NewsMagdeburg remembers, Slovakia protests, US strikes in Syria. This is what happened during the night
Magdeburg remembers, Slovakia protests, US strikes in Syria. This is what happened during the night
This happened while you were sleeping. Here’s what the world agencies reported overnight from Monday to Tuesday.
- Hundreds of people gathered in Magdeburg, the site of the Christmas market attack, to pay tribute to the victims and oppose its political use by the right wing. Attendees held candles, applauded the rescuers, and shouted "thank you" to them. "These are lights for a cosmopolitan city," said Oliver Wiebe from the initiative "Don't Give a Chance to Hatred," supported by the Diocese of Magdeburg, as reported by the dpa agency.
- On Monday, a large crowd assembled in front of the government building in Bratislava to voice their disapproval of Prime Minister Robert Fico's visit to Moscow the previous day. The meeting with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin was widely criticized, with some characterizing it as an act of betrayal and support for Russia's aggression against Ukraine. During the protest, former Foreign Minister Ivan Korčok, a member of Progressive Slovakia, called Fico's visit a significant embarrassment. He remarked that the Prime Minister appeared to align Slovakia away from its traditional partners, such as the Czechs, Poles, Germans, and French, and closer to Putin. Korčok also accused Fico of advocating for Ukraine's surrender, a position he claimed Fico expressed during his Moscow trip.
- The US Central Command reported that it conducted an airstrike in Syria, which killed two Islamic State militants and injured another. The Islamic State militants were attacked while transporting weapons by lorry in the Deir ez-Zor province, an area formerly controlled by the Syrian government and Russians, according to a statement by the US Central Command on the social media platform X.
