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Palestinians ride a donkey-drawn cart on a rain-flooded street in Gaza City on Friday. — Reuters
Nearly 795,000 displaced Gazans face flood risk

GENEVA: Hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans face flooding of their tents and shelters by heavy rains; and materials for shelters and sandbags are not being allowed to enter the enclave, the UN International Organisation for Migration said on Friday. Torrential rain swept across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, flooding tents sheltering families displaced by two years...
Funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on Friday, according to medics, at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. — Reuters

Israeli shelling on shelter kills 6 in Gaza
Residents react at the site of a Russian air strike, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. — Reuters

Kremlin denies three-way peace talks in preparation
A US military helicopter flies over the Panama-flagged Centuries, east of Barbados in the Caribbean Sea. — Reuters

US again seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
Australian PM Anthony Albanese attends a National Day of Reflection, at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — Reuters

Australia falls silent, lights candles for Bondi Beach victims
People look at a damaged bridge after Thailand carried out air strikes, between Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey and Siem Reap provinces. — AFP

Thai-Cambodia clashes displace over half a million
Palestinians gather to receive food portions at a charity kitchen in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday. — AFP

1.6 million exposed toacute food insecurity
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The shortlists were selected by independent judging panels under the supervision of the Prize’s Board of Trustees

Bait AlGhasham–DarArab Translation Prize unveils 2026 shortlists

The delegation also toured the Faculty of International Relations. — ONA

Oman, Belarus explore enhancing cultural, academic cooperation

The exhibition will run until December 27 and is being held in conjunction with the Unified Gulf Inmate Week 2025.

GCC week features products made by male and female inmates

The event is part of ongoing efforts to enhance institutional integration and exchange expertise.

Second 'Governorates’ Ambassadors' Forum in Al Dakhiliyah

The facility enjoys logistical advantages that enhance access to regional and global markets.

OIA-backed tuna, sardine canning facility emerges as regional leader

INTERNATIONAL VIDEOS
Region
Funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on Friday, according to medics, at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. — Reuters

Israeli shelling on shelter kills 6 in Gaza

GAZA: Dozens of Palestinians gathered at a Gaza City hospital to mourn six people, including children, that the civil defence said were killed by the Israeli shelling of a shelter for displaced people. Gaza's civil defence agency, which operates...

Palestinians gather to receive food portions at a charity kitchen in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday. — AFP
1.6 million exposed toacute food insecurity
A US Airman attaches a GBU-31 munitions system to an F-15E Strike Eagle in the US Central Command area of responsibility. — AFP
US strikes kill at least five IS members in Syria
A man watches as members of the Palestinian Civil Defence participate in a search and rescue operation at the site of a house that was partially destroyed during the war and collapsed on Tuesday, at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. - Reuters

Trump says Gaza stabilisation force is already running
Members of the Palestinian civil defence search for the bodies of the Salem family in the rubble of a building destroyed in 2023 in the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City on December 15, 2025. The United States, alongside Qatar and Egypt, secured a truce in Gaza that came into effect on October 10 and has mostly halted two years of war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. More than 70,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the outbreak of the war, according to figures from the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory that the United Nations considers reliable. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

ICC rejects Israeli attempt to block probe
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GCC integration to have a positive impact on travel and tourism
Opinion
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Junaid Nabi
Junaid Nabi Global health workers strengthen US national security
Americas

A US military helicopter flies over the Panama-flagged Centuries, east of Barbados in the Caribbean Sea. — Reuters

US again seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela

US judge skeptical of challenge to $100,000 H-1B visa fee

Mexican president calls on UN to 'avoid bloodshed'

US Police probe deaths of Rob Reiner, wife

Australia defends record on antisemitism after Bondi Beach attack

Africa

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Over 1,000 killed in April attack on Sudan refugee camp: UN

Sudan most neglected crisis of 2025 in aid: Poll

Cambodia accuses Thailand of using 'toxic gas'

Sudan's general ready to talk to Trump for peace

M23 group to pull out of key DR Congo city

Europe

Residents react at the site of a Russian air strike, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. — Reuters

Kremlin denies three-way peace talks in preparation

Moscow intent on pressing on in Ukraine: Putin

French government calls for Christmas truce in farmer protests

EU agrees €90 bn for Ukraine, without Russian assets

Zelensky: Ukraine seeks decision on Russian assets by year-end

Asia
People look at a damaged bridge after Thailand carried out air strikes, between Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey and Siem Reap provinces. — AFP

Thai-Cambodia clashes displace over half a million

PHNOM PENH: More than half a million people in Cambodia have been displaced by two weeks of deadly border clashes with neighbouring Thailand, Phnom Penh said on Sunday, ahead of regional talks aimed...
Mourners attend the funeral of the deceased youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, in Dhaka on December 20, 2025. Tens of thousands of mourners gathered in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on December 20 for the funeral of a student leader, after two days of violent protests over his killing. (Photo by Abdul Goni and Abdul Goni / AFP)

Thousands attend funeral of Bangladesh student leader

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Bangladesh government urges calm

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Imran Khan and, wife get 17-year jail in another graft case

Supporters chant slogans as they block Shahbagh in Dhaka. — Reuters

Bangladesh burns again after killing of student leader

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
Losing international students could devastate many US colleges

Xiaofeng Wan, a former admissions officer at Amherst College, now works as a private consultant to international students who want to come to the United States. This week, as he held meetings in China with prospective...

The campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 12, 2018. (Cody O'Loughlin/The New York Times)

Sanitation crisis in Gaza spreads disease

Gazans flee homes as Israeli strikes resume

10 years after typhoon, Philippine city rises from the ruins
Australia
Australian PM Anthony Albanese attends a National Day of Reflection, at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — Reuters

Australia falls silent, lights candles for Bondi Beach victims

SYDNEY: Australians fell silent in flickering candlelight on Sunday in memory of the Bondi Beach shooting victims, one week after gunmen fired into crowds celebrating a Jewish festival. A father and...
Flameless candles are lit to honour the victims of a mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — Reuters

Australia launches gun buyback after shooting

Australia's flag flies at half-mast at the Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club near the promenade of Bondi Beach in Sydney. — AFP

Australia promises new hate laws as youngest

Mourners embrace near tributes piled together in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney. — AFP

Australian Prime Minister says 'IS ideology' drove Bondi Beach gunmen

Mourners gather at a tribute in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney. — AFP

Australia to toughen gun laws as it mourns deadly Bondi attack

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