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Celebrations broke out across Syria over the weekend, with statues depicting his father and predecessor, Hafez al-Assad, pulled down from their pedestals. “I’m not looking to go back into the past,” Trump said when asked he was whether he would go after outgoing President Joe Biden. Foreign dignitaries in attendance included President-elect Donald Trump, first lady Jill Biden, Prince William and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. South Korean president’s impeachment failsAn image of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is raised at a rally in Seoul calling for his ouster on Dec. 5. End of an Era(s)Tears will be ricocheting as Taylor Swift's record-shattering world tour draws to a close Sunday night with a final stop in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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☆ Bashar al-Assad bails on Syria. Does it change Putin’s calculus on Ukraine?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-09 | by ( Nathan Hodge | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“Putin has thrown Assad under the bus to prolong his war in Ukraine,” commented former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. “His resources are scarce, and he is not as strong as he pretends.”For observers of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Assad’s departure raises some striking historical parallels. And unlike Assad, whose forces appeared to surrender Damascus without a fight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held fast as Russian troops approached Kyiv. Assad’s flight from Syria was more than a moment for Ukrainians to revel in a symbolic setback for Putin. He will insist that it is now up to the West and Ukraine to change their stance,” she said, noting Trump’s calls on Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

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☆ Russia fired 4 times as many drones and missiles at Ukraine in the past 3 months as it did a year earlier: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-09 | by ( Hannah Abraham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Russia launched more than 6,000 drones and missiles this fall, per The Wall Street Journal. AdvertisementRussia fired four times as many drones and missiles at Ukraine in the past three months compared to the same time a year ago, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal. Using data from the Ukrainian Air Force Command, the report said that Russia launched more than 6,000 drones and missiles in the war during September, October, and November. However, Russia has used a variety of tactics to overcome Ukrainian air defenses, including hitting Ukraine with a variety of drones and missiles at the same time. On Sunday, the Ukrainian air force said it shot down 28 out of 74 drones launched by Russia in a night attack targeting Ukraine.

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☆ Trump has big plans at home, but Syria shows why he can’t escape the world’s problems
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-09 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Trump faces tightening web of US adversariesBut Trump has stiff challenges in Syria and beyond. Trump may have to quickly decide whether to maintain a deployment of hundreds of US troops in Syria to fight any resurgence of ISIS. And America’s problems with Russia, North Korea and Iran are compounded by the loose but expanding strategic synergy between the trio and China. And he announced the airstrikes by B-52 bombers, F-15 fighter jets and A-10 aircraft against ISIS targets in central Syria. McMaster, urged his old boss on Sunday to treat Iran, Russia, China and North Korea as different threads of the same challenge.

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In an interview with Kristen Welker, moderator of NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Trump also said he’ll work to extend the tax cuts passed in his first term. Trump said he would fulfill a campaign promise to levy tariffs on imports from America’s biggest trading partners. “Well, I don’t know that you’ll see it at all,” Trump said, adding that health care experts are studying possible alternatives. Foreign policyLater Friday after the interview, Trump flew to Paris for a ceremony marking the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral, which had been devastated by a fire. On another foreign policy front, Trump expressed doubt that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will be able to remain in power.

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☆ President-elect Trump says Ukraine to 'possibly' receive less military aid
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In an exclusive interview with Donald Trump on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, the president-elect told NBC News' Kristen Welker that Ukraine will "possibly" receive less military aid once he takes office. Trump told Welker of support that has gone to Ukraine since the war began in February 2022. All told, the U.S. has committed more than $62 billion in assistance to Ukraine since the conflict started nearly three years ago. The comments suggest that Zelenskyy's diplomatic skills were to credit for the tens of billions of dollars in U.S. military aid packages, rather than the country's actual needs. "Europe is in for a fraction, and war with Russia is more important for Europe than it is for us," Trump told Welker.

