A car-ramming attack on a German  Christmas market killed five people and wounded more than 200, Saxony-Anhalt  state premier Reiner Haseloff said on Saturday, updating the toll. Chancellor Olaf Scholz,  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       US immigration authorities deported 270,000 immigrants last fiscal year. A few weeks before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the US President, such information was revealed in official statistics on  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Turkey was set to reopen its embassy in Damascus on Saturday, nearly a week after president Bashar al-Assad was toppled by forces backed by Ankara, and 12 years after the  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Thursday said he discussed with French President Emmanuel Macron the possibility of stationing foreign troops in Ukraine in case of a ceasefire, but that  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Britain, France and Germany have raised the possibility of restoring sanctions against Iran to keep it from developing its nuclear program. In a letter to the UN Security Council seen  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Australia will force Meta and Google to pay for news shared on their platforms under a new scheme unveiled Thursday, threatening to tax them if they refuse to strike deals  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       The World Health Organization voiced alarm Thursday at recent attacks in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region, which it said had killed dozens of people and injured many more. “The most recent  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Time Magazine on Thursday named US President-elect Donald Trump its “person of the year,” marking the second time he has won the accolade. “For marshaling a comeback of historic proportions,  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       Syria’s new prime minister said the Islamist-led alliance that ousted president Bashar al-Assad will “guarantee” the rights of all religious groups and called on the millions who fled the war  
                       
				  
                                                            
				
					
					
				    
                       A volcano briefly erupted in the central Philippines on Monday, sending a huge ash column high into the sky as the government ordered the evacuation of surrounding villages. Rising more