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• Over 100 evacuate Russia's Belgorod while soldiers celebrate Orthodox Christmas on the front line

  8-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 23

  More than 100 residents of the Russian border city of Belgorod have evacuated to an area further from the Ukrainian border, local officials said.

• Orthodox mark Christmas, but the celebration is overshadowed for many by conflict

  7-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 25

  Orthodox Christians packed churches Saturday night for Christmas Eve services, a holiday overshadowed for many believers by conflict.

• Cumbersome process and 'arbitrary' Israeli inspections slow aid delivery into Gaza, US senators say

  7-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 30

  At Egypt's Rafah border crossing, lines of hundreds of trucks carrying aid wait for weeks to enter Gaza, and a warehouse is full of goods rejected...

• U.S. intelligence agencies ill-suited for China competition, study warns

  7-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 19

  U.S. intelligence agencies are not structured to address threats and challenges posed by China and need urgent reforms, according to a report by a...

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• Bangladesh's main opposition party starts a 48-hour general strike ahead of Sunday's election

  7-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 23

  Bangladesh's main opposition party on Saturday started a 48-hour general strike on the eve on a general election, calling on people to boycott the...

• Blinken opens latest urgent Mideast tour in Turkey as fears grow that Gaza war may engulf region

  7-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 22

  U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken kicked off his latest urgent Middle East diplomatic mission in Turkey on Saturday, as fears mount that...

• Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel in 'initial response' to killing of top leader from allied Hamas

  7-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 26

  Lebanon's Hezbollah militia fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel on Saturday, warning that the barrage was its initial response to the...

• A woman in her 90s is rescued alive 5 days after Japan's deadly earthquake

  7-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 26

  A woman in her 90s was pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan late Saturday, 124 hours after a major quake slammed the region,...

• South Korea says the North has again fired artillery shells near their sea border

  7-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 20

  North Korea conducted a new round of artillery drills near the disputed sea boundary with South Korea on Saturday, officials in Seoul said, a day...

• Japanese safety experts search for voice data as workers clear plane debris from runway collision

  7-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 19

  Transport safety officials searched for a voice recorder from the severely burned fuselage of a Japan Airlines plane, seeking crucial information...

• Death toll from western Japan earthquakes rises to 126 as rain and snow imperil already shaky ground

  7-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 18

  Aftershocks threatened to bury more homes and block roads crucial for relief shipments, as the death toll from the earthquakes that rattled Japan's...

• Myanmar confirms a key northeastern city on border with China has been seized by an ethnic alliance

  7-1-2024 World Washington Times - World 18

  Myanmar's military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken...