Iran-backed Iraqi militias join fight in Syria after militants seize Aleppo
Bashar al-Assad meets with regional partners to discuss plans to de-escalate civil war after sudden insurgency
Mon 2 Dec 2024 14.41 GMT
Iranian-backed Iraqi militias crossed into eastern Syria overnight in an attempt to shore up struggling forces loyal to Damascus, battling an insurgency that has swept much of the country’s north-west as Islamist militants seized control of Aleppo.
An officer with the Syrian army told Reuters that the Iraqi militia forces crossing the border were “fresh reinforcements being sent to aid our comrades on the frontlines in the north”.
The Iraqi militants, which include fighters from Kataib Hezbollah and Fatemiyoun groups, arrived near the eastern Syrian town of Bukamal overnight to join units already deployed within Syria in support of Damascus, according to the Associated Press.
Iran frees rapper Toomaj Salehi jailed for supporting protests
Rapper who spoke up for Woman, Life, Freedom movement is released five months after death sentence overturned
Mon 2 Dec 2024 13.42 GMT
The Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who was sentenced to death in April for his support of anti-regime protests, has been released from prison by the Iranian authorities.
Salehi was sentenced by a revolutionary court in April for backing the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in September 2022 after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who died in police custody.
He was arrested in October 2022 for making public statements in support of public protests. The popular rapper’s songs also condemned oppression and executions in Iran.
Belgium loses case over babies stolen in former colonies
The Court of Appeals has ruled that Brussels must pay reparations to women who were taken from their mothers and put in orphanages. The court found that the forced separations were crimes against humanity.
Belgium must pay restitution to five women who were forcibly taken from their mothers and placed in orphanages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when it was still a Belgian colony, a court ordered on Monday.
The Court of Appeals in Brussels overturned an earlier decision by another court that too much time had elapsed for the state to be charged.
The appellate judges ruled that although the abductions happened 70 years ago, they constituted crimes against humanity and were, therefore, not subject to statutes of limitations.
Scores killed in clashes between rival fans at football match in Guinea
A controversial refereeing decision during a local football tournament in southeast Guinea sparked violence and a stampede, killing 56 people according to a provisional toll, the government said on Monday.
Scores of football fans, including children, were killed in a stampede and as security forces tried to quell clashes during a match at a crowded stadium in Nzerekore, southern Guinea’s largest city.
The stampede broke out on Sunday afternoon at the Nzerekore city during the final of a local tournament between the Labe and Nzerekore teams in honor of Guinea’s military leader, Mamadi Doumbouya, Guinea’s Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah said on the X platform.
Homeless people evicted from encampment at Osaka ‘symbol’
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 2, 2024 at 17:01 JST
An eviction order was carried out in Osaka’s Kamagasaki district, the largest town for day laborers in Japan, eliciting angry cries of protests and desperate expressions of helplessness.
About 500 government officials and police descended on the area in the morning to remove the homeless people, many of whom were sleeping at the time.
The targeted area was around the Airin general center, which had been a “symbol of Kamagasaki” in Osaka’s Nishinari Ward.
Who are Turkiye’s ‘Newborn Gang’ and why are they on trial?
Turkiye is gripped by the ongoing trial and the crimes against newborn babies that are behind it.
A trial is holding Turkiye rapt as a group of medical professionals, suspected to have killed at least 10 newborns, goes on trial in a healthcare scam case.
Many suspect the number of infants killed may rise.
Here’s everything we know:
What’s the Newborn Gang? What did they do?
What has been dubbed the “Newborn Gang” comprises 47 medical professionals who are on trial for a scheme they allegedly started in January 2023.
They are charged with transferring newborns – under false pretences – from state to private neonatal units, where they were kept for prolonged periods and subjected to unnecessary treatments in return for cash payouts.
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