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Two workers, an 18-year-old man and a woman, died on December 15 while cleaning the kitchen of a McDonald's in Pueblo Libre, in the Lima province.

Photographs from the crash site published by media showed the damaged plane with large cracks in its body next to a house half-demolished by the impact.

Indonesia was hardest hit with at least 170,000 killed, though the true death toll is likely to be higher as many bodies have yet to be recovered or identified.

Initial results showed Benjamin Netanyahu comfortably beating rival Gideon Saar, though a final tally was expected to take several hours.

The move comes at a time when Israel is faced with its third unprecedented elections, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clinging onto power.

The lake is near the border with Iran, from where migrants regularly cross into Turkey, heading west towards Europe.

Anthony Oluseye Akinyemi, 56, died Saturday after being found unresponsive in his cell at the Worcester County Jail in Snow Hill, Maryland, according to a Monday news release from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Inhabitants fled their homes in the middle of Christmas Eve festivities, some losing all their belongings and even pets.

Donald Trump spoke with deployed members of the military on Tuesday, and one asked him about his appearance in the Christmas film.

For more than six decades, NORAD, a combined US and Canadian military command, has offered real-time animated tracking of Santa Claus, also known as Kris Kringle, as his reindeer-powered sleigh traverses the globe delivering Yuletide gifts to children.

Of the 11 unnamed individuals indicted in the case, five were sentenced to death, three face jail terms totalling 24 years, and the others were acquitted.

A search and rescue operation launched on Sunday retrieved five people alive from Lele cave in West Java after heavy rain hit the area and flooded it, authorities said.

New methods were needed to help 'reposition our ways of thinking and our attitudes', the pope warned in his traditional Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia, the Vatican's top administrative body.

The case of Anna Sacoolas has been a thorn in London's close relations with Washington, stirring up debates over the limits of diplomatic immunity in cases unrelated to national security.

So far, there was no report of any loss to life or property. However, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the magnitude of the tremor was 6.1.

Malaysia's extraordinary 1MDB corruption scandal allegedly saw top officials loot billions from a state fund and go on a worldwide spending spree - buying up super-yachts, paintings by Van Gogh and Monet and financing a Hollywood blockbuster.