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Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and family in Moscow after Russia granted them asylum: reports
Ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad has fled to Russia after Islamist rebels rolled into the capital Damascus and ended his despotic family’s 50-year reign of terror. Assad, who inherited the office from his father in 2000, reportedly slipped out of Syria early Sunday morning as rebels closed in on his palace. He arrived in Moscow…
Explainer: Boosting the City: Part Two of UK’s post-Brexit finance reforms
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Greece boat disaster: Up to 500 people still missing says UN
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Why is US sending 3,000 Navy, Marines force to Persian Gulf?
The Pentagon has not yet specified the Marines’ role in deterring Iran from interfering with commercial shipping and threatening neighboring Arab states. WASHINGTON — A contingent of more than 3,000 US Navy personnel and Marines sailed into the Suez Canal on Sunday as the Biden administration weighs options to deter Iran from seizing commercial tanker ships in the…
Exclusive: Somalia asks peacekeepers to slow withdrawal, fears Islamist resurgence
MOGADISHU, June 20 (Reuters) – Somalia’s government is seeking to slow the withdrawal of African peacekeepers and warning of a potential security vacuum, documents seen by Reuters show, with neighbouring countries fretting that resurgent al Shabaab militants could seize power. The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), a peacekeeping force, is committed to withdrawing…


