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Trump's influence spreads through state capitols in both substance and symbolism 2025-01-18
Traverse City Record-Eagle

President-elect Donald Trump has yet to take...

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Israel's Cabinet approves a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of dozens ... 2025-01-18
Independent Online

Israel's Cabinet approved a deal early Saturday for a ceasefire in Gaza that would release dozens of hostages held there and pause the 15-month war with Hamas, bringing the sides a step closer to ending their deadliest and most destructive fighting ever. The government announced the approval after 1...

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US Treasury to launch measures Tuesday to avoid debt limit breach 2025-01-18
Beijing News

WASHINGTON - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the government would reach its statutory borrowing limit on Tuesday and begin employing 'extraordinary measures' to keep from breaching the cap and risking a potential catastrophic default. Yellen, in a letter on Friday to congressional...

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"Made sweeping upgrades to posture in Indo-Pacific": US Defence Secy Lloyd Austin 2025-01-18
Beijing News

Washington DC [US], January 18 (ANI): Outgoing US Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin highlighted the strides made by the US under the Biden administration, during his farewell speech delivered on Friday. He noted that the US made sweeping upgrades to its position in the Indo-Pacific, intensely focussed...

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Overcrowding endemic in Pakistan’s prison system: report 2025-01-18
Dawn

KARACHI: Pakistan’s prisons are housing 152 per cent of their authorised capacity, while three-quarters of the total inmates are either awaiting or undergoing trial, according to a report. The report, titled Pakistan’s Prison Landscape: Trends, Data, and Developments in 2024, highlighted that...

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Taiwan carries out first execution in five years 2025-01-18
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years and the first under President Lai Ching-te, upsetting rights groups and the European Union . ......

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Syria's New Regime Seizes Cargo of Iranian Weapons in Tartus 2025-01-18
The Maritime Executive

Under the administration of former dictator Bashar al-Assad, Syria's government gave Iran a logistics pipeline to supply Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, the most powerful member of Iran's "Axis of Resistance" in the Mideast. Assad was ousted in December after 13 years of civil war, and...

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‘No current prospect’ of Madeleine McCann suspect facing charges, says German prosecutor 2025-01-18
Irish Independent

There is currently no prospect of the suspect...

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S. Korea opens embassy in Cuba 1 year after establishing diplomatic relations 2025-01-18
Korea Times

South Korea opened its embassy in Cuba this week, the foreign ministry said Saturday, nearly a year after the two countries forged the diplomatic relations that took the world by surprise, including Cuba's Cold War-era ally, North Korea. An opening ceremony took place at the embassy in the...

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Xi tells Trump nations can be partners, friends 2025-01-18
ECNS

He expresses hope in phone call that Sino-U.S. ties will have new beginning President Xi Jinping held a telephone conversation on Friday with United States President-elect Donald Trump, in which he congratulated Trump on being elected for the second time as U.S. president. Trump thanked Xi for his...

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