Notices by Voice of America (voanews@mastodon.social), page 2

▶️ Auckland has become the first major city to welcome 2025, with thousands of revelers counting down to the new year and cheering at colorful fireworks launched from New Zealand's tallest structure, Sky Tower, and a spectacular downtown light show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWJq7-c8izM
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Aviation experts said Thursday that Russian air defense fire was likely responsible for the Azerbaijani plane crash the day before that killed 38 people and left 29 survivors injured.

https://youtu.be/D0pmtRjQ_Jw
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Putin falsely boasts of having military alliances with 'most countries around the world'

https://www.voanews.com/a/putin-falsely-boasts-of-having-military-alliances-with-most-countries-around-the-world-/7915028.html

📷: Ukrainian paratroopers of the 80th Separate Galician Air Assault Brigade participate in the presentation of a 7.5-meter Trident, a Ukrainian national symbol, made of “didukh,” in Lviv, Dec. 23, 2024.

https://www.voanews.com/a/ukrainian-forces-destroy-36-russian-drones/7912194.html

China-Russia Arctic cooperation a US national security concern

https://www.voanews.com/a/china-russia-arctic-cooperation-a-us-national-security-concern/7899904.html

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday he plans to have Kari Lake, a politician and former Arizona journalist, appointed head of the international government-funded broadcaster Voice of America.

Trump announced on his social media platform Truth Social that Lake would be appointed director of VOA. Lake is a close political ally of the president-elect and a former anchor for a Fox News television station in Phoenix, Arizona.

https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-names-kari-lake-as-choice-for-voa-director/7899195.html

Footage from VOA's Turkish Service shows Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon celebrating the fall of ousted President Bashar Assad on Sunday.

Joyful crowds are seen waving the three-starred Syrian revolutionary flag and chanting anti-Assad slogans reminiscent of the earliest days of the Arab Spring uprising before Assad’s brutal crackdown and the rise of an insurgency plunged the country into a nearly 14-year civil war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qVOPkCLZuU
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📷: President Joe Biden and Chief Operating Officer of Lobito Atlantic Railway Nicolas Gregoire tour the Lobito Port Terminal in Lobito, Angola, Dec. 4, 2024.

👉 President Joe Biden got a first-hand look Wednesday at a U.S.-financed rail project that connects his personal love of railroads with his desire to leave a legacy in Africa that will outlive his administration.

https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-to-visit-us-financed-angolan-rail-hub/7886623.html

📷: Protesters hold EU and Georgian national flags during a demonstration in front of the Parliament building, against the government's decision to delay European Union membership talks amid a post-election crisis, in Tbilisi, Georgia, Dec. 1, 2024.

https://www.voanews.com/a/over-40-people-hospitalized-in-georgia-during-protests-over-suspension-of-eu-talks-/7883123.html
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‘We have taken risks to tell the stories,’ says press freedom awardee

https://www.voanews.com/a/we-have-taken-risks-to-tell-the-stories-says-press-freedom-awardee/7873482.html

Leaders of the world's largest economies ended their two-day G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro with a statement supporting the priorities of the Global South: climate change, poverty reduction and taxing billionaires.

https://www.voanews.com/a/g20-wraps-highlighting-global-south-issues/7870178.html
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President Joe Biden has for the first time authorized the use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine to strike inside Russia, according to people familiar with the matter.

The decision is a major U.S. policy shift and comes as Biden is about to leave office and President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to limit American support for Ukraine and end the war as soon as possible.

https://www.voanews.com/a/reports-biden-for-the-first-time-oks-ukraine-s-use-of-us-supplied-long-range-missiles-in-russia-/7867055.html
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Houthis fire missile toward Israeli base

https://www.voanews.com/a/houthis-fire-missile-toward-israeli-base-/7859492.html
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🔴 Kamala Harris delivers speech following defeat in US election to Donald Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdy1bGKfwZs #voanews

📌 ELECTORAL VOTES
🔴 Trump 292
🔵 Harris 224
A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win.
Source: AP/Reuters #VOAElections2024

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has secured at least 292 of the possible 538 electoral votes in Tuesday’s election, paving the way to becoming the country’s 47th president, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.

https://www.voanews.com/a/harris-trump-wait-as-key-states-count-presidential-election-vote/7853394.html

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VOA’s Carolyn Presutti reports from Florida, where former President Donald Trump will watch election results Tuesday night, while Celia Mendoza is at Howard University in Washington, where Vice President Kamala Harris will watch election results come in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTigd8Wta6Y

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🗳️ VOA is calling the state of Kentucky for Donald Trump.
Source: AP/Reuters #VOAElections2024
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-presidential-election-in-the-hands-of-voters-as-harris-trump-battle-for-white-house/7851761.html

🗳️ VOA is calling the state of Wyoming for Donald Trump.
Source: AP/Reuters #VOAElections2024
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-presidential-election-in-the-hands-of-voters-as-harris-trump-battle-for-white-house/7851761.html

FBI: Bomb threats against US voting locations appear to be coming from Russia

https://www.voanews.com/a/fbi-issues-new-disinformation-warning-as-us-voters-cast-ballots/7852418.html

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Millions of U.S. voters visited polling stations Tuesday to pick a new president.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CUg1lLBAV0

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