Terrified residents cram on buses for journey into the unknown
Thousands stream through the freezing, shattered streets, fearing Assad supporters will grab the homes they have abandoned
Sima Zain left the only home she had ever known with just a backpack of clothes and a couple of favourite pieces of jewellery, travelling on a bus plastered with pictures of her enemy’s face to an unknown future.
The journey was a blur of tears and terror, weeping for the city and friends she was leaving behind, frightened that the evacuation bus with a picture of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, stuck to the windscreen would be halted by government troops.
“It was really terrifying, really sad,” she said in a phone interview from Idlib province, where Sima, her mother, sister and a few other relatives are staying in rented rooms. “I had lived in Aleppo since I was born – I didn’t leave it even in the revolution or when it was besieged.”Looting and protests on streets of Venezuela as residents fume over cash chaos
As the nation's most widely used banknote went out of circulation, the higher-denomination bills that were supposed to replace the 100-bolivar note have yet to arrive at banks cash machines
Venezuela has become a country mostly without cash, sparking protests and looting around the country as people fumed at having their already limited purchasing power cut off almost entirely.
As the nation's most widely used banknote went out of circulation, the higher-denomination bills that were supposed to replace the 100-bolivar note had not yet arrived at banks or cash machines. That forced people to rely on credit cards and bank transfers or to try to make purchases with bundles of hard-to-find smaller bills often worth less than a penny each.
Bus hit by explosion in central Turkey, multiple casualties
An explosion has hit a bus near a university in Kayseri, central Turkey. Initial reports suggested that the vehicle was transporting soldiers.
A blast destroyed a bus outside Erciyes University in the central Turkish town of Kayseri on Saturday. Initial reports from the site indicated that the vehicle had been transporting off-duty soldiers. Ambulances and rescue workers have been sent to the scene. Turkey's Dogan news agency said that police believed a car laden with explosives had driven past the bus.
Ankara issued a partial reporting ban so as to curb "fear in the public, panic and disorder ... which may serve the aims of terrorist organizations." In a televised statement, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said that "unfortunately we have people wounded, whether there are fatalities...will be announced later."
Why Polish rights groups oppose bill prioritizing 'nationally important' rallies
Under the new rule, the government could prohibit counter-demonstrations within 100 meters of a rally authorities deem to be of national importance.
After lawmakers passed a bill that would give the Polish government power to prioritize rallies of national importance over demonstrations and other gatherings, nearly 200 groups urged President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday to veto the measure.
Both the Polish Ombudsman and Constitutional Tribunal, the country's highest constitutional court, have already said the bill would violate freedom-of-assembly rights guaranteed by the Polish constitution. But it remains unclear whether Mr. Duda will take action or permit the measure to take effect, continuing a spree of nationalistic and pro-Catholic legislation enacted by the nation's ruling right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS).
Trump Embassy Relocation Of Embassy To Jerusalem Would Derail Peace: Palestinian Official
Trump has promised to move the embassy to Jerusalem, a potentially volatile end to long-standing U.S. policy.
A senior Palestinian official warned on Friday that implementation of Donald Trump’s pledge to relocate the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem would destroy any prospects for peace with Israel, even as a spokesman for the U.S. President-elect said he remained committed to the move.
Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, issued the grim prediction just a day after Trump announced his decision to nominate as ambassador to Israel David Friedman, a pro-Israel hardliner who supports continued building of Jewish settlements and shifting the embassy from Tel Aviv.
Speaking to foreign journalists, Erekat said Jerusalem was a final-status issue to be negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians, who also want it as the capital of a future independent state.
Anne Frank may not have been betrayed to Nazis, study finds
Raid that led to her arrest could have been part of investigation into illegal labor or falsified ration coupons
Anne Frank may not have been betrayed to Nazi occupiers, but captured by chance.
A new study published Friday by the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam says despite decades of research there is no conclusive evidence the Jewish diarist and her family were betrayed to the Netherlands’ German occupiers during the second world war, leading to their arrest and deportation.
Ronald Leopold, Executive Director of the Anne Frank House museum, said new research “illustrates that other scenarios should also be considered”.
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