tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47109183298745338422024-03-22T08:09:04.162+05:30Terrorism WatchTrends, incidents, places, Terror Victims.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger62204125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-82884648244649305012023-10-31T19:16:00.002+05:302023-10-31T19:16:06.537+05:30‘Pak’s ISI Funds Khalistani Pannun’: Referendum to Immigration, Intel Sources Decode Strategy<p> <a href="https://www.news18.com/politics/pannuns-properties-should-be-bombed-govt-should-extradite-him-cong-mp-ravneet-bittu-to-news18-8588536.html" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Gurpatwant Singh Pannun</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Serif", serif;">, leader of banned pro-Khalistan group Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), who has been designated as a terrorist in India, is being funded by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), according to top intelligence sources. The numbers he gives out on Khalistani referendums, too, are fabricated, they said.</span></p><p class="story_para_1" id="1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ALSO READ | <a href="https://www.news18.com/india/nia-confiscates-properties-of-sikhs-for-justice-leader-gurpatwant-singh-pannun-exclusive-8588442.html" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NIA Confiscates Properties of Sikhs For Justice Leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun | Exclusive</a></strong></p><p class="story_para_2" id="2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Initially, Pannun had denied his association with the ISI, but he recently attended the Pakistan HC Kashmir Day event in London, said sources.</p><p class="story_para_3" id="3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">“He is running an immigration racket. His idea is to instigate the youth of Punjab born after 1984 against India over alleged atrocities against the Sikh community. A majority of youth from Punjab wants to migrate to Canada, the United Kingdom (UK) and United State of America (USA) and Pannun is using them as free labour. His idea is to attack leaders, the map and flag of India," said sources.</p><div class="lazyload-wrapper ad1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><div class="nw18-dynamic-div-8641824_0" data-lazy="ads" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="nw18-dfp-ad" data-adcode="/1039154/NW18_ENG_Desktop/NW18_ENG_India/NW18_ENG_India_AS/NW18_ENG_IND_AS_ROS_MID_728" data-adsizes="[[728,90],[1,1]]" id="a07d730b-bd67-4a11-ac65-46ad10b8ddd8" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><p class="story_para_4" id="4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="409" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lFOtHFsnEeo" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Canada News | Canada Khalistan Issue | Rally For Khalistan Referendum Fails In Its Second Leg" width="727"></iframe></p><h4 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #001d42; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">WHY IT WORKS FOR ISI</h4><p class="story_para_5" id="5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">According to intel sources, the ISI has approved the plan. “Despite spending a huge amount of money, Pakistan never won any war against India, be it in 1965, 1971 or 1991. However, by just spending USD 20,000 on <a href="https://www.news18.com/india/nijjar-killed-khanda-dead-amritpal-arrested-khalistani-network-shrinks-pannu-is-now-govts-top-priority-8113993.html" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Pannun’s propaganda</a> war against India, they are getting big results," they said.</p><p class="story_para_6" id="6" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Pannun is getting money from innocent youths and donations in the name of war. “He has made all gurdwaras of the UK, Canada and USA breeding grounds for anti-India sentiments. According to a witness, ISI operatives are regular visitors there," said sources.</p><p class="story_para_7" id="7" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ALSO READ | <a href="https://www.news18.com/india/fir-against-sfjs-pannun-for-threatening-to-turn-cricket-world-cup-to-world-terror-cup-8597115.html" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Gujarat: Khalistan Supporter Gurpatwant Pannun Booked For ‘World Terror Cup’ Threat Against Cricket WC</a></strong></p><p class="story_para_8" id="8" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Sources said that Pannun’s actions serve ISI’s purpose in India too. “In the name of spoiled sentiments, they create overground workers (OGW) in border areas and send drugs and weapons through drones regularly, which is a major source of earning for junior-level ISI officials," sources said.</p><p class="story_para_9" id="9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="409" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cZzvM1vGYBQ" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Sikhs For Justice Founder, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun Admits To R-Day Violence Plot | CNN News18" width="727"></iframe></p><h4 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #001d42; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">FORGED REFERUNDUM FIGURES</h4><p class="story_para_10" id="10" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Pannun’s referendum rallies in Canada were complete failures, said local sources, adding the numbers being given out, alleging public support for Khalistan, too, are fake.</p><p class="story_para_11" id="11" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ALSO READ | <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/canadas-referendum-rally-sees-low-voter-turnout-amid-nijjar-row-with-india-8639579.html" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Canada’s Referendum Rally Sees Low Voter Turnout Amid Nijjar Row with India</a></strong></p><p class="story_para_12" id="12" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">“In the September 10 poll, the SFJ claimed they got 1.35 lakh votes, but in reality only 2,398 people came out to vote. In case of the October 29 poll too, contrary to the claims of 2 lakh voters, only 2,000 voters, mostly students and old set of supporters, voted," said local sources.</p><p class="story_para_13" id="13" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">After looking at the response, the SFJ wants to conduct one more referendum.</p><p class="story_para_14" id="14" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="article_embeddedVideo" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 640px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" class=" lazyloaded" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xoQgnQnmm7c" frameborder="0" height="360" id="iframe-iframe-2" style="border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 640px;" width="100%"></iframe></div></div></div><p></p><h4 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #001d42; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">WHO IS PANNUN? WHAT INTEL SOURCES SAY</h4><ul class="listOncontentArticleUL" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; counter-reset: my-counter 0; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px; width: 835px;"><li style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(162, 162, 162); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;">Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is a US citizen who is misusing his access in the UK and Canada.</li><li style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(162, 162, 162); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;">He is responsible for acts of terrorism in multiple countries. These countries are not taking strong action against him, despite India’s repeated requests.</li><li style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(162, 162, 162); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ALSO READ | <a href="https://www.news18.com/india/nijjar-row-khalistani-leader-gurpatwant-singh-pannun-threatens-hindus-in-canada-8584405.html" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Nijjar Row: Khalistani Leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun Threatens Hindus in Canada</a></strong></li><li style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(162, 162, 162); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;">The evidence of money being transferred from the UK and Canada for killing of Hindu Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders has already been placed</li><li style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(162, 162, 162); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;">Pannun and SFJ are known for insulting the Indian flag and have even threatened diplomats in front of local police of all three countries, but has faced no action.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Pannun is named as an accused by the Indian Federal Investigation Agency — National Investigation Agency (NIA) – in multiple cases.</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"></p><p class="story_para_16" id="16" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">“We will take all these issues to international fora because only a handful of people from the community are involved in this, while the majority of Sikhs are happy in India," said intel sources.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.news18.com/india/paks-isi-funds-khalistani-pannun-forged-referendum-figures-to-immigration-racket-intel-sources-decode-strategy-exclusive-8641824.html">https://www.news18.com/india/paks-isi-funds-khalistani-pannun-forged-referendum-figures-to-immigration-racket-intel-sources-decode-strategy-exclusive-8641824.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-43439837046007962522023-10-31T18:06:00.002+05:302023-10-31T18:06:09.616+05:30Paris police open fire on a woman who allegedly made threats in the latest security incident<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">PARIS (AP) — Paris police opened fire Tuesday on a woman suspected of making death threats and speaking in support of terrorism on a train into the French capital, the latest security incident in the country that has been on heightened anti-terror alert since</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><a class="link " data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:a fatal stabbing at a school;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://apnews.com/article/france-school-stabbing-arras-878f42a5df4a873ca7bd80a173cc9097" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">a fatal stabbing at a school</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">on Oct. 13 blamed on an Islamic extremist.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Police fired one shot, hitting and seriously injuring the woman, the Paris prosecutor's office said. It said she was hospitalized for emergency treatment.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">A police investigation was opened into the exact nature of what the woman allegedly said while riding the RER C suburban train into Paris, and witness testimony will be gathered, the prosecutor’s office said.</p><div class="caas-da" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><div id="sda-INARTICLE"></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">It said she is facing potential charges of making death threats, of apologizing for terrorism and of intimidating behavior directed at police.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The woman was dressed in a long robe, known as an abaya, the prosecutor’s office said. Abayas are mainly worn by Muslims.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Another police probe was opened into the shooting, which is automatic when officers use firearms.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Paris police said officers responded after several train passengers phoned the emergency services and reported that a woman was making threats.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Officers lay in wait for the woman at a Metro and suburban train station in eastern Paris that serves the François Mitterrand national library, the prosecutor’s office said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The shot was fired after she refused to obey police orders, it said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The train station was evacuated.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">In the Oct. 13 school attack, French-language teacher <a class="link " data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Dominique Bernard;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://apnews.com/article/france-school-attack-funeral-macron-24544289bc37382817c3ff67b11681e5" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Dominique Bernard</a> was stabbed to death and three other people were wounded.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The alleged attacker had been under police surveillance on suspicion of Islamic radicalization. French anti-terror investigators said <a class="link " data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:the suspect declared allegiance;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://apnews.com/article/france-islamic-state-school-attack-paris-1accebb8701a125dbd896a98d6b0a85f" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">the suspect declared allegiance</a> to the Islamic State group before the assault in the northern French town of Arras.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/paris-police-open-fire-woman-094649934.html">https://news.yahoo.com/paris-police-open-fire-woman-094649934.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-58521689219304888662023-10-31T18:04:00.001+05:302023-10-31T18:04:16.458+05:30Khalista: Kangana Ranaut Slams Singer Shubh For 'Celebrating' Indira Gandhi's Killer: 'Shameful Act...'<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Kangana Ranaut slammed controversial singer Shubh for allegedly glorifying former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s killers. On Tuesday, the Tejas actress reacted to a post which claimed Shubh “glorified Indira Gandhi’s killers in London by wearing hoodie with pic and date of her assassination on the map of Punjab”.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><a href="https://www.news18.com/movies/kangana-ranaut-slams-deepa-mehta-israel-gaza-war-comment-8639519.html" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Kangana </a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">condemned Shubh’s actions and called it a “shameful act of cowardice”.</span></p><p class="story_para_1" id="1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">“Celebrating the cowardly killing of an old woman by those who she appointed as her saviours. When you are trusted to protect but you take advantage of the trust and faith and use the same weapons to kill the ones were suppose to protect then it’s a shameful act of cowardice not of bravery,” Kangana wrote. “One must be ashamed of such a cowardly attack on an elderly lady who was disarmed and unaware, a lady who was the chosen leader of a democracy, nothing to glorify here Shubham ji. Shame!!!” the actress added.</p><div class="lazyload-wrapper ad1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><div class="nw18-dynamic-div-8641878_0" data-lazy="ads" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="nw18-dfp-ad" data-adcode="/1039154/NW18_ENG_Desktop/NW18_ENG_Movies/NW18_ENG_Movies_AS/NW18_ENG_MOV_AS_ROS_MID_728" data-adsizes="[[728,90],[1,1]]" id="5d48ada7-ed21-46bc-8626-cd4b8754f3f1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><div class="mimg-vdo" style="-webkit-box-pack: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1719238396114260043" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=cnnnews18&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1719238396114260043&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news18.com%2Fmovies%2Fkangana-ranaut-slams-singer-shubh-for-celebrating-indira-gandhis-killer-shameful-act-of-cowardice-8641878.html&sessionId=4d23d2b01d9e1f6c24e841ad3a535a2736422f7f&siteScreenName=cnnnews18&theme=light&widgetsVersion=01917f4d1d4cb%3A1696883169554&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 1010px; margin: 0px auto !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div><p class="story_para_2" id="2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Interestingly, this comes at a time when Kangana is also working on her upcoming movie Emergency. In the film, Kangana will be playing the role of Indira Gandhi. The actress is not just playing the lead in the movie but is also directing it.</p><p class="story_para_3" id="3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Meanwhile, Shubh often rule headlines in India for his controversial acts. Earlier this year, Shubh was scheduled to perform in Mumbai from September 23 to 25 as part of the Cruise Control 4.0 event, organized aboard the Cordelia Cruise. Besides this, Shubh also had a three-month-long tour in India under which he was supposed to perform in several other cities including New Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. However, his tour was canclled due to his alleged support to separatist Khalistani elements.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.news18.com/movies/kangana-ranaut-slams-singer-shubh-for-celebrating-indira-gandhis-killer-shameful-act-of-cowardice-8641878.html">https://www.news18.com/movies/kangana-ranaut-slams-singer-shubh-for-celebrating-indira-gandhis-killer-shameful-act-of-cowardice-8641878.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-57708281209269664542023-10-31T17:59:00.002+05:302023-10-31T17:59:19.492+05:30Moscow Blames Outside Forces, Ukraine, For Dagestan Riot<p> The mob descended onto Makhachkala airport Sunday evening, barging through barriers and taking over the runway, in an attempt to encircle a plane that had flown in from Israel</p><p class="story_para_0" id="0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Russia on Monday blamed “external interference” and singled out Ukraine for a riot in Muslim-majority Dagestan, which saw crowds of angry men overrunning an airport as they looked for Israeli and Jewish passengers.</p><p class="story_para_1" id="1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">The mob descended onto Makhachkala airport Sunday evening, barging through barriers and taking over the runway, in an attempt to encircle a plane that had flown in from Israel.</p><p class="story_para_2" id="2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Authorities said 60 people had been arrested, suspected of violently storming the airport and seeking to attack Jews.</p><p class="story_para_3" id="3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">The airport reopened Monday, but authorities reported some damage and an airline said its flights to Israel in the coming days were cancelled.</p><p class="story_para_4" id="4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">The Kremlin announced President Vladimir Putin will gather top advisers and spy chiefs later Monday to discuss the “West’s attempts to use the events in the Middle East to split Russian society.”</p><p class="story_para_5" id="5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Moscow also accused Ukraine — which it has been fighting for more than 20 months — of orchestrating the riot.</p><div class="lazyload-wrapper ad1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><div class="nw18-dynamic-div-8640963_0" data-lazy="ads" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="nw18-dfp-ad" data-adcode="/1039154/NW18_ENG_Desktop/NW18_ENG_World/NW18_ENG_World_AS/NW18_ENG_WLD_AS_ROS_MID_728" data-adsizes="[[728,90],[1,1]]" id="36cec9e0-8174-4a80-a39d-c0db67d9bf8f" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><p class="story_para_6" id="6" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Russia regularly blames domestic unrest on external — usually Western — forces.</p><p class="story_para_7" id="7" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">“Yesterday’s events at Makhachkala airport are, to a large extent, the result of external interference,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.</p><p class="story_para_8" id="8" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">“Against the backdrop of TV footage showing the horrors of what is happening in the Gaza Strip — the deaths of people, children, old people, it is very easy for enemies to take advantage of and provoke the situation,” Peskov told reporters on Monday.</p><p class="story_para_9" id="9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Russia’s foreign ministry later singled out Kyiv.</p><p class="story_para_10" id="10" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">“The criminal Kyiv regime played a direct and key role in carrying out the latest destructive act,” Russia’s foreign affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.</p><p class="story_para_11" id="11" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">There was no immediate reaction from Kyiv to the allegations and Ukraine’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to an AFP request to comment.</p><p class="story_para_12" id="12" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">– Sow discord :</strong></p><p class="story_para_13" id="13" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Russia’s Orthodox leader Patriarch Kirill also saw outside interference, condemning the violence as a bid to “sow discord” between Russia’s Jews and Muslims.