Jakarta, Indonesia
Reuters

Eleven climbers were found dead in Indonesia on Monday following the eruption of the Marapi volcano in West Sumatra, a rescue official said, as a search to find 12 more missing was temporarily halted over safety concerns.

Three survivors were found on Monday along

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Jerusalem
Reuters

Israeli forces have found 800 shafts leading to Hamas' vast subterranean network of tunnels and bunkers since a Gaza ground operation began on 27th October, and have destroyed more than half of them, the military said on Sunday.

The Palestinian Islamist group said before the

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Sao Paulo, Brazil
Reuters

Hundreds of scientists at the United Nations COP28 climate summit on Sunday launched a research coalition aimed at correcting a historic lack of information about the Congo River basin and its rainforest, the second largest in the world.

The Science Panel for

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Caracas, Venezuela/Georgetown, Guyana
Reuters

Venezuelans are voting on Sunday in a referendum backed by President Nicolas Maduro's government over a potentially oil-rich territory that is the subject of a long-running border dispute with Guyana.

The five-question referendum includes a question rejecting International Court of Justice jurisdiction to

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Kyiv, Ukraine
Reuters

Fresh Russian shelling killed at least three people including an elderly man in a village garage and a woman beside a city bus stop, Ukrainian officials said, as President Volodymr Zelenskiy reported "intense battles" at dozens of frontline locations.

"Russian occupiers once again shelled

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Reuters

The United Arab Emirates and several charities at the UN climate summit on Sunday offered $US777 million in financing for eradicating neglected tropical diseases that are expected to worsen as temperatures climb.

Climate-related factors "have become one of the greatest threats to

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Vatican City
Reuters

Pope Francis on Sunday said it was "painful" to see that the truce between Israel and Hamas had been broken, and voiced hope that all parties involved can reach a new ceasefire "as soon as possible".

A seven-day pause in the fighting between Israeli

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Paris, France
Reuters

A man armed with a knife and a hammer killed a German tourist and left two people, including a British man, wounded near the Eiffel Tower in Paris late on Saturday in what President Emmanuel Macron called "a terrorist attack".

A 26-year-old suspect, a

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Manila, The Philippines
Reuters

Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing at a Catholic Mass in the Philippines on Sunday that killed at least four people and injured 50 others. 

The attack was carried out in a university gymnasium in Marawi, a city in the

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Chicago, US
Reuters

Chicago is grappling with local backlash against moving homeless migrants into a new government-run tent encampment as temperatures drop and more migrants continue to arrive.

Hundreds of migrants are still sleeping on floors or in tents outside city police stations. Some who remained this

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Vatican City
RNS

Speaking to members of the International Theological Commission at the Vatican last week, Pope Francis asked theologians to “demasculinise” the church in an unscripted remark.

“There is something I don’t like about you, if you excuse my honesty,” said Pope Francis, pointing out that

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