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1 day ago · Early life Family Main article: Al-Assad family Hafez was born on 6 October 1930 in Qardaha to an Alawite family of the Kalbiyya tribe. His paternal grandfather, Sulayman al-Wahhish, gained the nickname al-Wahhish (wild beast) for his strength. Hafez al-Assad's parents were Na'sa Shalish and Ali al-Assad. His father married twice and had eleven children. Hafez was his ninth son and the fourth from his second marriage. By the 1920s Ali was respected locally and initially opposed to the French ...
The strike occurred two days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its third order indicating additional provisional measures in the ongoing South Africa v Israel case pertaining ...
8 hours ago · Religion. Opposition and resistance. Related. v. t. e. Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies.
8 hours ago · South Asia. South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic - cultural terms. As commonly conceptualized, the modern states of South Asia include Afghanistan, [6] Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. [7]
8 hours ago · Lisbon ( / ˈlɪzbən /; Portuguese: Lisboa [liʒˈβoɐ] ⓘ) [3] is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 548,703 as of 2022 within its administrative limits [4] and 2,871,133 within the metropolis. [5]
1 day ago · Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
8 hours ago · China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft has made history by successfully landing on the far side of the Moon, a feat previously accomplished only by China’s Chang’e-4 in 2019. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced that the unmanned craft touched down in the South Pole-Aitken Basin at 06:23 Beijing time on Sunday morning (22:23 ...
