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The Pakistani Taliban says it carried out a deadly attack on a military checkpoint in the country's northwest

Officials say 22 people have been killed in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil

Officials say 30 people have been killed in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil

Officials say 37 people have been killed in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil

Officials say 38 people have been killed in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil

Police are treating a car-ramming at a Christmas market in Germany that killed at least five people as an attack

Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day

Authorities in Nigeria say 10 people, including four children, have been killed in a stampede in the capital city as a large crowd gathered to collect food items distributed by a local church at an annual Christmas event

Authorities in Nigeria say At least 13 people, including four children, were killed in two separate stampedes in the country, as large crowds gathered to collect food and clothing items distributed at annual Christmas events

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.”