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Seven guests fell ill after drinking a cocktail prepared at a bar in the five-star Warwick Fiji resort on the Coral Coast. — Picture from Facebook/Warwick Fiji

Fiji says seven foreign guests now stable, after hospitalised from drinking cocktails in luxury hotel

Extra edition newspapers are displayed at a subway station gate in downtown Seoul on December 14, 2024, after the impeachment motion against South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was passed. — AFP pic

South Korea court begins impeachment review of Yoon as authorities seek to calm political, economic uncertainties

Policemen set up barricades in front of the Constitutional Court in Seoul on December 16, 2024, as the court is set to hold its first meeting of its justices to review the parliamentary impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol. — AFP pic

North Korea state media labels South’s impeached president Yoon as ‘ringleader of rebellion’

Director of Prisoner Development of the Directorate General of Corrections of the Republic of Indonesia Erwedi Supriyatno (second right) and Australian Representative, Minister-Counsellor Home Affairs, Regional Director South-East Asia, Lauren Richardson (second left) holding the signed transfer of 'Bali Nine' prisoners. — AFP pic

Remaining members of Australian ‘Bali Nine’ drug ring say ‘relieved and happy’ to be home after 19 years in Indonesia prison

Israeli military vehicles cross the fence as they return from the buffer zone with Syria, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on December 10, 2024. — AFP pic

Amid Syrian chaos, Israel plans to double the population of its occupiers in Golan Heights after seizing buffer zone

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during a news conference following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on December 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. — AFP pic

We’re on it, US official says as country anxious over mysterious drone sightings near New York and New Jersey (VIDEO)

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, waves while leaves the Sirio-Libanes Hospital after a surgery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 15, 2024. — Reuters pic

‘Here in one piece’: Brazil’s Lula all smiles after discharged from hospital following emergency head surgery

Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accused Ireland of “extreme anti-Israeli policies”. — Reuters pic

‘We’re pro-peace’: Ireland shrugs off Israel’s plan to close embassy, as Dublin continues pro-Palestine policies

French Leader of French MoDem centrist party and Mayor of Pau Francois Bayrou poses in Paris on April 27, 2016. Emmanuel Macron named Francois Bayrou Prime Minister, the Elysee presidential Palace announced on December 13, 2024.  — AFP pic

Macron taps Bayrou as new PM to handle fractured parliament but faces same old problems

Investigators arrive at a Gendarmerie Police station as French Gendarmes stand next to a vehicle (right) said to be that of the alleged killer, who reportedly turned himself in at the police station, in Ghyvelde, northern France December 14, 2024. Five people were killed on December 14, 2024 in northern France, according to the French Gendarmerie, to which a person surrendered to the authorities at the end of the day, indicating that he committed the murders. — AFP pic

Man arrested after confessing to five murders in less than two hours as French police probe motive

A satellite image shows a view of the Crimea bridge in Kerch Strait, July 17,2023. A Russian oil tanker carrying thousands of tonnes of oil products split apart during a heavy storm today, spilling oil into the Kerch Strait, while another tanker was also in distress after sustaining damage. — Picture courtesy of Maxar Technologies/Handout via Reuters

Russian tanker splits apart in Kerch Strait storm, spills oil, another damaged, one dead

File picture of a miner working underground at a hard coal deep-cast mine in the village of Stonava October 14, 2024. A coal mine collapsed in northern Afghanistan trapping 32 miners. — Reuters pic

Afghan coal mine collapse traps 32 miners, rescuers working to save them

Officials from the White House, FBI and DHS yesterday stressed that most of the recent reported drone sightings in New Jersey and nearby states involved manned aircraft, and there was no evidence of any national security threat. — Reuters pic

FBI: Majority of ‘mystery’ drone reports in North-east linked to manned aircraft, no national security threat

People exit a metro entrance as the sun sets in Beijing December 11, 2024. The city’s rail transit network currently boasts 522 stations, including 98 interchange stations. — AFP pic

Beijing adds three new metro lines, further easing downtown traffic

Pope Francis attends the third edition of the Living Nativity Scene of Rome of the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major, in Rome December 14, 2024. — AFP pic

Francis makes first visit by a pope to Corsica

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol bows after giving a public address from his official residence in Seoul December 14, 2024. — AFP pic

South Korean opposition urges swift removal of impeached President Yoon