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*Let My People Go, Lay Down Your Arms, He Warns Hamas *Most Hamas Leaders Killed Already *Two-state Solution 'Sheer Madness'*'Giving Palestinians A State One Mile From Jerusalem Akin To Giving Al-Qaeda A State One Mile From New York City' Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to “finish the job” in Gaza and said that the recognition of a Palestinian state was “insane” as delegations walked out of his address to the United Nations (UN) today. Just days after the UK, France, Canada, Australia, and other countries broke with the United States (US) to recognise an independent Palestinian state, Netanyahu called a two-state…

*Sarkozy To Serve 5 Years *French Judicial Model Means He Must First Go To Prison While Appeal Is Heard Lawyers for the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy have said they will try to ensure he serves as little time in prison as possible, after he was sentenced to five years for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to get election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. “We’re going to make sure that his incarceration will be as short as possible,” Sarkozy’s lawyer, Jean-Michel Darrois, told the BFMTV news channel today, September 26, after he became…

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has, today, been handed a sentence of five years in jail, French media are reporting. He is to go to jail immediately. But, his lawyer Christophe Ingrain, who said he will appeal the judgment immediately, told reporters that as Sarkozy never evaded the court and respected its summons, it feels excessive to send him to prison immediately, regardless of the appeal. He said Sarkozy was acquitted of three out of four charges, and “yet he gets sentenced to a heavy prison sentence with imminent execution.” “That’s an incredible contradiction,” he said. According to the lawyer,…

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a trial in which he and aides were accused of making a corruption pact with the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to receive funding for the 2007 French presidential election campaign. But Sarkozy was acquitted of three other charges. As the head judge, Nathalie Gavarino, continued to read the verdict today, September 25, Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy but acquitted of corruption, misuse of Libyan public funds and illegal election campaign funding. Sentencing has not yet been announced. Sarkozy, who had denied…

*As Malawi Picks Mutharika *Joins 92-year-old Paul Biya, Museveni, Several Others Is it that Africans love to vote into office octogenarians? Or, that persons in that age bracket are politically the smartest on the continent in offering leadership to their people? Those were some of the posers raised by concerned analysts as yet another very old man was voted into the presidency by an African nation on Wednesday, September 24. Malawians have voted in 85-year-old former President, Peter Mutharika, over an incumbent who presided over a multi-year economic crisis, high inflation, essential goods shortages, climate disasters and international aid cuts.…

*Follow My Immigration Policy Example, He Adds In a message that may not resonate well with many potential Nigerian economic immigrants to Europe, US President Donald Trump today took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) hall for the first time in six years to launch a full-on assault on the world body, which he described as a feckless, corrupt and pernicious global force that should follow the example of his own leadership. In an inflammatory speech on the 80th anniversary of the founding of the UN, Trump called for countries to close their borders and expel foreigners,…

Blood appears to be flowing in Iran. From January 1, 2025, until today, a rights group said it has verified and recorded 1000 executions. Iranian Human Rights (IHRNGO) painted a horror picture, saying last week alone, it recorded 64 executions, an average of more than nine hangings per day, insisting that "the figures are an absolute minimum as due to the lack of transparency and restrictions on reporting, the number is believed to be higher." People&Politics which visited the site of the group, containing this information, found out that IHRNGO is a non-profit international non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Oslo,…

*Upset Macrons To Submit Scientific Evidence Proving Brigitte Not Born A Man *I Stand By My Claims, Says Accuser Is Brigitte, the wife of French president, Emmanuel Macron, a man masquerading as a woman? This is the intriguing puzzle a US court is expected to unravel as Macron and his wife plan to present scientific evidence to the court to prove that Brigitte Macron was not born a man. The lawyer representing them in a defamation suit said the couple decided to head for court to clear the muddle and bring shame to their accuser, Candace Owens. The couple filed…

*Two Convicted Two men have been convicted in Zambia of planning to use witchcraft to kill the president, Hakainde Hichilema. Leonard Phiri, a village chief, and Jasten Mabulesse Candunde, a Mozambican citizen, were arrested in December after a cleaner reported hearing strange noises. Authorities said they were found to be in possession of a live chameleon and other “assorted charms”, including a red cloth, an unidentified white powder and an animal’s tail. “The motive of the crime was to kill the head of state,” the magistrate Fine Mayambu said in his ruling at a court in Lusaka. “The convicts were…

*We Stand By Our Story On Behalf Of American People, Newspaper Fires Back In an example to some country's leaders, especially those of some African nations, Donald Trump has filed a $15bn defamation lawsuit against the New York Times(NYT) in his latest use of legal action targeting a major media outlet. In democratic countries, there exist constitutional freedom of expression and freedom of the press, but the world understands if any leader who feels defamed or injured, heads to the law courts to seek redress, rather than unleash the secret police or some such security agencies on media houses/journalists who…