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Bayan al-Hinnawi, who spent years behind bars in Bashar al-Assad's Syria, joined crowds in the heartland of the Druze minority on Friday to celebrate the president's fall, "a dream" come true for the former prisoner. Hundreds of people descended on Sweida's main square, singing and clapping in jubilation, just days after Islamist-led rebels took the capital Damascus, sending Assad fleeing. The Druze-majority city in Syria's south has been a focal point of renewed anti-government demonstrations over the past year and a half. On Friday, residents waved Syria's pre-Assad flag of white, green and black with three stars, and raised olive branches in a sign of peace. Some of them have lost family members during the anti-government uprising that began in 2011 and spiralled into civil war. Others, like Hinnawi, had languished in prison under the Assad family's five-decade rule. "It was a dream," said 77-year-old Hinnawi of Assad's ouster. Decades ago, a few years after Hafez al-Assad seized power -- which he later handed over to his son Bashar -- a 23-year-old Hinnawi was jailed. He was released 17 years later. The grey-haired man said he had "dreamed that one day the regime would fall", but did not believe that he would live to see the day. "It's a wonderful sight. Nobody could have imagined that this could happen", he said. But his joy was incomplete, remembering the many who have died in jail. "I wish that those who died when I was imprisoned in Mazzeh or Saydnaya could see this scene," said Hinnawi. Since Assad's fall, rebel forces and residents have broken into both detention centres, freeing political prisoners and searching for long-missing loved ones. Activists and rights groups say the Assad government tortured and abused inmates at both facilities. "I got out when I was 40, I missed out of my whole life," said Hinnawi, who served in the Syrian army before being jailed. Recalling torture behind bars, he said that "no oppressor in history has done what they did to us." Since Sunday, the ousted government's security forces were nowhere to be seen in Sweida, and the office of Assad's Baath party has been abandoned, as have army checkpoints on the road to Damascus. Local armed men are present, but not the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham which spearheaded the rebel offensive against Assad. Siham Zein al-Din, who lost her son in 2014 after he defected from the national army to join rebel fighters, said he had "sacrificed his life... for freedom, for dignity". The family was still searching for Khaldun's remains, said his 60-year-old mother. Like her son, some members of the Druze community took up arms against Assad's forces during the war. The Druze, who also live in Lebanon, Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, make up about three percent of Syria's population, around 700,000 people. Beyond defending themselves from attacks in the areas where they live, Syria's Druze largely stayed on the sidelines of the civil war. Many managed to avoid compulsory conscription since 2011. Residents of Sweida have long complained of discrimination and the lack of basic services. Many buildings in the city are constructed from black volcanic stone that can be found in the area, and its roads have fallen into disrepair. Sheikh Marwan Hussein Rizk, a religious leader, said that "Sweida province has been marginalised" for decades, with most of its residents living in poverty. But, surrounded by the joyful protesters, Rizk said better days may be coming. "Today, we look to the future and ask for a helping hand... Our hand is extended to all Syrians." Next to him, resident Hussein Bondok held up a poster of his brother Nasser, a journalist and opposition activist who was last heard from in 2014 when he was arrested. Bondok, 54, said he believes his brother was likely killed under torture in one of Damascus's prisons. Nasser struggled for freedom, Bondok said. "I want to congratulate him now, because the seeds he had planted with his brothers-in-arms has become a tree." lk/ami/it

