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US officials said Friday that Syria’s new leaders had assisted in the hunt for missing journalist Austin Tice, with searches underway at sites of interest. US diplomats, paying the first visit to Damascus since Islamist-led rebels toppled strongman Bashar Assad earlier this month, said they told the new Islamist-led
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Demonstrators supporting and opposing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol held rival protests several hundred meters apart in Seoul on Saturday, a week after he was impeached over his short-lived declaration of martial law. Yoon’s presidential powers are suspended but he remains in office. He has not complied with
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A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, leaving at least two people dead and injuring at least 68 others in what authorities suspect was an attack. The driver of the car was arrested, German news agency dpa reported, citing
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The Biden administration on Friday canceled another $4.28 billion in student debt for nearly 55,000 public service workers, the US Department of Education said in a statement. Friday’s action brings the total public service student loans forgiven to about $78 billion for nearly 1.1 million workers,
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Russia said it targeted arms industry and security service targets in strikes on Kyiv on Friday as a “response” to this week’s Ukrainian strikes using Western missiles on a chemical plant in southern Russia. “In response to the actions of the Kyiv regime, supported by its Western handlers, a
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Beijing on Friday warned Berlin against “manipulation and smearing” China in spying cases, after German police opened an espionage probe into a Chinese national. “We hope that the German side will... stop using so-called espionage cases to engage in manipulation and smearing, and earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests
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Government forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed five suspected militants in a gunbattle on Thursday, the Indian military said. Soldiers and police launched a joint operation after receiving a tip that rebels were hiding in a village in southern Kulgam district, the military said in a statement. The militants opened “indiscriminate
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday arrived in Mayotte to assess the devastation wrought by Cyclone Chido on the Indian Ocean archipelago, as rescuers raced to search for survivors and supply desperately needed aid. His visit to the French overseas territory comes after Paris declared “exceptional natural disaster” measures for
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A British teenager on Wednesday had not guilty pleas entered on his behalf to charges of murdering three young girls in a knife attack in northern England in July, a crime that horrified the nation and was followed by days of nationwide rioting. Axel Rudakubana, 18, did not speak when
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Turkish rescue workers have ended their search for survivors in Syria’s notorious Saydnaya prison, their leader said Tuesday, after finding no detainees languishing in any hidden cells. Located just north of Damascus, the prison became a symbol of rights abuses under president Bashar Assad, who was ousted by Islamist-led
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The first flight since the ouster of Syria’s president Bashar Assad took off on Wednesday from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the country’s north, AFP journalists saw. Thirty-two people including journalists were on board the plane. Assad fled Syria as a lightning rebel offensive wrested from his control
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Syrian caretaker Prime Minister Mohammad Al-Bashir told Al Jazeera TV on Tuesday that Syria has very low foreign currency reserves. Current and former Syrian officials have told Reuters that the dollar reserves have been nearly depleted because Bashar Assad’s government increasingly used them to fund food, fuel and its
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A bomb killed a senior Russian general in charge of nuclear protection forces and another man in Moscow on Tuesday, the RT state media group said on Tuesday, citing an unidentified law enforcement source. Russian media said the that Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who is chief of Russia’s Nuclear,
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The Israeli military said sirens sounded across central Israel on Monday as it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen. “One missile launched from Yemen was intercepted before crossing into Israeli territory,” the military said in a statement. An AFP journalist reported that sirens sounded in Tel Aviv, the main commercial
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Rescuers raced against time Monday to reach survivors after a devastating cyclone ripped through the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, destroying homes across the islands, with hundreds feared dead. Images from Mayotte, which like other French overseas territories is an integral part of France and ruled from Paris, showed
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EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday Brussels had put forward a list of Georgians to sanction over a crackdown on pro-Western protesters, but Hungary was set to block the measures. “We have proposed the list for sanctions for these people who are... using really force and violence against