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Good evening from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. The Nigerian Army has announced arrangements for the burial rites of the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja. According to the program released on Tuesday the service of songs for the late CAOS will be held on Thursday at the…
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A REFLECTION OF THE TRUTH A Message to Donald Trump Adham Sharqawi(Al-Watan Newspaper, Qatar) Dear Mr. Donald Trump, Greetings, I swear by God that I was hoping you would win. Even my wife congratulated me on your victory, saying: “Your friend has won!” Of course, I would have voted for you, not out of love…
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Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday threatened Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel after its Oct. 26 attack on the Islamic Republic that targeted military bases and other locations and…
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UN aid agency UNRWA has been “exposed” over links with Hamas to the point where the organisation is not a “few bad apples” but a “whole rotten orchard”, an Israeli government spokesman has claimed. The aid agency, which is responsible for more than five million Palestinian refugees, has come under repeated attack by Benjamin Netanyahu,…
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The head of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says the agency is keen to step up its support to people in crisis after Israel’s decision to ban the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees. Director-general Amy Pope cautioned, however, said there was “no way” that it could replace the work UNRWA does in Gaza.…
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Naim Kassem is “pretty much the only” senior figure left in Hezbollah who could have been chosen as the group’s new leader, says Middle East-based news correspondent Alistair Bunkall. The 71-year-old replaces Hassan Nasrallah as Hezbollah’s leader after he was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut last month. Senior Hezbollah figure Hashem Safieddine, considered to…
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Good afternoon Welcome back to our live coverage of developments in the Middle East. Israel has passed a law banning the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, from operating in the country, a move the organisation’s chief says will “deepen the suffering of Palestinians, especially in Gaza”. The law passed in the Knesset yesterday banned…
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The Canadian government Tuesday announced that it has listed Samidoun, known as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, as a terrorist entity. According to a news release from Public Safety Canada, Samidoun has close links with and advances the interests of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is a listed terrorist entity…
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Donald Trump says Joe Biden’s lack of conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu is “pathetic” and that Israel’s prime minister is not listening to him. Mr Biden spoke with Mr Netanyahu last week in what was the first known conversation between the two leaders since August. Mr Trump, the Republican presidential candidate for the upcoming US election,…
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Proscribed Igbo separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has again warned youths from the South-East against joining the Nigerian Army, saying they will be used as sacrificial lambs. The group, in a statement on Saturday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said the Nigerian Army was not for Biafrans because it had…
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Libya has been in political turmoil since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The International Criminal Court has unsealed arrest warrants for six men allegedly linked to a Libyan militia blamed for multiple killings in a strategically important western town where mass graves were discovered in 2020. Libya has been in…
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The attack on Hezbollah operatives using pagers “worked perfectly”, a former head of research and analysis at Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has said. Sima Shine told news agencies that the detonation of pagers was “a combination of three elements that worked perfectly”. She said this included: “Intelligence on one hand, technology on the other, and…
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A video seized by British detectives from an early 9/11 suspect 23 years ago raises a series of questions, says a survivor of the attacks. The previously-unseen film was shot by the suspect as he wandered around US government buildings in Washington DC two years before the hijackers struck. He filmed the White House, the…
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America is facing the biggest threat of a terror attack since 9/11 and the Biden-Harris administration is exposing Americans to “serious risks,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Thursday. Cruz last week sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warning of the dangers the administration’s “open border policy” poses to airports. On…
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The National Economic Council (NEC) has given all states until September 9, 2024, to make their positions known on the establishment of State Police. NEC gave the deadline on Wednesday at its meeting chaired by Vice President Kashim Shettima. Briefing State House Correspondents shortly after the meeting held at the Council Chamber of the State…
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Videos have surfaced online of bandit kingpin, Bello Turji and his gang celebrating taking over the Nigerian Army Armoured Personnel Carrier. Turji and his gang also took over lots of ammunition from the Nigerian Army during the seizure of the carrier. This was confirmed by a counterinsurgency and security expert in the Lake Chad region,…
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