Overthrow of the Assad regime: Today individuals are dancing within the streets of Damascus | EUROtoday

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Many folks in Syria are celebrating the primary anniversary of the liberation from the Assad dictatorship. At that point, opposition teams overthrew Bashar al-Assad, who fled the nation. The nation now has a transitional authorities below former jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa. The first, incomplete elections additionally occurred. But: The authorities nonetheless doesn’t management your complete nationwide territory Syrians. In addition, thousands and thousands of Syrians proceed to stay in tents and haven’t but returned to their place of residence earlier than the beginning of the civil struggle. Anna-Theresa Bachmann is on web site in Syria for ZEIT. In the podcast she reviews on the celebrations within the nation and the folks’s hope for restoration. She additionally explains the place Al-Sharaa desires to take the nation.

The border between Thailand and Cambodia has been disputed for many years. After preventing in the summertime of this yr, each international locations truly signed a peace settlement. The border ought to be clarified via a fee as an alternative of by power of arms. Now violence has damaged on the market once more. Both sides accuse one another of violating the ceasefire. Felix Heiduk explains what the battle is definitely about and why the peace settlement from October didn’t maintain. He heads the Asia analysis group on the Science and Politics Foundation.

The inside ministers of the European Union have agreed on a stricter migration coverage. People with out the appropriate to stay ought to be given new obligations and have their advantages decreased extra if they don’t cooperate with the authorities. In addition, the system of so-called third international locations is to be revised.

And in any other case? The pianist Lang Lang has In the Christmas bakery re-set to music.

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