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Dec 13, 20243 min read
Analysis-China eyes negotiations as Trump threatens new tariffs
BEIJING - As Donald Trump steps up his tariff threats against China, Beijing is moving to beat the next U.S. president to the punch with...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Russia in contact with Syrian rebels, hopes to keep military bases, Interfax reports
MOSCOW - Russia has established direct contact with the political committee of Syria's Islamist rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the...
Dec 13, 20243 min read
Their labour in demand, Germany's Syrians are in no rush to leave
BERLIN - It took only a few hours after the fall of Bashar al-Assad for some German politicians to begin suggesting it was time for...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Trump to meet widow of former Japan PM Abe on Sunday, source says
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is planning to meet with Akie Abe, the widow of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on Sunday...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
US grand jury charges former Syrian prison official with torture
WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles charged a former Syrian government official who headed the Damascus Central Prison from...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Malibu fire evacuees start returning home as blaze now 30% contained
Some 3,700 evacuees from the Malibu wildfire returned home on Thursday as firefighters made progress in battling the blaze that has...
Dec 13, 20248 min read
Demoralised and abandoned by allies: why Assad’s army failed to fight in Syria
DAMASCUS/AMMAN/BAGHDAD - Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
UCLA police chief who was criticized over Gaza protest violence is out
WASHINGTON - The police chief for the University of California at Los Angeles, who was criticized for the handling of a violent mob...
Dec 13, 20241 min read
US announces new arms aid package for Ukraine worth $500 million
WASHINGTON - The administration of Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden announced another package of weapons aid for Ukraine on Thursday,...
Dec 13, 20243 min read
Blinken meets Erdogan as forces backed by US, Turkey clash in Syria
ANKARA - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Turkey on Thursday for talks focused on a critical aspect of establishing...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Trump says he will use military for deportations to fullest extent of law
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump will use the U.S. military to the fullest extent of the law to support his mass deportation...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
US claims North Korea put workers in US companies to extort money for weapons
WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday offered a $5 million reward for information about an alleged scheme in which North Korean ...
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