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Namibia's decision to extend election voting due to technical issues draws opposition complaints

Namibia’s elections agency has extended voting by several days due to technical issues and ballot paper shortages
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Namibians queue to cast their votes in presidential elections in Windhoek, Namibia, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich)
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Armed men in speedboats make off with women and children when a migrants' dinghy deflates off Libya

A humanitarian aid group says armed men in two speedboats took off with women and children after a rubber dinghy carrying some 112 migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean Sea started deflating off Libya’s coast
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This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)
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A look at the renovated Notre Dame Cathedral ahead of its reopening

The site was destroyed by a fire in 2019.
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Attendees including workers of reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral gather during a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in the nave of the cathedral in Paris, on Nov. 29, 2024.
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Syrian rebels breach Aleppo amid surprise offensive

The rebels launched a major offensive three days ago.
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Syrian opposition fighters get off a truck as they enter the village of Anjara, western outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Nov. 28, 2024.
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Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
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Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
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Reports: Syrian insurgents claim to have breached Aleppo

Thousand of rebel fighters have launched a surprise offensive in the north western part of the country.
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VIDEO: Reports: Syrian insurgents claim to have breached Aleppo
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The world gets its first glimpse inside Notre Dame Cathedral after 5 years under wraps

Five years after a catastrophic fire reduced Notre Dame Cathedral to a smoldering shell, journalists entered the Gothic masterpiece for a first glimpse of its fully restored interiors during a visit with French President Emmanuel Macron
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France's anti-terror Sentinelle operation soldiers patrol as French President Emmanuel Macron visits the renovated Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
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At least 100 people are missing after a boat capsized in northern Nigeria

Authorities say at least 100 people, most of them women, were missing after a boat transporting them to a food market capsized along the River Niger in northern Nigeria
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At least 100 people are missing after a boat capsized along the River Niger in northern Nigeria, authorities say

At least 100 people are missing after a boat capsized along the River Niger in northern Nigeria, authorities say
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British lawmakers give initial approval to a bill that would allow terminally ill adults to end their lives

British lawmakers give initial approval to a bill that would allow terminally ill adults to end their lives
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Cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought banana art for $6.2 million eats the fruit in Hong Kong

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong on Friday
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File - A woman looks at artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece of art "Comedian" during an auction preview at Sotheby's in New York, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
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Missing for over 5 weeks, man miraculously found alive deep in Canadian wilderness

A man who went missing for more than five weeks deep in the Canadian wilderness has been found alive, authorities have confirmed.
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“Finding Sam alive is the absolute best outcome," authorities said.
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Syrian insurgents have breached Syria's city of Aleppo after blowing up 2 car bombs, activists and fighters say

Syrian insurgents have breached Syria's city of Aleppo after blowing up 2 car bombs, activists and fighters say
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Middle East latest: 3 die in overcrowding outside Gaza bakery amid food shortage

Two children and a woman have been crushed to death as a crowd of Palestinians pushed to get bread at a bakery in the Gaza Strip amid a worsening food crisis in the war-ravaged territory
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Damaged vehicles are seen in front of the Roman temples of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Family returns to Lebanon to find a crater where their 50-year-old home once stood

The Jawhari family gathered around a gaping crater where their family home once stood in eastern Lebanon, tears streaming as they tried to make sense of the destruction
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Zeina Rida Jawhari, reacts after recovering a photo of her father from the rubble of her destroyed house in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Serbia protesters hold 15-min blockade for roof collapse victims, demanding justice

Protesters in Serbia stood in silence for 15 minutes on Friday for the victims of a roof collapse four weeks ago in a northern city, seeking to keep up pressure on the populist authorities to punish those responsible for the tragedy
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People hold a black banner and stand in silence in front of the Serbian parliament to commemorate the 15 victims of a railway station roof collapse in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
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Thousands of workers march across Italy in general strike demanding better pay and services

Thousands of teachers, health care workers, trash collectors and others walked off their jobs across Italy on Friday to protest a decline in spending power, persistently low salaries and government policies they say have weakened public services
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Demonstrators gather during a public and private sectors' national strike called by the labor unions to protest against the government's budget law ,in Milan, Italy, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
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UK intelligence chief accuses Russia of 'staggeringly reckless' sabotage campaign

The head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service says Russia is conducting a “staggeringly reckless” sabotage campaign against Ukraine's allies that risks dangerously escalating the conflict
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This photo provided by British Embassy Paris, Richard Moore, the Chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, speaks at the British Embassy in Paris on Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (British Embassy Paris via AP)
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Okonjo-Iweala given 2nd term as WTO chief as Trump's return looms over trade body's future

The World Trade Organization chief says she’s “eager” to work with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his trade team, while taking a wait-and-see stance about Trump’s plans to impose new tariffs on goods from other countries including China, Mexico ...
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FILE - Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), speaks during the panel discussion at the WTO's Presidential Lecture Series, at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
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Jailed Kremlin critic convicted again and handed new prison term for opposing the war in Ukraine

Imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Gorinov has been convicted again for opposing Russia’s war in Ukraine and handed a three-year prison term
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Imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Gorinov, stands in a cage at the court as his second trial for criticizing Russia's actions in Ukraine swiftly nears its conclusion in Vladimir, Russia, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)
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Senior figure with Scholz's ex-allies quits over 'D-Day' paper on German government collapse

A senior figure in the party whose departure from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition three weeks ago put Germany on the road to an early election has resigned in a furor over an internal document whose title referred to “D-Day.”
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Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner, from left, joins Bijan Djir-Sarai, Free Democratic Party Secretary General, and Christian Dürr, Chairman of the Free Democratic Party parliamentary group, for a press statement after his dismissal by the Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in Berlin, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
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Iran to begin enriching uranium with thousands of advanced centrifuges: UN watchdog

Iran will begin enriching uranium with thousands of advanced centrifuges at its two main nuclear facilities at Fordo and Natanz
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FILE - This photo released on Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)
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British lawmakers give initial approval to a bill to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives

British lawmakers have given initial approval to a bill that would help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales
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Pro legal assisted dying supporters demonstrate in front of Parliament in London, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024 as British lawmakers started a historic debate on a proposed to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales.(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
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Insurgents breach Syria's second-largest city Aleppo in shock offensive

Insurgents have breached Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, and were clashing with government forces on the city's western edge on Friday, according to a Syria war monitor and fighters
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Syrian opposition fighters stand in formation after entering the village of Anjara, western outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Thursday Nov. 28, 2024, part of their major offensive on government-controlled areas in the country's northwestern Syria. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
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Amazon workers in India join Black Friday strike action for better wages and working conditions

Amazon staff in India have joined strike action calling for better wages
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Participants wear paper masks in the likeness of Amazon's Jeff Bezos as warehouse workers and delivery drivers stage a protest against the Seattle-based company demanding higher wages and better working conditions, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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First look at Notre Dame’s renovated interior shows soaring ceilings, creamy stonework, no traces of 2019 blaze

First look at Notre Dame’s renovated interior shows soaring ceilings, creamy stonework, no traces of 2019 blaze
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Malaysian billionaire tycoon Ananda Krishnan dies at age 86

Ananda Krishnan, one of Malaysia’s richest tycoons with a vast business empire including telecommunications, media, petroleum and real estate, has died
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FILE -Billionaire Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan, a Malaysian businessman and philanthropist, at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire

After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral has showed its new self to the world Friday
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The choir stalls of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral are seen while French President Emmanuel Macron visits the restored interiors of the monument, Friday Nov. 29, 2024, in Paris. (Stephane de Sakutin, Pool via AP)
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Georgian protesters and police clash after prime minister suspends talks on joining the EU

Police and protesters have clashed in Georgia after the country’s ruling party suspended negotiations to join the European Union until 2028
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Police detain a protester outside the parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
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Chad ends a defense cooperation agreement with France, its former colonial ruler

Chad’s government says it is ending a defense cooperation agreement with France, its former colonial ruler, to redefine the nation's sovereignty
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FILE -France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Secretary General of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie Louise Mushikiwabo, center, welcome Chad's President General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno for the 19th Francophonie summit in Villers-Cotterets, France, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
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Ukrainian workers carry out repairs despite Russia's pounding on country's power grid

Workers at one of Ukraine's thermal power plants struggle to repair damage and keep electricity flowing as Russia continues its campaign of attacks targeting the country's power grid
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A worker speaks by mobile phone inside operating room at DTEK's power plant after a recent Russian missile attack in Ukraine, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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UK transport secretary quits over decade-old cellphone fraud case

British Transport Minister Louise Haigh has resigned over a decade-old fraud conviction for claiming her cellphone was stolen
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FILE -Louise Haigh, Britain's Secretary of State for Transport leaves following a pre-Budget cabinet meeting in 10 Downing Street, London, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth), File)
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Polls open in close-run election to choose Ireland's new government

Ireland is voting in a parliamentary election that will decide the next government
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A man casts his vote in a ballot box on the Island of Gola as voters go to polls the for the 2024 General Election in Ireland, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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Polls open in election to choose Ireland's next government after A campaign dominated by housing and immigration

Polls open in election to choose Ireland's next government after A campaign dominated by housing and immigration
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Missing for over 5 weeks, man miraculously found alive deep in Canadian wilderness

“Finding Sam alive is the absolute best outcome," authorities said.
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Embattled Japan leader vows to cooperate with long-ignored opposition in bid to save his government

Japan’s embattled Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who survived as leader after a major election loss by his governing coalition, is promising to work closely with the long-ignored opposition that is now the only way his minority government can stay in p...
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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers his policy speech at the extraordinary session of parliament's lower house Friday, Nov. 29, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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China criticizes Taiwanese president's plan to stop in Hawaii and Guam during trip to South Pacific

