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Israel bombed an area near the presidential palace in Damascus early on Friday in its clearest signal yet of hostility toward the Islamist-led Syrian authorities and a preparedness to ramp up military action in the name of Syria’s Druze minority. Analysis by FRANCE 24 Foreign Affairs Commentator, Douglas Herbert.
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A Succession-like feud has engulfed one of Singapore’s richest families as property tycoon Kwek Leng Beng accused his son of plotting a boardroom takeover. Mr Kwek says he has filed court papers accusing his son Sherman of trying to take control of their real estate firm City Developments Limited (CDL). Sherman Kwek has denied the…
João da Silva Business reporter CCTV A meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and some of the country’s foremost business leaders this week has fuelled excitement and speculation, after Alibaba founder Jack Ma was pictured at the event. The charismatic and colourful Mr Ma, who was one of China’s most prominent businessmen, had withdrawn from…
Officers salute convoy as hostages’ bodies return to Israel “The hearts of an entire nation lie in tatters,” Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has said, as the bodies of four hostages taken alive by Hamas in its attack on 7 October 2023 were returned to Tel Aviv. Hamas says the bodies are those of a mother…
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Interscope No-one wants to be alone, and no job is more isolating than being a pop star. Just ask Lady Gaga. Her rise to fame in 2009-10 was unlike anything we’d seen before. One of the first pop stars to harness the power of the internet, she seemed to exist in…
BBC Burmese Service A collapsed multi-storey building in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city A huge earthquake has hit central Myanmar. The magnitude-7.7 tremor was felt elsewhere, including in Thailand and south-west China. More than 1,000 have died and more than 2,000 have been injured, although it is difficult to obtain accurate information. Here is what we…
Abdujalil Abdurasulov BBC News Getty Images Ukraine has substantial supplies of key minerals, but some are now in Russian-occupied territory Kyiv and Washington are close to signing a deal over US access to Ukraine’s mineral deposits, a Ukrainian minister says. Olga Stefanishyna, deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration, said on X that “negotiations…