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At a crisis summit in Jordan today, foreign ministers from Arab states will discuss the future of Syria with international representatives. EU foreign policy chief Kallas and US Secretary of State Blinken will take part. Watch this and other news on WELT TV. Now live: Overthrow in Syria – Crisis summit in Jordan – Foreign Ministers discuss – Video

Vanlife is more popular than ever, preferably close to nature, lonely and romantic by the lake. But wild camping is rightly forbidden and there is a lack of alternative pitches. How to solve the problem. Camping tourism boom: where to put all the mobile homes?

Ratings agency Moody’s downgraded France’s credit rating to Aa3 with a stable outlook Saturday over what the group described as France’s “political fragmentation”. French President Emmanuel Macron appointed his centrist ally François Bayrou as prime minister Friday after the previous premier Michel Barnier fell to a no-confidence vote the week before. Moody's downgrades France credit rating over 'political fragmentation'

As Poland prepares to take over the EU’s rotating presidency for six months on January 1, the threads of Europe’s diplomatic spider web are meeting in Warsaw more often than usual. French President Emmanuel Macron was in the Polish capital on Thursday, just days after his trilateral meeting in Paris with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President-elect Donald Trump. It was an important visit for Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a critical time for both Poland and Europe. Faced with a power vacuum in Germany since the collapse of its coalition government last month, right-wing politicians in power…

The first child, delivered by university student Chiara Petrolini in 2023, was also born alive. It took almost three months for the results of the tests on the bones found in the Traversetolo garden and the news is what was feared. “The first child that Chiara buried in the garden was also born alive”. The charge will be double murder https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/14/news/chiara_petrolini_neonati_sepolti_parma-423885887/?rss

Why did Macron pick Bayrou? A long-time centrist ally François Bayrou as the country’s new prime minister after MPs voted to oust the previous government under Michel Barnier last week. The 73-year-old is the founder of the centrist Democratic Movement party (MoDem) and mayor of the southwestern town of Pau. Just like his predecessor, François Bayrou does not have a majority in the National Assembly (the lower house of parliament). Passing France’s 2025 budget plan The mayor of the southwestern town of Pau and leader of the centrist MoDem party will have the difficult task of passing France’s 2025 budget…

Human rights situation in Ukraine deteriorates as attacks intensify amid ongoing persecution in Russian-occupied territories: OSCE human rights office OSCE // WARSAW, 13 December 2024 – The human rights situation in Ukraine has continued to worsen amid increased aerial attacks that include systematic strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure, as well as intensified hostilities on the front line, leading to a surge in civilian casualties. Meanwhile, arbitrary detention, torture and coercion continued in areas of the country under Russian occupation, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said in its latest report on violations of international law in Ukraine.…

British actress Jane Seymour said she got out of her Malibu home “just in time” with only the clothes on her back as the Californian wildfire came “right up to my house”.The James Bond star praised firefighters who did an “astounding” job saving her home from the blaze – dubbed the Franklin Fire – which ignited on Monday evening.Seymour said her “whole house smells of smoke” after returning on Thursday, having rushed to evacuate the property late on Monday evening.“I just literally had jeans and a sweater, which I’ve been wearing for four days and sleeping at different people’s houses,”…

The heartbroken sisters of Aoife Johnston, who died in University Hospital Limerick after contracting meningitis-related sepsis, feel no one has been held accountable.The Leaving Cert student from Shannon, Co Clare died on December 19, 2022, after presenting at the emergency department of UHL with symptoms of the deadly virus two days earlier.The 16-year-old was referred by her GP and should have been treated with the necessary medication within an hour.Instead, the teenager endured 13 agonising hours on a trolley with her terrified parents James and Carol pleading for antibiotics that could have saved her life.A report into the circumstances surrounding…

It was a fleeting moment. A rare sign of empathy. On January 11, 2015, after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdoa teacher from the northern French city of Arras, wearing a hat, pulled away from the body of the republican march that had been organized that day, to go and hug a CRS officer, a sturdy 32-year-old who hailed from the French overseas department of Martinique. It was a moment of communion and gratitude. The crowd applauded the police vans that had been sent to secure the march. Read more Subscribers only Ten years after the attack on Charlie Hebdo:…