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Fireworks are typically a celebratory centrepiece of New Year celebrations in Hong Kong but this year was very different as the spectacular and colourful…
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New Year’s Eve trains delayed after cable theft near Doncaster
Rail passengers have been warned of delays and cancellations until the end of New Year’s Eve after 656ft (200m) of signalling cables were stolen in South Yorkshire.
Several routes have been affected following the copper theft between Doncaster…
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China Sets Beef Quotas in Hit to Brazil, Other Big Exporters
Photographer: Shiho Fukada/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) —
China placed quotas on beef imports as it seeks to protect domestic farmers and producers, dealing a blow to Brazil and other major shippers including Australia and Argentina.
Most…
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How Saudi Arabia and the UAE’s long alliance ruptured
It was a covert military shipment docking at a Yemeni port that finally brought simmering tensions between Gulf heavyweights Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates dramatically into the open.
Riyadh had for weeks been unsuccessfully using…
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Channel Tunnel power issue resolved but some train delays continue, Eurostar says
The tunnel operator, Eurotunnel, said the 50-kilometre undersea link was back to “full capacity” after a power fault inside it was fixed overnight on Tuesday.
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Pope Leo: Jubilee Year ‘a powerful sign of a new world’
In a homily delivered at the final liturgy of the year, Pope Leo reflects on “the mystery of Christ, which points to a plan for human history” – a plan that stands in stark contrast to “armed strategies, concealed beneath hypocritical…
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Authorities investigate undersea cable damage in Gulf of Finland
HELSINKI (AP) — Authorities are investigating damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland early Wednesday that occurred between the capitals of Finland and Estonia.
Finnish…
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Hong Kong celebrates New Year without fireworks
HONG KONG (AP) — Fireworks are typically a celebratory centerpiece of Hong Kong’s New Year celebrations. Not this year.
The territory greeted 2026 without spectacular and colorful explosions in the sky…
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