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“The war never goes on holidays. The war doesn’t celebrate Christmas,” Ukrainian Defense Ministry official Yuriy Sak told Fox Digital about the possibility of a ceasefire before Ukraine celebrates Christmas on Jan. 7. “Think about the worst kind of behavior that you can imagine and multiply it by five, and …

China is reportedly scrambling to add hospital beds and fever clinics as a recent spike in COVID-19 cases has overwhelmed the country’s health system and puts the global community on edge.  Major cities in China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Wenzhou, have added hundreds of fever clinics – some in …

Women in Afghanistan are now banned from obtaining a university education, a Taliban official told the Associated Press on Tuesday. The Taliban has systematically cracked down on women’s rights and human rights in general since taking over the country in 2021. Crackdowns began with forcing women to wear hijabs and …

The nearly three weeks that American study abroad student Ken DeLand Jr. spent missing in Europe have remained “a blur” in the days since the upstate New Yorker resurfaced in Spain and reunited with his family, loved ones said Tuesday.  DeLand, 21, reunited with his mother on Saturday in Lyon, …

A German court convicted a 97-year-old woman accessory to over 10,000 murders for her role as secretary to a Nazi SS commander stationed at a concentration camp in World War II. The court’s Tuesday ruling found that Irmgard Furchner worked at the Stutthof concentration camp in what is now Poland, …

An ancient tomb traditionally associated with Jesus’s midwife is being excavated anew by archeologists in the hills southwest of Jerusalem, the antiquities authority said Tuesday. The intricately decorated Jewish burial cave complex dates to around the first century A.D., but it was later associated by local Christians with Salome, the …

The German government said Tuesday that it will allow health insurance companies to pay more for pediatric medications that are in short supply in the country. Germans have scrambled to find basic drugs such as painkillers in recent weeks amid delivery bottlenecks and higher-than-usual demand. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to one of the most dangerous battlefronts in the war against Russia Tuesday when visiting with his troops on the front lines in Bakhmut.  The small city in eastern Donetsk and its surrounding area has come to look like a scene out of World War …

China has tightened its definition of COVID-19-related deaths, only counting respiratory failure toward its total count. After caving to protester demands and rolling back pandemic-related restrictions, China will only consider death due to respiratory complications in infected patients in the official COVID-19 death toll. CHINA’S COVID-19 SURGE: LEADERS PLOT ECONOMIC …

The executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, which won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago, says he will step down at the end of a six-year term heading the world’s largest humanitarian organization. David Beasley, a Republican, served one term as South Carolina’s governor from 1995 …