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Iran rejects accusations implicating it in plot to kill Donald Trump

Iran rejects accusations implicating it in plot to kill Donald Trump
Former US president Donald Trump ordered the 2020 killing of Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike just outside Baghdad airport. (AP)
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Updated 17 July 2024
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Iran rejects accusations implicating it in plot to kill Donald Trump

Iran rejects accusations implicating it in plot to kill Donald Trump
  • CNN has reported US authorities received intelligence weeks ago on an alleged Iranian plot
  • Iran’s mission to the United Nations calls the accusations “unsubstantiated and malicious”
Updated 17 July 2024
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TEHRAN: Iran on Wednesday rejected what it called “malicious” accusations by US media implicating it in a plot to kill former US president Donald Trump.
CNN reported Tuesday that US authorities received intelligence from a “human source” weeks ago on an alleged Iranian plot against the former president, prompting his protection to be boosted. Other US outlets also reported the alleged plot.
CNN said the alleged plot was not linked to Saturday’s shooting at a Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania, in which the former president was wounded and a supporter killed.
The US National Security Council said it had been “tracking Iranian threats against former Trump administration officials for years” after Tehran threatened revenge for the 2020 killing of Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in neighboring Iraq.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations called the accusations “unsubstantiated and malicious.”
Foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said Iran “strongly rejects any involvement in the recent armed attack against Trump.”
He added however that Iran remains “determined to prosecute Trump over his direct role in the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani.”
Soleimani headed the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, overseeing Iranian military operations across the Middle East.
Trump ordered his killing in a drone strike just outside Baghdad airport.

Topics: Iran Dnald Trump

Dozens protest in Sudan as army-backed govt switches out banknotes

Dozens protest in Sudan as army-backed govt switches out banknotes
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Dozens protest in Sudan as army-backed govt switches out banknotes

Dozens protest in Sudan as army-backed govt switches out banknotes
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PORT SUDAN: Dozens of Sudanese demonstrated outside the seat of the army-backed government in Port Sudan on Tuesday to protest against its move to enact a partial currency swap.
The army-backed government had set a Monday deadline for residents of the six states under its control to swap old 500 and 1,000 Sudanese pound banknotes for new ones.
But as dozens protested outside government offices in the Red Sea port city on Tuesday, information minister Khalid Al-Aiser announced that residents would have until Jan. 6 to replace their old notes.
The value of the Sudanese pound has plummeted during 20 months of fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, from 500 to the dollar in April 2023 to 2,500 to the dollar now.
The war has killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted more than 12 million and left no sector of the economy unscathed.
The army-backed government says the partial currency swap aims to “protect the national economy and combat criminal operations” by counterfeiters.
But the arrival of Monday’s deadline paralyzed transport and trade in Port Sudan, the country’s main export outlet.
Bus drivers, petrol stations and store owners refused to accept the old banknotes, while banks had only limited supplies of the new notes, AFP correspondents reported.
Many Sudanese accused the administration of placing an extra burden on the war-weary and increasingly impoverished population.
Critics have also warned that the move risks adding an economic dimension to the divide between areas under army control and those held by the RSF.
The RSF now controls nearly all the western region of Darfur and swathes of the center and south, while the army holds the north and east.
Greater Khartoum is split between the warring sides.
The RSF has already banned the use of the new notes in areas under its control and accused the army of “a conspiracy to divide the country.”

Syria’s foreign minister receives phone call from Egyptian counterpart

Syria’s foreign minister receives phone call from Egyptian counterpart
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Syria’s foreign minister receives phone call from Egyptian counterpart

Syria’s foreign minister receives phone call from Egyptian counterpart
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CAIRO: Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan Al-Shibani, appointed by the new rulers, said on X on Tuesday that he had received a phone call from his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty, where they discussed the importance of both countries in bringing peace to the region.

Topics: Fall of Assad

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Lebanese military enters Chamaa following Israeli withdrawal

Lebanese military enters Chamaa following Israeli withdrawal
Updated 31 December 2024
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Lebanese military enters Chamaa following Israeli withdrawal

Lebanese military enters Chamaa following Israeli withdrawal
  • French defense, foreign ministers welcome New Year with UN peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon
Updated 31 December 2024
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BEIRUT: For the first time since the ceasefire agreement went into effect a month and four days ago, a joint patrol of the Lebanese Armed Forces and UNIFIL entered the town of Chamaa in the western sector, following the withdrawal of Israeli forces.

The army repositioned itself at various posts at the start of the ground war launched by the Israeli military, which advanced into several towns and villages across the border region. Israeli soldiers remain in some areas despite the ceasefire, continuing to demolish homes and bulldoze roads it claims are Hezbollah facilities.

Israel is carrying out a slow withdrawal from the region despite 35 days having passed since the ceasefire was agreed. The Israeli forces still have 25 days remaining before the final deadline for their complete withdrawal, during which the Lebanese military is set to deploy and work on clearing the area of illegal weapons in implementation of Resolution 1701.

Lebanese engineering teams headed to Chamaa to remove unexploded ordnance and inspect the area before stationing themselves there following the Israeli withdrawal.

Two weeks ago, the Lebanese military entered Khiam, working to open roads and seize weapons and ammunition depots found in the town and surrounding areas. It said that “there will be no weapons other than those of the Lebanese Army.”

Meanwhile, Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee reiterated in a social media post a warning to “the residents of southern Lebanon not to return to their homes or move south of a line extending from Mansouri in the west to the town of Shebaa in the east, at a depth ranging between three and nine kilometers, until further notice.”

Adraee claimed that Israel “does not intend to target civilians at this stage, but anyone who decides to return to villages and areas south of this line puts themselves at great risk.”

The restricted area, where residents are barred from returning to, now encompasses 63 towns along the Lebanese-Israeli border.

In a serious incident, Israeli forces shot and wounded Charbel Choufani, a Rmeish resident, as he attempted to reach his farm near the town. Choufani was struck in the shoulder and hospitalized.

Despite the ceasefire agreement, Israeli forces have continued artillery bombardment of border areas, including strikes targeting Shebaa.

Meanwhile France’s Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu and Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot conducted their second day of diplomatic visits in southern Lebanon.

The ministers received comprehensive security briefings from Lebanese Army Brig. Gen. Gaby Lawandos, commander of the South Litani Sector, and French UNIFIL contingent representatives in Deir Kifa.

During their visit, the ministers observed joint UNIFIL-Lebanese Army armored patrols and reviewed military capabilities, including reconnaissance, transport, and Cobra battery units.

The ministers, who chose to spend their year-end holiday with French peacekeepers, shared meals with the troops.

Earlier, the French delegation met with Lebanese Army Commander Gen. Joseph Aoun and France’s representative to the Five-Party Committee monitoring the ceasefire, Brig. Gen. Guillaume Ponchin.

The ministers will attend a memorial service on Wednesday at the Pine Residence in Beirut, honoring a French peacekeeper who died in a traffic accident near Shamaa on Nov. 15 while on UNIFIL patrol duty.

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Syrian lawyers demand free bar association elections

Syrian lawyers demand free bar association elections
Updated 31 December 2024
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Syrian lawyers demand free bar association elections

Syrian lawyers demand free bar association elections
  • Petition says bar association "must no longer be subordinate to the whims of any ruler"
Updated 31 December 2024
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BEIRUT: Syrian lawyers launched an online petition demanding free elections for their bar association after the country’s new rulers appointed a council to govern the association, a lawyer told AFP Tuesday.
Islamist-led rebels toppled longtime president Bashar Assad earlier this month, ending more than 50 years of his family’s iron-clad rule.
Lawyer Abdulhay Sayed, who signed the petition, told AFP that Syria’s new rulers “appointed a new council” to govern the bar association with “no visibility for the future.”
The petition, seen by AFP, said: “Today, with the collapse of the deposed regime, the bar association must no longer be subordinate to the whims of any ruler.
“It is imperative that it reclaim its rightful role in public life and empower its members to defend the rights of individuals and safeguard society’s existence, even against the most powerful authorities,” it added.
The petition said its councils should not be replaced by “others lacking electoral legitimacy.”
“This approach would simply substitute one form of authoritarianism for another, perpetuating the suppression of the bar’s vital role in oversight and protection of rights,” the statement said.
“At this critical transitional moment, it is essential to organize free and independent elections for the central bar association and its branches across the provinces without delay,” it said.
The petition was signed by about two dozen lawyers mainly based in the Damascus, Homs and Hama areas.
It “aims to restore the bar association’s historical role and its independence,” Sayed told AFP.
The bar had played a leading role in opposing state repression, particularly in the early 1980s, before being muzzled by authorities that imposed their own appointees.
Syria’s new authorities have suspended the constitution and parliament for a three-month interim period and appointed a transitional government to head the country during that time.
Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa said organizing national elections could take four years and that rewriting the constitution could take two or three years, in a televised interview last week.

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Dozens of patients and wounded evacuated from Gaza for treatment

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Updated 31 December 2024
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Dozens of patients and wounded evacuated from Gaza for treatment

A Palestinian woman washes her clothes outside her tent at a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians, during a storm in Gaza C
  • The 45 patients left the European Hospital in Khan Younis and crossed into Israel
  • Patients will be sent to UAE for treatment
Updated 31 December 2024
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Dozens of patients and the wounded have been evacuated for treatment outside the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where the United Nations says Israel’s attacks on and around hospitals have pushed health care to the brink.
The 45 patients left the European Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis early Tuesday and traveled through the Kerem Shalom Crossing into Israel, Palestinian health officials said. They will receive treatment in the United Arab Emirates.
Among them was a 10-year-old boy, Abdullah Abu Yousef, suffering from kidney failure. He was accompanied by his sister after the Israeli authorities rejected his mother’s application to join him. Israel says it screens escorts for security.
“The boy is sick,” said his mother, Abeer Abu Yousef. “He requires hemodialysis three to four days a week.”
The Health Ministry says several thousand Palestinians in Gaza need medical treatment abroad. Israel has controlled all entry and exit points since capturing the southern city of Rafah in May. Israel’s offensive, launched after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack has gutted the territory’s health care system and forced most of its hospitals to close. Those that remain open are only partially functioning.

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