🇺🇸🇸🇾 US and Syrian officials convened in Damascus to discuss lifting sanctions and potentially delisting Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a terrorist organization. The US reportedly outlined conditions, including initiating a democratic political process and ensuring minority rights in Syria. Syrian newspaper Al Watan quoted a US official who described a separate meeting with HTS leader al-Julani as "useful and good."
🇺🇸🇸🇾 US and Syrian officials convened in Damascus to discuss lifting sanctions and potentially delisting Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a terrorist organization. The US reportedly outlined conditions, including initiating a democratic political process and ensuring minority rights in Syria. Syrian newspaper Al Watan quoted a US official who described a separate meeting with HTS leader al-Julani as "useful and good."
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a driving force in markets for the past few weeks. In 2018, Russia banned Telegram although it reversed the prohibition two years later. The regulator said it has been undertaking several campaigns to educate the investors to be vigilant while taking investment decisions based on stock tips. At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.”
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