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One of these old photos on Twitter claims to show a car destroyed by Hellfire R9X in Idlib, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/syria/\\\\\\\"\u003eSyria\u003c/a\u003e.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/us-confirms-successful-mission-against-al-qaeda-in-afghanistan-all-you-need-to-know-715477/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS confirms 'successful' mission against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan: All you need to know\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eWhy are these missiles used in special cases?\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In a report, the Wall Street Journal said that the missiles were born after former US President Barack Obama emphasised on avoiding civilian deaths in US airstrikes in Afghanistan, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/pakistan/\\\\\\\"\u003ePakistan\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e, Syria, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/somalia/\\\\\\\"\u003eSomalia\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/yemen/\\\\\\\"\u003eYemen\u003c/a\u003e and other countries.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/ayman-al-zawahiri-family-parents-wives-and-children-715474/\\\\\\\"\u003eAyman al-Zawahiri family: Parents, wives, and children\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The R9X variant of Hellfire is used only in specific circumstances, particularly when a terrorist leader has been pinpointed. 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In a televised address, President Joe Biden announced his death and said no civilian casualties were reported in the operation that was conducted over the weekend. Quoting a senior official in the Biden administration, news agency AFP said that Zawahiri was on the balcony of a house in Kabul when he was targeted with two Hellfire missiles, an hour after sunrise on July 31. Also read: Joe Biden's warning for terror groups: Always vigilant...we never back down,According to the official's account, Biden gave his green light for the strike on July 25 - as he was recovering in isolation from Covid-19. However, pictures from the Kabul home where Zawahiri was living showed no signs of an explosion, pointing to the use again by the US of the macabre Hellfire R9X. Also read: How Ayman al-Zawahiri went from being a young Cairo doctor to al-Qaida chief,But, What is Hellfire 9X?,Hellfire 9X is also called the ninja bomb. It is reportedly said that the missile has become the US weapon of choice for killing leaders of extremist groups while avoiding civilian casualties. The missile is fired from a Predator drone. It has no warhead, but deploys six blades which fly in at high speed, crush and slice the targeted person. Also read: Who was Ayman al-Zawahiri?,This is the reason why it is called the flying ginsu, after the 1980 TV commercial for Japanese kitchen knives that would cut cleanly through aluminium cans and remain perfectly sharp. Some pictures posted online show the impact of these missiles. One of these old photos on Twitter claims to show a car destroyed by Hellfire R9X in Idlib, Syria. Also read: US confirms 'successful' mission against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan: All you need to know,Why are these missiles used in special cases?,In a report, the Wall Street Journal said that the missiles were born after former US President Barack Obama emphasised on avoiding civilian deaths in US airstrikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen and other countries. Also read: Ayman al-Zawahiri family: Parents, wives, and children,The R9X variant of Hellfire is used only in specific circumstances, particularly when a terrorist leader has been pinpointed. It is intended to limit damage compared to typical missiles by reducing the risk of killing innocent civilians around the target. The weapon was under development as early as 2011, the report further said.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"34.5553","longitude":"69.2075","name":"Kabul, Afghanistan","city":"Kabul"},"keywords":"US,Kabul,Afghanistan,Zawahiri,Hellfire 9X,Syria,Al Qaeda,Ayman al-Zawahiri,Joe Biden,Hellfire R9X.,Japanese,Hellfire R9X,Idlib,the Wall Street Journal,Barack Obama","originalPublishedOn":"2022-08-02T16:20:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"osVtJJha4p9H","slug":"english/how-ayman-al-zawahiri-went-from-being-a-young-cairo-doctor-to-al-qaida-chief","slugV2":"world/how-ayman-al-zawahiri-went-from-being-a-young-cairo-doctor-to-al-qaida-chief-715505/","title":"How Ayman al-Zawahiri went from being a young Cairo doctor to al-Qaida chief","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_HlibkH5oX.jpg","coverCaption":"FILE - As seen on a computer screen from a DVD prepared by Al-Sahab production, al-Qaida's Ayman al-Zawahri speaks in Islamabad, Pakistan, on June 20, 2006. (AP Photo)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-08-02T07:13:36+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eAyman al-Zawahiri was killed in a US operation in Afghanistan in July 2022\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eHe was the leader of the al-Qaeda\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eUS President Joe Biden confirmed his death on Monday\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1659404614902,\\\"strCount\\\":8298,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The doors of jihad opened for \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/who-was-ayman-al-zawahri-715458/\\\\\\\"\u003eAyman al-Zawahiri\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/who-was-ayman-al-zawahri-715458/\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e as a young doctor in a Cairo clinic, when a visitor arrived with a tempting offer: a chance to treat Islamic fighters battling Soviet forces in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/afghanistan/\\\\\\\"\u003eAfghanistan\u003c/a\u003e.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"With that offer in 1980, al-Zawahri embarked on a life that over three decades took him to the top of the most feared terrorist group in the world, al-Qaida, after the death of Osama bin Laden.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/who-was-ayman-al-zawahri-715458/\\\\\\\"\u003eWho was Ayman al-Zawahiri?\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Already an experienced militant who had sought the overthrow of Egypt’s “infidel” regime since the age of 15, al-Zawahri took a trip to the Afghan war zone that was just a few weeks long, but it opened his eyes to new possibilities.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"What he saw was “the training course preparing \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/muslim/\\\\\\\"\u003eMuslim\u003c/a\u003e mujahedeen youth to launch their upcoming battle with the great power that would rule the world: \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/america/\\\\\\\"\u003eAmerica\u003c/a\u003e,” he wrote in a 2001 biography-cum-manifesto.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/us-operation-in-afghanistan-killed-top-al-qaida-leader-ayman-al-zawahri-report-715462/\\\\\\\"\u003eAl-Zawahri, 71, was killed\u003c/a\u003e over the weekend by a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. President \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/us-president-joe-biden-confirms-the-death-of-al-qaeda-leader-ayman-al-zawahri-715486/\\\\\\\"\u003eJoe Biden announced\u003c/a\u003e the death Monday evening.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The strike is likely to lead to greater disarray within the organization than did bin Laden’s death in 2011, since it is far less clear who his successor would be.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/ayman-al-zawahiri-family-parents-wives-and-children-715474/\\\\\\\"\u003eAyman al-Zawahiri family: Parents, wives, and children\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Al-Zawahri was crucial in turning the jihadi movement to target the United States as the right-hand man to bin Laden, the young Saudi millionaire he met in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Under their leadership, the al-Qaida terror network carried out the deadliest attack ever on \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/american/\\\\\\\"\u003eAmerican\u003c/a\u003e soil, the Sept. 11, 2001, suicide hijackings.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon made bin Laden America’s Enemy No. 1. But he likely could never have carried it out without his deputy.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"While bin Laden came from a privileged background in a prominent Saudi family, al-Zawahri had the experience of an underground revolutionary. Bin Laden provided al-Qaida with charisma and money, but al-Zawahri brought tactics and organizational skills needed to forge militants into a network of cells in countries around the world.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“Bin Laden always looked up to him,” said terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman of Georgetown University.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/us-confirms-successful-mission-against-al-qaeda-in-afghanistan-all-you-need-to-know-715477/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS confirms 'successful' mission against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan: All you need to know\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"When the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan demolished al-Qaida’s safe haven and scattered, killed and captured its members, al-Zawahri ensured al-Qaida’s survival. He rebuilt its leadership in the Afghan-Pakistan border region and installed allies as lieutenants in key positions.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"He also became the movement’s public face, putting out a constant stream of video messages while bin Laden largely hid.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"With his thick beard, heavy-rimmed glasses and a prominent bruise on his forehead from prostration in prayer, he was notoriously prickly and pedantic. He picked ideological fights with critics within the jihadi camp, wagging his finger scoldingly in his videos. Even some key figures in al-Qaida’s central leadership were put off, calling him overly controlling, secretive and divisive — a contrast to bin Laden, whose soft-spoken presence many militants described in adoring, almost spiritual terms.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/us-president-joe-biden-confirms-the-death-of-al-qaeda-leader-ayman-al-zawahri-715486/\\\\\\\"\u003eJustice has been delivered: Biden on al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahri killing\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Yet he reshaped the organization from a centralized planner of terror attacks into the head of a franchise chain. He led the creation of a network of autonomous branches around the region, including in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/yemen/\\\\\\\"\u003eYemen\u003c/a\u003e, North Africa, Somalia and Asia.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In the decade after 9/11, al-Qaida inspired or had a direct hand in attacks in all those areas as well as Europe, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/pakistan/\\\\\\\"\u003ePakistan\u003c/a\u003e and Turkey, including the 2004 train bombings in Madrid and the 2005 transit bombings in London. More recently, the al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen has proven itself capable of plotting attacks on U.S. soil with an attempted 2009 bombing of an American passenger jet and an attempted package bomb the following year.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"After Bin Laden was killed in a U.S. raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, al-Qaida proclaimed al-Zawahri its paramount leader less than two months later.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The jihad against America “does not halt with the death of a commander or leader,” he said.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/us-operation-in-afghanistan-killed-top-al-qaida-leader-ayman-al-zawahri-report-715462/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS operation in Afghanistan killed top al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The 2011 \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/arab/\\\\\\\"\u003eArab\u003c/a\u003e Spring uprisings around the Mideast threatened a major blow to al-Qaida, showing that jihad was not the only way to get rid of Arab autocrats. It was mainly pro-democracy liberals and leftists who led the uprising that toppled Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, the longtime goal al-Zawahri failed to achieve.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"But al-Zawahri sought to co-opt the wave of uprisings, insisting that they would have been impossible if the 9/11 attacks had not weakened America. 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He merged his own militant cell with others to form the group Islamic Jihad and began trying to infiltrate the military — at one point even storing weapons in his private clinic.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Then came the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad militants. The slaying was carried out by a different cell in the group — and al-Zawahri has written that he learned of the plot only hours before the assassination. But he was arrested along with hundreds of other militants and served three years in prison.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"After his release in 1984, al-Zawahri returned to Afghanistan and joined the Arab militants from across the Middle East fighting alongside the Afghans against the Soviets. He courted bin Laden, who became a heroic figure for his financial support of the mujahedeen.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Al-Zawahri followed bin Laden to his new base in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/sudan/\\\\\\\"\u003eSudan\u003c/a\u003e, and from there he led a reassembled the Islamic Jihad group in a violent campaign of bombings aimed at toppling Egypt’s U.S.-allied government.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The Egyptian movement failed. But al-Zawahri would bring to al-Qaida the tactics that he honed in Islamic Jihad.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"He promoted the use of suicide bombings, to become al-Qaida’s hallmark. He plotted a 1995 suicide car bombing of Egypt’s embassy in Islamabad that killed 16 people — presaging the more devastating 1998 al-Qaida bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 200, attacks al-Zawahri was indicted for in the United States.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In 1996, Sudan expelled bin Laden, who took his fighters back to Afghanistan, where they found a safe haven under the radical Taliban regime. 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With that offer in 1980, al-Zawahri embarked on a life that over three decades took him to the top of the most feared terrorist group in the world, al-Qaida, after the death of Osama bin Laden. Also read: Who was Ayman al-Zawahiri?,Already an experienced militant who had sought the overthrow of Egypt’s “infidel” regime since the age of 15, al-Zawahri took a trip to the Afghan war zone that was just a few weeks long, but it opened his eyes to new possibilities. What he saw was “the training course preparing Muslim mujahedeen youth to launch their upcoming battle with the great power that would rule the world: America,” he wrote in a 2001 biography-cum-manifesto. Al-Zawahri, 71, was killed over the weekend by a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden announced the death Monday evening. The strike is likely to lead to greater disarray within the organization than did bin Laden’s death in 2011, since it is far less clear who his successor would be. Also read: Ayman al-Zawahiri family: Parents, wives, and children,Al-Zawahri was crucial in turning the jihadi movement to target the United States as the right-hand man to bin Laden, the young Saudi millionaire he met in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Under their leadership, the al-Qaida terror network carried out the deadliest attack ever on American soil, the Sept. 11, 2001, suicide hijackings. The attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon made bin Laden America’s Enemy No. 1. But he likely could never have carried it out without his deputy. While bin Laden came from a privileged background in a prominent Saudi family, al-Zawahri had the experience of an underground revolutionary. Bin Laden provided al-Qaida with charisma and money, but al-Zawahri brought tactics and organizational skills needed to forge militants into a network of cells in countries around the world. “Bin Laden always looked up to him,” said terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman of Georgetown University. Also read: US confirms 'successful' mission against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan: All you need to know,When the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan demolished al-Qaida’s safe haven and scattered, killed and captured its members, al-Zawahri ensured al-Qaida’s survival. He rebuilt its leadership in the Afghan-Pakistan border region and installed allies as lieutenants in key positions. He also became the movement’s public face, putting out a constant stream of video messages while bin Laden largely hid. With his thick beard, heavy-rimmed glasses and a prominent bruise on his forehead from prostration in prayer, he was notoriously prickly and pedantic. He picked ideological fights with critics within the jihadi camp, wagging his finger scoldingly in his videos. Even some key figures in al-Qaida’s central leadership were put off, calling him overly controlling, secretive and divisive — a contrast to bin Laden, whose soft-spoken presence many militants described in adoring, almost spiritual terms. Also read: Justice has been delivered: Biden on al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahri killing,Yet he reshaped the organization from a centralized planner of terror attacks into the head of a franchise chain. He led the creation of a network of autonomous branches around the region, including in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, North Africa, Somalia and Asia. In the decade after 9/11, al-Qaida inspired or had a direct hand in attacks in all those areas as well as Europe, Pakistan and Turkey, including the 2004 train bombings in Madrid and the 2005 transit bombings in London. More recently, the al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen has proven itself capable of plotting attacks on U.S. soil with an attempted 2009 bombing of an American passenger jet and an attempted package bomb the following year. After Bin Laden was killed in a U.S. raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, al-Qaida proclaimed al-Zawahri its paramount leader less than two months later. The jihad against America “does not halt with the death of a commander or leader,” he said. Also read: US operation in Afghanistan killed top al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri,The 2011 Arab Spring uprisings around the Mideast threatened a major blow to al-Qaida, showing that jihad was not the only way to get rid of Arab autocrats. It was mainly pro-democracy liberals and leftists who led the uprising that toppled Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, the longtime goal al-Zawahri failed to achieve. But al-Zawahri sought to co-opt the wave of uprisings, insisting that they would have been impossible if the 9/11 attacks had not weakened America. And he urged Islamic hard-liners to take over in the nations where leaders had fallen. Al-Zawahri was born June 19, 1951, the son of an upper-middle-class family of doctors and scholars in the Cairo suburb of Maadi. From an early age, he was enflamed by the radical writings of Sayed Qutb, the Egyptian Islamist who taught that Arab regimes were “infidel” and should be replaced by Islamic rule. In the 1970s, as he earned his medical degree as a surgeon, he was active in militant circles. He merged his own militant cell with others to form the group Islamic Jihad and began trying to infiltrate the military — at one point even storing weapons in his private clinic. Then came the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad militants. The slaying was carried out by a different cell in the group — and al-Zawahri has written that he learned of the plot only hours before the assassination. But he was arrested along with hundreds of other militants and served three years in prison. After his release in 1984, al-Zawahri returned to Afghanistan and joined the Arab militants from across the Middle East fighting alongside the Afghans against the Soviets. He courted bin Laden, who became a heroic figure for his financial support of the mujahedeen. Al-Zawahri followed bin Laden to his new base in Sudan, and from there he led a reassembled the Islamic Jihad group in a violent campaign of bombings aimed at toppling Egypt’s U.S.-allied government. The Egyptian movement failed. But al-Zawahri would bring to al-Qaida the tactics that he honed in Islamic Jihad. He promoted the use of suicide bombings, to become al-Qaida’s hallmark. He plotted a 1995 suicide car bombing of Egypt’s embassy in Islamabad that killed 16 people — presaging the more devastating 1998 al-Qaida bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 200, attacks al-Zawahri was indicted for in the United States. In 1996, Sudan expelled bin Laden, who took his fighters back to Afghanistan, where they found a safe haven under the radical Taliban regime. Once more, al-Zawahri followed. Former Associated Press Writer Adam Goldman in Washington contributed to this story.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"34.5553","longitude":"69.2075","name":"Kabul, Afghanistan","city":"Kabul"},"keywords":"al-Zawahri,al-Qaida,bin Laden,Afghanistan,U.S.,Egypt,Al-Zawahri,Islamic Jihad,Islamic,Bin Laden,Arab,Egyptian,Cairo,Afghan,the United States","originalPublishedOn":"2022-08-02T07:13:32+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"TxttLr96Nyfy","slug":"english/who-is-eric-greitens","slugV2":"usa/who-is-eric-greitens-714126/","title":"Who is Eric Greitens?","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_QpP-zV_e-m.jpg","coverCaption":"Eric Greitens at a Republican meeting in Taney County, Missouri (Photo Credit: Twitter/ @EricGreitens)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-07-31T15:20:24+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eHe founded the non-profit The Mission Continues to help veterans get back on their feet\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eEric Greitens was in the Navy from 2001 till 2021\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eHe is a graduate from Duke Univeristy and majored in ethics, philosophy, and public policy\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1659261024288,\\\"strCount\\\":2743,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Eric Robert Greitens is an \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/american/\\\\\\\"\u003eAmerican\u003c/a\u003e politician and former \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/navy/\\\\\\\"\u003eNavy\u003c/a\u003e officer who served as the Governor of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/missouri/\\\\\\\"\u003eMissouri\u003c/a\u003e from 2017 to 2018. He is a registered \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/republican/\\\\\\\"\u003eRepublican\u003c/a\u003e, having resigned from the Democratic party in 2015.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Born on April 10, 1974 in St. Louis Missouri, Greitens grew up Democrat in the city. After school, he attended Duke University, majoring in ethics, philosophy, and public policy. He graduated summa cum laude, i.e., with the highest honors. Greitens has had a storied career in academics since he won the Harry S Truman scholarship and was named a Rhodes Scholar which let him study a master's degree at Oxford University. He received Master's in Philosophy in 1998 following which he committed to a PhD, researching how human rights organisations helped children in war affected countries.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"His political career began in 2016 when he announced that he would be running for the governor of Missouri. Following his return from \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e in 2007, he founded a non-profit organisation called The Mission Continues which empowered war veterans to build community relationships and build career skills all while they work at other volunteer organisations. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"During his campaign for the governorship, his improper use of The Mission Continues' email accounts to arrange meetings and his use of its donor list to raise money for his campaign were both heavily scrutinised, with the Attorney General of Missouri opening an investigation into The Mission Continues. It was later reported by the Kansas City Star that the AG dropped the investigation into the non-profit.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In 2018, prior to an investigative report coming out, Greitens came forward saying that he had an extramarital affair with his hiarstylist in 2015. It was later revealed that he had sexually assaulted her. Following these revelations, Republican members of the House of Representatives of Missouri called for his resignation and even called a special session to impeach him. Greitens resigned on\u0026nbsp;June 1, 2018. He has had the shortest tenure as governor of Missouri since 1861.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The U.S. primaries for \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/arizona/\\\\\\\"\u003eArizona\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/michigan/\\\\\\\"\u003eMichigan\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/ohio/\\\\\\\"\u003eOhio\u003c/a\u003e, Kansas, Missouri, and Washington are set to be held on August 2, 2022. 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He is a registered Republican, having resigned from the Democratic party in 2015. Born on April 10, 1974 in St. Louis Missouri, Greitens grew up Democrat in the city. After school, he attended Duke University, majoring in ethics, philosophy, and public policy. He graduated summa cum laude, i.e. with the highest honors. Greitens has had a storied career in academics since he won the Harry S Truman scholarship and was named a Rhodes Scholar which let him study a master's degree at Oxford University. He received Master's in Philosophy in 1998 following which he committed to a PhD, researching how human rights organisations helped children in war affected countries. ,His political career began in 2016 when he announced that he would be running for the governor of Missouri. Following his return from Iraq in 2007, he founded a non-profit organisation called The Mission Continues which empowered war veterans to build community relationships and build career skills all while they work at other volunteer organisations. ,During his campaign for the governorship, his improper use of The Mission Continues' email accounts to arrange meetings and his use of its donor list to raise money for his campaign were both heavily scrutinised, with the Attorney General of Missouri opening an investigation into The Mission Continues. It was later reported by the Kansas City Star that the AG dropped the investigation into the non-profit. ,In 2018, prior to an investigative report coming out, Greitens came forward saying that he had an extramarital affair with his hiarstylist in 2015. It was later revealed that he had sexually assaulted her. Following these revelations, Republican members of the House of Representatives of Missouri called for his resignation and even called a special session to impeach him. Greitens resigned on June 1, 2018. He has had the shortest tenure as governor of Missouri since 1861. ,The U.S. primaries for Arizona, Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and Washington are set to be held on August 2, 2022. The mid-term elections are slated for November 8.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"38.627","longitude":"-90.1994","name":"St. Louis, MO, USA","city":"St. Louis"},"keywords":"Missouri,Republican,Greitens,Eric Robert Greitens,American,Navy,the Democratic party,St. Louis,Democrat,Duke University,the Harry S Truman,a Rhodes Scholar,Oxford University,Master's in Philosophy,PhD","originalPublishedOn":"2022-07-31T14:50:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"TM1k7WukNkzz","slug":"english/who-is-peter-james-meijer","slugV2":"usa/who-is-peter-james-meijer-713172/","title":"Who is Peter James Meijer?","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_tpGsHo4Sy.jpg","coverCaption":"Peter James Meijer is an American politician and business analyst serving as the US representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district since 2021. 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Born January 10, 1988, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he is the oldest son of Hank Meijer and the grandson of Frederik Meijer, whose father, Hendrik Meijer, founded supermarket chain Meijer after he emigrated to the United States from the Netherlands. He was one of ten Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump during his second impeachment. Also Read | US primaries: Why Ryan Kelley's Michigan governor bid is controversial,Forbes has recognized his family as one of the wealthiest in Michigan, with a net worth above $6 billion. His financial disclosures list more than $50 million in assets. These assests mostly are from a Meijer family trust. Meijer graduated from East Grand Rapids High School in 2006. He initially studied for one year at the United States Military Academy at West Point before transferring to Columbia University in 2008, graduating with a bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology in 2012. From 2008 to 2016, Meijer served in the United States Army Reserve and was deployed to Iraq from 2010 into 2011, serving as an intelligence advisor. In 2017, he graduated from the New York University Stern School of Business with a Master of Business Administration. Also Read | US primaries: Arizona GOP candidates who will test Donald Trump's clout,From 2013 to 2015, Meijer worked as a conflict analyst for an international NGO. He was later employed by Olympia Development of Michigan of Ilitch Holdings as an analyst from April 2018 to January 2019. Meijer is running for reelection in the district for the 2022 elections. His primary opponent is John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"37.0902","longitude":"-95.7129","name":"United States","city":"Bartlesville"},"keywords":"Meijer,Michigan,Peter James Meijer,US,Grand Rapids,Hank Meijer,Frederik Meijer,Hendrik Meijer,the United States,Netherlands,Republicans,Donald Trump,Read | Forbes,East Grand Rapids,the United States Military Academy","originalPublishedOn":"2022-07-30T01:20:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"w6Ni7fkuiIzB","slug":"english/who-is-john-moolenaar","slugV2":"usa/who-is-john-moolenaar-712754/","title":"Who is John Moolenaar?","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_Zg-d1Gcsl.jpg","coverCaption":"John Moolenaar is an American politician serving as the US representative for Michigan's 4th congressional district since 2015. (Photo credit: Twitter)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-07-29T18:26:13+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eJohn Moolenaar was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2002\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eHe defeated Democrat Andy Neumann in the November 2 general election\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eBefore his election to the legislature, Moolenaar served on the Midland City Council\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1659099373263,\\\"strCount\\\":2567,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"John Robert Moolenaar is an \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/american/\\\\\\\"\u003eAmerican\u003c/a\u003e politician serving as the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/us/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS\u003c/a\u003e representative for Michigan's 4th congressional district since 2015.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Born May 8, 1961,\u0026nbsp;in a family of Dutch Americans,\u0026nbsp;Moolenaar earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Hope College. He earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University in 1989.\u0026nbsp;He is a chemist and worked at Dow Chemical Company for eight months before entering politics.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/us-primaries-why-ryan-kelleys-michigan-governor-bid-is-controversial-712605/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS primaries: Why Ryan Kelley's Michigan governor bid is controversial\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\" He was elected to the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/michigan/\\\\\\\"\u003eMichigan\u003c/a\u003e House of Representatives in 2002, where he served three terms. In 2010, he was elected to the Michigan Senate, where he served one term.\u0026nbsp;He defeated Democrat Andy Neumann in the November 2 general election, 56,634 votes to 32,154.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"He served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 to 2008 and the Michigan Senate from 2011 to 2014.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Before his election to the legislature, Moolenaar served on the Midland City Council.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\" In 2014, Moolenaar ran for the United States House of Representatives seat representing Michigan's 4th congressional district. He won the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/republican/\\\\\\\"\u003eRepublican\u003c/a\u003e primary election in August, defeating Paul Mitchell. He also won the general election in November. He also defeated Jeff Holmes (D), Will Tyler White (Libertarian) and George Zimmer (U.S. Taxpayers) in the November 4 general election.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/jan-6-house-committee-interviews-steven-mnuchin-pursues-others-of-trump-cabinet-712322/\\\\\\\"\u003eJan 6 House committee interviews Steven Mnuchin, pursues others of Trump Cabinet\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Moolenaar and fellow Michigan representative Andy Levin introduced legislation to delay any deportations of Iraqis to \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e for two years.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\" In December 2020, he signed an amicus brief before the United States Supreme Court in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/texas/\\\\\\\"\u003eTexas\u003c/a\u003e v. \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/pennsylvania/\\\\\\\"\u003ePennsylvania\u003c/a\u003e. This sought to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election results.\u0026nbsp;The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"United States"},"createdBy":{"name":"Suman V","photo":null,"username":"sumanv","id":"KhO1NvH3W2sk","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"USMidtermElections2022","slug":"usmidtermelections2022","id":"YNWnPZzlxhHn","isSection":0},{"name":"Michigan","slug":"michigan","id":"v1PUUokDPAsf","isSection":0},{"name":"Texas","slug":"texas","id":"5XE2gabHzcdC","isSection":0},{"name":"American","slug":"american","id":"NZFYoh1gkc1s","isSection":0},{"name":"US","slug":"us","id":"0JelBm6rMusZ","isSection":0},{"name":"HarvardUniversity","slug":"harvarduniversity","id":"9PPS0QB4Pzx7","isSection":0},{"name":"HouseofRepresentatives","slug":"houseofrepresentatives","id":"XhJO5RWysx36","isSection":0},{"name":"republican","slug":"republican","id":"AruyJIiVrhQS","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Pennsylvania","slug":"pennsylvania","id":"uJWQXBGI7xpE","isSection":0},{"name":"UnitedStates","slug":"unitedstates","id":"Lgr3hTOPJ0yv","isSection":0},{"name":"SupremeCourt","slug":"supremecourt","id":"FnneUVErxtRr","isSection":0},{"name":"USA","slug":"usa","id":"SPBaPrR23eZS","isSection":2},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Suman V","id":"KhO1NvH3W2sk","username":"sumanv","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-07-29T18:26:11+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"John Robert Moolenaar is an American politician serving as the US representative for Michigan's 4th congressional district since 2015. ,Born May 8, 1961, in a family of Dutch Americans, Moolenaar earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Hope College. He earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University in 1989. He is a chemist and worked at Dow Chemical Company for eight months before entering politics. Also Read | US primaries: Why Ryan Kelley's Michigan governor bid is controversial, He was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2002, where he served three terms. In 2010, he was elected to the Michigan Senate, where he served one term. He defeated Democrat Andy Neumann in the November 2 general election, 56,634 votes to 32,154. He served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 to 2008 and the Michigan Senate from 2011 to 2014. Before his election to the legislature, Moolenaar served on the Midland City Council. In 2014, Moolenaar ran for the United States House of Representatives seat representing Michigan's 4th congressional district. He won the Republican primary election in August, defeating Paul Mitchell. He also won the general election in November. He also defeated Jeff Holmes (D), Will Tyler White (Libertarian) and George Zimmer (U.S. Taxpayers) in the November 4 general election. Also Read | Jan 6 House committee interviews Steven Mnuchin, pursues others of Trump Cabinet,Moolenaar and fellow Michigan representative Andy Levin introduced legislation to delay any deportations of Iraqis to Iraq for two years. In December 2020, he signed an amicus brief before the United States Supreme Court in Texas v. Pennsylvania. This sought to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election results. