Montreal, (AFP) - Hurricane Fiona Saturday made landfall in Nova Scotia, Canada, the US National Hurricane Center said, packing winds of up to 144 kilometers per hour and torrential rain.

The US National Hurricane Center predicted "it will be a powerful hurricane" when it makes landfall. Canada issued severe weather warnings for most of its eastern coast.

The Canadian Hurricane Center reported strong winds were recorded in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, the Magdalen Islands and western Newfoundland.

"It will definitely be a historic and extremely dangerous event for eastern Canada," said Bob Robicho, a meteorologist at the Canadian Hurricane Center, to reporters before the hurricane made landfall.

"It's a big hurricane (...) all that momentum is inside the storm, so it's very difficult for something like this to calm down," he added.

In the latest bulletin issued by the Canadian Hurricane Center, it was stated that weather conditions will improve in western Nova Scotia and eastern New Brunswick on Saturday.

At 9 a.m. GMT, the hurricane was in Nova Scotia, about 210 kilometers northeast of Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, and was moving north-northwest at 65 kilometers per hour, according to the Canadian Hurricane Center.

Nova Scotia authorities sent an emergency alert to phones saying that a power outage was likely and people should stay inside with supplies to last them for at least 72 hours.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the storm as "bad," noting that it "could have significant impacts across the region."

In Halifax, stores have sold out of propane gas cylinders for camping stoves as residents stock up on large quantities.

"I'm hoping the hurricane will slow down when it hits the cold water, but it doesn't look like it will," Dave Boyce, who works for the Northern Yacht Club in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, told Canadian television.

The Bermuda archipelago had earlier called on residents to stay indoors as strong winds blew, but no deaths or major damage were reported as Hurricane Fiona passed about 161 km west of the island.

And the region, located 1,000 kilometers from the United States and frequent by hurricanes, is one of the most isolated places in the world, which makes evacuating it almost impossible in the event of an emergency.

Hurricane Fiona killed four people in Puerto Rico, an American region, and one death was reported in Guadeloupe, which is French, and two in the Dominican Republic, where a state of emergency was declared in three provinces in the east.

سايوليتا (المكسيك)- (أ ف ب) -أدى الإعصار روسلين الذي ضرب الساحل الغربي للمكسيك الأحد مصنفا عاصفة قوية من الفئة الثالثة، الى مقتل شخصين على الأقل وتدمير منازل وطرق.

وقال خورخي بينيتو رودريغيز مسؤول الأمن في ولاية ناياريت للتلفزيون الحكومي إنه تم العثور على شخص ميت في روسامورادا.

من جهتها أفادت إدارة حماية المواطنين ومكافحة الحرائق في وقت لاحق بأن رجلا يبلغ الثمانين توفي عندما انهار هيكل ثقيل في منزله في جزيرة ميكسكالتيتان.

ودفع الإعصار السكان الى الاحتماء من الرياح الشديدة القوة واحتمال حدوث فيضانات مفاجئة.

وقال المركز الوطني الأميركي للأعاصير إن الإعصار ضرب قرب بلدة سانتا كروز الصغيرة في ولاية ناياريت الساحلية مصحوبا برياح تقدر سرعتها القصوى بنحو 195 كيلومترا في الساعة.

وقبل ساعات فقط من وصول الإعصار إلى الساحل المكسيكي، خُفّض تصنيف روسلين من الفئة الرابعة إلى الثالثة على مقياس سفير-سمبسون للأعاصير، مع توقع المركز الوطني تراجعا سريعا في قوته بعد بلوغه اليابسة.

وحذر كل من المركز الوطني للأعاصير وخدمة الأرصاد الجوية المكسيكية من الرياح العاتية والأمطار الغزيرة المصاحبة التي قد تتسبب بحدوث فيضانات وانزلاقات أرضية وأمواج يصل ارتفاعها إلى ستة أمتار على طول ساحل المحيط الهادئ.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed, this evening, Tuesday, that the facts mentioned in the movie Al-Tantura confirm the credibility of the Palestinian narrative regarding the massacres of the Israeli occupation that were committed against the Palestinian people in 48 and the massacres that followed.

He said that these facts, which appeared in the film, once again refute the Israeli narrative, which for many years denied the commission of these massacres and worked to obliterate their features.

The President stressed that the importance of these live testimonies is that they were told by those who committed this massacre.

He praised the courage of those who searched for the truth and showed it to the whole world, after all these years of the occupation's systematic attempts to hide and obliterate these massacres.

Miami, (AFP) - Canada counts Sunday the extent of the devastation left by the passage of Hurricane Fiona , while the US state of Florida and Cuba prepare for the arrival of Storm Ian soon, which may turn into a "very strong hurricane."

The US National Hurricane Center said Ian could become a hurricane "this (Sunday) evening or morning" early Monday and "a very strong hurricane" on Monday evening or Tuesday morning before striking western Cuba.

The center of the hurricane is considered "very strong" when it is accompanied by winds of no less than 178 kilometers per hour, meaning categories 3, 4 and 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

And Fiona, who is becoming windy and gradually weakening as she heads north, sows destruction on Canada's Atlantic coast, while a woman is considered missing, and about 300,000 homes are still without electricity on Sunday.

"In the end it was the storm that caused the most damage so far," Tim Houston, Premier of Nova Scotia, one of the hardest-hit provinces, told CBC News.

Hurricane Fiona killed at least seven people last week, four in Puerto Rico, two in the Dominican Republic and one in Guadeloupe, France.

The US state of Florida and Cuba are preparing for the arrival of Tropical Storm Ian.

The US National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane warning for Cuba and expected "significant repercussions" in the west of the island.

On Sunday, the center predicted that storm Ian would turn into a "very strong" hurricane in the next 24 or 48 hours, which would cause "devastating" damage to homes, uproot trees and negatively affect the distribution of water and electricity.

Ian is expected to ascend across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida, which has begun to take precautionary measures.

The US Space Agency (NASA) canceled the launch of its rocket towards the moon from the Kennedy Space Center, located in this state in the southeastern United States.

US President Joe Biden declared a natural "state of emergency" in Florida, allowing federal aid to be allocated, while Republican Governor Ron DeSantis called on residents to "exercise caution."

Biden also abandoned a scheduled visit to Florida on Tuesday.

In several areas in Florida, the authorities began distributing sandbags to protect homes from the risk of flooding.

"Prepare now and don't wait until it's too late," tweeted Mayor Jane Castor of Tampa, which is located in Ian's path, according to the Hurricane Center.

A seventy-three-year-old woman was considered missing after she washed up in Chanel-Port-au-Basque in the Canadian province of Newfoundland, according to the city's mayor, Brian Bouton.

In this city, the storm destroyed more than 20 homes, and 200 people were evacuated, not all of whom will be able to return to their homes on Sunday.

"We need some time. The situation cannot return to normal in one day," Bouton wrote on Facebook Live, responding to impatient locals.

The city bears the traces of Fiona's passage, with rubble spread and iron barriers battered by heavy waves.

On Sunday, Canadian television showed scenes of long lines in front of a gas station located near Sydney, in Nova Scotia, in the east of the country, which was severely damaged.

The people of the region flocked to the stations to obtain fuel to feed the electricity generators.

Nova Scotia Power's director of electricity distribution, Peter Gregg, warned that some homes would remain without electricity for "many days".

