Fri 20 December 2024: The US on Friday said it will no longer be pursuing $10 million “Rewards for Justice” bounty on the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, Anadolu news agency reported. “I told him (HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa) we would not be pursuing the Rewards for Justice, reward […]
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Fri 20 December 2024: China today called on the US to close the Guantanamo detention facility and end its “illegal occupation” of Cuba. The US has “long unlawfully occupied part of Guantanamo Bay, and carried out arbitrary detention and used torture to extort confessions at the detention facility there,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said […]
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Fri 20 December 2024: Last Friday was memorable for millions of Syrians all over the world who celebrated the liberation of their land from the Assad dynasty. Many raised the original flag used in Syria after it was liberated from French occupation. The revolutionaries chose to use it 13 years ago and removed the flag […]
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Fri 20 December 2024: The 102 refugees, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee. More than 100 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar have been rescued while adrift on a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation by Sri Lanka’s navy, bringing them safely to port. The 102 people, including 25 children, […]
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Fri 20 December 2024: Mauritania and the European Union signed a €100 million ($103.6 million) agreement Thursday aimed at promoting development and combating irregular migration. The agreement was signed during a meeting in the capital Nouakchott between Mauritanian Minister of Economy and Finance Sidi Ahmed Ould Abouh and European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jozef Sikela, […]
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Fri 20 December 2024: The 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia will not allow football fans to buy or consume alcohol while attending matches, senior FIFA officials have revealed. Last week, FIFA awarded Saudi Arabia the hosting rights for the 2034 World Cup, marking the second year in which a Middle Eastern country hosts the world’s largest […]
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Thu 19 December 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin today denied that Russia’s nine-year intervention in Syria had been a failure, but expressed concern about Israel’s military operations there since the toppling of his ally Bashar Al-Assad, Reuters reports. Putin, addressing multiple questions on Syria at a marathon annual news conference, said Moscow had made proposals to the new rulers […]
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Thu 19 December 2024: At least 50 people killed in accidents on the same highway in Ghazni province between Kabul and southern Kandahar city. Two bus crashes in central Afghanistan have killed at least 50 people and injured dozens more, according to officials. The accidents took place on the same highway in Ghazni province between […]
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Thu 19 December 2024: The trade of the illegal drug has flourished over the past decade in Syria. What happens to it now? Following its ousting of the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria last week, the opposition alliance led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) invited international reporters to witness vast stockpiles and clandestine factories of the […]
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Thu 19 December 2024: At least 32 children have been confirmed dead during a stampede at a carnival in the southwestern Nigerian state of Oyo, officials said Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday at the Bashorun Islamic High School in the state capital of Ibadan. While spokesperson Dotun Oyelisa confirmed to journalists that 32 […]
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