Author: Justin M. Larson
Briefing ambassadors for the first time as Deputy Special Envoy, Claudio Cordone pointed to the 30 January ceasefire and integration agreement between the Syrian Government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as a potentially transformative development.The deal provides for a phased military and administrative integration of northeast Syria and includes provisions on the return of displaced people and the protection of Kurdish civil and educational rights, building on Presidential Decree 13 on linguistic, cultural and citizenship rights.“Hostilities have ended and work on an implementation plan has been progressing in a positive manner,” Mr. Cordone said, noting deployments of Ministry of…
Peter Biar Ajak, a democracy advocate, was convicted of conspiring to buy and export weapons for a revolt in South Sudan. Source link
A federal prosecutor said last month that ICE had made a “mistake” in deporting Any Lucia López Belloza, a college freshman in Massachusetts, to Honduras. Source link
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A family vacation turned into a five-year nightmare. And it started with one payment.L. Williams found a cruise consultant online who booked her family a week on Carnival Freedom. Great price. One catch. He only accepted Zelle. She sent $3,556. The family sailed the Western Caribbean. Gorgeous sunsets. Wonderful memories.Five years later, she tried to book another cruise. Nope.Carnival told her she was on the Do Not Sail list. Turns out her “consultant” pocketed the Zelle cash, then used a stolen credit card to book the trip. When the real cardholder disputed…
Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West Africa — for a generation. Source link
The deployment follows months of escalating pressure from President Trump on the African nation, including a surprise missile strike on Christmas Day. Source link
The United Arab Emirates and the United States have each committed more than $1 billion to President Trump’s new international initiative, officials said. Source link
The measures were installed last month by the Trump administration after the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro and seized control of Venezuela’s oil industry. Source link
A catalogue of incidents at the world’s most visited museum have placed museum bosses come under increasing scrutiny. Source link
Witness History’s Rachel Naylor explains. Source link
Heraskevych’s appeal to Cas asked for his ban to be overturned, to be able to wear the helmet and to complete the two skeleton runs he missed out on on Thursday under the supervision of Cas.He said his disqualification was “disproportionate” and claimed other athletes had been able to express their grief during competition at the Games.For example, American figure skater Maxim Naumov held up a photograph of his parents, who were killed last year in a plane crash in Washington DC, as he waited for his score to come in earlier this week.But the IOC say Heraskevych has contravened…
Vladyslav Heraskevych’s helmet depicts fellow athletes who have been killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion of his country. Source link
Floral arrangements crafted from carefully-folded, colorful bank notes, had become a popular symbol of love in Nairobi. Source link
“Our freedom is not guaranteed” in an era of big powers, the German chancellor tells Munich’s security summit. Source link
The Britons had been part of a group of five people accompanied by an instructor, skiing off-piste in Val d’Isère. Source link
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was credited with turning the state-backed DP World into a global logistics powerhouse. He was recently identified in correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. Source link
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A full-size humanoid robot just ran faster than most people will ever sprint. Chinese robotics firm MirrorMe Technology has unveiled Bolt, a humanoid robot that reached a top speed of 22 miles per hour during real-world testing. This was not CGI or a computer simulation. The footage, shared by the company on X, shows a real humanoid robot running at full speed inside a controlled testing facility.That milestone makes Bolt the fastest running humanoid robot of its size ever demonstrated outside computer simulations. For robotics, this is a line-crossing moment.Sign up for my…
President Trump threatened to strike Iran, but the military has needed time to build up its forces in the region. Source link
Speaking to reporters from Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, WFP Country Director Tania Goossens said some 400,000 people are facing acute humanitarian needs after the island was hit by back-to-back cyclones in the space of three weeks.Ms. Goossens recently returned from a mission to the port city Toamasina (also known as Tamatave), the country’s second largest urban centre, where Gezani made landfall on Tuesday evening with wind gusts of up to 250 kilometres per hour.“The scale of the destruction is really overwhelming,” Ms. Goossens insisted.Nearly 40 deathsShe said that according to the authorities, 80 per cent of the city has suffered damage…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a ceremonial welcome with Li Qiang, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, ahead of their meeting at the Great Hall of The People during his visit to China, on January 29, 2026 in Beijing, China. Carl Court | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe geopolitical tectonic plates are on the move again, and the early tremors are already visible across the global landscape, with significant consequences for traditional alliances, global markets, and national power realignment. What we are seeing unfold during the first quarter of 2026 increasingly feels like one of those historical earthquake moments, not because of any single headline associated…
Peter Magyar suspects there are plans to release a sex tape of him from August 2024. Source link
The case underlines how the Islamic State has seized on rising antisemitism provoked by the Gaza war to radicalize and encourage would-be assailants. Source link
“The Voice of Hind Rajab,” “All That’s Left of You” and “Palestine 36” each tries to unpack the complex lives of Palestinians. Source link
The moves appear to highlight lingering doubts in Washington about the new Syrian government’s ability to ensure security. Source link
