European Union foreign ministers will meet in late January to discuss easing sanctions imposed on Syria, the bloc’s foreign policy chief said Sunday.
EU ministers will consider easing sanctions on Syria at a meeting later in January
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Canada’s Justin Trudeau urges US consumers to consider the harm of Donald Trump’s tariff threats
Canada’s outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday suggested that President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks about Canada becoming America’s “51st state” has distracted attention from the harm that steep tariffs would inflict on U.S. consumers.
Joe Biden, Netanyahu discuss latest in effort to reach an Israel-Hamas war ceasefire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden spoke Sunday about efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal in the Israel-Hamas war.
Syrians celebrate a month since Assad’s overthrow with revolutionary songs in Damascus
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Ukraine says it captured 2 North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia
Ukraine’s forces have captured two North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday.
Israel’s prime minister sends Mossad director to Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar in sign of progress
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar in a sign of progress in talks on the war in Gaza.
Today in History: Grand Canyon proclaimed a national monument
On Jan. 11, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt leveraged the Antiquities Act of 1906 to proclaim the Grand Canyon as a national monument; it would become a national park in 1919.
US to return $52.8 million in seized assets linked to Nigeria’s former oil minister
The United States announced Friday that it would be returning $52.88 million in seized assets to Nigeria as part of a yearslong corruption probe against former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and associates, according to a joint statement by Nigeria’s minister of justice and the United States government.
Joe Biden levies new sanctions against Russian energy sector, but it’s up to Donald Trump whether to keep them
President Joe Biden’s administration announced Friday that it’s expanding sanctions against Russia’s critically important energy sector, unveiling a new effort to inflict pain on Moscow for its grinding war in Ukraine.
Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a federal law that could force TikTok to shut down on Jan. 19
The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.