</p><div id="taboola-mid-article-thumbnails" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><p class="story_para_14" id="14" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">“I have no doubt that forces who provoked this incident will stop at nothing to cause disorder in our country,” the powerful cleric and Kremlin ally said.</p><p class="story_para_15" id="15" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">The same day of the airport riot, Russian state media reported that a Jewish centre in another North Caucasus region — Kabardino-Balkaria — was set on fire.</p><p class="story_para_16" id="16" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">The mountainous North Caucasus has had a Jewish community for centuries.</p><p class="story_para_17" id="17" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">The day after the riot, AFP saw a police car with several officers outside Makhachkala’s synagogue.</p><p class="story_para_18" id="18" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">The violence also prompted Israel to call on Russia to protect its citizens and Jews.</p><p class="story_para_19" id="19" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Outside a Moscow synagogue, people were shaken but unsurprised by the events, given rising global tensions over the conflict between Israel and Hamas.</p><p class="story_para_20" id="20" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">“Political events should not set fire to our common home,” Ariel Razbegayev, the 37-year-old director of the Moscow Choral Synagogue, told AFP.</p><p class="story_para_21" id="21" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Prominent figures in Dagestan have spoken in support of Palestine and against Israel since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.</p><div class="lazyload-wrapper ad1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><div class="nw18-dynamic-div-8640963_2" data-lazy="ads" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="nw18-dfp-ad" data-adcode="/1039154/NW18_ENG_Desktop/NW18_ENG_World/NW18_ENG_World_AS/NW18_ENG_WRLD_AS_ROS_BTF_728" data-adsizes="[[728,90],[1,1]]" id="a57ed40c-d438-4fef-9540-ffd89421c4c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><p class="story_para_22" id="22" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">– Stab in the back :</strong></p><p class="story_para_23" id="23" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Rumours spread on Sunday that a Telegram channel owned by a former Russian lawmaker who now lives in Ukraine, Ilya Ponomarev, was behind the protests.</p><p class="story_para_24" id="24" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">He has previously provided financial support to the Telegram channel called Utro Dagestan (Dagestan Morning) which called for protests at the airport on Sunday, independent media had reported.</p><p class="story_para_25" id="25" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Russia’s foreign ministry said Kyiv had used Ponomarev — granted Ukrainian citizenship in 2019 — to orchestrate the protests, accusing its enemy of “information-sabotage.”</p><p class="story_para_26" id="26" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Ponomarev’s spokesperson has not responded to AFP requests for comment.</p><p class="story_para_27" id="27" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">The governor of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, was also quick to find a Ukrainian trace.</p><p class="story_para_28" id="28" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">He said the riots were instigated by social media posts from Utro Dagestan, run by “traitors” working from Ukraine.</p><p class="story_para_29" id="29" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">He called the riot a “stab in the back” of Dagestani soldiers fighting in Ukraine.</p><p class="story_para_30" id="30" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">According to independent reports, Dagestan has sent proportionately more men to fight in Ukraine than many ethnic Russian regions.</p><div class="lazyload-wrapper ad1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><div class="nw18-dynamic-div-8640963_3" data-lazy="ads" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="nw18-dfp-ad" data-adcode="/1039154/NW18_ENG_Desktop/NW18_ENG_World/NW18_ENG_World_AS/NW18_ENG_WRLD_AS_ROS_BTF_728" data-adsizes="[[728,90],[1,1]]" id="176b02e3-1404-4c37-b6fb-f20b390a8f27" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><p class="story_para_31" id="31" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">He called on his people not to succumb to “provocations” over events in Israel and Gaza</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/moscow-blames-outside-forces-ukraine-for-dagestan-riot-8640963.html">https://www.news18.com/world/moscow-blames-outside-forces-ukraine-for-dagestan-riot-8640963.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-2656368006527346352023-10-31T16:00:00.001+05:302023-10-31T18:02:27.645+05:30'Phone Hacking' Row: Indian IT Minister Accuses Oppn of Doing 'Destructive Politics'; Apple Issues Statement<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif;">Expressing “concerns” over the snooping claims made by some opposition leaders, the central government on Tuesday ordered an investigation and asked tech giant Apple to join the investigation with real, accurate information on the “alleged state-sponsored attacks”.</span></p><p class="story_para_1" id="1" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Meanwhile, Apple issued a statement saying that it does not attribute the threat notifications to any specific state-sponsored attacker. This came as several Opposition MPs claimed to have received messages from Apple warning them of “state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise” their iPhones.</p><h4 style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 1.3rem; max-width: 100%;">Targeted By State-sponsored Attackers: Oppn</h4><p class="story_para_2" id="2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">MPs including including Congress’ Shashi Tharoor, Trinamool Congress’ Mahua Moitra, and Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha shared the screenshot of the message received on their phones, which read “Apple believes you are being targeted by state-sponsored attackers who are trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID.”</p><p class="story_para_3" id="3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“These attackers are likely targeting you individually because of who you are or what you do. If your device is compromised by a state-sponsored attacker, they may be able to remotely access your sensitive data, communications, or even the camera and microphone. While it’s possible this is a false alarm, please take this warning seriously,” the message read further.</p><nonfly adunit="NW18_ENG_Desktop/NW18_ENG_Politics/NW18_ENG_Politics_AS/NW18_ENG_POL_AS_ROS_MID_728" class="article_mad" id="new_ad_0" slotid="nw18-dynamic-div-8641617_0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; max-width: 100%;"></nonfly><div class="mimg-vdo" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; max-width: 100%;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style="border-inline-start: 3px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); color: var(--quote-text-color); margin-inline: 2px 6px; max-width: 100%; padding-inline-start: 16px;"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" style="line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Opposition leaders TMC’s Mahua Moitra, Shiv Sena’s (UBT) Priyanka Chaturvedi and Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Pawan Khera say they have received warnings from their phone manufacturer about “state-sponsored attackers trying to compromise their phone” <a href="https://t.co/ecQcIenHOT" rel="nofollow" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">pic.twitter.com/ecQcIenHOT</a>— ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1719231840266158346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">October 31, 2023</a></p></blockquote></div><p class="story_para_4" id="4" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Several other leaders, including CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Shiv Sena’s (UBT) Priyanka Chaturvedi, Congress leaders Pawan Khera, Rahul Gandhi, KC Venugopal, Supriya Shinatre, Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav and AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi also claimed to have received the warning message.</p><p class="story_para_5" id="5" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed that people in his office, several party and other opposition leaders have been sent a warning by Apple of state-sponsored attackers targeting their phone, and alleged that as soon as the Adani issue is touched, probe agencies and snooping are deployed. He also alleged that the government was indulging in “distraction politics” on the Adani issue.</p><p class="story_para_6" id="6" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">During a press conference, Gandhi also showed a copy of the warning e-mail received by several opposition leaders from Apple phone manufacturer about “state-sponsored attackers trying to compromise” their phone.</p><h4 style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 1.3rem; max-width: 100%;">Alert Received In 150 Countries</h4><p class="story_para_7" id="7" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Apple’s statement suggests that since the time they started sending threat notifications, accounts in 150 countries have received the same. Apple categorically has not said whether these notifications across the world are being sent at the same time as users in India.</p><h4 style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 1.3rem; max-width: 100%;">What Apple Said In The Statement</h4><p class="story_para_8" id="8" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">After the Opposition’s snooping charges, the iPhone manufacture issued a statement saying, “Apple does not attribute the threat notifications to any specific state-sponsored attacker.”</p><p class="story_para_9" id="9" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“State-sponsored attackers are very well-funded and sophisticated, and their attacks evolve over time. Detecting such attacks relies on threat intelligence signals that are often imperfect and incomplete. It’s possible that some Apple threat notifications may be false alarms, or that some attacks are not detected. We are unable to provide information about what causes us to issue threat notifications, as that may help state-sponsored attackers adapt their behavior to evade detection,” it added.</p><h4 style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 1.3rem; max-width: 100%;">Govt Orders Probe, Says Apple’s Advisory in 150 Countries</h4><p class="story_para_10" id="10" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Speaking on the issue, Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said, “The government is concerned about this issue and it will go to the bottom of it. There are some compulsive critics in the country. These people can’t see the development of the country because when their family was in power they only thought about themselves. Apple has issued this advisory in 150 countries…”</p><nonfly adunit="NW18_ENG_Desktop/NW18_ENG_Politics/NW18_ENG_Politics_AS/NW18_ENG_POL_AS_ROS_BTF_728" class="article_mad" id="new_ad_2" slotid="nw18-dynamic-div-8641617_2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; max-width: 100%;"></nonfly><p class="story_para_11" id="11" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“From the mail sent by from Apple, it can be understood that they have no clear information, they have sent alerts on the basis of an estimate. This is vague. Apple has released a clarification that the allegations by compulsive critics are not true. Such advisories have been sent to people in 150 countries,” he said.</p><div class="mimg-vdo" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; max-width: 100%;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style="border-inline-start: 3px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); color: var(--quote-text-color); margin-inline: 2px 6px; max-width: 100%; padding-inline-start: 16px;"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" style="line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WATCH?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">#WATCH</a> | On multiple opposition leaders allege ‘hacking’ of their Apple devices, Union Minister for Communications, Electronics & IT Ashwini Vaishnaw says “From the mail sent by from Apple, it can be understood that they have no clear information, they have sent alerts on the… <a href="https://t.co/hSxOJicbwV" rel="nofollow" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">pic.twitter.com/hSxOJicbwV</a>— ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1719283106971324586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">October 31, 2023</a></p></blockquote></div><p class="story_para_12" id="12" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Slamming the opposition leader, the Union Minister said whenever these compulsive critics do not have any major issue, the only thing they say is surveillance.</p><p class="story_para_13" id="13" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The people who cannot see the growth of the country are doing destructive politics, he said.</p><p class="story_para_14" id="14" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“They tried this a few years back as well, we conducted a proper investigation, and the matter was supervised by the judiciary also but nothing came out of that including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who said that her two children’s phones were hacked but nothing of that sort happened. This is a falsehood that some compulsive critics are trying to spread…,” he said.</p><nonfly adunit="NW18_ENG_Desktop/NW18_ENG_Politics/NW18_ENG_Politics_AS/NW18_ENG_POL_AS_ROS_BTF_728" class="article_mad" id="new_ad_3" slotid="nw18-dynamic-div-8641617_3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; max-width: 100%;"></nonfly><h4 style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 1.3rem; max-width: 100%;">File An FIR: BJP To Oppn MPs</h4><p class="story_para_15" id="15" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has dismissed the Opposition’s snooping changes and said it is for Apple to clarify the alerts it has sent to several people, including opposition leaders, about “state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise” their iPhones.</p><p class="story_para_16" id="16" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Party leader and former Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters that instead of levelling allegations against the government, these leaders should take up the matter with Apple and file FIRs. He, however, cited his experience to claim that no telephone company does something like this and goes to CERT-In, an emergency response team, first to look into the matter.</p><videocarousel style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; max-width: 100%;"></videocarousel><p class="story_para_17" id="17" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Asked about the opposition leaders’ charge, Prasad shot back, “It is for Apple to clarify. They should file an FIR if they have any problem. Who is stopping them?”</p><p class="story_para_18" id="18" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">He recalled the controversy over the alleged use of Pegasus malware to hack into the phones of certain people, including opposition leaders, and said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had refused to deposit his iPhone before a committee appointed by the Supreme Court to look into the matter.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.news18.com/politics/apple-alert-snooping-allegation-mahua-moitra-priyanka-chaturvedi-shashi-tharoor-opposition-phone-attack-8641617.html">https://www.news18.com/politics/apple-alert-snooping-allegation-mahua-moitra-priyanka-chaturvedi-shashi-tharoor-opposition-phone-attack-8641617.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-15954245552611179442023-10-31T12:00:00.001+05:302023-10-31T18:08:39.110+05:30Shani Louk, 23-year-old kidnapped by Hamas from music festival, declared dead, Israel says<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif;">A 23-year-old German-Israeli woman who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival by Hamas militants on October 7 has been declared dead, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“We are devastated to share that the body of 23 year old German-Israeli Shani (Louk) was found and identified,” the ministry posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">A source involved with her identification told CNN Louk’s death was announced after forensic examiners found a bone fragment from her skull.</p><figure class="caas-figure" style="background-color: white; color: var(--quote-text-color); font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; margin: 1.4rem 0px; max-width: 100%;"><div class="caption-wrapper caption-aligned-with-image" style="max-width: 100%;"><figcaption class="caption-collapse" style="margin-top: 0.8rem; max-width: 100%;">Shani Louk in a post from her Instagram. Music festival goers heard rockets, then Gaza militants fired on them and took hostages. - Shani Louk/Instagram</figcaption></div></figure><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The bone fragment was from the petrous part of the temporal bone, which is at the base of the skull, normally near the carotid artery, a major blood vessel that provides blood to the brain. A DNA test concluded the fragment belonged to Louk.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“She was a beautiful, lively person,” Ricarda Louk, Shani’s mother, told CNN Tuesday, a day after her death was confirmed. “She just enjoyed laughing, and experiencing life, and so it was just cut too short.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;"><a class="link " data-ylk="slk:Louk;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://cnn.com/videos/world/2023/10/09/israel-music-festival-shani-louk-mother-vpx.cnn?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo" rel="nofollow noopener" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" target="_blank">Louk</a> was attending the <a class="link " data-ylk="slk:festival in southern Israel;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/07/middleeast/israel-gaza-fighting-hamas-attack-music-festival-intl-hnk/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo" rel="nofollow noopener" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" target="_blank">festival in southern Israel</a> on October 7 when Hamas breached the border between Gaza and Israel.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Louk was kidnapped at the festival and “tortured and paraded around Gaza by Hamas terrorists,” the foreign ministry statement said, adding that she “experienced unfathomable horrors.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The bone fragment, combined with the circumstances surrounding the October 7 attack and video that appeared to show Louk unconscious on the back of a Hamas truck, led investigators to conclude these were her remains.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Militants blocked off the road to the festival from the north and the south during their October 7 attack, before swarming the sprawling site on foot, videos from the site showed.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">They then encircled the crowds on three sides, gunning them down and forcing them to flee over fields to the east.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Louk’s mother told CNN earlier this month that she last spoke to her daughter after hearing rockets and alarms sounding in southern Israel, calling to see if she’d made it to a secure location. Shani told her mother she was at the festival with few places to hide.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“She was going to her car and they had military people standing by the cars and were shooting so people couldn’t reach their cars, even to go away. And that’s when they took her,” Ricarda told CNN.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">On Tuesday, Louk’s mother said the festival had turned from “a celebration to a nightmare.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Describing her ordeal since her daughter’s abduction, Ricarda Louk added: After three weeks that you have no idea where your daughter is, what they’re doing to her… You don’t know if she’s alive or not, or injured, nothing. It’s just like you’re in a vacuum for three weeks, just hoping to get some signs.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“And then suddenly you get the worst news,” she said. “We always had hopes. We were optimistic that she would come back.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">More than 260 bodies were found at the Nova festival site itself, according to Israeli rescue service Zaka but, based on <a class="link " data-ylk="slk:CNN’s analysis;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://cnn.com/interactive/2023/10/middleeast/hamas-music-festival-attack-investigation-cmd-intl/?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo" rel="nofollow noopener" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" target="_blank">CNN’s analysis</a>, the total death toll could be even higher.