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Iran says damage to missile launchers was under 3% in June war
The Hamas attack, the 12-day Iran-Israel war in June and Israel’s relentless strikes on Iranian-aligned actors did not end the region’s conflicts, but they changed how states now manage them.
In place of grand diplomacy or formal pacts, a…
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9 killed, 10 wounded in South African pub shooting : NPR
South African police gather at the scene of a mass shooting where gunmen killed nine and injured at least 10 in a pub in…
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Climate Centre news review of 2025 – Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
21 December 2025
By the Climate Centre
(A non-exhaustive look back at the year’s main events and our engagement with them through the eyes of the Climate Centre news service.)
January
The IFRC
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The plants that thrive in salt: could halophytes help save coastal farming? | Climate crisis
On the scrubby banks of the rural swathes of the Venice lagoon, an evening chorus of cicadas underscores the distant whine of farmers’ three-wheeled minivans. Dotted along the brackish fringes of the cultivated plots are scatterings of…
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Watch as minute’s silence held for Bondi Beach attack victims
Minute’s silence held as Australia mourns Bondi Beach attack – watch livepublished at 07:30 GMT
Matt Spivey
Live page editor
A national day of reflection is being held on Sunday in Australia, one week on from the Bondi Beach shooting…
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Gunmen kill nine in South Africa tavern attack
South African police say a manhunt is under way after a shooting at a tavern left nine people dead – seven men and two women – and another 10 injured in a township in a gold-mining area near Johannesburg.
They say about 12 unidentified gunmen…
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Al Jazeera Media Network launches ‘The Core,’ an AI-Integrated news model built on Google Cloud
Al Jazeera Media Network today announced a major expansion of its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud, naming the company as its main technology provider for Al Jazeera’s transformative initiative, “The Core.” This new collaboration aims…
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At least 9 killed, 10 wounded in South African pub shooting
JOHANNESBURG — Nine people have died and at least 10 others were wounded after a group of gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday, authorities said.
The incident occurred just before 1 a.m. in the…
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Russia says talks on US peace plan for Ukraine ‘proceeding constructively’
A Kremlin envoy said peace talks on a U.S.-proposed plan to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine were pressing on “constructively” in Florida, while the Ukrainian president said they were moving “quickly.”
The talks are part of the…