2024-12-01
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So a neutron star is kind of.
About the size of Chicago.
Unexpected Elements from the BBC World Service.
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This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Paul Moss and in the early hours of Sunday, the 1st of December, these are our main street stories.
Syria's President Assad insists he will defeat rebel forces, his first comment since they captured the city of Aleppo.
The aid group World Central Kitchen says it's suspending operations
in Gaza after three employees were killed in an Israeli strike.
And Georgia's pro Western president vows to stay in power past the end of her mandate,
describing the parliament electing a new one as illegitimate.
Also in this podcast,
why have killer whales apparently revived a marine fashion trend wearing dead salmon on their heads?
In a world of so many conflicts, it can be hard to keep up with every war, every battle, every skirmish.
And that perhaps is sometimes true of the countries involved in fighting.
Russia, for example, has been focused on its invasion of Ukraine.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, has been hit hard in its conflict with Israel.
And it does look like both of them failed to notice what was going on in the meantime with the conflict in Syria.
Russia and Hezbollah had been major supporters of the Assad regime.