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Syria is witnessing mass celebrations as citizens gather to mark the end of five decades of rule by the Assad regime. Images from Damascus show large crowds assembling for the first Friday prayers since Islamist rebels seized control of the capital on Sunday.

After 17 years as European Union members, Romania and Bulgaria will officially join the EU’s border-free Schengen travel zone on January 1, 2025. The decision allows citizens from both countries to travel to other Schengen countries like France, Spain, or Norway without requiring a passport.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said a series of Israeli air strikes on Thursday killed at least 58 people, including 12 guards securing aid trucks. The latest bloodshed came despite growing optimism that negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal might finally succeed, with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan saying on Thursday that the regional “context” had changed in favour of an agreement. Seven guards were killed in a strike in Rafah, in southern Gaza, while another attack left five guards dead in nearby Khan Yunis, agency spokesman Mahmud Basal said. “The (Israeli) occupation once again targeted those securing…

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have killed at least 35 Palestinians, including 12 individuals guarding aid trucks, according to medics and Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil Defence authority. The guards were reportedly protecting lorries carrying flour to UN warehouses in southern Gaza, which have been targeted by violent theft amid severe food shortages.

Saint Lucia’s, according to a popular saying, is the “shortest day there is”. That’s not really the case: of course, there are not only many hours of light in mid-December, but the shortest day of the year is the winter solstice, which falls around December 21st. The saying, however, has a kernel of truth: December 13th was in the past the date of the “shortest day there is”. However, things changed about 450 years ago. Because it’s not the shortest day The saying refers to when the Julian calendar was in force, replaced by the Gregorian one in 1582. Before…

Sean “Diddy” Combs faces new allegations of rape and sexual assault, as three men have filed separate lawsuits in New York Supreme Court. The lawsuits, submitted Thursday, allege incidents between 2019 and 2022 in which the rapper is accused of drugging and assaulting the plaintiffs.

President Joe Biden has issued pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 others, marking the most acts of presidential clemency in a single day, according to the White House.

pisa – «We don’t meet much with Emiliano, when he works I sleep and vice versa – begins Ilenia Braccini, the wife of the lorry driver injured in Calenzano – even last Monday he left at two in the morning to go to the depot, I saw him on Sunday evening . Calenzano massacre, the wife of the transporter Emiliano Braccini: “I hope my husband is safe” https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/13/news/calenzano_eni_moglie_emiliano_braccini-423883403/?rss

Summary of The Guardian Newspaper The Guardian page this morning – summarisedThe front page of The Guardian this morning leads with a report that some jury trials may be axed under new plans to ease the court backlog. The front page features an image of a funeral for a victim of the Assad regime. Jury trials could be abandoned for some criminal cases in England and Wales under a radical overhaul proposed by ministers as the crown courts backlog hit a record high.A review, to be led by the former high court judge Sir Brian Leveson, will consider creating “intermediate courts”…

Summary of the Metro Newspaper Metro front page this morning – summarised The Metro’s front page leads on a truly bizarre story as the prime minister and leader of the opposition appear to get into a spat regarding sandwiches. The paper’s headline notes as the pair continue their ridiculous jibes, the country’s problems are mounting up. Ed Miliband has hit back at Kemi Badenoch for her anti-sandwich stance, ten years after he was notoriously photographed struggling to eat one. In a recent interview, the leader of the opposition hit out at the idea of sandwiches, saying she doesn’t consider them…