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Syria's future hangs in the balance after the toppling of authoritarian ruler Bashar al-Assad last month. The European Union and its regional interlocutors are engaging with Syrian leaders to encourage a peaceful and inclusive transition. Massive investments in infrastructure by the international community could help stabilise Syria. Turkey is set to be a key player in such development. Turkey has two objectives: to eliminate the threat of the Syrian Kurdish factions on its southern border. Road infrastructure is therefore essential as a catalyst for regional integration and trade. Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uralolu recently announced a government action plan for rehabilitating ports, airports, railways. Saudi Arabia has presented a 30-year investment plan to build an extensive rail transport network. Qatar, Oman and other countries with petrodollar-rich sovereign wealth funds have also decided to focus on the development of trains. Turkish government announces that Syrian reconstruction will start from Damascus airport. Turkish official says the country will receive two electricity-generating ships from Turkey and Qatar. The international community wants to avoid the mistakes made in Iraq 20 years ago.

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In June 2023, Ibrahim Shumo and some friends fled war-torn Sudan’s West Darfur. They feared the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allied militias from “Arab tribes”. The RSF and its allies targeted Masalit civilians in El-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur. Nearly a year later, the United States agreed with the UN experts. The designation led to US sanctions on several of the RSF’s shell companies in the United Arab Emirates. "What happened to the Masalit really is a tragedy," Shumo says. The designation of genocide follows countless reports of atrocities committed in West Darfur by the UN and aid groups.

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A peer-reviewed statistical analysis published in The Lancet journal on Thursday was conducted by academics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Yale University and other institutions. Using a statistical method called capture-recapture analysis, the researchers sought to assess the death toll from Israel’s air and ground campaign in Gaza between October 2023 and the end of June 2024. Up to June 30 last year, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Hamas-run Gaza reported a death. Toll Israel’s war in Gaza has killed at least 46,006 Palestinians and wounded 109,378 since October 7, 2023. The war began on October 7 2023, after Hamas-led attacks across the border with Israel killed 1,139 people. In the first months of the war, the official death count was based entirely on bodies that arrived in hospitals. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said many deaths were going unreported in the north of the Gaza Strip. “The entire healthcare system in the northern part of the Strip is out of service, without any proper mechanism for recording the number of casualties in the area,” he said. Israeli military is escalating its attacks on residential areas.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Australia violated two provisions of the legally binding 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. UN watchdog’s ruling covers two cases involving 25 refugees and asylum seekers who endured years of arbitrary detention in Nauru. Nearly all the minors suffered a deterioration in wellbeing there, it said. Offshore detention facilities are not human rights-free zones. Offshore Detention facility is not human-right-free zone.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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The Liberal Party of Canada will choose a new leader on March 9. Trudeau announced on Monday that he will step down in the coming months. The cut-off date to become a registered Liberal and be eligible to vote in the leadership race will be January 27.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 04:08:15

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South Korean police question presidential security service chief. Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials and police are planning a second attempt to bring Yoon into custody. Yoon made a short-lived declaration of martial law on Dec. 3. Constitutional Court has begun deliberating on whether to formally remove Yoon from office or reject the charges and reinstate him. There’s also speculation that police may attempt to detain Park and other leaders of the presidential security service before trying again to execute the warrant against Yoon. Park again criticized the efforts to detention Yoon, saying that the investigation should proceed in a manner “appropriate for the status of an incumbent president” Yoon’s lawyers accuse the police of trying to undermine the leadership of the presidential security service. The presidential security act mandates protection for Yoon, but does not authorize the service to block court-ordered detention. Some legal experts say the president’s action may have been illegal. Yoon would only comply with an arrest warrant issued by the Seoul Central District Court. They accuse the agency of deliberately choosing another court with an allegedly favorable judge.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 04:33:18

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Royal Cam's popularity exploded during the coronavirus pandemic. The 24-hour livestream of the birds' breeding season was established to raise awareness. Millions have watched the stream since it began in 2016. During January, incubation season, an albatross sits on an egg. About once every 10 days, the second bird in the pair returns from feeding at sea to relieve the parent looking after the nest. The past two breeding seasons were the birds’ most successful ever, with 33 chicks each year. Pillière said the death of a chick from ingesting plastic in 2023 had prompted her to drastically reduce her household’s plastic use. The royal albatross has also crept into her work as a sculptor of animals.

