Summary of the Independent Newspaper
The Independent front page this morning – summarised
The front page of The Independent reports from Assad’s slaughterhouse jail to the morgue piled up with mutilated bodies, desperate Syrians search for family members who disappeared under a despot’s brutal regime.
It has been 10 years since Morhaf Safi, a young Syrian man, left home to buy a suit for his wedding and never came back.
Ten years since his family in the capital, Damascus, have had any contact with him. Ten years since his older brother, Abdulsafer, 38, last saw his face.
Then on Tuesday, just days after the stunning overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime, a friend texted Abdulsafer a photo of a mutilated body: a face slashed, mouth twisted, eyes hollow and bruised.
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UK weather today 12/12/2024
Remaining cloudy for many with patchy drizzle, and hill fog, especially across central and eastern areas. Brighter skies in the far west and across much of Scotland, where fog could linger all day. Feeling rather cold once again. Tonight: Largely cloudy through overnight, with further spells of light rain and drizzle at times. Murky over the hills. Some clear skies in the north, with a frost possible here.
