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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
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Pope Francis arrived in Corsica, a stronghold of the Catholic faith, on Sunday, with locals hotly anticipating the first-ever trip by a pontiff to the French Mediterranean island. Sitting in a wheelchair and wearing his white vestments and skullcap, a smiling Francis was greeted on the tarmac by French Interior
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At Damascus’ international airport, the new head of security – one of the militants who marched across Syria to the capital – arrived with his team. The few maintenance workers who showed up for work huddled around Maj Hamza Al-Ahmed, eager to learn what will happen next. They quickly unloaded all the
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Thai police on Saturday said two suspects were in custody as authorities investigated a bombing in the north that killed at least three people and injured dozens of others. An explosive device was thrown into a crowd during an outdoor performance at an annual festival in Umphang town in Tak
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Jordan will host US, EU, Turkish and Arab diplomats on Saturday for high-level talks on Syria, a day after celebrations in Damascus and nationwide rejoicing at the ouster of president Bashar Assad. Syrians celebrated the day they called the “Friday of victory” with fireworks heralding the fall of the Assad
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Thousands of Syrians converged on a landmark Damascus mosque for Friday prayers, waving opposition flags and chanting — a sight unimaginable just days ago before rebels ousted president Bashar Assad. At the capital’s famed Umayyad Mosque, men, women and children gathered to celebrate on the first Friday prayers since Assad’
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Russia has carried out a massive attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in retaliation for Kyiv’s use of US-supplied ATACMS missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday. The ministry said that air- and sea-based long-range precision weapons and drones were used against “critical facilities of Ukraine’s fuel
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Chinese navy and coast guard ships have returned to China, signaling the end of a massive maritime exercise, Taiwanese authorities said Friday. Taiwan’s coast guard released images it said showed Chinese vessels sailing north in rough seas past the island on Thursday, on their way to China. “All the
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President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It’s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The commutations announced Thursday
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Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies “stand ready to support a transition process that leads to credible, inclusive, and non-sectarian governance” in Syria, a statement said on Thursday. The G7 said a political transition after the end of Bashar Assad’s 24-year authoritarian rule had to ensure
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South Korean police raided President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office on Wednesday as the investigation into his declaration of martial law gathered pace. Prison authorities, meanwhile, said the country’s former defense minister tried to kill himself shortly before his formal arrest over the events of the night of December
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Pope Francis called Wednesday for “mutual respect” between religions in Syria, three days after the country’s longtime president Bashar Assad was toppled by rebels in a lightning offensive. “I pray... that the Syrian people may live in peace and security in their beloved land and the different religions may
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French party leaders will gather at President Emmanuel Macron’s Elysee Palace office Tuesday afternoon in a bid to chart a route toward a new government, days after Prime Minister Michel Barnier was toppled in a confidence vote. Shutting out the far-right National Rally (RN) and hard-left France Unbowed (LFI)
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Eight people were killed and three more injured when a six-story residential building collapsed in central Cairo on Tuesday, Egypt’s health ministry said. Nine ambulances were dispatched to the scene as rescuers continue to “lift rubble and search for any wounded or bodies,” health ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar
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The Syrian militants now in power in Damascus appointed Mohammad Al-Bashir as head of a transitional government that will be in place until March 1, state media said Tuesday. On Sunday, the militants led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham seized the capital Damascus in a lightning offensive, toppling president Bashar Assad
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Israel will step up airstrikes on Syrian stores of advanced weaponry, Israeli officials said on Monday, and keep a ‘limited’ troop presence on the ground, hoping to head off any threat that could emerge in the fallout of President Bashar Assad’s overthrow. Israel has watched the upheaval in Syria