A hypersonic underwater tunnel connecting the UK to the United States could see trains travelling at speeds of 3,000mph. But the dream of a trans-Atlantic train connecting London and New York would come at a price - almost $20tn. The idea of a "Transatlantic Tunnel" has existed for a while. But developments in technology mean it may one day be possible. The world's richest man, Elon Musk, is one of those who has championed vacuum tube technology. He once proposed sending capsules through a vacuum environment to reduce air resistance. Currently a flight between the two cities takes around eight hours. Trains powered by conventional technology running underneath the ocean would not be able to make the journey fast enough to justify the cost of construction. The distance between the two global cities is more than 3,000 miles, and it would take years to build. Stunning European town so sick of overcrowding that tourists fined $300 for taking selfies Optical illusion reveals if you're strong-willed or kind-hearted - what do you see? But Musk and others say vacuum tube technology could hold the key and make the concept viable. The multi-billionaire introduced the concept in a white paper in 2013, and has also been a proponent of the field, organising student competitions and founding The Boring Company, focused on tunnelling technology. It would work by creating a vacuum within the tunnel and using pressurised vehicles. Trains would not face any air resistance within the tunnel. In theory, they could reach far higher speeds than conventional trains. Capsules darting along the structure could theoretically reach speeds of more than 3,000 mph. If that was to happen then a journey between the two great cities would barely take a hour. This design is sometimes called a "hyperloop". It might seem like the stuff of fantasy sci-fi but the age of hyperloop technology might be closer than we think, reports Newsweek . Trials of the technology are underway in India and China, with plans to integrate it into their high-speed rail systems nationwide. A Transatlantic Tunnel would be much more efficient and environmentally friendly than flying. Proposals for a tunnel are still unclear. While some have suggested a route underneath the ocean floor, others have favoured stilts or a floating tube, held in place by cables attached to the ocean floor. And judging by how long it took to build the Channel Tunnel linking France to the UK it won't be something we see in our lifetime. The link between Britain and France took more then six years to build. If the trans-Atlantic tunnel were built at the same speed, it would take 782 years.

General Election candidate Eoghan Kenny has said he suffered an epileptic seizure just before going on air on RTÉ Radio last week. The Labour Party candidate for Cork North Central said he is “proud to be an epileptic” and recalled the experience on social media this evening. “Politicians are normal. That's a phrase that I've inherited this week,” said the Cork County Councillor. He revealed he suffered an epileptic seizure in the RTÉ studios last Tuesday, just before going on RTÉ Radio One’s Drivetime . "The politicians in the room, what some might consider rivals of mine in the upcoming general election, I now consider them colleagues of mine in the political sphere,” he said. “They came to my assistance, along with the staff of RTÉ and the two paramedics as well. “Just to say that I'm very grateful for the assistance that I received but I am absolutely perfect and driving on my campaign. “It proves a point that people with medical conditions can go into the public eye and represent people, whether it be locally or nationally,” he said. We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Mr Kenny highlighted that his condition doesn’t affect his job as a public representative. "It's important to realise that it hasn't affected my job since February, since I became a councillor, and that it's a condition that I have to live with and a condition that I'm very proud to live with,” he added. The general election candidate from Mallow praised Epilepsy Ireland – a charity supporting people living with the condition. He also shared advice on how to help someone who suffers an epileptic seizure. “I'm very proud of the fact that Epilepsy Ireland are great advocates for people who are suffering with epilepsy to over 1,200 people in Cork North-Central. “I'm grateful for the work that they do in promoting epilepsy awareness and I would encourage everybody to remember these three words: stay, time and safe. "Stay with the person, time the seizure and make sure the person is safe. "Of course, I wanted to own this story myself. It's my story to tell and I didn't want it to be told by anybody else,” he added. "I'm proud to say that I'm very, very good now after my seizure on Tuesday. "I'm hoping to win this seat in Cork North-Central, but I can only do that