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The UN Security Council will convene Monday afternoon for an emergency closed door meeting on Syria in the aftermath of president Bashar al-Assad’s flight from the country. The emergency session had been requested by Russia, Moscow’s deputy ambassador to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said in a post on Telegram Sunday. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments. Live: UN Security Council to hold meeting on Syria after Assad's ouster

Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen will serve his “work of public interest” punishment for swearing when he visits Rwanda next week, the sport’s governing body said on Sunday. Verstappen, who won his fourth straight championship in Las Vegas last month, will travel to the Rwandan capital Kigali to collect his trophy at the FIA’s annual awards gala. The Dutchman was punished for using foul language during a press conference at the Singapore Grand Prix in September. Verstappen’s community service-style punishment The FIA outlined Verstappen’s punishment after the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. In Kigali, the Red Bull driver “will undertake some work…

Today is International Anti-Corruption Day, approved by the UN. An anniversary that concerns us directly, as in Italy corruption persists and resists over the years. From the time of Tangentopoli. Indeed, it has spread further since then. The infinite Tangentopoli for one Italian out of two. We remain the country of the corrupt https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/09/news/corruzione_italia_classifica_sondaggio-423855854/?rss

Tens of thousands of Georgians protest against ruling party for the 11th straight day Georgian protesters hopeful of keeping European Union membership dream alive as they take to the streets in an 11th consecutive day of protests against the ruling Georgian Dream party in Tbilisi. Tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of the Georgian capital to demonstrate against the governing party’s decision to suspend EU accession talks for four years. The rally took place outside the parliament building in Tbilisi and was met with considerable force. Georgian police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse protesters and…

Eurostar is the worst-performing rail service on the continent and Germany’s Deutsche Bahn is one of the least reliable, according to a ranking of 27 European operators.

  US pop superstar Taylor Swift has kicked off the final night of her juggernaut Eras Tour in Canada. The 14-time Grammy-winner is rounding off her record-breaking tour with her third and final night at the BC Place in Vancouver, having begun her mammoth string of dates in March last year. Launching into her final three-hour show, Swift told the audience: “We have toured the entire world with this tour, we have had so many adventures. “It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I have ever done in my entire life.” She continued: “We have…

Tonga’s Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni abruptly resigned in parliament ahead of a planned no-confidence vote in his leadership, capping a period of fraught relations between his government and Tonga’s king.

Liturgical celebration, architectural and technical event, diplomatic summit, global spectacle, unifying symbol in the midst of a political crisis… The reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Saturday, December 7, and Sunday, December 8, is an event with a multitude of meanings. Its scope is commensurate with the immense international emotion provoked by the fire on April 15, 2019. Overwhelming, but with no one to blame, the disaster had all the makings of one of France’s notorious clashes, between state-church controversy, the quarrel between the old and the new, the search for scapegoats and a demonstration of administrative inertia. The…

Newly restored Notre Dame cathedral held its first mass on Sunday, December 8, with Christians celebrating the return of the French capital’s most famous place of worship after a grand re-opening ceremony. The beloved Paris monument nearly burned down in 2019, but has been fully renovated and fitted with a new roof and spire during a frenzied five-year reconstruction.

The latest survey of the 40dB institute. for EL PAÍS and Cadena SER shows that the party that rises the most after the devastating damage in Valencia is Vox, with almost three percentage points more than in the previous barometer. The party chaired by Santiago Abascal achieved 13.1% in vote estimates, which represents an improvement of almost one point compared to the result obtained in the general elections of July 2023. The PP, which in April reached an estimate of vote 2.4 points higher than the percentage obtained at the polls (33.1%), increasing its advantage over the PSOE to five…