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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 18:46:50

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Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is travelling to Syria on Friday to encourage the country's transition. Tajani presided over a meeting in Rome of foreign ministry officials from five countries. The aim is to coordinate the various post-Assad initiatives, he said. From 2011 until Assad’s downfall, Syria’s uprising and civil war killed an estimated 500,000 people. The U.S. Has gradually lifted some penalties since Assad departed Syria for protection in Russia. Biden administration dropped a $10 million bounty it had offered for the capture of a Syrian rebel leader whose forces led the ouster of Assad last month.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Pierre-Alain Eltschinger, a spokesman for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, confirmed the death on Thursday. He said that the Swiss embassy in Tehran was in contact with local authorities to clarify the circumstances surrounding the incident. Switzerland plays an important intermediary role between Washington and Tehran, representing United States interests in Iran since 1979 US Embassy takeover and hostage crisis.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency did not identify the man but said the man had asked his cellmate to bring him food and then killed himself while he was alone. “This Swiss citizen had been arrested for espionage by the security institutions, and there is also documentation of this, and his case was being investigated and dealt with,” the chief justice of Semnan Province said. Western countries accuse Tehran of using them as “hostages” and a tool of pressure in negotiations with Western capitals. Swiss Embassy in Tehran is in contact with local authorities to clarify the circumstances of the death in an Iranian prison. Iran has been in the middle of diplomatic tension with the West following a three-nation tangle over the fates of two prisoners that became complicated for Italy.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 18:13:48

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Uruguay's former guerilla-turned-president says cancer in his esophagus spread to his liver. "Honestly, I am dying," says former leader, who governed Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. Mujica first burst into politics as a leader of the Marxist militant group. Mujica reappeared on the political stage last fall, campaigning for his left-wing coalition, the Broad Front, in drama-free national elections that affirmed Uruguay as one of the region's strongest democracies. Mujica said he would devote his final stage of life to his farm. "What I want is to say goodbye to my fellow countrymen," he said in the interview.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 18:07:59

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A key dam in northern Syria has become a flash point in the conflict between Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed armed groups. Protesters call for an end to Turkish airstrikes, which they say are damaging vital infrastructure and endangering civilian lives. Turkish drones and warplanes remained in the air during the protest. Farhan Haj Issa, co-chair of the executive council of the Autonomous Administration in Kobani, called for Syria’s new authorities and a U.S.-led coalition that has allied with Kurdish forces in the fight against the Islamic State to help bring about a halt to hostilities. He called on “whoever leads the government in Damascus to take responsibility and end the brutality and violence” HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa has called for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces to be integrated in the national army. Turkey views the SDF as an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party. The SDF is, however, allied with the United States in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Kavitha was standing barefoot and ankle-deep in mud at the site of a former cemetery in Visuvamadu, Sri Lanka. She was lamenting the adjacent military base built on the graves of fallen Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters, including that of her brother. Through the war, the state bulldozed and repurposed many structures belonging to the LTTE. The NPP rode to power a nationwide wave of anti-establishment sentiment stemming from frustration with persistent economic failings and endemic corruption. The fall of the Rajapaksa family – who had dominated Sri Lankan politics since 2005 – has been stunning. In the Sinhala south, they were long perceived as heroes for winning the war against the LTTE. Tamils, like every constituency, are pragmatic and take into account both economic interests and political preferences. Many committed Tamil nationalists and supporters of independence voted for the NPP in the hope that it can deliver a better economy. Others simply wanted to punish established local politicians they perceived as corrupt and incompetent. NPP has never held power and therefore did not have baggage. This doesn’t mean the NPP does not have the same baggage as the rulers of the past. All major Sinhala parties engaged in this conduct, including the JVP. Sri Lanka’s nation-building project is fundamentally rooted in giving primacy to Sinhala Buddhism. Tamils were never accepted as equal citizens, pushed to the periphery through a Colombo-centric approach. Leading Tamil politicians repeatedly conceded longstanding political demands for mere scraps. This election is more likely to be a blip than a wholesale change. Sri Lanka must disclose what it did with the thousands of Tamils it took into custody. Tamils have learned through repeated painful experiences that a political solution will not come from the state.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Lebanese Army commander Joseph Aoun becomes Lebanon’s 14th president. Aou’s appointment overcomes a major impasse; parliament had met on 12 prior occasions to vote for a president but failed to elect one. He eventually won 99 votes from 128-seat parliament in second round of voting. Economic and political crises Aoun’s term as commander coincided with a period of incredible difficulty for the country. A years-long economic crisis has left millions of Lebanese struggling. The institution Aoun was in charge of, the Lebanese army, was also widely seen as weaker than the Shia group Hezbollah. To worsen matters for the country, Israel’s war on Gaza quickly dragged in Lebanon. The war’s resolution did open a pathway to finally selecting a president, as international and domestic pressure increased to find a solution and send a message that Lebanon would begin to rebuild. The new president also pledged to rebuild the areas targeted by Israel. His emphasis on national unity comes at a rare moment of agreement. It will take much more to prove to the Lebanese people that the country has now truly turned a corner.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Radio Schuman is your new go-to podcast to spice up your weekday mornings with relevant news, insights, and behind-the-scenes from Brussels and beyond. Euronews Tech Talks provides valuable insights into the intersection of technology and society. Water Matters Europe's water is under increasing pressure. Pollution, droughts, floods are taking their toll on our drinking water, lakes, rivers and coastlines.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 17:00:48

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A strong earthquake drove frightened residents of El Salvador's capital into the streets. El Salvador’s Environmental Ministry reported preliminarily that the earthquake was centered along the Central American country’s Pacific coast.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Lebanon’s parliament has selected army chief Joseph Aoun as the country’s president, ending a more than two-year gap without a head of state.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 16:23:45

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Guyana says it will seek help from the United Nations' top court to deter plans by neighboring Venezuela to elect a governor to rule its western Essequibo region. Guyana’s foreign ministry said that Venezuela’s plan violates a December 2022 agreement between the two countries to not trigger conflict or escalate tensions over the mineral- and oil-rich region comprising two-thirds of Guyana's land mass. The ministry said it would ask the International Court of Justice in The Netherlands for provisional a 1966 agreement to resolve the dispute effectively nullified the original arbitration. A ruling is not expected this year because Venezuela was given until late August to reply to arguments made by Guyana. Guyana objected to the completion of a bridge by Venezuela’s military on Guyana’s side of the bordering Ankoko Island.

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Published on: 09/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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The threat from Russia and the prospect of an American isolationist retreat are looming too large for Europe to ignore. Despite their various fiscal headaches, the member states have put their hands in their pockets since the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Joint purchasing and production Various solutions are on the table to finance the continent's defence, among them joint production and arms purchases. But the specific needs of member states in terms of armaments sometimes stand in way of this form of cooperation. One way to finance these efforts would be joint borrowing, also known as Eurobonds. If conditions change or something happens in the Indo-Pacific or Taiwan, Europeans won't have priority. The EU's role has been and still is limited: defence remains the exclusive competence of the member states.

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