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Roberto Carlos reportedly undergoes heart surgery while on vacation in Brazil

MADRID (AP) — Former Brazil and Real Madrid defender Roberto Carlos has undergone surgery for a heart problem, Spanish daily sports newspaper Diario AS reported on Wednesday. The 52-year-old former full-back, who now serves as a Madrid ambassador, was reportedly vacationing in his home country when an examination revealed a heart dysfunction. According to AS,

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What to know about the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 as the search resumes

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and HARUKA NUGA Associated Press More than a decade ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished without a trace, sparking one of aviation’s most baffling mysteries. Despite years of multinational searches, investigators still do not know exactly what happened to the plane or its 239 passengers and crew. On Wednesday, the Malaysian government

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Russian drone attack injures 3 Ukrainian children as Putin expresses confidence in victory

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drones blasted apartment buildings and the power grid in the southern Ukraine city of Odesa in an overnight attack that injured six people, including a toddler and two other children, officials said Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed confidence in his country’s eventual victory in

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U.S. sanctions 10 people and firms from Iran and Venezuela over drone and missile trade

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions on 10 people and firms from Iran and Venezuela over allegedly contributing to Iran’s drone trade and ballistics program which the Trump administration says threatens the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East. The Treasury Department said the latest measures are intended

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Channel Tunnel disruption affects Eurostar and vehicle shuttle between France and England

By ALEX TURNBULL and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Power problems and a stuck train interrupted rail services through the undersea Channel Tunnel connecting the United Kingdom and continental Europe on Tuesday, operators said, stranding passengers during the busy end-of-year holidays. At Paris’ Gare du Nord station, Jamie and Issy Gill scrambled to

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Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026

By MELANIE LIDMAN and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Tuesday said it had suspended more than two dozen humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and CARE, from operating in the Gaza Strip for failing to comply with new registration rules. Israel says the rules are aimed at preventing Hamas and other

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Australian police find no evidence of ‘broader terrorist cell’ in Bondi Beach antisemitic shooting

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An investigation that extended to the Philippines of two men accused of shooting dead 15 people at a Sydney Jewish festival has found no evidence that they were part of a “broader terrorist cell,” police said on Tuesday. Sydney residents Sajid Akram, 50, and his 24-year-old

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Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen port city over weapons shipment from UAE for separatists

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla on Tuesday after a weapons shipment from the United Arab Emirates arrived for separatist forces in the war-torn country, and warned that it viewed Emirati actions as “extremely dangerous.” The bombing followed tensions over the advance

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Khaleda Zia, former Bangladeshi prime minister and archrival of a previous premier, dies at 80

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, whose archrivalry with another former premier defined the country’s politics for a generation, has died, her Bangladesh Nationalist Party said in a statement Tuesday. She was 80. Zia was the first woman elected prime minister of Bangladesh. Bangladesh’s interim government

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Russia opens rebuilt Mariupol theater more than 3 years after Moscow airstrike killed hundreds there

By The Associated Press A historic theater in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol has opened its doors more than three years after it was pummeled in a Russian airstrike that killed hundreds of civilians sheltering inside. Moscow-installed authorities marked the rebuilding of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater with a gala concert on the

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Top diplomats of China, Cambodia and Thailand meet as Beijing seeks a stronger role in dispute

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Foreign ministers from Cambodia and Thailand convened with their Chinese counterpart on Monday as the Beijing government, building on its expanding presence in global diplomacy, sought to play a stronger mediating role in the violent border dispute between the two Southeast Asian countries. The trilateral meeting,

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