Newly restored Notre Dame cathedral held its first mass on Sunday, with Christians celebrating the return of the French capital’s most famous place of worship after a historic re-opening ceremony.The beloved Paris monument nearly burned down in 2019, but has been fully renovated inside and fitted with a new roof and spire during a frenzied …
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Brandishing the flag of the opposition, dozens of Syrian refugees in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Sunday celebrated the fall of Bashar al-Assad, dubbing the Syrian president’s fall a victory for the “revolution”.After nearly 14 years of civil war in their home country, Syrians gathered near the centuries-old citadel in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Arbil, many …
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Syria’s rebel leader hailed a “historic” victory Sunday from a landmark Damascus mosque after his Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group headed a lightning offensive, snatching the capital from government control in less than two weeks.His speech came as Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad fled — for Moscow according to Russian news agencies — triggering celebrations across …
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Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has fled Syria as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus Sunday, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the end of his oppressive rule.Russian news agencies late Sunday said Assad and his family were in Moscow.Crowds ransacked Assad’s luxurious home after the rebels earlier Sunday declared he had fled, in a …
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said Kyiv needed an “enduring” peace to protect it from Russia, after talks in Paris with US President-elect Donald Trump, who warned he would “probably” reduce aid to Ukraine.Trump had earlier said Zelensky was keen for a “deal” and called for negotiations to start.The pair met a day earlier …
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Donald Trump doubled down Sunday on hard-line campaign pledges to impose trade tariffs and carry out mass deportations, while dangling the idea that the United States could withdraw from NATO after he takes office next month.In his first formal television interview since the election — and just six weeks before Inauguration Day — Trump again …
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Reda al-Khedr was only five when his mother escaped the siege of Homs in 2014. A decade later in Cairo, he can hardly believe the Syrian government that killed his father has fallen.”I can barely remember Syria,” Khedr, now 15, told AFP in the Egyptian capital.”But now we’re going to go home to a liberated …
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Celebrations erupted around Syria and crowds ransacked President Bashar al-Assad’s luxurious home on Sunday after Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus and declared he had fled the country, in a spectacular end to five decades of Baath party rule.Assad’s whereabouts were not clear, but his key backer Russia said he had resigned from the presidency and …
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Donald Trump doubled down Sunday on hard-line campaign pledges to impose trade tariffs and carry out mass deportations, while dangling the idea that the United States could withdraw from NATO.In his first formal television interview — and just six weeks before he takes office — Trump again signaled that US support for Ukraine will scale …
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Romanian far-right candidate Calin Georgescu and over 100 supporters rallied at a Bucharest polling station to protest against the cancellation of Sunday’s presidential election, which a top court annulled after allegations of Russian interference.Georgescu unexpectedly topped the first round of voting for the presidency on November 24, sparking alarm in the NATO and EU member …
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