with your support next Friday,” he added.TRUMP GOLF: THE GAME ANNOUNCES EXCLUSIVE PRESALE FOR MOBILE GAME LAUNCH, WHERE PLAYERS EXPERIENCE THE AWARD-WINNING TRUMP GOLF PORTFOLIO THROUGH THEIR MOBILE DEVICESOTTAWA—The RCMP says it has “contingency plans” to deploy more Mounties to the Canada-U.S. border but needs answers from the Liberal government about how much more it intends to spend on additional drones, helicopters or other technology to surveil it. The Trudeau government says it has not yet “finalized” those decisions as it fended off Opposition criticism it is too slow to act to counter incoming president Donald Trump’s threat of 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian products on his first day in office. RCMP Comm. Michael Duheme told reporters there are two “parallel” tracks to the Mounties’ plans — one contingent on how many illegal immigrants might be “removed” from America by an incoming Trump administration and drive a northward surge into Canada, and the other contingent on how much new technology the Liberal government will fund. Speaking after he testified at a public safety committee, the top Mountie said he is not opposed to expanding the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) mandate into the RCMP’s jurisdiction over territory between official border points of entry, as the border guards’ union has called for. “I think we have to do what’s right, to secure the borders. So if that’s increasing authorities to CBSA, I mean, that’s a discussion I would have” with the head of the CBSA and the government, Duheme said. He said it would be a “longer-term” move, “but I think we have to explore different ways of doing things.” Meanwhile, Duheme said the RCMP needs the “nimbleness” to reassign resources where needed, and he will deploy cadets from the RCMP training academy in Regina — as the national police force did in 2014 to provide additional security following the Parliament Hill attacks. “What you saw in Roxham Road (where migrants crossed illegally near Lacolle, Que.) may not repeat itself,” said Duheme. “It might come somewhere else, right? So that’s one thing, but on the parallel track is the planning a way forward with the asks that we’ve put in ... and the resources required to do it.” Defence Minister Bill Blair told the Star Monday night that Canadian Forces may be able to supply surveillance drones and other technological aids, but that soldiers would not be deployed to the border. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Chrystia Freeland — who co-chairs the Canada-U.S. cabinet committee — met with Opposition leaders Tuesday to brief them on the government’s work to address the Trump threat, and on Trudeau’s and LeBlanc’s trip to Trump’s resort at Mar-a-Lago on Friday. Trudeau and LeBlanc discussed trade and the border over dinner with the president-elect at his Freeland later said she was not upset at not being included on the trip, and said “it was the right choice. The meeting was principally about the border. That is what was very clear from the conversation that the prime minister had with the president ahead of time.” Freeland called for a “Team Canada” approach to dealing with Trump, repeating a message she delivered to premiers last week, that it is “important for us to take care not to negotiate against ourselves.” However, when Trudeau’s Commons opponents emerged, they did not offer full-throated support for his efforts. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he would take a “Canada first” approach,” stress the harm that tariffs would have on Canada and the U.S. and he put the blame for Canada’s problems with Trump squarely at Trudeau’s feet, a line of attack he continued in the Commons. “Whether one thinks that President Trump’s tariff threats are a negotiating tactic or a real plan, what we do know is what we can control. The prime minister has lost control of everything” including borders and control of immigration, he said. Poilievre said Trudeau is an unpopular leader in an “unbearably weak position” to counter Trump, and demanded an election to replace him. Trudeau in the Commons replied that Poilievre should guard against repeating “erroneous narratives that the Americans are putting forward,” saying amplifying “these ‘broken’ narratives is simply not responsible leadership.” New Democrat Jagmeet Singh said he told Trudeau in the meeting that he pressed Trudeau to hire “at a minimum” 1,100 more border guards. That’s a lot fewer than the union says are