Austrian president tasks far-right leader with forming government FPO leader Herbert Kickl gets mandate to try to lead a government, which would be the first headed by the far right since World War II. Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen, left, meets far-right Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl in Vienna, January 6, 2025 [Leonhard Foeger/Reuters]…
What is behind US strategy of keeping troops in post-Assad Syria? Analysts say priorities extend beyond anti-ISIL mission and include keeping leverage as Syria’s future takes shape. US military personnel at a US base in an undisclosed location in northeastern Syria in 2019 [File: Darko Bandic/The Associated Press] By Joseph StepanskyPublished On 6 Jan 20256 Jan…
Iran nuclear programme nearing ‘point of no return’, France’s Macron says French president says Paris will engage with the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump on the ‘Iranian question’. French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech to French ambassadors at the Elysee Palace in Paris [Aurelien Morissard/Pool via Reuters] Published On 6 Jan 20256…
UK Prime Minister Starmer slams ‘lies’ after Musk tirade Starmer defends record as prosecutor after tech billionaire Musk attacks him and other Labour figures over handling of child rape cases. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a speech on reducing NHS wait times as he visits a healthcare provider in Surrey, on January 6, 2025…
Pakistan Taliban threatens military-run businesses amid rising violence The threat marks a significant escalation in the group’s fight against the Pakistani military, warn analysts. Pakistan Taliban has issued a warning to the military of launching attacks on its commercial interests [File: Ishtiaq Mahsud/AP Photo] By Abid HussainPublished On 6 Jan 20256 Jan 2025 Islamabad, Pakistan –…
Nigeria’s military has launched an offensive against a new rebel group said to be affiliated with ISIL.
In Pictures Guards from the opposition Syrian Military Operations Department outside “Palestine Branch” after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. [Belal Khaled/Al Jazeera] By Belal KhaledPublished On 6 Jan 20256 Jan 2025 Damascus, Syria – “Palestine Branch”, also known as Branch 235, is an intelligence-run prison in Syria that everyone in the country feared and loathed….
At the EU’s external border in Bulgaria, the refugee horror story continues I spent a summer providing medical care to refugees in Bulgaria and these are some of their stories. Nabiha Islam Internal Medicine physician based in Toronto Published On 6 Jan 20256 Jan 2025 A Syrian refugee is pictured in a camp in the…
Nine killed in roadside bomb attack in central India Police said eight policemen and a driver were killed in bomb blast set off by Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh. Published On 6 Jan 20256 Jan 2025 At least eight policemen and a driver have been killed in central India when a bomb blast set off by…
Israeli forces use an ambulance to carry out a raid in the occupied West Bank.