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Hamas militants have been putting up stiff resistance, even as the Israeli army claims to be making great progress in eradicating them.

The reform accelerates the vetting of asylum-seekers so those deemed ineligible can be quickly sent back to their home country or country of transit.

The World Bank had pledged USD 500 million in budgetary support and released its first tranche in June to cash-strapped Sri Lanka, which has a total foreign debt of USD 46.9 billion.

Residents were evacuated from the neighborhood most at threat as a precaution, while five helicopters were scooping up water from the ocean to drop it on the blaze.

The top court on December 19 declared Trump ineligible for the US President's office under the Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot.

The businessman has also been punished in Britain and had his assets frozen in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

"I will tell you that I don't think Donald Trump needs to be president. I think I need to be president. I think that's good for the country," Haley was quoted as saying by The Des Moines Register.

A rise in the number of asylum seekers, a chronic affordable housing shortage, and a cost-of-living crisis have worsened social tensions in France.

Despite a flurry of activity by high-level officials in recent days, the two sides appeared to be far from an agreement.

Similarly, he said, France was also struggling, while Italy had expressed fears that it might become Europe's refugee camp.

It overturned a ruling from a district court judge who found that Trump incited an insurrection for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but said he could not be barred from ballot.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo lashed out at former ISI chief Gen Faiz Hamid for his role in ousting him from power in 2017.

Fears are growing that survivors awaiting rescue could succumb to the bitter cold, with temperatures at the epicentre in Gansu's Jishishan county expected to dip as low as - 17 degrees Celsius.

The fire was contained nearly 24 hours after it started and other West African countries, including Senegal and Mali, sent teams to assist as authorities investigate the cause of the explosion.

Iceland averages an eruption every four to five years. The most disruptive in recent times was the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which spewed huge clouds of ash into the atmosphere.

Ukrainian Ministry of Defense statistics say the Ukrainian army had nearly 800,000 troops in October. That doesn't include National Guard or other units. In total, 1 million Ukrainians are in uniform.

Militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad accuse Israel, which denies responsibility and blames a misfired rocket by Islamic Jihad for that blast.

The document from the Vatican's doctrine office, released Monday, elaborates on a letter Francis sent to two conservative cardinals that was published in October.

Both Ukrainian and foreign news media have reported on what they say is growing tension in recent months between Zaluzhny, Ukraine's top general, and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.