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Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh on trip that highlights reset of regional alliances after end of Iran-backed Assad regimeSyria’s transitional president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, met the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in Riyadh on Sunday in his first foreign trip as Syrian leader, in a sign of the major shifts under way in regional alliances.Sharaa assumed power as transitional president last week, after leading a rebel campaign that ousted the longtime Iran-backed leader Bashar al-Assad, whose ties with the rest of the Arab world were strained throughout the nearly 14-year Syrian war. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/02/syrian-leader-lands-in-saudi-arabia-for-first-foreign-visit-since-toppling-assad Author : Reuters

Makyle Bayley, 22, Eva Darold-Tchikaya, 21, Anthony Hibbert, 24, and Daljang Wol died at scene on SaturdayFour Essex students who were killed when their car crashed into a building in Colchester in the early hours of Saturday morning have been named.Police said Makyle Bayley, 22, Eva Darold-Tchikaya, 21, Anthony Hibbert, 24, and Daljang Wol, 22, were inside the vehicle and died at the scene of the crash. All four were students at University of Essex and three were keen basketball players. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/02/police-name-four-students-killed-in-colchester-car-crash Author : Donna Ferguson Publish date : 2025-02-02 17:40:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Trump’s treasury secretary gives the world’s richest person entry to one of the most sensitive US government databasesElon Musk’s government-slashing crew, the “department of government efficiency”, has been given access to the federal payment system, exposing the sensitive personal data of millions of Americans as well as details of public contractors who compete directly with Musk’s own businesses, an influential US senator has confirmed.Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon and the ranking member of the Senate finance committee, posted on Bluesky that sources had confirmed to him that the Treasury’s highly-sensitive database had been opened up to the tech