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Hyundai plans to begin commercial production in the first half of 2025 in the massive plant in Bryan county, west of Savannah, that will have an annual capacity of 300,000 units.

"The conditions here are not great," truck driver-turned-grunt soldier who goes by "Uncle" said after ending up on the front lines of the battle for Kherson.

Qatar, the first Middle Eastern country to host the World Cup, has come under intense international criticism for its treatment of foreign workers and restrictive social laws.

At her trial, she pleaded guilty to the charges but said she had made an "honest mistake" and had not meant to break the law.

The tradition originates in Nepal, where street dogs are prevalent and dog welfare is struggling.

Sunak, Britain's youngest prime minister for more than 200 years and its first leader of colour, will replace Liz Truss who resigned after 44 days following a "mini budget" that sparked turmoil in financial markets.

Only 20 million people in the United States have received an updated COVID vaccine, and just one in five seniors, the White House said last week.

The disaster occurred at about 1 am (2200 GMT Monday) at the Salama School for the Blind in the Mukono district, east of the capital Kampala.

Addressing the conference by video link, Zelenskiy said Russian missiles and Iranian-made drones had destroyed more than a third of the country's energy infrastructure, making it vulnerable in the short term and delaying European integration.

Around 10 million people were without power in 15 coastal districts, while schools were shut across southern and southwestern regions.

It was unclear if the assessment from the US, UK and other countries was based on a new threat or because of incidents that had already occurred.

So far, the death toll across the country from the Ebola epidemic declared in late September has climbed to 44, according to World Health Organisation figures issued last week.

On October 23, 2002 -- as the second Chechen war was raging in southern Russia -- armed militants burst into Moscow's Dubrovka theatre during a sold-out performance of the musical "Nord-Ost."

Many women do not consider the 45-year-old an ally, pointing to her advocacy of traditional family values, including her opposition to abortion, and what they see as her failure to challenge the social status quo.

The former Portuguese colony has been limping for nearly three years as coronavirus restrictions have kept away mainland Chinese tourists, depriving the gaming sector of its chief revenue source and tanking the wider economy.

A mostly Congolese Tutsi group, the M23 resumed fighting in late 2021 after lying dormant for years. It has since captured swathes of territory in the Central African country's North Kivu province, including the strategic town of Bunagana on the Ugandan border in June.

Lead inspector Aisha Muhammad, a Supreme Court judge in the Maldives, said Australia was in "clear breach" of its international obligations.

Two bodies, of a minor and an adult, were recovered on Saturday, though they have not yet been identified.

The unveiling of the Standing Committee and the 24-member Politburo comes a day after the closing of the Communist Party's 20th Congress.

Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke with his British, French and Turkish counterparts to convey "concerns about possible provocations by Ukraine with the use of a 'dirty bomb'," Moscow said, referring to a weapon that uses traditional explosives to scatter radioactive material.

Gunfire erupted after an explosives-laden vehicle rammed into the gate of the port city's Tawakal Hotel. The al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group said it had carried out the attack.

The attack took place on a remote road in the so-called "three borders" region between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso plagued by jihadist insurgents linked with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.

According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC), Roslyn hit land as a Category 3 hurricane at 5:20 a.m. local time (1120 GMT) near Santa Cruz in northern Nayarit, a Pacific coastal state home to popular tourist beaches like Sayulita and Punta Mita.

Inflation in the 19-nation eurozone climbed to an all-time high of nearly 10 percent in September, five times the ECB's target of two percent.

The claim came as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian troops were preparing to destroy a hydroelectric dam in the southern Kherson region in what would amount to a "catastrophe on a grand scale".

Annual food price inflation picked up to 85.8% from 84.6% in August, while prices of non-food items rose 62.8%.

In a television address, Zelenskiy said Russian forces had planted explosives inside the huge Nova Kakhovka dam, which holds back an enormous reservoir that dominates much of southern Ukraine, and were planning to blow it up to cover their retreat.

Retail sales volumes tumbled 1.4 percent as sky-high prices curbed consumer purchasing. The figure was better, however, than the 1.7-percent slide in August.

General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co hope their earnings reports next week will convince skeptical investors that their decade-long efforts have succeeded at unchaining them from the U.S.