Middle East crisis live: rebel leader urges Syrians to take to the streets to celebrate ‘revolution’

Leader of Islamist rebels that ousted Assad says people should ‘express their joy’ after Friday prayers Aya Majzoub, Amnesty International’s deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, has described a visit to the Assad regime’s security and intelligence branches in Damascus. Here’s what she wrote on social media: For years, survivors had…

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Royal Mail fined £10.5m for missing delivery targets

Ofcom said postal company took ‘insufficient and ineffective steps’ to improve its performance after £5.6m fine last year Royal Mail has been fined more than £10m by the postal regulator for missing its delivery targets, with more than a quarter of first-class mail arriving late. Ofcom, which fined the company £5.6m for the same failure…

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