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Mr. Zelensky said afterward that it had been a “productive meeting” and he thanked Mr. Trump for his determination and Mr. Macron for organizing the encounter. Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Zelensky were slated to attend the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, but it remained uncertain until the last moment whether they would meet. Mr. Macron greeted Mr. Trump at the Élysée Palace at 4:45 p.m. local time. Mr. Zelensky said he had met with Karl Nehammer, the Chancellor of Austria, and Salome Zourabichvili, the president of Georgia. In an interview with Sky News last week, Mr. Zelensky said he wanted to work with Mr. Trump “directly” and was open to his proposals.

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☆ Trump is welcomed by Macron to Paris with presidential pomp and joined by Zelenskyy in their meeting
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

French President Emmanuel Macron, center, poses with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Elysee Palace, Sat., Dec. 7, 2024 in Paris. French President welcomed Donald Trump to Paris on Saturday with a full a dose of presidential pomp and they held an impromptu meeting with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy on a day that mixed pageantry with attention to pressing global problems. As Trump arrived at the official residence of the French president, Macron went out of his way to project an image of close ties, posing for multiple handshakes interspersed with plenty of back-patting. Trump spent about 90 minutes at the palace, meeting first with Macron before they were joined by Zelenskyy for about 35 minutes. Macron had planned to meet with Zelenskyy, and the French president's office said the three-way meeting was proposed by Macron and arranged shortly before Trump's arrival.

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☆ Fighting in Ukraine is giving rise to a new kind of drone warfare: hit-to-kill intercepts
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Jake Epstein | Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The grinding Ukraine war has seen a rise in hit-to-kill drone interceptions of other drones. Combat footage from the war in Ukraine has repeatedly captured these hit-to-kill intercepts in which a cheap drone slams into another unmanned aircraft. A Ukrainian FPV drone destroyed a russian Lancet drone that tried to escape its fate. Related storiesAn outfit that makes combat FPV drones posted in August that its modified drones had taken out 100 Russian UAVs. Interceptor drones are limited in range and altitude and often carry less explosive power than more traditional air defenses like missiles.

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☆ An archbishop's knock formally restores Notre Dame to life as winds howl and heads of state look on
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty ImagesHowling winds couldn't stop Notre Dame Cathedral 's heart from beating again. "Brothers and sisters, let us enter now into Notre Dame," he declared. "Not many of us could say the same after such tragedy, but Notre Dame can." Notre Dame echoed to the sound of a sustained standing ovation after the showing of a short movie that documented the gargantuan rebuilding effort. But that was followed by images of all types of artisans, many using traditional handicraft techniques, who collectively restored Notre Dame to look better now than ever.

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☆ Inside Notre Dame, Paris’ Gothic gem, as it reopens to the world
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Joshua Berlinger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

Louise Delmotte/AP The choir, clergy and congregation stand to sing during the grand reopening ceremony of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Saturday. Ludovic Marin/Pool/Reuters Spectators gather outside Notre Dame as it is lit with the words for "Thank you" in multiple languages. Bernat Armangue/AP People walk along the banks of the Seine opposite Notre Dame cathedral on December 7 hours before its formal reopening. Stephane de Sakutin/Reuters Pedestrians stop and look at Notre Dame cathedral on November 28 ahead of the reopening. By the time some 600 firefighters had doused the fire’s final flames, much of Notre Dame, a jewel of Gothic architecture, lay in ruins.

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☆ GoFundWar: How Ukraine Is Crowdfunding Its Battle Against Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

On April 27, 2023, Diana Kulyk's father told her he was leaving the next day to start training to fight Russia. Diana had already raised about $30,000 over the previous year to buy protective gear for childhood friends fighting in Ukraine. Diana's efforts are part of an immense crowdfunding movement helping fuel Ukraine's fight against Russia's far larger and more advanced military. Benjamin Jensen, a war-strategy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, describes this crowdfunding as a "game changer." Before the war, Ruslan Kulyk was a pastry chef who made wedding cakes in Spain, where the family immigrated when Diana was young.

