmas, after he was released earlier this month, as he awaits trial on »»»

US President Donald Trump said Monday it would be "smart" for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to step down, as US naval forces pressed a blockade on the South American country's oil wealth. Venezuela's key ally Moscow, however, expressed its "full support" for Maduro's government, as Washington»»»

Dubai: Gold’s historic rally in 2025 delivered record prices and strong returns, but its most lasting impact may be how it fundamentally changed the way consumers buy the metal. Across the UAE, higher prices have not pushed buyers out of the market. Instead, they have made them more deliberate, mor»»»

Attorney General Pam Bondi took to X over the weekend with a bold statement: "President Trump is leading the most transparent administration in American history." Her post was about efforts to release documents concerning the attempted assassination of Trump last July. But the folks commenting in t»»»

They work 24/7 at high speeds and get searingly hot - but data centre computer chips get plenty of pampering. Some of them basically live at the spa. "We'll have fluid that comes up and [then] shower down, or trickle down, onto a component," says Jonathan Ballon, chief executive at liquid cooling f»»»

India is home to one of the world's most ambitious social programmes - a jobs guarantee that gives every rural household the legal right to paid work. Launched in 2005 by a Congress party government, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) gave every rural household a legal right to »»»

Dec. 22 (UPI) -- The former CEO of a healthcare software company in Arizona was sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $452 million in restitution for conspiring to defraud Medicare for $1 billion, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday. Gary Cox, 79, of Maricopa County, w»»»

EU politicians, weapons manufacturers, and bankers are the three main groups pushing for the Ukraine conflict to continue, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has claimed. Speaking at an election campaign event in Szeged on Sunday, Orban reiterated his opposition to the EU’s approach to the confl»»»

Nuclear-armed Western Europe could become a major security risk for the US if the national identity of its countries continues to change due to mass immigration, US Vice President J.D. Vance has warned. Vance told UnHerd last week that Britain and France, along with other US allies, currently lack »»»

Spain's Christmas lottery has been welcomed as an "injection of hope" in the northwest of the country, where the jackpot handed out hundreds of millions of euros just months after wildfires had caused devastation. Most of the first-prize-winning tickets in the lottery, known as El Gordo, had been b»»»

North Korea has lashed out at Japan after a senior official reportedly suggested that the country needs nuclear weapons. In a statement published by state media on Sunday, Pyongyang warned that allowing Japan to acquire nuclear weapons would result in “a great disaster.” The remarks come after cont»»»

A worker performs maintenance on a self-driving car during a media tour of Baidu's autonomous ride-hailing services at the Apollo Park in Beijing on April 22, 2022. On Monday, the company said it plans to bring its self-driving vehicles to London in a partnership with Uber and Lyft. File Photo by M»»»

Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway Donald Trump's and her husband George Conway arrive for the Candlelight Dinner at Union Station in honor of the president-elect in Washington, D.C., on January 19, 2017. They divorced in 2023, and Conway filed paperwork to run for the U.S. House seat»»»

Russia has intensified its strikes on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, causing widespread power cuts and threatening the region's maritime infrastructure. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said Moscow was carrying out "systematic" attacks on the region. Last week, he warned that»»»

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem testifies during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing in the Cannon House Office Building near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on December 11, 2025. DHS increased its stipend to $3,000 for undocumented immigrants to self-deport. Photo »»»

CBS News is facing scrutiny after pulling a segment from its flagship Sunday broadcast about the Trump administration's deportations of Venezuelan men to a detention centre in El Salvador. The last-minute decision by top editor Bari Weiss sparked widespread criticism, including from the CBS corresp»»»

The UN and other aid agencies fear new Israeli registration rules for dozens of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) risk the collapse of the humanitarian response in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. INGOs not registered by 31 December face closure of their operations in Israe»»»

Around 100,000 vehicles are expected to leave Sofia for the upcoming Christmas holidays, the Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA) reported on Monday. The highest number of vehicles is anticipated on the Trakia Motorway – around 35,000, followed by about 20,000 on Hemus, 20,000 on Struma, and 10,000 on »»»

In el-Fasher, the sky seemed to collapse upon the weary shoulders of a city long strangled by siege, as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) flung open the gates of hell on 26 October, unleashing terror on those clinging to life like. The level of violence has reshaped the civil war in Sudan. Many now wo»»»

The EU’s sanctions on Russia have ended up “crushing” the bloc itself, diminishing its economic competitiveness, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. Budapest has consistently opposed Brussels’ policies on Ukraine since the escalation of the conflict with Russia in February 2022, includi»»»

Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow has revealed he will undergo surgery to remove a cancerous spot on his lung. Manilow, one of the biggest stars of the 70s and 80s, said it was "pure luck" that doctors found the spot early when he had an MRI following weeks of bronchitis. The 82-year-old, known for a»»»

Beneath the Florida sun, far from the frozen trenches and drone-shadowed ruins of eastern Ukraine, the outlines of a possible endgame are beginning to sharpen. In a series of high-stakes meetings in Miami, American, Russian, and Ukrainian envoys have spent the last few days dissecting the anatomy o»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Slovakia will not participate in the insane plans of the European Union to finance Ukraine, as the country has its own priorities for spending money, Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico said on Monday. "I guarantee you that if I go to the European Council, I will not vote for »»»