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By Ece Toksabay and Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey is opening its Yayladagi border gate with Syria to manage the safe and voluntary return of the millions of Syrian migrants it hosts, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, after President Bashar al-Assad’s sudden ouster by rebels. In one of the biggest turning points for the …

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(Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has invited five major tech companies, including Google, Microsoft and Meta Platforms to a meeting in mid-December about dealing with online sales of drugs, The Information reported on Sunday. A representative for Jim Carroll, the drug czar during Trump’s first term, and Trump’s transition team emailed staffers from the …

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By Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The downfall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, found to have used chemical weapons against his own people on multiple occasions during the civil war, creates an opportunity to rid the country of banned munitions, diplomatic sources said on Monday. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) -As the commander of al Qaeda’s franchise in the Syrian civil war, Abu Mohammed al-Golani was a shadowy figure who kept out of the public eye, even when his group became the most powerful faction fighting to topple Bashar al-Assad. Today, he is the most recognisable of Syria’s triumphant rebels, having gradually stepped …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli shelling hit a hospital in northern Gaza, wounding several people, damaging equipment and disrupting surgeries, Palestinian health officials said on Sunday, but Israel’s military denied carrying out strikes in the area. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the town of Beit Lahiya – one of …

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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis appealed on Sunday for U.S. authorities to commute the sentences of death row prisoners, in an unusual request during his weekly Sunday prayer in St. Peter’s Square. “Today, it comes to my heart to ask all of you to pray for the prisoners in the United …

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