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The first quake was alarming enough — a rumble more powerful than anything felt in Taiwan for a quarter-century, lasting for more than a minute on Wednesday morning, knocking belongings and even whole buildings askew. It was so strong it set off tsunami warnings in Japan, China and the Philippines. …

Forget fairy lights and tinsel. Judging by the launch of Paco Rabanne’s collaboration with H&M, it is party guests in paillette-disc miniskirts, chainmail dresses and mesh tops who hope to shine brightest this festive season. Hundreds of people queued, many from the early hours of the morning, outside H&M’s store …

Emergency workers have uncovered hundreds of bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna amid fears that the toll could spiral. Outside help was only just starting to reach the coastal city on Tuesday, more than 36 hours after the disaster struck. The floods damaged or destroyed many …

Trove of 351 objects repatriated including a second-century bronze statue of Alexander the Great. Greece said it has recovered hundreds of looted Neolithic to Byzantine artefacts including a second-century bronze statue of Alexander the Great from a notorious British antiquities dealer after a 17-year legal battle. The fight to repatriate …

Hundreds of mourners gathered in Accra to pay their respects to Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu who was killed in the devastating earthquake in Turkey last month. .Family, friends, government representatives, the nation’s president, and former teammates all joined to remember Atsu outside the State House in Ghana’s capital Accra on …

As some Nigerians clamour for the cancellation of the 2023 presidential elections and accuse INEC of allowing electoral malpractice, Datti Baba-AHmed who is the running mate of the Labour party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said that a human disaster is anyone who works towards destroying the future of millions. …

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky has urged countries to send more weapons to Ukraine without delay, as his country plans to begin counter offensives against Russia, warning that “hundreds of thank you are not hundreds of tanks.”   In remarks during a virtual address at the beginning of a Ukraine Defense …

Hundreds of Russian mobilised troops were killed in a Ukrainian HIMARS strike on a barracks in Russian-occupied Makiivka in the eastern Donbas region, minutes before midnight on December 31.  The attack happened as Russian missiles and drones rained down on Kyiv, Ukraine at the exact moment Russian president Vladimir Putin …

(CNN) — Hundreds of tourists stranded in the ancient city of Machu Picchu are being evacuated after Peru was plunged into a state of emergency following the ousting of the country’s president. Following interruptions and closures last week, train services and airports are now reopening. Civil unrest swept Peru earlier …

CNN  —  It’s only a week until Christmas, and Mechelle Lutsko is holding onto hope that her daughter, one of the hundreds of tourists stranded in Peru, will make it home in time. “I’ve been up all night worrying,” Lutsko told CNN Saturday from her home in Columbus, Ohio. “I’ll …