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The United States on Wednesday condemned the ongoing detention of current and former local staffers of the US embassy in Yemen by the Houthis.

The US dollar fell against other major currencies after the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates. The Fed will likely pause its easing cycle in January.

Officials, speaking with Reuters on the condition of anonymity, said the US Coast Guard led the operation, and did not name the tanker or where the interdiction took place.

Iceland, which has never won the song contest, will join Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Slovenia in their boycott of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest.

The order by US District Judge Richard Berman came one day after another judge granted a similar request in the case of Epstein associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.

According to the Bulgarian court, insufficient security guarantees were provided, and Lebanon did not provide sufficient evidence to ensure that the death penalty would not be imposed on the suspect.

A 13-year-old boy shot the man who had slaughtered 13 of his relatives three times.

The three countries, along with other European partners and Ukraine, have been working frantically in the last few weeks to refine the original US-backed peace proposal.

Last week, the man seen at the heart of efforts to establish anti-Hamas forces - Yasser Abu Shabab - was killed in southern Gaza's Rafah area.

OHCHR has $90 million less in funding than it needed this year, which resulted in 300 job cuts, directly impacting the office's work, Turk said.