Tue 31 December 2024: The US on Monday pledged nearly $6 billion in combined security and economic assistance to Ukraine as part of its ongoing effort to support the country’s defense amid the war with Russia. “Today, I am proud to announce nearly $2.5 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, as the Ukrainian people continue […]
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Mon 30 December 2024: Russia and Ukraine on Monday swapped 300 prisoners of war, the Russian Defense Ministry announced. A statement by the ministry said that 150 Russian servicemen have been returned by Kyiv, and all of them are being provided with psychological and medical assistance in neighboring Belarus. The statement further said that all […]
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Mon 30 December 2024: Thousands of South Koreans have canceled their flight tickets after a deadly airliner crash that claimed 179 lives, local media reported on Monday. Jeju Air Co. revealed that around 68,000 flight reservations had been canceled, among them over 33,000 were for domestic flights, while over 34,000 were for international routes, according […]
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Mon 30 December 2024: Ukraine’s top diplomat met with Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of Syria’s new administration, during an unannounced visit to the country’s capital Damascus, local media reported on Monday. Syrian state news agency SANA reported on X that al-Sharaa hosted a high-level Ukrainian delegation led by Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, without providing further details on the meeting’s […]
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Mon 30 December 2024: The press wing of the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government said many of these incidents happened ‘between August 5 and August 8 when there was no government’. New Delhi: Bangladesh has called figures given by India’s Ministry of External Affairs in the parliament on purported attacks on Hindus in the neighbouring country “misleading […]
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Mon 30 December 2024: UN says more than 690,000 women and girls in Gaza require menstrual hygiene products, as well as clean water and toilets. For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy. Women struggle to dress modestly while crowded […]
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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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