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For decades, the Assad regime arbitrarily imprisoned, tortured and killed people. After the regime was overthrown by Islamist militias, more and more gruesome details about the Saidnaya military prison are coming to light. Watch this and other news on WELT TV.© Axel Springer Germany GmbH. All rights reserved. Now live: Testimonies from Assad’s “slaughterhouse” Saidnaya shock the world – What awaits Syria tomorrow? – Video

Hyrox is a global sports phenomenon with origins in Germany. The competition attracts many gym fans. But sports scientists also see dangers in the mix of strength and endurance. The latest trends in the industry are presented year after year at the Fibo fitness trade fair in Cologne. When I was there this spring, I discovered a few athletes in the basement doing some kind of intensified circuit training. They ran from one station to the next, one kilometer at a time. Then they dragged sandbags and pulled heavy sleds with weights, all on time. This sport, in which –…

Anglesey campaigners hail victory in long-running footpath access row Planning and Environment Decisions Wales allowed an appeal over the route said to have been ‘used for decades’ Anglesey campaigners who fought to get a popular footpath officially recognised have won their appeal for public access. Dr Nick Stuart and Gareth Phillips claimed that the Llangoed route had been used for generations before gates on the path were padlocked. The pair, from Llangoed, had battled for years to win back use of the path, which runs across land near Lleiniog beach to the back of the 11th century castle, Castell Aberlleiniog.…

International diplomats reacted cautiously Monday to the prospect of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group taking control in Syria after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. HTS has its roots in the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda and is proscribed as a “terrorist” organisation by Western governments. Aaron Y. Zelin, Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, says that HTS’ governance in Idlib was not a “liberal democracy by any stretch of the imagination”. HTS’ record in Idlib “not a liberal democracy by any stretch of the imagination”: analyst

South Korean police on Wednesday searched the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol, as part of a widening investigation into his failed imposition of martial law last week.

Strong Santa Ana winds, a dry current that blows from inland California toward the coast, fueled a wildfire overnight in Malibu, the coastal city west of Los Angeles. The flames have grown out of control and had already destroyed nearly 900 hectares (2,200 acres) by noon on Tuesday. The so-called Franklin Fire has forced authorities to order the evacuation of thousands of people, as the fire threatens to consume some 2,000 structures. Malibu has a population of 11,000. About 6,000 live to the east, the area threatened by Franklin. On Tuesday morning, flames could be seen on both sides of…

MILAN – In the house with the mill, among the framed photos, there is one with the trunk of a tree and dozens of syringes stuck in it. It says: Parco Lambro, 1984. It is a warning not to forget the social swamp of heroin that swallowed up young lives, in this green lung between the San Raffaele hospital, the ring road and the blocks of flats of Milan 2. Forty years later , around Cascina Molino Torrette, flowers have grown and so has Don Antonio Mazzi’s Exodus foundation. 2024 is a year of round numbers for the priest of…

Asia-Pacific markets were mixed Wednesday, after major Wall Street benchmarks declined ahead of key inflation data that could influence the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision. China is reportedly kicking off its annual economic work conference on Wednesday to outline its economic policies and growth targets for next year. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index started the trading session 0.66% higher, while mainland China’s CSI 300 index was flat. In South Korea, the blue-chip Kospi jumped 0.78% and the small-cap Kosdaq rose 2%, a day after the country’s parliament passed a downsized budget of 673.3 trillion won ($470.60 billion) for 2025 late…

Humanitarian aid to North Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive on October 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Humanitarian aid to North Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive on October 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days, the United Nations said on Tuesday. That has left between 65,000 and 75,000 Palestinians without access to food, water, electricity or health care, according to the UN. In the north, Israel has continued its siege on Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya with Palestinians living there largely denied aid, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. Recently, it said, about 5,500 people were forcibly displaced from three schools in Beit Lahiya to Gaza…