needed. Erin O’Gorman, head of the border agency, told MPs the CBSA currently has 16,300 full time employees, 8,500 of whom are front-line employees, compared to 13,700 it had in 2014 when the Conservatives were in power. However, the Customs and Immigration Union says only 6,500 are considered front-line employees, including those who work not just at land border points of entry, but at airports and who enforce customs laws at postal facilities. Union head Mark Weber, in an interview with the Star, said the union has called for an additional 2,000-3,000 front-line officers, and was encouraged by LeBlanc’s testimony that showed an “openness” to expanding the role played by border guards to include patrolling in between official points of entry with the RCMP. Weber reiterated in a letter to LeBlanc Monday the union’s request to the Liberal government to review a 1932 cabinet order that directed the RCMP to cover border areas between official ports of entry while leaving the official points of entry to border officers. ” LeBlanc told MPs Tuesday that the government is “interested in taking immediate steps that will reassure Canadians and the Americans that the border remains secure and the integrity of the border is protected ... We haven’t made any decisions in that regard. But are open to considering that as well.” Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said that the Liberals did not offer details, but seem to have a plan in the works. “We’ll see what it contains,” he said. “I don’t want to fight too much publicly about an issue which is very important for everybody, both in Canada and Quebec and Americans are looking at us now. So I will give some time to Mr. LeBlanc to provide us with the details of the plan.” Former Conservative leader Rona Ambrose in a CBC interview Tuesday said, “look, I think it’s easy to say everyone should be on Team Canada, but that doesn’t mean Team Trudeau.” Ambrose, who previously sat on Trudeau’s NAFTA advisory council, said Poilievre and Singh would all argue they are on Team Canada, but that they also have legitimate criticisms to make of how Trudeau has not positioned Canada’s economy to withstand Trump’s threats and the moves he will make to draw investors and capital away from Canada to the United States.

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Albertsons sues Kroger for failing to win approval of their proposed supermarket mergerJustice Acquah, the Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Takoradi Constituency, expressed strong confidence that the party will retain all its parliamentary seats in the Sekondi-Takoradi and Effia-Kwesimintsim areas in the upcoming elections. He further projected that the NPP will increase its parliamentary presence, capturing 14 out of the 17 seats in the Western Region. Acquah’s optimism stems from what he described as “unprecedented development” under the leadership of President Akufo-Addo and Vice President Bawumia. He pointed to several major infrastructure and healthcare projects as key indicators of the party’s achievements. “The Effia-Nkwanta Hospital is being upgraded to a teaching hospital, and there has been a significant increase in health facilities across the constituencies,” Acquah noted. “A healthy population is key to productivity, and even areas where the NPP didn’t win have benefited from these developments.” He also highlighted the party’s investments in road infrastructure, including crucial projects like the Market Circle, the Interchange, and the Port Expansion, which he said will enhance financial stability and facilitate trade across the region. Acquah added that Saturday’s elections will serve as a moment of thanksgiving for the people of Ghana, allowing them to show their appreciation for the NPP’s efforts. He rejected suggestions that seats in the Wassa East, Jomoro, Prestea-Huni Valley, and Ellembelle constituencies were out of reach, insisting that the NPP was well-positioned to win them. In Prestea-Huni Valley, Acquah noted that the party won the presidential election, citing the previous parliamentary loss to a “skirt and blouse” voting pattern, which he believes has now been corrected. He expressed confidence that the NPP will also win Jomoro, saying, “Has there even been a two-term MP there before? The dynamics favor us this time.” Concluding his remarks, Acquah emphasized that the work of the NPP is far from over, and he is convinced Ghanaians will vote to retain the party and continue the progress it has made.

When Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Sunday, it turned the page on not only his 24-year presidency but on more than 50 years of his family ruling Syria. Before Assad took office in 2000, his late father Hafez was president for three decades. Now, with rebels led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir-al Sham (HTS) forming a transitional government, the future of the deposed president, his wife and their three children is uncertain. They are now in Russia, where they have been offered asylum, but what lies ahead for them? Russia was a staunch ally of Assad during Syria's civil war and has two key military bases in the Middle Eastern country. In 2015, Russia launched an air campaign in support of Assad that turned the tide of the war in the government's favour. A UK-based monitoring group reported that more than more than 21,000 people, including 8,700 civilians, were killed in Russian military operations over the following nine years. However, distracted by its war in Ukraine, Russia was either unwilling or unable to help Assad's government stop the rebel's lightning offensive after it began in late November. Hours after rebel forces seized control of Damascus, it was reported by Russian state media that Assad and his family had arrived in Moscow and that they would be granted asylum on "humanitarian grounds". But when Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was asked about Assad's whereabouts and asylum claim by reporters on Monday, he said: "I have nothing to tell you... right now. Of course, such a decision [on granting asylum] cannot be made without the head of state. It is his decision." The Assads' ties to Russia, specifically Moscow, are well-documented. A 2019 investigation by the Financial Times found that Assad's extended family had purchased at least 18 luxury apartments in the Russian capital, in a bid to keep tens of millions of dollars out of Syria during the civil war. Meanwhile, Assad's eldest son, Hafez, is a PhD student in the city - with a local newspaper reporting just last week about the 22-year-old's doctoral dissertation. Amid the chaos at the weekend, Russian state TV reported that officials in Moscow were in talks with "the Syrian armed opposition" to secure Russia's bases and diplomatic missions. Assad is married to a dual British-Syrian national, Asma, who was born and raised in west London to Syrian parents. She attended school and university in London before becoming an investment banker. Asma moved to Syria full-time in 2000 and married Assad around the time he succeeded his father as president. Dr Nesrin Alrefaai, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), told BBC News that Asma "holds a British passport, so could return to the UK" instead of remaining in Russia. "However, the USA [has] imposed sanctions on her father, Dr Fawaz al-Akhras, who is also reported to be in Russia," she said - suggesting Asma may want to stay put in Moscow for now. In a report by the Mail Online, neighbours were quoted as saying Asma's father, a cardiologist, and mother Sahar, a retired diplomat, wanted to be in Moscow to "console" their daughter and son-in-law. Assad and his wife have three children: Hafez, the PhD student, Zein and Karim. A 2022 US State Department report to Congress said the extended Assad family's net worth was between $1bn (£790m) and $2bn (£1.6bn) - though it noted that it was difficult to estimate because their assets are "believed to be spread out and concealed in numerous accounts, real estate portfolios, corporations, and offshore tax havens". According to the report, Bashar and Asma maintained "close patronage relationships with Syria's largest economic players, using their companies to launder money from illicit activities and funnel funds to the regime". It also said that Asma had "influence over the economic committee that manages Syria's ongoing economic crisis" - and had made key decisions on Syria's "food and fuel subsidies, trade and currency issues". She also exerted influence over the Syria Trust for Development, through which most foreign aid for reconstruction in regime-held areas was channelled. In 2020, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleged that Asma had "become one of Syria's most notorious war profiteers" with the help of her husband and her family. Another senior Trump administration official described her as the "business head of the family" and an "oligarch" who had been competing with Bashar's cousin Rami Makhlouf. He is one of Syria's richest men and the family rift became public knowledge after he posted videos on social media complaining about his treatment. Following the fall of the Assad dynasty, Amnesty International's secretary general Agnès Callamard said Syrians had been subjected to what she called "a horrifying catalogue of human rights violations that caused untold human suffering on a vast scale". This includes "attacks with chemical weapons, barrel bombs, and other war crimes, as well as murder, torture, enforced disappearance and extermination that amount to crimes against humanity". She called on the international community to ensure that people suspected of breaking international law and other serious human rights violations must be investigated and prosecuted for their crimes. On Tuesday, the Islamist rebel leader in Syria said any of the ousted regime's senior officials found to have been involved in torturing political prisoners would be named. Abu Mohammed al-Jolani also said his so-called Syrian Salvation Government would seek to repatriate officials it identified who fled to another country. In France, investigative judges have sought an arrest warrant for Assad for alleged complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes, in connection with a deadly chemical attack in Syria in 2013 under the legal concept of universal jurisdiction. Russia does not extradite its own nationals - a legal process whereby someone is returned to another country or state to face trial for a suspected crime. Assad is unlikely to leave Russia to go to a country where he could be extradited back to Syria or any other that might charge him with a crime.