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The body of Louk, a dual Israeli-German citizen, was seen on video seemingly unconscious on the back of a Hamas truck after the music festival attack.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“After the video, you saw that, it’s impossible to see if she’s alive or dead. It was very scary, and we were very worried,” Louk’s mother told CNN in the days after the rampage.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Her mother added that she had sought support from the German government in helping free her daughter. “I don’t understand really how such a brutal thing can just happen in the middle of the day and it was a complete surprise,” Louk said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">A number of hostages were also taken back to Gaza. The latest figure of hostages believed to be held by Hamas in the enclave is up to 239, Israeli military spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Sunday.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">An Israeli soldier, Pvt. Ori Megidish, who had been kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 was freed during ground operations in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Monday.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“It indeed was a Special Operation that was targeted in specifically getting her out,” IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, adding that the IDF’s initial announcement – which said the soldier was “released” – was a translation error.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Based on intelligence” the Israeli special forces went into northern Gaza knowing her whereabouts and rescued her, Conricus said. “They were in there for a job,” he said, adding that Megidish is “well mentally and physically,” and has been reunited with her family.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Four hostages had previously been released – an American woman and her daughter, and later an 85-year-old Israeli woman and her 79-year-old friend.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under increasing pressure from the families of hostages for a “comprehensive deal” to ensure their release. These calls are becoming more urgent amid concerns for what Israel’s expanding ground operations could mean for the safety of hostages trapped in Gaza.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Netanyahu met with families of the hostages in Tel Aviv on Saturday, where they demanded answers on the security of their loved ones and pushed him to secure the hostages’ freedom, as Israel’s offensive escalated.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“We spoke bluntly and made it clear to the prime minister in no uncertain terms that a comprehensive deal based on the ‘everyone for everyone’ principle is a deal the families would consider, and has the support of all of Israel,” Meirav Leshem Gonen, mother of Romi Gonen, who was <a class="link " data-ylk="slk:kidnapped from the festival;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/15/middleeast/israel-hostages-families-hnk-intl-cmd/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo" rel="nofollow noopener" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" target="_blank">kidnapped from the festival</a>, said on behalf of the families in a news conference following the meeting.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">An “everyone for everyone” deal would involve the release of the hostages in exchange for Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons, which the nongovernmental organization Palestinian Prisoners Club estimates to be 6,630 people.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">On Monday, Hamas released a short video showing three women who are believed to be captives held by the Palestinian militant group.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The video shows them seated in plastic chairs facing the camera, while the woman in the middle addresses Netanyahu directly with increasing fury. She makes reference to a press conference by families of the hostages “yesterday,” suggesting it was filmed on Monday.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The women do not show visible signs of physical mistreatment, but CNN is unable to verify anything about their circumstances or well-being.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">CNN’s Jake Tapper, Anna Chernova, Yong Xiong and Christian Edwards contributed reporting.</p><div><br /></div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/shani-louk-23-old-kidnapped-114502455.html">https://www.yahoo.com/news/shani-louk-23-old-kidnapped-114502455.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-47344238694314609712023-10-31T09:30:00.001+05:302023-10-31T18:00:58.281+05:30Hostages in video released by Hamas blame Netanyahu for failing to protect them<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif;">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned as "cruel psychological propaganda" a video released on Monday (local time) by Hamas that shows three hostages seized by the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/israel-hamas-war-latest-developments-top-news-hamas-terrorists-gaza-strip-lebanon-hezbollah-netanyahu-2455871-2023-10-31" style="font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" target="_self">terror group on October 7.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The video shows three women -- identified by Netanyahu as Yelena Trupanob, Danielle Aloni and Rimon Kirsht -- sitting side by side against a bare wall, with Aloni addressing an angry message to the Prime Minister.</p><article style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; hyphens: auto; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 4px;"></article><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Accusing Netanyahu of failing to protect Israeli citizens during the deadly Hamas attack and failing to get them back home, she called for an agreement to secure their release in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">"You were supposed to free all of us. You committed to free us all. But instead, we are carrying your political, security, military and diplomatic failure," she said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;"><a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-hamas-attack-israel-army-netanyahu-joe-biden-ground-assault-2455879-2023-10-31" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" target="_self"><em style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES OF THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR HERE</strong></em></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">In a statement, Netanyahu repeated a pledge to make every effort to bring the hostages home.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">"Abducted by Hamas, which is committing war crimes, I embrace you. Our hearts are with you and with the other captives. We are doing everything to bring home all the captives and the missing," he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Aloni's father, Ramos Aloni, said his heart almost stopped when he saw his daughter in the video, feeling shocked but also relieved that she was alive.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">"Until today, we did not know any confirmed information about her," he told reporters who gathered in Tel Aviv.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Aloni is in captivity along with five others from his family, including three-year-old twin grandchildren, he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Avital Kirscht, whose daughter Rimon sat quietly in the video beside Aloni, said they would do everything to bring her home and demanded the hostages receive urgent medical care.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">"I don't wish any mother to have to go through what we have been going through for the past 24 days," she said. "I saw the video today and I am worried. Rimon was without eyeglasses. For 24 days, she couldn't see. She needs glasses."</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The short video is the second hostage message issued by Hamas, following an earlier clip of 21-year-old Franco-Israeli woman Mia Schem that was released on October 17.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">According to Israeli authorities, at least 239 hostages, both Israeli and foreign, were taken captive by Hamas gunmen during the attack, which killed at least 1,400 people.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The presence of the hostages in Gaza has complicated the <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-ground-operations-gaza-strip-hamas-phone-internet-down-2454744-2023-10-28" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" target="_self">ground operation in the enclave</a> begun by Israeli forces last week, following an intense campaign of airstrikes that Palestinian authorities say has killed more than 8,000 people.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Four hostages have been released so far, but efforts to secure additional releases through back-channel efforts coordinated by Qatar appear to have been put on hold following the start of the ground operation.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Israeli forces operating in Gaza also <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/israel-hamas-war-soldier-freed-hamas-ground-operations-2455844-2023-10-31" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" target="_self">freed a captive soldier,</a> authorities said on Monday.</p><div class="authors__container" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; max-width: 100%;"><div class="authors__by" style="max-width: 100%;"></div></div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/israel-hamas-war-updates-hostage-video-gaza-strip-benjamin-netanyahu-ground-offensive-2455877-2023-10-31">https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/israel-hamas-war-updates-hostage-video-gaza-strip-benjamin-netanyahu-ground-offensive-2455877-2023-10-31</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-74622706317977355672023-10-31T01:37:00.006+05:302023-10-31T01:37:37.976+05:30 King Charles told by Kenya rights body: Publicly apologise for colonial abuse<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">King Charles III must offer an "unequivocal public apology" for abuses during colonial rule, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) said, two days before the British monarch visit to the country. King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla are set to embark on a four-day trip to the East African nation, his first visit as the king to a Commonwealth member.</span></p><figure style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box;"><source alt="A Kenyan reads the Daily Nation newspaper with a portrait of Britain's King Charles III and the headline 'The Dark Past' in Nairobi.(AP)" media="(max-width:767px)" srcset="https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2023/10/29/400x225/Kenya-Britan-King-Charles-1_1698592089539_1698592114215.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box;" title="A Kenyan reads the Daily Nation newspaper with a portrait of Britain's King Charles III and the headline 'The Dark Past' in Nairobi.(AP)"></source><img alt="A Kenyan reads the Daily Nation newspaper with a portrait of Britain's King Charles III and the headline 'The Dark Past' in Nairobi.(AP)" height="298" src="https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2023/10/29/550x309/Kenya-Britan-King-Charles-1_1698592089539_1698592114215.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.6rem auto 0.4rem; max-width: 100%;" title="A Kenyan reads the Daily Nation newspaper with a portrait of Britain's King Charles III and the headline 'The Dark Past' in Nairobi.(AP)" width="530" /></picture><figcaption dir="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; line-height: 1.667; margin-bottom: 1rem; opacity: 0.8;">A Kenyan reads the Daily Nation newspaper with a portrait of Britain's King Charles III and the headline 'The Dark Past' in Nairobi.(AP)</figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">"We call upon the King on behalf of the British government to issue an unconditional and unequivocal public apology (as opposed to the very cautious, self-preserving and protective statements of regrets) for the brutal and inhuman treatment inflicted on Kenyan citizens," the non-government KHRC said.</p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">We're now on WhatsApp. <a dir="ltr" href="https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va4cwg0DeON0mFeEse2Z?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=whatsappChannel" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Click to join.</a></div><h2 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.417; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read more:<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/benjamin-netanyahu-news-i-was-wrong-netanyahus-rare-apology-with-nod-to-israels-intelligence-bosses-101698580033025.html" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Benjamin Netanyahu's rare apology with nod to Israel's intel bosses: ‘Was wrong’</a></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">King Charles was expected to tackle "the more painful aspects" of the UK's historic relationship with Kenya, according to the Buckingham Palace. "His Majesty will take time during the visit to deepen his understanding of the wrongs suffered in this period by the people of Kenya," the palace said.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The KHRC said that the apology should cover the entire colonial period from 1895 to 1963.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">"We further demand effective reparations for all the atrocities committed to the different groups in the country," it said. This would include the 1952-1960 "Emergency", when colonial authorities clamped down on the Mau Mau guerrilla campaign in which about 10,000 people were killed.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">In Nairobi, King Charles will meet entrepreneurs, young Kenyans and participate in a state banquet. He will also visit a new museum dedicated to Kenya's history and lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Uhuru Gardens. The royal couple will then travel to the coastal city of Mombasa, touring a nature reserve and meeting religious representatives.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The visit comes as Kenya is preparing to celebrate 60 years of independence from Britain.</p><div><br /></div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/royal-family-news-king-charles-told-by-kenya-rights-body-publicly-apologise-for-colonial-abuse-101698585118910.html">https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/royal-family-news-king-charles-told-by-kenya-rights-body-publicly-apologise-for-colonial-abuse-101698585118910.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-9259398571975522242023-10-31T01:34:00.000+05:302023-10-31T01:34:09.622+05:30Police will look into Hamas leader's speech at Malappuram event: Pinarayi Vijayan <p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Kochi: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday said police will look into the incident where a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"> </span><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2023/10/30/hams-leader-khaled-mashal-address-malappuram-police-inquiry.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Hamas leader made a virtual speech</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">at an event organised by an Islamist group in Malappuram recently. He said if something wrong has happened, appropriate action would be taken.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Addressing the media at the Kochi airport, the chief minister alleged that the BJP was aiming at implicating people in false cases for merely expressing support for Palestine, and asserted that it would not be permitted in Kerala. He pointed out that the state and the country have always supported Palestine, and it is only now that the stance has changed at the Centre.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The CM was responding to a query inviting his attention to remarks by BJP chief J P Nadda and Union Minister of State for Electronics Rajeev Chandrasekhar that neither the Left government nor the police intervened to prevent the Hamas leader's address.</p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">RELATED ARTICLES</div><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-inline-start: 1.296rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="A day of terror, says Israeli citizen of Indian origin as she recounts Hamas attack" src="https://img.onmanorama.com/content/dam/mm/en/kerala/top-news/images/2023/10/9/israel-gaza-sq.jpg.transform/300x156/image.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.6rem auto 0.4rem; max-width: 100%;" title="A day of terror, says Israeli citizen of Indian origin as she recounts Hamas attack" /></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.417; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2023/10/29/israel-expands-ground-operation-in-gaza.html" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: small;">Israel expands ground invasions in Gaza; communications partially restored</span></a></h2></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Pinarayi said the address appears to have been a recorded one, and what was said in it has to be examined. "The person referred to as a Palestinian warrior spoke at an event organised by the Solidarity Youth Movement, the youth wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. We need to see what he said. It appears that the speech was a recorded one. We need to understand that issue properly," he said.<br dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />He further said that when Jamaat-e-Islami or any other organisation approaches the police for permission to hold an event, it is not denied.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Referring to Hamas leader Khaled Mashal's virtual participation in a protest programme in Malappuram against Israel's war with the militant outfit, Nadda alleged that he spoke openly about his organisation and that the Left government was a "silent spectator". "What does it mean? You are bringing a bad name to the land of 'God's Own Country' Kerala,” Nadda said while addressing workers of the BJP-led NDA who laid siege to three of the four gates of the Kerala Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram in protest against the alleged misrule of the Left government in the state.</p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Chandrasekhar, at a press conference here, said the Hamas chief was given an opportunity, with no intervention by the Kerala government or police, to address a large gathering of youth and incite them with radicalism.<br dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p>Source: <a href="http://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2023/10/30/cops-will-probe-hamas-leader-address-malappuram-event-pinarayi-vijayan.html">www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2023/10/30/cops-will-probe-hamas-leader-address-malappuram-event-pinarayi-vijayan.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-18966002671068448942023-10-30T21:30:00.001+05:302023-10-31T01:35:21.367+05:30Why an ex-Hamas chief addressing a pro-Palestine rally in Kerala is problematic, dangerous and disturbing<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre had just announced their decision to write a book on Israel. The book later came out as</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"> </span><em dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">O Jerusalem!</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">, and became an instant global bestseller. But as they were halfway through their research for the book, as Lapierre recalls in ‘Introduction’, they received a telegram from King Hussein of Jordan wishing to meet them at his palace in Amman.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">“The King spoke of the Palestinian refugee tragedy. He also confided to us the hope that our book would be truly impartial. A truly impartial book, he believed, could serve the cause of peace,” Lapierre writes. When asked what, to him, was true impartiality, he “shook his head several times and finally raised his arms to the sky in helplessness”.</p><div class="caption" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><span class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ADVERTISEMENT</span></div><video muted="true" src="blob:https://www.firstpost.com/03207df4-fbe9-4478-812d-84badb851cad" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; max-width: 100%;"></video><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Ads by</div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Lapierre told the King that a young Palestinian woman who had worked for the two authors as an interpreter during the three years of their research too had expressed the hope that “we would be objective in our book”. But when Lapierre asked her what it was, according to her, to be ‘objective’, the “eyes of the young woman had suddenly burned with a flash of passion as she had answered: ‘To be objective, Dominique, is to be pro-Arab!’” Hearing this, the King smiled and said, “I trust you.”