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Few could have foreseen Bashar al-Assad’s dramatic ouster as 2024 drew to a close. For years, Syria’s battle lines had been frozen under a fragile ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey in 2020. Yet, Assad’s downfall—after his family’s iron grip over Syria for over five decades—has shaken the region to its core. Lina Khatib of…

A man and a woman were arrested on charges related to the murder of a 32-year-old Cuban man in a small village in northern Spain. A dramatic twist in the case was found when Google Street View took a picture that became the only clue the investigators needed. The victim, identified as Jorge Luis Perez,…

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Manish Tewari are on the Congress’ list of nominees to a joint parliamentary committee that will study the ‘one nation, one election‘ Constitution Amendment Bill that was tabled in Parliament yesterday, sources told NDTV Wednesday afternoon.  Mr Tewari was the first opposition leader to speak out against the ‘one nation, one…

2024 was not just an election year. It was the biggest election year in human history, with nearly half the world’s population voting to determine their political, social and economic landscape. Rattled by rising inflation, frustrated over cultural fractures and divided by political ideologies, voters in over 60 countries sent decisive messages to leaders. From…

Ahead of the assembly election scheduled early next year, Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the BJP have got themselves tangled in a new brawl, this time over the issue of illegal Rohingya living in the national capital. Chief Minister Atishi in a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah alleged the Centre allowed…

A canteen owner at a theatre screening the movie “Pushpa 2: The Rule” in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior allegedly bit the ear of a man over a dispute on settling the snacks bill, police said. The incident took place on Sunday when the victim, Shabbir, went to the canteen of Kailash Talkies in Inderganj area during…

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed corruption charges against him as ‘ridiculous’ in court on Tuesday, becoming the country’s first sitting premier to face criminal trial. Israeli media called it a “historic day” as Mr Netanyahu faced charges of bribery, fraud and breach of public trust in three separate cases while running a country at…

Union minister Nitin Gadkari, who has been handling the Road Transport portfolio for the third straight term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today said efforts are on to use garbage to build roads, which will also take care of the mounting garbage problems of the country’s metro cities.  “Delhi has four mountains of municipal garbage….

Members of the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Sunday took oath as MLAs in the newly constituted Maharashtra assembly. The opposition members had boycotted the oath-taking ceremony on Saturday, the first day of the special three-day session of the assembly, alleging misuse of EVMs in the recently-held state polls. Congress’s Nana Patole, Vijay Wadettiwar…