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News in brief Kremlin praises Trump, pounds

Canada unveils 2035 u Canada released what Syria celebrates end of Assad era
climate goal critics say is weak it called an achievable 2035 Ukraine in massive attack TOP
greenhouse gas reduction
target that environmental groups panned 4
as not ambitious enough. The target for
2035 would see emissions slashed by 45 to 50 TWEETS
percent from 2005 levels, on its way to net-zero Jubilant crowds fill streets and mosques, marking end of decades-long oppressive
by mid-century. But it is only five percentage 01
points above its previous commitment for
2030. Both objectives would require a major
acceleration of the nation’s climate efforts as Ottawa struggles to advance • HTS leader calls
initiatives amid pushback over their costs. for “Friday of Victory”
u Chinese navy and nationwide celebrations
coast guard ships have Taiwan says Chinese ships have
returned to China, left, signalling drills over • Thousands gather
signalling the end of a massive maritime paceX HQ will now of-
exercise, Taiwanese authorities said at Damascus’s Umayyad Sficially be in the city of
yesterday. Taiwan’s coast guard released Mosque, waving Starbase, Texas!
images it said showed Chinese coast guard independence flags @elonmusk
vessels sailing north in rough seas past the
island on Thursday, on their way to China. • Interim government
“All the Chinese coast guard went back to
China yesterday, thus, although they haven’t promises protection of
officially made any announcement, we consider it over,” Hsieh Ching-chin, deputy rights and rule of law 02
director general of Taiwan’s coast guard, said. People gather on a street in Sweida
China jails former Premier League u China yesterday AFP | Damascus in the country. A general view of the turbine hall of a thermal power plant damaged during a missile attack, at an undisclosed location
The G7 leaders expressed their
jailed former Premier
star Li Tie 20 years for corruption League star and men’s housands of jubilant peo- readiness to support a transition in Ukraine (file photo)
national coach Li Tie for 20 years for ple rallied in cities across to an inclusive and non-sectarian AFP | Moscow ‘Deprive us of energy’
bribery, snaring one of the country’s TSyria, including at a land- government in Syria, while calling
greatest football figures in a sweeping mark mosque in the capital Da- for the protection of human rights he Kremlin said yesterday The attack “severely dam-
government crackdown on corruption mascus, to celebrate during the KNOW WHAT and emphasizing the importance Tthat US President-elect aged” some Ukrainian power ith the Assad re-
in sport. President Xi Jinping has waged an first Friday prayers since the of holding the Assad regime ac- Donald Trump’s opposition to plants, the DTEK power pro- Wgime gone, there is
unrelenting campaign against deep-seated ouster of president Bashar al-As- countable for its crimes. Ukraine’s use of US weapons to KNOW WHAT vider said, and knocked out new hope for the Syrian
official corruption since coming to power sad. An aerial photo shows crowds of Syrians raising a giant independence-era flag, at the central Umayyad Square in Damascus The International Inside much of Syria, the focus hit Russia “fully aligned” with electricity to thousands of people. But the situation
over a decade ago. Anti-graft authorities More than half a century of bru- uprising in 2011, pro-democracy “I still can’t believe that I’m ond city Aleppo, a scene of fierce Committee of the Red is turning towards unravelling the Moscow’s position, hours after people. remains volatile. That’s
took aim at the sport industry in 2022 and have announced a string of convictions tal rule by the Assad clan came to protesters used to give their Fri- standing next to the Umayyad fighting during the country’s civil Cross has documented secrets of Assad’s rule, and par- it launched a massive aerial bar- Russia fired 94 missiles in why we need to engage.
for former football administrators this week. a sudden end on Sunday, after a day gatherings a different name Mosque... and there are no gov- war, AFP correspondents report- ticularly the network of detention rage on Ukraine. Russia’s latest assault the barrage -- including cruise We’ve increased our hu-
lightning rebel offensive swept every week. The latest rally was ernment thugs” asking for ID, ed. over 35,000 cases of centres and suspected torture The nearly three-year conflict targeted Ukraine and ballistic missiles -- and al- manitarian aid funding to
across the country and took the called the “Friday of victory”. Rimo said. A huge billboard depicting As- disappearances during sites scattered across areas previ- is escalating ahead of Trump with one of the most 200 drones, according to more than €160M. And our
C URIOSER & C URIOSER capital. Interim prime minister Mo- “We are gathering because sad and his father Hafez was set Assad’s rule, with the ously under government control. coming to power in January, largest barrages yet, Ukraine’s air force. It claimed humanitarian flights will
Assad fled Syria, closing an era hammed al-Bashir addressed a we’re happy Syria has been freed, on fire. actual number likely Syrians have flooded to prisons, with both sides seeking to gain deploying 94 missiles to have shot down 81 of the bring food, medicines and
US cops find mysterious $100 in which suspected dissidents large congregation at Damascus’s we’re happy to have been liberat- “The Assad father and son op- much higher hospitals and morgues in search an upper hand on the battlefield and 200 drones in a missiles. shelter items.
