Thu 26 December 2024: The wife of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been given a fifty percent chance of survival, according to media reports. Asma al-Assad was kept in isolation to “avoid infection” and was prohibited from sharing a room with others, a report by the British Daily Telegraph newspaper said. Her leukaemia had […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: Syria’s new interim government is reportedly set to demand $300 billion in compensation from Iran for the damage it caused to the war-torn country throughout the civil war. According to the outlet Al-Modon, an unnamed source close to Syria’s new post-Assad administration as saying that a compensation of $300 billion is intended […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: Israeli army forces staged an incursion into a strategic area in southern Lebanon on Thursday, in the latest violation of a cease-fire agreement, Lebanese media said. Israeli forces moved into the Wadi al-Hujeir area, firing heavy-caliber machineguns during their advance in the region, the state news agency NNA reported. The Lebanese […]
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Wed 27 December 2024: The UAE has emerged as Africa’s largest backer of new business projects, with Emirati companies committing $110bn (£88bn) to projects between 2019 and 2023, including $72bn in renewable energy, The Guardian reports citing FT Locations. These pledges outpace investments by the UK, France, and China, as traditional investors scale back. African leaders have […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: Pope Francis has denounced the “extremely grave” humanitarian situation in Gaza while appealing for the release of captives and a ceasefire in the war-torn coastal enclave. In his Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and world) address on Wednesday at the Vatican, Francis also appealed for peace in Ukraine and Sudan. “I […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: Israeli soldiers are increasingly engaging in acts of brutality and war crimes in Gaza, with the appearance of more “callous” and “ideologically violent” troops, according to a detailed analysis published in Haaretz by Professor Yoel Elizur, former chair of the Council of Psychologists and emeritus professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: A UK-based Syrian rights group today said that it has compiled a list of around 16,200 members of the ousted Assad regime accused of committing crimes against civilians. “The ousted Assad regime committed serious violations that affected millions of Syrians,” the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a statement. […]
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Orthopaedic surgeon Mohammed al-Hanash watches a video from April 2018 of Muwafaq Nisrin, who worked as an emergency responder and nurse, providing assistance to a victim in Douma © Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP Tue 24 December 2024: Two Syrian doctors and a nurse told AFP in a series of interviews over the weekend that Bashar al-Assad’s […]
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Tue 24 December 2024: The fate of some Israeli hostages is tied to the Israeli army’s advance in areas of northern Gaza, said the spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, on Monday. Abu Ubaida’s comments came in several statements on Telegram shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed there had been “certain […]
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Tue 24 December 2024: The Kremlin on Monday denied media reports that the British-born wife of ousted Syrian regime leader Bashar al-Assad is seeking divorce and planning to leave Russia. “No, they do not correspond to reality,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in the Russian capital of Moscow in response to a question on […]
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