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It's beginning to look a lot like visitor overload in Rovaniemi, where an onslaught of tourists arrives each year at Christmas time,

Thousands of Palestinians are estimated to be missing during the 14-month war, highlighting the opacity in how the military keeps track of who it separates or detains.

Palestinian medics say one of the strikes ripped through a home in Beit Lahiya, killing 19 displaced people sheltering in the isolated north.

An official says former Defense Minister Kim Yong Hyun attempted to kill himself but failed to do so.

A former South Korean defense minister has been formally arrested over his alleged collusion with President Yoon Suk Yeol and others in imposing martial law last week.

The testimony is another low point for Israel's longest-serving leader, who also faces an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Israel's war in Gaza.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had surgery for an intracranial hemorrhage that may be linked to a fall at home in October.

Syria's prime minister says most cabinet ministers are still at work after rebels overthrew President Bashar Assad.

Critics accuse Israel of violating its 1974 ceasefire with Syria for a potential land grab, following the dramatic downfall of President Bashar al-Assad.

Half a century of rule by the Assad family in Syria has crumbled with astonishing speed.