⚠️ JUST IN: Assad releases official statement on Damascus evacuation

Assad says that “at no time during the events that have taken place in Syria” has he ever considered resigning or fleeing the country.

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❌ Palestinian Child Adapts to Life after Brutally Losing His Arm and Legs in Israeli Airstrike

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💲ABC News Agrees to Pay Donald Trump $15mn in Defamation Case

The television network has settled a lawsuit brought after a broadcaster on the channel falsely claimed that juries in New York had found Trump liable for rape.

George Stephanopoulos was referring to the verdicts in two civil cases brought in New York by the writer E Jean Carroll, who alleged that Trump had raped her in the mid-1990s and then defamed her by denying it.

In a settlement filed with a court in Florida over the weekend, ABC News agreed to pay $15mn “to a presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for [Trump], as presidents of the United States have established in the past.”

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⚠️ BREAKING: Canadian Finance Minister and Deputy PM Chrystia Freeman resigns due to policy clashes with PM Trudeau

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😳 German Foreign Ministry Labels Israel “Occupying Power” in Golan Heights

Berlin has urged Tel Aviv to abandon any plans to double the population in the occupied and annexed Golan Heights.

“It is perfectly clear under international law that this area controlled by Israel belongs to Syria and that Israel is therefore an occupying power,” foreign ministry spox Christian Wagner said.

An “occupying power” that Germany is happy to arm to the teeth…

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⚠️ JUST IN: Scholz loses no-confidence vote against him, triggering early German elections on February 23

Scholz gained just 207 votes in the 733-seat parliament, nowhere near the 367 majority he needed to hold onto power.

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☠️ Uncle Sam Wants His Slice of the Pie…

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🤔 Vatican 'on Verge of Bankruptcy’ (Express)

The latest financial statements showed the Vatican ran an operating deficit of €83mn in 2023 - after a slump in donations from Catholic Churches since COVID.

The growing financial crisis means the world’s smallest country may not be able to meet its pension obligations.

Currently the pension fund for the Vatican is estimated to be a staggering €631mn in the red.

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🔴 Trump on TikTok ban: "We'll take a look at TikTok”

“I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok because I won youth by 34 points."

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🛸 JUST IN: Trump says “something strange is going on” with mystery drones spotted over New Jersey - adding that “the government knows what’s happening”

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❌ NEW: Trudeau considering his options as PM after Freeland quits cabinet (CTV)

Will Trudeau be the next leader to get Zelensky’d?

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❌ Israel’s Annihilation of Northern Gaza

This is not Hiroshima after the atomic bomb - this is the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza.

Genocide.

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