⚡️🇸🇦🇸🇾 Riyadh to Host Expanded Meeting on Syria on January 12

The meeting is a continuation of a meeting that took place in Aqaba, Jordan on December 14, 2024.

Foreign ministers from several countries including Iraq and Turkey, along with UN and EU officials are set to attend a meeting on Sunday in Riyadh, discussing the latest developments and transition in Syria.

The main agenda of the meeting is the security and stability of Syria.

Diplomatic representatives of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, the UK, Germany, US, and Italy are all expected to attend the Sunday meeting.

In addition, the high representative for Foreign Affair and Security Policy of the European Union (EU), the Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the Secretary General of the Arab League, and the UN Secretary General’s representative for Syria affairs are also expected to be present.

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🇺🇸📱🇪🇺 After Elon Musk and X (Twitter), Meta (Facebook) CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is lobbying American president, Donald Trump, to sanction the EU for forcing Facebook and Instagram to censor posts in the EU!

"I think it's a strategic advantage for the United States that we have a lot of the strongest companies in the world, and I think it should be part of the U.S. strategy going forward to defend that," Zuckerberg said during an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

Zuckerberg complained that the EU had forced U.S. tech companies operating in Europe to pay "more than $30 billion" in penalties for legal violations over the past two decades. Last November, the tech chief's Meta conglomerate, which operates Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other social media and communications platforms, was fined €797 million for breaching EU antitrust rules by imposing unfair trading conditions on ads service providers.

Zuckerberg argued that the European Commission's application of competition rules is "almost like a tariff" on American tech companies and said that U.S. President Joe Biden's outgoing administration had failed to deal with the situation.

"If some other country was screwing with another industry that we cared about, the U.S. government would probably find some way to put pressure on them, but I think what happened here is actually the complete opposite," he said. "The U.S. government led the kind of attack against the companies, which then just made it so the EU is basically in all these other places, just free to just go to town on all the American companies and do whatever you want."

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/zuckerberg-urges-trump-to-stop-eu-from-screwing-with-fining-us-tech-companies/

- NEWS - Sudanese Armed Forces amid entering Wad Madani captured large amounts of weapons and equipment the UAE had provided to the RSF

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Ethiopia and Somalia agreed to fully restore diplomatic missions in their respective capitals.

- BREAKING - Houthi militia says they have targeted the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea

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Venezuelan Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal, was attacked with “incendiary bombs,” according to the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil.

"The irrational attacks of deranged groups will not stop the progress of the Bolivarian Revolution ," he said in a message on Telegram.

He also stressed that, thanks to the intervention of the Portuguese authorities, there was no major damage to the consular headquarters.

He said he was confident that the investigations would lead to the perpetrators and determine the corresponding responsibilities .

— 🇬🇧/🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: A recently published study by prestigious British medical journal 'The Lancet' suggests vastly more civilian deaths from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza than initially estimated by Gaza's Health Ministry

The study, which was conducted by using a statistical analysis of hospital data, obituaries on social media, and an online enquiry, indicates that approximately 64,260 Palestinians were killed by Israel in Gaza during just the first nine months of the war (October 2023 – July 2024).

This is a staggering 41% more fatalities than the official number published for the same time period by Gaza's Health Ministry.

The study also indicates that at least 59% of the fatalities from Israeli airstrikes consist of women, children, and and people older than 65. The researchers only looked at deaths directly resulting from Israeli bombardments, not indirect casualties as a result of lack of food, medicine or clean drinking water.

Last October, a large group of American and other Western doctors that worked in Gaza's health sector already wrote an open letter to the international community, stating that they estimate the real death toll to be much higher than the official number, and that they estimate it to be well above 100,000 fatalities.

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⚡🇮🇷🇷🇺 The Iranian President will visit Moscow next Friday to hold talks with the Russian President and sign a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement between the two countries.

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