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*Last Time We Were Like Sheep Led To Slaughter, This Time It'll Be Fire For Fire, Plotter Says *It'll Be Final, Decisive Blow, Journalist Working Underground Reveals *'Revolution Can Happen Any Moment, People Want Revenge' The streets of Iran are near a breaking point over public executions, economic collapse and a war that’s been raging on for more than five months, anti-regime figures in Tehran told The New York Post. “A revolution can happen any day now — people want revenge,” a protest leader said, referring to the regime’s brutal January crackdown that US President Donald Trump claimed killed 52,000…

United States (US) President Donald Trump brought his cabinet together at the Camp David retreat in Maryland, today, to try to chart a path forward for the war against Iran as the mid-term elections loom. White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said at a briefing last week that the cabinet meeting would be “a lot of fun and something different for the cabinet to experience together." Top of the agenda will be the war, which Trump promised would last a few weeks but has now dragged on for five months. The US Senate narrowly rejected a symbolic vote to express…

*Some African Nations Too *At Global Conference *'Whoever Created, Approved This Slide Did Not Know Where Countries In Africa Are…' A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a ⁠global conference in Brazil ⁠this week, ​causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online. Reuters viewed a video of the presentation given at the AIDS 2026 Conference in ⁠Rio de Janeiro, which shows the errant map displayed halfway during a presentation about the State Department’s new health agreements. A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included ⁠in the…

Sulemana Abdul-Samed, popularly known as Awuche and said to be Ghana's tallest man, has died at the age of 33. He died in the early hours of Monday, 27 July, 2026, at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), where he had been receiving treatment after his health deteriorated due to complications associated with gigantism. His height was 7 feet 4 inches (2.24 metres). A family source confirmed the death to Graphic Online and said preparations were underway to bury him in Tamale in accordance with Islamic tradition. A native of Gambaga in the East Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region,…

*Israeli Leader Set To Meet Trump In Washington Today It's boiling in that sector: An emerging verbal war between Israeli Prime Minister (PM) Benjamin Netanyahu and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Netanyahu said yesterday that Mamdani is “fomenting hate” by calling him (Israeli Prime Minister) a war criminal who should be arrested over Israel’s war in Gaza,if he visits the city for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) later this year. Netanyahu said he intends to be in New York in September to address the annual UN gathering of world leaders, despite the Mayor’s suggestion that he is not…

A judge has ordered New York broadcast station WPIX/Channel 11 to pay a former anchor over $2 million (over N2.7billion) after a courtroom battle. Ojinika “Oji” Obiekwe worked for the Nexstar-operated company for 22 years and claimed the station fired her in 2023 because she spoke against alleged racial discrimination in the newsroom. Born and raised in Enugu, she moved to the United States (US) at age 16 for college and studied Communications at Seton Hall University. Ojinika is the second of five children. Obiekwe is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, global TV host, executive producer, and media strategist with nearly…

New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani acknowledged yesterday that he does not have the authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but urged United States (US) federal authorities to do so when Netanyahu visits the US later this year. “Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people,” Mamdani said in a video posted to social media. Mamdani, a Muslim of Indian descent, said he believed the International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest over alleged war crimes was justified, but admitted he lacked the legal authority to enforce it. “My…

*Gives Details Of His Miracle Escape *Israel, US Had Accurate Intel On Our Leaders, He Says *'Enemy Thought They Could Paralyse Us By Targeting Leadership, But They Failed' Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, has described how he was pulled from the rubble of a leadership compound after the US-Israeli airstrike that killed the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the war (28 February, 2026), and has survived since by constantly moving around the capital, Tehran, by car. In an interview with the Iranian journalist Javad Mogouyi, Araghchi confirmed Israel and the US had accurate intelligence…

*Political Allies, Others Knock Mamdani *UN Kickout Precedent In The US “Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, yesterday. Trump’s post came days after New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that he is in “active conversation” with the city’s Law Department about detaining a foreign leader like Netanyahu, who faces an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged actions related to Israel’s war with Hamas. Netanyahu often attends the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in Manhattan, New York, in September…

*Mandani Supports Hamas, Hates America, Netanyahu Fires Back New York mayor Zohran Mamdani says he’s still weighing whether he can arrest Israeli Prime Minister (PM) Benjamin Netanyahu when the latter is scheduled to visit the Big Apple in September this year. Hizzoner, a socialist Democrat who has faced heat for his anti-Israel rhetoric, is in “active conversation” with authorities ahead of Netanyahu’s trip to Manhattan for the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. Mamdani is a Muslim of Indian descent with his father, prominent academic Mahmood Mamdani, being a Gujarati Muslim. Mamdani has openly embraced his faith, and made history as…