Category: Foreign

Hezbollah leader’s ‘path to continue’ despite his killing -Iran

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The Iranian foreign ministry said Saturday, that the path of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah will continue despite his killing in an Israeli air strike in Beirut, after a year of cross-border clashes between the two sides. “The glorious path of the leader of the resistance, Hassan Nasrallah, will continue and his sacred goal will be realised in the liberation of Quds (Jerusalem), God willing,” foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a post on social media X, mourning Nasrallah’s death. Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, armed and financed by Iran, on Saturday…

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17 killed, one hospitalised in South Africa mass shooting

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Police in South Africa have confirmed that seventeen people have been killed in a mass shooting in a remote South African town with a manhunt underway to find the perpetrators. Two homesteads in the town of Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape were targeted, police said, with 12 women and one man killed in one location, and three women and one man at a second location. An 18th victim is in a critical condition in hospital, the South Africa Police Service said. The police minister, Senzo Mchunu, is expected to visit…

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Five persons arrested in India over killing of 7-yr-old boy in ritual sacrifice

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Police in India have confirmed the arrest of five persons who were allegedly involved in the killing of a seven-year-old boy in an alleged ritual sacrifice aimed at bringing good fortune to a public school. The victim was found dead in his bed on Sunday night at the hostel where he lived in the city of Hathras, not far from the country’s famed Taj Mahal. Instead of alerting authorities, police said that school director Dinesh Baghel hid the body in the trunk of his car. Police officer Himanshu Mathur said…

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Puff Daddy in legal troubles over sexual abuse Allegations

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Rapper and music mogul, Sean Combs, known as P Diddy or Puff Daddy, credited with launching the careers of major stars, has been in the spotlight over sexual abuse allegations. Combs was arrested on Monday, September 16, by federal agents in New York after facing months of civil lawsuits alleging sex trafficking, sexual abuse and rape. Combs, who was denied bail twice, is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. According to The Independent, federal prosecutors in a newly unsealed indictment accuse Combs and his associates of coercing…

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Coup plot: Presidential guard, two others arrested in Republic of Benin

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Republic of Benin prosecutors announced on Wednesday that three prominent figures, including the commander of the presidential guard, have been arrested on suspicion of planning a coup d’etat in the small West African nation. The two others accused of plotting the coup are a former sports minister and a businessman with close ties to President Patrice Talon. According to Elonm Mario Metonou, the special prosecutor at Benin’s court for financial crimes and terrorism, the alleged coup was set to take place on Friday. “It appears the Republican Guard commander in…

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Walkie-talkies explodes, kill 20, injure 450 during burial of persons killed via pagers in Lebanon

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A second wave of explosions from wireless communication devices in Lebanon has left no fewer than 20 people dead and more than 450 others wounded. Reports say a large number of walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah blew up in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, the Bekaa Valley, and southern Lebanon, which are seen as its strongholds. Some of the blasts took place during funerals for some of the 12 people who the ministry said were killed when Hezbollah members’ pagers exploded across the country on Tuesday. Hezbollah blamed Israel…

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UK govt warns of tough decisions as debt hits landmark high

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Official data has shown that UK state debt is equivalent to the country’s annual output, as the new government warns of tough decisions on tax and spending ahead of its maiden budget. “Public sector net debt… was provisionally estimated at 100 percent of gross domestic product at the end of August,” the Office for National Statistics said in a release. This matched a level last seen in the early 1960s, the ONS added. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose Labour party was elected in early July, has warned Britons that the…

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American actor, Tyrese Gibson arrested over monthly $10K child support

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American actor, Tyrese Gibson has been taken into custody after he failed to pay the monthly $10,000 child support payments a judge ordered him to make to his ex Samantha Lee. Gibson – who shares five-year-old daughter Soraya with Lee – was held in contempt of court Monday morning during a hearing over the matter. Judge Kevin Farmer was upset over Gibson’s refusal to make the monthly $10,000 child support payments the actor was ordered to begin paying in April 2023. Farmer held Gibson in contempt of court Monday. And…

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83-year-old Canadian fashion mogul sentenced to 11 years for sexual assaults

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The founder of one of Canada’s largest clothing brands, Peter Nygard has been sentenced on Monday to 11 years in prison for four counts of sexual assault of women and a girl in Toronto. He faces release in about six and a half years with credit for time spent in pre-trial custody, or sooner if he is granted parole. Nygard, 83, is “a Canadian success story gone very wrong,” Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Goldstein said in handing down the sentence. He called him “a sexual predator,” adding that “Mr…

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Attacker of Ugandan athlete, Cheptegei, dies in hospital

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Dickson Ndiema Marangach, the man who attacked Ugandan runner Rebecca Cheptegei, has died from injuries sustained when he poured petrol over the Olympic athlete, the Kenyan hospital treating him said Tuesday. Police said that Dickson Ndiema Marangach assaulted Cheptegei in her home in western Kenya on September 1. The mother-of-two sustained 80 percent burns and died last week. In the course of the attack, Marangach also incurred 30 percent burns and was being treated in the intensive care unit at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in the Rift…

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