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*Also Want Electoral Commission Heads, Some Judges Out *'They're Running Govt Like A Mafia' *Many Killed, Yet Protesters Press Forward Young protesters in Madagascar said today that they will continue their fight for the resignation of President Andry Rajoelina, and rejected his dissolution of the government on Monday as insufficient. Twenty-two people were killed and 100 injured at the demonstrations, according to the UN. The unrest broke out on 25 September when local councillors were arrested for protesting against water and electricity outages in the capital, Antananarivo. The youth-led protests quickly spread to other towns and cities, fuelled by social…

*Secure Window To Hotel Room Forced Open *Investigation Under Way The South African Ambassador to France, Nkosinathi Emmanuel Mthethwa was found dead outside a high-rise hotel in Paris on Tuesday, 30 September, according to local authorities. The Paris Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into the death of the 58-year-old Mthethwa near the 22nd floor Hyatt Regency hotel. He was reported missing by his wife on Monday, 29 September, after she received a worrying text message from him, according to prosecutors. Mthethwa had booked a room on the 22nd floor of the Hyatt Regency, and the secure window had been…

*'I Heard Loud Booming Noise, Rocks Falling' *We'd Retired To Our Barracks When Ground Started Shaking, We Rushed Out But Stumbled To Ground Due To Intense Shaking -Firefighter *People Feared Trapped Under Rubble The death toll from a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in central Philippines has risen to 22, local media reported, citing reports from the Cebu provincial information office. The report from DZMM Radio came as rescuers searched for casualties in the province after Tuesday night’s quake damaged buildings and roads and knocked out power in parts of the region. The epicentre of the earthquake, which was set off by…

*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,…