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"37.0902","longitude":"-95.7129","name":"United States","city":"Bartlesville"},"keywords":"Michigan,the Michigan House of Representatives,the Michigan Senate,Texas,John Robert Moolenaar,American,US,Dutch Americans,a Bachelor of Science,Hope College,a Master of Public Administration,Harvard University,Dow Chemical Company,Democrat,Andy Neumann","originalPublishedOn":"2022-07-29T17:40:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"PSzKsruaBbBx","slug":"english/us-inflation-rate-at-a-40-year-high-a-timeline-1930-2022","slugV2":"business/us-inflation-rate-at-a-40-year-high-a-timeline-1930-2022-693306/","title":"US inflation rate at a 40-year high | A timeline: 1930-2022","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_JvBTT3TgP.jpg","coverCaption":"When inflation becomes uncontrollable, everyone feels poorer. (Photo credit: Representational/ Unsplash)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-07-28T04:00:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eInflation reached 9.1% in June 2022 in the United States\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eInflation affects household budgets and long-term inflation means that costs will rise\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eIt represents an economy's pace and causes it to drive forward\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1658953800448,\\\"strCount\\\":8114,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topic/inflation\\\\\\\"\u003eInflation\u003c/a\u003e in the United States is at a 40-year high, but the country is not alone. Price increases occur all throughout the world. According to a Deutsche Bank analysis of 111 nations' inflation rates, the United States is towards the centre of the pack. The median rate of year-over-year inflation across these nations has more than doubled from 3.0% last year, owing mostly to rising energy and food prices.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read|\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/us-inflation-hit-91-in-june-highest-in-40-years\\\\\\\"\u003eUS inflation hits 9.1% in June, highest in 40 years\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Inflation represents an economy's pace and causes it to drive forward at full speed, often uncontrolled, resulting in price increases and a greater cost of living for the average consumer.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/how-elon-musks-trigger-happy-twitter-ways-land-him-in-more-boil\\\\\\\"\u003eHow Elon Musk's trigger-happy Twitter ways land him in more boil\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Inflation affects household budgets and long-term inflation means that costs will rise and that over time, a certain amount of funds will buy you significantly less. Wages tend to rise organically during inflation to compensate for this, because inflation is a result of increased demand, implying economic expansion, but individuals on fixed incomes, such as pensioners, are out of luck in this instance. When inflation becomes uncontrollable, everyone feels poorer.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read|\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/i2u2-summit-indias-role-in-the-new-grouping\\\\\\\"\u003eI2U2 summit: India’s role in the new grouping\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"embed\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"service\\\":\\\"iframe\\\",\\\"source\\\":\\\"\u003cdiv class=\\\\\\\"iframe-embed\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003ciframe title=\\\\\\\"US inflation rate 1930-2022\\\\\\\" aria-label=\\\\\\\"Column Chart\\\\\\\" id=\\\\\\\"datawrapper-chart-oAjFk\\\\\\\" src=\\\\\\\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/oAjFk/1/\\\\\\\" scrolling=\\\\\\\"no\\\\\\\" frameborder=\\\\\\\"0\\\\\\\" style=\\\\\\\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\\\\\\\" height=\\\\\\\"1080\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e\u003cscript type=\\\\\\\"text/javascript\\\\\\\"\u003e!function(){\\\\\\\"use strict\\\\\\\";window.addEventListener(\\\\\\\"message\\\\\\\",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data[\\\\\\\"datawrapper-height\\\\\\\"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll(\\\\\\\"iframe\\\\\\\");for(var a in e.data[\\\\\\\"datawrapper-height\\\\\\\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ct.length;r++){if(t[r].contentWindow===e.source)t[r].style.height=e.data[\\\\\\\"datawrapper-height\\\\\\\"][a]+\\\\\\\"px\\\\\\\"}}}))}();\\\\n\u003c/script\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\\\",\\\"embed\\\":\\\"\u003cdiv class=\\\\\\\"iframe-embed\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003ciframe title=\\\\\\\"US inflation rate 1930-2022\\\\\\\" aria-label=\\\\\\\"Column Chart\\\\\\\" id=\\\\\\\"datawrapper-chart-oAjFk\\\\\\\" src=\\\\\\\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/oAjFk/1/\\\\\\\" scrolling=\\\\\\\"no\\\\\\\" frameborder=\\\\\\\"0\\\\\\\" style=\\\\\\\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\\\\\\\" height=\\\\\\\"1080\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e\u003cscript type=\\\\\\\"text/javascript\\\\\\\"\u003e!function(){\\\\\\\"use strict\\\\\\\";window.addEventListener(\\\\\\\"message\\\\\\\",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data[\\\\\\\"datawrapper-height\\\\\\\"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll(\\\\\\\"iframe\\\\\\\");for(var a in e.data[\\\\\\\"datawrapper-height\\\\\\\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ct.length;r++){if(t[r].contentWindow===e.source)t[r].style.height=e.data[\\\\\\\"datawrapper-height\\\\\\\"][a]+\\\\\\\"px\\\\\\\"}}}))}();\\\\n\u003c/script\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\\\",\\\"caption\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"aspectRatio\\\":null}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eLet's take a look at the rate of inflation in the United States from 1930 to 2022:\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003e1930-1940\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Prices climbed the most between 1933 and 1941, despite output being far below forecast. The impact of devaluation and altered expectations alone cannot account for this inflation. Rather, because prewar price fluctuations were heavily influenced by the rate of expansion of real output, the extremely rapid growth after 1933 was a major contributor to inflation. Simultaneously, the NIRA reduced the normal deviation-from-trend impact by supporting minimum wages and collusive pricing structures. The convergence of these dynamics resulted in inflation at a period when the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topic/us\\\\\\\"\u003eUS\u003c/a\u003e economy remained weak.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read|\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/why-interest-rates-are-being-hiked-globally\\\\\\\"\u003eWhy interest rates are being hiked globally?\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/uk-inflation-rate-hits-new-40-year-high-all-you-need-to-know\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003e1940-1950\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The possibility of inflation loomed much bigger during WWII, as the government deficit soared from around 3% of GDP in 1939 to about 27% of GDP in 1943. To combat inflation, the federal government began abolishing free-market pricing on products in limited supply in the early 1940s.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read|\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/impact-of-us-feds-biggest-rate-hike-since-1994-on-india\\\\\\\"\u003eImpact of US Feds' biggest rate hike since 1994 on India\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003e1950-1960\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Inflation spiked sharply in the economy before to the Korean War. The 1950s experienced good GDP growth, low inflation, and low unemployment even after the war and recession.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read|\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/why-is-i2u2-is-being-called-quad-of-the-west\\\\\\\"\u003eWhy is I2U2 is being called 'Quad of the west'?\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003e1960-1970\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Inflation was somewhat more than 1% per year throughout the 1960s. Over the six years prior, it had resided in this area. Inflation began to rise in the mid-1960s, eventually reaching more than 5% in 1970.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read|\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/boulevard-of-broken-deals-the-musk-twitter-saga-so-far\\\\\\\"\u003eBoulevard of broken deals: The Musk-Twitter saga so far\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003e1970-1980\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Inflation in the United States reached some of its highest levels in the 1970s. As a result, interest rates surged to almost 20%. High inflation was caused by Fed policies, the removal of the gold window, Keynesian economic policy, and market psychology. The American central bank's easy money measures were intended to achieve full employment by the early 1970s. However, they also led to significant inflation.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read|\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/who-is-the-founder-of-bitcoin-and-why-is-his-identity-shrouded-in-mystery\\\\\\\"\u003eWho is the founder of Bitcoin and why is his identity shrouded in mystery?\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003e1980-1990\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The world was in a severe recession when the 1980s started, and there was a lot of inflation and unemployment in the United States. In January 1980, the inflation rate was 13.91%, while the unemployment rate was 6.3%. In April 1980, inflation reached 14.76% before falling to 6.51%. \u0026nbsp; By December 1989, unemployment had fallen to 5.4% and inflation had sharply lowered to 4.65%.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read|\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-a-complete-timeline-of-events\\\\\\\"\u003eElon Musk's Twitter takeover: A complete timeline of events\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003e1990-2000\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A mild recession began in 1990 after the Federal Reserve had been gradually hiking interest rates for more than two years to keep inflation under control. These actions delayed the economy, which subsequently suffered when \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topic/iraq\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e invaded \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topic/kuwait\\\\\\\"\u003eKuwait\u003c/a\u003e in the summer of 1990 (followed by US involvement and the Gulf War), causing global oil prices to more than double. With a 1.1% decline in GDP and an approximate 7% unemployment rate, the recession only lasted eight months.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read|\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/why-us-inflation-is-going-up-and-when-will-it-calm-down\\\\\\\"\u003eWhy US inflation is going up and when will it come down\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003e2000-2010\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The bursting of the dot-com bubble led to one of the mildest recessions on record, following what was then the lengthiest economic boom in US history. \u0026nbsp; In early 1999, the Fed hiked the fed funds rate from 4.75% to 6.5% by July 2000. The September 11 attacks and the resulting economic disruptions may have expedited the conclusion of the recession by persuading the Fed to continue decreasing the fed funds rate. Midway through 2003, the benchmark rate fell to 1%. Between 2007 and 2009, a nationwide decline in U.S. housing prices prompted a global financial crisis, a stock market bear market that saw the S\u0026amp;P 500 fall 57% at its lows, and the worst economic slump since the 1937-38 recession. Global investment into the United States had maintained market rates low, perhaps promoting shady mortgage underwriting and mortgage-backed securities marketing tactics. By mid-2008, oil prices had reached all-time highs before plummeting, devastating the US oil sector.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read|\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/explained-the-impact-of-bond-yield-on-markets-and-investors\\\\\\\"\u003eExplained: The impact of bond yields on markets and investors\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003e2010-2020\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States in March 2020, and the following travel and work restrictions led employment to collapse, resulting in an exceptionally brief but intense recession. The unemployment rate rose from 3.5% in February 2020 to 14.7% in April 2020 before falling to 4% by the end of 2021, limited by $5 trillion in pandemic relief expenditures. The stock market dropped 34% yet recovered its high in 33 days, an unusually quick reversal.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read|\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/explained-changes-in-repo-rates-and-their-impact-on-stock-market\\\\\\\"\u003eExplained: Changes in repo rates and their impact on stock market\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003e2020-2022\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In the United States, inflation reached 9.1% in 2022. Many of the factors driving inflation last year, such as supply interruptions from Covid and increased food costs as a result of severe storms and drought, were not unique to the United States. The cause for soaring inflation was increased demand, which was fueled by the unprecedented $5 trillion (£4.1 trillion) in expenditure authorised by the US government to safeguard households and businesses from the economic catastrophe of the pandemic.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA"},"createdBy":{"name":"Yash Sadhak Shrivastava","photo":"https://opoyi.com/images/opoyi_YTc6hxpHI.jpg?tr=w-600,q-70,dpr","username":"yashsadhak","id":"hVr8BLevnFNI","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Inflation","slug":"inflation","id":"cJVqnLe20t8S","isSection":0},{"name":"UnitedStates","slug":"unitedstates","id":"Lgr3hTOPJ0yv","isSection":0},{"name":"FederalReserve","slug":"federalreserve","id":"nAfUON56zYbS","isSection":0},{"name":"StockMarket","slug":"stockmarket","id":"vHCI0WQLTd1o","isSection":0},{"name":"Recession","slug":"recession","id":"kTF38sWsaB2Q","isSection":0},{"name":"Economy","slug":"economy","id":"5VhOB45vqxj9","isSection":0},{"name":"WorldWarII","slug":"worldwarii","id":"6FyDk1bfl0p4","isSection":0},{"name":"GDP","slug":"gdp","id":"sdLvX0aD0qHh","isSection":0},{"name":"CrudeOil","slug":"crudeoil","id":"CDdTHmgoFn2O","isSection":0},{"name":"Covid","slug":"covid","id":"jtkufHpdTfkm","isSection":0},{"name":"ShareMarket","slug":"sharemarket","id":"PkCsd9oT2rCN","isSection":0},{"name":"US","slug":"us","id":"0JelBm6rMusZ","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Kuwait","slug":"kuwait","id":"8U0reOTHY8so","isSection":0},{"name":"USA","slug":"usa","id":"SPBaPrR23eZS","isSection":2},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1},{"name":"Business","slug":"business","id":"1hd39Bl2AdAV","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Yash Sadhak Shrivastava","id":"hVr8BLevnFNI","username":"yashsadhak","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-07-28T04:00:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Inflation in the United States is at a 40-year high, but the country is not alone. Price increases occur all throughout the world. According to a Deutsche Bank analysis of 111 nations' inflation rates, the United States is towards the centre of the pack. The median rate of year-over-year inflation across these nations has more than doubled from 3.0% last year, owing mostly to rising energy and food prices. Also Read| US inflation hits 9.1% in June, highest in 40 years,Inflation represents an economy's pace and causes it to drive forward at full speed, often uncontrolled, resulting in price increases and a greater cost of living for the average consumer. Also Read | How Elon Musk's trigger-happy Twitter ways land him in more boil,Inflation affects household budgets and long-term inflation means that costs will rise and that over time, a certain amount of funds will buy you significantly less. Wages tend to rise organically during inflation to compensate for this, because inflation is a result of increased demand, implying economic expansion, but individuals on fixed incomes, such as pensioners, are out of luck in this instance. When inflation becomes uncontrollable, everyone feels poorer. Also Read| I2U2 summit: India’s role in the new grouping,Let's take a look at the rate of inflation in the United States from 1930 to 2022:,1930-1940,Prices climbed the most between 1933 and 1941, despite output being far below forecast. The impact of devaluation and altered expectations alone cannot account for this inflation. Rather, because prewar price fluctuations were heavily influenced by the rate of expansion of real output, the extremely rapid growth after 1933 was a major contributor to inflation. Simultaneously, the NIRA reduced the normal deviation-from-trend impact by supporting minimum wages and collusive pricing structures. The convergence of these dynamics resulted in inflation at a period when the US economy remained weak. Also Read| Why interest rates are being hiked globally?,1940-1950,The possibility of inflation loomed much bigger during WWII, as the government deficit soared from around 3% of GDP in 1939 to about 27% of GDP in 1943. To combat inflation, the federal government began abolishing free-market pricing on products in limited supply in the early 1940s. Also Read| Impact of US Feds' biggest rate hike since 1994 on India,1950-1960,Inflation spiked sharply in the economy before to the Korean War. The 1950s experienced good GDP growth, low inflation, and low unemployment even after the war and recession. Also Read| Why is I2U2 is being called 'Quad of the west'?,1960-1970,Inflation was somewhat more than 1% per year throughout the 1960s. Over the six years prior, it had resided in this area. Inflation began to rise in the mid-1960s, eventually reaching more than 5% in 1970. Also Read| Boulevard of broken deals: The Musk-Twitter saga so far,1970-1980,Inflation in the United States reached some of its highest levels in the 1970s. As a result, interest rates surged to almost 20%. High inflation was caused by Fed policies, the removal of the gold window, Keynesian economic policy, and market psychology. The American central bank's easy money measures were intended to achieve full employment by the early 1970s. However, they also led to significant inflation. Also Read| Who is the founder of Bitcoin and why is his identity shrouded in mystery?,1980-1990,The world was in a severe recession when the 1980s started, and there was a lot of inflation and unemployment in the United States. In January 1980, the inflation rate was 13.91%, while the unemployment rate was 6.3%. In April 1980, inflation reached 14.76% before falling to 6.51%. By December 1989, unemployment had fallen to 5.4% and inflation had sharply lowered to 4.65%. Also Read| Elon Musk's Twitter takeover: A complete timeline of events,1990-2000,A mild recession began in 1990 after the Federal Reserve had been gradually hiking interest rates for more than two years to keep inflation under control. These actions delayed the economy, which subsequently suffered when Iraq invaded Kuwait in the summer of 1990 (followed by US involvement and the Gulf War), causing global oil prices to more than double. With a 1.1% decline in GDP and an approximate 7% unemployment rate, the recession only lasted eight months. Also Read| Why US inflation is going up and when will it come down,2000-2010,The bursting of the dot-com bubble led to one of the mildest recessions on record, following what was then the lengthiest economic boom in US history. In early 1999, the Fed hiked the fed funds rate from 4.75% to 6.5% by July 2000. The September 11 attacks and the resulting economic disruptions may have expedited the conclusion of the recession by persuading the Fed to continue decreasing the fed funds rate. Midway through 2003, the benchmark rate fell to 1%. Between 2007 and 2009, a nationwide decline in U.S. housing prices prompted a global financial crisis, a stock market bear market that saw the S\u0026P 500 fall 57% at its lows, and the worst economic slump since the 1937-38 recession. Global investment into the United States had maintained market rates low, perhaps promoting shady mortgage underwriting and mortgage-backed securities marketing tactics. By mid-2008, oil prices had reached all-time highs before plummeting, devastating the US oil sector. ,Also Read| Explained: The impact of bond yields on markets and investors,2010-2020,The COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States in March 2020, and the following travel and work restrictions led employment to collapse, resulting in an exceptionally brief but intense recession. The unemployment rate rose from 3.5% in February 2020 to 14.7% in April 2020 before falling to 4% by the end of 2021, limited by $5 trillion in pandemic relief expenditures. The stock market dropped 34% yet recovered its high in 33 days, an unusually quick reversal. Also Read| Explained: Changes in repo rates and their impact on stock market,2020-2022,In the United States, inflation reached 9.1% in 2022. Many of the factors driving inflation last year, such as supply interruptions from Covid and increased food costs as a result of severe storms and drought, were not unique to the United States. The cause for soaring inflation was increased demand, which was fueled by the unprecedented $5 trillion (£4.1 trillion) in expenditure authorised by the US government to safeguard households and businesses from the economic catastrophe of the pandemic.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"38.9072","longitude":"-77.0369","name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA","city":"Washington"},"keywords":"the United States,US,Fed,Deutsche Bank,NIRA,WWII,the Korean War,The American central bank's,the Federal Reserve,Iraq,Kuwait,the Gulf War,U.S.","originalPublishedOn":"2022-07-04T15:45:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"UhiCNbYjtDfH","slug":"english/who-is-blake-lemoine","slugV2":"technology/who-is-blake-lemoine-707915/","title":"Who is Blake Lemoine?","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_X__jDEk0e.jpg","coverCaption":"Blake Lemoine studied at the University of Louisiana between 2006 and 2013(Photo Credit: Instagram/ discordchild)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-07-23T13:45:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eHe was part of the U.S. Army up till 2005 when he was discharged for not obeying orders\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eHe joined Google as a software engineer in 2015\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eHe was recently fired from Google for claiming an AI had achieved sentience\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1658562309401,\\\"strCount\\\":2234,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Blake Lemoine is a software engineer, a priest, a veteran of the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e war, an ex-convict and an AI researcher according to his Medium.com page.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"He made his way into the news in June this year when he created a post on Medium claiming that the artificial intelligence that he had been working on was showing signs of sentience. According to him, Google’s AI LaMDA had shown signs of understanding the concepts of emotions, had developed self-awareness and was expressing concerns about death. In that blog post, he published an extract of his conversations with the AI.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/technology/google-fires-engineer-who-claimed-ai-was-sentient-707864/\\\\\\\"\u003eGoogle fires engineer who claimed AI was sentient\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Lemoine was part of Google’s Responsible AI team that was tasked with testing whether LaMDA was able to detect hate speech. The 41-year-old discovered the alleged “sentience” while running tests on the AI. However, the software engineer was fired from \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/google/\\\\\\\"\u003eGoogle\u003c/a\u003e after the company found that his claims did not pass their 11 different reviews. In addition, he had been put on administrative leave in June following his announcement because he had breached his confidentiality clause by revealing his findings to government officials.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/technology/ex-twitter-employee-faces-charges-for-spying-on-saudi-dissidents-707831/\\\\\\\"\u003eEx-Twitter employee faces charges for spying on Saudi dissidents\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Before he got a job at Google, the AI researcher studied at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, completing both his master’s and undergraduate degrees in computer science. Lemoine was also in the U.S. army, sometime up till 2005. That year, he was court-martialled by a military court for disobeying orders after he had spent a year in Iraq. Lemoine had wanted to quit the army due to his religious beliefs and had filed an application as a Conscientious Objector. During his time in the army, he spoke out about the violence perpetrated against Iraqi’s by \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/american/\\\\\\\"\u003eAmerican\u003c/a\u003e soldier, saying, “Iraqi civilians are often treated worse than animals.\\\\\\\"\\\\n\\\\n\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"San Francisco, CA, USA"},"createdBy":{"name":"Rwit ","photo":"","username":"RwitG","id":"qTgouOtFVuIH","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Google","slug":"google","id":"Cqu95TUqjxLY","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"US","slug":"us","id":"0JelBm6rMusZ","isSection":0},{"name":"American","slug":"american","id":"NZFYoh1gkc1s","isSection":0},{"name":"Technology","slug":"technology","id":"v6bHEgqIl262","isSection":1},{"name":"USA","slug":"usa","id":"SPBaPrR23eZS","isSection":2},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Rwit ","id":"qTgouOtFVuIH","username":"RwitG","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-07-23T13:45:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Blake Lemoine is a software engineer, a priest, a veteran of the Iraq war, an ex-convict and an AI researcher according to his Medium.com page. ,He made his way into the news in June this year when he created a post on Medium claiming that the artificial intelligence that he had been working on was showing signs of sentience. According to him, Google’s AI LaMDA had shown signs of understanding the concepts of emotions, had developed self-awareness and was expressing concerns about death. In that blog post, he published an extract of his conversations with the AI. ,Also Read: Google fires engineer who claimed AI was sentient,Lemoine was part of Google’s Responsible AI team that was tasked with testing whether LaMDA was able to detect hate speech. The 41-year-old discovered the alleged “sentience” while running tests on the AI. However, the software engineer was fired from Google after the company found that his claims did not pass their 11 different reviews. In addition, he had been put on administrative leave in June following his announcement because he had breached his confidentiality clause by revealing his findings to government officials. Also Read: Ex-Twitter employee faces charges for spying on Saudi dissidents,Before he got a job at Google, the AI researcher studied at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, completing both his master’s and undergraduate degrees in computer science. Lemoine was also in the U.S. army, sometime up till 2005. That year, he was court-martialled by a military court for disobeying orders after he had spent a year in Iraq. Lemoine had wanted to quit the army due to his religious beliefs and had filed an application as a Conscientious Objector. During his time in the army, he spoke out about the violence perpetrated against Iraqi’s by American soldier, saying, “Iraqi civilians are often treated worse than animals.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"37.7749","longitude":"-122.4194","name":"San Francisco, CA, USA","city":"San Francisco"},"keywords":"Google,Iraq,Blake Lemoine,Medium.com,the University of Louisiana at Lafayette,U.S.,Iraqi,American","originalPublishedOn":"2022-07-23T13:45:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"iwDe5LvpOK2b","slug":"english/who-is-david-jakubonis","slugV2":"usa/who-is-david-jakubonis-707332/","title":"Who is David Jakubonis?","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_3ypfJXwLX.jpg","coverCaption":"Lee Zeldin speaks to delegates and assembled party officials at the 2022 NYGOP Convention (Photo Credit: AP)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-07-22T17:40:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eLee Zeldin was delivering a speech when a man tried to stab him\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe 43-year-old suspect\u0026nbsp;charged in the incident is from Fairport\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eZeldin's running mate was one of the people who helped subdue the suspect\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1658489236905,\\\"strCount\\\":2396,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The suspect who allegedly attacked\u0026nbsp;New York gubernatorial candidate Rep. \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/who-is-lee-zeldin-707176/\\\\\\\"\u003eLee Zeldin\u003c/a\u003e at a campaign event has been identified by police as\u0026nbsp;David Jakubonis.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Zeldin\u0026nbsp;was delivering a speech in the upstate town of Fairport Thursday evening when a man tried to stab him. Police said that the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/republican/\\\\\\\"\u003eRepublican\u003c/a\u003e who is standing against the state's Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, was unharmed in the incident.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"According to police, the 43-year-old suspect\u0026nbsp;is from Fairport and has been\u0026nbsp;charged with attempted assault in the second degree and \\\\\\\"arraigned in Perinton Town Court and released on his own recognizance.\\\\\\\"\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/lee-zeldin-gop-nominee-for-ny-governor-assaulted-at-rally-707197/\\\\\\\"\u003eLee Zeldin, GOP nominee for NY governor, assaulted at rally\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A\u0026nbsp;LinkedIn\u0026nbsp;profile in the name of \\\\\\\"David Jakubonis, Fairport, New York\\\\\\\" states that he is currently unemployed and looking for a new job. The profile says that\u0026nbsp;Jakubonis studied clinical laboratory sciences at\u0026nbsp;George Washington\u0026nbsp;University and criminal justice at Rochester Institute of Technology. He then went on to work\u0026nbsp;as a lab technician in the US Army for five years.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Local broadcaster WROC reported that Jakubonis was an \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e war veteran.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\\\\\\\"A male from the crowd climbed up on the stage and approached Zeldin. The malehad a weapon in his hand, swung it towards Zeldin's neck, and told him, 'You're done,'\\\\\\\" said Monroe County Sheriff's Office.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\\\\\\\"Members of the audience and Rep. Zeldin's campaign restrained the male until deputies arrived and took him into custody. There were no injuries.\\\\\\\"\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/us-primaries-james-lankford-wins-gop-nomination-in-oklahoma-runoff-for-one-senate-seat-689681/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS primaries: Lankford wins GOP ticket in \u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/oklahoma/\\\\\\\"\u003eOklahoma\u003c/a\u003e, runoff for \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/senate/\\\\\\\"\u003eSenate\u003c/a\u003e seat\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"New York GOP Chair Nick Langworthy said in a statement: \\\\\\\"Thanks to the swift action of several brave eventgoers, the perpetrator was subdued.\\\\\\\"\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Langworthy said Zeldin's running mate, former New York\u0026nbsp;Police\u0026nbsp;Department officer Alison Esposito, was one of the people who helped subdue the suspect.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"United States"},"createdBy":{"name":"Suman V","photo":null,"username":"sumanv","id":"KhO1NvH3W2sk","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"NewYork","slug":"newyork","id":"ZXs8JjMQ5noW","isSection":0},{"name":"republican","slug":"republican","id":"AruyJIiVrhQS","isSection":0},{"name":"KathyHochul","slug":"kathyhochul","id":"PeHZ88ERPNY0","isSection":0},{"name":"Washington","slug":"washington","id":"Fqv5l2w7tKCw","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Oklahoma","slug":"oklahoma","id":"B9iWtysrlYeK","isSection":0},{"name":"Senate","slug":"senate","id":"Um5KTbuGxMjX","isSection":0},{"name":"USA","slug":"usa","id":"SPBaPrR23eZS","isSection":2},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Suman V","id":"KhO1NvH3W2sk","username":"sumanv","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-07-22T17:40:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"The suspect who allegedly attacked New York gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin at a campaign event has been identified by police as David Jakubonis. Zeldin was delivering a speech in the upstate town of Fairport Thursday evening when a man tried to stab him. Police said that the Republican who is standing against the state's Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, was unharmed in the incident. According to police, the 43-year-old suspect is from Fairport and has been charged with attempted assault in the second degree and arraigned in Perinton Town Court and released on his own recognizance. Also Read | Lee Zeldin, GOP nominee for NY governor, assaulted at rally,A LinkedIn profile in the name of David Jakubonis, Fairport, New York states that he is currently unemployed and looking for a new job. The profile says that Jakubonis studied clinical laboratory sciences at George Washington University and criminal justice at Rochester Institute of Technology. He then went on to work as a lab technician in the US Army for five years. Local broadcaster WROC reported that Jakubonis was an Iraq war veteran. A male from the crowd climbed up on the stage and approached Zeldin. The malehad a weapon in his hand, swung it towards Zeldin's neck, and told him, 'You're done,' said Monroe County Sheriff's Office. Members of the audience and Rep. Zeldin's campaign restrained the male until deputies arrived and took him into custody. There were no injuries. Also Read | US primaries: Lankford wins GOP ticket in Oklahoma, runoff for Senate seat,New York GOP Chair Nick Langworthy said in a statement: Thanks to the swift action of several brave eventgoers, the perpetrator was subdued. Langworthy said Zeldin's running mate, former New York Police Department officer Alison Esposito, was one of the people who helped subdue the suspect.