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BOGOTA (Reuters) – The death toll from rebel-related violence in a key drug trafficking region of Colombia has doubled to 60, the government’s human rights ombudsman said on Saturday.

(Reuters) – Most army-controlled areas in Sudan have been plunged into blackouts following drone attacks on power generation facilities by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, government officials and residents told Reuters.

RABAT (Reuters) – Four Moroccan truck drivers went missing on Saturday as they crossed the restive border area between Burkina Faso and Niger, according to a source from the Moroccan embassy in Burkina Faso and a Moroccan transport union.

GAZA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinians burst into streets to celebrate and began returning to the rubble of bombed-out homes on Sunday after a ceasefire deal halted fighting in Gaza, while three female hostages freed by Hamas were reunited with their mothers inside Israel.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO, (Reuters) – Palestinians headed for the rubble of their former homes in the Gaza Strip today and Israelis prepared to receive the first hostages still held by Hamas after a ceasefire dealtook effect that could pave the way for an end to the 15-month-old war.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration is reconsidering plans for immigration raids in Chicago next week after details were leaked, Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan told the Washington Post in an interview yesterday The new administration “hasn’t made a decision yet,” said Homan, the former acting director of U.S.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – A South Korean court yesterday extended President Yoon Suk Yeol’s detention for up to 20 days, leading to violent protests by hundreds of angry supporters who stormed the court building, smashed windows and broke inside.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said yesterday he would “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a potential ban after he takes office on Monday, as the app with 170 million American users buzzed with nervous anticipation ahead of a shutdown set for Sunday.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Germany’s ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S.

KOLKATA, India,  (Reuters) – An Indian police volunteer was convicted yesterday  of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city Kolkata, in the speedy trial of a crime that sparked national outrage over a lack of safety for women.

CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, (Reuters) – Migrants trying to avoid arrest set fire to blankets and mattresses at a camp in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua during a raid by government forces to clear the site in the early hours of yesterday.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – At least 70 people were killed and more injured in northern Nigeria yesterday when a petrol tanker truck overturned, spilling fuel that exploded, the country’s national emergency agency said.

(Reuters) – Two senior Iranian Supreme Court judges involved in handling espionage and terrorism cases were shot dead in the capital Tehran yesterday, Iran’s judiciary said.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO, (Reuters) –  Israel’s cabinet approved a deal with Palestinian militant group Hamas for a ceasefire and release of hostages in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said today, a day ahead of the agreement’s scheduled start.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian deepened military ties between their countries yesterday by signing a 20-year strategic partnership that is likely to worry the West.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – TikTok warned late yesterday it will go dark in the United States tomorrow unless President Joe Biden’s administration provides assurances to companies like Apple and Google that it will not face enforcement actions when a ban takes effect.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters)  – A former Mozambique finance minister was sentenced yesterday to 8-1/2 years in prison after being found guilty of participating in a fraud involving $2 billion in loans to three state-owned companies to develop the southern African country’s marine infrastructure.

(Reuters) – Donald Trump’s incoming U.S. presidential administration plans to launch a large immigration raid in Chicago the day after he takes office, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, citing four people familiar with planning.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The Israeli security cabinet approved a ceasefire deal today, paving the way for the return of the first hostages from Gaza as early as Sunday and bringing a halt to 15 months of conflict that have devastated the Palestinian coastal strip.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment today in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent talks between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation.