Qatar PM meets Hamas team for truce talks
DOHA, Dec 29 (AFP): Qatar's prime minister met a Hamas delegation in Doha on Saturday to discuss a "clear and comprehensive" ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza, a statement said.Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani held talks with a Hamas team led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya,...
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2025 important yr for nuclear issue: Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 29 (Reuters): Iran, bracing for a possible re-imposition of incoming US president Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" policy, said on Saturday that 2025 would be an important year for its nuclear issue.Trump in 2018 reneged on a deal struck by his predecessor Barack Obama in 2015 in which Iran...
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About 300 people arrested
BEIRUT, Dec 29 (AFP): Syria's new authorities have arrested nearly 300 people, including informants, pro-regime fighters and former soldiers, in a crackdown on loyalists to ousted former president Bashar al-Assad, a monitor said Sunday.Since rebels led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group toppled Assad three weeks ago, ending...
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News in Brief -2024-12-30
Georgia's outgoing president refusesto quit as successor takes oathTBILISI, Dec 29: Thousands of Georgians protested 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...
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