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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken took off on an emergency trip to Jordan on Wednesday after the overthrow of neighboring Syria’s dictatorship, in a new, last-minute attempt to shape a Middle East legacy after a turbulent year. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments. Live: Blinken on Syria crisis tour with eye on Biden legacy

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday defended his decision to declare short-lived martial law saying it was a measure to protect the country’s democracy. The beleaguered president, who is under criminal investigation for alleged insurrection, declared martial law last week, saying he wanted to rid the country of “pro-North Korean forces,” in a move that plunged the country into political turmoil. Yoon prepared to ‘fight to the end’ Yoon accused the opposition of trying to remove him from office in a televised statement. “I will fight to the end, to prevent the forces and criminal groups that have been responsible…

The clue is that they intervened on the wrong line or caused them to spark Calenzano massacre, the prosecutor’s hypothesis: workers’ mistake on the pipelines https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/12/news/esplosione_calenzano_eni_inchiesta_incidente-423881523/?rss

Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’ A majority of Britons who voted to leave the EU would now accept a return to free movement in exchange for access to the single market, according to a cross-Europe study that also found a reciprocal desire in member states for closer links with the UK. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trump’s election as US president had “fundamentally changed the context” of EU-UK relations, the report by the European…

“We are going to see very big changes,” said Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration. Stefanishyna said the spoke with members of the European Parliament about the Danish model of employing joint production with the Ukrainian defence industry. ADVERTISEMENTAmid growing concern that US President-elect Donald Trump might withdraw Washington’s crucial support for Kyiv after he takes office in January, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister for European Integration Olha Stefanishyna says she believes the EU will step in and will continue its support of Kyiv, even more so with the backing of the new Commission. She told…

The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations has said they will “keep knocking on doors” after the General Assembly backed calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Staff at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) have said they are seeing pregnant victims of domestic abuse every week. They say the situation is so bad that such violence against pregnant women is “as common as gestational diabetes”, a condition sometimes developed by expectant mothers. Ann-Marie McCarthy, Social Work Team Leader at CUMH, warned the abuse is “much more common” than people might realise, with telltale signs that hospital staff are seeing. Those signs range from bruising to missing appointments to not speaking during appointments while partners answer any questions from staff. “There’s lots of red flags for domestic violence.…

“Paquita,” by Pierre Lacotte, at the Opéra Bastille, December 2, 2024. MARIA-HELENA BUCKLEY/ONP Christmas celebrations at the Opéra National de Paris promised to be flamboyant. Paquitaa hectic classical ballet, revived in 2001 by Pierre Lacotte, was set to rock the Opéra Bastille, from December 5 to January 4. Playthe best-seller choreographed in 2017 by Sweden’s Alexander Ekman, was sold out from December 7 to January 4, at the Palais Garnier. No sooner had Paquita premiered on December 5 than a dancers’ strike forced the cancellation of a performance. Another strike the following day. Four days later, on December 9, spectators…

US President-elect Donald Trump defended his choice of Charles Kushner for US ambassador to France, describing him as a “family member” and a “very successful man” in an interview released on Wednesday, December 11.

All roads lead to Carles Puigdemont. Every time there is a traffic jam in the legislature, the Junts leader is almost always the key to finishing the negotiations. It happened in the last one, that of the fiscal pact, when a video conference had to be improvised at night in which María Jesús Montero, Santos Cerdán and even the former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero were present, and on the other side Miriam Nogueras, Jordi Turull and the Puigdemont himself, who joined later. Once again, the situation has been complicated by Junts’ threat not to even negotiate the Budgets, something…