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December 16, 2024

UAE lottery draw leaves Dh100m jackpot unclaimed

The UAE Lottery’s inaugural draw on Saturday saw nearly 30,000 participants share Dh3.5 million ($953,000) in prize money, but the Dh100 million ($27.2m) jackpot remains unclaimed. According to The...

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December 16, 2024

UK reveals contact with new Syrian regime and announces £50m aid package

Britain has had diplomatic contact with the new regime in Syria led by Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), the group that swept President Bashar Al-Assad from power just eight days...

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December 16, 2024

Syrian Christians attend services, schools reopen a week after Assad’s overthrow

Syrian Christians attended regular Sunday services for the first time since the dramatic overthrow of President Bashar Al-Assad a week ago, in an early test of assurances by the new Islamist...

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December 16, 2024

More US, UK air strikes on Yemen’s Hudaydah, Houthis says

Yemen’s Houthi group reported fresh US, British air strikes targeting Hudaydah province in the west of the country yesterday, Anadolu reported. In a brief statement, the Houthi-run Al-Masirah television...

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December 16, 2024

Iraq sets up camp to host fleeing Syria regime soldiers

Iraq has established a camp in the Anbar desert to host hundreds of Syrian regime soldiers who entered the country last Saturday fleeing opposition factions that took over the...

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December 16, 2024

Charities set up tents for 700 displaced families in Gaza

A group of international organisations have established a camp to house 700 families who have been displaced from southern Gaza and forced to move to the enclave’s coast. The...

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December 16, 2024

Heavy Israeli bombing of Syria’s port city of Tartous

Heavy Israeli bombing of Syria’s port city of Tartous Loud explosions heard in the Syrian port city of Tartus after a number of Israeli attacks. Since the fall of...

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December 16, 2024

Russia cargo plane departs Syria for Libya

A Russian cargo plane departed from Russia’s air base in the Syrian port city of Latakia heading for Libya on Saturday, a Syrian security official stationed outside the facility...

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December 16, 2024

In a keffiyeh, Japan’s envoy sings Iraq’s national anthem

In a keffiyeh, Japan’s envoy sings Iraq’s national anthem Outgoing Japanese Ambassador to Iraq, Futoshi Matsumoto, signs off his diplomatic duty in Baghdad by singing the Iraqi national anthem...

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December 16, 2024

Lebanon: Israel blows up houses in Tyre, bringing number of ceasefire violations to 227

Israeli occupation forces yesterday blew up houses in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, bringing the number of their violations of the ceasefire agreement to 227. Since 27 November,...

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