Washington, (AFP) - The death toll from Hurricane Ian , which hit the southeastern United States last week, has risen to at least 62, authorities announced Sunday.

The Florida Commission of Coroners said Sunday it had confirmed 58 deaths from the hurricane, while North Carolina's governor said Saturday that four people died as a result of Ian's passage.

The previous death toll in Florida was 44. Shocked Floridians are starting to discover the full scale of the devastation, while rescuers are still searching for survivors in flooded neighborhoods along the state's southwest coast.

Ian destroyed homes, restaurants and businesses when it made landfall as a powerful Category 4 hurricane on Wednesday. But reports of more deaths continue to come out of province after province, suggesting the final toll could be much higher.

US President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are scheduled to visit Florida on Wednesday, according to White House spokeswoman Karen Jean-Pierre, but the couple will go first to Puerto Rico on Monday to see the extent of the devastation left by another hurricane called "Fiona" that struck US territory last month.

Damascus - "Jerusalem" dot com - The number of Palestinian victims in the diaspora camps in Syria has risen to 22, as a result of the earthquake that struck the country at dawn on Monday, while two families have been identified as dead and missing under the rubble in Turkey .

And the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Syria, Samir Al-Riffa, stated that 13 new bodies were recovered from Al-Raml camp, 5 from Jableh governorate, and 3 from Aleppo.

He pointed out that there are difficulties in rescue operations due to the difficult weather conditions, and the difficulty of vehicles entering the alleys of al-Raml camp, noting that this morning the bodies of three children, including two brothers, were recovered from under the rubble, in the Neirab camp for Palestinian refugees in Aleppo, as a result of the collapse of a wall. .

He explained that three Palestinian camps are located within the earthquake zone, namely: Al-Raml camp in Lattakia, Al-Neirab camp, and Handarat camp in Aleppo, in addition to separate Palestinian communities in the northern governorates of Syria.

Al-Rifai pointed out that the PRCS teams went to Al-Raml camp to participate in the rescue and ambulance operations.

He stressed that the Embassy of the State of Palestine is closely following developments related to the earthquake, and has dispatched its staff to the affected camps, and that it is making contacts to check on the Palestinian refugees in the various cities that were affected by the earthquake.

In northern Syria, the Palestinian ambassador to Turkey, Fayed Mustafa, reported the death of citizen Suleiman Muhammad Abu Suhaib, and that his family is still under the rubble in northern Syria, and that there is a Palestinian family under the rubble whose fate is unknown, in addition to two families in Afrin and Idlib.

Under the directives of President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh instructed to send civil defense teams and medical teams to participate in search and rescue work for the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck areas in Turkey and Syria.

The Prime Minister said: "The necessary arrangements have been made for the arrival of rescue teams with the Syrian and Turkish countries to facilitate access to the affected areas and provide assistance to the earthquake victims."

WASHINGTON -- (Xinhua) -- Hurricane Ian continued to lash the Florida peninsula with catastrophic storms, winds and floods on Wednesday night, leaving nearly two million customers out of power.

A public release from the US National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Ian, which made landfall in southwest Florida in the afternoon as a Category 4 hurricane, has now weakened with sustained winds of 185 km/h.

The center of the storm is expected to move across central Florida Wednesday night and Thursday morning and blow over the western Atlantic Ocean by late Thursday.
Hurricane Ian is also expected to move north on Friday and approach the coasts of northeastern Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis urged residents of the state to "exercise caution when going outside."

"Avoid downed power lines, avoid standing water, stay out of trees, avoid driving in standing water, and keep generators 20 feet from your homes," DeSantis tweeted.

As of Wednesday night, nearly 2 million customers in Florida were without power due to the impact of the devastating storm, according to PowerOutage.us.

Translation by "Jerusalem" dot com - The Hebrew channel Reshet Kan reported, on Friday evening, that Qatar is exerting pressure on the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements in the Gaza Strip to prevent escalation during the World Cup in Doha.

According to the channel, the Qatari ambassador, Mohammed Al-Emadi, conveyed a message in this regard to Hamas, indicating that Qatar wants the tournament to pass in peace.

Israel fears the reaction of the Islamic Jihad movement after the martyrdom of two of its leaders yesterday in Jenin, and therefore raised the state of alert among its forces, especially the Iron Dome system.

Consulacion del Sur (Cuba) (AFP) - Cuba was plunged into darkness on Tuesday evening after a total power outage caused by severe damage to the electrical grid caused by the passage of Hurricane Ian, which did not claim lives and is now threatening the US state of Florida.

And the public electricity company, Onion Electrica, wrote in a tweet that the country is “without electricity service,” noting that this power outage was caused by the damage caused by the passage of Ian, a category three hurricane that swept across the west of the island.

In turn, Lázaro Guerra, the technical director of the public electricity company, said in a statement to Cuban television, "There is currently no electricity service in any part of the country."

Very few people who have generators in their homes or offices have access to electricity in a country of 11.2 million people.

Although the cyclone had left the island on Tuesday evening, the rain and winds had not stopped in the coastal area, as a number of residents walked in the streets guided by the lights of their mobile phones, while others lit up their homes with candles or flashlights powered by batteries.

In a tweet, the Cuban Civil Defense called for caution after the hurricane passed. "Hurricane Ian is moving away from the national territory, but its devastating fallout continues," he wrote.

The eye of the hurricane left Cuban territory at 09:50 (16:50 GMT) near Puerto Esperanca, according to the Meteorological Institute of Cuba.

The US National Hurricane Center stated that "the eye of Hurricane Ian will move to the southeastern Gulf of Mexico after a few hours, passing west of the Keys archipelago" in southern Florida "and approaching the west coast of Florida (...) Wednesday."

The center had previously predicted that Ian would gain more strength before hitting the west coast of Florida, at which time it would be classified as a major hurricane and "extremely dangerous."

The center also warned that "potentially deadly waves, catastrophic winds and flooding should be expected" in the Florida peninsula.

In Cuba, the authorities did not count any casualties, but strong winds and heavy rains continue in the west of the island, where the hurricane sowed destruction in several towns, according to what AFP journalists saw.

On the Via Sam Juan y Martinez, 190 kilometers from Havana, the hurricane hit Pinar del Rio, where most of the country's tobacco plantations are concentrated. Crops were flooded, trees were uprooted, and electric cables were strewn across the land.

"I don't know what we can do this season," said Yoslan Rodrigues, a 37-year-old tobacco farmer whose farm was completely destroyed.

Wind speeds reached 208 kilometers per hour in San Juan y Martines.

On Tuesday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel visited the most affected region of Pinar del Rio. "The damage is great," he wrote in a tweet, confirming that aid had been sent to the area.

In Cuba, about 40,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the province of Pinar del Rio, where "the damage is severe," according to local Communist Party official Yamila Ramos.

In the capital, which has a population of 2.1 million people, two houses partially collapsed, according to Alexis Acosta, the administrative officer for the old quarter of Havana.

And declared a state of emergency in all parts of Florida, as the authorities step up preparations. State Governor Ron DeSantis said, "Simulations show that the hurricane will first hit south of Tampa Bay (...) catastrophic floods will be recorded in some areas, as well as deadly waves."

Residents were asked to buy supplies and expected power outages. Seven thousand members of the National Guard have been mobilized.

US President Joe Biden, who approved emergency federal aid for 24 of Florida's 67 counties, said Ian "could be a very violent hurricane that would have devastating effects and endanger lives."