</p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.417; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vantage: Will America get drawn into an all-out war?</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Today, as West Asia finds itself on the precipice of another war, after Hamas’ genocidal act of October 7, there are people who seem to believe that to be objective is to be pro-Hamas. This has been the crux of the problem in the region. While there’s no denying that the Palestinians have a legitimate demand, this doesn’t make the Israeli right to existence in the region any less credible. In their hurry to corner and condemn Israel, Hamas and Palestine are being clubbed together and all the inconvenient truths surrounding Hamas are brushed aside, deliberately or otherwise, including the fact that it was the Islamist outfit that first pulled the jihadi trigger, pushing Israel into a retaliatory mode.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">This disturbing awareness hit home last Friday when a former Hamas chief virtually addressed a pro-Palestine rally in Kerala’s Malappuram. Inviting a Hamas leader to address a pro-Palestine rally in south India is problematic, dangerous and disturbing on several counts.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">First, it makes the mistake of projecting Hamas and Palestine as synonymous. The fact is the Palestinian demand for a separate state is as legitimate as the need for Israel to seek the dismantling of Hamas’ jihadi infrastructure. A strong advocacy for a Palestinian state doesn’t—and should not—come in the way of Israel’s fight against Hamas and its terror agenda.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">It’s this affliction to the problematic notion—that being objective is being pro-Hamas—which makes one criticise the nuanced Indian position on the West Asian crisis. Those who accuse New Delhi of losing the moral high ground seem to be making the mistake of ignoring the jihadi colour of Hamas but also giving the Palestinian issue a bad name. They fail to understand that when Hamas attacked the innocent Israelis on October 7, Delhi was among the first capitals to stand in solidarity with Tel Aviv, but that has not stopped the Narendra Modi government from supporting the Palestinian statehood demand. India’s longstanding position has been to support the cause of the Palestinian people, while acknowledging the right of Israel to exist and defend itself.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Second, when one gives a platform to a Hamas leader, it invariably legitimises the Islamist outfit’s anti-Semitic agenda. The fact is that on October 7, Hamas chose to specifically target the Jewish people, many of them women and children who had gathered to attend a music festival. This was a dastardly act of terrorism and any outfit indulging in such activities should have no place in a civil, democratic society. In fact, there is a need to consciously and categorically fight the anti-Jewish sentiments that have deeply entrenched themselves in the name of Palestine.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">It was this genocidal mindset that made the Jews suffer for so many centuries across countries—India, in that perspective, had been an outlier to this global anti-Semitic phenomenon, being one rare place where Jews received refuge and respect. Invariably, it is this innate anti-Semitism that conceals itself within the cover of Palestinian plight and aspirations. When one digs deep into this mindset one realises that the real fight is not for the creation of Palestine, but the violent extermination of Israel and Jews.</p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Hamas’ Kerala connection is problematic on another front, too: Islamism knows no national boundaries. It’s dictated by the idea of <em dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ummah</em>, and this explains why people of distant lands and nationalities find emotional connect with issues of West Asia and are not averse to resorting to violent means to ‘express’ themselves. This means that any upsurge in the activity of an Islamist group in, say, West Asia will have an impact on their counterparts in India. The government can ill afford to ignore such forces at play.</p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">To add to it is the fact that jihadi foot soldiers and their patrons have always been religiously and historically alive to their long-term objective, which they see as divinely ordained. (And if one thinks they are any less pragmatic all this while, then one must look at the Islamic world’s relations with China despite the persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.) Lawyer-author J Sai Deepak writes in <em dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box;">India, Bharat and Pakistan</em> how Syed Ahmad Barelvi (1786-1831), “credited with laying the foundations for a pan-India Wahhabi network in a systematic manner”, in 1826, visited Afghanistan and camped at the mausoleum of Mahmud of Ghazni, the plunderer and destroyer of Somnath. If Barelvi, “who lived in the 18th-19th centuries, felt a kinship with Mahmud of Ghazni who lived eight centuries before him”, today’s jihadis find a similar kinship with Barelvi.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">This became obvious in February 2019 when India decided to conduct surgical airstrikes in Balakot—in response to the Pulwama suicide bombing that led to the killing of 40 CRPF jawans. Balakot is today the epicentre of jihadi terror in Pakistan, if not the entire South Asian region. And it’s the hub of terrorism precisely because Barelvi fell in battle against the Sikhs in Balakot on 6 May 1831. India’s Balakot strikes were, thus, not just aimed at destroying the existing terror infrastructure there, but also sending a larger message: That India understands the true nature of jihadi terrorism emanating from Pakistan.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The result was palpable: While Pakistan continues to harbour terrorism, it has become more cautious and circumspect post-Balakot at pushing the jihadi envelope beyond a point. The Kerala incident too needs a similar, categorical Indian reaction: That Hamas is not Palestine and any attempt to club the two would be resisted at all possible levels.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">To be objective is definitely not to be pro-Hamas!</p><div><br /></div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/why-an-ex-hamas-chief-addressing-a-pro-palestine-rally-in-kerala-is-problematic-dangerous-and-disturbing-13318372.html">https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/why-an-ex-hamas-chief-addressing-a-pro-palestine-rally-in-kerala-is-problematic-dangerous-and-disturbing-13318372.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-19782878357948322752023-10-29T17:29:00.008+05:302023-10-29T17:29:51.695+05:30Pakistan failing to combat rising impunity for crimes against journalists: report<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif;">Pakistan has failed to combat rising impunity for crimes against journalists despite legislation for their safety, according to Freedom Network’s Annual Impunity 2023 report released on Sunday.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The report titled “One step forward, two steps back — Pakistan legislates on the safety of journalists, but still fails to protect them” was launched ahead of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, which falls on November 2.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Since the promulgation of safety laws for journalists first by the Sindh government and then the federal government in late 2021, Pakistan continues to record an alarming increase in persecution of journalists, especially by government authorities and state agencies, including kidnapping, physical assaults and serious legal cases against them including on unproven charges of sedition, treason and electronic crimes, in the two-year post-legislation period,” it said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“The Sindh Assembly passed the ‘Sindh Protection of Journalists and Other Media Practitioners Act-2021’ while the National Assembly passed ‘Protection of Journalists and Media Professionals Act-2021’ in the span of few months,” it recalled.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">According to the report, Pakistan was failing to use the important legal instruments to combat rising impunity for crimes against journalists despite passing laws in this regard for two years.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">It highlighted that at least 37.5pc violations — 93 out of total 248 cases in period between August 2021-August 2023 — were recorded in Islamabad alone.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Sindh was the second worst region in Pakistan with 22.5pc of the violations (56 cases), the report said, adding that it was ironic that most attacks against journalists were reported from regions that legislated for their safety.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The report further highlighted that 11 journalists were also killed or lost lives in line of duty during the same period.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Pakistan was ranked 157 out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Border’s World Press Freedom Index in 2021 before the laws were passed,” it said, adding that the country had improved its media freedom rank to 150 due to the two laws in 2023.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“It is very disturbing to see the good work of the two legislatures diluted by not making the laws fully operational to provide protection to journalists,” Iqbal Khattak, Executive Director of Freedom Network, reacted to the report’s findings.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Both the federal and Sindh governments are responsible for effectively dysfunctionalising their own laws and therefore delaying and effectively denying justice to journalists,” he said.</p><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 1.4rem; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a aria-hidden="true" class="heading-permalink" href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1784702/pakistan-failing-to-combat-rising-impunity-for-crimes-against-journalists-report#failure-of-governments" id="failure-of-governments" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" title="Permalink"></a>Failure of governments</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The report went on to say that the federal Protection of Journalists and Media Professionals Act was passed by the National Assembly during PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s tenure.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“In these two years, both the Khan and Sharif governments failed to establish a safety commission mandated by the law which meant that in effect the federal law remained non-operationalised and hence failed to help a single of the 93 journalists in Islamabad that were killed, attacked, injured, threatened or harassed in the two years since its enactment. The two governments also failed to enforce the law,” it said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Highlighting that a similar situation prevailed in Sindh, the report said: “The Sindh Protection of Journalists and Other Media Practitioners Act was passed in June 2021 by the provincial assembly and notified officially in August 2021.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“But the Commission for the Protection of Journalists and other Media Practitioners (CPJMP), proposed by the law, was only notified one year late in December 2022 with respected jurist Rasheed A Razvi appointed its first chairperson.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">It added that the Sindh government failed to provide either an office, staff or formal budget for the commissions’ operations until Aug 2023.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Thereby procedurally hampering its operations and severely restricting the commission’s ability to provide protection, relief, and justice for the growing number of violations against journalists and media entities in Sindh province,” the report noted.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">It stated that the Commission Chairperson Razvi used to come to the aid of several journalists in Sindh “who were either kidnapped or attacked by issuing notices to the provincial authorities, including law enforcement agencies, to either recover or safeguard the journalists”.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“His orders were complied, indicating that if resourced properly, the commission can help reduce impunity of crimes against journalists and media in Sindh,” it added.</p><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 1.4rem; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a aria-hidden="true" class="heading-permalink" href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1784702/pakistan-failing-to-combat-rising-impunity-for-crimes-against-journalists-report#recommendations" id="recommendations" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" title="Permalink"></a>Recommendations</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The report also made three recommendations for the country to benefit from these laws. These include “urgent formation of a safety commission under the federal Protection of Journalists and Media Professionals Act, appropriate and adequate resourcing, including budget, office, and staff for Sindh’s commission, and an enactment of similar journalists’ safety laws by Balochistan, KP, and Punjab after legislative assemblies are elected in these provinces” following the 2024 provincial elections.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Pakistan has a golden opportunity to become one of the strongest global performers in combating impunity for crimes against journalists with presence now on its statute books of the two specialist journalists’ safety legislations,” the report said. “But for this promise to materialise, these three recommendations must be implemented on priority.”</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1784702/pakistan-failing-to-combat-rising-impunity-for-crimes-against-journalists-report">https://www.dawn.com/news/1784702/pakistan-failing-to-combat-rising-impunity-for-crimes-against-journalists-report</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-59414745583620152422023-10-29T17:24:00.004+05:302023-10-29T17:24:36.140+05:30Serial Blasts At Prayer Meeting In Kerala, 48-Year-Old Suspect Surrenders<h2 class="sp-descp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kerala Blasts: People who were present at the convention centre told the media that the first blast occurred in the middle of a prayer.</span></h2><div><span class="place_cont" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-weight: bolder;">New Delhi: </span><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; display: inline; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">One woman was killed and 45 were injured in a <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/kerala-news/kerala-blast-3-blasts-minutes-after-kerala-prayer-meet-began-what-we-know-so-far-4524636" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms linear 0ms;">series of blasts at a convention centre</a> in Kerala's Kalamassery today, sending shockwaves across the country. At least three blasts were reported within minutes after the prayer meeting started.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 1.5rem;">The incident took place during a Jehovah's Witnesses convention at the centre in Kalamassery, about 10 kilometres from Kochi. Hours after the blasts, a 48-year-old man claimed responsibility and has surrendered. The suspect, Dominic Martin, has claimed that he belongs to the same Christian denomination that organised the prayer meet.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">The meet today was attended by nearly 2,000 people. People who were present at the convention centre told the media that the first blast occurred in the middle of a prayer. Officials said explosives had been placed inside a tiffin box.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><div id="v-ndtv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Kalamassery MP Hibi Eden said that the first explosion occurred in the centre of the hall. He added that the group had an evacuation plan which kicked into action immediately after the first blast.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">"Luckily, they had an evacuation plan. Every time the group meets, they discuss and prepare an evacuation plan. But there was a lot of smoke, which led to a stampede," Mr Eden told NDTV.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Police said 45 injured persons were undergoing treatment in various hospitals in the district, of which 18 people are in the ICU. Five people injured in the blast are in a critical condition.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.ndtv.com/kerala-news/kerala-kalamassery-blasts-unfortunate-and-serious-kerala-chief-minister-pinarayi-vijayan-on-serial-blasts-4524656" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms linear 0ms;">Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan</a> termed the blasts as 'unfortunate' and said that the situation is being viewed seriously. All senior police officials in the state are on their way to the blast site.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">The blasts will now be probed by the National Investigation Agency, which specialises in counter-terrorism operations. The agency's forensic team has already reached the spot and is collecting evidence.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Visuals of the incident showed fire rescue and police personnel in large numbers evacuating people from the site, which has now been cordoned off.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Disturbing videos from inside the convention centre showed multiple fires inside the hall as people and children were heard screaming in fear.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">The video also showed some people trying to quell the fires as the hall was littered with scattered and damaged chairs.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Hundreds of people were seen outside the convention centre post the explosion</p></div><p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Kerala Health Minister Veena George has directed all healthcare workers to report for duty in the wake of the blast.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Security has been tightened in the national capital and Mumbai following the serial blasts</span></p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/kerala-news/kerala-blast-jehovah-witness-prayer-meet-series-of-blasts-at-prayer-meet-in-kerala-killed-injured-4524571">https://www.ndtv.com/kerala-news/kerala-blast-jehovah-witness-prayer-meet-series-of-blasts-at-prayer-meet-in-kerala-killed-injured-4524571</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-8838664088396472452023-10-29T17:23:00.000+05:302023-10-29T17:23:05.672+05:302 dead, 18 injured in Florida street shooting, hundreds of people were nearby<p> </p><h2 class="sortDec" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Florida Shooting: The fight occurred in an area with several bars and clubs and there were large numbers of late night revelers in the area at the time.</span></h2><div><div class="storyParagraphFigure" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #424242; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 8px;">A fight between two groups turned deadly in Florida when a shooting in a city street resulted in two deaths and 18 people hospitalized early Sunday morning, police said.</p><figure class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style-type: none; margin: 5px 0px 15px; order: -1; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); display: block; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 298.375px; position: relative;"><picture style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><source alt="Florida Shooting: One suspect turned himself in to police, and investigators believe there were at least two shooters involved.(Representational)" media="(max-width:767px)" srcset="https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2023/10/29/400x225/Accident-or-crime-scene-cordon-tape--police-line-d_1694183727052_1698579532325.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;" title="Florida Shooting: One suspect turned himself in to police, and investigators believe there were at least two shooters involved.(Representational)"></source><img alt="Florida Shooting: One suspect turned himself in to police, and investigators believe there were at least two shooters involved.(Representational)" src="https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2023/10/29/550x309/Accident-or-crime-scene-cordon-tape--police-line-d_1694183727052_1698579532325.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 4px; display: block; left: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 530px;" title="Florida Shooting: One suspect turned himself in to police, and investigators believe there were at least two shooters involved.