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Former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a tireless advocate for peace and human rights, has passed away at the age of 100, his office confirmed on Sunday. Carter, who had been under hospice care since February 2023 at his home in Plains, Georgia, became the first U.S. president to reach the age of 100.

CBS News is reporting that US President-elect Donald Trump is considering appointing Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former prosecutor and former Fox New TV host, and current fiancee of his son Donald, Jr. as the new US Ambassador to Greece.

"Three sources familiar with the selection" have confirmed the report to CBS News.

US Ambassador to Greece George Tsunis has rebutted a CBS News report alleging that Washington is considering referring migrants in Latin America for resettlement in Greece in a bid to discourage people in the region from traveling to the US-Mexico border.

"There is no such deal," Tsunis told Kathimerini about the news report.

Dimitris Kairidis, the Greek minister for migration, has denied a CBS News report claiming that Washington is planning to refer some migrants in Latin America for resettlement in Greece in an effort to curb illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border.

"Sweden was maligned in 2020 for foregoing a strict lockdown. The Guardian called its approach 'a catastrophe' in the making, while CBS News said Sweden had become 'an example of how not to handle COVID-19' ", fee.org portal reports.

A month after Donald Trump announced Matthew Palmer as the new US Special Representative to the Western Balkans, the White House said on Thursday that its top diplomatic representative in Germany, Richard Grenell, will be its new special envoy for the Serbia-Kosovo talks.

In the latest and final public opinion polls published by the New York Times/CBS News on Thursday ahead of the US elections on Tuesday, more than eight in 10 respondents claimed to be repulsed by the campaign. The majority also said they consider both of the leading candidates to be dishonest and hold an unfavorable general view of them.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has urged Russia to avoid holding snap military drills.

An Al Qaeda leader in the Arabian peninsula is dead, according to CBS news. The jihadist leader is the moral culprit who instigated the Charlie Hebdo massacre in paris.

Nasr al-Ansi was killed by a CIA drone strike on the 21st of April in Yemen.

Al-Ansi’s death was announced by Al Qaeda on a video published on the web.

The fighting in Syria, which started with an uprising against the Bashar al-Assad regime and transformed into a deadly civil war, has entered its fifth year. As of January 2015, it has claimed over 220,000 lives, displaced 7.6 million people inside Syria, and driven another 3.5 million people out of the country.