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Biden and Netanyahu speak as pressure's on Israel over planned Rafah invasion and cease-fire talks
Biden and Netanyahu speak as pressure's on Israel over planned Rafah invasion and cease-fire talks
COMMENT: The sudden collapse of Syria’s brutal regime is a reminder how any leader can appear to be in power, until suddenly he isn’t, says Mary Dejevsky
In 2019, Time magazine named Greta Thunberg its youngest-ever Person of the Year, as world leaders and commentators all hastened to bask in the reflected glory of this new environmental star. Thunberg’s powerful influence was even dubbed the “Greta effect” thanks to thousands of students remaking themselves in her climate-warrior image. But, five years on, that blind hero worship of an increasingly militant Thunberg looks naïve at best and dangerous at worst.
Russia claimed the attack was in retaliation for Kyiv's use of US-supplied ATACMS missiles
Ruth Ben-Ghiat talked about the "personalist rule" and its worrying effects.
Russia organised for Bashar al-Assad to flee to Moscow via its air base on the Syrian coast as rebels broke into Damascus on Sunday, Kremlin sources have said.
Public sector workers will be handed another £1bn a year in pension contributions on top of their latest pay rise.
DAMASCUS/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa's Islamist group is stamping its authority on Syria's state with the same lightning speed that it seized the country, deploying police, installing an interim government and meeting foreign envoys - raising concerns over how inclusive Damascus' new rulers intend to be. Since Sharaa's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group swept Bashar al-Assad from power on Sunday at the head of a rebel alliance, its bureaucrats - who until last week were running an Islamist administration in a remote corner of Syria's northwest - have moved into government headquarters in Damascus. The appointment of Mohammed al-Bashir, the head of the regional government in HTS' enclave of Idlib, as Syria's new interim prime minister on Monday underlined the group's status as the most powerful of the armed groups that battled for more than 13 years to end Assad's iron-fisted rule.
Moscow on Wednesday accused Kyiv of firing US-supplied ATACAMS missiles on a military airfield in its southern Rostov region and threatened to retaliate. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine's "destructive" approach made peace impossible. Russia on Wednesday vowed retribution against Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of firing Western-supplied missiles on a military airfield in its southern Rostov region.President Vladimir Putin has previously threatened to launch a hypersonic ballistic missi
The president said he "learned something" from the president-elect.
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
The sudden collapse of the Assad government has raised questions about the future of Russia's military footprint in Syria.
As Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy make sweeping promises to cut $2 trillion dollars of federal spending, senior House Republicans have raised concerns with GOP leadership that efforts to cut wasteful federal spending will put the party on a collision course.
Romania and Bulgaria will become full-time members of the Schengen Area as of 1 January 2025, completing a process that dates back to 2011, when the European Commission declared both countries ready to join.View on euronews
The Russian leader is suddenly very much in favour of "adherence to international law".
Social media video surfaced Wednesday allegedly showing a warehouse in Syria stacked with captagon, an illicit drug that had transformed the country into a narco-state under former President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
The president-elect walked back what was always a wildly unrealistic campaign promise.
The president-elect's son congratulated Guilfoyle after he was apparently pictured holding hands with another woman.
Three key benefits will not increase in the financial year ahead.
Commenters also damningly recalled a brutal previous recipient of the title.
Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. For years, the Islamist rebels of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) had sat behind the nearby frontline, with Syria's long civil war frozen.