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te will stop over in Hawaii and Guam during his trip to the South Pacific, drawing criticism from China
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FILE -Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)
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Three dead, over 80,000 displaced as Malaysia prepares for worst floods in a decade

Malaysia is preparing for its worst floods in a decade after heavier-than-expected monsoon rains caused severe flooding that killed three people and displaced more than 90,000
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Residents walk on a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in downtown Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Loo Kok Chong)
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Paraguay, one of Taiwan's 12 remaining allies, says it won't break ties in favor of China

Paraguay’s foreign minister says his country is committed to its relationship with Taiwan and has no plans to break off their diplomatic relationship in favor of China as he visited the increasingly isolated island
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Paraguay Foreign Minister Ruben Dario Ramirez Lezcano speaks during a press conference during his visit in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024.(AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
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Russian defense minister visits N. Korea to talk with military and political leaders

Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov is in North Korea for talks with its military and political leaders
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In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, second left, speaks with North Korean Defense Minister No Kwang Chol, second right, during their meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (Vadim Savitsky, Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
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Russian defense minister has arrived in North Korea for talks with military and political leaders, ministry says

Russian defense minister has arrived in North Korea for talks with military and political leaders, ministry says
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Stripped of citizenship, these Nicaraguans live in limbo scattered across the world

Hundreds of Nicaraguan religious leaders, students, activists, dissidents and journalists are ‘stateless
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FILE - Exiled Pedro Gutierrez, who was released from a Nicaraguan jail and rendered "stateless" waits for the start of a religious service, in Guatemala City, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
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Philippine president says impeaching the vice president, his rival, would be a waste of time

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos says impeaching the vice president, who is facing a legal storm after publicly threatening to have him killed, would be a waste of time for Congress
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National Bureau of Investigation Director Jaime Santiago talks to reporters during a news conference, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024, in Pasay, Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Desertion threatens to starve Ukraine's forces at a crucial time in its war with Russia

Desertion is starving the Ukrainian army of desperately needed manpower and crippling its battle plans at a crucial time in its war with Russia
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FILE - Ukrainian soldiers carry shells to fire at Russian positions on the front line, near the city of Bakhmut, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, on March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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From yuck to profits: Some Zimbabwe farmers turn to maggots to survive drought and thrive

It was an alarming, even sickening, suggestion: Farmers in Zimbabwe hit hard by drought should farm maggots to feed their animals and boost their household incomes
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Maggots are held by a worker at a maggot breeding centre in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, Friday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)
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Marrakech Film Festival opens in Morocco with 'The Order'

One of the Middle East and North Africa’s largest film festivals is openiong in Morocco, drawing actors and directors from throughout the world to present 70 features from 32 countries
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FILE -A view of the venue of the 2023 Marrakech International Film Festival in Marrakech, Morocco, Nov. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)
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Battered by war and divisions, Lebanon faces a long list of challenges after ceasefire deal

There's relief over a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, but Lebanese are now facing the realization of the challenges that lie ahead
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UNIFIL peacekeepers secure the area in Khardali, southern Lebanon, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Customers at this Starbucks can sip coffee and observe a quiet North Korean village

Coffee drinkers can sip their beverages and view a quiet North Korean mountain village from a Starbucks shop at a South Korean border observatory
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North Korea's Kaephung county is reflected on the newly opened Starbucks store's window at the observatory of the Aegibong Peace Ecopark in Gimpo, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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China's aging population fuels 'silver economy' boom, but profits can prove elusive

Many older Chinese are looking beyond traditional care homes, worried about abandonment and quality issues
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A visitor looks at a showroom in Yan Garden, a high-end senior-focused community that opened in 2015 by insurance company Taikang Insurance Group in Beijing, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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AP PHOTOS: Jakarta TNR effort aims to help stray cats like lively Hitam and feisty Aing Maung

Hitam, a lively black-and-white stray cat has been spayed and returned to the loving arms of Alvin, a parking attendant in a bustling street in Indonesia's capital. “I feed her rice and fish every day,” Alvin said. The nimble feline is part of an estimated whopping 700,000 stray cats that roam Jakarta. Trap-neuter-return programs, or TNR, have been spearheaded by community-based groups including Let’s Adopt Indonesia that advocate humane methods to control the cat population. Every weekend, volunteers like 28-year-old Vanya Afreenzha work tirelessly to trap as many stray cats as possible. Armed with cat food, long pole nets and plastic carriers, they roam parks, train stations and public areas where cats can be easily spotted. They then drop them off at a clinic in southern Jakarta to be neutered by qualified veterinarians. During a recent excursion, volunteers trapped 80 cats, including Hitam, and got them spayed or neutered. Among them was a notoriously aggressive female cat...
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Veterinarians spay a stray cat during a "Trap, Neuter and Return" project aimed at reducing stray cat population, in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Nov. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)