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🇫🇷 #French first lady Brigitte #Macron came under fire on Monday over viral video footage of her using a slur against #feminist activists who disrupted the show of an actor-comedian previously accused of rape.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🇫🇷 #French first lady Brigitte #Macron came under fire on Monday over viral video footage of her using a slur against #feminist activists who disrupted the show of an actor-comedian previously accused of rape.
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🔴 🇱🇹 🇧🇾 #Lithuania's government on Tuesday declared a state of #emergency due to threats to public safety from smuggled balloons originating in #Belarus.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🔴 🇱🇹 🇧🇾 #Lithuania's government on Tuesday declared a state of #emergency due to threats to public safety from smuggled balloons originating in #Belarus.
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🔴 🇯🇵 A 7.5-magnitude #earthquake struck off northern #Japan late Monday, injuring at least 23 people and triggering small tsunami waves along the Pacific coast.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🔴 🇯🇵 A 7.5-magnitude #earthquake struck off northern #Japan late Monday, injuring at least 23 people and triggering small tsunami waves along the Pacific coast.
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EU launches antitrust probe into Google's data use for AI
EU launches antitrust probe into Google's data use for AI
The EU announced Tuesday it had opened a probe to assess whether Google breached antitrust rules by using content put online by media and other publishers to train and provide AI services without appropriate compensation.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
EU launches antitrust probe into Google's data use for AI
🇸🇩 In October, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman became the first person to convicted by the #ICC for his actions in #Sudan's previous civil war, over two decades ago.
Now, ICC prosecutors want to issue fresh arrest warrants in relation to the current conflict ongoing in Sudan.
Now, ICC prosecutors want to issue fresh arrest warrants in relation to the current conflict ongoing in Sudan.
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🇫🇷 #France’s social security budget heads into a vote on Tuesday that could plunge Prime Minister Sébastien #Lecornu's government into a new political crisis and open a €30-billion gap in funding for welfare, #pensions and #healthcare.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🇫🇷 #France’s social security budget heads into a vote on Tuesday that could plunge Prime Minister Sébastien #Lecornu's government into a new political crisis and open a €30-billion gap in funding for welfare, #pensions and #healthcare.
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🇺🇦 Diplomatic efforts to end the war in #Ukraine have intensified in recent days, as President Volodymyr #Zelensky landed in Brussels Monday to meet with the chiefs of #NATO and the European #Commission.
Zelensky insisted that Kyiv has no right to cede land to Russia ⤵️
Zelensky insisted that Kyiv has no right to cede land to Russia ⤵️
December 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🇺🇦 Diplomatic efforts to end the war in #Ukraine have intensified in recent days, as President Volodymyr #Zelensky landed in Brussels Monday to meet with the chiefs of #NATO and the European #Commission.
Zelensky insisted that Kyiv has no right to cede land to Russia ⤵️
Zelensky insisted that Kyiv has no right to cede land to Russia ⤵️
Honduran presidential candidate decries vote 'theft' in race against Trump-backed rival
Honduran presidential candidate decries vote 'theft' in race against Trump-backed rival
Honduran right-wing presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla made allegations of electoral corruption on Monday after a stalled ballot count in the November 30 general election.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Honduran presidential candidate decries vote 'theft' in race against Trump-backed rival
Live: Lithuania declares state of emergency over surge in smuggler balloons from Belarus
Live: Lithuania declares state of emergency over surge in smuggler balloons from Belarus
Lithuania on Tuesday declared a state of emergency due to threats to public safety from smuggled balloons coming from Belarus, the government said. On the diplomatic front, Ukraine will share a revised peace plan with the US aimed at ending Russia's war, following talks in London between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European allies. Follow our liveblog for more.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Live: Lithuania declares state of emergency over surge in smuggler balloons from Belarus
French Prime Minister Lecornu faces high-stakes social security vote
French Prime Minister Lecornu faces high-stakes social security vote
France’s social security budget heads into a knife-edge vote on Tuesday that could plunge Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu's government into a new political crisis and open a €30-billion gap in funding for welfare, pensions and healthcare.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM
French Prime Minister Lecornu faces high-stakes social security vote
Weaponising secularism: French politicians accused of using ‘laicité’ to target Muslims
Weaponising secularism: French politicians accused of using ‘laicité’ to target Muslims
Conservative lawmakers have put forward a number of proposals targeting France’s Muslims, including a ban on under-18s wearing hijabs in public, citing the threat from radical Islamists. Critics say the measures violate the very secular rules they profess to defend, and highlight the growing use of French “laïcité” – or state secularism – to curtail the rights of Muslim citizens.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Weaponising secularism: French politicians accused of using ‘laicité’ to target Muslims
RSF says Israel killed highest number of journalists again this year
RSF says Israel killed highest number of journalists again this year
Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday that Israel was responsible for nearly half of all journalists killed this year worldwide, with 29 Palestinian reporters slain by its forces in Gaza.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
RSF says Israel killed highest number of journalists again this year
Cambodia says it has retaliated in renewed clashes with Thailand
Cambodia says it has retaliated in renewed clashes with Thailand
Cambodia’s former leader Hun Sen said on Tuesday that the country had begun striking back against Thailand after two days of denying any retaliation, as deadly border clashes between the neighbours flared again. His comments came after a week of renewed fighting that has killed seven people and reignited tensions despite an earlier ceasefire.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Cambodia says it has retaliated in renewed clashes with Thailand
Kenya sends fresh police contingent to bolster faltering Haiti mission
Kenya sends fresh police contingent to bolster faltering Haiti mission
Kenya dispatched a new contingent of police officers to Haiti on Monday, moving to reinforce an overstretched multinational mission that has struggled to contain the country’s powerful armed gangs. The deployment comes as Haiti remains mired in a profound political and security crisis, with large swathes of the capital under gang control.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Kenya sends fresh police contingent to bolster faltering Haiti mission
Powerful quake off northern Japan injures dozens and triggers tsunami
Powerful quake off northern Japan injures dozens and triggers tsunami
A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan late Monday, injuring at least 23 people and triggering small tsunami waves along the Pacific coast. Authorities warned of aftershocks and a heightened risk of a major quake as damage assessments continued into Tuesday.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Powerful quake off northern Japan injures dozens and triggers tsunami
Trump strikes deal with Xi Jinping to allow Nvidia to export AI chips to China
Trump strikes deal with Xi Jinping to allow Nvidia to export AI chips to China
US President Donald Trump said Monday that he reached an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping to let Nvidia export its H200 artificial intelligence chips to approved customers in China. This signals a major reversal of the restrictions put in place during former US President Joe Biden's time that had tightly limited such sales.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Trump strikes deal with Xi Jinping to allow Nvidia to export AI chips to China
Feminists outraged at video of French first lady's outburst against activists
Feminists outraged at video of French first lady's outburst against activists
Feminists expressed outrage Monday after footage circulated of Monday of France's first lady Brigitte Macron using a slur against activists who disrupted the show of an actor-comedian who had once been accused of rape.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Feminists outraged at video of French first lady's outburst against activists
🇫🇷 Workers at the Louvre have voted to go on strike next week to demand urgent renovations and better working conditions.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🇫🇷 Workers at the Louvre have voted to go on strike next week to demand urgent renovations and better working conditions.
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Watch the video for more 👇
'One Battle After Another' leads Golden Globe nominations with nine nods
'One Battle After Another' leads Golden Globe nominations with nine nods
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” scored a leading nine nominations to the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Monday, adding to the Oscar favorite’s momentum in the run-up to awards season. Norwegian family drama "Sentimental Value" claimed eight nods on a year that saw international films rival Hollywood productions.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
'One Battle After Another' leads Golden Globe nominations with nine nods
Taking stock of Sharaa’s rule in Syria, one year after the fall of Assad
Taking stock of Sharaa’s rule in Syria, one year after the fall of Assad
One year after the fall of Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad, the country is trying to rebuild from the ruins of a 13-year civil war. Interim President – and former rebel leader – Ahmed al-Sharaa is leading a delicate transition faced with enormous challenges including a depleted economy, fledgling institutions and Syria’s war-scarred, fragmented population.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Taking stock of Sharaa’s rule in Syria, one year after the fall of Assad
📺Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery, just days after Netflix reached a $72 billion takeover deal with the Hollywood studios.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
📺Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery, just days after Netflix reached a $72 billion takeover deal with the Hollywood studios.
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Benin military hunts fugitive soldiers a day after foiled coup attempt
Benin military hunts fugitive soldiers a day after foiled coup attempt
Benin's economic capital Cotonou was mostly calm on Monday as the country's armed forces hunted fugitive soldiers who staged a botched coup attempt a day earlier. Neighbouring Nigeria said it carried out strikes on Sunday and deployed troops to help restore order in the West African nation battling jihadist insurgents.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Benin military hunts fugitive soldiers a day after foiled coup attempt
🇨🇮🗨️ “This term will be one of generational transition. For me and our nation, it will be an act of responsibility and political maturity,” he said in his speech at the presidential palace in Abidjan.
📸 Reuters
📸 Reuters
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🇨🇮🗨️ “This term will be one of generational transition. For me and our nation, it will be an act of responsibility and political maturity,” he said in his speech at the presidential palace in Abidjan.
📸 Reuters
📸 Reuters