In the corridors of Damascus’s main hospitals, thousands of families have gathered for the foreboding mission of trying to find the bodies of loved ones captured years ago by the Syrian authorities.”Where are our children?” women cried out as they grasped at the walls, desperate for closure after their years-long ordeal.But no such closure was …
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Medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) said Wednesday it would partially resume its activities in Haiti’s violence-wracked capital Port-au-Prince, less than a month after suspending its operations over threats to its staff.Haiti has suffered from decades of instability but the situation escalated in February when armed groups launched coordinated attacks in Port-au-Prince to overthrow then-prime …
Syria’s new prime minister said the Islamist-led alliance that ousted president Bashar al-Assad will “guarantee” the rights of all religious groups and called on the millions who fled the war to return home.Assad fled Syria after a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies, which brought to a …
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday urged the release of protesters “arbitrarily” arrested in a crackdown on pro-EU demonstrations in Georgia, in telephone talks with the billionaire former premier Bidzina Ivanishvili, the Elysee said.Macron condemned “intimidation” of civil society as well as police violence “against peaceful demonstrators and journalists”, the Elysee said after the rare …
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French President Emmanuel Macron raced Wednesday to meet a self-imposed 48-hour deadline to name a new prime minister after he hosted party bosses in a bid to hammer out a consensus and avoid a protracted political crisis.Following the ouster of the government of Michel Barnier in a historic no-confidence vote last week, Macron on Tuesday …
Rescuers were working Wednesday to find people under the rubble of a building destroyed in a Russian attack the day before that killed eight people, Ukrainian officials said.The attack on Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday was the latest in an intensifying series of strikes on southern Ukraine, reinforcing fears of a new Russian offensive in the area.”So …
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A feared Sudanese militia chief “willingly and enthusiastically” participated in war crimes, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor charged Wednesday, laying out searing accusations of rape, murder, and torture.Prosecutor Karim Khan was summing up in the case of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known by the nom de guerre Ali Kushayb, facing 31 charges of …
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South Korean police said Wednesday that security guards were blocking a raid on President Yoon Suk Yeol’s offices to investigate his brief imposition of martial law, with the opposition party accusing the presidential staff of illegally protecting an insurrectionist.Yoon is already banned from foreign travel as part of an “insurrection” probe into his inner circle …
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China has expanded military drills around Taiwan aimed at drawing “a red line” for the next US president, Taipei authorities said on Wednesday, branding Beijing a “troublemaker”.Beijing’s biggest maritime drills in years involve about 60 warships and 30 coast guard vessels deployed from near the southern islands of Japan to the South China Sea, a …
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Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte partied with journalists Wednesday as she thumbed her nose at an official inquiry into allegations she plotted to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos, her estranged ally.Hosting what she called a “thanksgiving” lunch for scores of journalists at her office instead of meeting with government investigators, she accused the government of plotting to …
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