Syria regains voting rights in the OPCW as new leadership makes progress in addressing chemical weapons issues. Published On 9 Jul 20269 Jul 2026 The global chemical weapons’ watchdog has announced it has handed voting rights back to Syria because “concrete steps” have been taken to address outstanding issues since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. In a statement published on Thursday, the Organisation for the Prohibition...

A quest for closure Posters now crowd walls, lampposts and shopfronts across La Guaira and the capital Caracas. They bear the faces of the dead. As rescue efforts continue, families search for their loved ones, hoping they will be among the 6,462 people rescued so far. But some face the grim prospect of identifying the dead. Inside an air-conditioned room at a funeral parlour in La Guaira, small...