View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bluffton Twp. Fire District (@blufftonfire) Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Firefighters in South Carolina came to the rescue of a kitten that darted out into the road in front of a vehicle and ended up jumping up to hide in the undercarriage. The Bluffton Township Fir»»»

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado will make a public appearance "in about an hour," her former campaign manager said early Thursday. It will be her first public appearance in eleven months after going into hiding following a presidential election that »»»

WASHINGTON: Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region under Republican efforts to ramp up US fossil fuel production. The sale came after President Donald Trump's administration recently announced plans t»»»

Amnesty International on Thursday accused Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups for the first time of crimes against humanity, including extermination, during and after the October 7, 2023 attack that sparked the war in Gaza. "Palestinian armed groups committed violations of international humani»»»

The Trump administration faces mounting congressional scrutiny over its aggressive boat strike campaign targeting alleged drug cartel vessels, which has resulted in at least 87 deaths across 22 documented operations since early September. Lawmakers from both parties have demanded greater transparen»»»

Portugal is facing severe disruption to transport, flights, hospitals, schools and other public services on Thursday, as the two main union federations stage a general strike over unprecedented labour reforms. The last time the CGTP and the generally less militant UGT joined forces was during the e»»»

Victims of a deadly typhoon in the Philippines have filed a legal claim against oil and gas company Shell in the UK courts, seeking compensation for what they say is the company's role in making the storm more severe. Around 400 people were killed and millions of homes hit when Typhoon Rai slammed »»»

In a McDonald's by a lake surrounded by mountains, in the centre of the Swiss city of Lugano, a customer orders coffee. "Can I pay with bitcoin?" he asks, and the person behind the counter holds out what looks like a credit card payment terminal. It is in fact a machine for paying by crypto currenc»»»

Shares of cloud computing giant Oracle plunged more than 10% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the company's revenue results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The company reported revenue of $16.06bn (£11.99bn) for the three months that ended in November, compared with the $16.21bn pr»»»

The US is the best place for a business to invest, the boss of one of the UK's biggest pharmaceutical companies has said. Dame Emma Walmsley, chief executive of vaccines and medicines giant GSK, said it will invest $30bn (£23bn) in the US by 2030. It comes as other major drug makers have pulled UK »»»

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolas Maduro. Using US forces to seize an oil tanker is incredibly unusual and marks the Trump administration’s latest pu»»»

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy describes his recent 20-day stint in prison as “hell” in a new book released on Wednesday. His “Diary of a Prisoner” provides a rare glimpse into La Santé prison in Paris, were Sarkozy was kept in solitary confinement for security reasons. It also sees the ex»»»

The U.S. Navy is partnering with Palantir Technologies Inc. to modernize its shipbuilding programs with the help of artificial intelligence and a $448 million investment announced on Tuesday. File Photo by Thiep Van Nguyen II/U.S. Navy Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Artificial intelligence will help the Navy to »»»

Once again the boom of artillery, rockets and air strikes sounds along the Thai-Cambodian border. Villages in a corridor stretching for hundreds of kilometres have been evacuated for a second time in five months. Families and their pets sit on mats in temporary shelters, wondering when they can go »»»

Gardaí (Irish police) have released CCTV footage of an arson attack on a house fire in County Offaly in the Republic of Ireland in which a woman and young boy were killed. Mary Holt, aged 60, was the great-aunt of Tadhg Farrell, aged four; and they both died in the fire at a house in Castleview Par»»»

Anti-government protests were held across Bulgaria on Wednesday evening. In central Sofia, the organizers from the opposition Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) coalition hoped to recreate the massive rally of December 1. Taking place under the slogan “Resignation! Peevski and Boriss»»»

Drones which were seen near Dublin Airport on the night the Ukrainian president arrived were "not a threat" to the leader's aeroplane, as landed some time prior to the incident, the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) has said. However Micheál Martin told the Dáil (Irish Parliament) that the incident »»»

The police are controlling a situation involving about 50-60 individuals who are acting aggressively near Vrabcha Street in the capital, said Chief Commissioner Lyubomir Nikolov, Director of the Sofia Directorate of Interior. He told a news briefing that this was not part of the anti-government pro»»»

The police are controlling a situation involving about 50-60 individuals who are acting aggressively near Vrabcha Street, said Chief Commissioner Lyubomir Nikolov, Director of the Sofia Directorate of Interior. He told a news briefing that their profile is that of hooligans. That street is where th»»»

QNA Doha The international reserves and foreign currency liquidity at the Qatar Central Bank (QCB) increased by 2.65 percent year-on-year in November, reaching QR 261.502 billion, compared to QR 254.743 billion during the same period last year. Data released by the Qatar Central Bank showed that th»»»

Ashraf Siddiqui Doha The Ambassador of the Republic of Finland to Qatar, HE Juha Mustonen, hosted a reception at The St. Regis Hotel on The Pearl-Qatar to celebrate the 108th Independence Day of Finland. In his address, Ambassador Mustonen extended sincere gratitude to the State and people of Qatar»»»

QNA Doha The Permanent Web Summit Qatar Organising Committee has announced the latest global tech leaders joining the list of partners for Web Summit Qatar 2026, including Snapchat, Amazon, Vodafone and Dell, bringing the total number to more than 130. This was announced during its regular meeting »»»

QNA Doha Attorney-General HE Dr. Issa bin Saad Al Jafali Al Nuaimi has affirmed that integrity and transparency constitute the fundamental pillars for protecting society and achieving justice. The attorney-general made the statement during a lecture delivered at the College of Graduate Studies at t»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar Charity, in collaboration with Msheireb Museums, inaugurated the “241” exhibition at the Courtyard of Company House in Msheireb Downtown Doha. The exhibition commemorates 241 children from Gaza—sponsored by the generous people of Qatar through Qatar Charity’s “Rofaqa»»»

