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France's anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty outside his school near Paris four years ago, a horrific death that shocked the country.

The U.S. military killed ISIS leader Abu Yusif in an airstrike conducted in Syria, U.S. Central Command said.

An official with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says Gaza a ‘graveyard’ for 2 million trapped people.

The bill now goes to the Senate where it is expected to pass with only hours remaining before an expected shutdown.

Workers complain of inadequate wages as inflation soars, and promise to escalate the strike.

Investigators work near a scooter at the place where Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense Forces, and his assistant were killed by an explosive device in Moscow, Dec. 17, 2024.

Officials from India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and China pose for a photo before the six-country informal consultation to discuss ways to address shared concerns, in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 19, 2024. Participants attend an informal consultation among ASEAN member states on Myanmar in Bangkok, Dec. 20, 2024.

FILE - A worker installs names of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on the wall of the Tsunami Museum ahead of the 10th anniversary of the killer waves in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, Dec. 4, 2014. The 20th anniversary will be observed on Dec. 26 this year.

At least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday. Authorities said it appeared to be a deliberate attack.

Zachary Young scored a victory ahead of his defamation trial against CNN, as a judge ruled that an expert witness cannot testify that he suffered zero lost income or profits.

Turkish president compares Kurdish YPG fighters to ISIL and says neither group has a future in Syria.

Nonessential government functions are expected to shutter on Saturday unless a government spending bill can be passed.

Germans expected to vote on February 23 after a centre-left coalition government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz collapses.

Customers of the banks named in lawsuit lose more than $870m over the seven years since Zelle was introduced, the consumer watchdog says.

US says Mohammad Reza Nouri orchestrated the killing of Stephen Troell in 2022 as revenge for Qassem Soleimani.

Swedish police said Friday a man had been shot dead in a parking garage in the city of Norrkoping, with media identifying the victim as the rapper Gaboro, who reportedly had links to criminal gangs.

Ahmad Morjan hugged his mother for the first time in more than 13 years when he returned to Aleppo. Others who fled the Assad regime are unsure if it is safe to go back.

Shakeup comes as Canadian prime minister is mulling his future as Liberal Party leader after top minister’s resignation.

An inventor designed rooftop solar panels for a Tesla that draws solar energy while the car is parked, adding travel mileage without plugging in.

UN report finds at least 782 civilians killed since May ‘amid regular and intensive shelling’ of the North Darfur city.

FILE - Debra Tice, mother of U.S. journalist Austin Tice who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012, holds a dated portrait of him during a press conference in the Lebanese capital Beirut on July 20, 2017.

Man City manager Pep Guardiola says he will not seek to rebuild his struggling squad in the January transfer window.

Myanmar's army-appointed Foreign Minister Than Swe attends a six-country informal consultation on the situation in Myanmar, in Bangkok, Dec. 19, 2024. (Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Handout via Reuters) Group picture taken before a six-country informal consultation on the situation in Myanmar, in Bangkok, Dec. 19, 2024. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Handout via Reuters) FILE - Gen. Min Aung Hlaing inspects officers during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 78th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2023. Thailand's Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa looks on during a press conference following a 6-Country informal consultation, comprising Bangladesh, China, India, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Thailand on the situation in Myanmar, in Bangkok, Dec. 19, 2024.

U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello speaks to VOA, in this screenshot from the interview.

Rodrigo Rato found guilty of multiple offences including corruption and money laundering.

Seven inmates were killed in a prison riot in southern Mexico, when inmates resisting transfers to other jails fought police with guns and knives, authorities said late Thursday.

EU spokesman says 27-nation bloc, which already buys most US oil and gas exports, open to talks with president-elect.

Ukraine has raised the stakes with its boldest wartime assassination, killing a high-profile general in Moscow.

Move brings total in student loan forgiveness during Joe Biden’s term as president to $180bn, Education Department says.

Governor of Salfit says the settlers had previously entered the village ‘under the protection of the Israeli army’.

Clifford, who denies murdering the wife and daughters of a BBC presenter, has also been charged with raping one of them.

A 7-year-old girl was killed and at least five other students and a teacher were wounded in a knife attack at a school in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, on Friday, police said. The local hospital said the wounded teacher had suffered life-threatening injuries, Reuters reported.

Team to hold talks with country’s new leaders, including HTS that Washington hadesignated as a terrorist organisation.

Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk rematch has struck a more serious tone than the first fight, with nothing less than the Brit’s legacy at stake.

FILE - Elon Musk arrives before a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, July 24, 2024. Musk called the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's savior. FILE - Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, holds a bouquet of flowers she was given by party co-leader Tino Chrupalla during a press conference on Dec. 7, 2024 in Berlin,

Palestinians pray next to the bodies of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Dec. 19, 2024.

Authorities say at least eight people died after the driver lost control of the boat as he attempted to flee.

The tech giant has been accused of sourcing conflict minerals from sub-Saharan Africa.

FILE - The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, on Feb. 2, 2022.

Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

A new report presented by National Council of Resistance of Iran claims Tehran has expanded attempts to secretly develop weaponization capabilities for its nuclear weapons program.

FILE - Pakistani military personnel stand beside a surface-to-surface ballistic missile during a Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2019. A White House official said on Dec. 19, 2024, that Pakistan is developing missile capabilities that could reach the U.S.

The 102 refugees, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee.

A harrowing journey costing $7,000 and the lives of many of his compatriots was ‘not worth the risk’, Hassan Ali says. ‘Never, ever take this route.’

Macao's new leader, Sam Hou Fai, left, is sworn in by China's President Xi Jinping during an inauguration ceremony as part of marking the 25th anniversary of Macao's handover from Portugal to China, in Macao, Dec. 20, 2024.

Here are the key developments on the 1,030th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Mangione faces new federal charges in the US that carry the possibility of the death penalty.

FILE - The Russian oil tanker Volgoneft-147 stands in Muscat's Mina al-Fahl port, Feb. 7, 2000.

Andhra Pradesh’s governing party weaponised data to wrongfully deny welfare benefits to opposition-inclined voters.