Muhamad Yehia Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa forms committees to investigate the recent waves of violence between security forces and Alawite loyalists of ousted President Bashar al-Assad. An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more …
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North Korea fires ballistic missiles as South and US begin drills
Muhamad Yehia North Korea fired “multiple unidentified ballistic missiles” into the sea on Monday, the same day South Korea and the US began a major joint military drill. North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea on Monday, South Korea’s military said, hours after Seoul and Washington resumed a …
Read More »Poland’s Tusk defends foreign minister after Musk calls him ‘small man
Muhamad Yehia US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and tech billionaire Elon Musk sparred with Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski on X over the use of Musk’s Starlink satellite system in Ukraine. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has defended his Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, after he was criticised by the …
Read More »‘Gang crime on the rise: Which European countries have the most dangerous neighbourh?oods
Muhhamad Yehia Violence is often drug-related, particularly in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and France. A February briefing by the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has warned that gang violence is increasing across the EU, a phenomenon linked to “escalating competition between rival criminal groups”. One of the most concerning trends …
Read More »Ebola cases in Uganda rise to 14 as new cluster emerges
Muhamad Yehia The ebola outbreak poses a challenge for health workers in Uganda to contain. Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week, Africa’s top public health agency said on Thursday, with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease. Three …
Read More »Exclusive: EU countries seek use of defence funds for critical medicines
Muhamad Yehia A group of 11 health ministers has proposed expanding the scope of new EU defence funds to include critical medicines in an op-ed published on Euronews. Health ministers from Belgium, Czechia, Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain have called for a Critical Medicines Act …
Read More »Should you eat before, during, or after exercising? Experts weigh in
Muhamad Yehia Experts offer tips to maximise gains post-workout. If you listen to some self-proclaimed exercise experts on social media, they swear that working out on an empty stomach burns more fat. But it’s a common misconception that exercising in a fasted state improves performance or burns more calories, said …
Read More »?Euroviews. Where is the human element in Ukraine peace negotiations
Muhamad Yehia As Ukrainians, we continue to fight for our lives, and this fight for a peace deal that protects us for the future is one of the most urgent and important battles of all, Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk writes in a Euronews exclusive. As European leaders discuss …
Read More »Economy minister fired as Iran’s rial falls to nearly one million to the US dollar
Muhamad Yehia Iran’s parliament on Sunday impeached the finance minister and voted to remove him from office after the rial plummeted to nearly one million to the US dollar. The firing of Abdolnasser Hemmati came amid growing concerns over the crashing rial and accusations of mismanagement just six months …
Read More »Mass demonstrations in Ukraine call for release of prisoners of war
Muhamad Yehia Protesters have in the past expressed their frustration over what they say is the government’s poor communication and lack of clarity regarding the fate of relatives who went missing while fighting off Russia’s full-scale invasion. Every weekend in Kyiv and across other Ukrainian cities, there have been mass …
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