TOPSHOT - Police stand guard in front of the main gate of the National Assembly in Seoul on December 3, 2024, after South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law. South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol on December 3 declared emergency martial law, saying the step was necessary to protect the country from "communist forces" amid parliamentary wrangling over a budget bill. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced to death for a multi-billion-dollar fraud in April 2024 in one of the biggest corruption cases in history.
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Rescue workers and people search for bodies after landslides following heavy rains buried 40 homes in the mountainous district of Bulambuli, eastern Uganda, Thursday, Nov. 28. 2024. (AP Photo/Jean Watala)
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Four bodies recovered from capsized tourist boat off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, with 7 people still missing
Mali’s PM fired after criticizing prolonged junta rule, state TV says
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Missing hiker Sam Benastick was found on November 26 after he was reported missing on October 19 in the Canadian wilderness.
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‘Narco sub’ bound for Australia seized in massive international operation that netted 1,400 metric tons of drugs
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Venezuelan security forces have surrounded the Argentine embassy, opposition leaders say

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Death toll rises to 130 in northwest Pakistan sectarian violence, officials say
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Key boxes protected by a numerical code are hanging outside on an grid of the front door of an apartment building, for seasonal rental, airbnb, in the characteristic Trastevere district in the historic center of Rome,on November 19, 2024. Key boxes are used by landlords for vacation apartments. This allows the landlord to organize the arrival of guests flexibly without having to be on site in person. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP) (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)
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TOPSHOT - This photograph shows the nave, the western Rose window and the organ of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris, on November 29, 2024. The Notre-Dame Cathedral is set to re-open early December 2024, with a planned weekend of ceremonies on December 7 and 8, 2024, five years after the 2019 fire which ravaged the world heritage landmark and toppled its spire. Some 250 companies and hundreds of experts were mobilised for the five-year restoration costing hundreds of millions of euros. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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