Organizing elections in Syria could take up to four years and drafting a new constitution could take three years, Ahmed al-Sharaa, the rebel leader who ousted President Bashar al-Assad from power, said in an interview broadcast by Saudi state media on Sunday. Source link
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said that Russia unintentionally shot down an Azerbaijani Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people. Aliyev said on Saturday that the Kremlin had tried to “hush up” Russia’s involvement in the incident. Source link
Andrei Kotov, a Russian man who organized travel tours for LGBTQ+ people, has died in pre-trial detention in Moscow, rights groups and Russian media said on Sunday. In November 2023, Moscow added the “LGBT movement” to its list of banned extremist groups, a move that effectively outlawed LGBTQ+ activism. In January, a nightclub owner was … Read more
New York – If you’re planning to celebrate the New Year quietly at home, you’re not alone. Most American adults intend to celebrate New Year’s Eve at home, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. “As I’ve gotten older over the years, it’s like if I don’t make … Read more
Outgoing Georgian President Salomé Zourabichvili became the country’s first female president in 2018 with the support of the governing party Georgian Dream. Now, six years later, with the ruling party becoming more pro-Russian despite its promises of further European integration, pro-EU Zourabichvili is pushed out of the presidential palace to make way for Mikheil Kavelashvili, … Read more
An infant died of hypothermia in Gaza on Sunday – the fourth to die of cold in recent weeks according to local health officials. Thousands of displaced families in the Palestinian territory are struggling to stay warm as temperatures plummet. Source link
The appearance of German social media star and footballer Nader Zindaoui at a waffle store in Berlin on Sunday sparked a panic, police said. What happened? Jindaoui plays for Bundesliga II side Hertha Berlin. Before the rampage, he addressed his one million followers on TikTok and Instagram and announced that he would be visiting a … Read more
Experts are questioning whether a collision with a bird could have caused an airliner crash that killed 179 people in South Korea on Sunday after a Boeing 737-800 belly landed at Muan International Airport before skidding down the runway and into a brick wall, where it exploded into flames. Source link
paris- At least three migrants died early Sunday while attempting to cross the English Channel from northern France to Britain, officials said. The deaths were confirmed after an early-morning rescue operation with the help of French emergency services and the Navy’s “Dauphin” helicopter. According to the regional prefecture, about 50 people were stranded in the … Read more
Afghanistan’s Taliban leader has ordered that new residential buildings are constructed without windows looking onto “places usually used by women” and said that existing windows with such views should be blocked to prevent “obscene acts”. Source link