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Beijing’s top diplomat Wang Yi told his Egyptian counterpart that China is “deeply concerned” about the situation in Syria.Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Wang held a joint press conference at Beijing’s Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, wrapping up a two-day trip for “strategic dialogue”. “The two sides are deeply concerned about the current situation in Syria and …

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Eight-year-old Rayan Assani knows next to nothing about Syria, but in a few minutes, the little girl with long black hair and a Barbie backpack will cross the border and head for her family’s native Aleppo.”It’s going to be pretty,” she said, speaking Arabic in a barely audible voice, clutching her pink earmuffs in her …

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G7 leaders will attempt Friday to forge a common approach to the new government of Syria, which has pledged to protect the rule of law after years of abuses under ousted president Bashar al-Assad.Assad fled Syria after a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies, which brought a …

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South Korea’s opposition leader warned his ruling party colleagues on Friday that “history will remember” if they do not back the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, with just over 24 hours until a vote to remove him from office.Yoon’s short-lived imposition of South Korea’s first martial law in over four decades plunged the country’s …

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The nearly two-year-long, $2 billion Eras tour shattered records, made history and quite literally triggered earthquakes — so what could Taylor Swift, the planet’s biggest star, possibly do next?”Taylor Swift just needs to rest, frankly,” said Andrew Mall, an ethnomusicologist at Northeastern University.It’s a wholly reasonable sentiment when you look at what the megastar, who …

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Syria’s new leadership said Thursday it was searching for abducted US journalist Austin Tice and had secured the release of another American it said had been held by the ousted government.In 2022, US President Joe Biden accused Syria of holding Tice, a freelance photojournalist detained near Damascus a decade earlier, and demanded that the government of …

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Thursday said he discussed with French President Emmanuel Macron the possibility of stationing foreign troops in Ukraine in case of a ceasefire, but that Warsaw was not currently “planning any such actions”.Macron for his part called for a path out of Russia’s war in Ukraine — which has been …

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People with missing teeth may be able to grow new ones, say Japanese dentists testing a pioneering drug they hope will offer an alternative to dentures and implants.Unlike reptiles and fish, which usually replace their fangs on a regular basis, it is widely accepted that humans and most other mammals only grow two sets of …

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Former China men’s national football team coach Li Tie has been jailed for 20 years, state media reported Friday, following a lengthy trial on corruption charges.Former Everton player Li “was sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of 20 years at an initial trial”, state news agency Xinhua said, without giving further details.Chinese President Xi Jinping has …

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G7 leaders will meet virtually Friday to discuss the momentous changes underway in Syria, where the interim government has vowed to institute the “rule of law” after years of abuses under ousted president Bashar al-Assad.Assad fled Syria after a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies, which brought …

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