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Georgian lawmakers elected Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, as the country’s new president on Saturday, setting him up to replace a pro-Western incumbent amid major protests against the government over a halt to the country’s European Union accession talks last month.

Early Saturday, Israeli airstrikes hit military sites in Damascus and its suburbs, less than a week after a coalition of rebels seized the Syrian capital. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based organization with extensive sources inside Syria, reported the strikes.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked the main still-functioning hospital in al-Fashir, in Sudan's North Darfur state on Friday, killing nine people and injuring 20, according to a local health official and activists.

Iran will not impede U.N. nuclear watchdog's access and inspection of its sites, the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization said on Saturday.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached on Saturday in a second vote by the opposition-led parliament over his short-lived attempt last week to impose martial law, a move that had shocked the nation and split his party.

As 2024 comes to a close, the Middle East finds itself at the end of an extremely turbulent and eventful year, according to the latest Middle East Outlook 2025 report published by the Economist Intelligence Unit. 

A Russian cargo plane departed from Russia's air base in the Syrian port city of Latakia for Libya on Saturday, a Syrian security official stationed outside the facility said, following rebels' overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad last weekend.

Qatar will send its first official delegation to Damascus on Sunday to meet Syria's interim government and discuss reopening the Qatari embassy and enhancing humanitarian aid deliveries, a Qatari official told Reuters on Friday.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva left intensive care on Friday, Sao Paulo's Sirio-Libanes Hospital said in a medical note, as he recovers from two operations this week to relieve and prevent bleeding in his skull.

The rebel group that led the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) - has long been under United Nations sanctions, which the U.N. special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen has described as "a complicating factor for all of us."

This Friday evening, December 13, we will be performing a scheduled upgrade on our servers.

Greece is in advanced talks to buy 36 PULS rocket artillery systems from Israel as it pushes to modernise its armed forces, two officials said on Friday.