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More than 30 dead, dozens hurt

YANGON, Dec 11 (BBC): At least 34 people have died and dozens more are injured after air strikes from Myanmar's military hit a hospital in the country's west on Wednesday night, according to ground sources.The hospital is located in Mrauk-U town in Rakhine state, an area controlled by the Arakan...

Trump to name Gaza Board of Peace early next year

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters/AFP): U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that an announcement about which world leaders will serve on the Gaza Board of Peace should be made early next year.Trump told reporters during an economic event in the White House Roosevelt Room that a variety of leaders want...

Indonesia floods toll nears 1,000

JAKARTA, Dec 11 (AFP): The death toll in Indonesia's devastating floods closed in on the 1,000 mark Thursday as hundreds of thousands more continued to face shortages, with frustration growing over relief efforts.Disaster mitigation agency spokesman Abdul Muhari said 990 people had died by late Thursday in the deluge, which...

Trump discusses proposals with European leaders to end war

KYIV, Dec 11 (AP): U.S. President Donald Trump said he and European leaders discussed proposals to end the war in Ukraine in "pretty strong terms" Wednesday, adding that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "has to be realistic" about his country's position on a peace plan.As tension builds around a U.S. push for...

Nobel winner emerges to collect prize in Oslo

OSLO, Dec 11 (BBC): Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who has been in hiding for months, has told the BBC that she knows "exactly the risks" she's taking by travelling to Norway to collect her Nobel Peace Prize.Machado appeared in Oslo in the middle of the night, waving from...

Pakistan's military sentences its former spy chief to 14 years in jail

ISLAMABAD, Dec 11 (BBC): Pakistan's former spy chief has been sentenced to 14 years in prison by a military court, on charges including violation of state secrets and interfering in politics.Faiz Hameed led Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from 2019 to 2021, during the tenure of now-jailed former prime minister...

NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for past decade

FLORIDA, Dec 11 (AP): NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade.Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this week that it was working fine before it went behind the red planet. When it reappeared, there was...

US seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (AP): President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.Using U.S. forces to take control of a merchant ship is incredibly unusual and marks the Trump administration's...