Syria’s long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents took control of Damascus over the weekend and toppled the 50-year Assad regime. On Tuesday, Syria’s new interim leader announced he was taking charge of the country as caretaker prime minister with the backing of the former rebels who toppled President Bashar al-Assad three days ago….
CNN — The Justice Department secretly obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 staffers – including Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI – during sweeping leak investigations during Trump’s first term, according to a watchdog report released Tuesday. The new report from the Justice Department’s inspector general raises…
Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s military has charged a former spy chief with “engaging in political activities”, in essence accusing him of working with ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan to destabilise the nation. The chargesheet against retired Lieutenant-General Faiz Hamid, the former head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), follows months of investigations and proceedings under the Pakistan Army Act….
Top Senate Democrat warns mass deportations ‘would damage our economy and separate American families’ Democratic Senate judiciary committee chair Dick Durbin kicked off the hearing into Donald Trump’s plan for mass deportations by warning that such an effort would inhumane, prohibitively expensive and harmful to the US military. Trump and his advisers have proposed using…
Tel Aviv, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stand Tuesday in his long-running trial for alleged corruption, setting off what’s expected to be a weekslong spectacle that will draw unwelcome attention to his legal woes as he faces an international arrest warrant for war crimes and the fighting in Gaza continues. It is…
Olga Rudnieva Rudnieva has provided prostheses and trauma therapy to over 1,000 amputees Serhiy Petchenko lost both hands while defending Ukraine from Russian invaders in June 2023. After surviving the bitter months-long battle for the city of Bakhmut, his injury came in a railway incident further from the front line. It left the 42-year-old feeling…
CNN — The Democrats’ last line of defense against Republican inroads among working-class voters is continuing to crumble. Even labor unions, which have provided Democrats their best vehicle to reach blue-collar voters, could not prevent Donald Trump from making big gains among their members without a college degree in last month’s presidential election. Trump ran…
The election of Donald Trump this year shattered a long-standing piece of conventional wisdom in American politics: that Latinos will vote overwhelmingly for whichever party has the more liberal approach to immigration, making them a reliable Democratic constituency. This view was once so pervasive that the Republican Party’s 2012 post-election autopsy concluded that the party…
CNN — The Biden White House is working increasingly closely with officials from the incoming administration as it races to try to reach a ceasefire and hostage deal to halt the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas before Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions. In…
“They chose disorder,” said French President Emmanuel Macron, referring to the right- and left-wing politicians who last week jointly voted in favour of a no-confidence vote which toppled the government. Speaking to the nation in a televised address on Thursday, Macron highlighted that his opponents had chosen “an anti-Republican front” by removing Prime Minister Michel…