Dozens of underage girls in Iraq are reportedly being married under newly amended personal status laws, raising alarms among human rights groups and women’s rights activists.

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Zia’s archrivalry with Sheikh Hasina defined the country’s politics for a generation

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Data will be used to draft prevention measures.

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China’s People’s Liberation Army is staging a second day of large-scale military drills around Taiwan.

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The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country.

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Then PM wrote on note from aide in 2005 that case ‘must not’ be dealt with in civil court, archives reveal

Saudi Arabia says it bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla over a shipment of weapons for a separatist force there that arrived from the United Arab Emirates.

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Police say an investigation that extended to the Philippines of two men accused of killing 15 people at a Sydney Jewish festival has found no evidence they were part of a “broader terrorist cell.”

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. warned investors in some of its alternative investment funds that their data may have been exposed in a breach at one of the bank’s law firms.

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Dec 29, 2025

“The U.S. has revealed to the world that its true intention has always been to plunder Venezuelan oil, land, and resources. However, we will not easily yield, and there is a unanimous determination to defend our homeland,” Lana Vielma, spokesperson for El Maizal Commune, a rural commune located between the Portuguesa and Lara states, told Drop Site News.

Venezuela’s communes are assembly-driven, constitutionally mandated, and grassroots political entities at the heart of the country’s socialist project. The communes contribute significantly to sovereign production and have become the backbone of the country’s political life.

In recent years, communes have set up economic circuits for the exchange of products and services they produce to support each other’s communities.

A ransomware attack hit Oltenia Energy Complex (Complexul Energetic Oltenia), Romania's largest coal-based energy producer, on the second day of Christmas, taking down its IT infrastructure.