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Treatment for gender dysphoria aims to help people live the way they want to, in their preferred gender identity or as non-binary.

Some young trans, intersex, and gender non-binary people may decide to take puberty blockers after talking about it with their parents or guardian and a nurse or doctor.

A Russian warship fired at a German army helicopter that was on a reconnaissance flight over the Baltic Sea.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to get Mexico to do more to stop the flow north of fentanyl, which has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. He has threatened to impose steep tariffs if he does not see curbs on fentanyl trafficking and illegal migration. Mexican authorities said on Wednesday they had apprehended over 5,200 migrants across the country on Tuesday, signaling a further ramp-up in enforcement aimed at stopping migrants from reaching the U.S. border.

The Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan has lost her appeal against the death penalty for masterminding a multibillion-dollar fraud scandal – though she could still save her life if she can repay most of the funds she embezzled.

Lan, who founded the real-estate developer Van Thinh Phat, was sentenced to death in April for embezzling $12bn (£9.95bn) from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB), in a case that shocked the country.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday, vowing to eliminate “anti-state” forces as he struggles against an opposition that controls the country’s parliament and that he accuses of sympathizing with communist North Korea.

“It was a challenge many deemed impossible, yet one we will have met on,” French President Emmanuel Macron said as he visited the medieval monument.

An al-Qaeda-affiliated group ambushed and killed Wagner Group mercenaries in central Mali, according to a statement from the group cited by the Associated Press.

The attack, which occurred on November 21, was confirmed by a Malian security official, who told the Associated Press that the mercenaries were targeted at a checkpoint. According to the source, there were fatalities, though he did not specify the number.

A UN Security Council report has found that since the Taliban resumed ruling Afghanistan in 2021, the country has returned to being a shelter for terrorist organizations, increasing the chances of conflict on the Afghanistan-Iran border

The al-Qaida terrorist organization is having a resurgence in Afghanistan under the ruling Taliban, setting up eight new training camps alongside five madrasas, Islamic educational institutions, around the country, a report from the UN Security Council in late January has revealed.

At the center of an escalating arms race, Ukraine wants to join the ranks of a select group of countries that can produce ballistic missiles.

This week, Kyiv struck Russia for the first time with long-range missiles supplied by the West, using U.S.-made ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles in two successive strikes. Russia responded Thursday by launching an intermediate-range ballistic missile.

Five Israeli missiles have flattened a residential building in a densely populated area in the heart of Beirut, state media reported, as Israel presses on with its offensive against Hezbollah that has killed thousands of civilians.

At least 15 people were killed and 63 others wounded, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said on Saturday.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.

It was spotted on Thursday east of Dublin and south-west of the Isle of Man but Norwegian, US, French and British navy and air defence services initially observed it accompanying a Russian warship, the Admiral Golovko, through the English channel last weekend.