Israel bombs Syria and seizes territory as Netanyahu pledges to change ‘the face’ of the Middle East
The collapse of the Assad regime has prompted a punishing military response from Israel, which has launched airstrikes at military targets across Syria and deployed ground troops both into and beyond a demilitarized buffer zone for the first time in 50 years.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a rare press conference on Monday evening that the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime was “a new and dramatic chapter.”
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Brazilian president in intensive care after emergency brain surgery
Hospital statement says Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had operation after brain bleed detected during scan
Tue 10 Dec 2024 13.37 GMT
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is recovering in intensive care having undergone emergency surgery after a brain bleed was detected during an MRI scan.
At about 9.20am local time (1220 GMT) the medical team at Sírio-Libanês hospital in São Paulo held a press conference to announce that surgery to drain a haematoma caused by bleeding in the president’s brain had been successful.
“The president has progressed well; he returned from surgery almost fully awake and has been extubated,” said Lula’s personal doctor, the cardiologist Dr Roberto Kalil. He added that Lula “is now stable, speaking normally, eating, and will remain under observation in the coming days”.
Syria: Who's in control?
Territory previously controlled by the government
SNA SNF contested
Turkish-backed Syrian National Army
HTS-led rebel forces
Kurds and Syrian Democratic Forces
Unidentified opposition groups
Al-Tanf US military base and deconfliction zone
France returns fighter jets from Chad, marking start of military withdrawal
France has withdrawn two parplanes that were based in N'Djamena, two weeks after Chad declared it was ending its decades-long military cooperation with France. While this marks the start of a new chapter, the final conditions of the withdrawal and whether any French troops will remain has yet to be agreed upon.
France has started the withdrawal of its military from Chad with the departure of two warplanes that were based in the capital N’Djamena, the French army said, two weeks after Chad said it was ending its defence cooperation pact with Paris.
In a surprise move, the government of Chad – an ally of the West in the fight against Islamist militants in the region – ended the defence cooperation pact on Nov. 28.
South Korea’s democracy held after a 6-hour power play. What does it say for democracies elsewhere?
In an era of rising authoritarianism, at the heels of a six-hour martial law decree that unfolded while many South Koreans slept, something noteworthy happened: Democracy held.
The past week in Seoul, officials and academics warn, is what a threat to democracy looks like in 2024. It’s a democratically elected president declaring martial law over the nation he leads, asserting sweeping powers to prevent opposition demonstrations, ban political parties and control the media. It’s members of the military attempting to block lawmakers from exercising their power to vote on cancelling the power grab.
AI-fuelled cloud storage boom threatens Irish climate targets, report warns
Friends of the Earth calls on government to rein in growth of datacentres for fear they could increase fossil fuel use
Tue 10 Dec 2024 13.42 GMT
Ireland has allowed itself to become a “data dumping ground” for big technology companies such as Amazon and Meta which are monopolising clean energy generation for their datacentres, campaigners claim.
They say the growth of the cloud storage sector in Ireland is so rapid it is threatening the country’s legally binding decarbonisation commitments.
Independent expert research commissioned by Friends of the Earth found that between 2017 and 2023, datacentres absorbed the same amount of energy as that generated by wind power over the period.
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