For now, links to reports from the Cradle and Reuters; others or just headlines of others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE, YEMEN, IRAN, WEST BANK, LEBANON and GAZA entries for this date, so far, are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.  SYRIA 4-12-25 is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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‘New page in history’: Lebanese PM visits Damascus for talks with Sharaa. From the Cradle. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam visited Damascus on Monday and met with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa — the former Al-Qaeda chief known previously as Abu Mohammad al-Julani. Salam said in the meeting . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM APRIL 14  Saudi Arabia plans to pay off Syria’s World Bank debts, sources say, by Timour Azhari, Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Pesha Magid | Reuters  BEIRUT / AMMAN — Saudi Arabia plans to pay off Syria’s debts to the World Bank, three people familiar with the matter said, paving the way for the approval of millions of dollars in grants for reconstruction and to . . . READ MORE . . .

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