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Assad regime forces have vowed they will crush the Syrian rebellion once and for all in the province of Idlib, saying there will be “no green buses” like the ones that allowed rebel fighters to evacuate after past defeats. After eight months of relative quiet following a Russian-Turkish ceasefire deal, Syrian regime forces and their…

A Democratic-led House panel on Wednesday approved a measure to hold US Attorney General William Barr in contempt for refusing to hand over an unredacted copy of the Mueller report on Russian election interference even as Donald Trump invoked the legal principle of executive privilege to block its disclosure. Throwing down another challenge to the US president, the House of…

A Kremlin-linked Russian misinformation outfit attempted to sway Wednesday’s general election in South Africa in favour of the ruling African National Congress, according to documents obtained by investigators. An organisation with ties to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman close to Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, allegedly drew up plans to discredit South African opposition parties, including…

The Three Mile Island nuclear plant, site 40 years ago of the worst ever US nuclear accident, is to shut down in September, its owner announced on Wednesday. Exelon Generation had been seeking subsidies from Pennsylvania lawmakers to keep the money-losing facility open, but the company said that would apparently not happen in time. "We don’t see…

Investigators are looking into whether the pilots are to blame for the fiery emergency landing of an airliner in Moscow on Sunday that killed 41 of the 78 people on board.  Kommersant newspaper reported that the investigative committee and international aviation committee considered pilot error to be the “leading explanation” for the tragedy after a…

The east Libyan faction that launched an assault on Tripoli last month said it had shot down and captured a European mercenary flying an attack jet for the internationally recognized government. The Libyan National Army, which fighting rivals militias allied with the country’s UN-supported government, said it shot down a fighter jet the man was flying south…

Amanda Knox is to return to Italy for the first time since being convicted, then ultimately acquitted, of the murder of Meredith Kercher, to attend a conference on miscarriage of justice cases and “trial by media”. Knox spent four years in prison for the 2007 murder of Ms Kercher, with whom she shared a house…

Around 30 people were treated for hypothermia at an outdoor techno music festival in France after unexpected snowfall left many ravers sheltering under survival blankets distributed by the Red Cross. Around 10,000 people attended the unauthorised Teknival 2019 festival in the central Creuse region at the weekend, where temperatures dropped to -3 degrees Celsius (27 degrees fahrenheit)…

Donald Trump has acknowledged taking large tax write offs for property business losses in the 1980s and 1990s, describing the practice as "sport" among developers like himself at the time. Mr Trump’s comments came after the New York Times acquired copies of his tax documents from the period. The newspaper reported that his businesses incurred…

At least seven students were hurt on Tuesday in a shooting at a Denver area school, law enforcement officials said, and two suspects were taken into custody. Deputies from the Douglas County Sheriff’s office responded to reports of gunfire at a science and technology school in the community of Highlands Ranch, 25 miles south of Denver,…