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CCTV footage reveals shocking moment 80-year-old is shot in IDF raid as UN expert says it could be 'war crime' Sky News analysis of CCTV footage reveals what appears to be Israeli military personnel using a vehicle marked as an ambulance in an operation during which an 80-year-old Palestinian woman was shot in...

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The idea that UK press hushed up child sexual abuse until Musk is laughable. This is what my colleagues were writing 10+ years ago: "In Rotherham, this ethnic misogyny then ran up against the institutional misogyny of the police and the mostly white council" economist.com/britain/2014...

Iran is ready to immediately start negotiations with West on nuclear program: Aragchi Iran is ready to immediately start negotiations with West on nuclear program: Aragchi

Iran: ready to talk re nukes: www.1lurer.am/en/2025/01/0...

Very well said @jkirkup and yes there must be a reckoning.

Inside Assad's abandoned home: Damning documents, wedding photos and children's notes Sky's Dominic Waghorn is one of the first foreign journalists to be given access to the Assad family home. Inside were mementoes abandoned in a hurry - presents the children had made at school, holida...

Inside the actual house of Assad – @dominicwaghorn.bsky.social reports from inside the Assads' looted family home with its mess of abandoned items, rather than the more impersonal presidential palace:

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Underground tunnels, secret bunkers and designer goods reveal glimpses into Bashar al Assad's family life Sky News's Dominic Waghorn searches through the abandoned presidential palace.

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Khalil Barakat from the city of #Irbid was imprisoned by the #Syrian regime since 1982 on fabricated charges. He was released from prison a few days ago during the liberation of #Damascus and returned to #Jordan.

In the private rooms of Bashar al Assad’s British born wife, Asma, the autobiography of Barack Obama’s First Lady Michele.

Liberation in Syria Is a Victory Worth Embracing The country is now free, yet some remain trapped in the past

This is really worth reading about Syria newlinesmag.com/argument/lib...

World leaders cannot ignore Syria's rebel leader Abu Mohammed al Jolani - they'll study his Sky News interview closely Syria's rebel leader Abu Mohammed al Jolani has given his first interview since ousting President Bashar al Assad and the world will be paying attention to his comments.

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The return of the displaced to their villages and towns in #Syria 😭😭❤️

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NPR quoting US officials: signs Russia pulling out of Syria. Reports Iran is too. Assad doomed now?

I'm sure Assad will be fine. After all, over 95% of Syrians voted for him barely 6 months ago....

850m euros from 340k donors later, 5 years after its great fire Notre Dame will be reopened officially in a glittering ceremony later. A moment of huge pride for France at a time great political uncertainty

Fascinating read on Syria's rebels. Drones, 3d printers, ingenuity, discipline and being inspired by other militaries, from Ukraine's to the British army all played a role in their stunning progress. Can Assad and his allies rally and repel? www.ft.com/content/aaa8...

Extraordinary events in Syria where rebels appear to have taken Hama, where the country's uprising caught fire in 2011 but also a place synonymous with some of the Assad regime's most merciless brutality, going back to Bashar's father Hafez in the 80s

OTD in 1978 USSR & Afghanistan signed a "friendship treaty". We invaded them a year later.

So you can trust us with a peace deal now.

The easiest way to get invaded by russia is to sign a treaty with us.

Mass repressions have begun in Georgia.

Opposition leader Nika Gvaramia was just dragged out of his party’s office

WATCH Georgian masked goons rough up and drag away M opposition figure in Tbilisi as their crackdown goes on www.facebook.com/share/r/1Db3...

If South Korean defence ministry does decide to enforce martial law, despite it being lifted by the parliament, the country is heading for a full blown constitutional crisis.

Why has South Korea’s president declared martial law? In a dramatic and unnanounced move, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday in a live broadcast on YTN television. Yoon did not specify exactly what measures would be tak...

If tonight's events in South Korea are baffling, this might help: www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...

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Politics latest: 'Significant shift' as PM says UK will work to 'put Ukraine in strongest possible position for negotiations' In the wake of the Ukrainian president's exclusive interview with Sky News, Sir Keir Starmer has said the West must "put Ukraine in the strongest possible position for negotiations so they can secure ...

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Sunak June: 'Russian aggression cannot and will not prevail.'
Starmer/Macron Nov: 'support for as long as necessary to thwart Russia's war of aggression'.
Starmer 12th Dec: 'support their self-defence for as long as it takes to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position for negotiations'.

Nine-year-old boy sent to shops ended up paralysed: The Palestinian families' lives shattered by Israelis shooting their children Figures show 170 under-18s have been killed in the West Bank and more than 1,400 have been injured in a crackdown since the 7 October attacks, according to DCI Palestine and Save the Children. The Isr...

The number of children killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank during the Gaza war has soared. Israel says it has strict rules of engagement with live ammunition, critics say there is lethal culture of impunity. Our report news.sky.com/story/boy-9-...

In Georgia Giorgi Gabekhadze, the chief instructor of the Tactical Training Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Academy, has resigned. "This is a sure sign of the collapse of the repressive apparatus!" — President @Zourabichvili_S
says.

Georgia protesters take to streets for third night over EU talks freeze Hundreds detained after previous two nights of violent clashes as public anger mounts

Georgia protesters take to streets for third night over EU talks freeze

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#Georgia’s shadowy oligarch leader Ivanishvili and the mps on his payroll are well on the way to putinising the country, muzzling the media, banning opposition parties and unleashing goons onto their own people. Georgians are trying to stand up to all that this weekend and taking a beating for it