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"37.0902","longitude":"-95.7129","name":"United States","city":"Bartlesville"},"keywords":"David Jakubonis,Lee Zeldin,Zeldin,GOP,Fairport,New York,Jakubonis,Republican,Democratic,Kathy Hochul,Perinton Town Court,Read |Lee Zeldin,Washington,Rochester Institute of Technology,the US Army,lee zeldin attacker","originalPublishedOn":"2022-07-22T16:56:55+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"WRec89flg1gi","slug":"english/january-6-panel-probes-donald-trumps-187-minutes-as-capitol-attacked-report","slugV2":"world/january-6-panel-probes-donald-trumps-187-minutes-as-capitol-attacked-report-706349/","title":"In final hearing, Jan 6 panel's investigation into Trump's 187 minutes","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_Js-8bMvjH.jpg","coverCaption":"Rioters stand outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo Credit: Associated Press)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-07-22T03:10:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe panel aims to show just how close the United States came to a constitutional crisis\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eTestifying on Thursday will be former White House aides who had close proximity to power\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eMore than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1658435183381,\\\"strCount\\\":3668,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The Jan. 6 committee will on Thursday hold its final hearing of the summer the way the series began — vividly making the case that Donald Trump's lies about a stolen election fuelled the grisly \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/us/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/capitol/\\\\\\\"\u003eCapitol\u003c/a\u003e attack, which he did nothing to stop but instead \\\\\\\"gleefully\\\\\\\" watched on television at the White House.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"According to reports, Thursday's prime-time hearing will dive into the 187 minutes that \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/trump/\\\\\\\"\u003eTrump\u003c/a\u003e failed to act on Jan. 6, 2021, despite pleas for help from aides, allies and even his family.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/jan-6-secret-service-texts-what-is-federal-records-retention-requirement-706194/\\\\\\\"\u003eJan 6 Secret Service texts: What is federal records retention requirement\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The panel intends to show how the defeated president's attempt to overturn Joe Biden's election victory has left the United States facing enduring questions about the resiliency of its democracy.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\\\\\\\"A profound moment of reckoning for \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/america/\\\\\\\"\u003eAmerica\u003c/a\u003e,\\\\\\\" said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the committee.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"With live testimony from two former White House aides, and excerpts from its trove of more than 1,000 interviews, the nearly two-hour session will add a closing chapter to the past six weeks of hearings that at times have captivated the nation.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/jan-6-secret-service-complies-with-subpoena-supplies-records-to-committee-706174/\\\\\\\"\u003eJan 6: Secret Service complies with subpoena, supplies records to committee\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Returning to prime time for the first time since the series of hearings began, the panel aims to show just how close the United States came to what one retired federal judge testifying this summer called a constitutional crisis.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The events of Jan. 6 will be outlined \\\\\\\"minute by minute,\\\\\\\" said the panel's vice chair, Rep. 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He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security,\\\\\\\" Cheney said.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Testifying on Thursday will be former White House aides who had close proximity to power.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Matt Pottinger, who was deputy national security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, then press aide, both submitted their resignations on Jan. 6, 2021, after what they saw that day. Trump has dismissed the hearings on social media and regarded much of the testimony as fake.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/who-is-matthew-pottinger-704611/\\\\\\\"\u003eWho is Matthew Pottinger?\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chairman of the committee, is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19 and will attend by video. Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a former Naval officer who will lead the session with Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who flew combat missions in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/afghanistan/\\\\\\\"\u003eAfghanistan\u003c/a\u003e, said she expects the testimony from the White House aides will \\\\\\\"just be really compelling.\\\\\\\"\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"So far, more than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Over 330 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanours. Of the more than 200 defendants to be sentenced, approximately 100 received terms of imprisonment.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA"},"createdBy":{"name":"Ajay Joseph","photo":null,"username":"ajay4396","id":"LFYsY6JozEMx","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"UnitedStates","slug":"unitedstates","id":"Lgr3hTOPJ0yv","isSection":0},{"name":"CapitolRiotsHearing","slug":"capitolriotshearing","id":"UAOcoZQRUTjy","isSection":0},{"name":"USCapitolViolence","slug":"uscapitolviolence","id":"WcBaGnuSqler","isSection":0},{"name":"Capitol","slug":"capitol","id":"oOrbNw49CvAB","isSection":0},{"name":"Trump","slug":"trump","id":"Kmjnm2fmWuit","isSection":0},{"name":"WhiteHouse","slug":"whitehouse","id":"D8eqiqcxFZ1c","isSection":0},{"name":"US","slug":"us","id":"0JelBm6rMusZ","isSection":0},{"name":"America","slug":"america","id":"bfu9UoLfz6Nd","isSection":0},{"name":"LizCheney","slug":"lizcheney","id":"YaTHY7WMN77g","isSection":0},{"name":"DonaldTrump","slug":"donaldtrump","id":"2BkYVqd4njLi","isSection":0},{"name":"BennieThompson","slug":"benniethompson","id":"wVposvb9NA4p","isSection":0},{"name":"AdamKinzinger","slug":"adamkinzinger","id":"qnPwGUlAN68S","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Afghanistan","slug":"afghanistan","id":"qy4QrD4HTvqo","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Ajay Joseph","id":"LFYsY6JozEMx","username":"ajay4396","role":1,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[{"id":"4","name":"AP"}],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-07-22T03:10:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"The Jan. 6 committee will on Thursday hold its final hearing of the summer the way the series began — vividly making the case that Donald Trump's lies about a stolen election fuelled the grisly US Capitol attack, which he did nothing to stop but instead gleefully watched on television at the White House. According to reports, Thursday's prime-time hearing will dive into the 187 minutes that Trump failed to act on Jan. 6, 2021, despite pleas for help from aides, allies and even his family. Also read: Jan 6 Secret Service texts: What is federal records retention requirement,The panel intends to show how the defeated president's attempt to overturn Joe Biden's election victory has left the United States facing enduring questions about the resiliency of its democracy. A profound moment of reckoning for America, said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. a member of the committee. With live testimony from two former White House aides, and excerpts from its trove of more than 1,000 interviews, the nearly two-hour session will add a closing chapter to the past six weeks of hearings that at times have captivated the nation. Also read: Jan 6: Secret Service complies with subpoena, supplies records to committee,Returning to prime time for the first time since the series of hearings began, the panel aims to show just how close the United States came to what one retired federal judge testifying this summer called a constitutional crisis. The events of Jan. 6 will be outlined minute by minute, said the panel's vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. Also read: January 6 hearings: What to expect from the second prime-time session,You will hear that Donald Trump never picked up the phone that day to order his administration to help, Cheney said. He did not call the military. His Secretary of Defence received no order. He did not call his Attorney General. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security, Cheney said. Testifying on Thursday will be former White House aides who had close proximity to power. Matt Pottinger, who was deputy national security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, then press aide, both submitted their resignations on Jan. 6, 2021, after what they saw that day. Trump has dismissed the hearings on social media and regarded much of the testimony as fake. Also read: Who is Matthew Pottinger?,Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. the chairman of the committee, is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19 and will attend by video. Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va. a former Naval officer who will lead the session with Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. who flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, said she expects the testimony from the White House aides will just be really compelling. So far, more than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Over 330 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanours. Of the more than 200 defendants to be sentenced, approximately 100 received terms of imprisonment.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"38.9072","longitude":"-77.0369","name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA","city":"Washington"},"keywords":"Capitol,the White House,Trump,the United States,White House,Cheney,Donald Trump's,US,Joe Biden's,America,Jamie Raskin,D-Md.,Liz Cheney,Donald Trump,the Department of Homeland Security","originalPublishedOn":"2022-07-21T12:00:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"zcpChD8wa1nq","slug":"english/who-is-anthony-brown","slugV2":"usa/who-is-anthony-brown-704987/","title":"Who is Anthony Brown?","postType":1,"coverMedia":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_muhKPBQT65.jpg","coverCaption":null,"reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-07-19T18:20:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eAnthony Brown announced last year that he will not seek reelection to the House in 2022\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eInstead, he will run for Maryland attorney general\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eHe is the 14th Democratic member to say he will quit at the end of his current term\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1658232182272,\\\"strCount\\\":2618,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Anthony \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/brown/\\\\\\\"\u003eBrown\u003c/a\u003e is the\u0026nbsp;2022 \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/maryland/\\\\\\\"\u003eMaryland\u003c/a\u003e attorney general candidate. He is seeking to replace Brian Frosh (D), a two-term incumbent who said he would retire this year.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Born in 1961 in Huntington, New York, to immigrant parents, Brown\u0026nbsp;is serving as the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/us/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS\u003c/a\u003e representative for Maryland's 4th congressional district.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"After completing graduation, Brown received a commission as a\u0026nbsp;second lieutenant\u0026nbsp;in the US \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/army/\\\\\\\"\u003eArmy\u003c/a\u003e. He served on active duty for five years.\u0026nbsp;After completing his active duty service, Brown returned to graduate school, entering Harvard Law School in 1989 and earning his JD degree.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/why-maryland-primary-elections-results-will-be-delayed-704762/\\\\\\\"\u003eWhy Maryland primary elections results will be delayed\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"He attended Harvard Law School at the same time as Barack Obama, Artur Davis and Hill Harper.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A former member of Maryland’s General Assembly, Brown had considered running for attorney general in 2006, just after he returned from serving in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e in the Army. However, he accepted an offer from then-Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley (D) to run for lieutenant governor.\u0026nbsp;He served two terms as the eighth lieutenant governor of Maryland, from 2007 to 2015.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In 2014, Brown ran unsuccessfully for governor, losing to \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/republican/\\\\\\\"\u003eRepublican\u003c/a\u003e nominee Larry Hogan. He served two four-year terms in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Prince George's County. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A retired colonel in the United States Army Reserve, Brown was the highest-ranking elected official in the nation to have served a tour of duty in Iraq.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/us-primaries-whats-on-the-ballot-in-maryland-704629/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS primaries: What's on the ballot in Maryland?\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\" In October 2021, Brown announced that he will not seek reelection to the House in 2022 and instead run for Maryland attorney general.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"He is the 14th Democratic member of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/congress/\\\\\\\"\u003eCongress\u003c/a\u003e to say he will quit at the end of his current term, and the sixth to announce a run for a different office.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Brown married Patricia Arzuaga in 1993. The couple has two children, Rebecca and Jonathan – who was adopted. The two ended their marriage in 2009.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Brown married Karmen Walker on May 27, 2012. She is the widow of Prince George's County police officer Anthony Michael Walker. \\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"United States"},"createdBy":{"name":"Suman V","photo":null,"username":"sumanv","id":"KhO1NvH3W2sk","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"USMidtermElections2022","slug":"usmidtermelections2022","id":"YNWnPZzlxhHn","isSection":0},{"name":"USElections","slug":"uselections","id":"e9u7talpuWZu","isSection":0},{"name":"Maryland","slug":"maryland","id":"PsoyDWpmYjMy","isSection":0},{"name":"Brown","slug":"brown","id":"7xZ1CVGHomf6","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"NewYork","slug":"newyork","id":"ZXs8JjMQ5noW","isSection":0},{"name":"US","slug":"us","id":"0JelBm6rMusZ","isSection":0},{"name":"GeneralAssembly","slug":"generalassembly","id":"xBVu9DIcDhWE","isSection":0},{"name":"Army","slug":"army","id":"EhJBnPPw7kfe","isSection":0},{"name":"Baltimore","slug":"baltimore","id":"kIbK8DF77LA7","isSection":0},{"name":"republican","slug":"republican","id":"AruyJIiVrhQS","isSection":0},{"name":"LarryHogan","slug":"larryhogan","id":"efAqRoCU2FQt","isSection":0},{"name":"Congress","slug":"congress","id":"KGrnteP5qPtc","isSection":0},{"name":"India","slug":"india","id":"Bq4MmUPrXF8p","isSection":1},{"name":"USA","slug":"usa","id":"SPBaPrR23eZS","isSection":2},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Suman V","id":"KhO1NvH3W2sk","username":"sumanv","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-07-19T18:20:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Anthony Brown is the 2022 Maryland attorney general candidate. He is seeking to replace Brian Frosh (D), a two-term incumbent who said he would retire this year. Born in 1961 in Huntington, New York, to immigrant parents, Brown is serving as the US representative for Maryland's 4th congressional district. After completing graduation, Brown received a commission as a second lieutenant in the US Army. He served on active duty for five years. After completing his active duty service, Brown returned to graduate school, entering Harvard Law School in 1989 and earning his JD degree. Also Read | Why Maryland primary elections results will be delayed,He attended Harvard Law School at the same time as Barack Obama, Artur Davis and Hill Harper. ,A former member of Maryland’s General Assembly, Brown had considered running for attorney general in 2006, just after he returned from serving in Iraq in the Army. However, he accepted an offer from then-Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley (D) to run for lieutenant governor. He served two terms as the eighth lieutenant governor of Maryland, from 2007 to 2015. In 2014, Brown ran unsuccessfully for governor, losing to Republican nominee Larry Hogan. He served two four-year terms in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Prince George's County. ,A retired colonel in the United States Army Reserve, Brown was the highest-ranking elected official in the nation to have served a tour of duty in Iraq. Also Read | US primaries: What's on the ballot in Maryland?, In October 2021, Brown announced that he will not seek reelection to the House in 2022 and instead run for Maryland attorney general. He is the 14th Democratic member of Congress to say he will quit at the end of his current term, and the sixth to announce a run for a different office. ,Brown married Patricia Arzuaga in 1993. The couple has two children, Rebecca and Jonathan – who was adopted. The two ended their marriage in 2009. Brown married Karmen Walker on May 27, 2012. She is the widow of Prince George's County police officer Anthony Michael Walker.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"37.0902","longitude":"-95.7129","name":"United States","city":"Bartlesville"},"keywords":"Maryland,Brown,Harvard Law School,Iraq,Prince George's County,Anthony Brown,Brian Frosh,Huntington,New York,US,the US Army,Artur Davis,Hill Harper,General Assembly,Army","originalPublishedOn":"2022-07-19T18:20:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"1Jpy1PB9vRhm","slug":"english/who-is-tom-tungedhat","slugV2":"world/who-is-tom-tungedhat-702556/","title":"Who is Tom Tugendhat?","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_uyOUnk9G0.jpg","coverCaption":"Tom Tugendhat, 49, is one of the frontrunners for the PM post (Photo Credit: Twitter/@Tom Tungendhat)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-07-19T00:59:26+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eTom Tugendhat was one of the five frontrunners for the post of UK PM\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eTugendhat is one of the most left-wing of Conservatives\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eHowever, he feels taxes right now are a little too high\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1658172567471,\\\"strCount\\\":2690,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Tom Tugendhat,\\\\nConservative member of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/parliament/\\\\\\\"\u003eParliament\u003c/a\u003e from Tonbridge, was among the first people to\\\\nthrow their hat in the prime ministerial ring when \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/health/pm-boris-johnson-announces-lockdown-in-uk-296382/\\\\\\\"\u003eBoris Johnson\u003c/a\u003e resigned. A\\\\nformer soldier, Tugendhat’s pitch to the people of Britain is a promise to take\\\\nthem out of the burgeoning cost-of-living function. 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A former soldier, Tugendhat’s pitch to the people of Britain is a promise to take them out of the burgeoning cost-of-living function. A backbencher, albeit prominent, Tugendhat was in the news last year for condemning the fall of Afghanistan capital Taliban. “This does not feel like defeat, but at the moment it damn well feels like it,” Tugendhat had said. Also Read | United Kingdom to get its new Prime Minister on September 5,A politician who describes himself as clean, Tugendhat has promised an unrelenting focus on the cost-of-living crisis. The most left-wing candidate among the five Conservatives still in the fray, Tugendhat, however, is looking to slash taxes. “Taxes, bluntly, are too high,” Tugendhat said. ,Tugendhat is in many ways, a slightly different candidate. Unlike most others in the fray, Tugendhat did not serve in Boris Johnson’s cabinet. As such, Tugendhat has a no reason to defend Johnson’s actions. Unlike other leaders, Tugendhat has had no reason to justify Partygate and other scandals. Also Read | In 2008, former British PM Boris Johnson misused his power as a Mayor: Report,Back in 2020, Tugendhat had a lot to say on the climate crisis. He had said the climate crisis is “one of four biggest challenges.” However, the climate crisis has not featured in his campaign this time. ,Tugendhat was brought up in London and Sellindge, near Ashford in Kent. He then went on to study theology at Bristol University. Subsequently, Tugendhat learned to speak Arabic in Yemen during his master’s degree in Islamic studies at Cambridge University. He joined the Territorial Army in 2003. ,He later rose to the role of lieutenant colonel, served in Iraq and Afghanistan and received an MBE for his operational efforts. As a Foreign Office diplomat, he also assisted Afghanistan’s national security adviser and later worked with the governor of Helmand province.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":null,"keywords":"Afghanistan,Boris Johnson,Tom Tungedhat,Parliament,Tonbridge,Taliban,Johnson,London,Sellindge,Ashford,Bristol University,Arabic,Yemen,Islamic,Cambridge University","originalPublishedOn":"2022-07-16T10:00:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"Mz8RupPb2uhd","slug":"english/us-drone-strike-kills-is-group-leader-in-syria-pentagon","slugV2":"world/us-drone-strike-kills-is-group-leader-in-syria-pentagon-699589/","title":"US drone strike kills IS group leader in Syria: Pentagon","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_lCzgXmLcG.jpg","coverCaption":"al-Agal was a former prominent commander of the Islamic State group during its control of Raqqa. (Picture credits: Representational image/Unsplash)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-07-12T20:40:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe Pentagon said there were no civilian casualties\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe US carried out the strike outside Jindaris, a town in northwest Syria close to the Turkish border\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe US said Al-Qurayshi blew himself up along with members of his family\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1657637460190,\\\"strCount\\\":2381,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/pentagon/\\\\\\\"\u003ePentagon\u003c/a\u003e on Tuesday said that it killed a leader of the Islamic State group in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/syria/\\\\\\\"\u003eSyria\u003c/a\u003e in a drone strike.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/us/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS\u003c/a\u003e Central Command, in a news release, said that Maher al-Agal was killed on Tuesday and an unidentified senior official in the Islamic State group was seriously injured. The Pentagon said there were no civilian casualties, though it wasn't possible to immediately confirm that information.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/at-least-seven-killed-by-ukrainian-strike-on-russian-held-nova-kakhovka-report-699419/\\\\\\\"\u003eAt least seven killed by Ukrainian strike on Russian-held Nova Kakhovka: Report\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The US carried out the strike outside Jindaris, a town in northwest Syria close to the Turkish border.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The Islamic State group at the height of its power controlled more than 40,000 square miles (103,600 square kilometres) stretching from Syria to \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e and ruled more than 8 million people.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/joe-bidens-trip-to-the-middle-east-6-things-to-look-out-for-699272/\\\\\\\"\u003eJoe Biden's trip to the Middle East: 6 things to look out for\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"While the group's territorial state collapsed in 2019, its leaders have turned to guerilla tactics and have been able to \\\\\\\"efficiently restructure themselves organizationally,\\\\\\\" according to the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a nonpartisan think tank.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The strike on al-Agal comes months after the head of the group, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, killed himself during a raid of his hideout by \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/american/\\\\\\\"\u003eAmerican\u003c/a\u003e special forces. The US said Al-Qurayshi blew himself up along with members of his family.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/jill-biden-us-first-lady-compares-latinos-to-breakfast-tacos-draws-flak-699202/\\\\\\\"\u003eJill Biden, US First Lady, compares Latinos to 'breakfast tacos', draws flak\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"According to a war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, al-Agal was a former prominent commander of the Islamic State group during its control of Raqqa and had since moved farther north to Afrin in 2020 under Turkish-backed factions.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"He was most recently a commander in a Turkish-backed faction called Jaysh Al-Sharqiyyah.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA"},"createdBy":{"name":"Ajay Joseph","photo":null,"username":"ajay4396","id":"LFYsY6JozEMx","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"UnitedStates","slug":"unitedstates","id":"Lgr3hTOPJ0yv","isSection":0},{"name":"Syria","slug":"syria","id":"j7HTGxThNXvC","isSection":0},{"name":"Pentagon","slug":"pentagon","id":"dcucwt1INYxJ","isSection":0},{"name":"IslamicState","slug":"islamicstate","id":"G5LkGAgQSQsX","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Washington","slug":"washington","id":"Fqv5l2w7tKCw","isSection":0},{"name":"American","slug":"american","id":"NZFYoh1gkc1s","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Ajay Joseph","id":"LFYsY6JozEMx","username":"ajay4396","role":1,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[{"id":"4","name":"AP"}],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-07-12T20:40:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"The Pentagon on Tuesday said that it killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Syria in a drone strike. The US Central Command, in a news release, said that Maher al-Agal was killed on Tuesday and an unidentified senior official in the Islamic State group was seriously injured. The Pentagon said there were no civilian casualties, though it wasn't possible to immediately confirm that information. Also read: At least seven killed by Ukrainian strike on Russian-held Nova Kakhovka: Report,The US carried out the strike outside Jindaris, a town in northwest Syria close to the Turkish border. The Islamic State group at the height of its power controlled more than 40,000 square miles (103,600 square kilometres) stretching from Syria to Iraq and ruled more than 8 million people. Also read: Joe Biden's trip to the Middle East: 6 things to look out for,While the group's territorial state collapsed in 2019, its leaders have turned to guerilla tactics and have been able to efficiently restructure themselves organizationally, according to the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a nonpartisan think tank. The strike on al-Agal comes months after the head of the group, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, killed himself during a raid of his hideout by American special forces. The US said Al-Qurayshi blew himself up along with members of his family. Also read: Jill Biden, US First Lady, compares Latinos to 'breakfast tacos', draws flak,According to a war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, al-Agal was a former prominent commander of the Islamic State group during its control of Raqqa and had since moved farther north to Afrin in 2020 under Turkish-backed factions. ,He was most recently a commander in a Turkish-backed faction called Jaysh Al-Sharqiyyah.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"38.9072","longitude":"-77.0369","name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA","city":"Washington"},"keywords":"Syria,Pentagon,US,Turkish,al-Agal,The US Central Command,Maher al-Agal,Islamic State,Iraq,Washington,Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi,American,Al-Qurayshi,the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights","originalPublishedOn":"2022-07-12T20:40:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"LhP3YqnLN766","slug":"english/who-is-retired-lt-gen-gary-volesky","slugV2":"usa/who-is-retired-lt-gen-gary-volesky-698092/","title":"Who is retired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky?","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_Q3o5icc-h.jpg","coverCaption":"Retired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky was serving as an HQE-SM. Photo credit: Twitter","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-07-10T22:00:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eRetired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky was serving as an HQE-SM\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eBorn on September 7, 1961, Volesky commanded I Corps from 2017 to 2020\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eVolesky retired in February 2020, being succeeded by Lieutenant General Randy George\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1657466885355,\\\"strCount\\\":2795,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A retired three-star \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/army/\\\\\\\"\u003eArmy\u003c/a\u003e general, who was working as\u0026nbsp;an adviser to active-duty officers, has been\u0026nbsp;suspended from his duties after reports surfaced that his social media account carried a comment critical of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/us/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS\u003c/a\u003e first lady Jill Biden.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Retired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky was serving as an HQE-SM, a highly qualified expert-senior mentor, when he was suspended by Lt. Gen. Theodore Martin, commanding general of the Combined Arms Center, Army spokeswoman Cynthia O. Smith said in a statement.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/us-army-suspends-retired-general-from-mentor-post-over-tweet-at-jill-biden-697753/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS army suspends retired general from mentor post over tweet at Jill Biden\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The reason for his suspension was not mentioned in the statement. However, the USA Today reported that his suspension was linked to a post on a Twitter account\u0026nbsp;under Volesky’s name.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The account reportedly carried a reply to a statement by the first lady following the Supreme Court’s action last month overturning the abortion rights decision Roe v. Wade. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“For nearly 50 years, women have had the right to make our own decisions about our bodies. Today, that right was stolen from us,” Biden said. The tweet under Volesky’s name stated: “Glad to see you finally know what a woman is.” The tweet was later deleted.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Born on September 7, 1961, Volesky commanded I Corps from 2017 to 2020. He previously served as commander of the 101st Airborne Division and commander of the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/american/\\\\\\\"\u003eAmerican\u003c/a\u003e ground forces in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e as part of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Volesky retired in February 2020, being succeeded by Lieutenant General Randy George as commander of I Corps.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/entertainment/abortion-saved-my-life-halsey-opens-up-about-suffering-3-miscarriages-692581/\\\\\\\"\u003eAbortion saved my life: Halsey opens up about suffering 3 miscarriages\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Volesky, who is from Spokane, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/washington/\\\\\\\"\u003eWashington\u003c/a\u003e, graduated from Ferris High School in 1979. In 1983, he earned a bachelor's degree in military science from Eastern Washington University. He followed this with a master's degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from Princeton University. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"He graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/kansas/\\\\\\\"\u003eKansas\u003c/a\u003e, and earned another master's degree at the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/alabama/\\\\\\\"\u003eAlabama\u003c/a\u003e.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Volesky served in the Gulf War, Iraq War and War in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/afghanistan/\\\\\\\"\u003eAfghanistan\u003c/a\u003e.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"United States"},"createdBy":{"name":"Suman V","photo":null,"username":"sumanv","id":"KhO1NvH3W2sk","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Army","slug":"army","id":"EhJBnPPw7kfe","isSection":0},{"name":"US","slug":"us","id":"0JelBm6rMusZ","isSection":0},{"name":"JillBiden","slug":"jillbiden","id":"HdazSu6RcO2k","isSection":0},{"name":"American","slug":"american","id":"NZFYoh1gkc1s","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Washington","slug":"washington","id":"Fqv5l2w7tKCw","isSection":0},{"name":"Kansas","slug":"kansas","id":"p092r1lM56VB","isSection":0},{"name":"Alabama","slug":"alabama","id":"KLLJP4O7KGQ3","isSection":0},{"name":"Afghanistan","slug":"afghanistan","id":"qy4QrD4HTvqo","isSection":0},{"name":"USA","slug":"usa","id":"SPBaPrR23eZS","isSection":2},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Suman V","id":"KhO1NvH3W2sk","username":"sumanv","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-07-10T22:00:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"A retired three-star Army general, who was working as an adviser to active-duty officers, has been suspended from his duties after reports surfaced that his social media account carried a comment critical of US first lady Jill Biden. Retired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky was serving as an HQE-SM, a highly qualified expert-senior mentor, when he was suspended by Lt. Gen. Theodore Martin, commanding general of the Combined Arms Center, Army spokeswoman Cynthia O. Smith said in a statement. Also Read | US army suspends retired general from mentor post over tweet at Jill Biden,The reason for his suspension was not mentioned in the statement. However, the USA Today reported that his suspension was linked to a post on a Twitter account under Volesky’s name. The account reportedly carried a reply to a statement by the first lady following the Supreme Court’s action last month overturning the abortion rights decision Roe v. Wade. ,“For nearly 50 years, women have had the right to make our own decisions about our bodies. Today, that right was stolen from us,” Biden said. The tweet under Volesky’s name stated: “Glad to see you finally know what a woman is.” The tweet was later deleted. Born on September 7, 1961, Volesky commanded I Corps from 2017 to 2020. He previously served as commander of the 101st Airborne Division and commander of the American ground forces in Iraq as part of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve. Volesky retired in February 2020, being succeeded by Lieutenant General Randy George as commander of I Corps. Also Read | Abortion saved my life: Halsey opens up about suffering 3 miscarriages,Volesky, who is from Spokane, Washington, graduated from Ferris High School in 1979. In 1983, he earned a bachelor's degree in military science from Eastern Washington University. He followed this with a master's degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from Princeton University. ,He graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and earned another master's degree at the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Volesky served in the Gulf War, Iraq War and War in Afghanistan.