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South Korean president’s office raided as martial law probe deepens

Washington Post Prosecutors are weighing arresting President Yoon Suk Yeol for insurrection. His former defense minister, who has already been detained, attempted suicide. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/10/south-korea-presidential-office-raided/

U.S. group travels to Syria in search of missing reporter Austin Tice

Washington Post The fall of President Bashar al-Assad has revived hopes that Austin Tice, a journalist abducted while covering Syria’s civil war, will be found alive. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/12/10/austin-tice-syria-assad/

Mazen al-Hamada, symbol of Syrian regime’s brutality, confirmed dead

Washington Post His body was found with about 40 others wrapped in bloody sheets and dumped at a military hospital outside Damascus. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/10/syria-mazen-hamada-damascus-prison/

In Syria’s former ‘slaughterhouse,’ a desperate hunt for the disappeared

Washington Post Families searching Sednaya prison feared that they would not learn the fate of their missing loved ones — and that so much of what happened there may never be known. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/10/syria-sednaya-prison-torture-dissapeared-assad/

China’s sci-fi spherical Death Star-like robot cop uses AI, facial recognition to track criminals

Fox News Footage from the streets of China captured a scene straight from a science fiction novel – spherical drones alongside patrolling law enforcement. Chinese robotics company, Logon Technology, unveiled the RT-G autonomous spherical robot in a release, saying it was a “technological breakthrough” designed to assist and even replace humans in dangerous environments. The spherical…

Netanyahu wants to establish ‘relations’ with Syria but says Israel will attack it if becomes a threat

Fox News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he wants to establish “relations” with the new regime in Syria after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad, but he warned Israel will not hesitate to attack the Middle Eastern nation should it pose a threat. “We want relations with the new regime in Syria,” Netanyahu said…

Israel expands airstrikes across Syria amid widening power vacuum

Washington Post The Israeli military said it had carried out 350 strikes on Syrian territory since Sunday, destroying weapons sites and effectively eliminating the Syrian navy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/10/israel-syria-strikes-damascus-assad/

Cyclist Rohan Dennis Pleads Guilty in Death of Wife Melissa Hoskins, Fellow Olympian

New York Times Rohan Dennis pleaded guilty this week to a lesser charge in the death of Melissa Hoskins last year, after he drove with her on the hood of a vehicle, the authorities said. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/world/australia/olympic-cyclist-death-guilty-rohan-dennis.html

Iran reels from ‘tectonic shift’ in Middle East amid scramble for Syria

Washington Post As Iran deals with the strategic setback of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, a vicious cycle of confrontation and escalation could already be in motion. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/10/iran-syria-nuclear-weapons-israel-assad/

Collapse of Syria’s Assad regime renews US push to find Austin Tice

Fox News The fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria over the weekend has brought a renewed effort by the Biden administration to find American journalist and Marine veteran Austin Tice and bring him home. An immense push to return Tice, who was abducted in Syria 12 years ago, has been initiated as hostage-affairs…