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• Tokyo to sell Patriot missiles to Washington to help reload U.S. stockpiles

  23-12-2023 World Washington Times - World 33

  Japan has agreed to sell Patriot interceptor missiles to the U.S., a major shift from Tokyo's post-World War II policy against exporting military...

• Biden adds sanctions while seeking more Kyiv aid from Congress

  23-12-2023 World Washington Times - World 25

  The White House announced sanctions Friday aimed at punishing banks that help Moscow build its military base and wage war on Ukraine.

• Police investigating alleged abduction of British teen Alex Batty who went missing 6 years ago

  23-12-2023 World Washington Times - World 34

  A criminal investigation was launched into the alleged abduction of British teenager Alex Batty, who was found last week in France six years after...

• Gaza death toll exceeds 20,000 as Israel expands ground war against Hamas

  23-12-2023 World Washington Times - World 55

  More than 20,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza during Israel's war against Hamas, health officials said Friday, the latest indication of the...

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• Czechs mourn 14 dead, dozens wounded in the worst mass shooting in the country's history

  23-12-2023 World Washington Times - World 31

  People in the Czech capital were trying to come to grips Friday with the worst mass shooting in the country's history that left 14 dead and dozens...

• Storm brings strong winds to northern Europe, killing 2 people and disrupting transport

  23-12-2023 World Washington Times - World 35

  A storm brought heavy rain and strong winds across northern Europe overnight and into Friday, bringing down trees and prompting warnings of...

• Russian official says U.S. is hampering a prisoner exchange with unequal demands

  22-12-2023 World Washington Times - World 30

  A Russian deputy foreign minister said that talks with the United States on a potential prisoner exchange that would free Americans held in Russia...

• 3 foreign nationals are among the wounded after a Prague university shooting in which 14 died

  22-12-2023 World Washington Times - World 31

  Three foreign nationals were among the 25 people wounded when a student opened fire at a university in the Czech capital, Prague, shooting dead 14...

• Vatican prosecutor appeals verdict that largely dismantled his fraud case but convicted cardinal

  22-12-2023 World Washington Times - World 37

  The Vatican's chief prosecutor has appealed a court verdict that largely dismantled his theory of a grand conspiracy to defraud the Holy See of...

• New naval coalition a 'highway patrol' to thwart Houthi 'bandits' in Red Sea, Pentagon says

  22-12-2023 World Washington Times - World 30

  The Defense Department described Yemen's Houthi rebels as "bandits" preying on merchant ships passing through the "international highway" that is...

• Plagiarism charges dog Harvard President Claudine Gay on heels of antisemitism outcry

  22-12-2023 World Washington Times - World 33

  Harvard President Claudine Gay survived an antisemitism uproar only to be engulfed by a plagiarism scandal that threatens her brief term in the top...

• U.N.: More than 1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving because of war

  22-12-2023 World Washington Times - World 29

  More than half a million people in Gaza - a quarter of the population - are starving, according to a report Thursday by the U.N. and other agencies...