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"37.0902","longitude":"-95.7129","name":"United States","city":"Bartlesville"},"keywords":"Army,US,Jill Biden,Retired Lt,Gary Volesky,an HQE-SM,Theodore Martin,the Combined Arms Center,Cynthia O. Smith,the USA Today,the Supreme Court,Roe v. 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(Photo Credit: Associated Press)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-07-07T11:20:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003e51.6 million more people fell into poverty\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eAn additional 20 million people slipped to the poverty line of $3.20 a day\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eIn low-income countries, families spend 42% of their household incomes on food\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1657172785113,\\\"strCount\\\":4399,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia's invasion of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/ukraine/\\\\\\\"\u003eUkraine\u003c/a\u003e, the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/9-out-of-10-ukrainians-stare-at-poverty-if-russian-offensive-goes-on-undp-337136/\\\\\\\"\u003eUnited Nations Development Program\u003c/a\u003e said in a report Thursday.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The UNDP estimates that 51.6 million more people fell into poverty in the first three months after the war, living off $1.90 a day or less. This pushed the total number globally at this threshold to 9% of the world's population. An additional 20 million people slipped to the poverty line of $3.20 a day.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/splintered-ukrainian-city-braces-for-new-battle-with-russia-692656/\\\\\\\"\u003eSplintered Ukrainian city braces for new battle with Russia\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In low-income countries, families spend 42% of their household incomes on food but as Western nations moved to sanction \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/russia/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussia\u003c/a\u003e, the price fuel and staple food items like wheat, sugar and cooking oil soared. Ukraine's blocked ports and its inability to export grains to low-income countries further drove up prices, pushing tens of millions quickly into poverty.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“The cost of living impact is almost without precedent in a generation... and that is why it is so serious,” UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner said at the launch of the report.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The speed at which this many people experienced poverty outpaced the economic pain felt at the peak of the pandemic. The UNDP noted that 125 million people experienced poverty over about 18 months during the pandemic’s lockdowns and closures, compared with more than 71 million in just three months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“The speed of this is very quick,” said George Molina, UNDP chief economist and author of the report.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Some of the countries hardest hit by inflation include \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/haiti/\\\\\\\"\u003eHaiti\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/argentina/\\\\\\\"\u003eArgentina\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/egypt/\\\\\\\"\u003eEgypt\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/turkey/\\\\\\\"\u003eTurkey\u003c/a\u003e, the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/philippines/\\\\\\\"\u003ePhilippines\u003c/a\u003e, Rwanda, Sudan, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan. In countries like Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria and Yemen, the impacts of inflation are even harder for those already at the lowest poverty line.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The total number of people living in poverty, or are vulnerable to poverty, stands at over 5 billion, or just under 70% of the world’s population.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Another U.N. report released Wednesday said world hunger rose last year with 2.3 billion people facing moderate or severe difficulty obtaining enough to eat — and that was before the war in Ukraine.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"There is a need for the global economy to step up, Steiner said, adding that there is enough wealth in the world to manage the crisis, “but our ability to act in unison and rapidly is a constraint”.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The UNDP recommends that rather than spending billions on blanket energy subsidies, governments instead target expenditure to reach the most impacted people through targeted cash transfers that can prevent a further 52.6 million people from falling into poverty at $5.50 a day.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/volodymyr-zelenskys-advisor-admits-key-eastern-ukraine-city-could-fall-692571/\\\\\\\"\u003eVolodymyr Zelensky's advisor admits key eastern Ukraine city could fall\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"For cash-strapped and debt-laden developing countries to achieve this, the UNDP called for an extension of debt payments that had been in place during the pandemic among the world's richest nations.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Steiner said doing so is not only an act of charity but is also “an act of rational self interest\\\\\\\" to avoid other complex trends, such as economic collapse in countries and popular protests already taking place in communities across the world.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/russia-ukraine-war-all-you-need-to-know-667802/\\\\\\\"\u003eThe war in Ukraine \u003c/a\u003ehas roiled a region known as the world’s bread basket. Before the war, Russia was the world’s largest exporter of natural gas and the second biggest exporter of crude oil. Russia and Ukraine combined accounted for almost a quarter of global wheat exports and more than half of sunflower oil exports.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA"},"createdBy":{"name":"Aman Butani","photo":"","username":"amanbutani1975","id":"wo3kJpOpSZW2","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Ukraine","slug":"ukraine","id":"Dq03BAdFix29","isSection":0},{"name":"Inflation","slug":"inflation","id":"cJVqnLe20t8S","isSection":0},{"name":"UnitedNations","slug":"unitednations","id":"3WFoPkYpAzdF","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1},{"name":"International","slug":"international","id":"NYS6J2BBfSdS","isSection":0},{"name":"Africa","slug":"africa","id":"16S5b0vzines","isSection":0},{"name":"Russia","slug":"russia","id":"ZdjTIzNom80K","isSection":0},{"name":"Haiti","slug":"haiti","id":"lQcJU9IZJw2Z","isSection":0},{"name":"Argentina","slug":"argentina","id":"CpDOrCQByPIV","isSection":0},{"name":"Egypt","slug":"egypt","id":"I60errFp6pkm","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Turkey","slug":"turkey","id":"A6z1VcgKDNsr","isSection":0},{"name":"Philippines","slug":"philippines","id":"V0Hna3FjHzDb","isSection":0},{"name":"Rwanda","slug":"rwanda","id":"hAhOseqT9qfG","isSection":0},{"name":"Sudan","slug":"sudan","id":"cRV9fCrPNXqG","isSection":0},{"name":"Kenya","slug":"kenya","id":"S7V8SMBsf5y5","isSection":0},{"name":"SriLanka","slug":"srilanka","id":"mjdE0zWttiL5","isSection":0},{"name":"Uzbekistan","slug":"uzbekistan","id":"zUnVj3ejzrHy","isSection":0},{"name":"Afghanistan","slug":"afghanistan","id":"qy4QrD4HTvqo","isSection":0},{"name":"Ethiopia","slug":"ethiopia","id":"tB7hMMxV6iJ6","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"AP","id":"8dFR8PhLJl4s","username":"associatedpress","role":8,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-07-07T11:20:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Program said in a report Thursday. The UNDP estimates that 51.6 million more people fell into poverty in the first three months after the war, living off $1.90 a day or less. This pushed the total number globally at this threshold to 9% of the world's population. An additional 20 million people slipped to the poverty line of $3.20 a day. Also Read: Splintered Ukrainian city braces for new battle with Russia,In low-income countries, families spend 42% of their household incomes on food but as Western nations moved to sanction Russia, the price fuel and staple food items like wheat, sugar and cooking oil soared. Ukraine's blocked ports and its inability to export grains to low-income countries further drove up prices, pushing tens of millions quickly into poverty. “The cost of living impact is almost without precedent in a generation... and that is why it is so serious,” UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner said at the launch of the report. The speed at which this many people experienced poverty outpaced the economic pain felt at the peak of the pandemic. The UNDP noted that 125 million people experienced poverty over about 18 months during the pandemic’s lockdowns and closures, compared with more than 71 million in just three months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February. “The speed of this is very quick,” said George Molina, UNDP chief economist and author of the report. Some of the countries hardest hit by inflation include Haiti, Argentina, Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sudan, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan. In countries like Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria and Yemen, the impacts of inflation are even harder for those already at the lowest poverty line. The total number of people living in poverty, or are vulnerable to poverty, stands at over 5 billion, or just under 70% of the world’s population. Another U.N. report released Wednesday said world hunger rose last year with 2.3 billion people facing moderate or severe difficulty obtaining enough to eat — and that was before the war in Ukraine. There is a need for the global economy to step up, Steiner said, adding that there is enough wealth in the world to manage the crisis, “but our ability to act in unison and rapidly is a constraint”. The UNDP recommends that rather than spending billions on blanket energy subsidies, governments instead target expenditure to reach the most impacted people through targeted cash transfers that can prevent a further 52.6 million people from falling into poverty at $5.50 a day. Also Read: Volodymyr Zelensky's advisor admits key eastern Ukraine city could fall,For cash-strapped and debt-laden developing countries to achieve this, the UNDP called for an extension of debt payments that had been in place during the pandemic among the world's richest nations. Steiner said doing so is not only an act of charity but is also “an act of rational self interest to avoid other complex trends, such as economic collapse in countries and popular protests already taking place in communities across the world. The war in Ukraine has roiled a region known as the world’s bread basket. Before the war, Russia was the world’s largest exporter of natural gas and the second biggest exporter of crude oil. Russia and Ukraine combined accounted for almost a quarter of global wheat exports and more than half of sunflower oil exports.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"38.9072","longitude":"-77.0369","name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA","city":"Washington"},"keywords":"Ukraine,Russia,UNDP,the United Nations Development Program,Achim Steiner,George Molina,Haiti,Argentina,Egypt,Iraq,Turkey,Philippines,Rwanda,Sudan,Kenya","originalPublishedOn":"2022-07-07T11:20:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"AO3jhCDIzB4y","slug":"english/turkey-has-legitimate-concerns-over-terrorism-natos-jens-stoltenberg","slugV2":"usa/turkey-has-legitimate-concerns-over-terrorism-natos-jens-stoltenberg-205465/","title":"Turkey has 'legitimate concerns' over terrorism: NATO's Jens Stoltenberg","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_3JcmjTO6F.jpg","coverCaption":"NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. (Photo Credit: Associated Press)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-06-13T10:43:27+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eTurkey has accused Finland and Sweden of supporting Kurdish militants\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eTurkey has objected to Finland and Sweden's NATO entry\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eStoltenberg spoke at Finland's presidential summer residence Kultaranta\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1655097207672,\\\"strCount\\\":3093,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/what-is-nato-121571/\\\\\\\"\u003eNATO\u003c/a\u003e Secretary-General \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/jens-stoltenberg-calls-putins-nuclear-move-a-dangerous-rhetoric-435759/\\\\\\\"\u003eJens Stoltenberg\u003c/a\u003e said Sunday that \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/turkey/\\\\\\\"\u003eTurkey\u003c/a\u003e has \\\\\\\"legitimate concerns\\\\\\\" over terrorism and other issues that need to be taken seriously.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Turkey has accused \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/finland/\\\\\\\"\u003eFinland\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/sweden/\\\\\\\"\u003eSweden\u003c/a\u003e of supporting Kurdish militants and says it will not back the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/what-is-turkeys-stand-on-finland-sweden-joining-nato-find-out-401998/\\\\\\\"\u003etwo Nordic nations joining NATO\u003c/a\u003e until they change their policies.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/technology/turkey-no-more-erdogan-country-changes-name-to-turkiye-360715/\\\\\\\"\u003eTurkey no more, Erdogan country changes name to Turkiye\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Speaking at a joint news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, Stoltenberg stressed that \\\\\\\"no other NATO ally has suffered more terrorist attacks than Turkey\\\\\\\" and pointed to its strategic geographic location with neighbors like \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/syria/\\\\\\\"\u003eSyria\u003c/a\u003e.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\\\\\\\"These are legitimate concerns. This is about terrorism, it's about weapons exports,\\\\\\\" Stoltenberg said. \\\\\\\"We have to address the security concerns of all allies, including Turkish concerns about the terrorist group PKK.\\\\\\\"\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"He spoke at Finland's presidential summer residence Kultaranta in western Finland.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"After decades of military non-alignment, Russia's war in Ukraine pushed Finland and Sweden to apply to join NATO in May. Turkish \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/technology/turkey-no-more-erdogan-country-changes-name-to-turkiye-360715/\\\\\\\"\u003ePresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u003c/a\u003e, however, accuses the Nordic nations of supporting Kurdish militants deemed by Turkey to be terrorists and has vetoed their entry into the 30-member alliance.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\\\\\\\"When a vital key ally as Turkey raises concerns on terrorism then of course we have to sit down and take them seriously. And that's exactly what we do,\\\\\\\" Stoltenberg said.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The demands from \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/ankara/\\\\\\\"\u003eAnkara\u003c/a\u003e to Helsinki and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/stockholm/\\\\\\\"\u003eStockholm\u003c/a\u003e also include lifting restrictions on arms exports to Turkey and extraditing members of certain Kurdish organizations that are opposed to Erdogan's government.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/denmark-all-set-to-join-european-unions-defence-pact-in-response-to-russias-war-in-ukraine-394883/\\\\\\\"\u003eDenmark all set to join European Union's defence pact in response to Russia's war in Ukraine\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In the past weeks, NATO's chief has been trying to resolve the dispute but he did not disclose Sunday whether any progress has been made.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"He was to attend an annual discussion panel in Kultaranta later Sunday together with Finnish and Nordic politicians, foreign and security policy experts and military representatives.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Stoltenberg will visit Sweden on Monday for talks with the Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Kultaranta, Finland"},"createdBy":{"name":"Aman Butani","photo":"","username":"amanbutani1975","id":"wo3kJpOpSZW2","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"NATO","slug":"nato","id":"ZJ2DvRkctgph","isSection":0},{"name":"JensStoltenberg","slug":"jensstoltenberg","id":"9G6Eh9LSKQ2n","isSection":0},{"name":"Turkey","slug":"turkey","id":"A6z1VcgKDNsr","isSection":0},{"name":"International","slug":"international","id":"NYS6J2BBfSdS","isSection":0},{"name":"Europe","slug":"europe","id":"v2KXw3fOql0S","isSection":0},{"name":"sweden","slug":"sweden","id":"jhcLIkirtOh9","isSection":0},{"name":"Finland","slug":"finland","id":"xG2yMh6tb2Sz","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"MagdalenaAndersson","slug":"magdalenaandersson","id":"oHKTwTVbkEBh","isSection":0},{"name":"Ankara","slug":"ankara","id":"Yw6Mi0yjXMgL","isSection":0},{"name":"Syria","slug":"syria","id":"j7HTGxThNXvC","isSection":0},{"name":"Russia","slug":"russia","id":"ZdjTIzNom80K","isSection":0},{"name":"RecepTayyipErdogan","slug":"receptayyiperdogan","id":"9EwVo2ALFAvw","isSection":0},{"name":"Stockholm","slug":"stockholm","id":"JhZJSf9uo9Pa","isSection":0},{"name":"Ukraine","slug":"ukraine","id":"Dq03BAdFix29","isSection":0},{"name":"Asia","slug":"asia","id":"QzdhnKXHT05r","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"AP","id":"8dFR8PhLJl4s","username":"associatedpress","role":8,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-06-13T10:40:42+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday that Turkey has legitimate concerns over terrorism and other issues that need to be taken seriously. Turkey has accused Finland and Sweden of supporting Kurdish militants and says it will not back the two Nordic nations joining NATO until they change their policies. Also Read: Turkey no more, Erdogan country changes name to Turkiye,Speaking at a joint news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, Stoltenberg stressed that no other NATO ally has suffered more terrorist attacks than Turkey and pointed to its strategic geographic location with neighbors like Iraq and Syria. These are legitimate concerns. This is about terrorism, it's about weapons exports, Stoltenberg said. We have to address the security concerns of all allies, including Turkish concerns about the terrorist group PKK. He spoke at Finland's presidential summer residence Kultaranta in western Finland. After decades of military non-alignment, Russia's war in Ukraine pushed Finland and Sweden to apply to join NATO in May. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, however, accuses the Nordic nations of supporting Kurdish militants deemed by Turkey to be terrorists and has vetoed their entry into the 30-member alliance. When a vital key ally as Turkey raises concerns on terrorism then of course we have to sit down and take them seriously. And that's exactly what we do, Stoltenberg said. The demands from Ankara to Helsinki and Stockholm also include lifting restrictions on arms exports to Turkey and extraditing members of certain Kurdish organizations that are opposed to Erdogan's government. Also Read: Denmark all set to join European Union's defence pact in response to Russia's war in Ukraine,In the past weeks, NATO's chief has been trying to resolve the dispute but he did not disclose Sunday whether any progress has been made. He was to attend an annual discussion panel in Kultaranta later Sunday together with Finnish and Nordic politicians, foreign and security policy experts and military representatives. Stoltenberg will visit Sweden on Monday for talks with the Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"60.4676","longitude":"21.999","name":"Kultaranta, Finland","city":"Raisio"},"keywords":"Turkey,NATO,Finland,Sweden,Kurdish,Finnish,Stoltenberg,Turkish,Kultaranta,Jens Stoltenberg,Nordic,Sauli Niinisto,Iraq,Syria,Russia","originalPublishedOn":"2022-06-13T10:40:42+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"65a8cC5kv3Ru","slug":"english/amid-prophet-row-iran-alters-a-version-of-exchange-with-nsa-ajit-doval","slugV2":"india/amid-prophet-row-iran-alters-a-version-of-exchange-with-nsa-ajit-doval-157138/","title":"Amid Prophet row, Iran alters a version of exchange with NSA Ajit Doval","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_jzc9ivDiu.jpg","coverCaption":"(Photo credit: Twitter/@MEAIndia)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-06-10T04:00:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eIran appears to have modified its narration of its Foreign Minister's meeting with NSA Ajit Doval\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eAccording to an earlier Iranian statement, Doval said people who remarked against the Prophet 'will be taught a lesson'\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThis line is no longer included on the website of the Iranian Foreign Ministry\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1654813082316,\\\"strCount\\\":4921,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In the midst of a \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/arab-rage-over-prophet-comment-all-you-need-to-know-311696/\\\\\\\"\u003ebig diplomatic crisis\u003c/a\u003e over statements made by members of the ruling \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/bjp/\\\\\\\"\u003eBJP\u003c/a\u003e about the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/mumbai-police-to-summon-bjps-nupur-sharma-over-prophet-remarks-400121/\\\\\\\"\u003eProphet Muhammad\u003c/a\u003e, Iran appears to have modified its narration of its Foreign Minister's meeting with National Security Advisor \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/nsa-ajit-doval-hosts-conference-on-afghan-crisis-as-india-eyes-regional-alliance-114649/\\\\\\\"\u003eAjit Doval\u003c/a\u003e in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/delhi/\\\\\\\"\u003eDelhi\u003c/a\u003e today by removing parts of an earlier press statement.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"According to an earlier Iranian statement, Doval informed Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian that individuals who made the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/nupur-sharma-prophet-remark-controversy-10-things-you-need-to-know-140036/\\\\\\\"\u003econtentious remarks against the Prophet\u003c/a\u003e \\\\\\\"will be taught a lesson.\\\\\\\" This line is no longer included on the website of the Iranian Foreign Ministry.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/nupur-sharma-row-uddhav-thackeray-says-bjp-embarrassed-india-603046/\\\\\\\"\u003eNupur Sharma row: Uddhav Thackeray says BJP embarrassed India\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Iranian Foreign Minister Abdollahian is the country's first major visitor since \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/kuwait/\\\\\\\"\u003eKuwait\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/qatar/\\\\\\\"\u003eQatar\u003c/a\u003e, and other \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/gulf/\\\\\\\"\u003eGulf\u003c/a\u003e nations condemned the Prophet remarks.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Following the meeting last night, the minister tweeted, \\\\\\\"Pleased to meet PM Modi, FM Jaishankar and other \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/indian/\\\\\\\"\u003eIndian\u003c/a\u003e officials to advance our bilateral strategic dialogue. Tehran \u0026amp; New Delhi agree on the need to respect divine religions \u0026amp; Islamic sanctities \u0026amp; to avoid divisive statements. determined to bring relations to new heights.\\\\\\\"\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"embed\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"service\\\":\\\"twitter\\\",\\\"source\\\":\\\"https://twitter.com/Amirabdolahian/status/1534608543260745729/\\\",\\\"embed\\\":\\\"Amirabdolahian/status/1534608543260745729\\\",\\\"width\\\":520,\\\"height\\\":300,\\\"caption\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"aspectRatio\\\":173.33333333333334}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"According to a spokesperson for the External Affairs Ministry, the Prophet remarks were never brought up in conversations with Foreign Minister \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/indo-pacific-issues-to-also-concern-eu-says-s-jaishankar-224575/\\\\\\\"\u003eS Jaishankar\u003c/a\u003e. \\\\\\\"We have made it pretty clear the tweets and comments do not convey the views of the government. This has been conveyed to our interlocutors as also the fact that action has been taken by the concerned quarters against those who made the comments and tweets. I really do not have anything additional to say on this,\\\\\\\" the official affirmed.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/nupur-sharma-row-casts-shadow-over-india-iran-talks-130727/\\\\\\\"\u003eNupur Sharma row casts shadow over India-Iran talks\u003c/a\u003e\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"News agency PTI reported according to an earlier Iranian readout, Abdollahian raised the problem of the \\\\\\\"negative atmosphere\\\\\\\" created by \\\\\\\"disrespectful\\\\\\\" comments about the Prophet, and the Indian side underlined the Indian government's respect for the Prophet.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"According to PTI, the Iranian foreign minister also mentioned the country's historical friendship amongst followers of many religions.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\\\\\\\"Abdollahian hailed the Indian people and government for their respect for the divine faiths, especially the Prophet Mohammad and also for the religious tolerance, historical coexistence and friendship among followers of various religions in the country,\\\\\\\" the readout highlighted.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/amid-nupur-sharma-row-bjp-sets-new-rules-for-spokespersons-report-473464/\\\\\\\"\u003eAmid Nupur Sharma row, BJP sets new rules for spokespersons: Report\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\\\\\\\"Muslims are satisfied with the stance of Indian officials in dealing with the culprits,\\\\\\\" stated Iran's foreign minister.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The BJP \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/nupur-sharma-row-casts-shadow-over-india-iran-talks-130727/\\\\\\\"\u003esuspended Nupur Sharma\u003c/a\u003e, its national spokesperson, and removed the party's media head in Delhi, Naveen Jindal, on Sunday, over their remarks on the Prophet.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Several countries condemned the comments, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Indonesia, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/jordan/\\\\\\\"\u003eJordan\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/bahrain/\\\\\\\"\u003eBahrain\u003c/a\u003e, the Maldives, Malaysia, Oman, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e, and Libya, and many called Indian envoys to demonstrate their outrage.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/arab-rage-over-prophet-comment-all-you-need-to-know-311696/\\\\\\\"\u003eArab rage over Prophet comment: All you need to know\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Abdollahian told Iran's IRNA news agency ahead of the talks that his travel to \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/\\\\\\\"\u003eIndia\u003c/a\u003e is taking place in a context in which a member of a party \\\\\\\"insulted\\\\\\\" Prophet Muhammad in an arbitrary act.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"According to IRNA, he stated that India has \\\\\\\"constantly followed up peaceful coexistence and tried to live in peace and tranquillity\\\\\\\" and that \\\\\\\"Muslims cannot tolerate the sacrilege of the Prophet of Islam at all.\\\\\\\"\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"New Delhi, Delhi, India"},"createdBy":{"name":"Sucharita Ganguly","photo":null,"username":"sucharita","id":"z7GDvieuoSxc","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"ProphetControversy","slug":"prophetcontroversy","id":"JpXlgSptbH13","isSection":0},{"name":"Iran","slug":"iran","id":"NxNYOgJ2rxAq","isSection":0},{"name":"Diplomacy","slug":"diplomacy","id":"G8IwDUiIFaNN","isSection":0},{"name":"BJP","slug":"bjp","id":"cqfihWqpWO59","isSection":0},{"name":"NupurSharma","slug":"nupursharma","id":"UNkrEIprknVo","isSection":0},{"name":"Bahrain","slug":"bahrain","id":"ScXmVSXfNBxI","isSection":0},{"name":"Kuwait","slug":"kuwait","id":"8U0reOTHY8so","isSection":0},{"name":"ProphetMuhammad","slug":"prophetmuhammad","id":"DHX5h2YyDrk1","isSection":0},{"name":"India","slug":"india","id":"Bq4MmUPrXF8p","isSection":1},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Jordan","slug":"jordan","id":"NpWUzwwftrva","isSection":0},{"name":"Qatar","slug":"qatar","id":"45Jqb8MdFeMa","isSection":0},{"name":"Muslims","slug":"muslims","id":"9RdA3EeDbMRE","isSection":0},{"name":"Delhi","slug":"delhi","id":"rzYqAK9lbk5U","isSection":0},{"name":"Indonesia","slug":"indonesia","id":"fG8nX1CQfotT","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Sucharita Ganguly","id":"z7GDvieuoSxc","username":"sucharita","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-06-10T04:00:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"In the midst of a big diplomatic crisis over statements made by members of the ruling BJP about the Prophet Muhammad, Iran appears to have modified its narration of its Foreign Minister's meeting with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in Delhi today by removing parts of an earlier press statement. According to an earlier Iranian statement, Doval informed Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian that individuals who made the contentious remarks against the Prophet will be taught a lesson. This line is no longer included on the website of the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Also read: Nupur Sharma row: Uddhav Thackeray says BJP embarrassed India,Iranian Foreign Minister Abdollahian is the country's first major visitor since Kuwait, Qatar, and other Gulf nations condemned the Prophet remarks. Following the meeting last night, the minister tweeted, Pleased to meet PM Modi, FM Jaishankar and other Indian officials to advance our bilateral strategic dialogue. Tehran \u0026 New Delhi agree on the need to respect divine religions \u0026 Islamic sanctities \u0026 to avoid divisive statements. determined to bring relations to new heights. ,According to a spokesperson for the External Affairs Ministry, the Prophet remarks were never brought up in conversations with Foreign Minister S Jaishankar. We have made it pretty clear the tweets and comments do not convey the views of the government. This has been conveyed to our interlocutors as also the fact that action has been taken by the concerned quarters against those who made the comments and tweets. I really do not have anything additional to say on this, the official affirmed. Also read: Nupur Sharma row casts shadow over India-Iran talks ,News agency PTI reported according to an earlier Iranian readout, Abdollahian raised the problem of the negative atmosphere created by disrespectful comments about the Prophet, and the Indian side underlined the Indian government's respect for the Prophet. According to PTI, the Iranian foreign minister also mentioned the country's historical friendship amongst followers of many religions. Abdollahian hailed the Indian people and government for their respect for the divine faiths, especially the Prophet Mohammad and also for the religious tolerance, historical coexistence and friendship among followers of various religions in the country, the readout highlighted. Also read: Amid Nupur Sharma row, BJP sets new rules for spokespersons: Report,Muslims are satisfied with the stance of Indian officials in dealing with the culprits, stated Iran's foreign minister. The BJP suspended Nupur Sharma, its national spokesperson, and removed the party's media head in Delhi, Naveen Jindal, on Sunday, over their remarks on the Prophet. Several countries condemned the comments, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Indonesia, Jordan, Bahrain, the Maldives, Malaysia, Oman, Iraq, and Libya, and many called Indian envoys to demonstrate their outrage. Also read: Arab rage over Prophet comment: All you need to know,Abdollahian told Iran's IRNA news agency ahead of the talks that his travel to India is taking place in a context in which a member of a party insulted Prophet Muhammad in an arbitrary act. According to IRNA, he stated that India has constantly followed up peaceful coexistence and tried to live in peace and tranquillity and that Muslims cannot tolerate the sacrilege of the Prophet of Islam at all.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"28.6139","longitude":"77.209","name":"New Delhi, Delhi, India","city":"Delhi"},"keywords":"Indian,Iranian,Prophet,Iran,Abdollahian,BJP,Delhi,Muslims,India,the Prophet Muhammad,National Security Advisor,Ajit Doval,Hossein Amir-Abdollahian,the Iranian Foreign Ministry,Kuwait","originalPublishedOn":"2022-06-10T04:00:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"u3Hr4doMUDAW","slug":"english/a-disappearing-act-iraqs-lake-sawa-is-dying-a-slow-death-thanks-to-climate-change","slugV2":"world/a-disappearing-act-iraqs-lake-sawa-is-dying-a-slow-death-thanks-to-climate-change-568485/","title":"A disappearing act: Iraq's Lake Sawa is dying a slow death, thanks to climate change","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_GW5nvi82L.jpg","coverCaption":"Sawa lake is now a barren wasteland with piles of salt. (Picture Credit: Twitter/ @IraqClimate)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-05-21T17:46:26+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe lake used to be popular with newly-weds and families who came to swim and picnic\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe lake has disappeared for the first time this year\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eAuthorities said that more than 1,000 wells were illegally dug in the area\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1653135386202,\\\"strCount\\\":3426,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"As human activity and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/climate-change-is-a-bigger-threat-than-covid-19-says-red-cross-643136/\\\\\\\"\u003eclimate change\u003c/a\u003e bring about changes \u003cbr\u003ein ecosystems, a lake in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/iraq-elections-who-are-the-key-players-460152/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e is slowly dying and disappearing.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Sawa lake is now a barren wasteland with piles of salt. During its heydays in the 90s, the lake used to be popular with newly-weds and families who came to swim and picnic.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/science/humans-losing-sleep-over-global-warming-finds-study-398031/\\\\\\\"\u003eHumans losing sleep over global warming, finds study\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHowever, cut to around three decades later, the waterbody is almost completely dry.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Bottles litter its former banks and plastic bags dangle from sun-scorched shrubs.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\\\\\\\"This year, for the first time, the lake has disappeared,\\\\\\\" environmental activist Husam Subhi told France 24 . \\\\\\\"In previous years, the water area had decreased during the dry seasons.\\\\\\\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe five-square-kilometre (two-square-mile) lake has been drying up since 2014, said Youssef Jabbar, environmental department head of Muthana province. Climate change and r\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/un-forecasts-even-warmer-temperatures-over-next-5-years-635123/\\\\\\\"\u003eising temperatures\u003c/a\u003e are the reason behind it, he added.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthorities said that more than 1,000 wells were illegally dug in the area. And as if that were not enough,\u0026nbsp;nearby cement and salt factories have \\\\\\\"drained significant amounts of water from the groundwater that feeds the lake\\\\\\\", Jabbar said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/thousands-of-firefighters-deployed-in-southwest-us-as-winds-fuel-wildfires-479512/\\\\\\\"\u003eThousands of firefighters deployed in southwest US as winds fuel wildfires\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, a global treaty, recognised the waterbody as “unique... because it is a closed water body in an area of sabkha (salt flat) with no inlet or outlet.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“The lake is formed over limestone rock and is isolated by gypsum barriers surrounding the lake; its water chemistry is unique,” says the convention’s website.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A stopover for migratory birds, the waterbody was once “home to several globally vulnerable species” such as the eastern imperial eagle, houbara bustard and marbled duck.\\\\n\\\\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIraq is classified as one of five most vulnerable to climate change effects and desertification.\u0026nbsp;\\\\n\\\\nIraq relies on the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/health/ancient-mesopotamian-marshes-threatened-by-iraqi-sewage-417409/\\\\\\\"\u003eTigris\u003c/a\u003e and Euphrates rivers for as much as 90% of its freshwater. But years of\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/iraq/vulnerability\\\\\\\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/a\u003eredcued rainfall in the region\u0026nbsp;are forcing countries to compete for this ever-diminishing resource.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The country's average annual temperatures are rising\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"http://berkeleyearth.org/policy-insights/\\\\\\\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/a\u003eat nearly double the rate of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/earth-day-2022-google-doodle-shows-climate-change-impact-on-earth-666404/\\\\\\\"\u003eEarth's.\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the country's south, the reduced river flows have caused saltwater currents from the Persian Gulf to intrude further upstream, tainting the freshwater of Iraq's UNESCO protected marshlands.\u0026nbsp;Experts pointed out that evaporation caused by extreme heat is aggravating the problem.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Mosul, Iraq"},"createdBy":{"name":"Madhusree Goswami","photo":"https://images.opoyi.net/opoyi_ndnXzHT726.jpg?tr=w-600,q-70,dpr","username":"Madhusree24","id":"Wr5MmbdANSEJ","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"ClimateChange","slug":"climatechange","id":"UB8DTUovZuPP","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[{"name":"Madhusree Goswami","id":"Wr5MmbdANSEJ","username":"Madhusree24","role":2,"userType":0}],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-05-21T17:46:25+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"As human activity and climate change bring about changes in ecosystems, a lake in Iraq is slowly dying and disappearing. ,Sawa lake is now a barren wasteland with piles of salt. During its heydays in the 90s, the lake used to be popular with newly-weds and families who came to swim and picnic. Also Read: Humans losing sleep over global warming, finds studyHowever, cut to around three decades later, the waterbody is almost completely dry. Bottles litter its former banks and plastic bags dangle from sun-scorched shrubs. ,This year, for the first time, the lake has disappeared, environmental activist Husam Subhi told France 24 . In previous years, the water area had decreased during the dry seasons.The five-square-kilometre (two-square-mile) lake has been drying up since 2014, said Youssef Jabbar, environmental department head of Muthana province. Climate change and rising temperatures are the reason behind it, he added. Authorities said that more than 1,000 wells were illegally dug in the area. And as if that were not enough, nearby cement and salt factories have drained significant amounts of water from the groundwater that feeds the lake, Jabbar said.Also Read: Thousands of firefighters deployed in southwest US as winds fuel wildfiresThe Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, a global treaty, recognised the waterbody as “unique... because it is a closed water body in an area of sabkha (salt flat) with no inlet or outlet. “The lake is formed over limestone rock and is isolated by gypsum barriers surrounding the lake; its water chemistry is unique,” says the convention’s website. A stopover for migratory birds, the waterbody was once “home to several globally vulnerable species” such as the eastern imperial eagle, houbara bustard and marbled duck. Iraq is classified as one of five most vulnerable to climate change effects and desertification. Iraq relies on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for as much as 90% of its freshwater. But years of redcued rainfall in the region are forcing countries to compete for this ever-diminishing resource. The country's average annual temperatures are rising at nearly double the rate of Earth's.In the country's south, the reduced river flows have caused saltwater currents from the Persian Gulf to intrude further upstream, tainting the freshwater of Iraq's UNESCO protected marshlands. Experts pointed out that evaporation caused by extreme heat is aggravating the problem.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"36.3489","longitude":"43.1577","name":"Mosul, Iraq","city":"Mosul"},"keywords":"Lake Sawa,Iraq,Climate change,Global warming,UNESCO,Desertification","originalPublishedOn":"2022-05-21T17:46:25+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"mTqOEdkJjJS3","slug":"english/after-biden-bush-us-heads-of-state-and-their-struggle-with-geography","slugV2":"world/after-biden-bush-us-heads-of-state-and-their-struggle-with-geography-432883/","title":"After Biden, Bush: US heads of state and their struggle with geography","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_K61fzSBlQx.jpg","coverCaption":"Former President George W. Bush takes off his mask. (Photo Credit: AP/PTI)","reactionStats":"{\"sad_count\": 0, \"like_count\": 1.0, \"angry_count\": 0, \"laugh_count\": 0, \"heartbreak_count\": 0}","updatedOn":"2022-05-19T18:33:53+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eFormer US President George Bush confused Iraq with Ukraine\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eUS sent troops into Iraq in 2003, when Bush was in office\u0026nbsp;\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eEarlier President Joe Biden had confused Afghanistan with Ukraine\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":1,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1652965432670,\\\"strCount\\\":2922,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Former US President \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/watch-george-w-bush-mistakes-ukraine-for-iraq-while-slamming-brutal-invasion-by-one-man-579530/\\\\\\\"\u003eGeorge Bush\u003c/a\u003e recently made a gaffe, confusing Ukraine with Iraq, describing the invasion as \\\\\\\"brutal\\\\\\\" and \\\\\\\"wholly unjustified\\\\\\\". Known for his slips, even when he held office, Bush's most recent mixup came on Wednesday, while he was speaking on\u0026nbsp;election integrity at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Bush brought up Iraq while criticizing Russian President \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/who-is-vladimir-putin-217460/\\\\\\\"\u003eVladimir Putin\u003c/a\u003e, and pointing out how the country's elections are rigged.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/offbeat/us-woman-charged-40-for-crying-during-doctors-appointment-630114/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS woman charged $40 for 'crying' during doctor's appointment\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The 75-year-old said, \\\\\\\"Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process\\\\\\\", adding, \\\\\\\"The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq—I mean of Ukraine.\\\\\\\"\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Upon realizing his mistake, Bush muttered \\\\\\\"Iraq too\\\\\\\" before referring to his advanced age and earning a round of laughter from the audience.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"embed\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"service\\\":\\\"others\\\",\\\"source\\\":\\\"\u003cdiv class=\\\\\\\"others-embed\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cblockquote class=\\\\\\\"twitter-tweet\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cp lang=\\\\\\\"en\\\\\\\" dir=\\\\\\\"ltr\\\\\\\"\u003eBush in a slip of the tongue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026quot;One man\u0026#39;s decision to launch an unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq...I mean Ukraine\u0026quot;????? \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://t.co/EydoRjlCWo\\\\\\\"\u003epic.twitter.com/EydoRjlCWo\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u0026mdash; Iraq group SIV -IOM Terps USA army (@iraqi_siv) \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://twitter.com/iraqi_siv/status/1527226923335688192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\\\\\"\u003eMay 19, 2022\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e \u003cscript async src=\\\\\\\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\\\\\\\" charset=\\\\\\\"utf-8\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003c/script\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\\\",\\\"embed\\\":\\\"\u003cdiv class=\\\\\\\"others-embed\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cblockquote class=\\\\\\\"twitter-tweet\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cp lang=\\\\\\\"en\\\\\\\" dir=\\\\\\\"ltr\\\\\\\"\u003eBush in a slip of the tongue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026quot;One man\u0026#39;s decision to launch an unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq...I mean Ukraine\u0026quot;????? \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://t.co/EydoRjlCWo\\\\\\\"\u003epic.twitter.com/EydoRjlCWo\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u0026mdash; Iraq group SIV -IOM Terps USA army (@iraqi_siv) \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://twitter.com/iraqi_siv/status/1527226923335688192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\\\\\"\u003eMay 19, 2022\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e \u003cscript async src=\\\\\\\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\\\\\\\" charset=\\\\\\\"utf-8\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003c/script\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\\\",\\\"caption\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"aspectRatio\\\":null}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Bush's faux-pas, which he's attempted to laugh off, drew criticisms against the former president's actions in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/donald-trump-meets-iraq-pm-says-us-troops-to-exit-at-some-point-577193/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e, with many suggesting that Bush himself is guilty of war crimes.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The former president had sent US troops into Iraq in 2003, operating on the wrong belief that\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/rahul-gandhi-compares-indias-democracy-with-that-under-saddam-hussain-muammar-gaddafi-252415/\\\\\\\"\u003eSaddam Hussein\u003c/a\u003e, who was the leader of the nation at the time, was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/donald-trump-makes-twitter-comeback-with-truth-social-posts-banned-576744/\\\\\\\"\u003eDonald Trump makes Twitter comeback with Truth Social posts, banned\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Former Ohio Senator Nina Turner tweeted, \\\\\\\"George W. Bush just admitted to being a war criminal of the likes of Vladimir Putin, then laughed. Sickening.\\\\\\\"\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"However, Bush's recent mix-up comes after current president \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/what-is-in-joe-bidens-wwii-style-ukraine-bill-319869/\\\\\\\"\u003eJoe Biden's\u003c/a\u003e error, when he confused Afghanistan with Ukraine. Speaking in February, about the US decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Biden said \\\\\\\"There is no way we were ever going to unite Ukraine. I mean, Iraq. Afghanistan!\\\\\\\", speaking to NBC.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"At the time, Biden was addressing the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/russian-troops-practises-nuclear-capable-missile-strike-report-633159/\\\\\\\"\u003etroop buildup\u003c/a\u003e at Ukraine's borders as Moscow and Kyiv engaged in military drills.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Dallas, TX, USA"},"createdBy":{"name":"Shuvrajit Das Biswas","photo":"https://opoyi.com/images/opoyi_qZHZQaZRe.jpg?tr=w-600,q-70,dpr","username":"shuvrajit","id":"rq7gYqKJkLkE","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"GeorgeBush","slug":"georgebush","id":"duPeyIa3hrcL","isSection":0},{"name":"JoeBiden","slug":"joebiden","id":"tLOXw4T5mTfp","isSection":0},{"name":"Ukraine","slug":"ukraine","id":"Dq03BAdFix29","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Afghanistan","slug":"afghanistan","id":"qy4QrD4HTvqo","isSection":0},{"name":"UnitedStates","slug":"unitedstates","id":"Lgr3hTOPJ0yv","isSection":0},{"name":"worldnews","slug":"worldnews","id":"FLZBvkEHs9qe","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Shuvrajit Das Biswas","id":"rq7gYqKJkLkE","username":"shuvrajit","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-05-19T18:33:52+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Former US President George Bush recently made a gaffe, confusing Ukraine with Iraq, describing the invasion as brutal and wholly unjustified. Known for his slips, even when he held office, Bush's most recent mixup came on Wednesday, while he was speaking on election integrity at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas. Bush brought up Iraq while criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin, and pointing out how the country's elections are rigged. ,Also Read | US woman charged $40 for 'crying' during doctor's appointment,The 75-year-old said, Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process, adding, The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq—I mean of Ukraine. ,Upon realizing his mistake, Bush muttered Iraq too before referring to his advanced age and earning a round of laughter from the audience. ,Bush's faux-pas, which he's attempted to laugh off, drew criticisms against the former president's actions in Iraq, with many suggesting that Bush himself is guilty of war crimes. ,The former president had sent US troops into Iraq in 2003, operating on the wrong belief that Saddam Hussein, who was the leader of the nation at the time, was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). ,Also Read | Donald Trump makes Twitter comeback with Truth Social posts, banned,Former Ohio Senator Nina Turner tweeted, George W. Bush just admitted to being a war criminal of the likes of Vladimir Putin, then laughed. Sickening. ,However, Bush's recent mix-up comes after current president Joe Biden's error, when he confused Afghanistan with Ukraine. Speaking in February, about the US decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Biden said There is no way we were ever going to unite Ukraine. I mean, Iraq. Afghanistan!, speaking to NBC. ,At the time, Biden was addressing the troop buildup at Ukraine's borders as Moscow and Kyiv engaged in military drills.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"32.7767","longitude":"-96.797","name":"Dallas, TX, USA","city":"Dallas"},"keywords":"George Bush,the George W. Bush Presidential Center,Vladimir Putin,Iraq,Ukraine,Bush,US,Afghanistan,Dallas,Texas,Russia,Ohio,George Bush Iraq Ukraine ,Biden Ukraine mixup ,George Bush Ukraine mixup ,Biden Ukraine gaffe ,George Bush Ukraine gaffe","originalPublishedOn":"2022-05-19T18:33:52+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"up1beCNgNLDc","slug":"english/watch-george-w-bush-mistakes-ukraine-for-iraq-while-slamming-brutal-invasion-by-one-man","slugV2":"usa/watch-george-w-bush-mistakes-ukraine-for-iraq-while-slamming-brutal-invasion-by-one-man-579530/","title":"Watch: George W Bush mistakes Ukraine for Iraq while slamming 'brutal invasion by one man'","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_a3_jQgA_jE.jpg","coverCaption":"Former US President George W Bush. (Photo Credit: YouTube)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-05-19T14:03:22+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eBush was speaking at an event in Dallas where the gaffe, what social media called Freudian slip, took place\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eBush said Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is a \"cool little guy\"\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe US led an invasion on Iraq over weapons of mass destruction leading to the killing of thousands of people\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1652949200712,\\\"strCount\\\":2351,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Former \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/us/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS\u003c/a\u003e President George W Bush condemned the Russia-Ukraine conflict and accidentally said \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e instead of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/ukraine/\\\\\\\"\u003eUkraine\u003c/a\u003e and called it brutal and unjustified.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/amid-global-food-crisis-united-nation-urges-ukraine-on-grain-release-328689/\\\\\\\"\u003eAmid global food crisis, United Nations urges Ukraine on grain release\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"As Bush said Iraq instead of Ukraine and immediately corrected himself by saying, \\\\\\\"I mean of Ukraine.\\\\\\\" Taking a pause, he said, \\\\\\\"Iraq too, anyway, I am 75,\\\\\\\" following which the audience broke into laughter.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"embed\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"service\\\":\\\"twitter\\\",\\\"source\\\":\\\"https://twitter.com/michaeldamianw/status/1527078137582047236\\\",\\\"embed\\\":\\\"michaeldamianw/status/1527078137582047236\\\",\\\"width\\\":520,\\\"height\\\":300,\\\"caption\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"aspectRatio\\\":173.33333333333334}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"On Wednesday, Bush was speaking at an event in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/dallas/\\\\\\\"\u003eDallas\u003c/a\u003e where the gaffe, what social media called Freudian slip, took place.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/bridget-brink-becomes-us-ambassador-to-ukraine-with-unanimous-senate-vote-616287/\\\\\\\"\u003eBridget Brink becomes US Ambassador to Ukraine with unanimous Senate vote\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The video of Bush's gaffe has gone viral on social media with Twitter users wondering that finally, he admitted that the Iraq invasion was unjustified.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\\\\\\\"The result is an absence of checks and balances in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/russia/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussia\u003c/a\u003e, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq...I mean, of Ukraine,\\\\\\\" Bush said.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/nearly-700-more-ukrainian-fighters-surrender-in-mariupol-russia-565693/\\\\\\\"\u003eNearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters surrender in Mariupol: Russia\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In 2003, during his presidency, the US led an invasion on Iraq over weapons of mass destruction leading to the killing of thousands of people.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Senator Nina Turner wrote George W Bush is a war criminal, while columnist Wajahat Ali tweeted, \\\\\\\"Took 20 years for George W Bush to finally confess\\\\\\\".\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Bush said Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is a \\\\\\\"cool little guy\\\\\\\" and compared him to Winston Churchill.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\\\\\\\"The way countries conduct elections is indicative of how their leaders treat their own people, and how nations behave toward other nations. 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Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated,\\\\\\\" he added.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Dallas, TX, USA"},"createdBy":{"name":"Ajay Joseph","photo":null,"username":"ajay4396","id":"LFYsY6JozEMx","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"UnitedStates","slug":"unitedstates","id":"Lgr3hTOPJ0yv","isSection":0},{"name":"Russia","slug":"russia","id":"ZdjTIzNom80K","isSection":0},{"name":"VolodymyrZelensky","slug":"volodymyrzelensky","id":"hj1DIwbZJFvW","isSection":0},{"name":"WinstonChurchill","slug":"winstonchurchill","id":"jDc7QqnAZrih","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"UnitedNations","slug":"unitednations","id":"3WFoPkYpAzdF","isSection":0},{"name":"Ukraine","slug":"ukraine","id":"Dq03BAdFix29","isSection":0},{"name":"GeorgeWBush","slug":"georgewbush","id":"p5OCFXmiZbeB","isSection":0},{"name":"dallas","slug":"dallas","id":"nhRa727kuRdu","isSection":0},{"name":"Asia","slug":"asia","id":"QzdhnKXHT05r","isSection":0},{"name":"Europe","slug":"europe","id":"v2KXw3fOql0S","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Ajay Joseph","id":"LFYsY6JozEMx","username":"ajay4396","role":1,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-05-19T14:03:21+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Former US President George W Bush condemned the Russia-Ukraine conflict and accidentally said Iraq instead of Ukraine and called it brutal and unjustified. Also read: Amid global food crisis, United Nations urges Ukraine on grain release,As Bush said Iraq instead of Ukraine and immediately corrected himself by saying, I mean of Ukraine. Taking a pause, he said, Iraq too, anyway, I am 75, following which the audience broke into laughter. On Wednesday, Bush was speaking at an event in Dallas where the gaffe, what social media called Freudian slip, took place. Also read: Bridget Brink becomes US Ambassador to Ukraine with unanimous Senate vote,The video of Bush's gaffe has gone viral on social media with Twitter users wondering that finally, he admitted that the Iraq invasion was unjustified. The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq...I mean, of Ukraine, Bush said. Also read: Nearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters surrender in Mariupol: Russia,In 2003, during his presidency, the US led an invasion on Iraq over weapons of mass destruction leading to the killing of thousands of people. Senator Nina Turner wrote George W Bush is a war criminal, while columnist Wajahat Ali tweeted, Took 20 years for George W Bush to finally confess. Bush said Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is a cool little guy and compared him to Winston Churchill. The way countries conduct elections is indicative of how their leaders treat their own people, and how nations behave toward other nations. And nowhere is this on display more clearly than Ukraine, Bush said. In contrast, Russian elections are rigged. Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated, he added.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"32.7767","longitude":"-96.797","name":"Dallas, TX, USA","city":"Dallas"},"keywords":"Ukraine,Bush,George W Bush,Iraq,US,Russia,United Nations,Dallas,Nina Turner,Wajahat Ali,Volodymyr Zelensky,Winston Churchill,Russian","originalPublishedOn":"2022-05-19T14:03:21+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"cLSJMHKCgx2b","slug":"english/al-qaeda-chief-blames-us-for-ukraine-invasion-in-new-video-1","slugV2":"world/al-qaeda-chief-blames-us-for-ukraine-invasion-in-new-video-241749/","title":"Al-Qaeda chief blames US for Ukraine invasion in new video","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_JvTZon5x-8.jpg","coverCaption":"Ayman al-Zawahiri (center left) is Al-Qaida's leader. 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The leader appears sitting at a desk with books and a gun.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/suspected-bomb-detonated-in-berlin-building-housing-russian-state-media-522790/\\\\\\\"\u003eSuspected bomb detonated in Berlin building housing Russian state media\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Urging \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/muslim/\\\\\\\"\u003eMuslim\u003c/a\u003e unity, al-Zawahri said the United States was in a state of weakness and decline, citing the impact of the wars in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/afghanistan/\\\\\\\"\u003eAfghanistan\u003c/a\u003e launched after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. 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He is wanted by the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/fbi/\\\\\\\"\u003eFBI\u003c/a\u003e and there is a $25 million reward for information leading to his capture.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Islamabad, Pakistan"},"createdBy":{"name":"Ajay Joseph","photo":null,"username":"ajay4396","id":"LFYsY6JozEMx","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"OsamaBinLaden","slug":"osamabinladen","id":"QAm2fNpoG9FL","isSection":0},{"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","id":"wizuXkuQ3rL8","isSection":0},{"name":"Ukraine","slug":"ukraine","id":"Dq03BAdFix29","isSection":0},{"name":"FBI","slug":"fbi","id":"5rxK1ZSZBfgZ","isSection":0},{"name":"Afghanistan","slug":"afghanistan","id":"qy4QrD4HTvqo","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Muslim","slug":"muslim","id":"W7GHPFPQeWe5","isSection":0},{"name":"Asia","slug":"asia","id":"QzdhnKXHT05r","isSection":0},{"name":"UnitedStates","slug":"unitedstates","id":"Lgr3hTOPJ0yv","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Ajay Joseph","id":"LFYsY6JozEMx","username":"ajay4396","role":1,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-05-08T08:31:47+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri recently made an appearance in a pre-recorded video to mark the 11th anniversary of the death of his predecessor Osama bin Laden. Also read: Russia drops bomb on Ukrainian school sheltering 90 people, 2 dead: Report,In the video, Al-Zawahri has reportedly said that US weakness was the reason that its ally Ukraine became prey for the Russian invasion. Also read: Why is Russia attacking Ukraine's railway network? Explained,The 27-minute speech was released on Friday according to the SITE Intelligence group, which monitors militant activity. The leader appears sitting at a desk with books and a gun. Also read: Suspected bomb detonated in Berlin building housing Russian state media,Urging Muslim unity, al-Zawahri said the United States was in a state of weakness and decline, citing the impact of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan launched after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Bin Laden was the mastermind and financier behind the attacks. Also read: All civilians evacuated from Azovstal steel plant, claims Ukraine,Here (the US) is after its defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, after the economic disasters caused by the 9/11 invasions, after the Corona pandemic, and after it left its ally Ukraine as prey for the Russians, he said. Also read: Odesa struck by six missiles after Ukraine claim to sink Russian ship,Bin Laden was killed in a 2011 raid by US forces on his compound hideout in Pakistan. Also read: Back to school: Jill Biden visits Ukrainian refugee children in Romania, lauds teachers,Al-Zawahri's whereabouts are unknown. He is wanted by the FBI and there is a $25 million reward for information leading to his capture.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"33.6844","longitude":"73.0479","name":"Islamabad, Pakistan","city":"Islamabad"},"keywords":"Ukraine,Iraq,Afghanistan,Bin Laden,Al-Qaida,Ayman al-Zawahri,Osama bin Laden,Al-Zawahri,Russian,SITE Intelligence,Muslim,al-Zawahri,the United States,Russians,US","originalPublishedOn":"2022-05-08T08:31:47+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"vdUiaKU01AcT","slug":"english/us-commission-recommends-afghanistan-to-be-cited-for-religious-persecution","slugV2":"india/us-commission-recommends-afghanistan-to-be-cited-for-religious-persecution-591643/","title":"US commission recommends Afghanistan to be cited for religious persecution","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_o08xdBSo4C.jpg","coverCaption":"FILE - An Afghan woman wearing a burka exits a small shop in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo Credit: Associated Press)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-04-25T22:05:06+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eAfghanistan should join a list of the 'worst of the worst' violators of religious freedom in the wake of the Taliban's return to power, a US body says\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe above recommendation is coming from a U.S. advisory body to the State Department\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe report says religious minorities have 'faced harassment, detention and even death due to their faith or beliefs' since the Taliban takeover\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1650904506811,\\\"strCount\\\":7322,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/afghanistan-coup-10-points-to-know-409598/\\\\\\\"\u003eAfghanistan\u003c/a\u003e should join a list of the “worst of the worst” violators of religious freedom in the wake of the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/taliban-2001-vs-taliban-2021-20-years-on-has-the-taliban-changed-450802/\\\\\\\"\u003eTaliban's return\u003c/a\u003e to power, a U.S. advisory body is recommending to the State Department.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, in its annual report issued Monday, says religious minorities have “faced harassment, detention and even death due to their faith or beliefs\\\\\\\" since the Taliban reimposed its harsh interpretation of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/what-is-sharia-law-583916/\\\\\\\"\u003eSunni Islam on Afghanistan\u003c/a\u003e. It also cited attacks on religious minorities by an Islamic State affiliate that is an enemy of the Taliban.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/wont-tolerate-invasion-taliban-to-pakistan-after-alleged-airstrikes-404200/\\\\\\\"\u003eWon't tolerate 'invasion': Taliban to Pakistan after alleged airstrikes\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Afghanistan is among 15 nations that the commission says should be on the State Department’s list of “countries of particular concern.” The commission, in its report summary, defined these as governments as the “worst of the worst” in tolerating or engaging in \\\\\\\"systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The commission, created in 1998 under the International Religious Freedom Act, makes non-binding policy recommendations to the administration and Congress. The \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/us-to-send-troops-to-kabul-to-pull-out-embassy-staff-state-department-177015/\\\\\\\"\u003eState Department\u003c/a\u003e has adopted some but not all of its recommendations in the past.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In the new report, the commission recommends maintaining 10 countries currently on the State Department list, including China, Eritrea, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iran/\\\\\\\"\u003eIran\u003c/a\u003e, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"It also recommends adding four more in addition to Afghanistan — \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/\\\\\\\"\u003eIndia\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/nigeria/\\\\\\\"\u003eNigeria\u003c/a\u003e, Syria and Vietnam. The commission criticized the Biden administration for removing Nigeria from the list last year.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/taliban-bans-tiktok-pubg-for-leading-youths-in-afghan-astray-report-283001/\\\\\\\"\u003eTaliban bans TikTok, PUBG for 'leading youths in Afghan astray': Report\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The report said that in Afghanistan, many minority Jewish, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/hindu/\\\\\\\"\u003eHindu\u003c/a\u003e and Sikh residents have fled the country after the Taliban returned to power. It said many members of other religious minorities, such as Ahmadiyya Muslims, Baha'is and Christian converts are worshipping in secret for fear of persecution.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Many religious minorities fled Afghanistan out of fear for what could happen under the Taliban, rather than in response to specific actions or edicts issued by the Taliban. Some Sikhs still live and worship in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/kabul/\\\\\\\"\u003eKabul\u003c/a\u003e, and the report notes that Taliban representatives visited a Sikh gurdwara or house of worship to assure them of their safety. But the report said many Sikhs and Hindus have fled to India “due to the lack of safety and security.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The commission also cited a Human Rights Watch report of the Taliban attacking and seizing property of ethnic Hazaras belonging to the Shiite Muslim minority, plus an Amnesty International report of a Taliban massacre of Hazara men in 2021.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/russias-vladimir-putin-pakistan-pm-express-desire-to-strengthen-cooperation-report-274734/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussia's Vladimir Putin, Pakistan PM express desire to strengthen cooperation: Report\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Several deadly attacks on Hazaras have been attributed to Islamic State in Khorasan Province or IS-K, which is hostile to the Taliban and proven to be an intractable security challenge. The cover of the commission's report includes a photo of a deadly attack by IS-K on a Shiite mosque last year in Kunduz province. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The report echoes CIA World Factbook data from 2009, which said non-Muslim Afghans comprised a tiny fraction of the population. It said 99.7% of Afghans are Muslim, most of them Sunni Muslims, with about 10% to 15% Shiite Muslims. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“The Taliban, while they promised they would form an inclusive government, promising they would be a different kind of government, their actions have proven otherwise,” commission Chair Nadine Maenza said in an interview. She said that even members of the Sunni majority who don't share the Taliban interpretation of Islamic law are being required to conform to strict dress codes and other measures.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/afghan-womens-team-makes-football-debut-in-australia-after-fleeing-taliban-621427/\\\\\\\"\u003eAfghan women's team makes football debut in Australia after fleeing Taliban\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The annual report, while based on developments in 2021, foreshadowed worries about a Russian invasion of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/ukraine/\\\\\\\"\u003eUkraine\u003c/a\u003e, citing religious persecution in Russia of Jehovah's Witnesses and of religious minorities such as Muslim Tatars in Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014. The State Department first designated Russia as a country of particular concern last year.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“We fear that violence will continue to increase because of Russia’s blatant violation of religious freedom in Russia and in this conflict that exists in Ukraine,” said commission member Khizr Khan at an online news conference Monday. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"This year's report marks the first time since 2001, when the Taliban last ruled in Kabul, that the commission recommended designating Afghanistan as a country of particular concern, the report said. The State Department last year already listed the Taliban on a similar list of non-state violators of religious freedom based on its actions before returning to power in August. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The commission recommended sanctioning individual Taliban officials deemed responsible for severe violations of religious freedom and urged that those facing persecution receiving priority in refugee resettlement.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/health/afghan-militants-kill-3-pakistani-soldiers-in-cross-border-firefight-168728/\\\\\\\"\u003eAfghan militants kill 3 Pakistani soldiers in cross-border firefight\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In its report, the commission cited Myanmar's military for “atrocities against religious communities”; China for detaining Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims \\\\\\\"arbitrarily in concentration camps, prisons and forced labor”; Pakistan for enforcement of anti-blasphemy laws that endanger minorities; and India for worsening conditions for religious minorities under its Hindu-nationalist government.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The commission also recommended 12countries be placed on a “special watch list” due to religious-freedom concerns. They include three on the State Department's list — Algeria, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/cuba/\\\\\\\"\u003eCuba\u003c/a\u003e and Nicaragua — along with Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Turkey and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/uzbekistan/\\\\\\\"\u003eUzbekistan\u003c/a\u003e.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. 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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, in its annual report issued Monday, says religious minorities have “faced harassment, detention and even death due to their faith or beliefs since the Taliban reimposed its harsh interpretation of Sunni Islam on Afghanistan. It also cited attacks on religious minorities by an Islamic State affiliate that is an enemy of the Taliban. Also read: Won't tolerate 'invasion': Taliban to Pakistan after alleged airstrikes,Afghanistan is among 15 nations that the commission says should be on the State Department’s list of “countries of particular concern.” The commission, in its report summary, defined these as governments as the “worst of the worst” in tolerating or engaging in systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom.”,The commission, created in 1998 under the International Religious Freedom Act, makes non-binding policy recommendations to the administration and Congress. The State Department has adopted some but not all of its recommendations in the past. In the new report, the commission recommends maintaining 10 countries currently on the State Department list, including China, Eritrea, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. It also recommends adding four more in addition to Afghanistan — India, Nigeria, Syria and Vietnam. The commission criticized the Biden administration for removing Nigeria from the list last year. Also read: Taliban bans TikTok, PUBG for 'leading youths in Afghan astray': Report,The report said that in Afghanistan, many minority Jewish, Hindu and Sikh residents have fled the country after the Taliban returned to power. It said many members of other religious minorities, such as Ahmadiyya Muslims, Baha'is and Christian converts are worshipping in secret for fear of persecution. Many religious minorities fled Afghanistan out of fear for what could happen under the Taliban, rather than in response to specific actions or edicts issued by the Taliban. Some Sikhs still live and worship in Kabul, and the report notes that Taliban representatives visited a Sikh gurdwara or house of worship to assure them of their safety. But the report said many Sikhs and Hindus have fled to India “due to the lack of safety and security.”,The commission also cited a Human Rights Watch report of the Taliban attacking and seizing property of ethnic Hazaras belonging to the Shiite Muslim minority, plus an Amnesty International report of a Taliban massacre of Hazara men in 2021. Also read: Russia's Vladimir Putin, Pakistan PM express desire to strengthen cooperation: Report,Several deadly attacks on Hazaras have been attributed to Islamic State in Khorasan Province or IS-K, which is hostile to the Taliban and proven to be an intractable security challenge. The cover of the commission's report includes a photo of a deadly attack by IS-K on a Shiite mosque last year in Kunduz province. ,The report echoes CIA World Factbook data from 2009, which said non-Muslim Afghans comprised a tiny fraction of the population. It said 99.7% of Afghans are Muslim, most of them Sunni Muslims, with about 10% to 15% Shiite Muslims. ,“The Taliban, while they promised they would form an inclusive government, promising they would be a different kind of government, their actions have proven otherwise,” commission Chair Nadine Maenza said in an interview. She said that even members of the Sunni majority who don't share the Taliban interpretation of Islamic law are being required to conform to strict dress codes and other measures. Also read: Afghan women's team makes football debut in Australia after fleeing Taliban,The annual report, while based on developments in 2021, foreshadowed worries about a Russian invasion of Ukraine, citing religious persecution in Russia of Jehovah's Witnesses and of religious minorities such as Muslim Tatars in Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014. The State Department first designated Russia as a country of particular concern last year. “We fear that violence will continue to increase because of Russia’s blatant violation of religious freedom in Russia and in this conflict that exists in Ukraine,” said commission member Khizr Khan at an online news conference Monday. ,This year's report marks the first time since 2001, when the Taliban last ruled in Kabul, that the commission recommended designating Afghanistan as a country of particular concern, the report said. The State Department last year already listed the Taliban on a similar list of non-state violators of religious freedom based on its actions before returning to power in August. ,The commission recommended sanctioning individual Taliban officials deemed responsible for severe violations of religious freedom and urged that those facing persecution receiving priority in refugee resettlement. Also read: Afghan militants kill 3 Pakistani soldiers in cross-border firefight,In its report, the commission cited Myanmar's military for “atrocities against religious communities”; China for detaining Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims arbitrarily in concentration camps, prisons and forced labor”; Pakistan for enforcement of anti-blasphemy laws that endanger minorities; and India for worsening conditions for religious minorities under its Hindu-nationalist government. The commission also recommended 12countries be placed on a “special watch list” due to religious-freedom concerns. They include three on the State Department's list — Algeria, Cuba and Nicaragua — along with Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Turkey and Uzbekistan. Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"38.9072","longitude":"-77.0369","name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA","city":"Washington"},"keywords":"Taliban,Afghanistan,Russia,The State Department,India,Ukraine,the State Department,Sunni,China,Myanmar,Pakistan,Nigeria,Hindu,Sikh,Kabul","originalPublishedOn":"2022-04-25T22:05:05+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"B2IN1ebKT305","slug":"english/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-to-be-extradited-to-the-united-states","slugV2":"world/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-to-be-extradited-to-the-united-states-213527/","title":"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_P1YtKlDk6.jpg","coverCaption":"Julian Assange faces 175 years in jail in the US on 18 charges of esionage. 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The\u0026nbsp;decision will now move to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and the defense have until May 18 to make submissions.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/offbeat/its-420-everywhere-worlds-joint-celebration-of-marijuana-explained-532174/\\\\\\\"\u003eIts 4/20 everywhere: World's joint celebration of marijuana, explained\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Assange faces as many as 18\u0026nbsp;criminal charges for WikiLeaks published thousands of\u0026nbsp;classified files and diplomatic cables in 2010. The 50-year-old's lawyers said that he\u0026nbsp;ould face up to 175 years in jail if he is convicted in the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/us/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS\u003c/a\u003e. American authorities, however, say that\u0026nbsp;the sentence was likely to be much lower than that.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The WikiLeaks founderjoined the hearing virtually from UK's\u0026nbsp;high-security Belmarsh Prison in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/london/\\\\\\\"\u003eLondon\u003c/a\u003e since 2019. He was arrested for\u0026nbsp;skipping bail during a separate legal battle. He also\u0026nbsp;spent seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid extradition to \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/sweden/\\\\\\\"\u003eSweden\u003c/a\u003e to face allegations of rape and sexual assault.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/entertainment/as-subscribers-fall-netflix-turns-to-ads-password-control-in-new-plan-414635/\\\\\\\"\u003eAs subscribers fall, Netflix turns to ads, password control in new plan\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Sweden dropped the sex crimes investigations in November 2019 because so much time had elapsed.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A Westminster magistrates' court ruling, last year, found that Assange was likely to kill himself if held under harsh U.S. prison conditions. U.S. authorities later provided assurances that the WikiLeaks founder wouldn’t face the severe treatment that his lawyers said would put his physical and mental health at risk.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Assange lawyer Mark Summers told the court that the legal team had “serious submissions” to make.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/russian-soldiers-killed-ukrainian-who-shared-his-name-says-kremlin-critic-476599/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussian soldiers killed Ukrainian who shared his name, says Kremlin critic\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Supporters and lawyers for Assange, 50, argue that he was acting as a journalist and is entitled to First Amendment protections of freedom of speech for publishing documents that exposed U.S. military wrongdoing in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/afghanistan/\\\\\\\"\u003eAfghanistan\u003c/a\u003e. They argue that his case is politically motivated.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"London, UK"},"createdBy":{"name":"Yash Bajaj","photo":null,"username":"yash6711","id":"0f9O2vXwZhEr","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"UnitedStates","slug":"unitedstates","id":"Lgr3hTOPJ0yv","isSection":0},{"name":"JulianAssange","slug":"julianassange","id":"ApXaX1qkt1fK","isSection":0},{"name":"Wikileaks","slug":"wikileaks","id":"RYsp8NPF87WM","isSection":0},{"name":"Afghanistan","slug":"afghanistan","id":"qy4QrD4HTvqo","isSection":0},{"name":"sweden","slug":"sweden","id":"jhcLIkirtOh9","isSection":0},{"name":"UK","slug":"uk","id":"rBpj9Yi57Sni","isSection":0},{"name":"PritiPatel","slug":"pritipatel","id":"wQV65ZiG6gJo","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Asia","slug":"asia","id":"QzdhnKXHT05r","isSection":0},{"name":"Europe","slug":"europe","id":"v2KXw3fOql0S","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1},{"name":"UnitedKingdom","slug":"unitedkingdom","id":"ZT6urOP4Pu5S","isSection":0},{"name":"International","slug":"international","id":"NYS6J2BBfSdS","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[{"name":"Yash Bajaj","id":"0f9O2vXwZhEr","username":"yash6711","role":2,"userType":0}],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-04-20T16:25:21+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Julian Assange, who founded whistleblowing platform Wikileaks in 2006, will be extradited to the United States, a UK court ruled Wednesday. The decision will now move to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and the defense have until May 18 to make submissions. ,Also read: Its 4/20 everywhere: World's joint celebration of marijuana, explained,Assange faces as many as 18 criminal charges for WikiLeaks published thousands of classified files and diplomatic cables in 2010. The 50-year-old's lawyers said that he ould face up to 175 years in jail if he is convicted in the US. American authorities, however, say that the sentence was likely to be much lower than that. The WikiLeaks founderjoined the hearing virtually from UK's high-security Belmarsh Prison in London since 2019. He was arrested for skipping bail during a separate legal battle. He also spent seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. Also read: As subscribers fall, Netflix turns to ads, password control in new plan,Sweden dropped the sex crimes investigations in November 2019 because so much time had elapsed. A Westminster magistrates' court ruling, last year, found that Assange was likely to kill himself if held under harsh U.S. prison conditions. U.S. authorities later provided assurances that the WikiLeaks founder wouldn’t face the severe treatment that his lawyers said would put his physical and mental health at risk. Assange lawyer Mark Summers told the court that the legal team had “serious submissions” to make. Also read: Russian soldiers killed Ukrainian who shared his name, says Kremlin critic,Supporters and lawyers for Assange, 50, argue that he was acting as a journalist and is entitled to First Amendment protections of freedom of speech for publishing documents that exposed U.S. military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. They argue that his case is politically motivated.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"51.5072","longitude":"-0.1276","name":"London, UK","city":"City of Westminster"},"keywords":"U.S.,UK,WikiLeaks,London,Sweden,Julian Assange,the United States,Priti Patel,US,American,Belmarsh Prison,the Ecuadorian Embassy,Mark Summers,First Amendment,Iraq","originalPublishedOn":"2022-04-20T15:39:19+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"khWKSmrbvVVl","slug":"english/ukraine-feared-to-see-syria-chemical-attacks-repeat","slugV2":"world/ukraine-feared-to-see-syria-chemical-attacks-repeat-388893/","title":"Ukraine feared to see Syria chemical attacks repeat","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_0k-m-a5go.jpg","coverCaption":"- Abdel Hameed Alyousef, 29, holds his twin babies who were killed during a suspected chemical weapons attack. (Photo credit: AP)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-04-13T22:30:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eHundreds were killed, including many children from chemical attacks in Syria\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eSeveral years later, concerns are growing that such weapons could be used in Ukraine\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003e“The world must react now,” Ukraine President Zelensky said\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1649868884347,\\\"strCount\\\":7399,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The chilling scenes from \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/syria/\\\\\\\"\u003eSyria\u003c/a\u003e of victims twitching and gasping for air after chlorine cylinders were dropped from helicopters in towns and villages were broadcast over and over in the course of country's civil war.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/ukraine-launches-probe-to-hold-russia-responsible-for-over-6000-war-crimes-389320/\\\\\\\"\u003eUkraine launches probe to hold Russia responsible for over 6000 war crimes\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Legal and moral taboos were shattered. Hundreds were killed, including many children, in dozens of poison gas attacks widely blamed on President Bashar Assad’s forces under the protection of his chief ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Several years later, concerns are growing that such weapons could be used in Ukraine, where Russian forces have been waging a devastating war for weeks.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"As the conflict drags on, Western officials and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have warned that Putin could deploy chemical agents.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“The world must react now,” Zelenskyy said.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/who-is-viktor-medvedchuk-prominent-putin-ally-captured-by-ukraine-522685/\\\\\\\"\u003eWho is Viktor Medvedchuk, prominent Putin ally captured by Ukraine's forces?\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Officials say they are investigating an unconfirmed claim by a far-right Ukrainian regiment that a poisonous substance was dropped in the besieged city of Mariupol this week. The claim could not be confirmed by independent sources, and Ukrainian officials say it could have been phosphorus munitions - which cause horrendous burns but are not classed as chemical weapons. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"LOWERING THE THRESHOLD\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Putin has threatened to broaden the Ukraine war into a nuclear conflict, but it is unclear if chemical agents will be used to support his military operations. Analysts say the Syria war set a horrific precedent in terms of deploying chlorine, sulfur and the nerve agent sarin, completely disregarding international norms and with no accountability. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“From what we’re seeing now, it seems that \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/russia/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussia\u003c/a\u003e has drawn the conclusion that it’s safe to continue this modus operandi from Syria in the Ukrainian context as well,” said Aida Samani, legal adviser with Civil Rights Defenders, a Sweden-based group. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“Of course, that undermines the international regulations that we have in place and lowers the threshold for the use of such weapons,” Samani added.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/almost-two-thirds-ukrainian-children-displaced-since-start-of-russian-war-unicef-678693/\\\\\\\"\u003eAlmost two-thirds Ukrainian children displaced since start of Russian war: UNICEF\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"She has joined with other nongovernmental organizations to file a criminal complaint on behalf of a group of Syrians living in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/sweden/\\\\\\\"\u003eSweden\u003c/a\u003e against the Syrian government for war crimes and crimes against humanity related to its use of chemical weapons.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Western officials say Russia may be looking to borrow from the Syria playbook, where Assad’s forces tested the international community’s resolve by gradually ramping up the brutality of attacks and methods.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Part of the equation in Syria was the difficulty of proving anything in the aftermath of such attacks, largely due to the lack of immediate access. Assad, with Russia’s backing, consistently cast a cloud of confusion, accusing the opposition of fabricating evidence or deploying poison gas themselves to try to frame him. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"An investigative mechanism set up by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons blamed Syrian government forces for multiple chemical attacks in Syria, including the use of chlorine and sarin in an attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in April 2017 that killed about 100 people. At least one mustard gas attack was blamed on the Islamic State group, which held territory in Syria and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e for several years during the war that killed half a million people.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In comments reminiscent of Syria, Russia accused Ukraine of running chemical and biological labs with U.S. support, leading to accusations \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/moscow/\\\\\\\"\u003eMoscow\u003c/a\u003e was seeking to stage a false-flag incident. Ukraine does have a network of biological labs that have gotten funding and research support from the U.S. — but they are part of a program seeking to reduce the likelihood of deadly outbreaks by pathogens, whether natural or manmade. The U.S. efforts date to the 1990s to dismantle the former Soviet Union’s program for weapons of mass destruction.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"RED LINES\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The assault early on the morning of Aug. 21, 2013, on the rebel-held suburbs of Damascus known as Ghouta shocked a world that had grown largely numb to the carnage of Syria’s civil war. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Fueling the international outrage were dozens of online videos showing victims in spasms, gasping for breath and foaming at the mouth. The attack crossed what then-U.S. President Barack Obama had called a “red line” for possible military intervention in the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/arab/\\\\\\\"\u003eArab\u003c/a\u003e country.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Obama came close to ordering U.S.-led military strikes but abruptly backed down after failing to secure the necessary support from the U.S. \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/congress/\\\\\\\"\u003eCongress\u003c/a\u003e and instead struck a deal with Moscow to eliminate Syria’s chemical arsenal. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"By August 2014, Assad’s government declared that the destruction of its chemical weapons was completed. But Syria’s initial declaration to the OPCW has remained in dispute, and the attacks continued. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump launched several dozen cruise missiles at a Syrian air base in retaliation for a suspected nerve gas attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib province that killed about 100 people. Experts from the U.N. and the chemical weapons watchdog blamed the Syrian government for the attack. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"As Moscow pushes its offensive in Ukraine, world leaders and policymakers are grappling with how the West should respond to a Russian battlefield use of chemical or biological weapons. Members of Congress said the Biden administration and its allies will not stand by if that happens.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Unlike Syria, however, Russia is a nuclear power. Any reaction risks triggering a nuclear confrontation, which Putin has already alluded to. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"ACHIEVING JUSTICE\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Samani, of Civil Rights Defenders, faults the international community for not making a real effort to seek accountability for the chemical weapons attacks in Syria. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“There hasn’t really been any political appetite to explore how, for example, a special tribunal could be set up for Syria,” she said. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Last week, she and a group of NGOs presented new information relevant to the sarin gas attacks on Khan Sheikhun in 2017 and Ghouta in 2013 to investigative authorities in Germany, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/france/\\\\\\\"\u003eFrance\u003c/a\u003e and Sweden.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"But justice appears to be a long way off. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“Holding the perpetrators of these crimes accountable for the use of illegal weapons is the first deterrent to ensure that they do not recur,” said Haneen Haddad, project leader for the Syrian Archive, a Syrian-led project that documents human rights violations and other crimes committed in Syria.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“Without meaningful accountability, cruel actors and their enablers think that they can do terrible things without real consequence from the international community.”\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Kyiv, Ukraine"},"createdBy":{"name":"Yash Bajaj","photo":null,"username":"yash6711","id":"0f9O2vXwZhEr","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Ukraine","slug":"ukraine","id":"Dq03BAdFix29","isSection":0},{"name":"Russia","slug":"russia","id":"ZdjTIzNom80K","isSection":0},{"name":"Syria","slug":"syria","id":"j7HTGxThNXvC","isSection":0},{"name":"VladimirPutin","slug":"vladimirputin","id":"DIwA3nLp1xnf","isSection":0},{"name":"Moscow","slug":"moscow","id":"uXRd89o0MuOj","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1},{"name":"US","slug":"us","id":"0JelBm6rMusZ","isSection":0},{"name":"UN","slug":"un","id":"WxB77sqkx0Z7","isSection":0},{"name":"International","slug":"international","id":"NYS6J2BBfSdS","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"AP","id":"8dFR8PhLJl4s","username":"associatedpress","role":8,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-04-13T22:30:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":"82eb4a7a1f7f1b","cleanText":"The chilling scenes from Syria of victims twitching and gasping for air after chlorine cylinders were dropped from helicopters in towns and villages were broadcast over and over in the course of country's civil war. Also read: Ukraine launches probe to hold Russia responsible for over 6000 war crimes,Legal and moral taboos were shattered. Hundreds were killed, including many children, in dozens of poison gas attacks widely blamed on President Bashar Assad’s forces under the protection of his chief ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin. ,Several years later, concerns are growing that such weapons could be used in Ukraine, where Russian forces have been waging a devastating war for weeks. As the conflict drags on, Western officials and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have warned that Putin could deploy chemical agents. “The world must react now,” Zelenskyy said. Also Read: Who is Viktor Medvedchuk, prominent Putin ally captured by Ukraine's forces?,Officials say they are investigating an unconfirmed claim by a far-right Ukrainian regiment that a poisonous substance was dropped in the besieged city of Mariupol this week. The claim could not be confirmed by independent sources, and Ukrainian officials say it could have been phosphorus munitions - which cause horrendous burns but are not classed as chemical weapons. ,LOWERING THE THRESHOLD,Putin has threatened to broaden the Ukraine war into a nuclear conflict, but it is unclear if chemical agents will be used to support his military operations. Analysts say the Syria war set a horrific precedent in terms of deploying chlorine, sulfur and the nerve agent sarin, completely disregarding international norms and with no accountability. ,“From what we’re seeing now, it seems that Russia has drawn the conclusion that it’s safe to continue this modus operandi from Syria in the Ukrainian context as well,” said Aida Samani, legal adviser with Civil Rights Defenders, a Sweden-based group. ,“Of course, that undermines the international regulations that we have in place and lowers the threshold for the use of such weapons,” Samani added. Also Read: Almost two-thirds Ukrainian children displaced since start of Russian war: UNICEF,She has joined with other nongovernmental organizations to file a criminal complaint on behalf of a group of Syrians living in Sweden against the Syrian government for war crimes and crimes against humanity related to its use of chemical weapons. Western officials say Russia may be looking to borrow from the Syria playbook, where Assad’s forces tested the international community’s resolve by gradually ramping up the brutality of attacks and methods. Part of the equation in Syria was the difficulty of proving anything in the aftermath of such attacks, largely due to the lack of immediate access. Assad, with Russia’s backing, consistently cast a cloud of confusion, accusing the opposition of fabricating evidence or deploying poison gas themselves to try to frame him. ,An investigative mechanism set up by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons blamed Syrian government forces for multiple chemical attacks in Syria, including the use of chlorine and sarin in an attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in April 2017 that killed about 100 people. At least one mustard gas attack was blamed on the Islamic State group, which held territory in Syria and Iraq for several years during the war that killed half a million people. In comments reminiscent of Syria, Russia accused Ukraine of running chemical and biological labs with U.S. support, leading to accusations Moscow was seeking to stage a false-flag incident. Ukraine does have a network of biological labs that have gotten funding and research support from the U.S. — but they are part of a program seeking to reduce the likelihood of deadly outbreaks by pathogens, whether natural or manmade. The U.S. efforts date to the 1990s to dismantle the former Soviet Union’s program for weapons of mass destruction. RED LINES,The assault early on the morning of Aug. 21, 2013, on the rebel-held suburbs of Damascus known as Ghouta shocked a world that had grown largely numb to the carnage of Syria’s civil war. ,Fueling the international outrage were dozens of online videos showing victims in spasms, gasping for breath and foaming at the mouth. The attack crossed what then-U.S. President Barack Obama had called a “red line” for possible military intervention in the Arab country. Obama came close to ordering U.S.-led military strikes but abruptly backed down after failing to secure the necessary support from the U.S. Congress and instead struck a deal with Moscow to eliminate Syria’s chemical arsenal. ,By August 2014, Assad’s government declared that the destruction of its chemical weapons was completed. But Syria’s initial declaration to the OPCW has remained in dispute, and the attacks continued. ,In 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump launched several dozen cruise missiles at a Syrian air base in retaliation for a suspected nerve gas attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib province that killed about 100 people. Experts from the U.N. and the chemical weapons watchdog blamed the Syrian government for the attack. ,As Moscow pushes its offensive in Ukraine, world leaders and policymakers are grappling with how the West should respond to a Russian battlefield use of chemical or biological weapons. Members of Congress said the Biden administration and its allies will not stand by if that happens. Unlike Syria, however, Russia is a nuclear power. Any reaction risks triggering a nuclear confrontation, which Putin has already alluded to. ,ACHIEVING JUSTICE,Samani, of Civil Rights Defenders, faults the international community for not making a real effort to seek accountability for the chemical weapons attacks in Syria. ,“There hasn’t really been any political appetite to explore how, for example, a special tribunal could be set up for Syria,” she said. ,Last week, she and a group of NGOs presented new information relevant to the sarin gas attacks on Khan Sheikhun in 2017 and Ghouta in 2013 to investigative authorities in Germany, France and Sweden. But justice appears to be a long way off. ,“Holding the perpetrators of these crimes accountable for the use of illegal weapons is the first deterrent to ensure that they do not recur,” said Haneen Haddad, project leader for the Syrian Archive, a Syrian-led project that documents human rights violations and other crimes committed in Syria. “Without meaningful accountability, cruel actors and their enablers think that they can do terrible things without real consequence from the international community.”","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"50.4501","longitude":"30.5234","name":"Kyiv, Ukraine","city":"Kyiv"},"keywords":"Syria,Ukraine,Russia,Syrian,U.S.,Russian,Ukrainian,Putin,Sweden,Moscow,Civil Rights Defenders,Assad,Khan Sheikhoun,Ghouta,Bashar Assad","originalPublishedOn":"2022-04-13T22:30:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"7Oob2cwkW5Kh","slug":"english/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-vows-to-continue-nuclear-activities","slugV2":"usa/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-vows-to-continue-nuclear-activities-171709/","title":"Iran President Ebrahim Raisi vows to continue nuclear activities","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_ZtgZgVoSjp.jpg","coverCaption":"Iran has long insisted that its nuclear program has had peaceful purposes like generating electric power and medical isotopes. 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Iran's (continuation of) research in peaceful nuclear fields will not depend on others' demands or viewpoints,” said Raisi, who came to power in August.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Raisi's comments came as talks between Iran and world powers in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/vienna/\\\\\\\"\u003eVienna\u003c/a\u003e to revive the 2015 nuclear deal have stalled. There is concern that Iran could be closer to being able to construct an atomic weapon if it chose to pursue one.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The nuclear deal collapsed four years ago when former President Donald Trump withdrew the United States and imposed crushing sanctions on Iran. 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Speaking in a ceremony marking Iran's national day of nuclear technology, the hard-line president said his administration will support an acceleration in research of peaceful nuclear technology. “Our knowledge and technology in the nuclear field is not reversible. Iran's (continuation of) research in peaceful nuclear fields will not depend on others' demands or viewpoints,” said Raisi, who came to power in August. Raisi's comments came as talks between Iran and world powers in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal have stalled. There is concern that Iran could be closer to being able to construct an atomic weapon if it chose to pursue one. The nuclear deal collapsed four years ago when former President Donald Trump withdrew the United States and imposed crushing sanctions on Iran. In the meantime, Iran has vastly expanded its nuclear work. Iran has long insisted that its nuclear program has had peaceful purposes like generating electric power and medical isotopes. During Saturday's ceremony, Iran displayed its new civil nuclear achievements, including several medical isotopes, agricultural pesticides, detoxification equipment and nuclear fuel material. The report did not elaborate. The head of Iran’s civilian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, said Iran will soon pursue construction of a new nuclear power plant with 360-megawatt capacity. It is to be located near the town of Darkhovin in oil-rich Khuzestan province in the country's southwest. The plant was supposed to be built before the 1979 Islamic Revolution with help from France but the project was halted in its initial phase. The site became a major battlefield in the 8-year war between Iran and Iraq that began in 1980. Iran’s sole nuclear power plant, with 1,000-megawatt capacity, went online in 2011 with help from Russia in the southern port city of Bushehr. Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium continues to grow and it is currently enriching it at up to 60% purity. That's the highest level ever by Iran and is a short technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%. It is far greater than the nuclear deal’s 3.67% cap. ,Meanwhile on Saturday, Iran imposed symbolic sanctions on more U.S. officials over their roles in harming Iran, the country’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The 16-person list included George William Casey, former commander of American forces in Iraq; CENTCOM former commander Joseph Votel; former commander of American forces in Afghanistan Austin Scott Miller; U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea and other U.S. officials from the former Trump administration. From time to time, Iran adds to a long list of sanctioned Americans. In January, Iran sanctioned more than 50 Americans for their alleged roles in killing a top Iranian general in Iraq in 2020. In 2021 Iran imposed sanctions on Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and eight others. The sanctions ban the targeted persons from travel to Iran and possible confiscation of their assets in Iran. They are seen as symbolic as the Americans don’t have any assets in Iran.