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20May By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Iran’s Ex-Foreign Minister Blames U.S. For President Raisi’s Death In Helicopter Crash

Erstwhile Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blamed the United States for the helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage. Mr Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian died on Sunday after the helicopter suffered a hard landing due to bad weather in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province while returning from Khoda Afarin country to Tabriz. Mr Zarif, who offered his condolences over the death of Mr Raisi and other officials of the government, alleged that the death occurred because of the U.S. sanctions on Iran’s aviation industry. He stated, “One of the causes of this heartbreaking incident is the United States, which, by sanctioning the sale of the aviation industry to Iran, caused the martyrdom of the president and his companions, an...

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18May By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Israel Rejects Genocide Accusation Before UN Court

Israel has rejected accusations of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, arguing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that its military operations in the city of Rafah were self-defence. The case brought by South Africa was a “distortion of reality,” the head of Israel’s delegation, Gilad Noam, said on Friday in the courtroom in the Peace Palace in The Hague. South Africa was abusing international law in a “despicable and cynical manner,” according to Mr Noam. At the end of the hearing, one of Israel’s legal representatives was interrupted as a woman shouted “liar” before being led out by security staff. As part of its genocide complaint, South Africa is calling in an urgent appeal for the top UN court to order Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The ICJ mu...

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9May By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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U.S. 3,500 Bomb Delivery To Israel Halted Over Rafah Operation

The U.S. arms deliveries to Israel that were halted last week amid mounting concerns over Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip’s city of Rafah included 1,800 2,000-pound (907-kilogram) bombs, a senior U.S. official. The Axios news website, which reported this, cited the senior U.S. official saying that 1,700 500-pound bombs were among the arms deliveries that were halted. Recently, the United States has been engaged in a dialogue with Israel, with the U.S. seeking clarity on how the humanitarian needs of people would be met in Rafah in the event of the operation, the official said. As the decision on the offensive in Gaza’s southernmost city was mulled by Israeli authorities, the U.S. started to review transfers of weapons that could be potentially used there, eventually putting ...

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16Apr By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Chair Cardin Statement Marking One Year Since Onset of Civil War In Sudan

U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement marking one year since the beginning of the civil war in Sudan. “Today marks the solemn first anniversary of the brutal civil war that continues to tear Sudan apart, a conflict marked by war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and potentially even genocide. I stand with the Sudanese people, who by the sheer power of peaceful resistance, pressed for the handover of power from a dictatorial regime to ‘mandania’ – the people. Now, amid the rubble and heartbreak of war, these same patriots are bravely providing a lifeline to their brothers and sisters, putting their own lives and scarce resources on the line. Their actions speak far louder than words to remind the world, and ...

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22Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Israel Says More Militants Killed In Gaza City Hospital Offensive

The Israeli army offensive on Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital has led to further militant deaths, the military reported on Thursday. Over the past day, more than 50 terrorists were eliminated during exchanges of fire,” the military said, adding that more than 140 militants had been eliminated in the area of the hospital since the start of the operation a few days ago. Israeli forces had also found weapons storage facilities, they said. According to the military, civilians, patients, doctors, and medical equipment were not harmed. None of the information could initially be independently verified. Israeli troops entered the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Monday to take action against Hamas and its infrastructure. According to the army, two Israeli s...

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14Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Man Convicted For Faking His Own Death In Boat Accident

A 56-year-old German man who tried to fake his death in a staged boating accident on the Baltic Sea has been sentenced to more than three years in prison. The sentence came after being convicted of 14 counts of attempted insurance fraud. The man’s wife, meanwhile, was sentenced to two years’ probation on Wednesday for her role in the scheme. The couple allegedly faked the man’s death in a boating accident in the Bay of Kiel in October 2019 in a bid to collect ransom. Fake death man planned to collect about €4 million ($4.4 million) in life and accident insurance payouts. After staging the man’s supposed death, the couple hid out for months, first in Hamburg and then in the central German town of Schwarmstedt. Police finally tracked the man down during a raid in May 2020,...

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29Feb By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Lifting Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger Sanctions Will Save ECOWAS From Disintegrating-NIIA Expert

An international relations expert, Femi Otubanjo, says the decision of ECOWAS to lift sanctions imposed on Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso will save the West African sub-regional bloc from disintegration. Mr Otubanjo, a research professor at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, made the assertion in an interview in Lagos. Gambia’s Omar Touray, president of the ECOWAS Commission, announced the lifting of the sanctions at the end of the extraordinary session of the heads of state and government of ECOWAS member countries on Saturday in Abuja. Mr Touray said the decision was based on humanitarian considerations, the sanctions’ socio-economic impacts and the sub-region’s security. “The authority has resolved to lift with immediate effect sanctions imposed on Niger and has...

