President Joe Biden of the United States has said his administration would engage with “all Syrian groups” over the political transition. Biden’s stand comes after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government, which was toppled by Islamic rebels in the country over the weekend. The rebels entered Damascus and seized control of the nation’s capital on Sunday, ending Assad’s family’s iron-fisted rule that has lasted for over 13 years of…

Syria’s former President, Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Russia and have been granted asylum by the Russian authorities, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday, citing a Kremlin source. The Interfax news agency quoted the unnamed source as saying: “President Assad of Syria has arrived in Moscow. Russia has granted them (him and his family) asylum on humanitarian grounds.”

….After dictator fled the country SUVs, motorcycles, ATVs, and what appears to be an armored truck also awaited the rebels, who traipsed through the sprawling mansion taking selfies, firing guns into the air and making off with anything that wasn’t bolted down, videos shared on X show. The palace is a sprawling, blocky fortress of stone and marble perched on a hill on the outskirts of Damascus; the Guardian once…

In what would be a piece of distressing news to people, including Nigerians, who flock to the United States to give birth, with the sole purpose of bestowing American citizenship on the babies, the President-elect, Donald Trump said in an interview aired Sunday he would end birthright citizenship, calling the policy ‘ridiculous.’ Trump also said he would “have to” deport all undocumented immigrants in the US. The former president spoke…

Syria’s armed opposition says they have captured the capital, Damascus, and that President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country.The announcement comes after rebels seized the city of Homs in a lightning offensive hours earlier. “The tyrant Bashar al-Assad has fled,” the armed opposition said in a statement. “We declare Damascus free of the tyrant Bashar al-Assad.”Syrian rebel sources tell Al Jazeera Arabic that government forces have withdrawn from the Defence…

….Says Russia can’t Intervene having lost 600,000 soldiers In Ukraine The president-elect of the United States (US), Donald Trump, has called for the US government not to intervene in the ongoing war in Syria as opposition fighters make significant progress towards the capital, Damascus. In a statement via his verified X account on Saturday, Trump stated that the opposition forces have, in an unprecedented move, taken control of numerous cities…

Burkina Faso’s military ruler, Capt Ibrahim Traoré has sacked his Prime Minister, Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela and dissolved the entire government. Capt Ibrahim Traoré seized power in a coup two years ago. The dismissal of the head of government and his cabinet was announced in a decree signed by the junta leader on Friday. The decree did not specify why the prime minister was sacked, but said members of…

An alternative healer imprisoned in Australia who advocated “slapping therapy” to treat a range of illnesses was sentenced to 10 years in UK prison for the death of a 71-year-old diabetic woman who stopped taking insulin during one of his workshops. Hongchi Xiao, 61, was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence on Friday for failing to get medical help for Danielle Carr-Gomm, who later died in 2016. California-based Xiao promoted…

As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House next month, businesses worldwide are bracing for a worsening US-China trade war. While electric vehicle (EV) makers were impacted by trade disputes during Trump’s first term, Tesla — and owner Elon Musk — could potentially benefit this time. Kyle Chan, a postdoctoral researcher in Chinese industrial policy at Princeton University, told the ABC’s Asia News Week that Mr Musk was…

Nigerian-born UK Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch has declared that she loves being labelled a “culture warrior.” The Tory leader, in a speech in Washington DC, said being criticized for this by “the left-wing media” was meant to be an insult, “but I love the title.” According to Badenoch, her grandfather told her she was descended from warriors, so she was “keeping up the tradition,” she quipped. The term “culture war”…

….After losing appeal ordering sale from Chinese owner TikTok faces a US ban after an appeals court on Friday rejected its challenge to a law requiring the video-sharing app to divest from its Chinese parent company by January 19. The potential ban could strain US-China relations just as president-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office on January 20. The US government alleges TikTok allows Beijing to collect data and spy…

Nigerian-born UK Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch has declared that she loves being labelled a “culture warrior.” The Tory leader, in a speech in Washington DC, said being criticized for this by “the left-wing media” was meant to be an insult, “but I love the title”. According to Badenoch, her grandfather told her she was descended from warriors, so she was “keeping up the tradition,” she quipped. The term “culture war”…