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After 13 years of civil war, Syria's opposition militias sensed an opportunity to loosen President Bashar al-Assad's grip on power when they communicated to Turkey plans for a major offensive.
cuba has long blamed the u.s. cold war-era trade embargo as well as more recent sanctions by former president donald trump for its electricity woes, allegations repeated by cuban president miguel diaz-canel on thursday. the united states denies any role in the recent grid collapse. u.s....
Now 59-year-old Assad is an asylum seeker in Moscow, his father’s statue in Tartus has been toppled, and rebels are scouring embassies in Damascus for any sign of the cronies who ran his regime. The week-long path the Islamist-led rebels trod to reach the capital is strewn with the...
and prevent players from logging on for hours or days at a time. The problem has metastasized in recent years as enterprising hackers have begun to package their botnets and spamming tools into commercial offerings, allowing any Tom, Dick, and Script-kiddie rental access to the same power. ...
Video poker has an interesting, yet not so long history. It all started back in 1891, in Brooklyn, New York when the Sittman and Pitt Company invented the first poker machine that had five reels. Just a few years later, in 1898 Charley Fey invented “Card Bell”, which had the ability...
The relationship between the U.S. and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is long. In 1951, the two countries signed aMutual Defense Assistance Agreementthat facilitated arms sales and allowed the establishment of theU.S. Military Training Missionnear Riyadh, which has remained the lynchpin of the ...
For Garrett it was first thing the next morning in Buswells Hotel. “I had booked a place at the ‘power breakfast’, this was one of the big draws for me,” she said. “I see a room with some muffins and I’m just thinking: well...
On 15 November, Israeli troops enter Gaza's biggest hospital, al Shifa, in Gaza City, after a siege lasting several days during which medical staff say patients including newborn babies died from a lack of power and supplies. The IDF says the hospital has ...
"Putin is thinking long term," she said. "I think he believes that he is the last Russian leader who would be willing to take such risks to reassert Russia's role as a great power. And so I think for him, the time is, his clock is ticking... He sees the West as being in dec...