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Rescue operations underway as floods hit southwestern Bolivia
President Paz met with experts, his cabinet and weather scientists on Sunday to make an assessment on the situation.
He also pointed to widespread deforestation over the past two decades as a factor worsening the floods. Bolivia lost 10.4 million hectares to the fire in 2014, the worst wildfire crisis in its history.
Residents queue to donate blood after Bondi beach shooting
Long queues formed at a Sydney blood bank on Monday (December 15) to support hospitals dealing with an influx of patients after the Bondi Beach shooting.
Some people waited for up to two hours to donate blood, wanting to help in any way they could.
"I just want to donate blood because I felt super hopeless at home, just sitting and doing nothing and I felt that there was something that you have to do so I just came here," said one unidentified resident.
Mass exodus as Burundians return home after M23 seizes Uvira
Dozens of Burundian nationals stranded in the eastern Congolese town of Uvira since its seizure by the M23 rebel group began crossing back into Burundi on Sunday (December 14) after authorities temporarily opened the border, witnesses said.
The movement followed days of uncertainty after M23 seized Uvira, a key commercial hub on Lake Tanganyika near the Burundi border.
The temporary reopening of the border comes as M23-appointed authorities say they are working on arrangements to allow foreign nationals and captured soldiers to return to their countries, amid fears the conflict could further disrupt cross-border movement and trade.
Rare protest in Russia after Moscow's tech ban hits Roblox
Several dozen people protested on Sunday (December 14) in the Siberian city of Tomsk against Russia's ban on U.S. children's gaming platform Roblox, a rare show of public dissent as popular irritation over the ban gains some momentum.
In Tomsk, 2,900 km (1,800 miles) east of Moscow, several dozen people braved the snow to hold up hand-drawn placards.
When the Russian ban was introduced, Roblox said it has "a deep commitment to safety" and provides "rigorous built-in protections to help keep users safe."
Santas in Kosovo sprint to raise money for those in need
Thousands of festive runners dressed in red Santa costumes flooded the streets of Kosovo's capital on Sunday (December 14) for the 10th annual Pristina Santa Run, blending holiday cheer with a charitable cause.
Winter begins after first snowfall of the year in Ukraine's capital
Snow fell in Kyiv on Sunday (December 14) for the first time this winter, covering streets and parks across the Ukrainian capital.
Forecasters warned of icy roads and wet snow, but Kyiv residents embraced winter's arrival, flocking to parks to build snowmen and sled down hills.
Children hurled snowballs on playgrounds while dogs bounded through a fresh powdery blanket of snow, turning the city's gray streets into a lively winter scene.
Jensen Huang’s abrupt resignation as Nvidia’s chief executive has rattled global technology markets, sent Chinese AI stocks tumbling an...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan welcomed climate commitments from world leaders at COP31 on Thursday, as he held a series of high-level mee...
At least 28 people, including 10 police officers and 18 militants, were killed in violence in northwestern Pakistan, authorities said on Wednesday ...
European leaders gathered in Dublin on Thursday, 12 November, for the ninth European Political Community (EPC) summit, with security, defence and energy high on the agenda. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held talks focused on peace, trade and regional cooperation.
Iran will not let a single particle of its enriched nuclear material leave the country, and any new U.S. attack would be met with strikes on distant American bases, Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei has said.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is stepping down amid reports linking him to a woman suspected by U.S. authorities of spying for China, throwing the future of the $4 trillion chipmaker into uncertainty.
Four million workers across Spain joined a general strike on Wednesday over the country’s deepening housing crisis, unions said, bringing disruption to factories, ports, shops and public transport just weeks before a snap general election.
Kazakhstan’s security service has arrested Nurlan Zhakupov, CEO of Samruk-Kazyna, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, on suspicion of corruption. Yelzhas Otynshiyev, Chairman of KTZ, Kazakhstan’s national railway firm has also been detained.
A consortium of Türkiye’s Limak and Qatar’s HBK Contracting has won an international tender to build and operate a new airport terminal in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, under a 23-year public-private partnership, with the project potentially costing up to $300 million.
Spain’s parliament has approved a government package aimed at easing the country’s housing crisis, a day after workers staged the first general strike in 14 years over soaring housing costs.
Here's your AnewZ Technology Daily Brief for the 13th of November. This week, a Microsoft outage hit Australian agencies, Google restricted mapping data in South Korea, a lawsuit targeted advanced AI development, and Nvidia faced a leadership crisis after Jensen Huang's resignation.
Microsoft struggled to restore its services on Friday after a major outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot across the United States and Asia-Pacific region.
President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday to let European representatives join the next round of Ukraine peace talks while the United States continues to work towards what could become the largest prisoner exchange of the Russia-Ukraine war.
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