Getty Images Trump begins his second presidential term in January and has told NBC he will issue a range of new executive orders President-elect Donald Trump has said he will look at pardons for those involved in the 2021 US Capitol riot on his first day back in office next month. “These people are living…
AFP Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani spoke to supporters at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus hours after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani has dropped that nom de guerre associated with his jihadist past, and been using his real name, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in official communiques issued since Thursday, ahead of the fall…
India Shipping Ministry/X A 3D modelling of the proposed port to be built on the remote Great Nicobar island “The forest is our supermarket,” says Anice Justin. “We get almost everything from the forests on these islands. It is what we survive on.” Mr Justin, an anthropologist, has grown up in the Andaman and Nicobar…
Getty Images Canadian tourists, such as these taking part in an exercise class, are vital to the Cuban tourism sector With winter nights drawing in across North America, Canadian “snowbirds” – citizens who flee their freezing temperatures for sunnier climes every year – are planning their annual trips to Florida or the Caribbean. Traditionally, Cuba…
Syrians rush to notorious Saydnaya prison in search of relatives Footage has shown prisoners being freed from Syria’s most notorious military prison, Saydnaya, after rebels took control of the country. Video verified by AFP showed Syrians rushing to see if their relatives were among those released from Saydnaya, where thousands of opposition supporters are said…
Police have released two new images of a suspect in the hunt for the gunman who killed a health insurance chief executive in New York. UnitedHealthcare boss Brian Thompson, 50, was shot in the back as he made his way to a conference on Wednesday, in what police believe was a targeted attack. On Saturday,…
Some 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, Volodymyr Zelensky has said in a rare admission of the extent of the nation’s casualties. In a post on social media, the Ukrainian president said 370,000 injuries had been reported, though this figure included soldiers who had been hurt more than once and…
A Syrian herself, BBC Middle East correspondent Lina Sinjab says this is the first time she has crossed into the country “without fear of detention, without fear of arrest”. Earlier, she watched as civilians and rebels celebrated the fall of the Assad regime. The BBC is the only UK broadcaster reporting from inside Damascus. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/e220/live/dc1244b0-b584-11ef-a0f2-fd81ae5962f4.jpg…
Harry Langer/DeFodi Images via Getty Images ‘Raygun: The Musical’, was to be a parody about Rachael Gunn’s journey to the Olympics Australian breaker Rachael Gunn’s legal team has stopped a musical parody about her journey to the Paris Olympics from taking to the stage. The show titled ‘Raygun: The Musical’ was created by Australian comedian…
AFP Syrian rebel fighters and their supporters celebrated after entering Damascus with no resistance on Sunday The Assad family ruled Syria for more than 50 years with an iron fist. Now that has come to an end. Bashar al-Assad became president after the death in 2000 of his father Hafez, who had ruled for almost…
