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Tuesday, December 23, 2025 6:35 PM ET

Independent UK - World

Libya's military chief and 4 others killed in plane crash

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Ukraine live: Zelensky says draft documents prepared after US talks

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Russia launches 650 drones in Ukraine attack days before Christmas

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Louvre seen tightening security with freight lift, adding window bars

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Amazon says over 1,800 North Koreans blocked from applying for jobs

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Adult content creator Bonnie Blue barred from Indonesia for 10 years

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Japan to double number of years' residency required for citizenship

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China ramps up tensions with Britain over Jimmy Lai conviction

14 hours ago

Bangladesh student leader shot in head in brutal daylight attack

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Kim Jong Un and daughter seen visiting mountain resort and eating BBQ

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Holiday island sees tourist numbers soar after hit Netflix show

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The climate crisis is making young Kenyans turn their backs on farming

12 hours ago

Leading charities back The Independent's call to protect HIV funding

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Keir Starmer: Protect remaining UK funding to end the Aids pandemic

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Ghana 'overlooks marginalised women' in landmark fisheries bill

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How private investors are making billions from countries in debt

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'Lives at stake' as Sierra Leone virtually axed from UK aid budget

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Trump's chief of staff 'aghast' at 'horrifying' Musk-led aid cuts

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Ex-aide of Netanyahu claims he was tasked with plan after October 7

12 hours ago

Christmas decorations – and tourists – return to Bethlehem

15 hours ago

Long queues as Saudi Arabia quietly expands its alcohol store

16 hours ago

Israel condemned after approving 19 new settlements in West Bank

1 day ago

British couple held in Iran 'living off rice in kitchen full of rats'

1 day ago

Israel urges Jews to 'come home' after Bondi Beach massacre

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The brewery battling Israeli blocks to export beer to the UK

2 days ago

Netanyahu 'expected to ask Trump for help with fresh Iran strikes'

3 days ago

US launches airstrikes in Syria after ISIS gunman killed 3 Americans

4 days ago

Gaza no longer in famine – but conditions still 'highly fragile'

4 days ago

13 injured after clash between ultra-Orthodox and police in Israel

5 days ago

Israel blocks Canadian members of Parliament from entering West Bank

6 days ago

Two soldiers from Iowa identified as Americans killed in Syria ambush

8 days ago

Explosion rocks Pennsylvania nursing home leaving residents trapped

1 hour ago

MTG says 'only evil people' would protect Epstein

39 minutes ago

Suspect and trooper dead after reported 'shooter' at Delaware DMV

2 hours ago

Melodee Buzzard's mom arrested over the murder of 9-year-old

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Supreme Court blocks Trump's troop deployment to Chicago

2 hours ago

US moves more troops and special ops aircraft to Caribbean: report

1 hour ago

Laura Loomer: Tucker is turning the 'GOP into modern-day Hitler Youth'

1 hour ago

Venezuela rushes to criminalize tanker seizures after Trump threats

1 hour ago

Bishops urge Trump to suspend immigration raids through the holidays

1 hour ago

Casino gambler bets $25 on slot machine, hits massive payout

2 hours ago

California set to see a wet Christmas as 'dangerous' storm approaches

2 hours ago

Triathlete feared dead after disappearing in suspected shark attack

3 hours ago

Trump flew on Epstein's plane 'more times than previously reported'

9 hours ago

Ex-senator reveals stage 4 cancer diagnosis and says he's 'gonna die'

2 hours ago

Student loan borrowers face wage garnishing beginning in January

3 hours ago

Italy quietly changes its national anthem without public annoucement

8 hours ago

Russia developing weapon to hit Musk's Starlink, Nato suspects

17 hours ago

I was a British PoW tortured by Russia; this is how Ukraine can win

17 hours ago

Ukraine is leveraging its powerful new drone killers for air defence

17 hours ago

Trump appoints special envoy to make Greenland 'part of the US'

