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फदी सकर (Fadi Saqr) पर दमिश्क के तदामोन (Tadamon) में नागरिकों की सामूहिक हत्याओं का आरोप है, जहाँ लोगों का कहना है कि उसे न्याय का सामना करना चाहिए। एक सीरियाई मानवाधिकार आयोग, असद शासन के भीतर एक मिलिशिया नेता फदी सकर (Fadi Saqr) पर मानवता के विरुद्ध अपराधों और युद्ध अपराधों में संलिप्तता का आरोप लगाते हुए एक मामला तैयार कर रहा है, एक वरिष्ठ सीरियाई अधिकारी ने द गार्जियन (Guardian) को यह जानकारी दी है। सकर (Saqr) नेशनल डिफेंस फोर्सेज (NDF) मिलिशिया का पूर्व कमांडर है और उस पर दमिश्क के तदामोन (Tadamon) इलाके के साथ-साथ सीरियाई राजधानी के अन्य हिस्सों में नागरिकों की सामूहिक हत्या और उन्हें जबरन गायब करने में शामिल होने का व्यापक रूप से आरोप है। पढ़ना जारी रखें...

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Suspect in Saturday evening’s shooting – Cole Tomas Allen – expected to be formally charged in court todayGood morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics.The suspected gunman in the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday evening, identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, from Torrance, California, is due to appear in court later today.He is expected to be formally charged with using a firearm during a violent crime and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon. Continue reading...

Proposal at heart of offer made during a 30-country two-day meeting jointly organised by FranceMiddle East crisis – live updatesBritain is prepared to deploy a squadron of RAF Typhoons based in Qatar to patrol over the strait of Hormuz as part of a multinational mission to keep open the strategic waterway once the Iran war comes to an end.The UK military also offered to deploy mine-hunting drones and specialist divers to help clear the strait mined by Iran – but no decision has been made on whether HMS Dragon or another warship would also be deployed. Continue reading...

Release of new Claude model, so far limited to US firms, will expand to British institutions in coming daysBritish banks will be given access in the next week to a powerful AI tool that was deemed too dangerous to be released to the public, as a series of senior finance figures warned over its impact.Anthropic, which has so far limited the release of the new model to a small clutch of primarily US businesses, including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, said it would expand that to UK financial institutions in the coming days. Continue reading...

As treasurer Jim Chalmers weighs ‘extreme uncertainty’, one economic scenario sees global growth plunging to just 2% in 2026Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe International Monetary Fund has warned the US-Israel war on Iran risks creating an “energy crisis of an unprecedented scale” that could tip the global economy towards recession.The grim warning contained in the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook comes as Jim Chalmers prepares to attend the organisation’s spring meetings in Washington DC this week, where he said he would be “joining with other countries continuing to call for an enduring end to the war”. Continue reading...

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanese representatives, marking a potential diplomatic breakthrough in the broader Middle Eastern conflict landscape alongside US-Iran ceasefire talks. • The parallel diplomatic tracks suggest efforts to compartmentalize various conflicts within the region and create opportunities for broader de-escalation beyond direct US-Iran confrontation. • These negotiations involve coordination with US authorities, reflecting Washington's strategic interest in achieving regional stability across multiple conflict zones simultaneously.