QNA New York Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations HE Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani has announced the pledge of $1 million to support the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for 2026. Sheikha Alya made the announcement during her participation in the High-level Pledging »»»

U.S. Navy forces are patrolling the Caribbean now as part of the U.S. effort against Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro. File Photo by PO2 Triniti Lersch/U.S. Navy | License Photo Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. military seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid ongoing tensions between Pr»»»

UNIFIL issued on Wednesday a statement, indicating that the UN peacekeepers in vehicles patrolling the Blue Line were fired upon by IOF soldiers in a Merkava tank near Sarda one day earlier. “Yesterday, peacekeepers in vehicles patrolling the Blue Line were fired upon by IDF soldiers in a Merkava t»»»

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took a tour of CECOT in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in March. This week, the Department of Homeland Security signed a contract to buy six planes with which to deport people. File Photo by Tia Dufour/U.S. Department of Homeland Security | License Phot»»»

Dubai opens its doors to the Asian Youth Paralympic Games, hosting the most extensive edition to date with a record 1,500 athletes, a multitude of international delegations, and a pronounced shift towards technological innovation in sport for people of determination. Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin»»»

Four famous duos have travelled nearly 6,000 km, hitchhiking through mountain towns, foraging in dense jungles, and battling challenges they never imagined, as contestants in Celebrity Race Across the World. What began on the sun-soaked easternmost tip of Mexico is about to come to a close on Thurs»»»

The US Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates for the third time this year despite growing divisions, as policymakers aim to prop up the slowing labour market. The central bank said on Wednesday it was lowering the target for its key lending rate by 0.25 percentage points, putting it in a range»»»

The U.S. Postal Service headquarters pictured August 2020 in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, USPS officials said they're ready for the massive influx of deliveries for the 2025 holiday season, but warned U.S. citizens to avoid scammy texts with links. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo »»»

Dubai: The US Federal Reserve delivered its third straight and final 25-basis-point rate cut of 2025, a highly anticipated move that offers clues about its outlook for 2026. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.Policymakers voted 10–3 to lower the Fed’s key lending rate to »»»

By Jana Hemmersmeier and Frederic PouchotBRUSSELS — Europe's embattled auto industry and its backers are ramping up pressure on the EU to relax its planned 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel car sales — hoping for a decision by year end.The European Commission is due to review the target on December»»»

AMMAN — As part of the field follow-up tours, the Commissioner of Economic Affairs and Investment at the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) Mohammed Abu Omar, on Wednesday, made a field visit with a delegate to a number of factories operating within Aqaba International Industrial Estate »»»

British oil giant, BP, celebrated the reopening of its Tripoli office yesterday, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) reported today. The NOC said the new BP Tripoli headquarters will serve as a launchpad for strengthening the partnership between the two parties, implementing all agreed-upon plans ef»»»

Rushed out in under three weeks, Nicolas Sarkozy's new book "A Prisoner's Diary" has plenty of colour about what it's like for a former president to find himself in the isolation wing of a French jail. We learn that prisoner number 320535 had a 12 square metre cell, equipped with a bed, desk, fridg»»»

His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has issued an Emiri Decree to establish and regulate the Sharjah Cycling Club. This decree sets out the creation of a cycling club in the emirate, named "Sharjah Cycling Club." The club will have its »»»

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When Donald Trump took the stage at a rally on Tuesday night, he was expected to address concerns around affordability and the state of the US economy. Over the course of a sprawling 90-minute speech in Pennsylvania, he did talk about the economy – but also immigration, his Democratic critics, Vene»»»

1 of 3 | U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., looks on during a Jan. 2024 hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, Stevens filed impeachment articles against HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A Michigan congresswoman fi»»»

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will see his travel budget cut in the new defense spending bill if he doesn't release footage of boat attacks near Venezuela. File Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI | License Photo Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The House of Representatives will vote on Wednesday on the bipartisan $900 »»»

The administration of Alexandra Hospital in central Athens has issued a statement warning about social media posts requesting donations for supposedly abandoned infants allegedly housed in one of the hospital’s wards. According to the announcement, the hospital does not host infants except for a fe»»»

The General Chemical State Laboratory has ordered the recall of a specific batch of Disaronno liqueur in the Greek market after receiving a warning from the brand’s local distributor about the potential presence of glass fragments. According to the distributor, an irregularity was detected during r»»»

Speaking to the Bulgarian News Agency on Wednesday, Captain Zhivko Petrov, Director of the Maritime Administration Directorate in Burgas, said that the tanker Kairos, which ran aground off the coast of Ahtopol last week will be anchored in Burgas Bay, as it cannot enter a port. The tanker is unable»»»

Paulinho da Forca, who led negotiations on the proposed law, is seen after Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies in Sao Paolo passed the bill that seeks to reduce the sentences of former President Jair Bolsonaro and others in the attempted coup, Photo by Andre Borges/EPA Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A legislative shift»»»

Sharjah Municipality has unveiled its newly redesigned website, along with eight fully integrated digital services, as part of its ongoing efforts to enhance public services and improve the customer experience. The move comes under the emirate’s strategy to provide advanced, seamless digital servic»»»

European leaders say "intensive work" will continue in the coming days on a US-led plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war, after a joint phone call with President Donald Trump. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said they "agreed th»»»

The United Nations has rejected remarks by Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir claiming that the “yellow line in Gaza represents the new border,” emphasizing that the organization does not recognize any change to the territory’s internationally accepted boundaries. “We strongly oppose any alteration »»»

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