And a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, General Pat Ryder, said that air means, such as helicopters, are ready to intervene.

White House spokeswoman Karen Jean-Pierre confirmed that Biden held talks on Tuesday evening with DeSantis to discuss the preparations.

In Tampa, municipal employees filled sandbags for free distribution throughout the city. Authorities have ordered evacuations in the most vulnerable areas near the perimeter.

And the US space agency (NASA) abandoned launching a high-powered rocket towards the moon from the Kennedy Space Center located in this state in the southeastern United States.

And Ian came after Hurricane Fiona, which swept Saturday, the coast of Canada overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, claiming three lives, after hitting the Caribbean, where seven people died.

Paris - (AFP) - The French prime minister on Sunday ruled out a plan to raise the retirement age, as unions prepared for another day of protests and strikes on Tuesday against the controversial measure.

Increasing the minimum retirement age from the current 62 years to 64 years is part of a major reform package proposed by President Emmanuel Macron to ensure the financial balance of France's social insurance system.

After union protests against the programme, more than a million people took to the streets across France on January 19, and the government indicated there was scope to amend some measures.

This includes special conditions for those who started working at an early age, and others for mothers who put their careers on hold to take care of their children and for those who invested more in education.

But Prime Minister Elizabeth Born stressed Sunday that the minimum retirement age (64 years) is not subject to discussion. "This is not negotiable," Borne told France Info radio.

Unions welcome the government's willingness to negotiate parts of the plan, but stress the need to adjust the proposed retirement age.

In a rare agreement between them, the eight largest unions in France described the reform as "unfair" and said they hoped for "greater mobilization" on Tuesday, beyond the protests organized on January 19.

At the time, the government indicated the participation of 1.1 million people in the movement, while the unions spoke of the participation of more than two million.

"It looks like there will be more participants," said Celine Verzelletti, an official of the left-wing CGT federation.

The head of the moderate CFDT union, Laurent Bergé, said, "People strongly reject the project, and this opinion is spreading," referring to the results of opinion polls.

He warned that it would be a "mistake" for the government to ignore the mobilization.

Communist Party leader Fabian Roussel described Bourne's statement as "provocative", considering it "closed" and its government "inflexible".

And the leader of the far-right "National Rally" party, Marine Le Pen, reiterated her opposition to the government's "unfair and cruel" plans.

Both unions and the government see Tuesday's protests as a major test.

About 200 protests will be held across the country, with a large rally in Paris ending outside the National Assembly, where parliamentary committees are due to begin examining the bill on Monday.

The left-wing opposition submitted more than 7,000 proposals to amend the draft in an attempt to slow down its debate in Parliament.

Macron and his allies lack an outright majority in parliament and will need votes from conservatives to pass the pension plan.

But the government has the option of imposing the bill without a vote under special constitutional powers, which means it risks causing a vote of no confidence and possibly triggering new parliamentary elections.

On Sunday evening, Bourne held a meeting with a number of its ministers and senior government officials to discuss the next steps.

In addition to the protest marches, the unions called for a large-scale strike for Tuesday, which is expected to severely affect railway services and the rest of public transport.

Schools and administrations are also expected to stop, and some local authorities have announced the closure of public spaces such as sports stadiums.

On Sunday, Transport Minister Clement Bonn warned those using public transportation that Tuesday will be "difficult, even very difficult," calling on them to postpone their travels and work from home if possible.

Some unions called for more strikes in February, in sectors including commercial ports, oil refineries and gas stations.

Observers believe that the unions are counting heavily on the success of the mobilization, and that any slowdown in support on Tuesday may undermine the momentum of the protest.

In this regard, political science professor Dominic Andolfato said that the unions have "raised the bar of expectations" and therefore "cannot afford to stumble".

ترجمة خاصة بـ”القدس” دوت كوم- اتهم نفتالي بينيت رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي، اليوم الثلاثاء، أحزاب المعارضة “بالإضرار بالأمن القومي عن قصد”، بعد إسقاط قانون “المواطنة” المعروف باسم “لم الشمل”.

وقال بينيت في تصريحات أوردتها القناة العبرية السابعة، “إن هذه العملية من قبل المعارضة تمت بدافع من بعض المرارة والإحباط، لكنهم في نهاية المطاف أضروا بمصلحة ‘الدولة’..”. وفق وصفه.

وأضاف “أي شخص صوت ضد قانون المواطنة، من نتنياهو، مرورًا بالطيبي، إلى شيكلي، اختار حسابات سياسية ضيقة، على مصلحة مواطني إسرائيل، وسيظل أمامهم وقت طويل لتقديم تبرير للجمهور عما فعلوه”.

San Dvinso ( Philippines ) (AFP) - Five paramedics died during the passage of Typhoon Noro in the Philippines when they were in a flooded town, authorities said Monday.

"The local government has deployed them in a flooded area," said Lieutenant Colonel Romualdo Andres, police chief of the San Miguel district near Manila.

San Miguel Renan Herrera, in charge of natural disasters, said they likely drowned in a river flood.

On Sunday, Typhoon Noro hit the densely populated island of Luzon, with strong winds and heavy rains.

The typhoon made landfall Sunday at 17:30 local time (09:30 GMT) in the city of Bordeaux on the Polillo Islands of Quezon Prefecture.

The hurricane was accompanied by winds of 195 kilometers per hour, which is the strongest recorded this year in the country.

About 75,000 people were evacuated before the hurricane, after the Meteorological Service warned of the dangers of major floods in areas of the country prone to such phenomena.

On Monday, no major damage was immediately reported.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said, "We may think that we have exaggerated the measures. But there are no excessive measures when it comes to disasters" natural.

Canberra (dpa) - The Australian Central Bank decided today, Tuesday, to raise the main interest rate by half a percentage point, which was in line with market expectations, citing the resilience of the economy and the high rate of inflation.

The Monetary Policy Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia , "Central", headed by Bank Governor Philip Low, announced the decision to increase interest rates by 50 basis points to 1.35%, compared to 0.85% before the increase.

This is the third rate hike in a row and the second after it was increased by 50 basis points last month.

The governor of the Central Bank said that the resilience of the economy and the high rate of inflation means that there is no longer a need for the exceptional economic support measures that were approved during the emerging Corona virus pandemic.

The Bank expects to take further steps towards normalizing monetary policy conditions in Australia in the coming months.

Lu said the timing and size of the next rate hike would be determined on the basis of upcoming economic data and the Monetary Policy Board's assessment of inflation expectations and the state of the labor market.