(Representational)" /></picture></span><figcaption style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #424242; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 6px 0px 0px;">Florida Shooting: One suspect turned himself in to police, and investigators believe there were at least two shooters involved.(Representational)</figcaption></figure></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Officers responded to the shooting in Tampa just before 3 a.m. on the 1600 block of East 7th Avenue in the Ybor City area, Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw said during a press conference at the scene.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">The fight occurred in an area with several bars and clubs and there were large numbers of late night revelers in the area at the time, Bercaw said. Police were not immediately sure if the people involved in the fight were inside any of the bars before the shooting.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">“It was a disturbance or a fight between two groups. And in this fight between two groups we had hundreds of innocent people involved that were in the way,” Bercaw said.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">He did not provide details of the injuries suffered by the victims taken to area hospitals.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">One suspect turned himself in to police, and investigators believe there were at least two shooters involved, Bercaw said.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Police are still investigating the reason for the fight between the two groups, he said.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Officers were at the scene at the time of the shooting but none were injured, Bercaw said.</p><div class="followHT" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></div></div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/2-dead-18-injured-in-florida-street-shooting-hundreds-of-people-were-nearby-101698579091872.html">https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/2-dead-18-injured-in-florida-street-shooting-hundreds-of-people-were-nearby-101698579091872.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-75147349193945572162023-10-29T17:21:00.002+05:302023-10-29T17:21:25.848+05:30‘Not Hospital, Al-Shifa is Hamas Hideout & HQ in Gaza’: Israel Releases ‘Terrorists’ Confessions’ | Exclusive<p> According to a video of interrogation of "Hamas terrorists" released by Israel Security Agency Shin Bet, accessed exclusively by News18, "The Shifa hospital has been made with many considerations as Hamas knew that medical places won’t be attacked by the enemy. Equipment, explosives and other material has been kept there."</p><p class="story_para_0" id="0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Hamas is using hospitals in Gaza as covers and have turned them into ammunition depots, according to a video of interrogation of “Hamas terrorists" released by <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/israel-palestine-war-hamas-gaza-attack-benjamin-netanyahu-un-us-iran-syria-world-news-8636864.html" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Israel Security Agency</a> Shin Bet, accessed exclusively by News18.</p><p class="story_para_1" id="1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ALSO READ | Israel-Hamas War LIVE Updates <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-palestine-gaza-29-10-2023-livenews-8638506.html" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">HERE</a></strong></p><p class="story_para_2" id="2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">The Israeli military has claimed that those featuring in the video released on Saturday are Hamas terrorists, who participated in the<a href="https://www.news18.com/world/un-security-council-to-meet-again-as-israel-hamas-war-rages-on-8638721.html" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> October 7 attack</a> on Israel.</p><p class="story_para_3" id="3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">“Most of the tunnels are hidden in hospitals. There are multiple underground levels. Al-Shifa Hospital is not small, it is a big place that can be used to hide things," a man is seen saying. “The Al-Shifa hospital has been made with many considerations as we knew that medical places won’t be attacked by the enemy. We keep equipment, explosives and other material in Shifa hospital," he adds.</p><p class="story_para_4" id="4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">According to the man, Hamas is only fuelling their vehicles and not allowing anyone to even go to Egypt.</p><div class="lazyload-wrapper ad1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><div class="nw18-dynamic-div-8638785_0" data-lazy="ads" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="nw18-dfp-ad" data-adcode="/1039154/NW18_ENG_Desktop/NW18_ENG_World/NW18_ENG_World_AS/NW18_ENG_WLD_AS_ROS_MID_728" data-adsizes="[[728,90],[1,1]]" id="c233151f-0b4b-48b2-81ef-9e2ed8be452e" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><p class="story_para_5" id="5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="article_embeddedVideo" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 640px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" class=" lazyloaded" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w_vLUfBRQtg" frameborder="0" height="360" id="iframe-iframe-0" style="border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 640px;" width="100%"></iframe></div></div></div><p></p><h4 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #001d42; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">AIRSTRIKE ON SUNDAY</h4><p class="story_para_6" id="6" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes early Sunday near the Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza.</p><p class="story_para_7" id="7" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><a href="https://www.news18.com/world/indias-stance-on-unga-resolution-on-israel-hamas-war-top-5-takeaways-8637486.html" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The strikes</a> came a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a “second stage" in Israel’s war on Hamas, three weeks after Hamas launched a brutal incursion into Israel October 7. Tanks and infantry pushed into Gaza over the weekend in what officials described as a widening ground offensive as Israel pounded the territory from air, land and sea.</p><div class="mimg-vdo" style="-webkit-box-pack: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 550px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1718010359397634252" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=cnnnews18&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1718010359397634252&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news18.com%2Fworld%2Fnot-hospital-al-shifa-is-hamas-hideout-hq-in-gaza-israel-releases-video-of-terrorists-exclusive-8638785.html&sessionId=534643f70243ee32eb4c1df313dfa7a2c8df7810&siteScreenName=cnnnews18&theme=light&widgetsVersion=01917f4d1d4cb%3A1696883169554&width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 631px; margin: 0px auto !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div><p class="story_para_8" id="8" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">The bombardment — described by Gaza residents as the most intense of the war — knocked out most communications in the territory late Friday, largely cutting off the besieged enclave’s 2.3 million people from the world. Communications were restored to many people in Gaza early Sunday, according to local telecoms companies, Internet-access advocacy group NetBlocks.org and confirmation on the ground.</p><div id="taboola-mid-article-thumbnails" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><p class="story_para_9" id="9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ALSO READ | <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-benjamin-netanyahu-says-hamas-war-will-be-long-and-difficult-8638494.html" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Israel’s Netanyahu Says Hamas War Has Entered 2n Stage, Will Be ‘Long and Difficult’</a></strong></p><p class="story_para_10" id="10" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Residents said the <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/human-rights-watch-says-gaza-info-blackout-risks-providing-cover-for-mass-atrocities-8637148.html" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(225, 38, 28); color: #e1261c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">latest airstrikes</a> destroyed most of the roads leading to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, in the northern part of the besieged territory. Israel says most residents have heeded its orders to flee to the south, but hundreds of thousands remain in the north, in part because Israel has also bombarded targets in so-called safe zones.</p><p class="story_para_10" id="10" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">The army recently released computer-generated images showing what it said were Hamas installations in and around Shifa Hospital.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/not-hospital-al-shifa-is-hamas-hideout-hq-in-gaza-israel-releases-video-of-terrorists-exclusive-8638785.html">https://www.news18.com/world/not-hospital-al-shifa-is-hamas-hideout-hq-in-gaza-israel-releases-video-of-terrorists-exclusive-8638785.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-75373076450012432752023-10-28T17:44:00.004+05:302023-10-28T17:44:14.155+05:30How ‘war on terror’ was fought and won in Southeast Asia<p> <strong style="color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; max-width: 100%;">Medan, Indonesia</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif;">– In the early 2000s, the potential for terror attacks in Southeast Asia appeared dramatically different from today.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Indonesia was rocked by the Christmas Eve church bombings on December 24, 2000, that killed 18 people. Just six days later, Metro Manila in the Philippines experienced similar bombings that killed 22 people.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">In 2002, a series of bombings ripped through a popular nightlife spot in Bali, Indonesia, killing more than 200 people and leaving at least another 200 wounded.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">In the following years, the JW Marriott Hotel, the Philippine Stock Exchange and the consulate, all in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, were attacked, as were other locations across Southeast Asia.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The group responsible for the attacks, and others, was <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/7/indonesian-alms-boxes-ji" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">Jemaah Islamiyah (JI)</a>, whose members aspired to establish a hardline Islamic state in Indonesia and across wider Southeast Asia.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Often referred to by its initials, JI was alleged to have <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2009/5/8/singapore-terror-leader-captured" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">operatives in Singapore</a>, Malaysia, Cambodia and the Philippines, and was said to be linked to other groups, including al-Qaeda and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2003/10/20/raid-on-jemaah-islamiyah-hideout" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">in the Philippines’ Mindanao island.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Though JI was responsible for a long list of atrocities and hundreds of casualties in the early 2000s – its last recorded attack was the bombing of a police compound in West Java province in 2011 – the group, and the fear of terror attacks, is largely forgotten in the region now.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">So, how did Indonesia’s and other governments in Southeast Asia effectively curtail a regional threat while <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/how-9-11-southeast-asia-hardline" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">the United States-led “war on terror”</a> left entire countries shattered and regions of the world in chaos following the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/11/decades-after-9-11-muslims-battle-islamophobia-in" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">September 11, 2001 attacks on the US</a>?</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“The early 2000s certainly felt dangerous at the time,” Zachary Abuza, a professor at the National War College in Washington, DC, told Al Jazeera.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“But the Bali bombing really shook Indonesia out of its complacency. The new terrorism law changed the public perception of the perceived level of danger and the authorities had free rein to do their work without political interference,” Abuza said.</p><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-765718" class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_765718" style="background-color: white; color: var(--quote-text-color); font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; margin: 1.4rem 0px; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="bali bombing aftermath 2002" class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-765718" data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/311d98344a1f49a7a20ff6bd523f9897_18.jpeg?w=770&resize=770%2C433" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; max-width: 100%;" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-765718" style="margin-top: 0.8rem; max-width: 100%;">Indonesian forensic policemen walk past destroyed cars near the site of 2002 bomb blasts at Kuta on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali [File: Beawiharta/Reuters]</figcaption></figure><h2 id="it-broke-ji-s-back" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 1.4rem; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘It broke JI’s back’</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">At the time of the Bali bombings in late 2002, Indonesia did not have specific and targeted antiterrorism legislation, although this was quickly drafted and signed into law in 2003 and applied retroactively to some of the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/20/indonesia-jails-prominent-former-ji-member-over-bali-bombings" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">perpetrators of the attack on the popular holiday island.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Three senior members of JI, Imam Samudra, Ali Ghufron and Amrozi, were quickly arrested, prosecuted, and executed in 2008 for their roles in masterminding the bombings.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">A fourth perpetrator, Ali Imron, was sentenced to life in prison.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">In 2003, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/13/after-16-years-in-guantanamo-will-hambali-get-a-fair-trial" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">Hambali, a Malaysia-based member of JI</a>, allegedly responsible for securing funding for the group, was arrested in Thailand after spending months hiding out in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Renditioned by the US, Hambali was tortured at CIA “black sites” before being transferred to the US military’s notorious Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba where <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/24/hambali-faces-not-great-not-horrific-conditions-as-trial-looms" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">he remains imprisoned to this day</a> for his alleged role in the Bali bombings.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Indonesia and other governments in the region continued to close the net between JI members and their leaders.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">In 2007, Abu Dujana, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2007/12/12/trial-opens-for-ji-military-chief" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">the head of JI’s military operations</a>, was arrested. In 2010, Abu Bakar Bashir, the “spiritual head” of the organisation, was captured and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/8/indonesian-hardline-cleric-abu-bakar-bashir-freed-from-prison" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">released early in January 2021</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“When people were arrested, it broke JI’s back,” Abuza said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“But JI as an organisation still existed and the government gave it ample space to exist, allowing it to run its madrasas [Islamic educational institutions], charities and businesses,” he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The Indonesian government officially declared JI an illegal organisation in 2008, but authorities took a more measured approach by continuing to allow its members a degree of autonomy provided they did not engage in violence.</p><h2 id="jihad-as-a-spiritual-struggle" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 1.4rem; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Jihad as a spiritual struggle’</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">According to Farihin, a member of JI based in Indonesia, the organisation remains active, although it has now changed its philosophy to one of pacifism and focuses on works such as religious teaching and other socially-minded causes.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“There is no focus on violence now,” he told Al Jazeera.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Only on jihad as a spiritual struggle to guard against our personal sins as individuals,” he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“All religions have this concept in some form.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">While Farihin still describes himself as a member of JI, he said the original grouping has fractured and splintered many times over the years, owing to people having different views and opinions.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">These differences of opinion are regularly cited as another reason for the success of the regional approach to the so-called “war on terror” – a mix of internal political disputes and external security operations.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">By 2007, Abuza recounted, JI was “riddled by factionalism” as remaining members of the organisation jostled for power and clashed on how to create a blueprint for their operations moving forward.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Abu Dujana had different ideas for the organisation and felt that bombing foreigners was not the way to achieve its aims,” Abuza said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Enough people in JI thought it was best to lie low after the Bali bombing and that the attack had not been productive,” he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Abu Dujana was not arguing that killing foreigners was morally wrong, just that it was not productive as, with each attack and subsequent arrests, the organisation was getting weaker.”</p><h2 id="counterterrorism-work-continues" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 1.4rem; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: small;">Counterterrorism work continues</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Indonesia also came a long way in regards to creating an effective counterterrorism framework that has significantly weakened networks of potential attackers across the region, said Alif Satria, a researcher at the department of politics and social change at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Indonesia.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“First is the creation of Densus 88 in 2003 through the help of other countries. This has ensured that Indonesia has a well-functioning counterterrorism unit with the necessary intelligence and operational skills to dismantle networks,” Satria told Al Jazeera.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Densus 88 or Counterterrorism Special Detachment 88, was a unit formed in 2003 under the umbrella of the National Police and was funded, equipped, and trained in part by the US and Australia.</p><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2360612" class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_2360612" style="background-color: white; color: var(--quote-text-color); font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; margin: 1.4rem 0px; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="Policemen from Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism unit Detachment 88 "protect" civilians during an anti-terror drill at Indonesia's stock exchange building in Jakarta March 13, 2010 ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's planned visit to Indonesia. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS)" class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-2360612" data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2010-03-13T120000Z_2127895417_GM1E63D17BP01_RTRMADP_3_INDONESIA-1694767964.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C440" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; max-width: 100%;" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-2360612" style="margin-top: 0.8rem; max-width: 100%;">Policemen from Indonesia’s elite antiterrorism unit Detachment 88 during a drill in Jakarta in 2010 before a visit by then-US President Barack Obama [File: Supri/Reuters]</figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Satria added that another milestone was the creation of Indonesia’s National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) in 2010.