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Spanish regional leader defends his handling of Valencia floods

Israeli strikes at Damascus suburb, Syrian state news agency says

Families gather at South African mine shaft where hundreds are feared stuck underground

Prince Harry's lawsuit against Murdoch's UK group moves towards trial as others settle

COP climate talks not fit for purpose and need reform, say climate leaders

Muslims in Pakistan's smog-shrouded Punjab province pray for rain

German government taps Greens politician to plan for Trump presidency

Iran backs Lebanon in ceasefire talks, seeks end to 'problems'

Croatian health minister arrested and fired over alleged graft

Putin will look into YouTube disruptions, Kremlin says

China's Communist Party expels former agriculture minister for corruption

Fire kills at least 10 people in Spanish retirement home

Exclusive-Taiwan president plans Hawaii visit on sensitive trip to Pacific, sources say

Analysis-Spy world vexed by Trump choice of Gabbard as US intelligence chief

Israel's attorney general tells Netanyahu to reexamine police minister's role

North Korea leader Kim orders mass production of suicide drones, KCNA says

Russian air attack kills one, damages energy installations in Ukraine's Odesa

Mexico's Sinaloa state probing killing of 14 people, prosecutors say

U.S. hands Lebanon draft truce proposal, two sources say

Starting Latin America trip, Xi Jinping opens huge port in Peru funded by China

Brazil judge says suicide bomber wanted to blow up Supreme Court

Israel says it hits military sites in Damascus, Syrian media says 15 killed

Russian attack on Ukraine's Kupiansk steps up pressure on northeast front

Palestinians say north Gaza destruction is widespread as rights group warns some may never return

Russia open to any Ukraine peace talks if Trump starts them, envoy says

Biden to bid farewell at APEC and G20 under Trump's shadow

Lebanese ceasefire efforts inch ahead as Israel keeps up fierce bombardment

Geopolitics overshadow COP29 talks on climate cash, as Argentina walks away

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes over Gaza displacements

Former Taiwan president Tsai to visit Canada next week, sources say

Rubio pick signals a Trump China policy that could go beyond tariffs

South Korea top court upholds conviction of 'comfort women' activist over embezzlement

New Zealand MPs disrupt parliament with haka to protest Indigenous treaty bill

Philippines Marcos' says he will not block ICC if ex-president Duterte wants to be investigated

Trump taps firebrand congressman Matt Gaetz for attorney general

Indonesian president says he will safeguard sovereignty in South China Sea

Sri Lanka counts votes for new parliament with economic reforms at stake

Suspected bomber dead after trying to enter Brazil's top court ahead of G20

Ukrainian forces repel Russian bid to pierce defences in northeast, General Staff says