Finally coming to a halt on Tuesday — the last day of 2024 — Belgian ultra runner Hilde Dosogne felt she had done all to take the world record as the first woman to run a marathon every single day of the year. On top of the reward for her perseverance in running at least … Read more
Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol remained defiantly inside his residence resisting arrest for a third day on Thursday, after vowing to “fight” authorities seeking to question him over his failed martial law bid. The embattled leader issued the bungled declaration on December 3 that led to his impeachment and has left him facing … Read more
Israeli air strikes on Thursday killed at least 43 people across the Gaza Strip including Mahmoud Salah, the director general of Gaza’s police department, Gaza’s interior ministry said. Salah was in the Al-Mawasi district, a humanitarian zone for civilians, when he was killed. Source link
Media group RND reported on Thursday that Germany’s Interior Ministry had outstanding arrest warrants against 189 suspects believed to be members of far-right groups that do not recognize the modern German state. Authorities said the suspects were part of “Reichsbürger” (“citizens of the Reich”) or “self-administering” groups, who claimed to live either in the defunct … Read more
On his first official visit to Saudi Arabia since Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, Syrian Foreign Minister Assaad al-Shibani said he hoped to open a “new, bright page” in bilateral relations. Syria’s new leaders are focused on rebuilding their war-shattered country amid Saudi concerns over the trafficking of captagon, a narcotic produced under the Assad regime in … Read more
The offices of Jeju Air and the Muan airport operator were raided Thursday as South Korea conducts an investigation into the Flight 2216 crash that killed 179 people. Jeju Air chief executive officer Kim E-bae was banned from leaving South Korea during the probe into the country’s worst aviation disaster. Source link
Investigators in New Orleans were searching on Thursday for what motivated a US Army veteran flying an ISIS flag from his truck to plow into a crowd of New Year’s revealers, killing 15 people and injuring 30 more before dying in a shootout with police. FRANCE 24’s Wassim Cornet reports. Source link
Montenegro began three days of national mourning Thursday after a gunman went on a rampage after opening fire at a village restaurant, killing 12 people including two children. Source link
Gaza’s civil defense agency said an Israeli air strike killed at least 15 people in the territory’s north on Wednesday, in what it called the first deadly attack of the New Year. Since October 6, the military has been conducting a major land and air offensive in northern Gaza, particularly targeting Jabalia and its adjacent … Read more