President Volodymyr Zelen-
mn in marijuana - but no owner were jailed or killed, and capping landmark Umayyad Mosque. ed from the prison in which we pressed us, but we have liberat- of long-disappeared loved ones, amid mounting speculation of single day sky said the attack showed @vonderleyen
Thousands flocked to the lived,” said Nour Thi al-Ghina, 38. ed our country from injustice,” a
nearly 14 years of war that killed
ceasefire talks.
hoping for a miracle, or at least
more than 500,000 people and mosque, some raising the three- white-bearded policeman at the “Our joy is indescribable,” said closure. Russia launched one of its Moscow had no interest in
displaced millions. star Syrian independence flag ‘Constructive’ signals scene said. Haitham Hudeifa, 54. “Every “I turned the world upside largest missile attacks ever in “That impresses us. It is ob- peace.
Yesterday’s celebration was which none dared wave in the Thousands of people also gath- In the southern city of Sweida, province is celebrating this great down looking,” Abu Mohammed the early hours of yesterday, vious that Trump understands “This is Putin’s ‘peace plan’
called for by the leader of the capital during Assad’s iron-fisted ered in the squares and streets the heartland of Syria’s Druze victory.” told AFP as he searched for news targeting Ukraine’s energy grid exactly what is escalating the -- to destroy everything. This 03
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rule. in other Syrian cities, including minority where anti-government The United Nations refugee of three missing relatives at the as temperatures dropped be- situation.” is how he wants ‘negotiations’
armed group Ahmed al-Sharaa Exhilarated crowds chanted Homs, Hama and Idlib. demonstrations have been held agency said yesterday that the Mazzeh airbase in Damascus. low freezing, in what Moscow Moscow has repeatedly raged -- by terrorising millions of peo-
– also known as Abu Mohammed “the Syrian people is one!” There was a festive and relaxed for more than a year, hundreds new government had sent “con- “But I didn’t find anything at called a retaliatory strike for against Western arms supplied ple,” he said in a post on X.
al-Jolani “I still feel like I’m dreaming,” atmosphere as hundreds rallied took to the streets, singing and structive” initial signals, includ- all. We just want a hint of where Kyiv firing US weapons on a to Ukraine and said the use He called for more Western
During the early days of Syria’s said 52-year-old Khalil Rimo. in the main square of Syria’s sec- clapping in jubilation. ing asking the organisation to stay they were, one percent.” southern Russian airfield ear- of Western weapons makes air defence systems to protect
lier this week. NATO countries direct partici- Ukraine’s skies and harsher
The Kremlin had warned it pants in the nearly three-year sanctions on Moscow, to limit
would respond to Kyiv’s use conflict. its ability to wage war. e hope this new
India to build Bharat Antariksha Station by 2035, to land an France’s Macron names of ATACMS missiles and then “In response to the use of The attack hit some ther- Wdawn for #Syr-
praised Trump, who said using American long-range weapons, mal power plants belonging
ia will lead to sustained
Indian on Moon by 2040: Union Minister Jitendra Singh centrist ally Bayrou as PM the weapons to hit deep into a massive strike was carried to Ukrainian energy provider peace. @WHO will contin-
ue to support the health
out by the Russian armed forc- DTEK.
Russia was a “foolish” idea.
ANI | New Delhi “The statement fully aligns es... against critical facilities of “The massive attack severely needs of all Syrians, dis-
with our position, with our Ukraine’s fuel and energy in- damaged thermal power plant placed populations, and
view on the reasons for esca- frastructure,” Russia’s defence equipment,” DTEK said without those who may now re-
ndia is set to achieve major lation,” Kremlin spokesman ministry said in a post on Tel- specifying how many facilities turn home, but also to
Imilestones in space explora- Dmitry Peskov told reporters. egram. were hit. rebuild the fragile health
tion with plans to establish its system across the country.
