WEDNESDAY, 25 DECEMBER 2024, 15:10
The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has freed at least thousands of people detained in Syria’s notorious prisons. Some of them have made it back home. Other families are still looking.
Georgian lawmakers elected Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, as the country’s new president on Saturday, setting him up to replace a pro-Western incumbent amid major protests against the government over a halt to
South Korea’s parliament impeached Presisdent Yoon Suk Yeol for his attempt to impose martial, the first time such a measure had been imposed on the nation in more than four decades.
South Korean lawmakers on Saturday voted to remove President Yoon Suk Yeol from office for his failed attempt to impose martial law last week.
South Korean lawmakers vote Saturday on whether to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, in a second parliamentary showdown that remains too close to call.
Lawmakers are set to vote for a second time on an impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk Yeol over his controversial Dec. 3 martial law decree.
Travis Timmerman, the missing American found wandering barefoot in the Syrian capital after being released from prison – is going home. NPR were there when for the moment he was welcomed home.
Travis Timmerman, a U.S. citizen found wandering barefoot in Damascus after being freed from a Syrian prison following the fall of the Assad regime, was handed over to U.S. forces in Syria on Friday.
Sweden’s government on Friday said that it was launching a project to chart the different types of racism in society and assess the level of Swedes’ intolerance towards minorities.
President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist leader Francois Bayrou as prime minister, handing him the daunting task of hauling France out of months of political crisis.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered the military to “prepare to remain” in the UN-patrolled buffer zone between Israeli and Syrian forces on the strategic Golan Heights throughout the winter.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he discussed with French President Emmanuel Macron the possibility of stationing foreign troops in Ukraine in case of a ceasefire.
An Israeli strike killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded 50 others who were sheltering in a post office in central Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the enclave to 66.
President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview published on Thursday that he disagrees “very vehemently” with Ukraine firing US-supplied missiles deep into Russia.
Taiwan said it detected 16 Chinese warships in waters around the island, one of the highest numbers this year, as Beijing intensifies military pressure on Taipei.
Israeli forces conducted a first withdrawal from a town in south Lebanon and were replaced by the Lebanese military under a ceasefire deal, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said.
Western governments are “quietly optimistic” about the sudden transition in Syria, but the militant past of its new Islamist leaders has left foreign capitals scrambling for a strategy and anxious about the future, analysts say.
Private doctors will be barred from offering puberty-blocker drugs to under 18-year-olds struggling with gender identity, widening an existing ban in the state health system, the UK government said on Wednesday.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the toppling of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was the result of a plan by the US and Israel.
Human trafficking has risen sharply due to conflicts, climate-induced disasters and global crises, according to a United Nations report.
South Korea’s police chief became the latest top official to be arrested, Yonhap news agency said, in a widening investigation into President Yoon Suk Yeol’s failed martial law.