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Deradicalisation programmes led by the police in the early 2000s were also critical in ensuring that those arrested did not re-engage with hardline groups once they were released.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“As a result, Indonesia has managed to keep its recidivism rate at around 11 percent,” he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">However, the counterterrorism work conducted by the Indonesian authorities is still in progress.</p><h2 id="who-will-emerge-next" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 1.4rem; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: small;">Who will emerge next?</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Open-source data collection shows that between 2021 and 2023, more JI members were arrested than members of other groups such as Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/7/12/the-returning-jihad-isil-in-southeast-asia" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;">an ISIL-affiliated group responsible for recent attacks</a> in Indonesia and the wider region.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Some of the more recent incidents include the 2018 Surabaya bombings in which three Christian churches were attacked in the city of Surabaya by a husband and wife and their four children, one of whom was just nine years old. Fifteen people were killed.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The same group was also behind the Jolo Cathedral bombings in Sulu in the Philippines in 2019 that killed 20 people.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Between 2021 and 2023, there were some 610 people arrested, 42 percent of whom were JI and 39 percent JAD and other pro-Islamic State groups,” Satria said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“For me, that goes to show that, despite not conducting attacks, JI is very much still active, be it in conducting recruitment, fundraising or preparing for its regeneration,” he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Abuza agreed with that cautious tone, saying the lack of clear leadership on a global scale for hardline groups had also contributed to a general sense of quintessence.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">But that could quickly change.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“These organisations are living organisations and respond to the external environment,” Abuza said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Everyone is waiting to see what happens in the Middle East and who emerges as a leader,” he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Someone will,” he added.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/15/how-war-on-terror-was-fought-won-in-southeast-asia-for-now">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/15/how-war-on-terror-was-fought-won-in-southeast-asia-for-now</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-31173143419196032332023-10-28T17:43:00.005+05:302023-10-28T17:43:29.710+05:30Police arrest 27 suspected militants in nationwide crackdown as Indonesia gears up for 2024 election<p> <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;">JAKARTA, Indonesia -- </span>Indonesian police said Saturday they arrested at least 27 suspected militants believed to have links to banned extremist groups, in a nationwide crackdown as the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country gears up for <a class="zZyg UbGl iFzk qdXb WCDh DbOX tqUt " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/Elections" id="_ap_link_election_Elections_" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: var(--hyperlink-display,inline); height: var(--hyperlink-height,auto); outline: 0px; text-decoration: var(--articleBody-p-a-textDecoration,underline); width: var(--hyperlink-width,auto);" target="_blank">election</a>s in 2024.</p><article class="xvlf ZRif TKoO eaKK " data-testid="prism-article-body" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The police's elite counterterrorism squad, known as Densus 88, made the arrests on Friday in the capital, Jakarta, and in West Java and Central Sulawesi provinces, said National Police spokesperson Ahmad Ramadhan.</p><p class="Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">“We are still investigating and interrogating all those arrested in search for other possible suspects,” said Aswin Siregar, the spokesperson of Densus 88 told The Associated Press.</p><p class="Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Most of the arrested are suspected of being members of a homegrown militant outfit affiliated with the Islamic State group known as Jemmaah Anshorut Daulah, or JAD, he said.</p><p class="Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The arrests were made after the interrogation of 18 suspected militants arrested since Oct. 2, Ramadhan said.</p><p class="Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Some local media reports said those arrested were linked to an alleged plot of militant attacks meant to disrupt the elections in February 2024, but Ramadhan quickly downplayed them.</p><p class="Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">“There is no indication of increasing terrorism threats ahead of next year’s elections so far,” he said. “This is part of our efforts to take preventive action against possible acts of terror in the country.”</p><p class="Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">A court in 2018 banned JAD. The group has been weakened by a sustained crackdown on militants by Densus 88. The United States listed JAD as a terrorist group in 2017.</p><p class="Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The group was responsible for several deadly suicide bombings in Indonesia, including a deadly 2016 attack in Jakarta that killed eight people and a wave of suicide bombings in 2018 in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya, where two families, including girls aged 9 and 12, blew themselves up at churches and a police station, killing 13 people.</p><p class="Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Indonesia is set to vote in simultaneous legislative and presidential elections on Feb. 14 next year.</p><div class="oLzS QrHM QBoF pvsT EhJP vPlO zNYg OsTs AkFW daRV ISNQ sKyC eRft acPP BZyg nFwa MCnQ mEee SmBj xegr VvTx iulO NIuq zzsc lzDC aHUB hbvn OjMN eQqc SVqK GQmd jaoD iSha ONJd vrZx OnRT gbbf roDb kRoB oMlS gfNz oJhu eXZc zhVl " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 574.391px;"></div><p class="Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Indonesia launched a crackdown on militants following the bombings on the resort island of Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people, mostly Western and Asian tourists.</p><p class="Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk eTIW sUzS" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-body-lastChild-marginBottom,0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Recently, militant attacks on foreigners in Indonesia have been largely replaced in recent years by smaller, less deadly strikes targeting the government, mainly police and anti-terrorism forces.</p></article><div class="dHdH jLRE zXXj aGO eCCl nTLv jLsY gmur TOSF VmeZ sCkV hkQa wGrl MUuG fcia qQjt DhNV Tgcq IGLA tWjk " style="--spacing-bottom: initial; --spacing-child-bottom: 32px; --spacing-child-compact-bottom: 24px; --spacing-child-compact-top: initial; --spacing-child-top: initial; --spacing-compact-bottom: initial; --spacing-compact-top: initial; --spacing-firstchild-bottom: initial; --spacing-firstchild-compact-bottom: initial; --spacing-firstchild-compact-top: 24px; --spacing-firstchild-top: 32px; --spacing-lastchild-bottom: initial; --spacing-lastchild-compact-bottom: initial; --spacing-lastchild-compact-top: initial; --spacing-lastchild-top: initial; --spacing-top: initial; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-bottom); margin-top: var(--spacing-top);"><div class="Article__Footer Article__Footer--news" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-firstChild-bottom,var(--spacing-child-bottom)); margin-top: var(--spacing-firstChild-top);"><div class="Article__Footer--items flex flex-wrap flex-no-wrap items-center justify-between" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: justify; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; font-family: SansSerifFont, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 18px;"><section class="Share flex flex-no-wrap" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap;"></section></div></div></div><p>Source: <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/police-arrest-27-suspected-militants-nationwide-crackdown-indonesia-104446205">https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/police-arrest-27-suspected-militants-nationwide-crackdown-indonesia-104446205</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-61474071338540003282023-10-28T17:38:00.004+05:302023-10-28T17:38:21.180+05:30Report: Quran-burning protester is ordered to leave Sweden but deportation on hold for now<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden reportedly withdrew the residence permit of an Iraqi man who staged a series of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><a class="link " data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:public desecrations;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://apnews.com/article/sweden-quran-burning-malmo-b981d13796dfde8b266a47f6765affc8" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">public desecrations</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">of the Quran this year but put his deportation on hold, saying his life would be in danger if he were returned to Iraq.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Sweden’s Migration Agency made the decision this week after determining that <a class="link " data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="0" data-ylk="slk:Salwan Momika;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://apnews.com/article/sweden-quran-burning-security-3a41dca92470b24853431df4f98ba129" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Salwan Momika</a> had provided false information in his application for asylum, Swedish broadcaster TV4 reported Thursday.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">An order of deportation was issued but placed on hold for security reasons, a Migration Agency official told the television station Thursday. Swedish media say Momika was granted a residence permit in 2021.</p><div class="caas-da" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><div id="sda-INARTICLE"></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“The decision was made yesterday and means that this person's status and residence permit will be revoked and that he will be deported,” agency spokesman Jesper Tengroth was quoted as saying.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">However, Tengroth added that “this person risks being subjected to torture and inhuman treatment if he returns to his home country. We have therefore decided that there is an obstacle to enforcing the deportation.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Momika angered Muslims both in Sweden and abroad with anti-Islam protests in which he burned or otherwise desecrated the Quran. Swedish authorities <a class="link " data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="0" data-ylk="slk:allowed his demonstrations;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://apnews.com/article/quran-burning-sweden-iraq-6d34553f6a939995d5551830b0c556f2" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">allowed his demonstrations</a>, citing freedom of speech, but his actions raised alarm among government and security officials who warned they could make Sweden a target for Islamic extremists.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Swedish police also filed preliminary hate speech charges against him.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Last week two Swedish soccer fans <a class="link " data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:were killed;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://apnews.com/article/belgium-sweden-match-abandoned-brussels-shooting-05041c1e11d896285ab329b15428d6b4" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">were killed</a> before a match in Brussels in an attack by a gunman who specifically targeted Swedes, according to Sweden’s prime minister. Belgian authorities said the alleged gunman, who was <a class="link " data-rapid_p="14" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:shot dead;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://apnews.com/article/belgium-sweden-brussels-shooting-soccer-match-a81ef9502207095ebf0afdc5cac5676a" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">shot dead</a> by police following a manhunt, posted a <a class="link " data-rapid_p="15" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:video online;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://apnews.com/article/eu-borders-security-deportation-belgium-shooting-schengen-43bd735ea8357752ff88a125d54b60b5" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">video online</a> after the attack in which he said the Quran was “a red line for which he is ready to sacrifice himself.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Momika said he didn't want to put Sweden at risk but was exercising his right to criticize Islam under freedom of speech. He told TV4 he would appeal the decision to withdraw his residence permit.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“They want me to leave the country,” he was quoted as saying. “They told me to find a country that can receive me; otherwise it’s Iraq.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Momika told TV4 he had no plans to leave Sweden and denied having given false information in his asylum application.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Tengroth wouldn't give details on what information in the application was false.</p><div><br /></div><p>Source: <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/report-quran-burning-protester-ordered-175315421.html">https://news.yahoo.com/report-quran-burning-protester-ordered-175315421.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-90356430789439681702023-10-28T17:29:00.000+05:302023-10-28T17:29:02.441+05:30‘Pervasive and relentless’ racism on the rise in Europe, survey finds<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">Racism is “pervasive and relentless” and on the rise in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> </span><a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c70000; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Europe</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">, with nearly half of black people in member states surveyed by the EU reporting discrimination, from the verbal abuse of their children to being blocked by landlords from renting homes.</span></p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">In every walk of life, from schools to the job market, housing and health, a survey by the EU’s rights agency of people of African descent found high levels of discrimination, with some of the worst results recorded in Austria and <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body 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border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c70000; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Luxembourg</a>, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden – found 45% had experienced racial discrimination, an increase of six percentage points from 39% in 2016</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">In <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/austria" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c70000; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Austria</a> and Germany, three in four of those questioned (72% and 76%) said they had felt discriminated against in the last five years, up from a half (51% and 52%) when the same question was asked in 2016.</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland became the third-largest party Germany, as well as the largest opposition, after the federal elections of 2017. They did less well in 2021 but their influence is growing.</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">An AfD politician was elected to the post of district administrator, the equivalent of a mayor, in Germany for the first time <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/26/far-right-afd-wins-local-election-watershed-moment-german-politics" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); 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font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">In Austria, the Freedom party (FPÖ), founded in 1956 and first led by a former Nazi functionary and SS officer, is leading in the polls ahead of a general election next year, which it is <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/austria/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c70000; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">expected to win</a>.</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Michael O’Flaherty, director at the EU’s fundamental rights agency, which advises the European Commission on policy, said the results in the report, Being Black in the EU, were “shameful”.</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">He called for all EU countries to gather equality data, including on ethnic or racial origin, in an attempt to further grip the problem. Owing to sensitivities arising from the second world war, Germany, unlike the UK, does not collect census data on racial or ethnic diversity.</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">O’Flaherty said: “It is shocking to see no improvement since our last survey in 2016. Instead, people of African descent face ever more discrimination just because of the colour of their skin</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">“Racism and discrimination should have no place in our societies. The EU and its member states should use these findings to better target their efforts and ensure people of African descent, too, can enjoy their rights freely without racism and discrimination,” he said.</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The racism uncovered by the agency was said to affect people’s daily lives. One in four (23%) respondents said that a private property owner had prevented them from renting a home because of their racial or ethnic origin.</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">A quarter (23%) of black people indicated that someone made offensive or threatening comments to their child in person because of their ethnic or immigrant background. Almost two out of five parents in <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ireland" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c70000; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ireland</a> (39%), Germany and Finland (both 38%) and Austria (37%) reported such experiences.</p><figure class=" dcr-173mewl" data-spacefinder-role="inline" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" id="86569050-44a0-41fe-9468-e8b13eb989a3" style="background-color: white; 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box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 112, 112); font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1em;"><svg height="13" viewbox="0 0 18 13" width="18"><path d="M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z"></path></svg></span><span class="dcr-1y4fm6e" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People take to the streets of Paris in September to march against ‘systemic racism, police violence and for public freedoms’.</span> Photograph: Ait Adjedjou Karim/Abaca/Shutterstock</figcaption></figure><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Across the countries surveyed, young people of African descent were found to be three times more likely to leave school early, compared with the general population.</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">One in four (26%) of respondents said they had been stopped by the police in the five years before the survey. Among those, about half (48%) characterised the most recent stop as racial profiling.</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;">The average proportion of black people who said they believed they had been a victim of ethnic profiling by the police had increased across the countries surveyed from 41% in 2016 to 48% in 2022, when the latest survey was undertaken.</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">On average, the employment rate among people of African descent aged 20 to 64 years (71%) was found to be similar to that of the general population (73%) of the same age range. But almost a third (32%) of respondents were working in “elementary occupations”, compared with an average of 8% for the general population across all 27 EU member states.</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Almost a third (30%) of employed people of African descent have a temporary contract. This proportion was said to be three times that of the general population across the EU (11%). Black people were also found to be disproportionately over-qualified for the jobs in which they were working. A third (35%) of black people with university-level qualifications were found to be in low or medium skilled occupations compared with 21% for the general population.