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Hundreds of protesters led by university students held a noisy rally on Thursday outside Serbia’s state television headquarters, despite the country’s president pledging to fulfil all their demands. Blowing whistles, booing and jeering, the protesters said they were angry that state RTS television is carrying President Aleksandar Vucic’s accusations that the students were paid from the West and elsewhere to hold protests to overthrow his government. Why are they protesting in Belgrade? The demonstration is part of wider protests which erupted after the fall of a concrete canopy in the northern city of Novi Sad last month, killing 15 people.…

The parliamentary week began under the shadow of Carles Puigdemont, with his demand that Pedro Sánchez submit to a vote of confidence, and ended this Thursday with up and down moment for the Government. The legislature, the second decree of aid for those affected by the dana was validated, with the only vote against Vox. The Government saves Congress The investiture bloc worked to defeat the attempt of this last group and the PP to stop the reform of the gag law, and the rule to protect live organ donors was ready, after the rejection of an amendment that the…

The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) warns the Government not to try to mask the energy tax in an omnibus decree because they will overthrow it. There leader warns that he will not support anything that entails approving the tax hike, even if this means dropping measures such as the increase in pensions. The PNV warns the Government not to try to mask the energy tax in an omnibus decree because it will overthrow it

As Syria slowly returns to everyday life and regroups, another concern is growing in Europe: Islamist terrorists with European passports could take advantage of the chaos and return to Europe. See this and other news on WELT TV.© Axel Springer Germany GmbH. All rights reserved. Now live: Change of power in Syria – risk of attacks in Europe could increase significantly – video

Lars Windhorst joined the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft with great promise. Now the shipyard is insolvent. Many employees seem relieved that the suffering is over for now. FSG Nobiskrug in Flensburg: “What Lars Windhorst has done to us over the last few years cannot be put into words.”

During a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Erdogan to protect Syrian civilians after Turkish-backed rebels toppled the Bashar al-Assad regime. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments. Live: Blinken tells Erdogan 'all parties' must ensure protection of Syrian civilians

One of the first things the rebels in Syria did, after they seized the capital, Damascus, on Sunday, was to release the prisoners from the cells of the notorious Saydnaya Prison. Nicknamed “the human slaughterhouse” by Amnesty International, Saydnaya was a place where humanitarian groups say Syrian authorities under President Bashar Assadsystematically tortured and executed thousands of civilians.  Human rights advocate and former detainee Omar Alshogre explained to DW: “Documented detainees in Syria before the fall of the regime used to be around 139,000. I believe it’s over 200,000 people who have been in these cells, tortured on a daily basis.” “We are talking about…

Human rights attorney quits court over failure to prosecute Venezuela A prominent human rights attorney has parted ways with the International Criminal Court to protest what he sees as an unjustified failure of its chief prosecutor to indict members of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government.Chilean-born Claudio Grossman, a past president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, has left due to the failure to bring prosecutions for crimes against humanity, The Associated Press has learned.He was appointed special adviser to ICC prosecutor Karim Khan in November 2021 on the deteriorating human rights situation in Venezuela.In a harshly worded email last…

Guardian and Observer charity appeal raises more than £250,000 Readers reach donation milestone before Saturday telethon, securing money to help families in Gaza and Ukraine• Donate to our charity appeal hereMore than £250,000 for charities supporting families hit by war and violence in Gaza, Ukraine and elsewhere has been raised by Guardian and Observer readers less than a week after the appeal launched.The milestone was achieved before the annual fundraising telethon on Saturday 14 December. Journalists who will be on hand to take donations over the phone include Polly Toynbee, John Crace, Marina Hyde and Zoe Williams. Continue reading… Guardian…

The Stupor mundi, the one “who shone on the people” – as his son Conrad IV remembered him – died forever on 13 December 1250. Many have seen Frederick II of Swabia as the first modern sovereign, who endowed the South with a efficient administration and a coherent body of laws. Highly cultured (he spoke six languages) and refined, among other things he built Castel del Monte, in Puglia, and transformed the court of Palermo into a center of culture and art that had no equal in Europe at the time. He always had to fight against his bitter enemy,…