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The TelegraphFall of the House of Assad, with a billion-pound fortune and blood on its hands
He didn’t look like a dictator. Awkward and gangly, his mannerisms unassuming, at least until he opened his mouth, Bashar al-Assad exuded none of the machismo of other Arab strongmen like Muammar Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein.
- Evening Standard
Bashar al-Assad to see 'precipitous fall in living circumstances' after fleeing Syria into exile in Moscow
People have looted his palaces in Damascus after he was deposed
- Associated Press
Trump calls for immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and says a US withdrawal from NATO is possible
Donald Trump on Sunday pushed Russian leader Vladimir Putin to act to reach an immediate ceasefire with Ukraine, describing it as part of his active efforts as president-elect to end the war despite being weeks from taking office. “Zelenskyy and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness," Trump wrote on social media, referring to Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In a television interview that aired Sunday, Trump also said he would be open to reducing military aid to Ukraine and pulling the United States out of NATO.
- CNN
Syrian rebel leader’s victory speech holds a message for Iran – and for Trump and Israel too
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s road to Damascus has been long. He has talked openly about his change along the way. From young al Qaeda fighter two decades ago, to rebel commander espousing sectarian tolerance.
- HuffPost
Adam Kinzinger Has Defiant 3-Word Response To Donald Trump’s Jail Threat
The former Republican congressman issued a brutal summary of the president-elect’s comments about the House Jan. 6 committee.
- HuffPost
'So F**king Tacky': Donald Trump Slammed Over 'Gross' Bid To Cash In On Jill Biden Photo
Critics ripped the president-elect over a post on his Truth Social platform.
- HuffPost
Sarcasm Levels Skyrocket Over Alina Habba’s New Trump White House Gig
Donald Trump’s announcement sparked an outpouring of snark.
- Wales Online
Drivers using 'simple' methods to make cars look invisible to speed cameras
The special reflective number plates cannot be read by speed and bus lane cameras and are illegal
- The Telegraph
Thousands of police officers face losing their job, Yvette Cooper warned
Police chiefs have warned Yvette Cooper that thousands of officers’ jobs will have to be cut because of a funding shortfall.
- HuffPost UK
Keir Starmer Warned Labour's Mandate For Change Is Based On A 'Time Bomb'
And that's not because of a threat from the right.
- The Daily Beast
Liz Cheney Claps Back at Trump’s Jail Threat
Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has clapped back at President-elect Donald Trump after he threatened to imprison her and other members on the congressional committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots. In an interview on NBC’s Meet The Press that aired Sunday morning, Trump claimed that Cheney, along with a “committee of political thugs” deleted all the evidence from their investigation. “Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-selec
- Reuters
Demand for UK workers crashes in budget aftermath, REC survey shows
(Reuters) -Demand for workers in Britain collapsed last month after the new Labour government's first budget, a survey published on Monday showed, adding to other signs of the impact of the tax increases on employers. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation trade body and accountants KPMG said their index of demand for staff slid to 43.9, the lowest reading since August 2020, from October's 46.1. "It should be a surprise to no-one that firms took the time to re-assess their hiring needs in November after a tough budget for employers," REC Chief Executive Neil Carberry said.
- The Daily Beast
Trump Sends Warning Shot to Putin as He Hails That ‘Assad is Gone’
With the regime of his Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad toppled in Damascus, Russian leader Vladimir Putin received a public warning from President-elect Donald Trump, who urged him to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine before the conflict there becomes “far worse.” “Assad is gone,” Trump wrote, in an early Sunday morning post on Truth Social. “He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer. There was no reason for
- The Hill
Trump on Syria conflict: ‘This is not our fight’
President-elect Trump heavily criticized Syrian rebels for their move to overtake the city of Damascus on Saturday, but emphasized that this was not America’s fight. “Russia, because they are so tied up in Ukraine, and with the loss there of over 600,000 soldiers, seems incapable of stopping this literal march through Syria, a country they…
- Sky News
As Assad falls, the power dynamics of this troubled, volatile region will utterly change
Not when it comes to events currently under way in Syria, a country straddling the fault lines of the Middle East. The collapse of the Assad regime will be the most significant event yet in the upheaval that's followed the 7 October attacks by Hamas in Israel last year. It will be the end of a brutal reign of terror that has lasted since the Assad family, under patriarch Hafez Assad, seized power in the early 1970s.
- Sky News
Assad fall 'not surprising' as Russia and Iran decided to throw 'Syria under the bus'
The Syrian government has collapsed, falling to a rebel offensive that seized control of the capital Damascus and sent crowds into the streets to celebrate. What unfolded was "not that surprising", according to Sky's defence analyst Professor Michael Clarke. From a military point of view it is what tends to happen, he said, citing similar scenarios in the Libyan civil war in 2011, and in Iraq in 2014 - when Islamic State fighters "were at the gates of Baghdad within weeks".
- BuzzFeed
16 People Who Voted For Donald Trump Are Sharing Exactly Why They're Already Questioning Their Decision
"I could care less about politics; that crap is for the 1% type of people who are rich."
- Reuters
Israel says it will destroy Syria's heavy strategic weaponry
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 al-Assad's overthrow. Israel has watched the upheaval in Syria with a mixture of hope and concern as it weighs the consequences of one of the most significant strategic shifts in the Middle East in years. While Assad's fall wiped out a bastion from which Israel's arch-foe Iran had exercised influence in the region, the lightning advance of a disparate group of rebel forces with roots in the Islamist ideology of Al Qaeda poses risks.
- The Independent
Trump tensions with Starmer increase over Chagos deal amid fears of nuclear weapons ban
Exclusive: Trump team see Chagos deal row as ‘day one issue’ for new administration as it is unclear whether nuclear weapons will still be allowed at the Diego Garcia base
- CNN
Who is Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader whose family ruled with an iron fist for more than 50 years?
Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lighting rebel advance cap an astonishing reordering of power in a strategically vital Middle Eastern nation.