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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee gave its consent to Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Tuesday, drawing the previously nonaligned Nordic country closer to membership in the Western military alliance. Sweden’s accession protocol will now need to be approved in the Turkish parliament’s general assembly …

Protesters yesterday launched the first of several announced road blocks in Belgrade over alleged electoral fraud in Serbia’s recent parliamentary and local elections, an AFP reporter saw.President Aleksandar Vucic meanwhile denounced the violence in the capital the previous evening and claimed there was evidence it had been planned in advance.A …

WASHINGTON — Blizzard warnings have been issued across the Central Plains, threatening Christmas travelers with delays and dangerous road conditions. More than 1.1 million people in parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming were under blizzard warnings on Monday afternoon. “Significant winter storm will ‘let it snow, let …

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Women, wearing traditional Ukrainian clothes, walk in a snow-covered street as they take part in Christmas celebrations in the Pyrogove village near Kyiv yesterday. (AFP) People donned Santa caps on beaches, ski slopes and streets around the globe yesterday to celebrate Christmas, with Israel’s war on Hamas and Russia’s invasion …

MOSCOW — A Russian naval ship in Crimea was damaged in an airstrike by Ukrainian forces, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The landing ship Novocherkassk was hit at a base in the city of Feodosia by plane-launched guided missiles, the ministry said, adding that two Ukrainian fighter jets were destroyed …

The World Health Organization said it is concerned about “unbearable” strain on the few hospitals that remain open in Gaza as Israel steps up strikes on Hamas. At least three areas in central Gaza were hit this weekend, including the Maghazi refugee camp, where at least 80 people were killed …

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor documented, in a preliminary file submitted to UN special rapporteurs and the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, dozens of field executions cases carried out by the Israeli occupation army in the Gaza Strip, calling for immediate investigation to hold the perpetrators accountable and provide …

ABUJA — The death toll in weekend attacks in the central Nigerian state of Plateau has risen to 113, a local official said on Monday, in a region where clashes between herders and farmers are common. It is the worst outbreak of violence in Plateau since May, when more than …

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