China Media Group (CMG) on Sunday unveiled its picks for the top 10 international news stories of 2024, covering a wide range of topics. https://www.cctvplus.com/news/20241229/8409968.shtml#!language=1 | CCTV

1.4M views · 27K reactions | "They should know that our retaliatory strikes will be lightning-fast." President Putin warns against countries interfering in the war in Ukraine and said that Russia had been able to withstand the "illegitimate sanctions" imposed by the West. | Channel 4 News | Facebook

133K views · 45 shares | China launches Chang'e-5 to collect, return moon samples China on Tuesday launched a spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon, the country's first attempt to retrieve samples from an extraterrestrial body. A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 spacecraft, blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan at 4:30 a.m. (Beijing Time), Nov. 24, 2020. | CCTV | Facebook

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