own space station, Bharat An- KNOW WHAT @DrTedros
tariksha Station, by 2035, and to
land an Indian astronaut on the Georgia crisis deepens as government
Moon by 2040, Union Minister 04
of State for Science & Technol- India has launched
ogy and Space, Jitendra Singh, 397 foreign satellites set to name far-right president
announced on Wednesday. in the past decade
Bags of marijuana is seen stuffed inside a warehouse with in Oak Hills, Speaking at a press confer-
California alone, showcasing its AFP | Tbilisi
ence in Delhi on the achieve- emergence as a global
AFP | Oak Hills, California which has a street value in ex- ments of science ministries, space technology eorgia’s political crisis
cess of $100 million, is a mys- Singh highlighted the govern- Gdeepened yesterday after
massive marijuana bust tery. ment’s ambitious space initia- leader new pro-Europe protests were
A has left US cops stumped Detective Chris Bassett of tives. “We are going to have our Union Minister of State for Science & Technology and Space, Jitendra Singh French President Emmanuel Macron (R) poses with Pau’s mayor Francois Bayrou (L) announced ahead of the con- ebt-fueled govern-
after they found $100 mil- the San Bernardino County own space station, we will be added. on the balcony of the city hall during a visit in Pau (file photo) troversial nomination of a far- Dment spending caus-
lion worth of the drug, neat- Sheriff’s Department admitted among the first to have that, af- Mission. He also spoke about India’s Discussing marine resource AFP | Paris tasked him with forming a gov- right government loyalist as es inflation which is an
ly bagged up, but without an that officers were stumped by ter the U.S. and one or two other “And while next year ends, growing focus on biotechnology, exploration, Singh highlighted ernment,” the French presidency president. invisible tax. Government
owner in sight. the find. countries. It will be known as or maybe by 2026, we will have referring to the Biotechnolo- the Deep Sea Mission, which resident Emmanuel Macron said in a statement, giving no more The Black Sea nation has overregulation depresses
Detectives were called Asked by a reporter if inves- Bharat Antariksha Station by the first Indian human being gy E3 policy, which integrates aims to unlock the potential of Pyesterday named centrist lead- details. been in turmoil since the gov- economic activity which
to a property in Oak Hills, tigators had any idea who it 2035. And by 2040, we might be in space, called Gaganyaan, si- biotechnology for economic India’s marine wealth. er Francois Bayrou as prime minis- Bayrou is the sixth prime minis- erning Georgian Dream party is an invisible tax. That
California, by neighbors belonged to, he replied: “Not landing an Indian on the surface multaneously also sending one growth, employment, and envi- He pointed out that the mis- ter, handing him the daunting task ter of Macron’s mandate after last claimed victory in contested is Biden’s legacy & now
who noted a strong smell at this time.” as well,” he said. human being down into the sea- ronmental sustainability. Singh sion’s importance has been reit- of hauling France out of months of week’s toppling of Barnier, who October parliamentary elec- it’s our job to clean up the
coming from a newly built “The first thought that went The minister also provided bed, 6,000 meters deep, which is underlined the importance of erated by Prime Minister Modi political crisis. became France’s shortest-serving tions, with its decision last mess.
warehouse. through my mind is, where updates on the Gaganyaan mis- possibly the maximum depth of bio-economy in driving the next in consecutive Independence Bayrou, the 73-year-old head of prime minister and lasted only month to delay EU accession @VivekGRamaswamy
Once they got inside, they is this marijuana going? Is sion, India’s first human space- the sea,” the Minister said. industrial revolution, transi- Day addresses in 2022 and 2023, the MoDem group which is allied three months. talks igniting a fresh wave of Anti-government protesters wave a Georgian (L) and European Union (R) flag
found the whole 4,800-square- it going to illegal dispensa- flight program. He revealed that Singh also emphasized the tioning from the IT revolution. signifying its priority in the gov- to Macron’s party, was appointed He is also Macron’s fourth prime mass rallies. during a demonstration
foot (450-square-meter) struc- ries? Is it going to be distrib- by the end of 2024 or early 2026, significant progress made in “Prime Minister Modi is ernment’s agenda. nine days after Michel Barnier’s minister of 2024. More unrest is expected has refused to step down and is moving Tbilisi closer to Russia
ture stuffed with trash bags uted throughout the United the first Indian astronaut will satellite launches under the very supportive in all these The minister highlighted In- government was ousted by parlia- Bayrou now faces an immediate on Saturday when Georgian demanding new parliamentary -- all at the expensive of the
full of marijuana. States?” he said. travel to space under the Gaga- current government. He noted measures, which is, again, evi- dia’s advancements in space, ment in a historic no-confidence challenge in putting together a Dream will appoint far-right elections, paving the way for a Caucasus nation’s bid for EU

The 3,000 bags, which Marijuana -- both medici- nyaan mission. that India has launched 432 for- dent from the fact that we are biotechnology, and marine ex- vote following a standoff over an cabinet that can survive a no-con- former footballer Mikheil Ka- constitutional showdown. membership. Disclaimer: (Views expressed
weighed a total of 45 tons, took nally and recreationally -- is Simultaneously, India plans eign satellites from Sriharikota, among the first countries in the ploration underline its commit- austerity budget. fidence vote in a deeply divided velashvili as president in a con- Opposition groups accuse A forceful police crackdown by columnists are personal and
officers two days and 51 truck- legal in California, but com- to send a human to the seabed, with 397 of them, nearly 90 per world to have come out with ment to becoming a global lead- “The President of the Repub- parliament and thrash out a 2025 troversial election process. Georgian Dream of rigging on the protestors has also trig- need not necessarily reflect our
loads to move. mercial cultivation requires exploring depths of up to 6,000 cent, launched in the last decade a bio-economy-related policy er in science and technology lic has appointed Mr. Francois budget in a bid to limit economic The pro-Western incumbent, the parliamentary vote, demo- gered outrage at home and con- editorial stances)
But just who owns the haul, a permit. meters as part of its Deep Sea alone. called Biotechnology E3,” Singh by 2047. Bayrou as prime minister and turmoil. President Salome Zurabishvili, cratic backsliding in office and demnation abroad.
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