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7Feb By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Former Irish Premier John Bruton Dies At 76

Former Irish Premier John Bruton has died at 76 following a long illness, his family has confirmed. Bruton was taoiseach from 1994 until 1997, and the leader of the Fine Gael party from 1990 to 2001. He died in a Dublin hospital on Tuesday, surrounded by his family. statement from the Bruton family, released by Fine Gael, stated, “It is with deep sadness we wish to announce the death of former taoiseach John Bruton. “He died peacefully in the Mater Private Hospital in Dublin, surrounded by his loving family, early this morning following a long illness. He was a good husband, a good father and a true patriot. We will miss him greatly. “John is survived by his wife, Finola, son Matthew and daughters Juliana, Emily and Mary-Elizabeth, grandchildren, sons-in-law, his brother, R...

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31Jan By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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First Human Receives Brain Implant From Elon Musk’s Neuralink

Elon Musk said that his neurotech startup Neuralink implanted its device in a human for the first time on Sunday. The patient is “recovering well,” Mr Musk said on X, formerly Twitter. “Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.” Neuralink’s first product is called Telepathy, he said. The company is developing a brain implant to help patients with severe paralysis control external technologies using only neural signals. “Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal,” Mr Musk wrote in a separate post. Neuralink began recruiting patients for its first-in-human clinical trial in the autumn of 2023 after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the company to conduct the study in May.Xinhua/NAN ...

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11Jan By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Over 400 Lawmakers From 28 Countries Demand Gaza Ceasefire

No fewer than 400 members of parliament from 28 countries have launched an appeal for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza war. The group includes U.S. Democrat Ilhan Omar and former British Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn. In Germany, former Die Linke (The Left) politician Sevim Dağdelen is part of the group. She joined the newly formed party — Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), which centres around a former Die Linke leader of the same name. Other parliamentarians from the United States, mainly EU nations, and other countries from Canada to Ghana and Chile to Turkey joined the appeal. Germany’s Dağdelen said, “We are lawmakers from around the world calling for an immediate, multilateral ceasefire in the Gaza war. We also call for the release of all the remaining Israeli and inter...

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16Oct By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Israel Evacuates Border Communities As Tensions Flare With Hezbollah

Following repeated attacks by the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia from southern Lebanon, Israel has ordered the evacuation of settlements up to two kilometres from the border area. The office of Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday that 28 towns on Israel’s northern border were affected. The residents were to be taken to safety at state expense and housed in guest houses. The Israeli army had already declared a four-kilometre-wide strip in the border area a restricted zone on Sunday. Since the unprecedented surprise attack by Hamas on Israel and the counter-attacks by the Israeli army on the Gaza Strip, there has been increasing violence on the border between Israel and Lebanon recently. This has fueled concerns about a further regional escalation of the confl...

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25Sep By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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India: Liquor Kills Drinkers, Blinds Two Others

Officials on Monday said two people were killed, and two others lost their eyesight after consuming spurious liquor in India’s eastern state of Bihar. In April this year, suspected toxic liquor consumption in the state killed over 30 people. The deaths were reported from the Qazi Mohammadpur police station area in Muzaffarpur district, about 72km north of Patna, the capital city of Bihar. “We have received information about two deaths at Pokharia Pir locality. The family members of the deceased said that three days back, these people returned home drunk, following which they took ill and subsequently succumbed to their illness during treatment,” the police explained. The police added, “Two other people of the same locality are reported to have lost eyesight following the consu...

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3Sep By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Former U.S. Presidential Aspirant Bill Richardson Is Dead

Bill Richardson, U.S. presidential hopeful in 2018 and a two-term governor of New Mexico, has passed on at 75. The former governor died “peacefully” in his sleep at his residence in Chatham, Massachusetts, a statement by Richardson Center for Global Engagement said. Governor Richardson passed away peacefully in his sleep last night,” Mickey Bergman, vice president of the Richardson foundation, said in a statement. Mr Richardson had previously worked as a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and was known for working assiduously to secure the freedom of American citizens wrongfully detained in other countries. He was passionate about human rights advocacy that then-President Bill Clinton nicknamed him “undersecretary for thugs.” “He lived his entire life in the service of othe...