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CNN —The Notre Dame Cathedral will provide a lofty backdrop for President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the geopolitical stage on Saturday, when French officials put an ornate line under the five-year project to restore the soaring landmark with a reopening ceremony featuring dozens of world leaders. The particulars of Trump’s visit were hashed out over several days, but the president-elect told his team he was keen to attend. “So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris,” Trump posted on April 15, 2019, during his first term in the Oval Office. Jimmy Fallon quipped that the cathedral is “going to burst right back into flames” when Trump steps inside. The French president has made a fresh push to curry favor with the returning president and his allies.

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☆ Russia's artillery advantage is shrinking, but glide bombs are hammering Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementRussia is firing 1.5x more shells than Ukraine, Western officials said, down from 10x earlier this year. While its artillery advantage is shrinking, glide bombs are compensating, officials told Sky News. Russia's advantage is now down to 1.5 rounds for every shell Ukraine fires back, Sky News reported, citing Western officials. AdvertisementSince the start of the war, Russia has frequently targeted Ukraine with glide bombs — cheap but highly destructive weapons that are notoriously difficult to intercept. AdvertisementUkraine has responded by making its own glide bombs, using Western-provided bombs and fitting them to its F-16 fighter jets.

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☆ Ukraine just gave a first look at its new homemade Hell 'drone-missile' with more than twice the range of ATACMS
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementUkraine unveiled its new homemade hybrid "drone-missile" weapon on Friday. Ukraine revealed a new hybrid "drone-missile" weapon on Friday that Kyiv says has already been used in combat and will now enter mass production. Ukraine's new Peklo munition on display in Kyiv. AdvertisementThe Peklo is the latest addition to Ukraine's growing arsenal of domestically produced munitions, which includes a variety of long-range drones and cruise missiles. The munition appears to have a range of several hundred miles and resembles the Peklo.

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☆ North Korea joining Russia's war can be called the beginning of World War III, Ukrainian MP says
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNorth Korea joining Russia's war can be called the beginning of World War III, Ukrainian MP saysLisa Yasko, a Member of Parliament in Ukraine, discusses the state of Russia's war against Ukraine.

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☆ Russia is suffering record casualties as the West steps up support for Ukraine, and it may struggle to replace them
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

It added that Western military support remains vital to Ukraine's war effort. Russia will struggle to replace the increasing numbers of troops lost to death and injury on the frontline if the West continues to back Ukraine, a US think tank said. But Russia can't both replace its troops lost in Ukraine, and solve its workforce crisis, said the ISW. AdvertisementPresident-elect Donald Trump has pledged to bring peace to Ukraine and has been critical of US support for Ukraine. "The continued, regular provision of Western military assistance to Ukraine remains crucial to Ukraine's ability to continue defending against Russian offensive operations and inflicting unsustainable losses on the Russian military in 2025," the ISW said.

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☆ As Notre-Dame reopens, Macron stands in ashes of French political edifice
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The reopening of Notre-Dame cathedral, five years after being devastated by a fire, was supposed to be Emmanuel Macron's triumph. A tourist looks at Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris on the eve of its reopening to the public on December 06, 2024 in Paris, France. French President Emmanuel Macron appears on screen as he makes a television address to the nation after Prime Minister Michel Barnier's government was toppled in a no confidence vote in parliament, in Paris, France, December 5, 2024. Macron expects to hold meetings with Trump and, perhaps, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has been invited but not confirmed his attendance, diplomatic sources said. French President Emmanuel Macron and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands after signing an agreement, February 16, 2024 at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France.

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☆ Here's what some of the world's most powerful people have to say about Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

While Elon Musk was not in attendance, he was the most-talked-about person there. Here's what business leaders and politicians had to say about the richest person on Earth. Several masters of the universe convened on Wednesday, and they had one name on their lips: Elon Musk. At the annual New York Times DealBook Summit, the world's richest man was a topic of conversation among his fellow billionaires, CEOs, and political elite. "It would be profoundly un-American to use political power, to the degree that Elon has it, to hurt your competitors and advantage your own businesses," Altman said.

