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Hoffnung für die Demokraten

Neun Monate vor den Zwischenwahlen im November wächst vielerorts die Furcht, dass Trump die Abstimmungen manipulieren könnte.
Pressenza

Am Puls des Wachhunds

Eine sehenswerte Doku zeigt den couragierten Journalisten Seymour Hersh ungeschönt. Und hilft, Trumps USA zu verstehen. Pascal Sigg für die Online-Zeitung ...

Despot Housewives – Die Frauen der Diktatoren

Die "Vogue" nannte sie "Rose der Wüste": Asma al-Assad, die First Lady Syriens. Einst große Hoffnungsträgerin, ist sie Komplizin eines Diktators, der Verbrechen an seinem Volk begeht. Neben Jewel Tayl ...
Seattle Times

Lebanon arrests Syrian citizen suspected of funding pro-Assad fighters

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities have arrested a Syrian citizen who is suspected of sending money to fighters loyal to former Syrian President Bashar Assad in Syria, judicial officials said ...
The Hill

Justice is finally within reach for victims of Syria’s chemical weapons attacks

The quest for justice for the victims and survivors of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons has reached a turning point. The fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 ...
Monocle

Eased sanctions, friendly talks with Israel and new Assad-free bank notes – Syria is readying to join the Western economy

For five decades, Syrians were reminded of their despotic rulers every time they reached into their wallets. The faces of Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, adorned banknotes, which, since the ...
Los Angeles Times

Syria begins circulating new post-Assad currency bills

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria started the process of circulating new currency bills on Saturday as the crisis-hit nation ...
Wall Street Journal

Families, Neighbors Informed on Each Other in Assad’s Syria, With Deadly Consequences

DAMASCUS—The family of Abdu Kharouf, a moderate Muslim preacher in a dirt-poor section of Damascus, had been haunted for half a decade by questions of how exactly he ended up in a prison run by ...
Reuters

Syrians emptied Assad’s prisons. They’re filling up again, and abuse is rife

The first wave of detentions in the new Syria came almost immediately – just after victorious rebels flung open the doors of Bashar al-Assad’s notorious prisons. As ordinary Syrians stormed detention ...
The Boston Globe

King Philip girls’ hockey coach Ken Assad dies at age 60

Ken Assad, a state champion on the ice at Franklin High as a star player and later as an assistant coach, who steered the King Philip girls’ hockey program to its first Hockomock League title last ...
The New York Times

For Fallen Syrian Dictator Assad and Family, an Exile of Luxury and Impunity

Bashar al-Assad’s long, brutal reign ended swiftly, but he and his close circle have had a soft landing in Russia. Credit...Aaron Byrd Supported by By Erika Solomon Christiaan Triebert Haley Willis ...
The Sun Chronicle

King Philip girls hockey coach Ken Assad dead at 60

King Philip Regional High girls hockey coach Ken Assad died unexpectedly on Sunday morning. He was 60 years old. Assad, who led the Warriors since 2019, oversaw the program’s first-ever Hockomock ...