For more than a decade, the United States has sought to keep out of Syria’s political debacle, seeing no viable partner. Islamist rebels’ toppling of strongman Bashar al-Assad has forced a change of tune — and a debate over just what US interests are.Donald Trump, who returns to the White House in little more than …
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Thousands of pro-European protesters rallied against Georgia’s government Tuesday for a 13th consecutive day, after the European Union warned it could punish authorities for their crackdown on demonstrators.Waving EU and Georgian flags and loudly blowing horns and whistles, demonstrators gathered outside parliament to voice outrage at the government’s decision to shelve its push to join …
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Brazil’s 79-year-old President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was in “stable” condition after emergency surgery Tuesday for an intracranial hemorrhage and should leave the hospital next week, his doctors said.Lula was taken late Monday to Brazil’s top medical facility, Hospital Sirio-Libanes in Sao Paulo, after experiencing headaches that medics found were related to a fall …
A missile strike Tuesday hit a private clinic in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least four people and wounding more than a dozen, officials said, as Russia steps up attacks in southern regions partially under its control.Southern Ukraine has seen intensified strikes in recent weeks, reinforcing fears of a new Russian offensive.”A rescue …
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Syria’s new transitional prime minister on Tuesday said it was time for “stability and calm” in the country, two days after longtime president Bashar al-Assad was toppled by rebels in a lightning offensive.The rebels appointed Mohammad al-Bashir as the transitional head of government to run the country until March 1, a statement said.US Secretary of …
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A French prosecutor Tuesday demanded two years of house arrest for a filmmaker accused of sexually assaulting an actor when she was a child, after an outburst from the plaintiff over his denying the allegations.Adele Haenel, 35, has accused filmmaker Christophe Ruggia, 59, of assaulting her in the early 2000s when she was between 12 …
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China is deploying dozens of ships in its biggest maritime mobilisation around Taiwan in years, Taipei said Tuesday, after Beijing voiced fury at President Lai Ching-te’s recent visit to the United States.Taiwanese forces were on high alert in anticipation of Beijing’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) staging war games in response to Lai’s US stopovers and …
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After locking carbon dioxide in its frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic tundra is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by frequent wildfires that are turning it into a net source of carbon dioxide emissions, a US agency said Tuesday.This stark shift is detailed in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2024 Arctic Report Card, which …
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Brazil’s 79-year-old President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is recovering from emergency surgery after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage, has a long history of health problems and mishaps.But just as in politics, the hyperactive leftist — who is half-way through his third term — has bounced back from every misfortune.- Lost a finger -In 1964, …
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Israel’s bombing of Syrian military assets and its entry into the UN-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights show it fears the worst from the end of the Assad clan’s rule, analysts told AFP. “The Israeli government… is operating on a worst-case scenario with little to no nuance,” said Yossi Mekelberg, a Middle East specialist …
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