(AFP) - Defending champions Manchester City prepared in the best way for what awaits them in the middle of the week from a grueling test against leaders Arsenal, by defeating Aston Villa 3-1 at home, while its neighbor Manchester United entered the heart of the struggle for a title that it had been absent from since 2013 by returning from the stadium. Leeds won 2-0 on Sunday in the 23rd stage of the English Football League .
At the “Etihad Stadium”, City put behind him the defeat he received in the last stage at Tottenham 0-1, and it was rumored that he could be punished for being accused of more than 100 violations of the financial rules, and prepared in the best way for the expected match Wednesday at Arsenal Stadium in a match postponed from the second stage. ten.
Spanish coach Josep Guardiola's team raised its tally to 48 points, in second place, just three points behind Arsenal, who struggled Saturday at home to Brentford (1-1).
And against a team that has not lost against it in all competitions since September 2013 (2-3 in the league at Villa Park), City decided the match in a big way in its first half, after it finished ahead with three clean goals, which was started by Spaniard Rodri in the fourth minute with a header, after the ball reached him from the Algerian Riyad. Mahrez after a corner kick.
Then German Ilkay Gundogan added the second in the 39th minute after a solo effort and a cross pass on a silver platter from the Norwegian Erling Haaland, before Mahrez consolidated the score with the third from a penalty kick that Jack Grealish captured from Jacob Ramsey (1 + 45).
For Gundogan, "The three points today help, but it will be a different confrontation (against Arsenal). It will be a difficult match between two of the best teams in England at the moment."
City entered the second half without Haaland, who was in doubt about his participation against Arsenal, according to Guardiola, saying, "Haaland suffered a blow. He feels annoyed. We do not take risks when the score is 3-0. We will see and evaluate the situation in the next few days. If he is not ready, Another player will play in his place. I hope he's ready, but we'll see."
And after a mistake in getting the ball out, hope returned to Aston Villa at the beginning of the second half through Olly Watkins, who received the ball from Brazilian Douglas Luiz, so he advanced with it before hitting the floor to the right of Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson (61).
Despite some losses and many opportunities for Villa, most notably to Brazilian substitute Philippe Coutinho from a long shot that Ederson sent under the crossbar (80) and another to Colombian newcomer John Doran, which bounced off the crossbar (2 + 90), City held out and kept the result the same until the final whistle.
And at the “Eland Road” stadium, four days after wasting two points at home in a 2-2 draw with Leeds in a postponed match from the eighth stage, Manchester United struggled to collect the three points, but in the end succeeded in emerging victorious before traveling to Spain to face Barcelona Thursday in the first leg of the play-offs. The qualifying break for the final price of the "Europa League" competition.
More importantly, for Dutch coach Eric ten Hag's team, he raised his lead to 46 points in third place, two points ahead of archrivals City and five from Arsenal, but the latter two played a lesser match than the "Red Devils" in addition to their postponed match on Wednesday.
Spanish goalkeeper David de Gea, who played his 400th Premier League match, spoke of Sunday's victory, telling Sky Sports: "You saw what (the victory) meant at the end of the game, whether it was for the fans or the players. We deserved to win at home (Wednesday). against Leeds) but we did it today."
"We fought to the end as a team," he said, refusing to talk about what it meant to play his 400th game because "today it wasn't about that. It was about winning the game and we did that, so I can now enjoy my 400th Premier League game... Clean sheet, three massive points." And 400 matches: a perfect day."
And after Leeds started the meeting with a double chance after a shot by Patrick Bamford that De Gea blocked, and the ball fell in front of the Dutchman Criscencio Summerville, who knocked it out in the stands (4), the preference moved to United, who was close to scoring by the Portuguese Bruno Fernandes, but he hit the side net (19).
And Leeds almost scored before the end of the first half through Summerville, but De Gea was on time (44), then Fernandez responded individually, but he failed to put the ball out of reach of French goalkeeper Ilan Meslier (1 + 45), and the Dutchman, Fout Fijkhorst, followed it with a header. After a corner kick, the ball hit the post (45+2).
Leeds started the second half pressing and threatened De Gea's goal on more than one occasion, most notably through Summerville, who collided with the brilliance of the Spanish goalkeeper (47).
Then United's luck struggled after a shot from the outskirts of the area by Portuguese Diogo Dalo bounced off the crossbar (63), before the two teams then exchanged chances without success in front of the goal until the 80th minute when Rashford snatched the lead for United with a wonderful header after a cross from Luke Shaw, raising his score to 12 goals in the league this season.
United liberated after this goal and reinforced the second through the young Argentine-Spanish substitute Alejandro Garnacho, who received the ball from Fijkhorst, so the 18-year-old advanced with it and penetrated into the area before hitting it out of Meslier’s reach (85).

As-Suwayda, Syria - (Xinhua) After long hours of waiting and another arduous journey, several families from Aleppo Governorate (northern Syria), which was hit by the earthquake on February 6, have arrived in Suwayda Governorate (southern Syria) to feel safe after days of terror. and fatigue.

And in the southwestern countryside of As-Suwayda governorate, specifically in the town of Arra, those families that were affected by the earthquake settled, and were distributed in several houses, to the sound of welcoming expressions from the people who welcomed them to make them feel safe and stable.

Those families affected by the earthquake described the difficult and terrifying moments that they lived through, and the fear that gripped their souls as a result of those tremors that followed on the night of February 6, and at the same time they expressed their happiness to reach As-Suwayda to be with their families again.

In a two-storey house in the southwestern countryside of As-Suwayda, a family from Aleppo, consisting of 7 people, including children of different ages, settled, and they were playing in front of the house cheerfully, after days of fear and terror that haunted them.

"I came from Aleppo with my family and brothers after days of fear and terror that we lived through during the devastating earthquake," Muhannad Youssef Intabi, 42, who lived in Al-Sha'ar neighborhood, told Xinhua, describing those moments. as "difficult".

He continued, saying, "We left our homes in our clothes with our children, and we sat a whole night in the open air, waiting for the day to come to see what happened to our homes," stressing that the tall buildings had fallen and turned into piles of rubble, indicating that their house was cracked and was no longer habitable.

"We arrived in As-Suwayda after days of torment, but now we are with the family and with our children, we feel comfortable," added Intabi, who sat next to his family in his home in Suwayda governorate, stressing that the children began to recover from the consequences of the earthquake.

Entabi, who works in the sewing profession, indicated that his presence here is temporary, and he will return to his city, Aleppo, after the restoration of his house, which was damaged in the earthquake.

In turn, Badr El-Din Entabi (33 years old) said, "We woke up at dawn on February 6 to the sounds of things moving inside our house and the sounds of screaming women and children," noting that "the situation was" terrifying and catastrophic.

The young man in his thirties added that the people in As-Suwayda were like our people, and they provided us with all the necessary relief materials.

In another place, there was another family who also came from Aleppo, and settled in the town of Ura in a large Arab house, to feel calm after days of fatigue.

The young woman, Hana Al-Khatib, 28, told Xinhua News Agency, who used to live in the Salah al-Din neighborhood of Aleppo, that she came to As-Suwayda governorate, where my husband's family lives there, indicating that she arrived in As-Suwayda with her daughters, two days after the earthquake occurred.

The young woman, Hana, while standing in front of her house in As-Suwayda, surrounded by her three children, added, "I and my three daughters were in the house when the earthquake occurred, and my husband is a volunteer soldier who is undergoing a course in Damascus, and the house at those moments was shaking frighteningly, but we did not lose our temper and out of our fear I went down with my daughters to the street." We stayed in the rain and cold and waited for hours, but then another tremor came and we felt afraid and could not go up to the house."

And she continued, saying, "We stayed in the cemetery next to our homes, until the sun came out, and we felt fear and terror," stressing that the situation was catastrophic.

She indicated that her husband came to Aleppo, and he sent her to As-Suwayda, where his family lives.

For his part, Bassam Parsik, the governor of As-Suwayda, told Xinhua, "When the natural disaster occurred, we first contacted the students studying in Aleppo and the rest of the governorates that were exposed to the earthquake, and we secured means of transportation for their return to As-Suwayda," noting that committees were formed to provide relief materials for our people. in the areas affected by the earthquake.

