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Getty Images Not long after buying and publicly consuming a $6.2m banana as part of an artworld stunt, Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun made another eye-catching purchase, investing $30m ($23.5m) into a cryptocurrency firm called World Liberty Financial. The company had foundered since its October launch, investors seemingly leery of its prospects and its terms.…

Getty Images Canadian tourists, such as these taking part in an exercise class, are vital to the Cuban tourism sector With winter nights drawing in across North America, Canadian “snowbirds” – citizens who flee their freezing temperatures for sunnier climes every year – are planning their annual trips to Florida or the Caribbean. Traditionally, Cuba…

AFP Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani spoke to supporters at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus hours after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani has dropped that nom de guerre associated with his jihadist past, and been using his real name, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in official communiques issued since Thursday, ahead of the fall…

India Shipping Ministry/X A 3D modelling of the proposed port to be built on the remote Great Nicobar island “The forest is our supermarket,” says Anice Justin. “We get almost everything from the forests on these islands. It is what we survive on.” Mr Justin, an anthropologist, has grown up in the Andaman and Nicobar…

Getty Images Trump begins his second presidential term in January and has told NBC he will issue a range of new executive orders President-elect Donald Trump has said he will look at pardons for those involved in the 2021 US Capitol riot on his first day back in office next month. “These people are living…

Syrians rush to notorious Saydnaya prison in search of relatives Footage has shown prisoners being freed from Syria’s most notorious military prison, Saydnaya, after rebels took control of the country. Video verified by AFP showed Syrians rushing to see if their relatives were among those released from Saydnaya, where thousands of opposition supporters are said…

Police have released two new images of a suspect in the hunt for the gunman who killed a health insurance chief executive in New York. UnitedHealthcare boss Brian Thompson, 50, was shot in the back as he made his way to a conference on Wednesday, in what police believe was a targeted attack. On Saturday,…

After years in power, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad was toppled with surprising speed. On Saturday afternoon, it became clear rebels who had already taken Aleppo and Hama were closing in on Homs and also had their eyes on the capital Damascus. Just hours later, Assad was reported to have left on a plane. Video editor:…

Rebel fighters and members of the public have gathered in the Syrian capital Damascus to celebrate the end of President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. The BBC’s Lina Sinjab was drowned out by the sounds of celebratory gunfire as she reported from the scene. Follow live updates on this story. Source link

AFP Syrian rebel fighters and their supporters celebrated after entering Damascus with no resistance on Sunday The Assad family ruled Syria for more than 50 years with an iron fist. Now that has come to an end. Bashar al-Assad became president after the death in 2000 of his father Hafez, who had ruled for almost…