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US President Donald Trump said he would discuss “free and fair” voting in an address to the nation on Thursday, apparently doubling down on his false claims to have won the 2020 election.US media reported that his speech would address newly declassified intelligence reports that the White House claims reveal plans by foreign nations to interfere in the vote won six years ago by Joe Biden. Asked whether his address would involve “election machines and integrity,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday: “It will concern that subject, and we’ll have a couple of other things to say also. But I’d rather save it.”“It’s really, really big news. Our country has to shape up,” he added.“What we’re going to be talking about Thursday is — it doesn’t get bigger because without free and fair elections, you don’t have a country. We’ll be discussing other things too, but it’s going to be a very big announcement.” Republican Trump, in office for the second time after previously serving as US president from 2017 to 2021, has long pushed false allegations that he won the 2020 election.In the year 2021, Pro-Trump supporters violently stormed the US Capitol on January 6 in a bid to stop the certification of Democrat Biden’s victory. Obsessed with the defeat, Trump has in recent months stepped up unproven accusations of alleged attempts by Democrats to rig November’s crucial midterm elections. The Democrats have fired back at Trump, saying he has been taking steps to seize control of the midterms via gerrymandering election districts, as well as the past week’s sacking ofthe final two Democrats on a federal agency that oversees and ensures fair polls.Republicans fear they could lose their grip on the House of Representatives and possibly even the Senate, with Trump’s approval nearing record lows in opinion polls.The president could face a third impeachment trial if Democrats do seize control of the House. He was impeached twice in his first term — once over Ukraine and a second for alleged incitement of the January 6 riots.Trump’s primetime address to the nation comes amid mounting hostilities with Iran, as a fragile ceasefire appears to have collapsed. Source link
Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis appeared on the brink of renewed war after the fighters claimed their first large-scale strikes on the kingdom since 2022, analysts and a Gulf source said. The Houthis fired missiles at an airport in the southern Saudi Arabian city of Abha late Monday, after the Yemeni government hit Sanaa airport to divert a flight from Iran that had onboard a Houthi delegation returning from the late supreme leader’s funeral. The Houthis have blamed Riyadh for the attack. For some analysts, the exchange likely marked a new era of hostilities and the end of a four-year uneasy truce that ended attacks between Yemen’s government and the coalition that backs it, and the Houthis. Source link
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A Palestinian was martyred Sunday after being shot by Israeli occupation forces east of Gaza City.Israeli occupation forces continued to violate the ceasefire agreement by carrying out shelling and opening fire in various areas across the Gaza Strip.Israeli occupation artillery shelled Al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza and renewed its targeting of areas in the eastern part of the city, while Israeli military vehicles opened heavy fire in the same area.The artillery shelling also struck the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, as gunfire and shelling continued in the eastern parts of Khan Younis in the south and in central areas of the Strip.Earlier today, a Palestinian child was martyred from injuries sustained when he was targeted by an Israeli drone in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.The death toll from the Israeli occupation offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, has risen to 72,608 martyrs and 172,445 wounded. Source link
In the middle of a field filled with bright red poppies, Afghans frolic among the spring flowers in a tradition deeply rooted in the country’s north.Families flocked to the valleys of Shirin Tagab district, near the border with Turkmenistan, to be among thousands of flowers that appeared after abundant rain. “There has been a drought for almost 10 years. No flowers or greenery grew,” said Ghawsudin, who only uses one name.“This year has been very good, and God is merciful,” said the 79-year-old, who drove for three hours just to see the flowers. Mohammad Ashraf, a 35-year-old visitor, said he hadn’t seen so many poppies for more than a decade. “Now there are so many red flowers, and you see people come here for picnics,” he told AFP.The landscape in Shirin Tagab is brightened by the common poppy, not the opium poppy that authorities have banned. Many Afghans living in the north used to travel to see the poppies after celebrating Persian New Year, Nowruz, in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The Taliban government, which applies a strict interpretation of Islamic law, has stopped such celebrations each spring.But the tradition of visiting the poppies, which are widely revered in poems and songs, has endured. Oriane Zerah, a photographer who published a book about Afghans and flowers, said they are an integral part of daily life. “As soon as an Afghan has a little space in their garden, they plant a flower. Even in displacement camps, there’ll be a flower somewhere. They put them on their pakol, one of their traditional hats, and there are desserts made with flowers,” she told AFP. The poppy has also been associated with wartime in the country, with the flower often placed on the coffins of fighters, according to Afghan writer Taqi Wahidi. “Dying in the path of the homeland, or in the path of religion and faith, was considered a kind of new resurrection and entry into a new life,” he told AFP.The same flower is widely used in countries, such as Britain, Australia and New Zealand, where people wear artificial poppies to remember those killed in past conflicts.Nowadays in Afghanistan, however, the poppy “symbolises vitality and freshness”, according to Wahidi.“At the same time that nature is renewed, human beings also want to bring new colours into their lives,” he said. Related Story Source link
Palestinian child martyred, others wounded by shrapnel from Israeli shelling in southern Gaza
A Palestinian child was martyred after succumbing to wounds sustained from a targeted Israeli occupation drone in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.WAFA news agency cited medical sources as saying that a drone dropped a bomb on a group of Palestinian citizens in the Qizan Abu Rashwan area south of Khan Younis, resulting in the child being hit and killed by shrapnel instantly before reaching the hospital, as well as wounding others.Meanwhile, medical sources in Gaza reported a worsening shortage of laboratory testing materials in laboratories and blood banks. The deficit reached 86% of the needs, while the stock of many of these materials have depleted.The same sources explained that blood gas testing materials have completely run out in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital laboratory, while the remaining quantities in other hospitals are sufficient for only a few days.The sources warned that the continuation of this shortage threatens medical follow-up procedures for patients, hinders surgical operations, and directly affects emergency and intensive care cases. Source link
