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WHO chief calls for end to hospital attacks in Gaza after strike
The Israeli military said Hamas militants were the targets of a strike on Gaza City's Al Wafa hospital on Sunday, which the Palestinian civil defence said killed seven people.
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South Korea orders air safety probe after worst crash in country kills 179
Experts say many questions remain, including why the planeappeared to be travelling so fast and why its landing gear did not appear to be down when it skidded down the runway and into a wall.
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Azerbaijan president decries Russian ‘lies’ surrounding the crashed plane
"Unfortunately, in the first three days we heard only absurd versions from Russia," the president Ilham Aliyev said. He added that he wanted Russia to accept it was guilty of downing the plane and to punish those responsible.
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Jimmy Carter, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dead at 100
Carter's one-term presidency was marked by the highs of the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt, bringing some stability to the Middle East.
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Incumbent Milanović on track to win Croatia’s presidential election
During his fis first term Milanović has clashed with Prime Minister Andrej Plenković over foreign and public policy and has fiercely criticised the EU and NATO over their support for Ukraine.
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German politicians decry Elon Musk’s AfD support as ‘intrusive’ election meddling
The support of the AfD from Musk, who is set to serve US President-elect Donald Trump's administration as an outside adviser, comes as Germans are set to vote on 23 February.
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Top10. The vote that might end EU anti-deforestation law
In this episode, host Giada Santana and agrifood reporter Sofia Sánchez Manzanaro outline supporters and detractors of EUDR, and possible scenarios ahead of the vote.
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Georgia’s new president sworn in amid political showdown
The outgoing president said an election rerun is the only way to resolve the crisis.
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Most of the 175 passengers feared dead in fiery South Korea airliner crash
Video shared by local media showed the twin-engine aircraft skidding down the runway with no apparent landing gear before slamming into a wall in an explosion of flame
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Elon Musk backs AfD party in German newspaper opinion piece
Shortly after the piece was published online, the editor of the opinion section, Eva Marie Kogel, wrote on X that she had submitted her resignation.
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Zelenskyy hits back at Slovak PM Fico as gas transit dispute deepens
"Slovakia is part of the single European energy market and Fico must respect common EU rules," Zelenskyy said, adding that cutting power supplies to Ukraine would deprive Slovakia of 19% of the electricity it imports. .
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Putin apologises to Azerbaijan over ‘tragic’ airliner crash
The extremely rare publicised apology from Putin was the closest Moscow had come to accepting some blame for Wednesday's disaster.
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NATO to boost Baltic Sea presence after cables broken
Baltic nations are on alert after a string of outages of power cables, telecom links and gas pipelines since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
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US imposes sanctions on Georgian ex-prime minister, billionaire Ivanishvili
The US said Ivanishvili had implemented "actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in the United States or abroad" favouring Russia.
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North Koreans suffering ‘significant losses’, unprotected by Russian forces
Zelenskyy said the Korean people "should not be losing their lives in battles in Europe. This is something that Korea's neighbours, including China, can influence."
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Slovakia to consider reciprocal measures if Ukraine stops Russian gas transit
"If it is unavoidable, we will halt the electricity supplies that Ukraine needs during grid outages. Or we will agree on a different course of action," said Robert Fico.
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South Korea’s acting president impeached as his predecessor goes on trial
The impeachment of Han Duck-soo, the acting president since Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached for declaring martial law, has pushed South Korea into uncharted territory.
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Israel strikes multiple Houthi targets in Yemen
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was about to board a plane at the Sanaa airport when it came under attack. A crew member on the plane was injured, he said.
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‘Agenda 2030’ or stagnation: Germany faces Schröder moment in 2025
Can the possible 'sick man of Europe' come back from the brink?
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Tough energy poker in eastern Mediterranean after Assad’s fall in Syria
Turkey's motivation is more than just a pipe dream.
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