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The new communication between Scholz and Putin — their first since December 2022 — comes at a time of widespread speculation about what the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump will mean for Ukraine.

Russian media showed a truck ramming into the gates surrounding the parliament while hundreds of people were seen pouring into the courtyard and attempting to enter the parliament building.

Man-yi, locally known as Pepito, is the sixth tropical cyclone to enter the typhoon-battered Philippines in a month.

Kim had earlier supervised a test of the suicide drones, raising questions as to whether he was receiving help to develop them from Russia amid growing security ties.

Officials in New Delhi, the world’s most polluted capital, banned non-essential construction and urged residents to avoid burning coal in an effort to combat worsening air quality.

Opponents of the bill, which would reinterpret New Zealand’s 184-year-old founding document, say it undermines the rights of the country’s Indigenous people.

Beijing’s $1.3 billion investment in the Chancay port has raised alarm bells in Washington amid concerns that it could be used by the Chinese navy and for intelligence-gathering.

Police have been trying for weeks to empty the abandoned gold mine in the North West province as part of a crackdown on illegal mining.

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which she described instances when Itamar Ben-Gvir apparently gave operational instructions that threaten the police’s apolitical status.

The fire ripped through a retirement home in the northern Spanish town of Villafranca del Ebro early on Friday, authorities said.

While President-elect Donald Trump is likely to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement a second time, Beijing is seeking to play a bigger role internationally.