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Hounded by photographers for years, Bardot identified with the animals she later set out to save 12/28/2025 07:09am • PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot felt each pop of the flashbulb like the impact of a high-powered rifle bullet. And so it was, she said, that years of implacable hounding by the world’s paparazzi turned a woman idolized as a sultry sex kitten into a militant animal rights crusader. Bardot, who died Thailand's political parties name prime minister candidates for February election 12/28/2025 06:41am • BANGKOK (AP) — Political parties in Thailand on Sunday registered their candidates for the next prime minister, marking the unofficial start of campaigning for the Feb. 8 general election. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved Parliament earlier this month to call early polls, after the mai Polls open in Central African Republic’s general elections with the incumbent likely to win a third term as president 12/28/2025 03:05am • BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Polls open in Central African Republic’s general elections with the incumbent likely to win a third term as president. Thailand and Cambodia sign a new ceasefire agreement to end border fighting 12/27/2025 11:12pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand and Cambodia signed a ceasefire agreement on Saturday to end weeks of fighting along their border over competing territorial claims. The agreement took effect at noon and calls for a halt in military movements and airspace violation for military purposes. 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Heise worked her way into the left Chilly Gaza braces for more winter rain and word of any progress in ceasefire talks 12/27/2025 05:00pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza ’s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents on Saturday for another round of winter rain. Some families in the central town of Deir al-Balah said they had been living in tents for about two years, or Brazilian judge puts coup plot convicts under house arrest after former police commander flees 12/27/2025 02:13pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian judge on Saturday issued house arrest orders for 10 people who have been convicted and sentenced for participating in a plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in power after he lost the 2022 election. The decision by Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes came j CES 2026: The more things change, the more they stay the same 12/27/2025 12:38pm • CES in Las Vegas is the world’s largest gathering of professionals from across the entire technology ecosystem. Each year, the biggest names in consumer tech converge on Sin City alongside thousands of emerging innovators, developers and startups. And while that scene reliably unfolds every Jan Saudi-led coalition in Yemen warns United Arab Emirates-backed separatists of immediate action 12/27/2025 10:14am • CAIRO (AP) — The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen warned Saturday it would immediately respond to any military movements of separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates that undermine de-escalation efforts in the southern region of Yemen, as the United States urged diplomacy. “Any military moveme Today in History: December 27, Benazir Bhutto assassinated 12/27/2025 04:10am • Today is Saturday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2025. There are four days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 27, 2007, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a shooting and bomb attack that killed at least 20 people in the city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Also on this GLIMPSES: Prepping polling machines ahead of Myanmar's weekend election 12/27/2025 02:36am • YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Officials from Myanmar's Union Election Commission prepped polling stations on Saturday for the following day's election. In these images from photographer Thein Zaw at one school-turned-polling place in the capital, Yangon, workers tested voting machines and made sure every Anonymous money fuels $5 million in attacks on Georgia's Lt. Gov. Burt Jones 12/27/2025 12:03am • ATLANTA (AP) — It's the biggest mystery in Georgia politics right now: Who's paying for the attacks on Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones? Someone operating under the name “Georgians for Integrity” has dumped around $5 million into television ads, mailers and texts. The attacks claim Jones, who al Cambodia reports Thai air strikes as the 2 nations hold peace talks 12/26/2025 11:59pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodia reported that Thailand hit a site in the country's northwest with an airstrike on Saturday, even as the two countries held talks to try to put an end to renewed combat that erupted in early December just months after a ceasefire ended a previous round of border fighting. Ca J. Edgar Hoover Building to close for good as FBI relocates its HQ, Patel says 12/26/2025 06:47pm • After 50 years as the FBI's main headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building in D.C. is closing permanently, Director Kash Patel announced Friday. "We finalized a plan to permanently close the FBI’s Hoover headquarters and move the workforce into a safe, modern facility," Patel said in a pos