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Police chief Khalid Zadran in Kabul has confirmed that suicide bombing in Kabul on the road outside the Afghan foreign ministry, killed five people and injured many more on Wednesday.

After protesters stormed several government buildings in Braslia, the Brazilian judge issues arrest order of security officials. Local media have reported the arrest of one officer; he was the previous head of the military police.

In what is being called a crucial test case for who pays for climate catastrophes, Pakistan and the United Nations are hosting a big summit in Geneva on Monday for Pakistan to seek for $16 billion after devastating floods to rebuild the nation.

Ana Montes, a leading Cuban spy freed after 20 years arrested by the US. The 65-year-old former Defense Intelligence Agency specialist spied for Cuba for over two decades. She was arrested in 2001, and it was claimed at the time that she had revealed almost all US intelligence activities on the island.

As tensions with the West grow over the situation in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a frigate with the country newest hypersonic Zircon missile on a transoceanic cruise on Wednesday as a show of strength.

Many people are mourning benedict xvi body in Rome. In St. Peter's Basilica on Monday, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's body lay in state with his head resting on two red pillows as throngs of mourners paid their respects to the pontiff who surprised the world by resigning ten years ago.

New Year's Day power outage strands thousands at Manila airport as chaos erupted in the Philippines. Air traffic control at the country's biggest airport was temporarily affected by a severe power outage, which messed up nearly 300 flights and left tens of thousands of travelers stuck in the Southeast Asian hub.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky warns Russian people that Putin is working to destroy them and that their leader is bad for their country. Mr. Zelensky said that Vladimir Putin, who gave a New Year's speech while surrounded by people in uniform, was hiding behind his troops and not leading them.

The Taliban's rules against women have "deeply alarmed" the UN Security Council as they issued a statement on Tuesday expressing its concern over the ban imposed by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on women attending universities or working for aid groups in the country.

Heavy snow in Japan has killed at least 17 people and injured several others, according to authorities in Japan. Over the Christmas holiday weekend, heavy snowfall in northern Japan and other regions of the country resulted in these deaths and injuries to more than 90 others.

South Korea fires warning shots after drones from North Korea fly into its airspace. The defense ministry of South Korea said that five North Korean drones crossed into South Korean airspace on Monday.

Christmas Day outages plague Americans and Canadians as a result of the big winter storm that is continuing to batter North America. This means that more than one million people in the United States and Canada will spend Christmas Day without power.

Zelensky's grit and refusal to give up are typical of the country he leads, as the Ukrainian president spent Wednesday in Washington, DC, on his first trip outside of his country since Russia's brutal, unprovoked invasion in February.

Amount of fentanyl seized in US in 2022 enough to kill every American as per the report of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The DEA said they were able to stop 379 million potentially lethal doses of fentanyl, which is only two milligrams.

A former Nazi secretary guilty of helping kill more than 10,500 people when she worked for the head of a Nazi concentration camp. Irmgard Furchner, who is now 97, worked at Stutthof from 1943 to 1945 as a shorthand typist when she was a teenager.

Five people have died after a shooting spree at an apartment condo in Canada. Police said that a man who went on the shooting spree killed five of his neighbors, including two people who were on the board of the building.

The world was shocked by Russia's war in Ukraine at the end of February. Since then, news reports and social media feeds have been saturated with graphic photos of displaced citizens, corpses littering the streets, burning buildings, and mass graves.

Putin meets with military leaders while Russian missiles hit cities. Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, met with his military leaders on the same day that his troops fired more missiles at Ukraine's infrastructure.

When it comes to carbon dioxide emissions, the United States is far and away the leader, yet this biggest climate change bill in 2022 represents the country's first big step in mitigating those emissions. After 2035, gas-powered vehicles will be banned in California and other states.

Tom Hanks allegedly one of the targets of Paul Pelosi's attacker, according to a recent court hearing. In October, David DePape is accused of breaking into the home of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while she was out of town and beating her husband Paul with a hammer.

A son sues Meta for his father’s death In Ethiopia. Abraham Meareg, the son of a professor and an Ethiopian academic, claims that his father was murdered after being repeatedly attacked in a series of Facebook posts.

Putin scraps trademark year-end news conference. No reason is given, but there is growing unease among Russians over President Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Russia is jailing and beating up own soldiers who refuse to fight and even subjecting them to physical harm. In February of this year, Russia invaded Ukraine. Following sustained gains in the early months of the war, Russian troops were forced to retreat in the face of a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

It is common for South Koreans to have three ages: an international age, a Korean age, and a "calendar age." But to end the confusion, the country's parliament has decreed that from June 2023 and all South Koreans to become younger as the traditional age system scrapped, therefore all official documents must use the standard age.