Italy's FM encourages post-Assad transition, calls for EU to review sanctions
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Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani speaks to the media as he arrives on Jan. 9, 2025, for a meeting at Rome's Villa Madama to discuss the situation in Syria after the collapse of the Assad regime.
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is traveling to Syria on Friday to encourage the country's transition following the ouster of President Bashar Assad by Islamist insurgents, and said Europe should review its sanctions on Damascus now that the political situation has changed.
A Lebanese lawmaker, center, casts his vote to elect a new president, at the parliament building in downtown Beirut, Jan. 9, 2025.
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