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"35.6892","longitude":"51.389","name":"Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran","city":"Tehran"},"keywords":"Iran,Iraq,Ebrahim Raisi,Tehran,Vienna,Donald Trump,Atomic Energy Organization,Mohammad Eslami,Khuzestan province","originalPublishedOn":"2022-04-09T17:46:59+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"nsihU0uPvAaP","slug":"english/many-in-mideast-see-hypocrisy-in-western-embrace-of-ukraine-1","slugV2":"technology/many-in-mideast-see-hypocrisy-in-western-embrace-of-ukraine-450907/","title":"Many in Mideast see hypocrisy in Western embrace of Ukraine","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_9LEjKhO5T.jpg","coverCaption":"A Palestinian protester throws a Molotov cocktail towards Israeli soldiers. 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Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe died on perilous sea voyages or were turned back as many branded them a threat to Western culture.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In Yemen, a grinding yearslong war between a Saudi-led coalition and Iran-backed Houthi rebels has left 13 million people at risk of starvation. But even searing accounts of infants starving to death have not brought sustained international attention.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/russia-ukraine-talks-to-be-held-today-heres-all-you-need-to-know-436240/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussia-Ukraine talks to be held today; Here's all you need to know\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Bruce Riedel, formerly of the CIA and National Security Council, and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said it was “understandable” that many in the Middle East see a double standard by the West.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“The United States and the United Kingdom have supported Saudi Arabia’s seven-years-old war in Yemen, which created the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe in decades,” he said.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/entertainment/chris-rocks-show-tickets-in-demand-after-will-smiths-oscars-slap-158480/\\\\\\\"\u003eExpensive tickets, more clout: Aftermath of Will Smith's slap for Chris Rock\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Israel's occupation of lands the Palestinians want for a future state is well into its sixth decade, and millions of Palestinians live under military rule with no end in sight. 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The response has elicited outrage across the Middle East, where many see a glaring double standard in how the West responds to international conflicts. Also read: US SEC charges 7 Indian-origin individuals in $1 mln insider trading scheme,We have seen every means we were told could not be activated for over 70 years deployed in less than seven days, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki told a security forum in Turkey earlier this month. Amazing hypocrisy, he added. The US-led war in Iraq, which began 19 years ago this month, was widely seen as an unlawful invasion of one state by another. But Iraqis who fought the Americans were branded terrorists, and refugees fleeing to the West were often turned away, treated as potential security threats. Also read: Oil prices dip on Russia-Ukraine peace talk hopes, China demand concerns,The Biden administration said Wednesday the United States has assessed that Russian forces committed war crimes in Ukraine and would work with others to prosecute offenders. But the US is not a member of the International Criminal Court and staunchly opposes any international probe of its own conduct or of its ally, Israel. Also read: Explained: A look at weapons used by Russia in war against Ukraine,When Russia intervened in Syria's civil war on behalf of President Bashar Assad in 2015, helping his forces to pummelled and starve entire cities into submission, there was international outrage but little action. Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe died on perilous sea voyages or were turned back as many branded them a threat to Western culture. In Yemen, a grinding yearslong war between a Saudi-led coalition and Iran-backed Houthi rebels has left 13 million people at risk of starvation. But even searing accounts of infants starving to death have not brought sustained international attention. Also read: Russia-Ukraine talks to be held today; Here's all you need to know,Bruce Riedel, formerly of the CIA and National Security Council, and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said it was “understandable” that many in the Middle East see a double standard by the West. “The United States and the United Kingdom have supported Saudi Arabia’s seven-years-old war in Yemen, which created the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe in decades,” he said. Also read: Expensive tickets, more clout: Aftermath of Will Smith's slap for Chris Rock,Israel's occupation of lands the Palestinians want for a future state is well into its sixth decade, and millions of Palestinians live under military rule with no end in sight. The U.S. Israel and Germany have passed legislation aimed at suppressing the Palestinian-led boycott movement, while major firms like McDonald's, Exxon Mobil and Apple have won praise by suspending business in Russia. On social media, the world has cheered Ukrainians as they stockpile Molotov cocktails and take up arms against an occupying army. When Palestinians and Iraqis do the same thing, they are branded terrorists and legitimate targets. “We resisted the occupiers, even when the world was with the Americans, including the Ukrainians, who were part of their coalition, said Sheikh Jabbar al-Rubai, 51, who fought in the 2003-2011 Iraqi insurgency against US forces.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"34.5553","longitude":"69.2075","name":"Kabul, Afghanistan","city":"Kabul"},"keywords":"Russia,Ukraine,Palestinians,Russian,the Middle East,Palestinian,Americans,Israel,Yemen,Ukrainians,Indian,Riad Malki,Turkey,United States","originalPublishedOn":"2022-03-29T12:45:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"sAZRXeuppiPU","slug":"english/5-things-to-know-about-ketanji-brown-jackson","slugV2":"usa/5-things-to-know-about-ketanji-brown-jackson-533746/","title":"5 things to know about Ketanji Brown Jackson","postType":1,"coverMedia":"https://images.opoyi.net/opoyi_QkoDWEdsS.jpg","coverCaption":"High court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. (Photo Credit: AP)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-03-22T02:30:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eStarting Monday,\u0026nbsp;Jackson will field questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eShe will be asked questions by the members of the panel for two full days\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eJackson would make history as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1647894770419,\\\"strCount\\\":2559,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/us/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS\u003c/a\u003e President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the the country's highest court. The 51-year-old invoked her faith, family, professional mentors, and the inspiration of the nation's first Black woman federal judge when she accepted her own nomination.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\" Biden praised her “exceptional credentials, unimpeachable character, and an unwavering dedication to the rule of law”.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Starting Monday,\u0026nbsp;Jackson will field questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee in highly anticipated public hearings. She will be asked questions by the members of the panel for two full days. Each member of the committee will have 30 minutes to question Jackson on Tuesday and another 20 minutes on Wednesday. However, it is not necessary that they use all the time allotted to them.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"If confirmed,\u0026nbsp;Jackson would make history as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Here are 5 things to know about Jackson, who is writing a “new page” in the history of the nation.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"1. Jackson’s husband,\u0026nbsp;Patrick Graves Jackson, is a gastrointestinal surgeon whom she met while they were both attending Harvard. According to\u0026nbsp;The Miami Herald,\u0026nbsp;Jackson is currently a general surgeon at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.\u0026nbsp;“Patrick is a quintessential ‘Boston Brahmin’ — his family can be traced back to \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/england/\\\\\\\"\u003eEngland\u003c/a\u003e before the Mayflower”, she said in 2017 of her husband. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"2. The Harvard Law School graduate has two daughters, Talia, 21, and Leila, 17, with her husband Patrick.\u0026nbsp;In a 2017 speech, Jackson revealed that the couple’s daughter, Leila, wrote President Barack Obama a letter urging him to name her mother to the US Supreme Court after Justice Antonin Scalia died.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"3. In her nomination speech, Jackson revealed that she has one younger brother, who served in the army in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e.\u0026nbsp;He is named Ketajh Brown, and he “served with the Baltimore Police Department from October 2001 through May 2008.”\u0026nbsp;The Baltimore Sun reported that he is now a corporate attorney in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/chicago/\\\\\\\"\u003eChicago\u003c/a\u003e.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"4.\u0026nbsp;Jackson was appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last year. She served on the federal district court in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/dc/\\\\\\\"\u003eDC\u003c/a\u003e for nine years.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"5. During a drama course she took one semester at Harvard, her assigned partner was Matt Damon.\u0026nbsp;“Although I was pretty good, I doubt he’d remember me now,” Jackson said.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"United States"},"createdBy":{"name":"Suman V","photo":null,"username":"sumanv","id":"KhO1NvH3W2sk","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"SupremeCourt","slug":"supremecourt","id":"FnneUVErxtRr","isSection":0},{"name":"JoeBiden","slug":"joebiden","id":"tLOXw4T5mTfp","isSection":0},{"name":"US","slug":"us","id":"0JelBm6rMusZ","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Chicago","slug":"chicago","id":"osJbDV5p2nCi","isSection":0},{"name":"England","slug":"england","id":"Eg4MkAxd62EH","isSection":0},{"name":"MattDamon","slug":"mattdamon","id":"UqekinGiRM04","isSection":0},{"name":"BarackObama","slug":"barackobama","id":"rKqbtlmFXHv1","isSection":0},{"name":"KetanjiBrownJackson","slug":"ketanjibrownjackson","id":"QbKEEE9t28od","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Suman V","id":"KhO1NvH3W2sk","username":"sumanv","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-03-22T02:30:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"US President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the the country's highest court. The 51-year-old invoked her faith, family, professional mentors, and the inspiration of the nation's first Black woman federal judge when she accepted her own nomination. Biden praised her “exceptional credentials, unimpeachable character, and an unwavering dedication to the rule of law”. Starting Monday, Jackson will field questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee in highly anticipated public hearings. She will be asked questions by the members of the panel for two full days. Each member of the committee will have 30 minutes to question Jackson on Tuesday and another 20 minutes on Wednesday. However, it is not necessary that they use all the time allotted to them. If confirmed, Jackson would make history as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. Here are 5 things to know about Jackson, who is writing a “new page” in the history of the nation. 1. Jackson’s husband, Patrick Graves Jackson, is a gastrointestinal surgeon whom she met while they were both attending Harvard. According to The Miami Herald, Jackson is currently a general surgeon at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. “Patrick is a quintessential ‘Boston Brahmin’ — his family can be traced back to England before the Mayflower”, she said in 2017 of her husband. ,2. The Harvard Law School graduate has two daughters, Talia, 21, and Leila, 17, with her husband Patrick. In a 2017 speech, Jackson revealed that the couple’s daughter, Leila, wrote President Barack Obama a letter urging him to name her mother to the US Supreme Court after Justice Antonin Scalia died. ,3. In her nomination speech, Jackson revealed that she has one younger brother, who served in the army in Iraq. He is named Ketajh Brown, and he “served with the Baltimore Police Department from October 2001 through May 2008.” The Baltimore Sun reported that he is now a corporate attorney in Chicago. 4. Jackson was appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last year. She served on the federal district court in DC for nine years. 5. During a drama course she took one semester at Harvard, her assigned partner was Matt Damon. “Although I was pretty good, I doubt he’d remember me now,” Jackson said.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"37.0902","longitude":"-95.7129","name":"United States","city":"Bartlesville"},"keywords":"Joe Biden,Ketanji Brown Jackson,first Black,the Supreme Court,federal judge,Senate Judiciary Committee","originalPublishedOn":"2022-03-22T02:30:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"xXUOpWXDKwFT","slug":"english/us-journalist-pierre-zakrzewski-killed-in-ukraine-russian-attack-persists","slugV2":"usa/us-journalist-pierre-zakrzewski-killed-in-ukraine-russian-attack-persists-641043/","title":"US journalist Pierre Zakrzewski killed in Ukraine, Russian attack persists","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_FHEwWAu1MQae.jpg","coverCaption":"Fox News journalist Pierre Zakrzewski. 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He was 55 years old at the time.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Zakrzewski was reporting in Horenka, Ukraine, with correspondent \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/fox-news-reporter-benjamin-hall-injured-in-ukraine-while-covering-russian-invasion-523366/\\\\\\\"\u003eBenjamin Hall\u003c/a\u003e when their car was hit by incoming fire. Hall was injured in the incident and, according to Scott, is still in the hospital in Ukraine.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/russian-journalist-feared-missing-after-protesting-ukraine-invasion-on-tv-264312/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussian journalist feared missing after protesting Ukraine invasion on TV\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“Pierre was a war zone photographer who covered nearly every international story for Fox News from \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e to \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/afghanistan/\\\\\\\"\u003eAfghanistan\u003c/a\u003e to \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/syria/\\\\\\\"\u003eSyria\u003c/a\u003e during his long tenure with \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/us/\\\\\\\"\u003eus\u003c/a\u003e. His passion and talent as a journalist were unmatched,” Scott wrote in her memo. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“Based in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/london/\\\\\\\"\u003eLondon\u003c/a\u003e, Pierre had been working in Ukraine since February. His talents were vast and there wasn’t a role that he didn’t jump in to help with in the field — From photographer to engineer to editor to producer — and he did it all under immense pressure with tremendous skill. He was profoundly committed to telling the story and his bravery, professionalism and work ethic were renowned among journalists at every media outlet. He was wildly popular — everyone in the media industry who has covered a foreign story knew and respected Pierre,” the memo said.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/us-journalist-brent-renaud-killed-by-russian-forces-in-ukraine-kyiv-police-636946/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS journalist Brent Renaud killed by Russian forces in Ukraine: Kyiv police\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Scott went on to say that Zakrzewski was instrumental in assisting Afghans who had worked for Fox News to flee the country after the US withdrew last summer.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“Last year he played a key role in getting our Afghan freelance associates and their families out of the country after the U.S. withdrawal,” Scott added. “In December at our annual employee Spotlight Awards, Pierre was given the ‘Unsung Hero’ award in recognition of his invaluable work.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/who-was-brent-renaud-journalist-shot-dead-in-ukraine-353702/\\\\\\\"\u003eWho was Brent Renaud, journalist shot dead in Ukraine?\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"His death was also announced on Fox News by presenter Bill Hemmer, who described him as \\\\\\\"an absolute legend at this network. And his loss is devastating .\\\\\\\"\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Zakrzewski is the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/us-journalist-brent-renaud-killed-by-russian-forces-in-ukraine-kyiv-police-636946/\\\\\\\"\u003esecond journalist\u003c/a\u003e to be killed in Ukraine in the last week. \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/who-was-brent-renaud-journalist-shot-dead-in-ukraine-353702/\\\\\\\"\u003eBrent Renaud\u003c/a\u003e, a documentary filmmaker, was assassinated in a Kyiv suburb over the weekend. 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He was 55 years old at the time. Zakrzewski was reporting in Horenka, Ukraine, with correspondent Benjamin Hall when their car was hit by incoming fire. Hall was injured in the incident and, according to Scott, is still in the hospital in Ukraine. Also read: Russian journalist feared missing after protesting Ukraine invasion on TV,“Pierre was a war zone photographer who covered nearly every international story for Fox News from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria during his long tenure with us. His passion and talent as a journalist were unmatched,” Scott wrote in her memo. ,“Based in London, Pierre had been working in Ukraine since February. His talents were vast and there wasn’t a role that he didn’t jump in to help with in the field — From photographer to engineer to editor to producer — and he did it all under immense pressure with tremendous skill. He was profoundly committed to telling the story and his bravery, professionalism and work ethic were renowned among journalists at every media outlet. He was wildly popular — everyone in the media industry who has covered a foreign story knew and respected Pierre,” the memo said. Also read: US journalist Brent Renaud killed by Russian forces in Ukraine: Kyiv police,Scott went on to say that Zakrzewski was instrumental in assisting Afghans who had worked for Fox News to flee the country after the US withdrew last summer. “Last year he played a key role in getting our Afghan freelance associates and their families out of the country after the U.S. withdrawal,” Scott added. “In December at our annual employee Spotlight Awards, Pierre was given the ‘Unsung Hero’ award in recognition of his invaluable work.”,Also read: Who was Brent Renaud, journalist shot dead in Ukraine?,His death was also announced on Fox News by presenter Bill Hemmer, who described him as an absolute legend at this network. And his loss is devastating . Zakrzewski is the second journalist to be killed in Ukraine in the last week. Brent Renaud, a documentary filmmaker, was assassinated in a Kyiv suburb over the weekend. 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Sullivan commented, \\\\\\\"The various negotiators are back home in their capitals and we will have to see what happens in the days ahead with respect to the diplomacy around the nuclear deal\\\\\\\".\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/uae-to-encourage-opec-to-increase-oil-production-report-384198/\\\\\\\"\u003eUAE to encourage OPEC to increase oil production: Report\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"However, Sullivan assured that President \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/us-bans-russian-oil-imports-over-ukraine-invasion-joe-biden-245801/\\\\\\\"\u003eJoe Biden\u003c/a\u003e remains committed to stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. To that end, Reuters reported him saying \\\\\\\"One thing I will say is that the only thing more dangerous than Iran armed with ballistic missiles and advanced military capabilities is an Iran that has all of those things and a nuclear weapon\\\\\\\".\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A number of missiles struck the northern Kurdish regional capital in the early hours of Sunday. \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/iran-says-it-fired-missiles-near-us-consulate-in-iraq-reports-579544/\\\\\\\"\u003eIran's\u0026nbsp;Revolutionary Guards have claimed responsibility\u003c/a\u003e and said the attacks were retaliation for\u0026nbsp;an Israeli strike that had killed two members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Syria. \\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA"},"createdBy":{"name":"Shuvrajit Das Biswas","photo":"https://opoyi.com/images/opoyi_qZHZQaZRe.jpg?tr=w-600,q-70,dpr","username":"shuvrajit","id":"rq7gYqKJkLkE","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Iran","slug":"iran","id":"NxNYOgJ2rxAq","isSection":0},{"name":"USA","slug":"usa","id":"SPBaPrR23eZS","isSection":2},{"name":"JakeSullivan","slug":"jakesullivan","id":"1Q4eL8NEkdPs","isSection":0},{"name":"worldnews","slug":"worldnews","id":"FLZBvkEHs9qe","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Shuvrajit Das Biswas","id":"rq7gYqKJkLkE","username":"shuvrajit","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-03-14T11:15:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, on Sunday, condemned the missile attacks in Erbil, Iraq, for which Iran has now claimed responsibility, CBS reported. ,Speaking on the 'Face the Nation' program, Sullivan said that Washington was working to help Iraq have missile capabilities to defend itself. He clarified that no US citizens were hit and no structures were harmed in the missile strikes, which landed near the US consulate in Erbil. However, Sullivan also asserted that the US would do the necessary to protect its people, allies, and interests. ,Sullivan said, We are in consultation with the Iraqi government and the government in Iraqi Kurdistan, in part to help them get the missile defence capabilities to be able to defend themselves in their cities. ,Also Read | Explained: Will Russia bring Syrian fighters to Ukraine?,In a statement released from the White House, Sullivan also backed the Baghdad government, saying We will support the Government of Iraq in holding Iran accountable, and we will support our partners throughout the Middle East in confronting similar threats from Iran. ,He also shared details about the nuclear talks with Iran and said they were at an impasse. Sullivan commented, The various negotiators are back home in their capitals and we will have to see what happens in the days ahead with respect to the diplomacy around the nuclear deal. ,Also Read | UAE to encourage OPEC to increase oil production: Report,However, Sullivan assured that President Joe Biden remains committed to stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. To that end, Reuters reported him saying One thing I will say is that the only thing more dangerous than Iran armed with ballistic missiles and advanced military capabilities is an Iran that has all of those things and a nuclear weapon. ,A number of missiles struck the northern Kurdish regional capital in the early hours of Sunday. Iran's Revolutionary Guards have claimed responsibility and said the attacks were retaliation for an Israeli strike that had killed two members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Syria.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"38.9072","longitude":"-77.0369","name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA","city":"Washington"},"keywords":"Sullivan,Iran,US,Iraq,Erbil,Jake Sullivan,Washington,the White House,Baghdad,the Middle East,Joe Biden,Israeli,Iran missile strike,Iran nuclear deal","originalPublishedOn":"2022-03-14T11:15:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"up3DUoALRgGb","slug":"english/iran-says-it-fired-missiles-near-us-consulate-in-iraq-reports","slugV2":"usa/iran-says-it-fired-missiles-near-us-consulate-in-iraq-reports-579544/","title":"Iran says it fired missiles near US consulate in Iraq: Reports","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_c0T5LShWL.jpg","coverCaption":"Missiles strike Erbil in Iraq on March 13, 2022. (Photo Credit: Twitter/@AmichaiStein1)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-03-14T10:15:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eIran has claimed responsibility for the missile strikes in Erbil, Iraq\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThey said it is retailiation for an Israeli strike which killed 2 members of Syria's Iranian Revolutionary Guard\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe missiles were believed to have hit the US consulate in Erbil, but they haven't\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1647229997653,\\\"strCount\\\":2866,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Iran on Sunday claimed responsibility for the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/iranian-missiles-target-us-consulate-in-iraq-report-418303/\\\\\\\"\u003emissiles which hit near the US consulate in\u0026nbsp;Erbil, Iraq\u003c/a\u003e, the New York Post said, citing reports. Further, Iran said the attack was retaliation for an Israeli strike that had killed two members of the\u0026nbsp;Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Syria.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"As per the State Department, there have been no casualties, and the building, which is under construction and unoccupied, was not damaged either.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The statement from the Revolutionary Guard stated that it targeted a \\\\\\\"strategic centre of conspiracy\\\\\\\" in Erbil, and also added \\\\\\\"Any repetition of attacks by Israel will be met with a harsh, decisive and destructive response\\\\\\\", the Associated Press reported.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/explained-will-russia-bring-syrian-fighters-to-ukraine-160631/\\\\\\\"\u003eExplained: Will Russia bring Syrian fighters to Ukraine?\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Initially, an Iraqi official had said that the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/watch-alleged-iranian-missiles-pummel-erbil-iraq-almost-hit-us-embassy-368005/\\\\\\\"\u003emissile strikes in Erbil\u003c/a\u003e had hit the US consulate, but later Kurdistan’s foreign media office clarified that rockets hadn't hit the facility, they'd just landed near the compound.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"However, the State Department has been quick to condemn this, with a spokesperson calling it an \\\\\\\"outrageous attack against Iraqi sovereignty and display of violence\\\\\\\".\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"National Security Advisor \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/us-concerned-about-russias-nuclear-escalation-in-ukraine-jake-sullivan-176966/\\\\\\\"\u003eJake Sullivan\u003c/a\u003e also doubled down on it, backing the Baghdad government against Tehran's attack, saying \\\\\\\"We will support the Government of Iraq in holding Iran accountable, and we will support our partners throughout the Middle East in confronting similar threats from Iran\\\\\\\", Reuters reported.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"These views have been echoed by\u0026nbsp;Kurdistan Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, who said in a statement, \\\\\\\"We condemn this terrorist attack launched against several sectors of Irbil, we call on the inhabitants to remain calm\\\\\\\".\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/uae-to-encourage-opec-to-increase-oil-production-report-384198/\\\\\\\"\u003eUAE to encourage OPEC to increase oil production: Report\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"It remains unclear whether Iran was targeting the consulate of the airport, where a base is located for the US-led coalition to fight the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/islamic-state-expanding-globally-amid-setbacks-us-official-160912/\\\\\\\"\u003eIslamic State\u003c/a\u003e terror group. Local television station\u0026nbsp;Kurdistan24 seemed to face the brunt of the attack since their studios are close to the US consulate. Images posted on social media showed\u0026nbsp;damaged offices, where the glass was broken and sections of the false ceiling had collapsed.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Erbil, Iraq"},"createdBy":{"name":"Shuvrajit Das Biswas","photo":"https://opoyi.com/images/opoyi_qZHZQaZRe.jpg?tr=w-600,q-70,dpr","username":"shuvrajit","id":"rq7gYqKJkLkE","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"USA","slug":"usa","id":"SPBaPrR23eZS","isSection":2},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Iran","slug":"iran","id":"NxNYOgJ2rxAq","isSection":0},{"name":"Syria","slug":"syria","id":"j7HTGxThNXvC","isSection":0},{"name":"IslamicState","slug":"islamicstate","id":"G5LkGAgQSQsX","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Shuvrajit Das Biswas","id":"rq7gYqKJkLkE","username":"shuvrajit","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-03-14T10:15:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Iran on Sunday claimed responsibility for the missiles which hit near the US consulate in Erbil, Iraq, the New York Post said, citing reports. Further, Iran said the attack was retaliation for an Israeli strike that had killed two members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Syria. ,As per the State Department, there have been no casualties, and the building, which is under construction and unoccupied, was not damaged either. ,The statement from the Revolutionary Guard stated that it targeted a strategic centre of conspiracy in Erbil, and also added Any repetition of attacks by Israel will be met with a harsh, decisive and destructive response, the Associated Press reported. ,Also Read | Explained: Will Russia bring Syrian fighters to Ukraine?,Initially, an Iraqi official had said that the missile strikes in Erbil had hit the US consulate, but later Kurdistan’s foreign media office clarified that rockets hadn't hit the facility, they'd just landed near the compound. ,However, the State Department has been quick to condemn this, with a spokesperson calling it an outrageous attack against Iraqi sovereignty and display of violence. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan also doubled down on it, backing the Baghdad government against Tehran's attack, saying We will support the Government of Iraq in holding Iran accountable, and we will support our partners throughout the Middle East in confronting similar threats from Iran, Reuters reported. ,These views have been echoed by Kurdistan Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, who said in a statement, We condemn this terrorist attack launched against several sectors of Irbil, we call on the inhabitants to remain calm. ,Also Read | UAE to encourage OPEC to increase oil production: Report,It remains unclear whether Iran was targeting the consulate of the airport, where a base is located for the US-led coalition to fight the Islamic State terror group. Local television station Kurdistan24 seemed to face the brunt of the attack since their studios are close to the US consulate. Images posted on social media showed damaged offices, where the glass was broken and sections of the false ceiling had collapsed.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"36.1901","longitude":"43.993","name":"Erbil, Iraq","city":"Erbil"},"keywords":"Iran,US,the Revolutionary Guard,the State Department,Erbil,Iraqi,Iraq,Israeli,Syria,Israel,Jake Sullivan,Baghdad,Tehran,Iran missile attack,Iraq missile strike","originalPublishedOn":"2022-03-14T10:15:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"m0jC00kvqOZY","slug":"english/iranian-missiles-target-us-consulate-in-iraq-report","slugV2":"usa/iranian-missiles-target-us-consulate-in-iraq-report-418303/","title":"Iranian missiles target US consulate in Iraq: Report","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_F5dK1Iu71.jpg","coverCaption":"As many as 12 missiles were fired in Irbil, Kurdistan. (Photo credit: Twitter/ @AmichaiStein1)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-03-13T18:40:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eMissiles were the Iranian-made Fateh-110, likely fired in retaliation for the two Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria last week in an alleged Israeli strike\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eIraq said there were no immediate reports of casualties from the attack\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eUS forces stationed at Irbil’s airport compound have come under fire from rocket and drone attacks in the past\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1647176341080,\\\"strCount\\\":3693,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/unitedstates/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS\u003c/a\u003e consulate in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq's \u003c/a\u003enorthern city of Irbil\u0026nbsp;came under heavy firing of Iranian missiles, Iraqi and US security officials said. 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The reports said the airstrike killed two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. 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As many as 12 missiles made landfall in Irbil, Kurdistan, reported Times of Israel. Also Read: Explained: Will Russia bring Syrian fighters to Ukraine?,Iran's state news agency IRNA claimed that “secret Israeli bases” were targeted in the attack. An Iraqi official on the condition of anonymity said the ballistic missiles were fired from Iran. He said the projectiles were the Iranian-made Fateh-110, likely fired in retaliation for the two Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria last week in an alleged Israeli strike. US officials also said that the missiles were fired from Iran. Also Read: Why a no-fly zone is unlikely in Ukraine: Explained,Iraq said there were no immediate reports of casualties from the attack. A US official initially said that the missiles hit the consulate, but a second American official later said there was no damage and no casualties at any US government facility. Lawk Ghafari, the head of Kurdistan’s foreign media office, said none of the missiles hit the US facility but that areas around the new and currently unoccupied compound had been hit by the missiles. Also Read: 'World must not watch, but help': Zelensky slams NATO's no-fly zone stance,The area’s governor said it was not clear whether the intended target was the US consulate or the airport, where there is a base for the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State terror group. The airport said it had suffered no damage and flights had not been disrupted. Local television channel Kurdistan24, whose studios are not far from the US consulate, posted images on social networks of its damaged offices, with collapsed sections of false ceiling and broken glass. Also Read: US Rep. Van Taylor drops bid for Texas reelection after admitting to affair,We condemn this terrorist attack launched against several sectors of Irbil, we call on the inhabitants to remain calm,” Kurdistan Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said in a statement. A US official said in a statement that the US condemned what it called an “outrageous attack against Iraqi sovereignty and display of violence.”,US forces stationed at Irbil’s airport compound have come under fire from rocket and drone attacks in the past, with US officials blaming Iran-backed groups. Also Read: UAE to encourage OPEC to increase oil production: Report,The top US commander for the Middle East has repeatedly warned about the increasing threats of attacks from Iran and Iranian-backed militias on troops and allies in Iraq and Syria. The attack comes several days after Syrian state media reported a strike it blamed on Israel near Damascus, Syria. The reports said the airstrike killed two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Iran’s foreign ministry strongly condemned the attack and vowed revenge. On Sunday, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency quoted Iraqi media acknowledging the attacks in Irbil, without saying where they originated.