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Iran newspaper: Strike Haifa if Israel killed scientist

In this picture released by the Iranian Defense Ministry and taken on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, people pray over the flag draped coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian scientist linked to the country’s disbanded military nuclear program, who was killed on Friday, during a funeral ceremony at the Imam Reza holy shrine in the northeastern

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Police brutality protests turn violent in Paris

Fire set to Banque de France as thousands turn out against abuse by law enforcement Saturday marked a day of widespread protest in France as “The March of Freedoms” saw thousands decry police brutality and a new global security bill that favors protecting police above freedom of expression. ”The demonstration in Paris started at 2

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Somali nationals killed and wounded in South Africa.

Armed gangs in South Africa attacked and killed Somali nationals in South Africa, killing and injuring them during Saturday night. The robbers attacked a shop owned by Somali traders in the South African city of Port Elizabeth, killing a Somali national, according to a witness told Somali Times. The gunmen also seriously injured another Somali

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US reports several explosions heard in Eritrea’s capital

Tigray men who fled the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, run to recieve cooked rice from charity organization Muslim Aid, at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed again ruled out dialogue with the leaders of the defiant Tigray region Friday but said he was

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Ethiopia says its military now controls the Tigray capital

Filippo Grandi, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, visits Umm Rakouba refugee camp sheltering people who fled the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) Ethiopia’s military has gained full control of the capital of the defiant Tigray region, the army announced Saturday after Tigray TV reported

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Ethiopian government begins offensive in Tigray capital city

The Ethiopian military has begun its offensive in the Tigray regional capital in its quest to arrest the region’s defiant leaders. Tigray TV announced the shelling midday Saturday in Mekele, a city of a half-million people. A report from the city confirms it. ”The Tigray leader could not immediately be reached. Ethiopia’s government did not

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Police officer facing jail after having sex with crime victim in station’s disabled toilet

Photo: Credit The Independent By Maya Oppenheim A police officer could be sent to prison after having sex with the victim of a crime in his station’s disabled toilet. PC Christopher Wilson, who is based in Cornwall, asked the woman if she wanted to “get with a man in uniform” after approaching her when she

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Iran says ‘hard revenge awaits’ scientist’s killers

Iran’s top nuclear scientist assassinated by unknown assailants near capital Tehran The killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist by unknown assailants is being linked to Israel by senior political, military officials in Tehran. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the top-notch nuclear scientist who headed research and innovation wing at Iran’s Defense Ministry, was killed on Friday on the

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Temporary US Pentagon chief makes rare visit to Somalia

U.S. Army Spc. Kevin Martin, junior sniper, assigned to the 1-186th Infantry Battalion, Task Force Guardian, Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, provides security for a 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron (EAS) C-130J Super Hercules during unloading operations at an unidentified location in Somalia Sunday, June 28, 2020. No country has been involved in

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Iran’s top nuclear scientist shot dead near Tehran

The scene of the attack on nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh near the Iranian capital Tehran on Friday. Photograph: AP By Patrick Wintour and Oliver Holmes Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, identified by Israel as director of nuclear weapons programme, ambushed in street An Iranian nuclear scientist described as the guru of Iran’s nuclear programme has been gunned down

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