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LONDON — European stocks ended Friday in positive territory as investors digested the end of a choppy month. The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed the session 0.2% higher, with major bourses and most sectors in positive territory.November has been a volatile month for equities with fears of stretched AI valuations resurfacing, causing a rollercoaster of relief rallies and sell-offs adding to insights from the latest earnings season and uncertainty over monetary policy.However, global markets were buoyed this week by rising expectations of an interest rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve when it next meets on Dec. 9-10. Looking at individual…

Israeli forces executed two unarmed Palestinians at point-blank range after they surrendered in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday. The killings were captured on video, which showed the two men emerging from a building with their arms raised and their shirts lifted, clearly indicating they were unarmed and posed no threat to the soldiers. The troops then shoot them dead.  The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the victims as Al-Muntasir Billah Mahmoud Qassem Abdullah, 26, and Yousef Ali Yousef Asa’sa, 37. They were shot in the Abu Dhahir neighborhood of Jenin. Israeli forces withheld their bodies after the killings. New…

Israel is still waging a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza despite the fact that a ceasefire in the enclave is entering its second month and all living Israeli captives have been released, Amnesty International has said. “The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal,” Agnes Callamard, Amnesty’s secretary general, said in a statement on Thursday.  “While Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over,” she added. Amnesty in December 2024 deemed Israel’s war on Gaza a…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israeli forces in southern Syria raided a village and opened fire when they were confronted by residents on Friday, killing at least 10, Syrian media and officials said, as Israel fights on a number of fronts while the shaky ceasefire in Gaza moves forward.The Syrian state news agency SANA said Israeli forces entered the village of Beit Jin aiming to detain local men and opened heavy fire after protests by residents. Dozens of families fled the area.Israel said Friday it conducted an operation following intelligence information to apprehend suspects from Jamaa Islamiya, or Islamic Group, operating…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan on Friday expressed “deep regret” and strongly condemned a cross-border attack into neighboring Tajikistan that killed three Chinese workers and wounded a fourth.An initial assessment indicated that “this incident involves elements that are trying to create chaos, instability, and distrust between countries in the region,” said Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Hafiz Zia Ahmad Takal. He said Afghanistan “assures full cooperation with the government of Tajikistan and is fully prepared for information exchange, technical cooperation, and joint assessment to find the causes of the incident.”On Thursday, Tajikistan’s Foreign Ministry said the attack was carried out the…

Less than a month after Nvidia announced the plan, the government of South Korea has called the first meeting of a working group that will supervise the radical expansion of the nation’s AI infrastructure and advance President Lee Jae-myung’s ambition of making South Korea one of the world’s top three AI nations, along with the US and China. Lee also hopes that AI will spark new robust growth for the South Korean economy, which has recently been hit by Donald Trump’s tariffs and associated forced investment in the US. South Korean GDP grew 1.4% in 2023 and 2.0% in 2024,…

BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from flooding in southern Thailand has reached at least 145, officials said Friday, as receding waters started to reveal devastating damage across the region.More than 1.2 million households and 3.6 million people have been affected by floods triggered by heavy rains in 12 southern provinces, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said Friday.Government spokesperson Siripong Angkasakulkiat said in a news conference in Bangkok that flooding has killed 145 people in eight provinces, particularly in Songkhla province which recorded at least 110 deaths.He said search and rescue efforts have become more successful as floodwaters…

HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A fast-rising parallel film industry in India is competing with Bollywood’s musicals and action-packed films and has taken the world by storm: It’s called Tollywood.As Mumbai is to Hindi films — or Bollywood — the southern Indian city of Hyderabad is to movies made in Telugu, one of the country’s most widely spoken languages. Tollywood films like “RRR” and “Baahubali” have achieved international acclaim at the box office and on the awards stage.What is Tollywood? Visitors walk past the set of Bahubali in Ramoji Film City, in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Anti-corruption units have raided the home, and reportedly also the office, of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andrii Yermak. The unprecedented searches at the heart of Ukraine’s government come at a time when Kyiv is already under intense US pressure to sign a peace deal.Two national agencies fighting entrenched corruption in Ukraine said their searches targeted Yermak. Oleksii Tkachuk, a spokesperson for Yermak, said the anti-graft agencies had not served Yermak a notice of suspicion, meaning he was not a suspect in an investigation. Tkachuk added that Yermak had not been told what the…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 26, 2025, in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesThe Nasdaq Composite rose on Friday, scoring its fifth straight day of gains even as it recorded a losing month.The tech-heavy index advanced 0.65% to end the day at 23,365.69, while the S&P 500 gained 0.54% to settle at 6,849.09. The Dow Jones Industrial Average grew 289.30 points, or 0.61%, finish at 47,716.42. Wall Street came back from the Thanksgiving holiday for a shortened trading session Friday.”The mood is back to a bit more of a…