</p><p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Respondents to the EU survey were either born in countries of sub-Saharan Africa or were descendants of immigrants with at least one parent born in sub-Saharan Africa.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/25/pervasive-and-relentless-racism-on-the-rise-in-europe-survey-finds">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/25/pervasive-and-relentless-racism-on-the-rise-in-europe-survey-finds</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-43624813183120673182023-10-28T17:25:00.002+05:302023-10-28T17:25:07.204+05:30Report reveals disturbing acts of racism on Quebec teen hockey team<p> Justine Mercier, a reporter for French publication<em> Le Droit,</em> <a class="link " data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" data-rapid_p="7" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:recently unearthed deeply disturbing racist acts;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.ledroit.com/sports/2023/10/26/emi-cant-breatheem-la-scene-reproduite-dans-un-vestiaire-de-gatineau-pour-humilier-un-joueur-de-hockey-noir-UXJJVRV2ARFRTD2FEW324AIORU/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">recently unearthed deeply disturbing racist acts</a> by teenage hockey players in Gatineau, Que. In one case during the 2021-22 season, a player knelt on a Black teammate’s neck, only releasing him after the victim evoked George Floyd’s death by saying “I can’t breathe.”</p><div class="caas-body-section" style="flex: 1 1 75%; min-width: 0px; padding-right: 20px;"><div class="caas-content wafer-sticky" data-wf-sticky-boundary="caas-body-section" data-wf-sticky-offset="165px 10px" data-wf-sticky-target=".caas-share-buttons" style="display: flex;"><div class="caas-content-wrapper" style="flex: 1 1 80%; min-width: 400px;"><div class="caas-body" style="padding-right: 83.3906px; position: relative;"><p style="line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">In May 2020, Floyd died in Minnesota after white police officer Derek Chauvin <a class="link " data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" data-rapid_p="8" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:knelt on his back and neck for more than nine minutes;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">knelt on his back and neck for more than nine minutes</a>. Floyd’s death inspired widespread racial justice protests in the U.S. and around the world.</p><p style="line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Mercier obtained a Hockey Quebec report that indicated there were at least 14 racist incidents targeting two Black members of Gatineau Intrepid (Intrépide de l'Outaouais), an under-15 team. Incidents ranged from uttering slurs such as the N-word to making references to slavery.</p><p style="line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><a class="link " data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" data-rapid_p="9" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Mercier reports;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.ledroit.com/sports/2023/10/26/emi-cant-breatheem-la-scene-reproduite-dans-un-vestiaire-de-gatineau-pour-humilier-un-joueur-de-hockey-noir-UXJJVRV2ARFRTD2FEW324AIORU/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Mercier reports</a> that, after several months of incidents, the two Black hockey players left the team. Meanwhile, the players who committed the racist actions received suspensions.</p><p style="line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">According to Mercier, an additional report by the Integrity Protection Committee criticized the way two people in the organization handled the incidents, ordering them to undergo training.</p><p style="line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><a class="link yahoo-link" data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:The Canadian Press noted;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;" href="https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/cant-breathe-report-says-quebec-183724972.html" style="color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">The Canadian Press noted</a> that Hockey Quebec did not comment on the matter on Friday and also did not share the report when asked, labeling it confidential. However, Quebec Sports Minister Isabelle Charest deemed the incidents unacceptable.</p><p style="line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">"Deeply shocked by what I read," Charest said. "Such actions should not be tolerated in a hockey locker room or anywhere else. We work hard to provide our athletes with a healthy and safe environment."</p><div class="twitter-tweet-wrapper"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1717928942999371877" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=cyclelikesedins&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1717928942999371877&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fca.sports.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Freport-reveals-disturbing-acts-of-racism-on-quebec-teen-hockey-team-232312673.html&sessionId=cdd9de9df259f5e6d45704b7d21a6ca0103e9e53&siteScreenName=YahooCASports&theme=light&widgetsVersion=01917f4d1d4cb%3A1696883169554&width=550px" style="border-radius: 13px; 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display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 519px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div><p style="line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The 2019 General Social Survey on Canadians’ Safety <a class="link " data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" data-rapid_p="14" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:found that 41% of Black people;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2022001/article/00002-eng.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #0f69ff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">found that 41% of Black people</a> experienced discrimination based on their race or skin colour.</p></div></div></div></div><aside class="caas-aside-section" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; max-width: 300px; min-width: 300px;"><div class="caas-non-sticky-sda"><div class="caas-sda" id="sda-MON" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div id="sda-MON-iframe"></div></div><div class="caas-sda" id="sda-LREC" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: center;"><div class="Miw(300px) Mih(250px)" id="sda-LREC-iframe"><div class="caas-da-placeholder"></div></div></div></div></aside><p>Source: <a href="https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/report-reveals-disturbing-acts-of-racism-on-quebec-teen-hockey-team-232312673.html">https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/report-reveals-disturbing-acts-of-racism-on-quebec-teen-hockey-team-232312673.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-2498731741332125362023-10-28T17:00:00.006+05:302023-10-28T17:00:38.835+05:30Hate Crimes in London Almost Double Amid Middle East Conflict<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Serif", serif;">Antisemitic and Islamaphobic incidents have almost doubled in just over a week in London, police data showed on Friday, in the wake of the attack by Hamas militants on southern Israel nearly three weeks ago and subsequent bombardment by Israel of Gaza.</span></p><p class="story_para_1" id="1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">There have been growing tensions in Britain and elsewhere since Hamas gunmen rampaged through Israeli towns and Israel besieged Gaza in response, with pro-Palestinian demonstrations and vigils held by Jewish groups in solidarity with hostages, some of whom are British, who were taken by the militants.</p><p class="story_para_2" id="2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Commander Kyle Gordon said there had been 408 antisemitic incidents recorded in the British capital so far this month compared to 28 in the same period last year, while there had been 174 Islamophobic offences compared to 65.</p><p class="story_para_3" id="3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">In both cases the numbers were almost twice as high as those given a week ago.</p><p class="story_para_4" id="4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">“My colleagues continue to ruthlessly deal with any acts of hate crime that they encounter,” Kyle told reporters. “Since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict, we have made 75 arrests linked to the conflict.”</p><div class="lazyload-wrapper ad1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><div class="nw18-dynamic-div-8637387_0" data-lazy="ads" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="nw18-dfp-ad" data-adcode="/1039154/NW18_ENG_Desktop/NW18_ENG_World/NW18_ENG_World_AS/NW18_ENG_WLD_AS_ROS_MID_728" data-adsizes="[[728,90],[1,1]]" id="d16c4436-c075-4cb8-8feb-792e0f561bee" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><p class="story_para_5" id="5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Last week, about 100,000 protesters took part in a march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and in the aftermath police faced criticism from some lawmakers for not being tougher over slogans shouted by some involved. London’s police chief Mark Rowley held a meeting with Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Monday after which he said laws would need to be changed if the government wanted firmer action.</p><p class="story_para_6" id="6" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Kyle said there would be some 2,000 officers on duty across the capital on Saturday when another pro-Palestinian march is set to take place. “Our most experienced and knowledgeable officers are working on the policing of these events, making sure we’re utilising all of the legislation available to us to its fullest extent,” he said. “We will not tolerate hate crime in this city. We will take really robust action to all those who commit such crimes.”</p><p class="story_para_7" id="7" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Meanwhile, Commander Dominic Murphy, from the London police’s Counter Terrorism Command, said his officers had launched just under 10 investigations into online material referred by the public to police.</p><p class="story_para_8" id="8" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Some officers had also been deployed to Israel to support foreign ministry staff and support any investigations which might result from the Hamas attack. There has been an increase in reported threats against Jewish and Muslim communities in many countries, including the United States, since the Gaza war broke out.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/london-hate-crimes-doubles-in-wake-of-middle-east-conflict-8637387.html">https://www.news18.com/world/london-hate-crimes-doubles-in-wake-of-middle-east-conflict-8637387.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-33439308142164300132023-10-28T16:58:00.003+05:302023-10-28T16:58:40.217+05:30Drone Blasts Hit Two Egyptian Red Sea Towns, Israel Points to Houthi<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "PT Serif", serif;">Drones caused explosions that rocked two Egyptian towns on the Red Sea on Friday, the Egyptian army said, while Israel said Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement sent them to strike Israel. The explosions injured six people and illustrated the risk of regional spillover from the Israel-Gaza conflict. There was no claim of responsibility.</span></p><p class="story_para_1" id="1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Israel’s foreign ministry said the Iran-backed Houthi launched drones and missiles “with the intention of harming Israel.” Egypt’s military spokesman Colonel Gharib Abdel-Hafez said two drones were fired from the southern Red Sea aiming north. Yemen is at the south end of the sea and Israel at the north.</p><p class="story_para_2" id="2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">One drone crashed into a building adjacent to a hospital in the Egyptian town of Taba on the border with Israel, injuring six, in the early hours of Friday, Egypt’s military said. The second drone was downed outside Egyptian airspace on Friday morning, and the debris fell in a desert area of Nuweiba town, about 70 km (43 miles) from the Israeli border, Egypt said.</p><p class="story_para_3" id="3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that combat helicopters had been scrambled when “an aerial threat was spotted in the Red Sea region”. “To our understanding, the strike that took place in Egypt originated in this threat,” he added in a televised briefing before Israel’s foreign ministry attributed the drones to the Houthi.</p><p class="story_para_4" id="4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;">Witnesses in Taba and Nuweiba, popular tourist destinations on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, said they heard explosions and saw smoke as well as Egyptian warplanes flying overhead.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/drone-blasts-hit-two-egyptian-red-sea-towns-israel-points-to-houthi-8637269.html">https://www.news18.com/world/drone-blasts-hit-two-egyptian-red-sea-towns-israel-points-to-houthi-8637269.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-61420073333098119402023-10-28T16:53:00.005+05:302023-10-28T16:53:44.343+05:30Iranian teen Armita Geravand, dies after being attacked by police for not wearing hijab, dies<p> The death of Armita Geravand comes after her being in a coma for weeks in Tehran and after the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini.</p><div class="storyParagraphFigure" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #424242; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 8px;">An Iranian teenage girl <a class="manualbacklink" href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/armita-geravand-girl-brain-dead-after-being-attacked-by-iran-police-for-not-wearing-hijab-report-101697968208133.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #00b1cd; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">injured weeks ago </a>in a mysterious incident on Tehran's Metro while not wearing a head scarf has died, Iranian state media reported Saturday.</p><figure class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style-type: none; margin: 5px 0px 15px; order: -1; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); display: block; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 298.375px; position: relative;"><picture style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><source alt="In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro on October 1.(AP)" media="(max-width:767px)" srcset="https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2023/10/28/400x225/Iran-Protests-Injured-Girl-0_1698475966005_1698475988024.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;" title="In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro on October 1.(AP)"></source><img alt="In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro on October 1.(AP)" src="https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2023/10/28/550x309/Iran-Protests-Injured-Girl-0_1698475966005_1698475988024.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 4px; display: block; left: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 530px;" title="In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro on October 1.(AP)" /></picture></span><figcaption style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #424242; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 6px 0px 0px;">In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro on October 1.(AP)</figcaption></figure></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">The death of Armita Geravand comes after her being in a coma for weeks in Tehran and after the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini and the nationwide protests it sparked.</p><div class="mt10 mb10" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; list-style-type: none; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">We're now on WhatsApp. <a href="https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va4cwg0DeON0mFeEse2Z?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=whatsappChannel" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #00b1cd; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Click to join.</a></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported her death.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">What happened in the few seconds after Armita Geravand entered the train on Oct. 1 remains in question.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">While a friend told Iranian state television that she hit her head on the station’s platform, the soundless footage aired by the broadcaster from outside of the car is blocked by a bystander. Just seconds later, her limp body is carried off.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Geravand’s mother and father appeared in state media footage saying a blood pressure issue, a fall or perhaps both contributed to their daughter’s injury.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Activists abroad have alleged Geravand may have been pushed or attacked because she was not wearing the hijab. They also demanded an independent investigation by the United Nations' fact-finding mission on Iran, citing the theocracy’s use of pressure on victims’ families and state TV’s history of airing hundreds of coerced confessions.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">The IRNA report did not touch on any of the controversy surrounding Geravand's injury.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">“Unfortunately, the brain damage to the victim caused her to spend some time in a coma and she died a few minutes ago,” the IRNA report read. “According to the official theory of Armita Geravand doctors, after a sudden drop in blood pressure, she suffered a fall, a brain injury, followed by continuous convulsions, decreased cerebral oxygenation and a cerebral edema.”</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Geravand’s injury also came as Iran has put its morality police — whom activists implicate in Amini’s death — back on the street, and as lawmakers push to enforce even stricter penalties for those flouting the required head covering.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Amini died in a hospital on Sept. 16, 2022, after she was detained by Iranian morality police on allegations of improperly wearing the hijab. Suspicions that she was beaten during her arrest led to mass protests that represented the largest challenge to Iran’s theocratic government since the revolution.</p><p></p><div class="followHT" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Since those large-scale protests subsided, many women in Tehran could be seen without the hijab in defiance of the law.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/armita-geravand-iran-hijab-death-mahsa-amini-101698475937481.html">https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/armita-geravand-iran-hijab-death-mahsa-amini-101698475937481.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-87837412580529626412023-10-28T16:50:00.003+05:302023-10-28T16:50:32.033+05:30US Mass Shooter Who Killed 18 Found Dead After 2 Days Of Deadly Attack <p> The suspect in a mass shooting in the US state of Maine has been found dead after an intense manhunt that lasted more than two days.</p><p><span class="place_cont" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-weight: bolder;">Lewiston, United States: </span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; display: inline; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">The suspect in a mass shooting that killed 18 people in the US state of Maine has been found dead, the state's governor said Friday, ending a two-day manhunt that mobilized hundreds of law enforcement agents and set jittery residents of the northeastern state on edge. Robert Card, a 40-year-old Army reservist, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and his body was discovered at 7:45 pm (2345 GMT), Maine public safety commissioner Mike Sauschuck said.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 1.5rem;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/will-never-feel-safe-us-city-deserted-as-cops-hunt-for-killer-4517913" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms linear 0ms;" target="_blank">Card is believed to be the perpetrator of a rampage</a> on Wednesday evening that left 18 people dead and 13 others wounded in a bowling alley and a bar-restaurant in this hard-scrabble city.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">"I'm breathing a sigh of relief tonight knowing that Robert Card is no longer a threat to anyone," governor Janet Mills told a hastily called news conference.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><div id="v-ndtv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">The sentiment was echoed by US Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who said on X, formerly Twitter, that President Joe Biden called her "to tell me the perpetrator of the heinous attacks in Lewiston had been found." </p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Biden said the mass shooting brought "a tragic two days -- not just for Lewiston, Maine, but for our entire country."