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Over 300,000 migrants crossed Latin America's Darien Gap in 2024

Over 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, 42% fewer than the record number who made the perilous jungle crossing from South America a year earlier, Panama’s migration authorities told Reuters.

January 3, 2025 4:16 pm
 

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South Korea authorities arrive to arrest impeached President Yoon

Authorities sought to execute an arrest warrant for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, as a crowd of protesters faced off with police outside his residence and vowed to block any attempt.

January 3, 2025 3:03 pm
 

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Gunman kills 12 in Montenegro small-town rampage

A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before turning his gun on himself early, authorities said, in one of the Balkan nation’s worst mass killings.

January 3, 2025 2:10 pm
 

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Argentina files ICC complaint against Venezuela over officer's arrest

Argentina’s government said it had filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court against Venezuela for detaining a member of its gendarmerie, a branch of Argentina’s security forces, calling it a “forced disappearance.”

January 3, 2025 1:29 pm
 

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Cuba's Santeria priests urge followers to hunker down amid crisis

In their New Year predictions, high priests from Cuba’s Afro-Cuban Santeria religion told followers to watch their health and spending, care for their families, guard against crime and drink less alcohol amid a punishing economic crisis entering its sixth year.

January 3, 2025 12:46 pm
 

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China steps up monitoring of emerging respiratory diseases

China’s disease control authority said that it was piloting a monitoring system for pneumonia of unknown origin, with cases of some respiratory diseases expected to rise through the winter.

January 3, 2025 12:30 pm
 

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Texas man acted alone in New Orleans ISIS attack, FBI says

A U.S. Army veteran who drove a truck into a crowd of New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, but acted alone in the attack that killed at least 14 people, the FBI said.

January 3, 2025 11:42 am
 

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As Musk gains influence, questions hover over US probes into his empire

Last month, in the waning days of the Biden administration, the SEC set a tight deadline of several days for demanding that Elon Musk pay a settlement or face civil charges relating to alleged securities violations during his $44 billion takeover of Twitter in 2022.

January 3, 2025 10:34 am
 

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Israeli airstrikes kill at least 54 across Gaza, medics say

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 54 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 11 people in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families, medics said.

January 3, 2025 8:20 am
 

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New Orleans attacker acted alone, supported Islamic State, FBI says

A U.S. Army veteran who drove a truck into a crowd of New Year’s Day revelers had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, but acted alone in the attack that killed at least 14 people, the FBI said.

January 3, 2025 7:25 am
 

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Driver flying ISIS flag rams into New Orleans crowd, killing 15; he may have had help

A U.S. Army veteran flying an ISIS flag from his truck swerved around makeshift barriers and plowed into New Orleans’ crowded French Quarter on New Year’s Day, killing 15 people in an attack officials said may have been carried out with the help of others.

January 2, 2025 5:00 pm
 

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Choi orders immediate aircraft inspections as crash probe intensifies

South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok said immediate action must be taken if a special inspection of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated in the country finds any issues as authorities ramp up a probe into Sunday’s deadly air crash.

January 2, 2025 2:30 pm

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