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In an interview with FRANCE 24 in Ankara, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discussed his country’s position in the wake of the ouster of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. Fidan claimed that Turkey played no role in the Syrian rebel group HTS’s ouster of the Assad regime. He also said Turkey’s interests are with the Syrian people, and that Ankara does not support foreign troops remaining in Syria, be they Russian or American soldiers. 'We cannot characterise what happened in Syria as Turkey's doing': Turkish FM Fidan

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The US Congress has passed a spending legislation has passed a funding bill  that will avert a midnight government shutdown. The Democratic-controlled Senate, in an 85-11 vote, passed the bill to continue government funding 38 minutes after it lapsed at 12 a.m. Saturday (0500 UTC/GMT).  Earlier Friday, night with a 366-34 vote, the House approved the last-minute plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would keep federal operations and disaster aid temporarily funded. Johnson had said Congress would “meet our obligations” and not allow federal operations to cease ahead of the winter holidays. There had been uncertainty about the outcome after President-elect Donald…

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Rome — «We ​​cannot help but feel profound disappointment after this sentence. Five years have passed, but the memory of the unnecessary suffering to which the people on board were subjected is very vivid.” President of Emergency, Rossella Miccio, in August 2019 was on the ship of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, which was blocked for nineteen days awaiting authorization to disembark, repeatedly denied by the Interior Ministry at the time in the hands of Matteo Salvini, who was acquitted yesterday from the court of Palermo. Why were you on the Open Arms? «They asked us for a hand, I,…

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EU leaders gathered in Brussels to talk over the EU’s role in the world. Their focus was on Ukraine and on the situation in the Middle East, following the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. They also exchanged on the situation in Moldova and Georgia, as well as on the latest progress on enlargement. EU summit discusses EU’s role in the world

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Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her mother while trying to escape the giant waves.Now a school teacher, she was only 17 at the time. Her father, a fisherman, never returned home from sea. She does not know how she survived.“I cannot swim. I could only rely on dhikr (Islamic prayer),” she said.On December 26 2004, a powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami which killed around 230,000 people across a dozen countries, reaching as far as East Africa.Visitors…

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An elderly couple have transformed part of their home into a mini museum as they open their pride and joy — Ireland’s largest private porcelain doll collection — to the public. Mary and Billy O’Keeffe, who live in Schull, never imagined their now 3,525-strong display would multiply to the extent that it has. Starting a doll collection had never been part of their plans until a quirk of fate changed everything. Ireland’s largest private porcelain doll collection It all began almost 13 years ago when Mary decided her husband was in dire need of a distraction, a culture shock to…

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