内容摘要：He said: "Calls have gone up by 60%. I actually pulled out a rat from a trap two weeks ago that was 22 inches in length.

He said: "Calls have gone up by 60%. I actually pulled out a rat from a trap two weeks ago that was 22 inches in length.

Last month, the Syrian leader reportedly told a visiting US congressman, Cory Mills, that Syria was prepared to normalise ties with Israel and join the Abraham Accords under "the right conditions".Israeli media have reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had urged President Trump not to lift sanctions. He remains suspicious of Sharaa and his HTS forces, as well other groups which include foreign fighters in their ranks.

Removing foreign fighters is another of Washington's demands; it's one of the very many challenges now facing Syria's leader.President Trump hailed this moment as "a chance at greatness". Millions of Syrians just welcome a greater chance that their lives will finally start changing for the better.A controversial 185-home development on the edge of a Leicestershire village has been approved.

Blaby planners ruling on the plan off Willoughby Road in Countesthorpe granted permission to Davidsons Developments by a split decision on Tuesday night.Despite the scheme asking for a lower number of homes, reduced from an initial 205, the application remained divisive with more than 600 letters of objection filed.

Concerns had been raised about the seven-acre scheme including a lack of infrastructure, said the

Countesthorpe Parish Council was among those to object."We can't allow that to happen," he said.

The sight of senior Russian and American officials back around a giant negotiating table is extraordinary.For many, most of all Ukrainians, it will have been very hard to take.

In Saudi Arabia, Moscow achieved something major: after three years of all-out war on its neighbour and isolation by the West, it was back at the "top table" of global diplomacy.Not only that, Russia looked for all the world like it was the one calling the shots.