Parker Solar Probe is operating normally after passing just 6.1 million kilometres above the Sun’s surface, NASA says.
More targets bombed in Yemen; another missile fired at Tel Aviv.
Many who fled the civil war hope to return, as Syrians hold day of remembrance for victims of al-Assad regime.
Sanctions come amid mass protests against the Georgian government’s decision to pause EU accession efforts.
Visit by Canada’s foreign affairs and finance ministers comes as country hopes to avoid 25-percent US tariffs.
Court in southern China’s Zhuhai that sentenced Fan Weiqiu, 62, said his ‘criminal motive was extremely despicable’.
Holes and pockmarks on the plane, an arrest and history are all prompting suspicion of Russia.
Cecilia Sala, 29, who works for Il Foglio and Chora Media, was arrested in Tehran on December 19, authorities said.
Health officials say they have lost contact with staff at the northern Gaza hospital after Israel forced 350 people out.
Eugene Spector, a US citizen born in Russia, has been sentenced to 15 years in a maximum security Russian penal colony.
Skeletal remains discovered in Mexican border state of Chihuhua taken to lab for possible identification, officials say.
The makeshift boat was carrying about 80 people when it capsized on December 19, Malian authorities said.
As year comes to an end, Trump’s resurgence reveals voting trends that could define US politics in the years ahead.
A tense calm prevails after checkpoints were set up by the new security forces in the country’s third-largest city.
