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Latest attacks bring the total number of known boat strikes to 33 and the number of people killed to at least 110 since early September. The United States military has killed at least three people in yet another attack on alleged drug smuggling boats, and ordered the country's coastguard to launch a search for survivors. The statement by US Southern Command on Wednesday did not reveal where the attacks occurred. Previous attacks have been in the Caribbean Sea and in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The United Arab Emirates has announced the withdrawal of its forces from Yemen, declaring an end to what it called counterterrorism operations there, after Saudi Arabia accused Abu Dhabi of supporting separatists in the Gulf nation. The announcement on Tuesday came after Yemen's internationally recognised government demanded the UAE pull its forces from the country within 24 hours, a call that was backed by Saudi Arabia.

A suicide bomber targeted a group of Syrian police officers in the city of Aleppo killing one member of the security forces and wounding several others, the official news agency SANA reports. The incident, hours before the new year on Wednesday, follows the bombing of an Alawite mosque in Homs that killed at least eight people on Friday. The Aleppo governorate administration said the assailant blew himself up after officers approached to detain him in the city's Bab al-Faraj neighbourhood.

Crowds flock to Dhaka's streets to mourn the loss of the former prime minister, who led Bangladesh thrice. Bangladesh bade farewell to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in a state funeral that drew vast crowds mourning a towering political figure whose leadership shaped the nation for decades. Zia, the first woman to serve as prime minister in the South Asian nation of 170 million people, died on Tuesday aged 80.

Ukraine says it struck oil facilities in Russia's north and south 12/31/2025December 31, 2025 Ukraine's domestic security service, the SBU, reported that Ukrainian long-range drones struck the Temp oil depot in the Russian city of Rybinsk, located approximately 270 kilometers north of Moscow. The SBU described the facility as a key logistics hub for fuel and said that the attack sparked a large fire.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah came to global attention because he was a leading figure in the 2011 pro-democracy revolution that turned Cairo's Tahrir Square into a surging sea of young people. The demonstrators chanted Down with corruption, Down with autocracy and Down with dictators. When the uprising succeeded in toppling Egypt's dictator Hosni Mubarak, the world rejoiced, including Europe and North America. Abd el-Fattah was all over the media, a voice for the part of the movement that was committed to building an accountable, participatory democracy

A peace deal is "90 percent ready...but the remaining 10 percent contains, in fact, everything...that will determine the fate of peace, the fate of Ukraine and Europe, and how people will live," he said in the televised address. "What does Ukraine want? Peace? Yes." "But at any cost? No. We want the end of the war. Not the end of Ukraine," he added.

We know that Trump bombed a factory in Maracaibo. We fear that they mix coca paste there to make cocaine and take advantage of its location on the Maracaibo Sea, Petro said via X. He added that those responsible for producing cocaine in the area are the ELN guerrilla group, with whom his government tried to negotiate a peace agreement, but those talks are now frozen.

So far, there has been no official reaction from the Chavista regime to the announcement made by Donald Trump regarding the attack that U.S. forces allegedly carried out on Venezuelan soil against previously identified drug trafficking targets presumably linked to the Tren de Aragua criminal organization. The operation, carried out with drones earlier this month, is the first military aggression by a United States government against Venezuela in its entire history.

Chief executive Eddie Yue introduced them in late 2024 in a letter [PDF] that stated they're needed due to "the surge in fraud and scam cases in recent years with customer losses typically involving payments from customers' bank accounts." Yue observed that scammers sometimes establish internet banking accounts without customers' permission. The Monetary Authority therefore required all local banks to establish Money Safe accounts that allow customers to set aside funds which they can only access by visiting a brick-and-mortar bank.

Two trains have collided on the rail line serving Peru's famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu, killing at least one person and injuring dozens. Rail agency Ferrocarril Transandino said a train operated by PeruRail collided with another locomotive belonging to Inca Rail around lunchtime on the single track that links the town of Ollantaytambo with Machu Picchu.

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Two trains taking tourists to and from Peru's famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu crashed on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring about 30 passengers. The person killed was a railroad worker, according to Jhonathan Castillo Gonzalez, a captain with the Cuzco police department. He told the Associated Press that the railway suspended services along the rail line connecting Machu Picchu with the nearby city of Cuzco after the accident.