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Europe must be responsible for its own security, European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.

Morocco rolled out nationwide emergency aid to help tens of thousands of families affected by freezing temperatures, heavy rain and snow this winter, authorities said on Tuesday.

Two British-Lebanese men appeared in a London court on Tuesday, charged with belonging to the banned Iran-backed group Hezbollah and attending terrorism training camps, with one of the two accused of helping procure parts for drones.

Nvidia appears close to signing an agreement to build what would be Israel’s largest tech campus, according to Yaakov Kvint, director of the Israel Land Authority, who said the deal should be signed “in the next day or two.” 

During an official visit to Brussels, Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Joe Raggi on Tuesday urged the European Union to expand its negotiations with Iran beyond the nuclear file to include Tehran’s regional proxies. 

At least 104 people were killed, including 43 children, in multiple drone attacks in Sudan's Kordofan region since December 4, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday. 

As Australia's worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years unfolded, a Sydney shopowner was captured on camera charging at one of the gunmen and disarming him. Halfway around the world in Syria, a group of men watching the footage recognised a familiar face.

Ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is studying Russian and retraining in ophthalmology while living in Russia, according to a report published Monday by The Guardian, which cited a friend of the family as well as sources in Russia and Syria and leaked data.

Russia is intensifying its diplomatic and strategic push into Africa as preparations begin for the third Russia–Africa summit, scheduled for 2026. 

The key U.N. envoy seeking to break a deadlock in Cyprus's long-running division said she was cautiously optimistic about a breakthrough but that it would be premature to convene a multi-nation summit on the conflict.

Iraqi wheat farmer Ma'an al-Fatlawi has long depended on the nearby Euphrates River to feed his fields near the city of Najaf. 

Turkey shot down an uncontrolled drone that approached its airspace from the Black Sea, the defence ministry said.