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A better Russian delegation arrived in Damascus on Tuesday for the first time from the collapse of Bashar al-Assad government last month, since Russia tries to negotiate the future of its military bases in Syria with the new leadership of the country.Among the diplomats that arrive in the Syrian capital on Tuesday there were the deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Mikhail Bogdanov, who supervises Middle Eastern affairs and the special presidential envoy in Syria, Aleksandr Lavrentiev, according to reports from the Russian state press agency Tass.The Syrian rebels who have overturned Mr. Al-Assad last month they fought for years against the government forces supported by Russia, but their provisional leader suggested that they want to continue the relations of Syria with Moscow, given the hi...

The Trump administration declared on Friday that the Gulf of Mexico had been renamed the Gulf of America, but the popular Google and Apple mapping services continued to show the old name.On Monday Google said he would have updated his maps to show Gulf of America as soon as the United States government updated his official maps."We have a long -standing practice to apply changes to the name when they were updated in official government sources," said the company in an X post.President Trump signed an executive order on January 20, his first day in office, to rename the Gulf, as well as changing the name of the highest mountain in North America. That peak, which was known by the native name of the Alaska Denali since 2015, was renamed Mount McKinley, a previous name.The United States Depart...

The Israeli forces fired towards the residents of the southern Lebanon for a second consecutive day on Monday while people pushed with attempts to return home along the border, one day after at least two dozen people were killed and wounded scores in Israeli attacks , Lebanese officials said.The Israeli fire on Sunday was the most fatal eruption of violence in Lebanon from the war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, ended with a respite in November. In the renewed violence of Monday, at least two people were killed and 17 other wounds, according to the Ministry of Health of Lebanon.The Israeli army declared in a declaration of having shot "warning strokes to eliminate threats", without providing further details on the nature of these threats.The photos of the Wire Agency sh...

Carol Downer, leader of the feminist women's health movement who became nationally famous for her role in a case known as the Great Yogurt Conspiracy – so called because she was accused of practicing medicine without a license to distribute yogurt to cure an infection from yeast – died on January 13 in Glendale, California. He was 91 years old.His death, in hospital, was confirmed by his daughter Angela Booth, who said he had had a heart attack a few weeks earlier.Ms. Downer was a self-described housewife and mother of six in the late 1960s, when she joined the women's movement and began working on the abortion committee of her local chapter of the National Organization for Women. She had had an illegal abortion years earlier and was determined to ensure that others did not suffer as she d...

Europe's longest-serving leader, President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, spun off his seventh straight election victory Sunday in a contest that his exiled opponents dismissed as a sham whose sole purpose was to cement his hold autocratic over the former Soviet republic, Ally Russia's closest.“Don't use the word election to describe this farce,” said Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, an opposition leader who fled Belarus after the country's previous presidential vote in 2020 and a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests over election fraud. “It is a staged performance by Lukashenko to cling to power at any cost.”- Official results released early Monday gave Mr. Lukashenko another landslide victory with 86.82 percent of the vote. That's also more than the 81 percent he claimed in the disputed 2...

At first glance, the statement seems unlikely: in addition to being the richest man in the world, CEO of numerous companies and key councilor of President Trump, Elon Musk says he is also a world -class video game player.It is a statement that Mr. Musk has repeated over the years. He has an account on X, his social media platform, dedicated to the publication of the highlights of his gameplay. He streamed with some of the best competitive video game players in the world on platforms such as Twitch. He even engraved his name in the global rankings of some games.But last week, the community of players who had been trying to impress for some time turned against him. It all started with a live streaming by Mr. Musk playing Path of Exile 2, a popular action role -playing game known for his diff...

On Sunday, the Israeli troops prevented the Palestinians from returning to their homes in the north of the Gaza Strip, since Israel said that Hamas violated the terms of the ceased agreement that the fire entered into force a week ago while Hamas accused Israel of temporarily.Officials of both sides have claimed to be in contact with mediators to try to solve the crisis, one of the most significant between the parties since the ceased the fire brought at least a temporary suspension of the fighting after 15 months of devastating war.According to the terms of the initial phase of the agreement agreed this month, Israel was expected to withdraw some of his strength to allow hundreds of thousands of displaced people of Gaza to head north after the exchange of hostages and prisoners on Saturda...

An e -mail obtained from the Times shows that a leader of the Committee, the representative Sharon Wylie, supporter of the sector, shared a draft of the bill with a cannabis lobbyist. "Thanks for being opened to the compromise approach," he wrote.In an interview, Mrs. Wylie said that "the jury is still out" on the potential damage of cannabis and that the regulated activities bring revenue to the state.Mrs. Davis does not give up. He planns to introduce legislation to another committee this month that would prohibit all concentrates above 35 % of THC, with exemptions for medical use."The sector needs limits," he said.METHODOLOGYThe New York Times examined the sales data of two data companies in the Cannabis sector, Bdsa and Aurico Marchi in total.Journalists then identified the page of eac...

According to a note issued on Friday by the Department of U.S. Offices and missions abroad, a sudden and radical suspension of US foreign aid by the Trump administration does not apply to support for weapons in Israel and Egypt and emergency food assistance .On the same day, the White House told the Pentagon that he could have proceeded with the expedition of 2,000 pound bombs to Israel that President Biden had abruptly interrupted last summer to try to dissuade the Israeli army from destroying most of the city of Rafah. Israeli forces continued to bomb the city.The shipment contains 1,800 MK-84 bombs, said an official of the White House that agreed to discuss aid for sensitive weapons on condition of anonymity. These bombs are judged by the US military officers generally too lethal and de...

For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the largest cloud computing company in the world, has provided technical support to provide Tiktok videos with tens of millions of Americans.But during the weekend, Amazon faced a dilemma. A new law was entering into force by banning Tiktok, owned by the Chinese company Bytedance, in the United States. Technological companies have been prohibited distribution and updating or would have to face financial penalties. At the same time, the president elected Donald J. Trump was saying to the technological companies that had planned to pause the application of the law with an executive order.A few hours before the ban entered into force, Amazon seemed to respect the law, according to a revision of the New York Times of the way TikTok's web traffic is...