The governor of As-Suwayda added, during a tour he made to some of the families affected by the earthquake, who came to As-Suwayda, that "the people of As-Suwayda were among the first people to contribute to providing relief aid, and we also saw examples of children who gave their savings as aid to the children of Aleppo and Latakia, and this makes us feel that the country will recover soon." ".

He continued, saying, "The people of As-Suwayda governorate were the families of the families who came from the affected governorates, and they provided them with all the necessary housing and food. We, as a responsible party, came to check if they needed anything additional."

Parsec indicated that about 70 people arrived in As-Suwayda governorate as a result of the earthquake.

And the Syrian Ministry of Health announced last Tuesday that the final death toll from the earthquake that struck Syria reached 1,414, while the number of injured reached 2,357.

The ministry's census of earthquake victims only includes the quake-stricken areas under government control.

Doha - "Al Quds" dot com - Qatar agreed today, Friday, to finance the return of homes that were destroyed during the recent Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas political bureau, received Qatar's approval during a call with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman.

According to Haniyeh's office, this includes homes demolished in Rafah or Gaza and the north.

Haniyeh expressed his deep appreciation to the State of Qatar, Emir, government and people, for this noble position, which is added to its honorable record in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip through the Qatari Reconstruction Committee headed by HE Ambassador Mohammed Al Emadi.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation prison administration transferred the prisoner, Mahmoud Al-Ardah (46 years), from the isolation of Ashkelon Prison, to the isolation of Rimon Prison.

The spokesman for the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Hassan Abed Rabbo, said that the accidental transfer of the prisoner comes within the policy of punishment practiced against the prisoners, especially that he is among the prisoners who were deprived of their freedom from Gilboa prison on the sixth of last September.

He pointed out that the occupation authorities deliberately transfer the six prisoners from their cells every three months, as a punitive measure, while each of them has been in solitary confinement since their re-arrest. last Sunday.

The prisoners are: Mahmoud Al-Ardah (46 years) from Arraba who is sentenced to 99 years in prison, Yaqoub Qadri (49 years) from Bir Al-Basha who is sentenced to two life and 35 years, Ayham Kammaji (35 years) from Kafr Dan who is sentenced to two life imprisonments and a life sentence, and the fighter Anfeat (26). A year-old man from Ya`bad (detained without trial), Muhammad al-Ardah (40 years old) from Arraba, sentenced to three life sentences and 20 years, and Zakariya al-Zubaidi (45 years old) from Jenin camp, arrested since 2019, all of them from Jenin governorate.

It is noteworthy that the sentences issued against the six prisoners are added to their previous sentences, with the exception of Al-Zubaidi and Anfaiat, who were detained without trial.

Nouakchott - (dpa) - The Mauritanian opposition parties participating in the consultation process with the loyalists and the authority criticized the latter's decision to suspend the process indefinitely, describing it as a stab in the back of the preparatory committee for consultation, and said that the arguments put forward by the authority to justify this unilateral decision are baseless.

The parties said in a joint statement issued today, Friday, that they hold the authorities fully responsible for the collapse of the dialogue and the consequences that may result from that.

The dialogue sessions were scheduled to start later this June, after months of meetings of the preparation committee, which includes the opposition and loyal parties on an equal footing.

The consultation would have discussed topics including the democratic path, freedoms, fighting corruption, the electoral path, reforming justice, strengthening social cohesion and ending slavery and its remnants.

However, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh Al-Ghazwani, who agreed to launch the consultation process, has always repeated that the country is living in an atmosphere of calm and political calm, and that it does not suffer from problems or crises that require political dialogue.

Moscow (AFP) - Imprisoned Russian dissident Alexei Navalny will appeal Tuesday against a nine-year prison sentence handed down in March on charges he and his opponents say are politically motivated.

The session comes at a time when the Russian authorities seek to silence the voices of the remaining opposition and with Moscow continuing its military campaign in its neighbor Ukraine, which has led to the deaths of thousands of people and the displacement of nearly ten million.

In late March, a court increased the prison sentence of a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin to nine years, after convicting him of embezzlement and insulting the court in previous sessions.

Navalny is currently serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence in a prison 100 kilometers east of Moscow for violating the terms of his release in a previous fraud case dating back to 2014.

On Tuesday, he will appeal the harsher prison sentence, and will attend the session in a Moscow court via video call from his prison.

If the court upholds the decision, the 45-year-old dissident will be transferred to a prison complex subject to a stricter regime than in complexes such as the one in which he is currently being held.

The nine-year prison sentence against Navalny cancels the two-and-a-half-year sentence he is serving and replaces it, which means that Navalny will remain behind bars for another eight years.

In the latest case, investigators accuse Navalny of embezzling millions of dollars in donations to his political organizations for personal purposes.

Navalny's name has emerged as an anti-corruption blogger, and before his imprisonment, anti-government demonstrations took place across Russia.
In 2018, he campaigned to run for president but was ultimately barred from running in the race in which Putin secured a fourth term.
In his absence, his team continues to publish investigations into the fortunes of Russian elites. Millions watched these investigations on YouTube.
In August 2020, he survived poisoning with a Novichok nerve agent, which was developed in the Soviet era. Navalny holds the Kremlin responsible for that process.
He was arrested last year upon his return to the country from Germany, where he spent a period of convalescence, which sparked a storm of criticism in the West and caused the imposition of sanctions on Moscow.
In June 2021, the most prominent opposition organizations were classified as "extremist" by the judiciary, in a decision that led to their closure and the launch of judicial prosecutions against a number of their activists. Many of them are now in exile to avoid prosecution. Others have been arrested and face severe prison sentences.
Russia has recently stepped up pressure on independent media and non-governmental organizations, declaring many of them "foreign agents," while other organizations have stopped working for fear of prosecution.
In an effort to strengthen its control over publicly available information at home, the authorities have banned well-known social media platforms, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and have initiated legal proceedings against the giant technology group Meta, which it accuses of publishing "calls to kill" Russians.

Istanbul - (dpa) - Members of the Turkish opposition said today, Thursday, that they will file charges against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for describing the participants in anti-government protests in 2013 as "idiots."

Politicians from the opposition Republican People's Party and women's rights organizations, among others, have filed criminal charges against Erdogan. They announced the move on Twitter.

CHP leader Kemal Kilicdar on Twitter advised Erdogan to keep his mouth shut in the future, receiving support for this statement from the famous Turkish pianist Fadil Say. The famous writer Elif Shafak also expressed her outrage on Twitter at "this discriminatory language".

Erdogan used the stinger on Wednesday, which coincided with the ninth anniversary of the protests that were brutally dispersed by the government. Many people are serving sentences in Turkish prisons for participating in demonstrations.

Paris - (AFP) - Opposition parties in France coldly received President Emmanuel Macron's speech, which called on them to submit within 48 hours proposals for ways to reach "compromise solutions" to resolve the political crisis that resulted in the legislative elections in the country.

Macron's speech came before he participated in a series of international meetings, from the European summit that will be held Thursday and Friday in Brussels to a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and another of the Group of Seven.

Macron, who lost the absolute majority in the National Assembly after the recent legislative elections, called in a speech on Wednesday evening for the country's political forces to "compromise", but he rejected the idea of a national unity government that he considered "unjustified at present".

