26 h. ago Ecuador's President Noboa reveals plot to poison him with toxic chocolate in second 'assassination attempt' weeks after his motorcade came under fire

The 37-year-old leader said that laboratory tests found three 'highly concentrated' toxic substances in the sweets and said their presence 'could not have been accidental.'

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41 h. ago What to know about the French militants who clashed with Syrian forces in Idlib

Clashes have erupted between Syrian government forces and foreign fighters in Idlib, Syria

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66 h. ago Druze community in Syria's Idlib province on edge after targeted shooting kills 3

The Druze minority in Syria's Idlib province is reeling from a targeted shooting that killed three community members

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3 d. ago World Bank estimates $216B needed to rebuild Syria after civil war

The World Bank says rebuilding Syria after over a decade of civil war could cost about $216 billion

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4 d. ago Russia in mass food poisoning outbreak as 90 hospitalised with most being children

A mass outbreak of food poisoning has struck down almost 90 people, including 49 children after food below acceptable standards hit shelves in Russia

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4 d. ago Iraq says some US military advisers will stay due to IS threat in Syria

Iraq’s prime minister says a small group of U.S. military advisers will stay in the country to coordinate with U.S. forces in neighboring Syria against the Islamic State group

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8 d. ago Syrian Kurdish forces reach agreement with Damascus to merge with national army, commander says

The Syrian government and the main Kurdish-led force in the country's northeast have agreed in principle to merge the U.S.-backed force into the national army

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9 d. ago Syrian president in first visit to Moscow as former enemies hold talks

Ahmed al-Sharaa in effort to diversify alliances while Putin seeks to safeguard military interests in SyriaThe Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, travelled to Moscow on Wednesday for talks with Vladimir Putin, marking their first meeting since the fall of the Kremlin ally Bashar al-Assad and his subsequent exile in Russia.The talks underscored Moscow’s efforts to safeguard its military foothold in Syria and forge relations with the new rulers in Damascus, with both sides taking a pragmatic approach despite having been enemies only a year ago. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Keira Knightley says she was ‘not aware’ of JK Rowling boycott calls before joining Harry Potter audiobooks

Actor, who voices Dolores Umbridge in the new full-cast recordings, says she hopes ‘we can all find respect’ amid renewed controversy over Rowling’s views on trans rightsKeira Knightley said that she was “not aware” of demands to boycott JK Rowling prior to joining the cast of the new audiobook versions of the Harry Potter series.Knightley was speaking to Decider to promote her new Netflix movie The Woman in Cabin 10 (in which she plays a Guardian reporter), and was asked if she knew that “some fans are calling for a Harry Potter boycott”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Secret Colosseum tunnel used by Roman emperors reopens after nearly 2,000 years

It is believed Emperor Commodus survived an assassination attempt while walking through the tunnel

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2 w. ago UN strives to work with new Syrian government to determine the fate of the missing

The head of a U.N. body established to determine what happened to potentially hundreds of thousands of people missing in Syria says it's essential to find a way to work together with a new Syrian commission

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2 w. ago Greta Thunberg among 171 Gaza flotilla activists deported by Israel; ceasefire negotiations due to begin in Egypt – Middle East crisis live

Activists deported to Greece and Slovakia; negotiators from the US, Israel and Hamas are set to begin talksIran signalled its support for Trump’s Gaza plan, with the country’s foreign ministry saying it supports any initiative that brings an end to the genocide of Palestinian people.Iran’s foreign ministry wrote in a post on X:Taking into account the dangerous dimensions and aspects of this proposal, and while reiterating its warning about the repeated breaches and obstructionism by the Zionist regime in fulfilling its promises, especially in light of its expansionist and racist plans, the Islamic Republic of Iran considers any decision in this regard to be within the authority of the Palestinian people and resistance.It welcomes any decision by them that guarantees halting the genocide of Palestinians, the withdrawal of the occupying Zionist army from Gaza, respect for the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, the entry of humanitarian aid, and the reconstruction of Gaz...

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3 w. ago Attempted assassin of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sentenced to more than eight years in prison

Sophie Roske pleaded guilty to the assassination attempt in April

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3 w. ago California resident gets over 8 years in prison for attempt to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh

A California resident who attempted to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his Maryland home has been sentenced to over eight years in prison

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3 w. ago US treasury considers special $1 Trump coin reading ‘fight, fight, fight’

US treasurer says officials looking at drafts for country’s 250th anniversary featuring president with raised fistTo commemorate the 250th anniversary of the US’s independence, the treasury department is mulling production of a $1 coin displaying Donald Trump with a clenched first under an American flag and the words “fight, fight, fight”.The words overtly reference what Trump said immediately after narrowly surviving an assassination attempt four months before he won a second presidency. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Vladimir Putin assassination attempt after plot try to kill him in plush resort revealed

Russian war analysts claim Ukrainian overnight drone strikes on Black Sea resort Sochi may have been an attempt to assassinate Vladimir Putin after his anti-Western rant

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3 w. ago Former Syrian president Bashar Assad 'is hospitalised by poisoning assassination attempt', respected rights group says

A source claimed that Assad 'had been poisoned' in an assassination operation.

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3 w. ago The families of Syria’s disappeared are asking for the truth. Our country cannot rebuild until we have it | Wafa Mustafa

Over 160,000 people, including my father, were abducted by the Assad regime. The country’s new commission for the missing must be inclusive and independent to restore our trustFor more than 11 years, I told myself it was too early to grieve. My father, Ali Mustafa, was arrested by Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria on 2 July 2013 and disappeared. Since that day, we have had no word, no trace, nothing.Every morning since he was taken I made my first thought after waking up: “He is alive.” Every night I went to sleep repeating it. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago RUSSELL FINDLAY: Zombie idea is a desperate bid to distract from the chaos that's engulfing Labour

Socialist parties have long been unconvincing when it comes to respecting personal freedom as a fundamental British right.

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