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first in Syria where the brutal regime
of dictator Bashar al-assad has fallen
syrians celebrated in the streets after
Rebel forces took control of cities
there pulling off a rapid and stunning
march to power over the weekend Assad is
known for Harsh rule over Syria taking
power after his father died in 200,000
after he ruled for decades Civil War
began after the Assad regime's brutal
crack down on Peaceful pro-democracy
movements in 2011 killing and jailing
thousands in the first few months alone
the Civil War ravaged the country the
extremist group Isis flourished in the
instability sparking an international
proxy war and Refugee crisis that
displaced Millions from their homes the
conflict in Syria has been deadly but
remained dormant over the past several
years as key allies propped up the Assad
regime Rebels and Assad's forces clashed
with neither making dramatic changes in
the control of the country before a 2020
ceasefire agreement then just days ago
the rebels took advantage of an
opportunity to advance on a weakened
government whose key allies are now
dealing with other conflicts the new
Rebel Coalition launched a surprise
attack and took control of Syria's
largest city Aleppo before moving on to
HS and then the capital Damascus CNN's
Nick Robertson shows us how geopol iCal
circumstances led to the momentous
events happening now in Syria and where
its former dictator has
fled Bashar al- Assad inherited his
father's totalitarian regime and left it
and his country in Ruins a thuggish
police state in a brutal repression
turned War where hundreds of thousands
of civilians were killed and more than
half the population fled their homes
he'll be remembered um as one of the
most violent uh rulers in response to
the uprisings that started in late 2010
in the Arab world Bashar al-assad never
expected to take over from his father
his older brother basil was the AA
parent instead Bashar trained as an
opthalmologist in London former Assad
family insiders say he didn't have the
right stuff to run
Syria his brother bosel bullied him as a
child his father never gave him as much
attention as possible when President Haz
al-assad died in 2000 Syria's Elite
pushed Bashar into the presidency
keeping 30 years of their own wealth
power position and influence
intact HZ was a leader the head of the
entire regime while Bashar never came
close to that at first the new president
agreed to modest reforms and released
hundreds of political prisoners but that
brief moment of optimism dubbed the
Damascus spring ended
abruptly protest demanding change spread
across Syria in early
2011 the regime cracked down turning
peaceful protest into Slaughter the UN
found what it called massive evidence of
war crimes crimes against humanity
respon ibility at the highest level of
government including the head of
state the chaos spawned countless local
militias and opposition forces in the
Mayhem the ultraviolent islamist group
Isis gained a temporary foothold spewing
its nihilistic Terror over the border
into Iraq us and Iraqi forces confronted
and ultimately crushed them but didn't
challenge Assad's brutal
Authority Russia too join the
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fight Assad and his allies Hezbollah
from Lebanon an Iranian militia were
losing ground committing more forces
than any other country with barbaric
internationally condemned ground and AER
assaults Russia turned the tide in
Assad's
favor but when Russia's forces went to
war in Ukraine in
2022 the clock on Assad's rule began
down by late 2024 his other main allies
Iran and Hezbollah were blooded by over
a year long war with Israel Assad's
fortunes
plummeted 10 second trivia what planet
in our solar system takes the longest to
complete a rotation creating the longest
day Mars Jupiter Venus or
Neptune answer is Venus where one day is
5,832 hours
long to space news now where more and
more people will be traveling as
commercial space missions only continue
to advance with many future missions
planned for New Frontiers like Mars
scientists are focusing their research
on the effects of space on human biology
and especially on how it ages the human
body CNN's Nick Valencia gives us a look
at the self-contained experiments
scientists are monitoring in space in
the spirit of exploration outer space
May hold the answer to some of
Humanity's greatest questions what
causes aging and can the process be
altered human tissue samples called
organoids are now in orbit at the
International Space Station and
identical samples are back on Earth at
Oxford University's space Innovation lab
this experiment will allow researchers
to compare and analyze data from both
samples to study the aging process and
the impact of microgravity on it inside
the International Space Station a box
containing human tissue sample serves as
a controlled environment the books have
a small computer and all the detection
material that we need uh to get the
measurement we wanted uh and we can
actually control that and see all the
data coming um all the time researchers
don't require assistance from the
astronauts aboard the space station as
they can automatically gather the
information from their laboratory on
Earth we could be able to measure few
things uh without interacting anyone
over the years astronauts have suffered
from muscle loss joint and Bone issues
and problems with their immune system
researchers found that this is similar
to an age related disease and this lead
us to ask the question if the space
might provide us with um an accelerating
aging model and if it is the case that
mean we can actually be able ble to
study aging um very faster because this
is happened in very short time while
Aging in air3 needed different um uh
years with future missions planned to
send humans to Mars and Beyond the
impact of space travel on Aging will
become a key
issue now to New Orleans a city that
truly knows the meaning of Celebration
right so it may come as a surprise to
hear that the city council there just
banned the release of confetti and myar
balloons and any balloon coated in
conductive material it turns out those
festive items have been creating quite
the hassle for the city and its
residents for years when the metallic
balloons are released and come into
contact with power lines it happened
over the summer and caused a widespread
power outage even worse the power outage
caused the city's water pumps to be
tripped offline and when power abruptly
came back on a plant employee was
seriously injured Safe Water Supply was
disrupted for residents nearly the
entire city was under a boil water
advisory for days in years past myar
confetti cannons launched near power
lines also caused power outages so the
city council's ordinance could be a
welcome move for people in New
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Orleans today we are giving our 10 out
of 10 to Miriam Webster for rounding up
some of the the standout words of 2024
top of their list for word of the year
is polarization used widely in the media
this year and ironically a word both
sides can agree on in this election year
the ninew list also included totality
for the solar eclipse that traversed
North America in April demure after tick
tocker Jules LeBron mindfully went viral
and fortnite for all those swifties out
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