NewsBiden pardons son; Romania's election surprise and Syria conflict escalate. This is your overnight news summary

Biden pardons son; Romania's election surprise and Syria conflict escalate. This is your overnight news summary

It happened while you were sleeping. Here’s what global agencies reported overnight from Sunday to Monday.

The number of people killed in clashes between rebels and government forces has increased to 417.
The number of people killed in clashes between rebels and government forces has increased to 417.
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Justyna Lasota-Krawczyk

2 December 2024 06:02

  • U.S. President Joe Biden announced that he pardoned his son. Hunter Biden was found guilty by a court of making false statements regarding firearms and illegal possession of firearms. He also pleaded guilty to tax charges.
  • The Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu will receive support from Robert Kennedy Jr. and Tucker Carlson, who will come to Romania on December 5 for the premiere of the former's book, reported the Realitatea portal on Sunday. Georgescu unexpectedly won the first round of the presidential elections in Romania. According to the current electoral calendar, the second round of elections is set for December 8 unless the elections are annulled by the Constitutional Court, which is set to decide on December 2. In the Sunday parliamentary elections in Romania, the co-governing post-communist Social Democratic Party (PSD) won, garnering 26% of the votes, according to the exit poll by CURS. The radical right-wing AUR came in second with the support of 19% of voters.
  • In battles between Islamist rebels and government forces in northern Syria, 417 people have been killed, including 61 civilians, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Sunday. The rebels launched an offensive on Wednesday, which has already covered three provinces. Government forces are supported by Russian aviation in the battles. The jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other militias entered Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city, on Friday. After capturing most of this city, the Islamists began taking over towns and villages in the nearby Hama province, the Associated Press reported on Sunday.
  • Portuguese police agencies seized an 800-kilogram load of cocaine hidden on a Brazilian fishing vessel. It was heading from the Cape Verde Islands to Portugal. According to the newspaper "Jornal de Noticias," the drug shipment was attempted to be smuggled into the EU via Portugal by one of South America's largest criminal organizations, the so-called First Capital Command (PCC) from Brazil. The paper discovered that a criminal group, monitored by the authorities for several months, managed to place "their man" within the structures of the Portuguese police to facilitate a large drug shipment.
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