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Escalation in Yemen threatens to reignite civil war and create wider tensions in Gulf region

By SAMY MAGDY
Dec 30, 2025 10:34 am - DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla on Tuesday, targeting a shipment of weapons from the United Arab Emirates for separatist forces — a si...
China flexes blockade capabilities near Taiwan on second day of military drills

By JOHNSON LAI and KANIS LEUNG
Dec 30, 2025 8:54 am - China's People's Liberation Army staged a second day of large-scale military drills around Taiwan on Tuesday, unleashing a live-fire show of force as part of what it called “Justice Mission 2025" to demonstrate its ability to deter any external support for the island it claims as part of its sovereign territory.
From Pope Francis to Charlie Kirk, many deaths in 2025 had a wide impact

By BERNARD McGHEE
Dec 29, 2025 8:00 pm - The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the first time — by an American pope. The fatal s...
Pipe bomb suspect admits targeting RNC, DNC headquarters, officials say

Martin Weil, Salvador Rizzo
Dec 29, 2025 5:26 pm - The man charged with leaving pipe bombs outside the offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees in Washington has admitted to planting the explosives in ...
2 New Jersey pilots killed in a helicopter collision frequented a cafe together near the crash site

By DAVE COLLINS
Dec 29, 2025 5:18 pm - Two men who died after their helicopters collided midair in New Jersey over the weekend both earned their private pilot licenses over a decade ago and would often have br...
US pledges $2 billion for UN humanitarian aid as Trump warns agencies must 'adapt or die'

By JAMEY KEATEN and MATTHEW LEE
Dec 29, 2025 5:14 pm - GENEVA — The United States on Monday announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump’s administration slashes U.S. foreign assistance an...
Trump says the US 'hit' a facility along shore where he says alleged drug boats 'load up'

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and WILL WEISSERT
Dec 29, 2025 5:10 pm - PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has “hit” a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela, but the U.S. o...
US offers Ukraine 15-year security guarantee as part of peace plan, Zelenskyy says

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
Dec 29, 2025 10:24 am - The United States is offering Ukraine security guarantees for a period of 15 years as part of a proposed peace plan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday, though he said he would prefer an American commitment of up to 50 years to deter Russia from further attempts to seize its neighbor’s land by force.
During Netanyahu visit, Trump warns Iran of further US strikes if it reconstitutes nuclear program

By WILL WEISSERT, SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY
Dec 29, 2025 10:20 am - President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, as Washington looks to create fresh momentum for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza that could be in danger of stalling before a complicated second phase.
The moon and sun figure big in the new year's lineup of cosmic wonders

By MARCIA DUNN
Dec 29, 2025 8:43 am - Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a caravan of robotic lunar landers including Jeff Bezos’ new supersized Blue Moon. A supermoon looms on Jan. 3 and an astronomical blue moon is on the books for May.

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