Three days after the second round of elections that took place on Sunday, France is witnessing a state of political uncertainty, which forces Macron, who was re-elected in April for a second presidential term, to search for alliances to get out of the crisis resulting from his loss of the absolute majority.

However, Macron did not announce any major step on Wednesday evening, and instead called on the political forces to assume their responsibilities.

The leader of the radical left, Jean-Luc Melenchon, immediately responded to Macron's calls, deeming them "useless", and demanded a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne in the National Assembly, which has greater "legitimacy" than the legitimacy of the president.

He added, "There is no point in dissipating the reality of voting by covering it with considerations and appeals of all kinds," stressing that "the executive authority is now weak, but the National Assembly is strong with all the legitimacy of its recent elections."

Marine Le Pen, who is preparing to take over the leadership of the powerful National Assembly bloc in the National Assembly (89 deputies), said, "By choosing to either conclude an alliance or to search for a majority for each project separately (to be put to a vote in parliament), the president is trying to save what remains of the presidential job."

However, she promised that the deputies of her bloc would study "the texts in the light of the interests of the French and France."

The new leader of the right-wing "Republicans" party, Olivier Marle, refused to grant "a blank check (...) to an unclear project." He also promised that his group would present proposals on purchasing power next week.

Analyzes talked about the possibility of an alliance between Macron, his party "Together" and the Republicans in order to form a majority in Parliament, but this did not crystallize.

Communist Fabien Roussel also rejected Macron's statements, saying that "his talk about the method aims to evade his responsibility and not change anything from his project."

"No, the political formations do not have to answer him how far they are willing to go in giving him a blank check," said the socialist Olivier Four.

In a brief speech addressed to the French on Sunday, the head of state acknowledged the existence of "cracks" revealed by the legislative elections, and called on the political class to "learn to rule and legislate differently."

"We will have to reach compromises," Macron said in his speech, but "we must do it with complete transparency and openly, if I may say so, a desire for unity and work for the nation."

He added, "In order to achieve useful progress, it is now up to the political groups to say with complete transparency how far they are willing to go," noting that "it will be necessary in the coming days for the many formations in the National Assembly to clarify the extent of responsibility and possible cooperation: Do you want to enter into a government coalition?" And work (or) simply oblige to vote on certain texts? Our budget.

He gave these parties 48 hours, indicating that he wants to "start building this method and this new formation" upon his return from the European summit that will be held Thursday and Friday in Brussels.

Macron recalled that the legislative elections "made the presidential majority the first force," stressing that he was determined not to "lose the cohesion of the project that you (the voters) chose last April," referring to his re-election.

"There is no political force today that can make laws on its own," he said, noting that this is "a new reality."

On Wednesday, Macron concluded a broad round table with the opposition forces and his allies, in search of a difficult consensus to end the crisis.

"I hear and I am determined to support the desire for change that the country has clearly expressed," he said in the speech, noting that he "exchanged views with the leaders of all political parties" and "all of them expressed their respect for our institutions and their desire to spare our country any disruption."

His ally and former Prime Minister Edward Philippe, head of the "Orizon" party, called again on Wednesday for the formation of a "big coalition" to give the country a "stable direction".

The liberal centrist coalition, which had the absolute majority in the previous National Assembly and on which President Macron relied throughout his first term of five years, won 245 seats out of 577, knowing that the absolute majority is limited to 289 deputies.

The other seats in the National Assembly were distributed mainly between the coalition of the left (150 seats), the extreme right (89) and the right (61).

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - "Hamas" movement said, on Saturday, that the fierce campaign of incitement led by the Hebrew media against the preacher of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the head of the Supreme Islamic Authority, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri , will not break his resolve, nor will it discourage him from continuing to defend Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa. .

And she added, in a statement to her spokesman for the city of Jerusalem, Muhammad Hamada, that the occupation's desperate attempts to exclude influential national and religious leaders and personalities from Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Square, aims to single them out as part of a comprehensive campaign to complete control over them, and implement the plans of the extremist occupation government to impose temporal and spatial division and prepare for the destruction of Al-Aqsa and the establishment of The alleged "hulk".

Hamada saluted Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, who stood firm and tall in the face of attempts to prevent him from defending Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque over the past years, and he faced a lot of suffering and persecution, despite reaching the age of eighty-four.

The spokesman for "Hamas" held the occupation fully responsible for the repercussions of this barbaric campaign against the sheikh, who will remain an example for the revolutionary generation in clinging to the land and protecting the sanctities.

Doha - (AFP) - The England national team swept its Iranian counterpart 6-2 and achieved its second largest victory in the FIFA World Cup, Monday in the Qatar 2022 World Cup , in a match that "Tim Milli" started with a political message when his players refused to perform the national anthem in solidarity with the protests. bloodshed in the Islamic Republic.

At the opening of the second group competitions, Jude Bellingham (35), Bukayo Saka (43 and 62), Raheem Sterling (45 + 1), Marcus Rashford (71), and Jack Grealish (90) took turns scoring. Mahdi Taremi scored Iran's goals (65 and 90 + 13 from a penalty kick).

With this result, England, fourth in the 2018 World Cup and runner-up in the European Cup, achieved its biggest victory in its opening match in its World Cup history, and it is its second largest victory in the World Cup in general after its victory over Panama (6-1) in the 2018 World Cup.

The match started before the referee's whistle of a political nature, when the 11 players of the Iranian national team refrained from performing the national anthem during its playing, in solidarity with the protests taking place in the Islamic Republic.

Iran has been witnessing protests for nearly two months, following the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini (22 years), three days after she was arrested by the morality police for not adhering to the strict rules of dress in the Islamic Republic.

With the players' step, the fans cheering for Iran rose in the stadium, while tears appeared on the faces of some.

Four days before the match, the captain of the national team, Ali Reza Jahanbakhsh, had indicated that the issue of whether or not to perform the national anthem was being discussed and that the decision would be taken collectively.

And the Portuguese coach of Iran, Carlos Queiroz, had previously said on Tuesday that his players had the "right to express" their opinions, but with respect for "the spirit of the game and the laws of FIFA... According to these principles and values, everyone has the right to express himself."

From the start, the England national team was the offensive pressure party, and its first opportunity was when captain Harry Kane converted a pass inside the penalty area that posed a great danger, but it passed Sterling without defensive control and Maguire fired it into the outside net (8).

And the Iranian national team received a strong blow when its goalkeeper, Ali Reza Peranand, came out with suspicions of a concussion after colliding with his colleague Majid Hosseini, to ask Queiroz to replace him after he suffered a nosebleed.

Indeed, the Portuguese introduced substitute goalkeeper Hussein Hosseini (20) after the match stopped for about a quarter of an hour.

After two fruitless attempts by Mason Mount (30) and Harry Maguire (32), Bellingham opened the scoring for the English with a beautiful header after a cross from Luke Shaw across the left (35).

With this goal, Bellingham became the second youngest scorer for England in the World Cup (19 years and 145 days), behind Michael Owen in the 1998 World Cup (18 years and 190 days).

And soon England, the 1966 champion, doubled the score with a beautiful goal by Saka, who prepared a header pass from Maguire with his chest and fired it powerfully into the net from the middle of the penalty area (44).

Sterling increased his team's lead with a third goal, after he completed a cross from Kane (45 + 1).

England completed 366 passes in the first half, which is the second highest number of passes in the first half of a World Cup match since 1966, after Spain against Russia in 2018 (395). As for Iran, it completed only 46 passes, which is the lowest since 1966.

