Iran’ foreign ministry on Wednesday rejected French President Emmanuel Macron’s claim that Iran posed the main security threat in the Middle East. Macron on Monday said Iran was accelerating its nuclear program, which the West suspects is aimed at making a nuclear bomb. Source link
Known for never backpedaling his scandalous statements, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the co-founder of France’s right-wing National Front party who died on Tuesday aged 96, amassed a series of controversies throughout his time in the political arena — from calling the infamous Nazi gas chambers a “detail” of World War II, to publicly hurling homophobic slurs … Read more
Washington: America’s newly elected President Donald Trump keeps making statements about making Canada the 51st state of America. Even after the resignation of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he made a similar statement. On this statement of Trump, Trudeau has said that there is no possibility of this. But this is not the first time … Read more
Accused of belonging to the Palestinian group Hamas, which was then Bashar Al-Assad’s bête noire, Mohamar Ouda was arrested by the Syrian army in Yarmouk in 2015. He spent seven years in prison, where his executioners inflicted all kinds of torture on him that still haunt him day and night. Source link
Panama reiterated on Tuesday that the sovereignty of its designated ship canal was not up for discussion after US President-elect Donald Trump ruled out military action to seize control. Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha said, “The sovereignty of our canal is non-negotiable and is part of the history of our struggle.” He said President Jose Raul … Read more
Hours after US President Joe Biden welcomed exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia in the US, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said seven foreigners, including two Americans, had been arrested for planning unspecified “terrorist acts” days prior to Maduro’s inauguration into a third presidential term . Source link
Palestinian health officials said at least 17 people were killed in Israeli air strikes in the southern Gaza Strip late Tuesday. The attacks affected the Khan Yunis area, including areas where people displaced by more than a year of war were living in tents. The Israeli military said in a statement that it carried out … Read more
Venezuelan authorities have arrested seven foreigners, including two Americans, who President Nicolas Maduro has accused of being “mercenaries”. The arrests were announced late Tuesday ahead of Maduro’s swearing-in ceremony on Friday for a third term in office after last year’s election, which the opposition says he won by a landslide. Maduro said the detained US … Read more
France 24 correspondent Wassim Cornet reports from Los Angeles, where authorities have ordered thousands to evacuate the Northern Palisades neighborhood as a massive wildfire, buoyed by the strongest windstorm in almost 15 years, cared for down the coast of southern California on Tuesday. People were seen leaving their cars to flee on foot, forcing authorities … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump, Jr., visited Greenland on Tuesday, while his father refused to rule out military or economic coercion as a means to purchase the mineral and oil-rich island. Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in acquiring the Danish territory, as well as the Panama Canal, saying on Tuesday that they are … Read more