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Meta’s use of fact-checking organisations will end abolished and the group will switch to a system of community notes instead. The move comes as tech executives brace for the arrival of incoming US President Donald Trump. Zuckerberg announced this week that Meta plans to roll this community note system out in the next coming months. Meta’s upcoming changes will take effect across its trio of major social media platforms. Facebook, Instagram and Threads are used by more than 3 billion people worldwide. Some experts see the move as politically motivated and could have negative implications. Twitter and Threads use third-party fact-checking organisations to verify authenticity and accuracy of content posted to each platform. These organisations evaluate content and flag misinformation for further scrutiny. Only Meta can remove content that violates its Community Standards and Ads policies. X’s Community Notes was piloted in 2021 and gained significant traction in 2023. The feature was designed to identify and highlight potentially misleading information on the platform. A Community Note typically provides a correction or clarification, frequently supported by a hyperlink to a reputable online source which can verify the information provided. Once approved by X as a Notes contributor, participants may rate other Notes as “Helpful” or “Not Helpful”. Meta has not outlined exactly how its community notes would work. Only those Notes which receive a final “Helpful” status are shown to all X users. There is debate about how well Community Notes work on X. Our mechanism tests reveal that this positive effect stems from consideration of users who had actively interacted with the misinformation (ie, observed influence),” Gao explained in the paper. Another research paper led by University of Luxembourg researchers published in April 2024 found the use of Community Notes reduced the spread of misleading posts by an average of 61.4 percent. The researchers examined 283 posts containing election claims that independent fact-checking organisations determined to be false or misleading. 209 out of 283 “misleading” posts in its sample were not being shown to all X users. The delay in moving a post to “helpful” status contributed to this. Fact-checking organisations have criticised the move, saying it is unnecessary and politically driven. Meta is deliberately aiming to placate the right wing as a second Trump presidency looms. Some experts in social media have cautioned that the change may open the door to an increase in misinformation appearing on Meta platforms. Others believe Meta may be pursuing favourable treatment from the Trump administration. Some big names in social media have actively welcomed the move. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and who will lead Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said, “This is cool” on a recent X post. Zuckerberg referred to other regions and countries in his video. “Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws, institutionalising censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there,” Zuckerberg said.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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The world has just experienced the first full year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times. The milestone was confirmed by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) on Friday, which said the climate crisis is pushing the planet’s temperature to levels never before experienced by modern humans. Each month in 2024 was the warmest or second-warmest for that month since records began. July 10 was the hottest day recorded by humans, with the globe averaging 17.16 degrees Celsius (62.89 degrees Fahrenheit), Copernicus found. Britain’s Met Office confirmed 2024’s likely breach of 1.5C, while estimating a slightly lower average temperature rise of 1.53C for the year. United States scientists are also expected to publish their 2024 climate data on Friday. The amount of water vapour in the planet’s atmosphere reached a record high in 2024. But even as the costs of these disasters spiral, the political will to invest in curbing emissions has waned in some countries. US President-elect Donald Trump has called climate change a 'hoax'

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna says the fires are some of the worst he’s ever seen. It adds to five other deaths from Eaton Fire, bringing the known death toll to seven. The Palisades and Eaton fires is the largest of six currently blazing across the city. All of the fires that have broken out across LA county area are located roughly 25 miles (40 km) north of downtown Los Angeles. At least five churches, a synagogue, seven schools, two libraries, and many boutiques, bars, restaurants, banks and grocery stores were destroyed. The damage is extensive, analysts believe it will take months, maybe years, for the city to rebuild to pre-fire levels.

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The latest blaze, the Kenneth fire, broke out in West Hills, a neighbourhood in the San Fernando Valley. Nearly 180,000 people are under evacuation orders due to the fire, with another 200,000 residents subject to evacuation warnings. The Palisades and Eaton fires have destroyed about 5,000 structures. Joe Biden is set to be replaced by President-elect Donald Trump in the White House on January 20. Biden appealed to Congress to provide aid.

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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Jimmy Carter was honoured with a stated funeral and the National Cathedral in the US capital on Thursday. President-elect Donald Trump visited Carter’s casket, which laid in the middle of the Capitol Rotunda to pay his respects. US President Joe Biden was tasked with delivering the eulogy, less than two weeks before he leaves office. Jimmy Carter's casket was loaded once more on a plane after state service. The late president was due to receive one final honouring, a private funeral. Biden said he learned that “strength of character” is more important that titles or power.

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