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Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:29:12 GMT
Billionaire Trump fan Babis returns to power as Czech prime minister
Babis's ANO movement, which won October parliamentary elections, teamed up with two eurosceptic parties to form a coalition government. In its policy statement, the coalition said the EU had "its limits" and no right to impose decisions infringing ...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:17:10 GMT
German exports tread water as US, China shipments fall
Overall exports from Europe's top economy rose 0.1 percent to 131.3 billion euros ($153 billion) from a month earlier, according to preliminary data from federal statistics agency Destatis. Shipments to the United States -- Germany's top export mar...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:11:10 GMT
South Korea's president begins move back to historic Blue House
The Blue House, known as Cheong Wa Dae in Korean, is named for the approximately 150,000 hand-painted blue tiles that adorn its roof and has long been synonymous with the South Korean presidency. Once occupied by representatives of former colonial ...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:59:10 GMT
SEA Games to open in Thailand with tightened security
The SEA Games run until December 20 in Bangkok and the nearby coastal province of Chonburi, with thousands of athletes from 11 southeast Asian countries competing in events ranging from football and fencing to skateboarding, sailing and combat sport...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:49:10 GMT
Owners fled after Indian nightclub blaze killed 25: police
The majority of the victims of the tragedy, that struck a club in Arpora in the north of the coastal state, were staff members, including four Nepali citizens. The blaze was likely triggered by "electrical firecrackers", officials said, with most p...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:46:09 GMT
Premier League: Manchester United cruise to victory at Wolverhampton
Manchester United easily defeated Wolverhampton (4-1). The Red Devils are sixth, while the Wolves are bottom of the Premier League table.

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:27:13 GMT
CERN upbeat as China halts particle accelerator mega-project
Ten years ago, China announced its intention to build the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), which at 100 kilometres (62 miles) long would be the world's largest particle accelerator. But Beijing recently put the project on ice, CERN's di...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:03:13 GMT
2025 on track to tie second hottest year on record: EU monitor
The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service reaffirms that global temperatures are on course to exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels -- the threshold considered safer in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Temperatures rose by 1.48C on average bet...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:55:15 GMT
Chile to vote for president as hard-right Kast tipped to win
After a campaign dominated by fears over crime and immigration, Jose Antonio Kast, a veteran politician and father of nine, is on course to become Chile's first hard-right leader since the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990. His opponen...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:41:13 GMT
Chargers edge reigning champions Eagles after defensive show
Justin Herbert, playing a week after surgery on his broken left (non-throwing) hand, withstood a career-high seven sacks to throw for 139 yards and a touchdown for the Chargers. Cameron Dicker kicked five field goals, including the 54-yard game wi...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:37:11 GMT
Suns, Spurs win in last tuneups for NBA Cup showdowns
Phoenix, missing top scorer Devin Booker due to a groin injury, improved to 14-10 by snapping the Timberwolves' five-game win streak with Mark Williams scoring 22 points to top six double-digit scorers for the Suns. The Spurs, still without French ...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:35:13 GMT
Hay to debut for New Zealand as Blundell out of 2nd West Indies Test
Captain Tom Latham said there could be at least one more debutant for Wednesday's match after his side suffered several injuries in the drawn first Test in Christchurch. Seamers Matt Henry and Nathan Smith are out for the rest of the series after s...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:07:13 GMT
All Blacks face France in first Test at new Christchurch stadium
New Zealand welcome France on July 4 in the 12-team Nations Championship at the state-of-the-art 30,000-seat Te Kaha Stadium, also known as the One New Zealand Stadium. A magnitude 6.2 earthquake in February 2011 killed 185 people, toppled building...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 03:55:13 GMT
Cambodia-Thailand clashes spread on border as toll rises
The two countries have blamed each other for the renewed clashes over their century-old border dispute, which saw Thailand launch air strikes and use tanks against its neighbour on Monday. Cambodia's influential former leader Hun Sen said his count...

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 03:31:12 GMT
South Korea police raid e-commerce giant Coupang over data leak
Coupang is South Korea's most popular online shopping platform, serving millions of customers with lightning-fast deliveries of products from groceries to gadgets. But the company suffered a massive data leak this year and was forced to alert custo...

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