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1. After  days of chaos America’s House of Representatives voted to pass a new spending deal, averting a government shutdown hours before the midnight deadline. The proposal—which will fund the government through March and includes a $110bn disaster-aid package—dropped a provision to extend America’s  debt ceiling , despite backing from Donald Trump to include it. Most Republicans supported the de...

1. South Korean legislators voted to  impeach Yoon Suk Yeol over his declaration of martial law on December 3rd. The first motion failed last week because of opposition from members of Mr Yoon’s ruling People Power Party. This time, enough PPP members changed tack. Thousands of anti-Yoon protesters gathered outside the national assembly ahead of the vote. The constitutional court has up to 180 day...

1. Russia suggested that its citizens living in Syria should leave in light of its “difficult military and political situation”. On Friday Syrian rebels moved closer to Homs, a city between Aleppo and Damascus, the capital. Syrian and Russian warplanes reportedly struck the north of  Hama province . The rebels have captured the cities of Hama and Aleppo following a surprise insurgency on November...

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1. Russian warplanes joined Syrian armed forces in attacking rebels attempting to seize Aleppo, the country’s second-biggest city. The fighters, who are led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an Islamist group, have now taken control of a majority of Aleppo, according to the Syrian **Observatory **for Human Rights, a monitoring group. It is the first time  Syria’s  opposition has captured territory from the...

1. Donald Trump picked Pam Bondi, Florida’s former attorney-general, to lead America’s justice department after Matt Gaetz withdrew from contention . Ms Bondi served as one of Mr Trump’s lawyers during his first impeachment trial. Mr Gaetz gave up amid allegations that he had paid women for sex, which he denied. Enough Republican senators were prepared to block his nomination. 川普（Donald Trump）...

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1.  Joe Biden and Xi Jinping met, probably for the last time as two presidents, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Peru. China’s leader warned of the danger of letting relations with America sour further, a message directed not so much at Mr Biden as the incoming Donald Trump. The presidents also agreed that it should not be left to artificial intelligence to make the final call o...

1. America’s Department of Justice** charged** three people for involvement in an alleged Iranian plot to murder targets including Donald Trump as well as an Iranian-American journalist critical of the country’s regime. Two suspects were arrested in New York; a third, tasked with surveilling  Mr Trump  and plotting to assassinate him, is believed to remain at large in Iran. 美國司法部指控三人涉嫌...

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1. In the last weekend before America’s election, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trumpwere on the stump in crucial** swing states**. Both had North Carolina, which narrowly voted for Mr Trump in 2020 and where our  election model  puts him just ahead, on their itineraries. In a state recently battered by Hurricane Helene, the Republican repeated false claims that the Biden administration was divert...

1. In the last weekend before America’s election, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trumpwere on the stump in crucial** swing states**. Both had North Carolina, which narrowly voted for Mr Trump in 2020 and where our  election model  puts him just ahead, on their itineraries. In a state recently battered by Hurricane Helene, the Republican repeated false claims that the Biden administration was divert...

1. Israel launched air strikes against Iran in its long-anticipated retaliation for an Iranian missile attack on  October 1st . An Israeli army spokesman said the targets were military and that all planes had “returned home safely”. The White House said it had been informed in advance of Israel’s plans, but that America was not involved in the attack. It said that energy and nuclear facilities had...

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1. Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, was hit by at least 12 Israeli air strikes. These followed a drone attack in Israel by Hizbullah earlier in the day,** directed at** Caesarea, the northern town where Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, lives. One drone struck a building, but Mr Netanyahu was away from his house and no deaths were reported. 黎巴嫩首都貝魯特遭到至少12次以色列空襲。這些空...

1. Israeli strikes killed at least 30 people and injured 110 in Jabalia, a city in northern Gaza, according to Gazan authorities. Médicins sans Frontières, a charity, warned that thousands of people were trapped in a refugee camp there amid an Israeli ground offensive. Earlier the Israel Defence Forces said they would conduct “a thorough review” after strikes on southern Lebanon injured two United...

這天逛逛查理大橋 天氣非常冷，很佩服出來擺攤的老闆們 雖然不給殺價，但還(算)是情願給他們賺點錢 接下來的行程就是搬到第二位沙發主Barka的家 雖然在Phil家也住得很開心，但沒有熱水可以洗澡的居住狀況實在不太理想 所以Barka家的暖氣、熱水和氣墊床真的就是天堂了 而且又有很酷的寵物! 雖然我們有點被嚇到花容失色 (?) 是什麼呢? 現在就收聽~ -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

1. Israel reportedly said it was preparing “a response” to Iran’s missile attack. Meanwhile, the Israel Defence Forces continued to launch air strikes on Lebanon on Saturday. The IDF said it had killed two Hamas militants. Earlier, President Joe Biden said that Israel should consider “other alternatives” to striking  Iranian  oil fields. Mr Biden also said that “no administration has helped Israel...

1. Iran’s supremeleader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned Israel that its killing of  Hassan Nasrallah , Hizbullah’s leader, would “not go unavenged” and announced five days of official mourning. The militant group’s leader was killed in an air strike targeting its headquarters in Beirut on Friday. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said Nasrallah’s death would change “the balance of power...

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1. Israel launched more air strikes on Lebanon, killing at least 31 people, including two  Hizbullah commanders in southern Beirut. One of those killed was Ibrahim Aqil, a member of the Shia militia’s leadership who was wanted by America for carrying out an attack on the American embassy in Beirut in 1983. In recent days Israel has been ramping up its  attacks  on Hizbullah, which has been launchi...

1. Russia released more than 100 Ukrainian soldiers and officers who it had** captured** during Ukraine’s  incursion into the Kursk region ; Ukraine released the same number of Russians. It is the second large prisoner-of-war swap in two days. The deal was mediated by the United Arab Emirates—the eighth one brokered by the Gulf state since the start of 2024. 俄羅斯釋放了逾百名在烏克蘭突入庫爾斯克...

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1. A judge in New York postponed Donald Trump’s  sentencing  for paying hush money until after  America’s presidential election . Mr Trump was convicted of  34 felony counts  of falsifying business records in May and was meant to be sentenced in July. That date was then rescheduled to September 18th following a ruling by the Supreme Court that presidents enjoy  considerable immunity from prosecuti...

1. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, begged America to let it strike deep inside Russia after his delegates met officials in Washington on Saturday.  Ukraine’s army  is limited to using American weapons on its soil and in defensive cross-border attacks. Mr Zelensky said six people were killed and 97 injured by Russian guided aerial bombs in Kharkiv on Friday, and that such attacks could onl...