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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.

As the world waits for the Putin nuclear news and hopes to come to an end, oil prices have risen on fears that a new price cap on Russian crude will disrupt global supplies in the coming months.

2022 Time's Person Of The Year is Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is the president of Ukraine. Since February, when Russia invaded, Zelenskyy has led his country in a united front against Russia.

David Letterman meets with President Zelensky for a Netflix talk show. David Letterman conducted an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his show on Netflix. The interview follows closely on the heels of a significant accolade that was bestowed upon the Ukrainian President.

A New Zealand court temporarily took medical custody of a baby away from his parents because they wouldn't give him blood from donors who hadn't been vaccinated against COVID-19.

The man who shot Lady Gaga's dog walker gets 21 years in prison. Officials stated that the individual who shot and injured Lady Gaga's dog walker while attempting to steal her French bulldogs last year accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to 21 years in prison on Monday.

North Korea once again fires artillery rounds over South Korean drills for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, in a tit-for-tat response to the South's live-fire drills in an inland border region.

You can't see the lines in Port-au-Prince, but you have to know where they are. It could save your life. Haiti capital city taken hostage, people are being kidnapped, raped, and killed at will by rival gangs. They use blood to mark their territory. If you go from the territory of one gang to that of another, you might not make it back.

Indonesia has raised the warning to its highest level as a volcano erupts. An eruption of the Mount Semeru volcano in Indonesia has caused residents of Java, the largest island in the country, to be forced to flee their homes. Ash has been spewing into the atmosphere.

An ex-South Korean national security adviser has been arrested for helping North Korean forces "cover up" the killing of a South Korean fisheries official near the border. Suh Hoon says that he did not get rid of evidence that could have helped figure out why Lee Dae-jun was shot and killed in the year 2020.