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President Joe Biden is to allow Ukraine to launch strikes inside Russia using American-supplied

long-range missiles, according to reports.

America has been reluctant to grant such permission for fear of Russian escalation.

The decision follows the deployment of North Korean troops

alongside Russians and comes amid fears that Donald Trump, America's president-elect, could soon wind

down support for Ukraine. The news came after Russia hit Ukraine's power infrastructure in a massive

missile attack. Several regions, including Kiev, were without power on Sunday.

Israeli strikes on a residential block in Bait-Lahia in the north of the Gaza Strip reportedly

killed dozens of Palestinians. The Israel defense forces said they had conducted several strikes

on terrorist targets. Separately, a strike on a building in Beirut,

Lebanon's capital, was reported to have killed Muhammad Afif, head of media relations for

Hezbollah and a ram-backed militant group. Germany's Greens picked Robert Habek as their

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