Category: World News
They fled in fear from a U.S. ally. So it went after their families.
Washington Post Rwanda tries to silence critics abroad by targeting relatives back home, at times arresting and torturing them, say former officials and other exiled Rwandans. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/21/rwanda-human-rights-kagame-repression/
Read MoreLive Briefing: Houthi missile fired from Yemen strikes Tel Aviv, causing minor injuries
Washington Post The Houthis claimed responsibility for the strike in the Jaffa area and celebrated the Israel Defense Forces’ failed attempt to intercept the missile. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/21/israel-syria-war-news-hamas-gaza-palestine-yemen/
Read MoreProjectile from Yemen strikes near Tel Aviv, injuring more than a dozen: officials
Fox News A projectile launched into Israel from Yemen overnight into Saturday struck Tel Aviv, resulting in mild injuries to 14 people, according to Israeli officials. Israel’s military said after sirens sounded in central Israel that the projectile landed in Tel Aviv’s southern Jaffa area following failed attempts to intercept. “Following the sirens that sounded…
Read MoreGerd Heidemann, journalist at center of Hitler diary hoax, dies at 93
Washington Post In 1983, he reported that he had found the diaries of Adolf Hitler — a “scoop of the century” that was the mistake of a lifetime. The diaries were forged. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/12/20/gerd-heidemann-hitler-diaries-dead/
Read MoreMalaysia agrees to resume ‘no find, no fee’ hunt for flight MH370, 10 years after plane disappeared
Fox News Malaysia’s government has agreed in principle to accept a second “no find, no fee” proposal from a U.S. company to renew the hunt for flight MH370, which is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean more than 10 years ago, Transport Minister Anthony Loke said Friday. Loke said Cabinet ministers gave…
Read MoreBiden missing in action as Turkey inches closer to full-blown war against US-allied Kurds in Syria
Fox News JERUSALEM — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan could be on the brink of engulfing Syria in a new war with his slated invasion of the country’s north in an effort to decimate the U.S.-allied Syrian Kurds who helped President-elect Trump defeat the Islamic State in 2019. The White House-brokered cease-fire between Turkey and the…
Read MoreCar slams into crowd at Christmas market in Germany
Washington Post “Numerous” people were injured in the incident, a city spokesman told local media. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/20/germany-christmas-market-car-crash-magdeburg/
Read MoreElon Musk praises far-right German AfD party
Washington Post The far-right Alternative for Germany party is classified by German intelligence as a suspected extremist organization. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/20/elon-musk-afd-germany/
Read MoreU.S. lifts bounty on Syria’s interim leader amid diplomatic outreach
Washington Post Ahmed al-Sharaa, who heads Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, pledged to U.S. diplomats that he would not allow terrorist groups in Syria to threaten the West. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/12/20/us-diplomats-syria-hts/
Read MoreJustin Trudeau looks set to lose power after key ally vows to topple him
Fox News Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday looked set to lose power early next year after a key ally said he would move to bring down the minority Liberal government and trigger an election. New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh, who has been helping keep Trudeau in office, said he would present a…
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