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Police unlawfully storing images of innocent people for facial recognition Privacy fears raised as report warns photographs of arrested people who are then released are being retainedImages of arrested people who were innocent of any crimes are still being stored in a police database that may be used for facial recognition purposes, an official report has warned.In 2012, the high court ruled that keeping the images of people who faced no action or who were charged and then acquitted was unlawful. Continue reading… Police unlawfully storing images of innocent people for facial recognition https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/08/police-unlawfully-storing-images-of-innocent-people-for-facial-recognition

Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed al-Jalali said Sunday he was ready to “cooperate” with any leadership chosen by the people, after rebels said “tyrant” President Bashar al-Assad had fled the country. The leader of the Islamist Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, ordered forces not to approach official institutions in Damascus, saying they would remain under the prime minister until they were “officially” handed over. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied factions have pressed a lightning offensive since November 27, sweeping swathes of the country from regime control, including major cities Aleppo, Hama and Homs. Provinces in the…

With yesterday’s Consistory the Pope gave the finishing touches to the future Conclave, bringing out a new generation of cardinals Bergoglio and the rise of young cardinals: “In the next twenty years they will count” https://www.repubblica.it/vaticano/2024/12/08/news/concistoro_2024_cardinali_papa_francesco-423844781/?rss

A San Lorenzo At Piero Pizzi Cannella’s house: “The world and others in my atelier where everything talks about painting” https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/08/news/a_casa_di_piero_pizzi_cannella-423843234/?rss

Syrian state television aired a video statement by a group of men saying that president Bashar Assad has been overthrown and all detainees in jails have been set free.

Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali said early on Sunday that the government is ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition and hand over its functions to a transitional government. “I am in my house and I have not left, and this is because of my belonging to this country,” Mr Jalili said in a video statement. He said he would go to his office to continue work in the morning and called on Syrian citizens not to deface public property. He did not address reports that president Bashar Assad had left the country. The announcement comes as the…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived on Saturday, December 7, in Paris for the grand reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, sources told Agence France-Presse (AFP), where he could have his first face-to-face meeting with US president-elect Donald Trump. A source in the Ukrainian delegation confirmed Zelensky’s arrival to Agence France-Presse (AFP), saying the president would stay until Saturday night, but would not comment on the possibility of a meeting with Trump. It added Zelensky will also meet French President Emmanuel Macron. Zelensky, one of around 40 heads of state and government attending the ceremony, is due to meet with Macron at 5…

The reopening of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral on the weekend of December 7 and 8, 2024, five years after a fire on April 15, 2019, devastated the building, promises to be a grand event and a high-security affair. Around 50 heads of state and government are expected, including American president-elect Donald Trump and Jill Biden. The celebrations, beginning Saturday afternoon, will include both religious rituals and a star-studded classical music concert after the service. French President Emmanuel Macron will also address the VIP guests. Two masses are planned for Sunday. The program for Saturday, December 7: 6:15 pm Paris…

The old monastery of Sant Miquel dels Reis, seat of the Valencian Library and the Valencian Academy of Language.Monica TorresThere is hidden within Borges’s Aleph an infinite world. One looks inside and can contemplate in it all the times merged: the past, the present, the future. See the All. Unlimited. Both.There is an Aleph in Valencia and Antoni Tordera has told it. A stone building that has been a Muslim farmhouse, monastery, school, mendicants’ corner, pantheon of the vicereine of a forgotten kingdom, prison for common prisoners, prison for political prisoners, headquarters of an immense library with the most valuable…

The minister has been proclaimed leader of the PSM after the abrupt end of Juan Lobato and assumes the most difficult mission of Spanish socialism: confronting the hegemonic leadership of Isabel Díaz Ayuso Read Óscar López’s enthusiasm surprises and convinces the PSOE: "In the PP they are very surplus and that is the best way to fail"