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Syrian residents are seen trying to rebuild their lives amid collapsed buildings and damaged streets as restoration works continue in Aleppo after more than a decade of civil war.
The historic city has faced renewed violence in recent days, with attacks by the SDF terror group reported across northern Aleppo, targeting civilian neighbourhoods and forcing residents to flee.
According to media reports, a Syrian soldier and four civilians, including a child, were killed on January 6, while several others were wounded.
As a precaution, Syrian authorities announced on Wednesday the suspension of classes at schools and universities, work at government institutions and flights to and from Aleppo due to the ongoing attacks.
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CIA officer and convicted KGB mole Aldrich Ames, one of the most damaging traitors in United States intelligence history, has died at age 84 while serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Maryland.
Ames, a CIA counterintelligence officer who began spying for the Soviet Union in 1985 and later for Russia, was arrested in 1994 after nearly a decade of passing classified information and agent identities to Moscow. His actions compromised more than 100 US intelligence operations and are linked to the exposure and deaths of numerous CIA or allied agents, marking one of the worst internal breaches in Cold War espionage history.
Motivated largely by financial gain, Ames received payments from the KGB totalling about $2.5 million, making him one of the highest-paid American spies, and the agency reportedly kept another $2.1 million earmarked for him in a Moscow bank. After his arrest, he pleaded guilty to espionage and tax evasion and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, a punishment he served until his death on January 5, 2026.
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Millions of Orthodox Christians around the world — from the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem, Palestine to Eastern Europe — are marking Christmas Day on January 7, in accordance with the Julian calendar, which falls 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar.
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Americans are divided over US military action in Venezuela, with many warning Washington could become “too involved,” a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Republicans show stronger support for Trump’s policy, including troop deployment and control of oil fields in Venezuela.
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The death toll from US attacks on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and members of the security forces, a senior Venezuelan official told The New York Times.
On Monday, Rosa Elena Gonzalez, who died from injuries sustained in US strikes, was among the first to be buried on the outskirts of Caracas.
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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has vowed to defend his country against what he described as threats from US President Donald Trump. In a social-media post on Monday, Petro, a former guerrilla fighter, warned that any violent US intervention in Colombia, similar to the operation carried out in Venezuela over the weekend, would trigger a firm response.
Over the weekend, Trump warned Petro to “watch his a**” following the abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, an act that many international law experts say was illegal. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump added that a similar operation against Petro’s government “sounds good to me.”
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“I am still president of my country,”
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have pleaded not guilty to federal charges, including drug trafficking and other crimes, in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan. They were abducted over the weekend during a US military operation in Caracas that brought Maduro and his wife to the United States.
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After US President Donald Trump repeated his desire to annex Greenland following the US operation against Venezuela, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned it would be the end of “everything.”
She said Trump should be taken “seriously when he says that he wants Greenland,” adding that her government is doing “all that is possible” to prevent it.
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On Jan 3, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were abducted and flown to the US to face criminal charges, joining a list of foreign leaders seized by US forces, including Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Panama’s former leader Manuel Noriega, and Honduras’s Juan Orlando Hernandez.
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A full Wolf Moon, the first supermoon of the year, illuminates the sky over Gaza’s rubble and displacement tents, shining above the besieged Palestinian enclave that continues to face Israeli attacks despite the agreed ceasefire.
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