Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure in the country’s 2011 uprising who has spent the past decade behind bars, walked free from prison Saturday following a presidential pardon. Douma, now 37, was a leading activist in the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak. He was arrested in t...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistani President Arif Alvi said on Sunday that his staff messed up on two controversial bills passed by the Parliament earlier this month. The outgoing lower house or the National Assembly passed the Official Secrets Amendment Bill 2023 and Pakistan Army Amendment Bill 2023, aimed at expanding the role of the [&hell...
AUSTIN, Texas – A Texas woman has been arrested for threatening to kill the federal judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington, DC. Abigail Jo Shry allegedly threatened to kill U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan and longtime Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. She called ...
– Pascale Ferrier also mailed ricin-laced letters to 8 Texas law enforcement officials HOUSTON (AA) – A dual Canadian and French national was sentenced Thursday to nearly 22 years in prison for mailing ricin-laced letters to then-President Donald Trump and law enforcement officials, the US Attorney’s office in Washington, D.C...
-In an interview with state news agency Belta, Lukashenko says that Belarus would join the war if Ukrainians crossed its border MINSK, Belarus – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that his country would be prepared to use nuclear weapons provided by its ally Russia in response to foreign “aggression.” “We did ...
Investigators ‘working closely with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to track down the origin of threats’ WASHINGTON (AA) – Authorities are investigating threats against members of the grand jury that indicted former US President Donald Trump regarding election interference charges in the state of Georgia, o...
ANKARA (AA) – Afghanistan’s interim Taliban government Wednesday said no political party is allowed to work in the war-torn country. Presenting his ministry’s one-year performance report in the capital Kabul on Wednesday, Taliban’s Justice Minister Abdul Hakim Sharie said political parties are completely banned in Afghanistan as th...
ATLANTA, Georgia – Former U.S. President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants indicted by a Georgia grand jury will be housed at the Fulton County jail. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office announced that the Fulton County Jail is being prepared to house the former president. The defendants have until Aug. 25 to turn themselves in to [&...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami has alleged that its vice-president Delawar Hossain Sayedee died due to lack of medical treatment in jail. Delawar, an illustrious Islamic scholar, had been convicted of “crimes against humanity” during the war in 1971 which resulted into the creation of Bangladesh. He died in c...
-Son of Muammar Gaddafi, Hannibal is detailed in Lebanon in connection with disappearance of Shite leader. TRIPOLI, Libya – Libyan judicial authorities have formally called on Lebanon to release Hannibal Gaddafi, one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons. He has been held in Lebanon without charge since 2015. Gaddafi has been on hunger strike ...