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☆ War in Ukraine would be a tough test of Sweden's Gripen, a jet made for a fight with Russia it's never seen
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementA new NATO member has a jet that was designed for war with RussiaBut it has never been used against Russia. Giving Ukraine the jet would be a good test that would benefit it and NATO, warfare analysts said. Sweden's Gripen, a fighter jet built for a war with Russia, is considered a good fit for Ukraine, but the aircraft hasn't been tested the way it could be in this war. Designed at the end of the Cold War, the jet is operated by about half a dozen countries. AdvertisementWar experts have said the Gripen is the jet that is best suited for Ukraine in the long term.

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Arseny Turbin is recognized by several human rights groups as one of Russia’s youngest political prisoners. Arseny Turbin, 16, was sentenced in June to serve five years in prison for terror offenses. “But I know it’s not enough, and that I can’t change the system.”Excerpt from a letter written by Arseny Turbin to his mother and shared with CNN. Video Ad Feedback Arseny Turbin, then 15, stages a solo protest in June last year in his hometown of Livny. ‘Not just statistics’Kevin Lick, a 19-year-old dual Russian-German citizen, knows the price of dissent in modern Russia all too well.

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☆ SpaceX faces opposition to Starlink expansion from Ukrainian group concerned about Musk ties to Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

SpaceX's Starlink system has been linked to Ukraine since terminals arrived there shortly after Russian troops invaded the neighboring country in early 2022. The following year, the Pentagon agreed to purchase Starlink satellite internet terminals for use in Ukraine's ongoing defense against Russia. However, in September 2023, Americans of Ukrainian descent rebuked the SpaceX CEO after it emerged that he had thwarted a major attack on the Russian navy. The UCCA isn't the only group concerned about Musk's relationship with the Kremlin. A month before the Journal story, Newsweek and others reported that Russia had installed Starlink terminals in its Iranian-designed Shahed drones, used in their military offense in Ukraine.

Persons: Elon Musk's, Trump, Musk, Starlink, Michael Sawkiw, Vladimir Putin, Bill Nelson, Sawkiw Organizations: Federal Communications Commission, Ukrainian, Committee of America, SpaceX, Pentagon, Russia, CNBC, FCC, Kremlin, Street, NASA, Newsweek Locations: Warsaw, Poland, American, Russia, Russian, Ukraine, Texas, Crimea, U.S

This article is part of the Opinion series At the Brink,about the threat of nuclear weapons in an unstable world. There are just two major pacts governing nuclear weapons in the cosmos, both of which predate Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. Rescue Agreement 1970 Outer Space Treaty October 1967 Lays out the principles that governs outer space, the moon and other celestial bodies. Rescue Agreement 1970 Outer Space Treaty October 1967 Lays out the principles that governs outer space, the moon and other celestial bodies. Rescue Agreement Liability convention Today 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Outer Space Treaty October 1967 Foundation of international space law that governs outer space, the moon and other celestial bodies.

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☆ November was the most costly month of the war for Russia in terms of average daily dead and injured: UK intel
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementNovember saw Russia hit a new daily average high for its casualties in the war, per the UK MOD. It was the third month in a row that Russia suffered record-breaking daily losses, it said. November saw Russia suffer a record daily average for the number of soldiers injured or killed since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to UK intelligence. Citing the Ukrainian General Staff, it said that Russia suffered 45,680 casualties in November, up from 41,980 in October, with a daily average of 1,523. The losses likely made it the most costly month of the war for Russia in terms of personnel, it said.

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☆ Ukraine's front-line fighters and dronemakers are trying to crowdfund their way to Russia's defeat through cheap strikes
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Another prototype, a modified Soviet ZU-23-2 antiaircraft gun, needs $70,000 worth of parts to be fully automated to strike down Russian drones. Advertisement"For drones, most funding is from volunteer help, by donors," Chernyavskiy told Business Insider. Throughout the war, Ukraine has repeatedly struggled with insufficient amounts of ammunition, such as much-need 155mm artillery shells. In Ukraine, Chernyavskiy is frustrated, too. This is the nature of war," Chernyavskiy said.

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