</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">"I will continue to do everything in my power to end this gun violence epidemic. The Lewiston community - and all Americans - deserve nothing less," Biden said in a statement released by the White House. </p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Authorities on Friday <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/maine-lewiston-shooting-a-father-and-teen-son-out-for-bowling-night-among-us-shooting-victims-4518117" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms linear 0ms;" target="_blank">identified the victims</a>, ranging from a husband and wife in their 70s, to a 14-year-old boy killed alongside his father.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">The killing spree in a bowling alley and bar-restaurant marked the deadliest mass shooting in the US this year.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Card's body was found in Lisbon Falls, southeast of Lewiston near the Androscoggin River, authorities said. US media said his body was found near a recycling center that was Card's place of employment before he lost his job there.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Roads leading to the site were blocked by police Friday evening, an AFP journalist saw.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Sauschuck said he could not immediately say when Card shot himself.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">The shooting -- and Card's fugitive status -- had brought dread to southern Maine over the past two days. Authorities had described Card as "armed and dangerous."</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Earlier Friday, authorities said they were chasing down more than 530 tips and leads on Card's possible whereabouts.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/maine-mass-shooting-who-is-robert-card-main-suspect-in-us-maine-shooting-that-killed-22-domestic-violence-arrest-mental-health-4514443" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 200ms linear 0ms;" target="_blank">Card is an army reservist</a>, but had not been deployed in any combat zone. US media reported that he had recently been sent for psychiatric treatment after he said he was hearing voices.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">This latest shooting is one of the deadliest in the United States since 2017, when a gunman opened fire on a crowded music festival in Las Vegas, killing 60 people.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Earlier Friday, law enforcement agents deployed along the Androscoggin River -- near where Card's white SUV was found -- and divers using sonar entered the river to look for evidence -- or a body.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Hours before the break in the case, Sauschuck announced the lifting of a lockdown in the area around Lewiston that had shuttered schools and businesses.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Lewiston residents voiced anxiety over how the search for Card would play out.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">"Uneasy," Lewiston resident Jeremy Hiltz told AFP when asked how he felt. "It's a small community. When something like this happens, everybody knows somebody" affected.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">He said a number of intersecting social crises have afflicted Lewiston, a city of some 38,000 inhabitants.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">"This community itself has been devastated by addiction and housing crisis and poverty ... So to put this on top of it, it's really just a devastating situation for us," Hiltz said.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">An education center for the deaf and hard of hearing, located on a small island 45 minutes drive south of Lewiston, was particularly hard-hit by the tragedy.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Among those killed at the Schemengees bar-restaurant -- where the killer appeared after the rampage at the bowling alley -- were four men with ties to the school, as former students, educators or parents, Karen Hopkins, the school's director, told AFP</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/main-suspect-in-us-shooting-that-killed-18-found-dead-of-self-inflicted-shot-after-2-days-of-deadly-attack-news-agency-afp-4521861">https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/main-suspect-in-us-shooting-that-killed-18-found-dead-of-self-inflicted-shot-after-2-days-of-deadly-attack-news-agency-afp-4521861</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-77604282281692630152023-10-28T12:54:00.001+05:302023-10-28T16:54:52.458+05:30Israel kills 'paraglider commander'; Hamas issues 'full force' warning: Top updates<p> IDF has killed several of Hamas's top commanders since October 7, when the terrorist group infiltrated the country and killed 1400 people</p><div class="storyParagraphFigure" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #424242; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 8px;">The Israel Defence Force (IDF) on Saturday announced it had killed the Hamas commander who led the group of terrorists that infiltrated Israel on paragliders, on October 7. The terrorist, identified as Asem Abu Rakaba, was also responsible for the drone attacks on the military's posts, the IDF added.</p><figure class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style-type: none; margin: 5px 0px 15px; order: -1; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); display: block; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 298.375px; position: relative;"><picture style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><source alt="Flares fired by the Israeli army light up the sky east of Khan Yunis on the southern Gaza Strip on October 27, 2023. (AFP)" media="(max-width:767px)" srcset="https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2023/10/28/400x225/PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-3_1698476248724_1698476277803.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;" title="Flares fired by the Israeli army light up the sky east of Khan Yunis on the southern Gaza Strip on October 27, 2023. (AFP)"></source><img alt="Flares fired by the Israeli army light up the sky east of Khan Yunis on the southern Gaza Strip on October 27, 2023. (AFP)" src="https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2023/10/28/550x309/PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-3_1698476248724_1698476277803.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 4px; display: block; left: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 530px;" title="Flares fired by the Israeli army light up the sky east of Khan Yunis on the southern Gaza Strip on October 27, 2023. (AFP)" /></picture></span><figcaption style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #424242; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 6px 0px 0px;">Flares fired by the Israeli army light up the sky east of Khan Yunis on the southern Gaza Strip on October 27, 2023. (AFP)</figcaption></figure></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">"Overnight, IDF fighter jets struck Asem Abu Rakaba, the Head of Hamas' Aerial Array. Abu Rakaba was responsible for Hamas' UAVs, drones, paragliders, aerial detection and defense," it said on X.</p><div class="mt10 mb10" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; list-style-type: none; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">We're now on WhatsApp. <a href="https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va4cwg0DeON0mFeEse2Z?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=whatsappChannel" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #00b1cd; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Click to join.</a></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">"He took part in planning the October 7 massacre and commanded the terrorists who infiltrated Israel on paragliders and was responsible for the drone attacks on IDF posts," it added.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">IDF has killed several of Hamas's top commanders since October 7, when the terrorist group infiltrated the country and killed 1400 people, including women and children. The group also holds over 200 people hostage, including foreigners.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">On October 14, the IDF reportedly killed the previous head of the group's aerial forces, Murad Abu Murad.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">On Friday night and Saturday morning, Israel's air force attacked 150 underground targets of Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">"During the attack, terrorists of the terrorist organisation Hamas were eliminated and combat tunnels, underground combat spaces and other underground terrorist infrastructures were destroyed," it wrote on X. It added that several Hamas operatives died in the attacks.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">On Friday night, the Houthis, an Iranian proxy terrorist organisation based in Yemen, launched a missile towards Israel but it struck Taba in Egypt.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Hamas, meanwhile, on Saturday, Hamas said its terrorists in Gaza were preparing to confront Israeli forces with "full force". As Israel intensified its attack in Gaza, Hamas said its fighters were clashing with the troops in border areas.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Israel's bombardments have resulted in the severance of internet and phone services.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Israel's military said on Friday evening that its ground forces were "expanding their operations tonight".</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Hamas said Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his "defeated army" would not be able to achieve military victory.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px;">Since October 7, Israel's bombardments have killed over 7000 Palestinians.</p><p></p><div class="followHT" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Meanwhile, on Friday, the UN General Assembly backed a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian truce. 121 members voted in favour, 44 abstained and 14 voted no.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/israel-kills-paraglider-commander-hamas-issues-full-force-warning-top-updates-101698475843911.html">https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/israel-kills-paraglider-commander-hamas-issues-full-force-warning-top-updates-101698475843911.html</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4710918329874533842.post-38740933722618990902023-10-28T11:00:00.001+05:302023-10-28T16:55:56.112+05:30Terrorism is a ‘malignancy’, knows no borders: India tells UNGA after abstaining on resolution seeking humanitarian truce<p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Terrorism is a "malignancy" and knows no borders, nationality or race and the world should not buy into any justification of terror acts, India has told the UN General Assembly as it abstained on<a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/un-overwhelmingly-calls-for-aid-truce-between-israel-and-hamas/article67467892.ece" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" target="_self"> a resolution on the Israel-Hamas conflict</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">India on Friday abstained in the UN General Assembly on a Jordanian-drafted resolution titled ‘Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations’ that called for an immediate humanitarian truce in the Israel-Hamas conflict and unhindered humanitarian access in the Gaza strip.</p><p class="referpara" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">Also Read | <b style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/un-raises-war-crimes-concerns-over-israel-hamas-conflict/article67466038.ece" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" target="_blank">U.N. raises war crimes concerns over Israel-Hamas conflict</a></b></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The 193-member General Assembly adopted the resolution that called for an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The resolution, which garnered 121 votes in favour, 44 abstentions and 14 member states voting against it, also demanded the immediate, continuous, sufficient and unhindered provision of essential goods and services to civilians throughout the Gaza Strip.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">India’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Yojna Patel, in Explanation of Vote said in a world where differences and disputes should be resolved by dialogue, this august body should be deeply concerned at recourse to violence.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">"That too, when it happens on a scale and intensity that is an affront to basic human values,” Ms. Patel said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Ms. Patel said that violence as a means to achieve political objectives damages indiscriminately and does not pave the way for any durable solutions.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Describing the terror attacks in Israel on October 7 as shocking, Ms. Patel said they deserve condemnation. India’s explanation of the vote did not mention Hamas.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Terrorism is a malignancy and knows no borders, nationality or race. The world should not buy into any justification of terror acts. Let us keep aside differences, unite and adopt a zero-tolerance approach to terrorism,” she said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">India expressed hope that the deliberations of the General Assembly will “send a clear message against terror and violence and expand prospects for diplomacy and dialogue while addressing the humanitarian crisis that confronts us.” Ms. Patel said India is “deeply concerned” at the deteriorating security situation and astounding loss of civilian lives in the ongoing conflict.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“The escalation of hostilities in the region will only exacerbate the humanitarian crisis. It is necessary for all parties to display the utmost responsibility,” she said. India also called for the “immediate and unconditional release” of the hostages.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Earlier, Iraq had abstained on the resolution but later changed its vote to a yes citing “a technical problem” at the time of voting. Countries voting against the resolution included Israel and the US. China, France, and Russia voted in favour of the resolution while Canada, Germany, Japan, Ukraine and the UK abstained.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The resolution called for immediate, full, sustained, safe and unhindered humanitarian access for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and other United Nations humanitarian agencies and their implementing partners, the International Committee of the Red Cross and all other humanitarian organisations upholding humanitarian principles and delivering urgent assistance to civilians in the Gaza Strip.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">It encourages the establishment of humanitarian corridors and other initiatives to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians and welcomes efforts on this.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Ms. Patel stressed that casualties in the ongoing conflict in Gaza are a telling, serious and continuing concern and it is civilians, especially women and children, who are paying with their lives.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“This humanitarian crisis needs to be addressed,” Ms. Patel said, welcoming the international community’s de-escalation efforts and delivery of humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">She noted that India too has contributed to this effort. India has <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-sends-humanitarian-aid-to-people-of-palestine/article67448657.ece" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" target="_self">sent 38 tons of humanitarian goods</a>, including medicines and equipment to the people of Palestine.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Ms. Patel reiterated that India has always supported a negotiated two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine issue, leading to the establishment of a sovereign, independent and viable state of Palestine, living within secure and recognised borders, side by side in peace with Israel.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“For this, we urge the parties to de-escalate, eschew violence and work towards creating conditions for an early resumption of direct peace negotiations,” she said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The Jordanian-drafted resolution did not make any mention of the militant group Hamas.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Before the General Assembly voted on the resolution, the 193-member body considered an amendment proposed by Canada and co-sponsored by the U.S. to the text.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The amendment proposed by Canada asked for inserting a paragraph in the resolution that would state that the General Assembly “Unequivocally rejects and condemns the terrorist attacks by Hamas that took place in Israel starting on 7 October 2023 and the taking of hostages, demands the safety, well-being and humane treatment of the hostages in compliance with international law, and calls for their immediate and unconditional release.” India voted in favour of the amendment, along with 87 other nations, while 55 member states voted against and 23 abstentions.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The draft amendment could not be adopted, having failed to obtain a 2/3rd majority of members present and voting.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">The adopted resolution called for the rescinding of the order by “Israel, the occupying Power”, for Palestinian civilians and United Nations staff, as well as humanitarian and medical workers, to evacuate all areas in the Gaza Strip north of the Wadi Gaza and relocate to southern Gaza.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">It also called for the immediate and unconditional release of all civilians who are being illegally held captive, demanding their safety, well-being and humane treatment in compliance with international law.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">It emphasised the importance of preventing further destabilisation and escalation of violence in the region and in this regard called upon all parties to exercise maximum restraint and upon all those with influence on them to work toward this objective.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/un-chief-rejects-israel-accusations-he-justified-hamas-attacks/article67460932.ece" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration-color: inherit;" target="_self">Antonio Guterres voiced deep concern at the humanitarian system in Gaza</a>, saying it is facing a total collapse with unimaginable consequences for more than 2 million civilians.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Mr. Guterres noted that about 500 trucks per day were crossing into Gaza before the hostilities began but in recent days, an average of only 12 trucks per day have entered, despite needs being far greater than at any time before. Further, the supplies that have trickled in do not include fuel for United Nations operations.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Given the desperate and dramatic situation, the United Nations will not be able to continue to deliver inside Gaza without an immediate and fundamental shift in how aid is going in,” Mr. Guterres said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">He added that the verification system for the movement of goods through the Rafah crossing must be adjusted to allow many more trucks to enter Gaza without delay.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">Mr. Guterres underscored that life-saving humanitarian aid — food, water, medicine, fuel — must be allowed to reach all civilians swiftly, safely and at scale.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; line-height: 2rem; max-width: 100%;">“Misery is growing by the minute. Without a fundamental change, the people of Gaza will face an unprecedented avalanche of human suffering,” the UN chief said.</p><div class="comments-shares share-page" data-artid="67469141" data-title="India abstains from UNGA vote on Israel, says terrorism is a ‘malignancy’ without naming Hamas" data-url="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/israel-hamas-conflict-terrorism-is-a-malignancy-knows-no-borders-india-tells-unga-after-abstaining-on-resolution-seeking-humanitarian-truce/article67469141.ece" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1f25; font-family: "Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif; max-width: 100%;"></div><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/israel-hamas-conflict-terrorism-is-a-malignancy-knows-no-borders-india-tells-unga-after-abstaining-on-resolution-seeking-humanitarian-truce/article67469141.ece">https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/israel-hamas-conflict-terrorism-is-a-malignancy-knows-no-borders-india-tells-unga-after-abstaining-on-resolution-seeking-humanitarian-truce/article67469141.ece</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0