Mon 30 December 2024: Public squares across Syria have been filled with people raising the green flag of independence, from the Umayyad Mosque Square in Damascus to Daraa in the south, Aleppo, Hama and Homs in the north and Latakia on the coast. The Syrians have rejoiced in the success of their revolution against the […]
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Sun 29 December 2024: “I don’t consider myself a Syrian liberator but everyone who offered sacrifices liberated the country,” he said, adding that the Syrian people saved themselves. In an interview with Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya television, Shara addressed the nation’s ongoing challenges, the transition to constitutional governance, and future elections. Al-Sharaa, who led the opposition offensive […]
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Sun 29 December 2024: More than 112,000 Syrians forcibly disappeared under the Baath regime remain unaccounted for, with evidence suggesting many were killed in detention, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reported. The scale of torture and extrajudicial executions in Syrian prisons has been increasingly revealed following the collapse of the 61-year Baath Party […]
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Sun 29 December 2024: The crash occurred as the Jeju Air flight from Bangkok, Thailand, landed at Muan International Airport in South Korea. At least 176 people have been killed when a passenger plane caught fire after skidding off a runway and crashing at an airport in South Korea’s Muan city, the country’s National Fire […]
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Sun 29 December 2024: More children than ever have been forcibly displaced from their homes due to conflict, according to the UN agency. About 473 million, or more than one in six children, are estimated to live in conflict areas worldwide, according to the United Nations children’s agency. UNICEF’s statement came on Saturday as conflicts […]
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Sun 29 December 2024: The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Wednesday reported a 25% rise in human trafficking globally in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic levels. In its “2024 Global Human Trafficking” report, the UNODC highlights a sharp increase in trafficking for forced labor and criminal exploitation, exacerbated by poverty, conflict, and climate […]
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Sat 28 December 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday had a phone call with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev about this week’s Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan, and gave an apology and condolences. “Vladimir Putin apologized for the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deep and sincere condolences […]
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Sat 28 December 2024: US President-elect Donald Trump petitioned the Supreme Court on Friday to delay the sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or face a nationwide ban, according to officials. “In light of the novelty and difficulty of this case, the court should consider staying the statutory deadline to grant more […]
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Sat 28 December 2024: The commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned that children in Gaza are freezing to death due to the cold weather and a severe lack of shelter. “Gaza babies are freezing to death due to cold weather and a lack of shelter,” Philippe Lazzarini wrote in a […]
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Sat 28 December 2024: The United States saw a dramatic rise in homelessness at the start of 2024, counting 18% more unhoused people during its annual tally in January than the year before, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud) reported on Friday. Cities reported counting a total of 771,480 unhoused people in […]
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