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Tributes to nine-year-old killed in Christmas market attack

Tributes have been paid to a nine-year-old boy killed in an attack on a German Christmas market. Andre Gleissner died after a car plowed into a crowd of shoppers at the Magdeburg market on Friday night, the local fire service said. A social media post purportedly attributed to his mother called Andre “my little teddy […]

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Israeli strike hits school shelters for displaced people in Gaza City

Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, eight of them at a school housing displaced families in Gaza City, medics said, as the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of a hospital in the north. Palestinian medics said eight people, including children, were killed at the Musa Bin Nusair school, which

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What a potential Nissan-Honda merger could mean for the auto industry

Nissan Motor CEO Makoto Uchida (L) listens to Honda Motor CEO Toshihiro Mibe (R) at a joint press conference on March 15, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images News | Getty Images Top Japanese car manufacturers Nissan Motor and Honda Motors are understood as exploring a hit fusionsending shockwaves through the global

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Overloaded ferry capsizes in Congo, kills dozens, leaves more than 100 missing

A ferry overloaded with people going home for Christmas capsized on the Busira River in northeastern Congo, leaving 38 people confirmed dead and more than 100 others missing, officials and witnesses said Saturday. Twenty people have been rescued so far. The sinking of the ferry late on Friday came less than four days after another

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Boy, 8, saves classmate with Heimlich maneuver

A US primary school student has been hailed a hero after saving a classmate from choking on grapes. Eight-year-old Thomas Conley was sitting next to Isaiah Rodriguez in the Porter Elementary School cafeteria when he noticed the medical emergency. Video from the hall in Mesa, Arizona, shows Thomas performing the life-saving Heimlich maneuver on his

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A government shutdown was averted after the Senate passed the House funding bill

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has approved a bipartisan federal expense account early Saturday morning that prevented a government shutdown and marked the end of a chaotic, high-stakes week in Congress. The bill authorizes continued federal government funding at current levels for three months and provides additional disaster relief and farm assistance. The House of

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The US avoids a government shutdown after the bill passes Congress

The Democratic-controlled US Senate voted to pass a budget deal to avert what would have been the first shutdown of the US federal government since 2019. ago, just hours after the House of Representatives approved the same legislation. The budget deal was passed shortly after the midnight deadline. It does not include a request by

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The US House of Representatives passes a bill to avoid a government shutdown and sends it to the Senate for approval

The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives passed legislation on Friday that would prevent a midnight government shutdown, defying President-elect Donald Trump’s request to also greenlight trillions of dollars in new debt. The Democratic-controlled Senate must then pass the bill to ensure the US government will be funded after midnight, when current funding runs out. If

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