American-backed forces work to keep ISIS at bay in Syria

Gisèle Pelicot: ‘I never regretted decision to make trial public’ French rape survivor Gisèle Pelicot walked out of a court in southern France for the last time on Thursday after her ex-husband was jailed for 20 years for drugging and raping her, and inviting dozens of strangers to also abuse her over nearly a decade….

NewsFeed Oil has washed up along tens of kilometres of Russia’s Black Sea coastline after two of its tankers were badly damaged in a storm over the weekend. Published On 17 Dec 202417 Dec 2024 #Oil #washes #Russias #Black #Sea #coast #tanker #spill #Oil #Gas

CPJ says the Israeli military ‘continues to act with total impunity when it comes to the killing of journalists’. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has denounced Israel’s killing of four Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the past week as the Israeli military intensifies its bombardment of the besieged territory. The United States-based watchdog said…

Thousands of Georgians are protesting in the capital Tbilisi as a new president allied with the ruling Georgian Dream party was inaugurated. Mikheil Kavelashvili, a former pro-footballer, has been sworn in during a critical political period for the country after the government suspended its application to join the European Union. Georgian Dream won parliamentary elections…

The driver involved in the ramming has been taken into custody, with officials calling the incident an attack. At least two people are dead and as many as 68 injured after a car rammed into a crowded Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg, part of the central German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Officials on Friday…

A driver rammed a car into a large crowd of revellers at a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg on Friday evening, killing at least two people, including a toddler, and injuring more than 60 before he was arrested.  #Car #ploughs #German #Christmas #market #deadly #holiday #season #attack