Also, thanks to the goals of Bellingham and Saka (21 years old), England recorded two players aged 21 years or younger scoring a goal in one match in the World Cup for the first time in its history.

In the second half, the English yield increased through Saka himself, who fired a ball from inside the penalty area that hit the defense and entered the goal (62).

Tarmi scored a beautiful goal with a powerful shot in the goal after a wonderful pass from Saeed Ezzat Allah (65), but substitute Rashford put out any attempt to rise Iranian a minute after entering by scoring the fifth goal (71).

Substitute Grealish also added a sixth goal in the 90th minute of the match, before the Iranians were able to reduce the score from a penalty kick awarded to them by the match referee after returning to the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technique, so Tarmi successfully translated it (90 + 13).

Cairo - (AFP) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi issued, on Wednesday, a presidential pardon for the prominent Egyptian dissident, Yahya Hussein Al-Hadi, who has been imprisoned for more than three years. A week ago, he was sentenced to four years on charges of spreading false news.

The decision came after the Public Prosecution released, during the last forty-eight hours, 11 political activists, according to the Presidential Pardon Committee, who were in pretrial detention pending cases related to charges of spreading false news and disturbing public peace.

On Twitter, lawyer Tariq Al-Awadi, a member of the Presidential Pardon Committee, which was formed in April to discuss the files of detainees who could be released with an amnesty and includes public figures, announced that "a republican decision was issued to pardon Engineer Yahya Hussein Al-Hadi." Al-Awadi published a picture of Abdul Hadi the moment he was released from prison.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Official Gazette published the amnesty decision for Abd al-Hadi, 67, who was sentenced to 4 years in prison by a misdemeanor court on charges of publishing false news on May 22.

The prominent dissident publicly criticized President Sisi's policies before his arrest, and was previously opposed to the late Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. He was also one of the founders of the "Enough" movement that paved the way during the last five years of Hosni Mubarak's era for the revolution that led to his overthrow in 2011.

His pardon comes in the context of an attempt to ease political tension in light of the major economic crisis that Egypt is going through as a result of the repercussions of the Corona virus, and then the Russian war on Ukraine.

Al-Awadi confirmed in another tweet, after announcing the release of Hussein, that "a number of those held in pretrial detention will be released at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, Thursday."

On April 28, Sisi released, with a presidential pardon, journalist Hossam Moanes, after an exceptional court sentenced him to 4 years in prison last year for publishing false news.

In a statement, Amnesty International said this week, "The fate of thousands of men and women arbitrarily detained should not be in the hands of the Egyptian security services, specifically the National Security Sector and the General Intelligence."

Amna Guellali, Deputy Director of the Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, said that she "welcomes" the release of 11 people who had been imprisoned for "political reasons" since 2018.
But she stressed that "previous promises to release prisoners held for political reasons were nothing more than disingenuous attempts to deflect international criticism of Egypt's appalling human rights record."
"To demonstrate the Egyptian authorities' commitment to these promises, they must now immediately and unconditionally release anyone detained solely for exercising their human rights, including politicians, journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders."
She noted that the trials of politicians "continue unabated."
Earlier this week, an Egyptian court sentenced Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, the former Islamist candidate for the presidency in Egypt and a leader in the Brotherhood, Mahmoud Ezzat, to 15 years in prison on charges of spreading false news, a judicial official announced.
The court also issued life sentences to 14 other defendants in the case in which leaders and members of the group were accused in 2018 of "spreading false news and inciting against state institutions."
Human rights organizations estimate the number of political prisoners in Sirr at about sixty thousand, but Al-Sisi constantly denies this.

Mogadishu (AFP) - Two car bombs exploded Saturday in Mogadishu targeting the Ministry of Education, causing "victims" and causing severe damage to surrounding buildings, according to police and witnesses.

"The two simultaneous explosions" occurred on a road parallel to the ministry's headquarters, said Sadiq Dudish, a spokesman for the Somali police, and left "many victims," adding, "We will give more details later."

For his part, the policeman, Ibrahim Muhammad, said that one of the two booby-trapped cars succeeded in entering the ministry's campus, and that was followed by the firing of gunshots.

"A few minutes later, another explosion occurred in the same area," he added.

The witness, Abd al-Rahman Issa, said that a large number of people were present on the road parallel to the ministry building when the first explosion occurred.

Another witness, Aminu Salad, said, "I saw heavy smoke in the vicinity of the ministry and severe damage."

No party has claimed the attack yet, but the Somali authorities usually attribute similar attacks to the extremist Islamic youth movement, which is still carrying out attacks in the capital and major Somali cities.

Moscow (AFP) - Russian woman Marina Ovsyannikova was arrested Wednesday on charges of "defaming" the army, the lawyer of the journalist who became famous after boycotting a news broadcast of a Russian state channel with a poster against the attack in Ukraine announced.

"We are currently with the investigators," lawyer Dmitry Zakvatov told AFP. An investigation has been launched against Ovsyannikova for "disseminating false information" about the Russian army.

He then added that it was "turned off".

Ovsyanikova became famous in mid-March, after appearing during a news broadcast on the pro-Kremlin TV channel where she worked, holding up a banner denouncing the attack on Ukraine and the "propaganda" of the media controlled by the government.

At the end of July, she was fined 50,000 rubles (800 euros).

Ovsyannikova, 44, was convicted at the time because she declared the operation in Ukraine a "crime" while speaking to reporters on July 13 at a hearing regarding imprisoned dissident Ilya Yashin.

Four days later, the journalist was briefly arrested in the Moscow region.

Written by: Walid Al-Hodali

How did the prisoner, Karim Younes, manage to climb these tall mountains? How did he manage its ruggedness and hard rocks? A lonely space of time that thousands of men can bear. Karim carried it alone. How many times did he enter the battle of an open-ended hunger strike? How many of his molars did the prostitution "dentist" remove, how many were left in his mouth, and how much was left under the responsibility of this so-called doctor? How many visits did his family reach the prison gate and then brought them back without his eyes darkening from seeing his loved ones? How many of a loved one received the news of his death, and how much of his grief was he who enabled his jailer to look gloomy? The last death was the death of his mother, who wished to have some time to spend near her, to smell her sweet scent and perfume his soul with her perfume. Now he will leave prison after less than thirty days, so that his first stop will be to visit his mother’s grave, and they will say to him, “This is your father’s grave, and this is the grave of your uncle, your uncle, and your neighbor.” . What a "recreation" that came after the prison separated him from his loved ones.
In less than a month from now, he will end forty years, he will carry his beautiful and bad memories, he will carry on his shoulders the burden of forty years of oppression and pain, he will wake up his first morning away from their braying and their ominous saying: number by number, no enemy will come to him who counts his breath in the morning, noon and evening. After a month from now, he will choose his food and drink, the movement of his feet, his sleep, his clothes, and his speech, and he will open his eyes wide to see the horizon as beautiful, radiant, and wide as it is, without being interrupted by their iron, their misfortune, and their hatred. He feels a pain when he thinks of those he left behind. They are there waiting for the chance to live again, to be resurrected out of these prisons.
How will Karim spend this month that separates him from life, between the burial ground of the living and life above the earth, between three darknesses and an insatiable light? It will be a heavy month, but it will pass as the four hundred and eighty months have passed, he will breathe freedom and enjoy what he was deprived of, he will be born again and he will think carefully about what is to come without ever leaving the depths of prison, half of him will remain outside prison and the other half will be with his brothers whom he left to their fate in prison. It is for him that joy or happiness be complete, as if in this world it is not complete, and its completion may be by demolishing prisons and liberating those in them, and this can only happen with the end of the occupation.
Karim's first problem is the occupation, and his remaining problem is also the occupation. Life will not return to its serenity, and as long as there is someone who controls the joints of our lives, and even all its details, Karim will see, after his return to his country in occupied Palestine in the year 48, the huge size of the urbanization that the occupation established, he will see the settlements that he left small and have become big cities, he will see the big streets And the huge markets, he will see the flourishing of falsehood and how much the obscenity of the occupation has grown after all these years have passed. Karim in his body is a very strong antidote to frustration, in his long “imprisonment” he studied history and studied the fate of the oppressors and learned with certainty that falsehood never lasts.

