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ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister, Imran Khan, whose party isn’t allowed to hold public rallies, used an audio clip generated by artificial intelligence (AI) late yesterday to address a virtual rally in the first event of its kind in the country.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin dismissed as complete nonsense remarks by U.S.

CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel opened a direct crossing for aid into Gaza for the first time in its more than two-month-old war on Hamas on Sunday while also stepping up attacks on the Palestinian enclave, saying military pressure was the only way its hostages would be freed.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan has ordered three diplomats from Chad to leave the country within 72 hours, saying the individuals were “persona non grata”, the Sudanese state news agency reported on Sunday.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A dozen people were killed in an attack at a holiday party in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, Mexican authorities said Sunday.

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar expressed his “deep concern” on Sunday about reports of suspected criminal damage at properties earmarked for accommodating migrants, including a fire at a former hotel in the county of Galway overnight.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Sajjan Jindal, the chairman of Indian steel-to-power conglomerate JSW Group, on Sunday denied an allegation of rape, saying he would cooperate with an ongoing investigation.

NOGALES, Arizona,  (Reuters) – Her daughter’s school shut down, Yomara said, after a shootout between rival gangs competing for control of drug and migrant trafficking routes in their southern Mexican town of Chicomuselo.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of supporters of Bangladesh’s main opposition party took to the streets of the capital on Saturday defying fears of being arrested ahead of the country’s national election early next year.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Al Jazeera is preparing a legal file to send to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over what it called “the assassination” of one of its cameramen in Gaza, the Qatari-based network said yesterday.

CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to confirm yesterday that new negotiations were under way to recover hostages held by Hamas, after a source said Israel’s intelligence chief met the prime minister of Qatar, a country mediating in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces battled the army outside the central city of Wad Madani yesterday, pressing an attack that has opened a new front in the eight-month-old war and forced thousands to flee, witnesses said.

(Reuters) – Canada is planning a “broad and comprehensive program” that would allow many undocumented people to apply for permanent residency, the country’s Immigration Minister Marc Miller told The Global and Mail.

DURHAM, New Hampshire, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, said yesterday that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” repeating language that has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing of Nazi rhetoric.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said tensions in the South China Sea have “increased rather than diminished” in recent months, warning that a “more assertive China” posed a “real challenge” to its Asian neighbours.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Washington is pushing Israel to focus the war in Gaza on precise targeting of Hamas leaders rather than widespread bombing and ground operations, the White House national security adviser said yesterday, amid signs of differences over timing.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – “Friends” star Matthew Perry died from the “acute effects” of the powerful sedative ketamine that, combined with other factors, caused the actor to lose consciousness and drown in his hot tub, according to an autopsy released on Friday.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s new government will cut $1 billion in spending to deal with “brutal inefficiency” before potentially seeking loans from multilateral organizations, and raise some $300 million by selling gold reserves, President Daniel Noboa said in an interview yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Rudy Giuliani must pay more than $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers he defamed through false accusations that they helped rig the 2020 election against Donald Trump, a jury decided yesterday.

LONDON/TOULOUSE, (Reuters) – A teenager from Britain who resurfaced in southern France after disappearing six years ago is expected to return to northern England in the next few days, police said today after the boy left a spiritualist mountain community in the Pyrenees.