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Human Rights Violations In Dubai, Central African Republic And Syria
Daily Independent
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July 10, 2025
1 Parliament calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Ryan Cornelius, a 71-year-old British citizen detained in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), since 2008. They denounce his inhumane conditions of detention and urge the UAE...
What U.S. Businesses Need to Know About Reentering the Syrian Market & the Changing Post-Assad Sanction Landscape
National Law Review
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July 9, 2025
On May 23, 2025, approximately five months after the Assad regime was overthrown, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) officially issued Syria General License (GL) 25, which lifted the sanctions initially placed...
Syrian President Begins Gulf Tour Following Easing of International Sanctions
Asharq Al-Awsat
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July 8, 2025
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has begun a tour of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, marking his second visit to the region and his first since most international sanctions on Syria were lifted. The trip, which began in the United...
Syrian asylum seeker says freeze on claims 'like slowly dying'
BBC
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ShareSave Tuka Fattal says this situation is "very difficult" and would not wish it on anyone A Syrian woman has said waiting to find out whether she can stay and work in the UK has been like "slowly dying". The UK government paused Syrian asylum...
The Bashar al-Assad Regime falls in Syria -- Some Analysis
CityNewsOKC - Oklahoma
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The Assad regime has fallen in Syria, ending decades of brutal dictatorship and striking another massive blow to the Iranian axis. (Russian Foreign Ministry statement -- https://x.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1865722209198657749 ) Overnight, rebel...
A Syrian death factory gives up its secrets
Mint
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July 10, 2025
Once a month, around midnight, the guards at Saydnaya Prison would call the names of the condemned, usually dozens at a time. They wrapped nooses around their necks, then dragged tables from beneath their feet with a scraping that echoed through...
Syria eyes solar in energy recovery after U.S. lifts sanctions
Finance & Commerce - Minnesota
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July 7, 2025
The Blueprint Syria plans $7B energy deal including solar and gas power. U.S. lifts sanctions, allowing investment and fuel imports. Blackouts persist, with most households lacking electricity. Solar panels offer relief but remain unaffordable for...
Syrian-Origin Woman Who Met Zohran Mamdani On 'Hinge'. She May Soon Be New York City's 1st...
News18
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July 8, 2025
Last Updated:July 08, 2025, 06:49 IST Rama Duwaji, the 27-year-old multimedia artist, could become New York City's first lady if Mira Nair's 33-year-old son Zohran Mamdani wins mayoral elections Zohran is the Democrat nominee for NYC mayor...
Minister al-Halabi holds talks with a delegation from Passion University (USA) regarding the opening of a branch in Syria
SANA
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July 9, 2025
Damascus, SANA- Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Dr. Marwan al-Halabi discussed on Wednesday with a delegation from Passion International University – USA in Syria and the Gulf, headed by Dr. Taysir Al-Masri, the university...
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians in Lebanon set to get financial aid to go home
The National News
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Up to 400,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon may be set to return home under a UN-backed plan providing financial incentives, according to a document seen by The National. Under the scheme endorsed by the Lebanese government, thousands have already...
Syria looks to solar power as more than a patchwork fix to its energy crisis
ABC News - New York
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July 7, 2025
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Abdulrazak al-Jenan swept the dust off his solar panel on his apartment roof overlooking Damascus. Syria's largest city was mostly pitch-black, the few speckles of light coming from the other households able to afford solar...
Church bombing leads Syria's Christians to consider leaving as foreign fighters remain
Naharnet
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The day after last month's deadly suicide attack on a church outside Syria's capital, hundreds of Christians marched in Damascus chanting against foreign fighters and calling for them to leave the country. The June 22 attack on the Mar Elias...
New Mercer On Mission program introduces engineering to Syrian refugee children
Mercer Den
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July 9, 2025
A Mercer University team traveled to Jordan this summer to teach robotics, programming and engineering to children in a Syrian refugee camp as part of Mercer On Mission. The Za’atari camp hosts 70,000 to 80,000 refugees, and more than half are...
Ike Anand Elevated to CEO of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Fundraising Organization ALSAC
Variety
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July 9, 2025
Ike Anand has been elevated to president and CEO of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization that supports the mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to eradicate pediatric cancer and other deadly childhood diseases. Anand has...
How do the arts and sciences reveal the genius of God?
Denison Forum - Texas
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July 9, 2025
Is the world a meaningless churning of random intersecting events or a beautiful place of genius that reveals the reality of God as the ultimate Genius? Dr. Jonathan Witt joins The Denison Forum Podcast to discuss this central question of his...
Tech-free ‘cloisters’ can help young minds
The Times
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Sir, I share Niall Ferguson’s concern about the catastrophic effect of AI upon cognitive development (“AI’s great brain robbery — and how universities can fight back”, weekend essay, Jul 5). Founding, in 2007, the UK’s only screen-free school, we...
Lifting sanctions will help Syria's leaders to do their jobs
The National News
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In a sign of how much Syria has changed in just eight months, the country’s new leadership recently finalised a deal with a Qatari company to build a media and entertainment complex on the outskirts of Damascus. The City of Damascus Gate is an...
Doing business in conflict zones: what companies can learn from Lafarge’s exit from Syria
The Conversation
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July 9, 2025
The world experienced over 60 armed conflicts in 2024, a “historically high” number according to scholars in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Consequently, the risks faced by multinational companies (MNCs)...
A church bombing leads Syria's Christians to consider leaving as foreign fighters remain
The Independent
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July 9, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Syrian-Spanish discussions on enhancing scientific cooperation
SANA
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July 6, 2025
Damascus, SANA – Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Dr. Marwan al-Halabi discussed on Sunday with the Special Envoy of the Kingdom of Spain, Antonio González-Zavala, prospects of joint cooperation in the scientific field, the...