ترجمة خاصة بــ”القدس” دوت كوم- قال يسرائيل كاتس عضو الكنيست عن حزب الليكود، مساء اليوم السبت، إنه كان بإمكانه تشكيل حكومة قبل أن يتم نقل التفويض إلى يائير لابيد لتشكيلها.

ووجه كاتس خلال مقابلة مع قناة 12 العبرية، انتقادات لزعيم حزبه بنيامين نتنياهو، الذي قال إنه فضل ترشيح رئيس وزراء حزب صغير (بالإشارة لنفتالي بينيت) بدلاً من أحد أعضاء الليكود لتشكيل الحكومة.

واعتبر أن نتنياهو أخطأ في موقفه بعدم تركه بتشكيل حكومة يمينية، مشيراً إلى أنه كان بإمكانه أن ينجح في ذلك وتكون حكومة واسعة النطاق، على أنه بعد عام يمكن تحويلها لحكومة طوارئ وأنه حينها يمكن لنتنياهو أن يقودها لكنه قرر الدخول في المعارضة.

وقال كاتس “نتنياهو جلب 30 مقعدًا لليكود، وهناك دعماً شعبياً واسع واضح لنا، ولكن في لحظات معينة يجب إجراء تحليلاً واقعياً، كان يمكن أن يعرض على شخص من الليكود لتشكيل الحكومة”.

وأكد القطب الكبير في الليكود، أن حزبه لن يستسلم حتى استبدال الحكومة الحالية، قائلًا “سنوصلهم إلى طريق مسدود، لا يملك بينيت عصا التحكم التي يحتاجها كرئيس وزراء”.

وأشار كاتس إلى أنه في حال قرر نتنياهو ترك قيادة الليكود فسينوي الترشح لقيادة الحزب.

Paris, (AFP) - Iran is witnessing a security campaign punctuated by executions in unprecedented numbers for years, mass arrests of opponents of the regime, some of which targeted a number of the most prominent film directors, and trials of foreign citizens that were denounced by their families as sham.

And it seems that none of the segments of society was spared from the grip of the authorities, according to activists, as the campaign affected activists in labor unions and others who oppose forcing women to wear the veil, as well as followers of religious minorities.

This coincides with the passage of a year since President Ibrahim Raisi, the former head of the judiciary, who is considered a hardline conservative, assumed power to succeed Hassan Rouhani, who is considered more moderate.

Raisi and the Islamic Republic's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are grappling with an economic crisis that has come with a string of disasters, including a fatal building collapse in Abadan in May that sparked infrequent demonstrations.

Most of the economic problems are due to the sanctions imposed on Iran to push it to curb its nuclear program. However, there are no indications so far that the international powers and the Iranian authorities are close to achieving a breakthrough in the negotiations aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.

Ali Fathallah Nejad, an Iranian affairs expert at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the American University of Beirut, said, "The current security crackdown is closely linked to the escalation of protests in Iran."

He pointed out that the protests that took place across the country in December 2017 and November 2019 left their mark on the Iranian leadership. While it was primarily driven by social and economic conditions, it "soon turned political and targeted the entire (ruling) establishment."

"The popular demonstrations still pose a threat to the regime's stability," he told AFP.

The significant increase in the number of executions was remarkable, as Iran executed twice as many people in the first half of 2022 as it executed in the previous year, according to Iran Human Rights, a non-governmental organization based in Norway. The organization recorded 318 executions by hanging this year.

Amnesty International said that Iran is witnessing an "execution spree", as hangings are now proceeding at a "terrifying pace".

The Organization of Human Rights in Iran stated that the executions included ten women, three of whom were hanged in one day on July 27 after they were convicted of killing their husbands.

Meanwhile, Iran has also resumed cutting off the fingers of prisoners convicted of theft. Since May, at least two people have been subjected to this punishment, carried out with a specially designed guillotine in Evin Prison in Tehran, according to Amnesty.

On July 23, Iran carried out its first public execution in two years.

"The authorities are using large-scale executions to spread fear in society to prevent any new anti-government demonstrations," said Mahmoud Amiri Moghadam, director of Human Rights in Iran.

A growing movement inside and outside Iran uses the hashtag #edam_nakon, meaning "stop the execution", calling for an end to the use of the death penalty in the Islamic Republic, which executes more people annually than any country in the world except China.

Director Muhammad Rasoul Af was among the most prominent figures calling for stopping the executions. His poignant anti-death penalty film "The Devil Does Not Exist" won the Golden Bear at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival.

However, the arrest of Rasoul Af was stopped in early July after he published, with a group of directors and actors, an open letter in late May urging the security forces to lay down their weapons "in the face of the protests."

And then the director, who won several international awards, Jaafar Panahi, who remained for years unable to leave Iran, was arrested when he went two days later to ask about the whereabouts of Rasoul Af and was told that he had to serve a six-year prison sentence previously issued against him.

They join other well-known dissidents behind bars, including human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, who rights groups fear is at risk due to health problems that prison authorities have failed to treat properly.

Likewise, the security campaign witnessed the arrest of a number of relatives of victims of the authorities’ violent repression of the November 2019 demonstrations, who called for justice for their family members.

"There is no reason to believe that the arrests are more than insidious steps to deter public anger at the government's widespread failures," said Tara Sepehrifar, Iran researcher at Human Rights Watch, accusing the government of resorting to its "spontaneous repressive response to arrests." known opponents.

The past two months have also seen arrests of Baha'is, as part of what the international Baha'i community has described as "an escalating crisis in the Iranian government's systematic campaign" against the country's largest non-Muslim minority.

More than 20 foreign nationals or dual nationals remain under house arrest or stuck in Iran, according to the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran, as part of a policy their families describe as hostage-taking aimed at extracting concessions from the West.

In July, Iran allowed German-Iranian citizen Nahid Taqawi to leave prison for treatment and released American-British-Iranian citizen Morad Tahbaz with an electronic ankle bracelet. But they are still not allowed to leave Iran, while a Polish and a Belgian citizen, as well as a Swede and two French nationals, are also imprisoned.

Among those imprisoned is German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd, who, according to his family, was kidnapped in the Gulf in July 2020 and now faces the death penalty in a trial that is expected to conclude in the coming weeks.

"This is a fabricated operation aimed at persecuting dissidents and journalists who use freedom of expression in the free world... Allowing this to happen is outrageous," his daughter, Ghazal Sharmahd, told AFP.