Category: Foreign

Ilir Meta, former president of Albania and a fierce opponent of Prime Minister Edi Rama, was arrested Monday in Tirana, his political party announced, with media reporting he was suspected of money laundering. Meta was arrested in Tirana by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation, the Freedom Party said in a statement, adding that it had not received an official explanation. The party’s secretary general Tedi Blushi in the statement called it a “criminal kidnapping”. Meta, 55, was president from 2017 to 2022. Images published by Albanian media showed…

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A day after Israel announced killing Yahya Sinwar, Palestinian militant group Hamas, on Friday confirmed his death in Gaza. “We mourn the great leader, the martyred brother, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim,” Qatar-based Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said in a recorded video statement broadcast by Al Jazeera. Sinwar became Israel’s most wanted man after the October 7, 2023 attack, the deadliest in Israeli history. Israel announced Sinwar’s death on Thursday, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “heavy blow” to the Palestinian group Israeli forces have been fighting in Gaza more…

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Passengers aboard a Turkish Airline were yesterday thrown into a state of panic as the pilot died after collapsing mid-flight, forcing the Turkish national carrier to make an emergency landing in New York, the airline said. The plane had taken off from the western US coastal city of Seattle on Tuesday evening, airline spokesman Yahya Ustun wrote on X, formerly Twitter. He wrote: “The pilot of our Airbus 350 flight TK204 from Seattle to Istanbul collapsed during the flight. After an unsuccessful attempt to give first aid, the flight crew…

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Hamas, Palestinian militant group, has said an Israeli strike has killed one of its commanders in a refugee camp in north Lebanon Saturday, the first time the area had been hit since the start of the Gaza war. “Commander” Saeed Attallah Ali, his wife and two daughters were killed in “Zionist bombardment of his house in the Beddawi camp” near the northern city of Tripoli, it said. Israel has repeatedly targeted Hamas officials in Lebanon since the Gaza war erupted almost a year ago. Hamas has announced the deaths of…

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Former US president, Jimmy Carter celebrated his 100th birthday on Tuesday. He is the first-ever US president to reach the century mark. Jimmy Carter who began hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, more than 19 months ago, has defied all expectations. No longer regularly appearing in public, the Democratic ex-president spent his birthday in the home he and his late wife Rosalynn had built in Plains in the 1960s. President Joe Biden, in a video posted on his official X account, hailed Carter as a “beloved friend” and…

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