Syria’s new rulers have appointed a foreign minister as they seek to build international ties, two weeks after Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power, the official Syrian News Agency, or SANA, said on Saturday. SANA said the ruling General Command had named Assad Hassan al-Shibani as foreign minister. A source in the new administration told … Read more
The Flamanville 3 EPR nuclear reactor, France’s most powerful to date, finally began providing electricity to French homes on Saturday after a plethora of technical setbacks led to a 12-year delay and a four-fold increase in the project’s overall cost. Source link
Israeli emergency services said Saturday that 16 people were injured when a rocket fired from Yemen overnight hit Tel Aviv. According to the Israeli military, the attempt to intercept the rocket had failed. Yemen’s Houthi rebels later claimed responsibility for the attack, their second in as many days. He said it was carried out with … Read more
Islamabad — The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday claimed an overnight attack on an army post near the border with Afghanistan, which intelligence officials said killed 16 soldiers and seriously injured five others. A senior intelligence official told AFP on condition of anonymity that the siege began after midnight and lasted about two hours as about … Read more
World leaders share heartfelt messages online to pay tribute to the victims of the tragic Magdeburg Christmas market attack. Source link
German officials hunted for clues on Saturday after a 50-year-old Saudi national with a history of anti-Islamic comments drove his car into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least two people, including a small child, and insulting at at least 60 others. Source link
A car barreled through a Christmas market crowd in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday December 20. The suspect of the incident is thought to be a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who moved to Germany in 2006. Our correspondent Nick Holdsworth tells us more. Source link
A delegation of US diplomats on December 20 met with representatives of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, marking the first in-person official meeting between the US and Syria’s new de facto rulers amid uncertainties over the county’s political future following Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. Source link
Germany is in shock after a deadly car-ramming attack in Magdeburg, with questions being raised about the suspect and motive. A man drove his vehicle into revelers at a Christmas market in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Friday evening, killing four people and seriously injuring dozens of others, police said. Local media reported how … Read more
A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on December 21, killing at least two people and injuring at least 60 others in what authorities called a deliberate attack. Source link