1 day ago

Russian general killed by bomb planted under his car in Moscow

1 day ago

New hope in 'Vatican girl' mystery as police quiz friend 42 years on

1 day ago

Russian general killed by bomb under his car in Moscow

1 day ago

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 28-Jan. 3 includes Gayle King and Denzel Washington

1 day ago

Flight attendant 'found stabbed to death in luxury Dubai hotel room'

1 day ago

Leo signals further reforms of Church in Christmas speech to cardinals

1 day ago

Russia attempts to break through Sumy front and abducts 50 civilians

1 day ago

Angry Russians turn on Putin over poverty and stagnant economy

1 day ago

Pope Leo summons the world's cardinals to Rome for two-day consistory

3 days ago

Egypt's el-Sissi urges UN Security Council reforms for Africa's larger role

3 days ago

Death toll in South Africa's latest pub shooting reaches ten

7 hours ago

32-YEAR-OLD ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH MASS SHOOTING THAT KILLED 12

1 day ago

Nine killed in mass shooting in South Africa

2 days ago

Netanyahu confirms Israel's largest-ever natural gas deal

5 days ago

World Cup nations Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire added to Trump travel ban

5 days ago

At least 37 dead after devastating flash floods hit Morocco

8 days ago

South Africa building collapse leaves one dead; several people trapped

11 days ago

Funding to fight climate crisis is failing countries that need it most

11 days ago

Nigerian child taken in mass abduction recalls horrifying ordeal

12 days ago

Anti-FGM programmes axed in UK aid cuts: 'There will be more victims'

12 days ago

At least 19 dead as buildings collapse in Morocco's Fez

13 days ago

The UK's aid cuts have consequences for our security

14 days ago

Congo facing worst cholera outbreak in 25 years

15 days ago

Bodies discovered at suspected organ-harvesting ring in hotel

15 days ago

Benin coup leader still on the run after thwarted government takeover

15 days ago

Thailand accuses US of rushing ceasefire to suit Trump's schedule

1 day ago

Japan clears final hurdle to restart world's largest nuclear plant

1 day ago

Taiwan hails hero bystander who tried to tackle Taipei knife attacker

1 day ago

Arrests made over daylight heist where £5m was stolen in 30 seconds

1 day ago

Japanese ski resort to fine disruptive tourists amid visitor surge

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US tech enabled China's CCTV empire. Now Tibetans are paying the price

2 days ago

North Korea warns Japan's nuclear plans must be stopped 'at any cost'

2 days ago

Hundreds of thousands attend funeral of slain Bangladeshi activist

3 days ago

Eight elephants killed as train hits herd in India's northeast

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Indian pilot suspended for physically assaulting passenger

3 days ago

Imran Khan and wife sentenced to 17 years in another graft case

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Indian students 'forcibly recruited' into Russian army die in Ukraine

3 days ago

At least three killed by knife-wielding attacker in Taiwan

3 days ago

Furious China vows to step up Taiwan invasion drills in response to US

4 days ago

Officer blinded in Bondi shooting reunites with family for Christmas

11 hours ago

Bureaucratic mishap delayed gun license for accused Bondi shooter

15 hours ago

Bondi Beach gunmen filmed each other training for attack, police say

1 day ago

Australia's PM booed at ceremony mourning Bondi Beach attack victims

2 days ago

Albanese booed at Sydney vigil as Australia orders intelligence review

2 days ago

'Intifada' chant to be banned by Australian state after Bondi shooting

3 days ago

Australian state premier apologises after husband caught drink driving

4 days ago

Australia calls on gun owners to give up firearms after Bondi attack

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Australia to tighten hate speech laws after Bondi Beach terror attack

5 days ago

Australia mourns 10-year-old Bondi Beach victim Matilda at funeral

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Sydney university sacks lecturer for outburst at Jewish students

5 days ago

Jewish bakery in Sydney closes over safety fears after Bondi attack

6 days ago

Bondi Beach suspect charged with 15 counts of murder as funerals held

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Bondi Beach attacker's family 'had no knowledge of his radicalisation'

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Couple who tackled Bondi Beach gunman but died hailed as heroes

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