Syria’s Alawite community: Once afraid, now living in fear?
Syria’s ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of a secretive religious minority, and they exploited the community’s fears and desires to remain in power. Source link
Putin apologizes to Azerbaijani president for ‘tragic’ plane crash
Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to Azerbaijan’s President for the fact that an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed in Russian airspace, the Kremlin said on Saturday. Dozens of passengers were killed and injured in the crash that aviation experts speculated was hit by Russian air defense systems responding to a Ukrainian drone attack. Source link
EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force
Electronics manufactures must from Saturday fit all devices sold in the EU with USB-C charger ports in a bid by the 27-nation bloc to reduce waste and cut costs for consumers, who will no longer have to purchase separate chargers for each device they own . Source link
Data is leaked about the new Nvidia GPUs
This week, technical aspects of Nvidia’s latest product were leaked, the company’s new graphics card, the RTX 5090, which is considered one of the most powerful and up-to-date on the market. The CES 2025 exhibition, which will take place in January 2025, will be the stage where these new GPUs will be presented. According to … Read more
Türkiye’s pro-Kurdish party to meet jailed PKK leader on Saturday
Istanbul- A delegation from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due to meet on Saturday with jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence on Istanbul’s prison island, a party source said. “The delegation left in the morning,” the source told AFP, without elaborating on how they would travel to the island … Read more
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala detained by police in Tehran
An Italian journalist who was reporting in Tehran has been detained by the Iranian police, Italy’s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. Cecilia Sala was reporting in the Iranian capital when she was detained on Dec. 19, the ministry said, adding that it was working with Iranian authorities “to clarify the legal situation of … Read more
Last major health facility in north Gaza ‘out of service’ after Israeli raid, WHO says
An Israeli military operation Friday targeting Hamas militants near the Kamal Adwan Hospital has put the last major health facility in northern Gaza out of service, the World Health Organization said. Source link
Who is Scott Stornetta and how is he related to Bitcoin?
In 1994, Stornetta and his partner Stuart Haber co-founded Surety Technologies. In 1995, the first commercial deployment of a distributed ledger was made. Stornetta and Stuart are the most cited authors in the Bitcoin white paper. In 2019, Stornetta and Haber spoke for a cryptocurrency conference. Currently, Stornetta is head of Yugen Partners, a company … Read more
UNICEF says record number of children affected by wars – DW – 12/28/2024
The UN children’s agency UNICEF said on Saturday that it is estimated that more children are living in conflict areas or being forcibly displaced than ever before. UNICEF estimates that more than 473 million children worldwide – one in six – live in areas affected by conflict. This has resulted in record numbers of children … Read more
2024 hottest year in history: A look at climate disasters across the globe
From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate disasters in 2024. This year is the hottest in history, with record-breaking temperatures in the atmosphere and oceans acting like fuel for extreme weather around the world. Source … Read more