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KYIV, Ukraine — U. S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, shortly after a meeting in Paris with French and Ukrainian leaders, claiming Kyiv “would like to make a deal” to end the more than 1,000-day war.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump claimed that Moscow and Kyiv have both lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers in a war that “should never have started.”
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“There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin.
BEIRUT — Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader whose stunning insurgency toppled Syria’s President Bashar Assad, has spent years working to remake his public image, renouncing longtime ties to al-Qaida and depicting himself as a champion of pluralism and tolerance. In recent days, the insurgency even dropped his nom de guerre and began referring to him by his real name, Ahmad al-Sharaa.
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The extent of that transformation from jihadi extremist to would-be state builder is now put to the test.
Insurgents control capital Damascus, Assad has fled into hiding, and for the first time after 50 years of his family’s iron hand, it is an open question how Syria will be governed.
Syria is home to multiple ethnic and religious communities, often pitted against each other by Assad’s state and years of war.
Streaming has mutated the album as a format over the past decade, lengthening tracklists, shifting where likely hits get placed, and chipping away at song runtimes. But this year, artists seemed less beholden to the bean counters at record labels and tech companies, releasing albums tailored to their own stories and musical interests.
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war that became a proxy battlefield for regional and international powers.
Assad’s exit stood in stark contrast to his first months as Syria’s unlikely president in 2000, when many hoped he would be a young reformer after three decades of his father’s iron grip.
PARIS — After a day that will live in infamy to the people of Serbia, a handful of old friends talked deep into the night. It was Aug. 8, and then it was Aug. 9, and they couldn’t sleep. So in the treatment room of their team hotel, a few Serbian basketball players ordered a drink and decompressed.
They relived moments from their game that day — a heartbreaking 95-91 loss to Team USA in the semifinals of the Paris Olympics.
RALEIGH, N. C. — The Avalanche, despite all of the injuries and goaltending issues, is one of the best teams in the NHL from the start of the second period until near the end of regulation.
That’s a pretty misleading way to try to say something nice ahead of what has become a real problem: The Avs are among the worst teams in the NHL in the first period.
Colorado has allowed 42 goals in the first period this year entering the weekend.