WORLD - The African Mirror

Mar

23

2024

Israeli military says troops captured hundreds of fighters in Gaza hospital

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ISRAELI forces have detained hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters including several security officials and military commanders during its extended raid into Gaza's main hospital, the military's main spokesperson said. Israeli troops entered the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in the early hours of Monday morning and have been combing through the sprawling complex, which the military says is connected to a tunnel network used as a base for Palestinian fighters. It says troops have killed hundreds of fighters in the operation and also detained over 500 suspects, including 358 members of the Islamist militant groups Hamas and…

Dec

01

2025

By FEDERICO DONELLI

Global power shifts are playing out in the Red Sea region: why this is where the rules are changing

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THE competition for global influence and control is shifting. One of the places where this dynamic is playing out is the Red Sea region, which encompasses Egypt, Eritrea, Djibouti, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Here, international rivalries, regional ambitions and local politics collide. Federico Donelli, who has studied these political dynamics and recently published Power Competition in the Red Sea, explains what’s driving the region’s geopolitical significance. What defines the Red Sea as a region? The region stretches from the Suez Canal to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, covering approximately 438,000km². The Red Sea borders some of the world’s most volatile…

Mar

23

2024

By The African Mirror

UK royal Kate’s statement about cancer discovery

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KATE, Britain's Princess of Wales, said that tests taken after a surgery she had in January had revealed cancer had been present and she was now undergoing a course of preventative chemotherapy. Below is the full transcript of Kate's video message: "I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you, personally, for all the wonderful messages of support and for your understanding whilst I have been recovering from surgery. "It has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family, but I’ve had a fantastic medical team who have taken great care of me, for which I…

Mar

23

2024

By STEVE GORMAN and BRENDAN O'BRIEN

Mississippi ‘Goon Squad’ torture defendants get prison terms of 10 to 40 years

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A federal judge in Mississippi wrapped up the sentencing of six white former law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to the "Goon Squad" torture and sexual abuse of two Black men, leaving the defendants each facing from 10 to 40 years in prison. The six men still face sentencing on state charges for their roles in the home-invasion assault, which has stood out among dozens of racially charged U.S. police misconduct cases in recent years for the chilling nature of its calculated brutality. The two victims, Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker were handcuffed, stripped naked, beaten, sexually assaulted…

Mar

23

2024

By SHIVAM PATEL

Delhi chief minister Kejriwal arrested in liquor graft case

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INDIA'S financial crime agency arrested Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi on Thursday in connection with graft allegations relating to the city's liquor policy, his party said, a setback for the opposition ahead of elections. The arrest means the main leaders of the decade-old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are in jail, following the arrests last year of two of Kejriwal's deputies in the same case - which the party has called "dirty politics". Kejriwal, 55, rose to power as an anti-corruption crusader and founded the AAP, Hindi for "common man's party", in 2011. Scores of supporters protested outside his…

Mar

22

2024

By DOINA CHIACU, STEPHEN NELLIS and ANDREW GOUDSWARD

Apple accused of monopolizing smartphone markets in US antitrust lawsuit

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THE U.S. Department of Justice and 15 states sued Apple alleging it used the powerful demand for its iPhone and other products to drive up prices for its services and hurt smaller rivals, the latest move in a U.S. crackdown on Big Tech. Apple joins corporate rivals sued by U.S. regulators, including Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms and Amazon.com across the administrations of both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. "Consumers should not have to pay higher prices because companies violate the antitrust laws," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. "If left unchallenged, Apple will only continue to strengthen its smartphone monopoly."…

Mar

22

2024

By HUMEYRA PAMUK and NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI

Gaza marks Ramadan in despair as Blinken holds truce talks in Cairo

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Egypt's president for talks on securing a Gaza ceasefire, as Gaza's Palestinians despaired at observing Ramadan without relatives who had been killed or adequate food for their children. In Gaza, Israel's offensive focused on the Al Shifa hospital, the only partially working medical facility in the north of the Strip, for a fourth day, and local residents said they had seen buildings inside the complex in flames. With hunger spreading in the densely populated enclave, where five months of war have created critical food shortages, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said…

Mar

22

2024

By The African Mirror

Prosecutors charge Bolsonaro’s son in money laundering probe, O Globo reports

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BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged Jair Renan Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, for alleged crimes including money laundering and falsifying documents for a bank loan, newspaper O Globo reported on Wednesday. Public prosecutors in Brazil's federal district declined to comment on the case due to confidentiality rules. Reuters could not immediately reach Jair Renan's attorney. The news comes a day after the ex-president was formally accused by federal police of fraud on his vaccination records, opening the door to criminal charges. O Globo reported that public prosecutors had filed the charges against the president's son after police investigators found he had…

Mar

21

2024

By MOHAMMAD SALEM and GABRIELLE TÉTRAULT-FARBER

In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms

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SIX-YEAR-OLD Fadi al-Zant is acutely malnourished, his ribs protruding under leathery skin, his eyes sunken as he lays in bed at the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, where famine is bearing down. Fadi's spindly legs can no longer support him enough to walk. Photographs of Fadi from before the war show a smiling, healthy-looking child, standing in blue denims next to his taller twin with his hair brushed. A short video clip shows him dancing at a wedding with a little girl. Advertisement · Scroll to continue Fadi al-Zant in family photos. Fadi suffers from cystic fibrosis. Before the…

Mar

21

2024

By SAM TOBIN

Woman guilty of laundering Bitcoin in UK from $6.3 bln China fraud

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A woman accused of converting bitcoin into cash and property to help hide the proceeds of a 5 billion pound ($6.3 billion) fraud was this week convicted of one count of money laundering after a trial in a London court. Prosecutors said Wen Jian helped hide the source of money allegedly stolen from nearly 130,000 Chinese investors in fraudulent wealth schemes between 2014 and 2017. She was not alleged to have been involved in the underlying fraud, which prosecutors said was masterminded by a woman known to Wen as Zhang Yadi, whose real name is Qian Zhimin. As part of…