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1Sep By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Coup D’état: African Union Suspends Gabon

The African Union (AU) has suspended Gabon’s membership in the wake of the coup in the Central African country. AU’s Peace and Security Council said on Thursday evening that it strongly condemned the take-over of power by the military in Gabon, which deposed President Ali Bongo. It suspended Gabon’s participation in all activities of the AU and its institutions “with immediate effect until constitutional orders restored in the country.” The AU suspended Niger Republic’s membership just a few weeks ago after the military took power there at the end of July. Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Sudan have also been suspended since the coups in those countries. In Brussels, top EU diplomat Josep Borrell said the European Union “rejects any seizure of power by force in Gabon.” “Th...

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30Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Military Officers Declare Coup In Gabon

Gabon senior Gabonese military officers have appeared on national television declaring they have seized power, claiming the recent general election lacks credibility and saying they represent all Gabon’s security and defence forces. They said the election results were cancelled, all borders closed until further notice and state institutions dissolved. Loud sounds of gunfire could be heard in the capital, Libreville, a Reuters reporter said, after the television appearance. It was not immediately possible to reach the government for comment. “In the name of the Gabonese people … we have decided to defend the peace by putting an end to the current regime,” the officers said on television. Gabon’s incumbent president, Ali Bongo, won a third term in the presidential election with ...

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28Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Russian Investigators Say Forensic Results Confirmed Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Death In Ill-Fated Plane Crash

Russia’s investigative committee on Sunday confirmed that genetic testing results on body samples recovered at the site of last week’s plane crash confirmed Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin as one of the victims of the unfortunate incident.As part of the investigation of the plane crash in the Tver region, molecular-genetic examinations have been completed,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app. The statement added: “According to their results, the identities of all 10 dead were established. They correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet, corresponding and officially confirming the death of Prigozhin, who Russia’s aviation agency said was listed as a passenger on the private plane.” Until now, there has been no off...

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25Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Trump Arrested At Fulton County Jail In Georgia

Former President Donald Trump was arrested at the Fulton County Jail on felony charges in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. In a first for his four indictments this year, Trump had his mug shot taken. It was released shortly after he left the jail. Trump used a local bail bondsman in Georgia to post his bond. He has already paid, a bonding agent confirmed. The Fulton County Jail, where Trump was booked, has a history of violence and poor conditions. District Attorney Fani Willis oversaw the sweeping investigation and the racketeering charges against Trump and 18 co-defendants. Many of them, including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, have already surrendered. A federal judge yesterday denied requests by two defendants...

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23Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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WAGNER Boss, Prigozhin Killed In Plane Crash

WAGNER boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a plane which crashed in Russia, killing all 10 on board. He was believed to be on board the plane. Earlier, a Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported that the jet was shot down by air defences in Tver region, north of Moscow. Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against the Russian armed forces in June. Prigozhin is the head of the Wagner mercenary group, which he established in 2014. A wealthy businessman with a criminal record, he was known as “Putin’s chef” because he provided catering for the Kremlin. In June he led his troops on a short-lived mutiny, after they seized control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and moved towards Moscow, with the stated aim of removing the military leadership. ...

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21Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Tchiani: We Don’t Want War In Niger, But We Will Defend Our Country When Necessary

The leader of the mutineers who seized power in Niger, Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, said on Saturday that his country does not want war, but will be ready to defend itself if necessary. Neither the army nor the people of Niger want war, but we will resist any manifestation of it,” Mr Tchiani was quoted as saying by the Al Jazeera broadcaster. He noted that the member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) do not realise that Niger has become the key to containing the region from destabilisation against the backdrop of increased terrorist activity. Mr Tchiani added that the sanctions imposed against his country were aimed at putting pressure on the rebels, and not at finding a solution to the current situation. In addition, Mr Tchiani said that rebel...

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15Aug By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Trump Says New Indictment Was ‘Rigged,’ Deliberately Filed During His Political Campaign

Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday called an indictment approved by a Fulton County grand jury in the U.S. state of Georgia “rigged”. Mr Trump added that it was deliberately presented in the midst of his political campaign and that the move was a “witch hunt.” On Monday night, the Fulton County grand jury indicted Mr Trump on 13 criminal charges related to an investigation into an alleged attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to a court document. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis later told reporters that the grand jury had issued arrest warrants for the 19 defendants named in the indictment, but they all have until August 25 to voluntarily surrender. “And what about those Indictment Documents put out today, long befo...

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