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"33.3152","longitude":"44.3661","name":"Baghdad, Iraq","city":"Baghdad"},"keywords":"US,Iran,Iraq,Syria,Kurdistan,Israeli,Iranian,Irbil,Revolutionary Guards,American,Lawk Ghafari,Islamic,Masrour Barzani,the Middle East","originalPublishedOn":"2022-03-13T18:40:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"jeaDCkZsoVsa","slug":"english/watch-alleged-iranian-missiles-pummel-erbil-iraq-almost-hit-us-embassy","slugV2":"world/watch-alleged-iranian-missiles-pummel-erbil-iraq-almost-hit-us-embassy-368005/","title":"Watch | Alleged Iranian missiles pummel Erbil, Iraq, almost hit US embassy","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_c0T5LShWL.jpg","coverCaption":"Missiles strike Erbil in Iraq on March 13, 2022. (Photo Credit: Twitter/@AmichaiStein1)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-03-13T06:15:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eA barrage of missiles rained down on Erbil in Iraq\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe missiles nearly hit the US embassy in the city\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eReports suggest the attack was carried out by Iran\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1647132149289,\\\"strCount\\\":2370,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A barrage of missiles rained down on the city of Erbil in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e on Saturday night, nearly striking the US embassy.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Footage of the strike, believed to be carried out by \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iran/\\\\\\\"\u003eIran\u003c/a\u003e, was uploaded and widely circulated on social media, and showed at least five projectiles hitting the city.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"embed\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"service\\\":\\\"others\\\",\\\"source\\\":\\\"\u003cdiv class=\\\\\\\"others-embed\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cblockquote class=\\\\\\\"twitter-tweet\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cp lang=\\\\\\\"en\\\\\\\" dir=\\\\\\\"ltr\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash\u0026amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\\\\\"\u003e#BREAKING\u003c/a\u003e: Reports several ballistic missiles hit the US base in Erbil \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://t.co/XMTXHDQs76\\\\\\\"\u003epic.twitter.com/XMTXHDQs76\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u0026mdash; Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1502776499358863360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\\\\\"\u003eMarch 12, 2022\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e \u003cscript async src=\\\\\\\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\\\\\\\" charset=\\\\\\\"utf-8\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003c/script\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\\\",\\\"embed\\\":\\\"\u003cdiv class=\\\\\\\"others-embed\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cblockquote class=\\\\\\\"twitter-tweet\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cp lang=\\\\\\\"en\\\\\\\" dir=\\\\\\\"ltr\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash\u0026amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\\\\\"\u003e#BREAKING\u003c/a\u003e: Reports several ballistic missiles hit the US base in Erbil \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://t.co/XMTXHDQs76\\\\\\\"\u003epic.twitter.com/XMTXHDQs76\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u0026mdash; Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1502776499358863360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\\\\\"\u003eMarch 12, 2022\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e \u003cscript async src=\\\\\\\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\\\\\\\" charset=\\\\\\\"utf-8\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003c/script\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\\\",\\\"caption\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"aspectRatio\\\":null}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/russian-takeover-new-mayor-in-ukraines-melitopol-after-elected-mayor-abducted-294996/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussian takeover? New mayor in Melitopol after elected mayor 'abducted'\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"While it is unclear whether the strike was carried out by Iran, independent open source intelligence (OSINT) accounts on social media geolocated videos and photos showing missiles being launched from the Khasabad military base in the East Azerbaijan Province in Iran.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"embed\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"service\\\":\\\"others\\\",\\\"source\\\":\\\"\u003cdiv class=\\\\\\\"others-embed\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cblockquote class=\\\\\\\"twitter-tweet\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cp lang=\\\\\\\"en\\\\\\\" dir=\\\\\\\"ltr\\\\\\\"\u003egeolocation of a video showing missiles launched from Khasabad \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://t.co/vChFIzfNcX\\\\\\\"\u003ehttps://t.co/vChFIzfNcX\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://t.co/gShLvpArI0\\\\\\\"\u003ehttps://t.co/gShLvpArI0\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://t.co/iDWucRCdeM\\\\\\\"\u003epic.twitter.com/iDWucRCdeM\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u0026mdash; Samir (@obretix) \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://twitter.com/obretix/status/1502794434999730177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\\\\\"\u003eMarch 12, 2022\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e \u003cscript async src=\\\\\\\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\\\\\\\" charset=\\\\\\\"utf-8\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003c/script\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\\\",\\\"embed\\\":\\\"\u003cdiv class=\\\\\\\"others-embed\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cblockquote class=\\\\\\\"twitter-tweet\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cp lang=\\\\\\\"en\\\\\\\" dir=\\\\\\\"ltr\\\\\\\"\u003egeolocation of a video showing missiles launched from Khasabad \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://t.co/vChFIzfNcX\\\\\\\"\u003ehttps://t.co/vChFIzfNcX\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://t.co/gShLvpArI0\\\\\\\"\u003ehttps://t.co/gShLvpArI0\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://t.co/iDWucRCdeM\\\\\\\"\u003epic.twitter.com/iDWucRCdeM\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u0026mdash; Samir (@obretix) \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://twitter.com/obretix/status/1502794434999730177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\\\\\"\u003eMarch 12, 2022\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e \u003cscript async src=\\\\\\\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\\\\\\\" charset=\\\\\\\"utf-8\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003c/script\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\\\",\\\"caption\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"aspectRatio\\\":null}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/us-president-joe-biden-okays-200-million-in-weapons-training-for-ukraine-646843/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS President Joe Biden okays $200 million in weapons, training for Ukraine\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A journalist from the\u0026nbsp;Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation also claimed that the missiles that had battered Erbil were Fateh-110 surface-to-surface missiles used by Iran.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"At the time of writing, no civilian deaths or injuries had been reported from the strikes, and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/unitedstates/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS\u003c/a\u003e officials have told Reuters that there have been no casualties on the US side either.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\\\\\\\"No victims or casualties after Erbil blasts,\\\\\\\" Saman Barzanji, health minister in Iraq's Kurdistan Province, reportedly said on state television.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/in-pics-us-deploys-more-troops-to-europe-amid-russia-ukraine-war-384862/\\\\\\\"\u003eIn Pics: US deploys more troops to Europe amid Russia Ukraine war\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The attack on Erbil comes three days after\u0026nbsp;two Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps members were reportedly killed by Israeli airstrikes in Syria, and several OSINT accounts have also claimed that the strike on Erbil was carried out by Iran in retaliation to the deaths of the two soldiers.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"If Iran is indeed responsible for the strikes close to the US embassy, it would mark a dramatic escalation in the region and is perhaps even likely to trigger a US response. However, responsibility for the strikes has not been conclusively determined as of now.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Erbil, Iraq"},"createdBy":{"name":"Shiladitya Ray","photo":"","username":"shiladitya","id":"8PsQOset1365","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Iran","slug":"iran","id":"NxNYOgJ2rxAq","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"UnitedStates","slug":"unitedstates","id":"Lgr3hTOPJ0yv","isSection":0},{"name":"worldnews","slug":"worldnews","id":"FLZBvkEHs9qe","isSection":0},{"name":"International","slug":"international","id":"NYS6J2BBfSdS","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1},{"name":"MiddleEast","slug":"middleeast","id":"ZjV2GN9Uwf9Z","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Shiladitya Ray","id":"8PsQOset1365","username":"shiladitya","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-03-13T06:15:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"A barrage of missiles rained down on the city of Erbil in Iraq on Saturday night, nearly striking the US embassy. Footage of the strike, believed to be carried out by Iran, was uploaded and widely circulated on social media, and showed at least five projectiles hitting the city. Also read | Russian takeover? New mayor in Melitopol after elected mayor 'abducted',While it is unclear whether the strike was carried out by Iran, independent open source intelligence (OSINT) accounts on social media geolocated videos and photos showing missiles being launched from the Khasabad military base in the East Azerbaijan Province in Iran. Also read | US President Joe Biden okays $200 million in weapons, training for Ukraine,A journalist from the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation also claimed that the missiles that had battered Erbil were Fateh-110 surface-to-surface missiles used by Iran. At the time of writing, no civilian deaths or injuries had been reported from the strikes, and US officials have told Reuters that there have been no casualties on the US side either. No victims or casualties after Erbil blasts, Saman Barzanji, health minister in Iraq's Kurdistan Province, reportedly said on state television. Also read | In Pics: US deploys more troops to Europe amid Russia Ukraine war,The attack on Erbil comes three days after two Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps members were reportedly killed by Israeli airstrikes in Syria, and several OSINT accounts have also claimed that the strike on Erbil was carried out by Iran in retaliation to the deaths of the two soldiers. If Iran is indeed responsible for the strikes close to the US embassy, it would mark a dramatic escalation in the region and is perhaps even likely to trigger a US response. However, responsibility for the strikes has not been conclusively determined as of now.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"36.1901","longitude":"43.993","name":"Erbil, Iraq","city":"Erbil"},"keywords":"iran missile strike, erbil attack, erbil, erbil missile, iraq missile strike, fateh 110, us embassy erbil, us embassy iraq,iran missiles, erbil missile attack,iran news, iraq news, middle east news, us news","originalPublishedOn":"2022-03-13T06:15:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"6je1CGsFQ7IU","slug":"english/explained-will-russia-bring-syrian-fighters-to-ukraine","slugV2":"world/explained-will-russia-bring-syrian-fighters-to-ukraine-160631/","title":"Explained: Will Russia bring Syrian fighters to Ukraine?","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_3Hnp-9gqYsmN.jpg","coverCaption":"Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo credit: AP)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-03-12T15:00:01+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eSyria clearly has a rich pool of fighters to draw from\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eRussia's military is deeply entrenched in the Mideast country\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThousands of mercenaries from the Russian private contractor Wagner Group have also deployed in Syria\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1647075999409,\\\"strCount\\\":5604,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"With Russia's war on \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/ukraine/\\\\\\\"\u003eUkraine\u003c/a\u003e now in its third week, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday approved bringing in volunteer fighters from the Middle East, particularly \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/syria/\\\\\\\"\u003eSyria\u003c/a\u003e.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Syria clearly has a rich pool of fighters to draw from. Russia's military is deeply entrenched in the Mideast country, where its intervention — starting in 2015 — helped Syrian President Bashar Assad gain the upper hand in the ongoing, 11-year civil war.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"But less clear is how significant, large or effective a Syrian deployment would be.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/russian-media-watchdog-restricts-access-to-instagram-over-hate-speech-517206/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussian media watchdog restricts access to \u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/instagram/\\\\\\\"\u003eInstagram\u003c/a\u003e over hate speech\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"On Friday, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke of “more than 16,000 applications” already from the Middle East, though he didn't specify which country. Syrian opposition activists say Russia recently began recruitment efforts in Syria for the Ukraine war, but put the scale of those efforts so far at far lower numbers.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"So who are these potential volunteers?\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eNo shortage of fighters\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Syria's long, gruelling war has given rise to a multitude of armed factions, militias and mercenaries on all sides of the conflict.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/vladimir-putin-shows-no-sign-of-engaging-in-diplomacy-says-kamala-harris-529982/\\\\\\\"\u003eVladimir Putin shows no sign of engaging in diplomacy, says Kamala Harris\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The ranks of pro-government paramilitary groups in Syria include tens of thousands of so-called National Defence Forces, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/christian/\\\\\\\"\u003eChristian\u003c/a\u003e militia fighters and army defectors skilled in urban and guerilla warfare. 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He claimed Russia was offering volunteers from the country between $200 and $300 to operate as security guards in Ukraine for six months at a time.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Some Syrian observers and activists suggest any recruitment going on is so far largely symbolic and remains in the very early stages.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ahmad al-Ahmad, an opposition activist in northwestern Syria, said that in the government-controlled northern town of Ethraya, the Russians have asked senior officers with the Fifth Corps, a Russian-backed Syrian army force, to recruit young men with experience in urban fighting who are ready to go to Ukraine.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/russia-ukraine-crisis-over-25-million-people-fled-ukraine-says-report-446660/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussia-Ukraine crisis: Over 2.5 million people fled Ukraine, says report\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"As many as 3,000 people have registered in southern Syria, he said. It was not immediately possible for The Associated Press to confirm those reports.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Syrians for Truth and Justice, an independent civil society organisation, said in a report this week that it had interviewed at least two Syrians based in Damascus’ countryside who registered with Syrian government security services. They confirmed that lists with potential recruits’ names are to be presented to Russian forces in Syria for approval to deploy to Ukraine.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Beirut, Lebanon"},"createdBy":{"name":"Ajay Joseph","photo":null,"username":"ajay4396","id":"LFYsY6JozEMx","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Ukraine","slug":"ukraine","id":"Dq03BAdFix29","isSection":0},{"name":"VladimirPutin","slug":"vladimirputin","id":"DIwA3nLp1xnf","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1},{"name":"Turkey","slug":"turkey","id":"A6z1VcgKDNsr","isSection":0},{"name":"Libya","slug":"libya","id":"4wLVvtZ7HULR","isSection":0},{"name":"Azerbaijan","slug":"azerbaijan","id":"xzgxgKIufzgN","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"US","slug":"us","id":"0JelBm6rMusZ","isSection":0},{"name":"Instagram","slug":"instagram","id":"zV6BbWgjJdp2","isSection":0},{"name":"christian","slug":"christian","id":"1RrrvfLI8u9c","isSection":0},{"name":"KamalaHarris","slug":"kamalaharris","id":"bjYDLQ4qnNAG","isSection":0},{"name":"Syria","slug":"syria","id":"j7HTGxThNXvC","isSection":0},{"name":"Sudan","slug":"sudan","id":"cRV9fCrPNXqG","isSection":0},{"name":"Russia","slug":"russia","id":"ZdjTIzNom80K","isSection":0},{"name":"Truth","slug":"truth","id":"nvpz95zntFRg","isSection":0},{"name":"Justice","slug":"justice","id":"5HqISOHnA7eu","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"AP","id":"8dFR8PhLJl4s","username":"associatedpress","role":8,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-03-12T15:00:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"With Russia's war on Ukraine now in its third week, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday approved bringing in volunteer fighters from the Middle East, particularly Syria. Syria clearly has a rich pool of fighters to draw from. Russia's military is deeply entrenched in the Mideast country, where its intervention — starting in 2015 — helped Syrian President Bashar Assad gain the upper hand in the ongoing, 11-year civil war. But less clear is how significant, large or effective a Syrian deployment would be. Also read: Russian media watchdog restricts access to Instagram over hate speech,On Friday, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke of “more than 16,000 applications” already from the Middle East, though he didn't specify which country. Syrian opposition activists say Russia recently began recruitment efforts in Syria for the Ukraine war, but put the scale of those efforts so far at far lower numbers. So who are these potential volunteers?,No shortage of fighters,Syria's long, gruelling war has given rise to a multitude of armed factions, militias and mercenaries on all sides of the conflict. Also read: Vladimir Putin shows no sign of engaging in diplomacy, says Kamala Harris,The ranks of pro-government paramilitary groups in Syria include tens of thousands of so-called National Defence Forces, Christian militia fighters and army defectors skilled in urban and guerilla warfare. They also include other Russian-supported auxiliary units and militias that fought alongside the Syrian military. “If need be, Russia could quickly recruit members of these groups to fight in Ukraine,” according to Danny Makki, a Syria analyst. Joined by Iran-backed fighters from nearby Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere in the region, these forces not only battled Syrian rebels, they also helped fight the Islamic State group after it overran large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014. Also read: Russia-Ukraine war: All you need to know,Thousands of mercenaries from the Russian private contractor Wagner Group have also deployed in Syria. “Given the misery of the Syrian economy, there would be no shortage of combat-hardened men of military age willing to put their lives on the line for a modicum of material gain,” Makki wrote in an analysis for the Middle East Institute, where he is a non-resident scholar. It wouldn’t be the first time Syrian fighters are recruited for conflicts abroad. Turkey, another major actor in Syria, recruited Syrian mercenaries to boost its fighters in other wars. These include conflicts in Azerbaijan and Libya, where the presence of thousands of foreign fighters, including those from Syria, Sudan and Turkey, remains a major obstacle to peace. Also read: United States slashes Russia's favoured trade status, nyet to alcohol, diamonds,Current recruitment efforts,Evidence is only just beginning to emerge of recruitment among Syrian fighters, particularly in government-controlled territories. Omar Abu Layla, a Europe-based activist who runs the DeirEzzor 24 Syria war monitoring group, said recruitment run by the Wagner Group has gone on for days in the eastern province Deir el-Zour near the border with Iraq. Also read: US Vice President Kamala Harris meets Romanian president over Ukraine refugee crisis,Abu Layla said that so far, dozens of men have signed up in the province. He claimed Russia was offering volunteers from the country between $200 and $300 to operate as security guards in Ukraine for six months at a time. Some Syrian observers and activists suggest any recruitment going on is so far largely symbolic and remains in the very early stages. Ahmad al-Ahmad, an opposition activist in northwestern Syria, said that in the government-controlled northern town of Ethraya, the Russians have asked senior officers with the Fifth Corps, a Russian-backed Syrian army force, to recruit young men with experience in urban fighting who are ready to go to Ukraine. Also read: Russia-Ukraine crisis: Over 2.5 million people fled Ukraine, says report,As many as 3,000 people have registered in southern Syria, he said. It was not immediately possible for The Associated Press to confirm those reports. Syrians for Truth and Justice, an independent civil society organisation, said in a report this week that it had interviewed at least two Syrians based in Damascus’ countryside who registered with Syrian government security services. They confirmed that lists with potential recruits’ names are to be presented to Russian forces in Syria for approval to deploy to Ukraine.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"33.8938","longitude":"35.5018","name":"Beirut, Lebanon","city":"Beirut"},"keywords":"Syria,Syrian,Russia,Ukraine,Russian,Iraq,Vladimir Putin,the Middle East,Kamala Harris,Turkey,Mideast,Bashar Assad,Instagram,Sergei Shoigu,National Defence Forces","originalPublishedOn":"2022-03-11T23:45:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"HcCSn14Mslbu","slug":"english/why-a-no-fly-zone-is-unlikely-in-ukraine-explained","slugV2":"usa/why-a-no-fly-zone-is-unlikely-in-ukraine-explained-329313/","title":"Why a no-fly zone is unlikely in Ukraine: Explained","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_DpMFOfVofq0V.jpg","coverCaption":"A U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagle assigned to the 493rd Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, takes off in Poland. (File Photo/AP)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-03-09T00:45:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eRussia’s attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has renewed calls for NATO to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThis came after repeated rejection of the idea by western leaders concerned about triggering a wider war in Europe\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eMilitary analysts say there is no chance that the U.S., Britain and their European allies will impose a no-fly zone\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1646766854092,\\\"strCount\\\":6321,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/vladimir-putin-warns-world-of-colossal-consequences-if-no-fly-zone-imposed-239844/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussia\u003c/a\u003e’s attack on Ukraine's \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/after-chernobyl-russians-in-ukraine-head-to-europes-largest-nuclear-plant-408597/\\\\\\\"\u003eZaporizhzhia nuclear power plant\u003c/a\u003e has renewed calls for \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/what-is-nato-121571/\\\\\\\"\u003eNATO\u003c/a\u003e to impose a no-fly zone over \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/russia-ukraine-war-what-to-know-as-ukraine-resists-advance-671313/\\\\\\\"\u003eUkraine\u003c/a\u003e, despite the repeated rejection of the idea by \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/us-not-prepared-to-impose-no-fly-zone-in-ukraine-tells-nato-203462/\\\\\\\"\u003ewestern leaders\u003c/a\u003e concerned about triggering a wider war in Europe.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ukrainian President \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/world-must-not-watch-but-help-zelensky-slams-natos-no-fly-zone-stance-454850/\\\\\\\"\u003eVolodymyr Zelenskyy\u003c/a\u003e on Friday asked the people of Western Europe to demand that their leaders change course because the shelling of a nuclear power plant in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/russia-ukraine-crisis-why-did-ukraine-impose-martial-law-in-2018-284088/\\\\\\\"\u003eUkraine\u003c/a\u003e threatens the security of the entire continent.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/did-natos-no-fly-refusal-against-russia-dampen-ukraines-membership-wish-545998/\\\\\\\"\u003eDid NATO's no-fly refusal against Russia dampen Ukraine's membership wish?\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“Immediate closure of the skies over Ukraine is needed,” he said. “Take to the streets and say that you want to live, to live on earth without radioactive contamination. Radiation does not know where the Russian border is.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The attack did not, as initially feared, result in radiation release.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"But military analysts say there is no chance that the U.S., \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/britain/\\\\\\\"\u003eBritain\u003c/a\u003e and their European allies will impose a no-fly zone because it could easily escalate the war in Ukraine into a nuclear confrontation between NATO and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/russia/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussia\u003c/a\u003e. Here’s a more detailed explanation about the situation:\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"WHAT IS A NO-FLY ZONE?\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A no-fly zone would bar all unauthorized aircraft from flying over Ukraine. Western nations imposed such restrictions over parts of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e for more than a decade following the 1991 Gulf War, during the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1993-95, and during the Libyan civil war in 2011.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/us-not-prepared-to-impose-no-fly-zone-in-ukraine-tells-nato-203462/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS 'not prepared' to impose no-fly zone in Ukraine, tells NATO\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"WHY WON'T NATO TAKE THIS STEP IN UKRAINE?\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In simple terms, because it would risk a direct military conflict with Russia that could escalate into a wider European war with a nuclear-armed superpower.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"While the idea may have captured the public imagination, declaring a no-fly zone could force NATO pilots to shoot down Russian aircraft.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"But it goes beyond that. In addition to fighter planes, NATO would have to deploy refueling tankers and electronic-surveillance aircraft to support the mission. To protect these relatively slow, high-flying planes, NATO would have to destroy surface-to-air missile batteries in Russia and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/belarus/\\\\\\\"\u003eBelarus\u003c/a\u003e, again risking a broader conflict.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“The only way to implement a no-fly zone is to send NATO fighter planes into Ukrainian airspace, and then impose that no-fly zone by shooting down Russian planes,” NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg said Friday. “We understand the desperation, but we also believe that if we did that, we would end up with something that could end in a full-fledged war in Europe.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“We have a responsibility as NATO allies to prevent this war from escalating beyond Ukraine,” he said.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/vladimir-putin-warns-world-of-colossal-consequences-if-no-fly-zone-imposed-239844/\\\\\\\"\u003eVladimir Putin warns world of 'colossal' consequences if no-fly zone imposed\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"WHAT WOULD A NO-FLY ZONE ACHIEVE?\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ukrainian authorities and people cowering night after night in bomb shelters say a no-fly zone would protect civilians — and now nuclear power stations — from Russian air strikes.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"But analysts say it's Russia’s ground forces, not aircraft, that are causing most of the damage in Ukraine.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"What Ukrainians actually want is a broader intervention like the one that occurred in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/libya/\\\\\\\"\u003eLibya\u003c/a\u003e in 2011, when NATO forces launched attacks on government positions, said Justin Bronk, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/london/\\\\\\\"\u003eLondon\u003c/a\u003e. That’s not likely to happen when the opponent is Russia.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“They want to see the West kind of sweeping in and taking out the rocket artillery that’s pummeling Ukrainian cities,’’ Bronk said. “We’re not going to go to war against the Russian army. They are a massive nuclear-armed power. … There is no way that we could possibly model, let alone control, the escalation chain that would come from such an action.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE SKIES OVER UKRAINE?\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Predictions that Russia would quickly control the skies over Ukraine have not come to fruition.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Military experts are wondering why Russia has chosen to leave most of its fixed-wing combat aircraft on the ground during this massive land offensive. One explanation may be that Russian pilots aren’t well trained in supporting large-scale land operations, engagements that require coordination with artillery, helicopters and other assets in a fast-moving environment.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/more-than-66000-ukrainians-living-abroad-return-to-fight-russia-652311/\\\\\\\"\u003eMore than 66,000 Ukrainians living abroad return to fight Russia\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“I think that maybe they’re a little bit worried that that is a very constrained area. It’s not like the Middle East, where there’s all kinds of space to roam around in the air,” said Robert Latif, a retired U.S. Air Force major general who now teaches at the University of Notre Dame.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“They could very easily stray over borders,\\\\\\\" he explained. \\\\\\\"With both Ukrainian and Russian air defense systems and Ukrainian, what little they have, and Russian airplanes all flying around — that could be a very confusing. I think maybe they’re a little bit worried about actually being able to pull it off.”\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Kyiv, Ukraine"},"createdBy":{"name":"Sucharita Ganguly","photo":null,"username":"sucharita","id":"z7GDvieuoSxc","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Russia","slug":"russia","id":"ZdjTIzNom80K","isSection":0},{"name":"Ukraine","slug":"ukraine","id":"Dq03BAdFix29","isSection":0},{"name":"NATO","slug":"nato","id":"ZJ2DvRkctgph","isSection":0},{"name":"London","slug":"london","id":"PFIK5nEYHzYU","isSection":0},{"name":"Britain","slug":"britain","id":"xnjqZ4BkgTWS","isSection":0},{"name":"US","slug":"us","id":"0JelBm6rMusZ","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Belarus","slug":"belarus","id":"ks3dN39vvOQu","isSection":0},{"name":"JensStoltenberg","slug":"jensstoltenberg","id":"9G6Eh9LSKQ2n","isSection":0},{"name":"Libya","slug":"libya","id":"4wLVvtZ7HULR","isSection":0},{"name":"Europe","slug":"europe","id":"v2KXw3fOql0S","isSection":0},{"name":"Africa","slug":"africa","id":"16S5b0vzines","isSection":0},{"name":"Asia","slug":"asia","id":"QzdhnKXHT05r","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"AP","id":"8dFR8PhLJl4s","username":"associatedpress","role":8,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-03-09T00:45:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Russia’s attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has renewed calls for NATO to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, despite the repeated rejection of the idea by western leaders concerned about triggering a wider war in Europe. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday asked the people of Western Europe to demand that their leaders change course because the shelling of a nuclear power plant in Ukraine threatens the security of the entire continent. Also read: Did NATO's no-fly refusal against Russia dampen Ukraine's membership wish?,“Immediate closure of the skies over Ukraine is needed,” he said. “Take to the streets and say that you want to live, to live on earth without radioactive contamination. Radiation does not know where the Russian border is.”,The attack did not, as initially feared, result in radiation release. But military analysts say there is no chance that the U.S. Britain and their European allies will impose a no-fly zone because it could easily escalate the war in Ukraine into a nuclear confrontation between NATO and Russia. Here’s a more detailed explanation about the situation:,WHAT IS A NO-FLY ZONE?,A no-fly zone would bar all unauthorized aircraft from flying over Ukraine. Western nations imposed such restrictions over parts of Iraq for more than a decade following the 1991 Gulf War, during the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1993-95, and during the Libyan civil war in 2011. Also read: US 'not prepared' to impose no-fly zone in Ukraine, tells NATO,WHY WON'T NATO TAKE THIS STEP IN UKRAINE?,In simple terms, because it would risk a direct military conflict with Russia that could escalate into a wider European war with a nuclear-armed superpower. While the idea may have captured the public imagination, declaring a no-fly zone could force NATO pilots to shoot down Russian aircraft. But it goes beyond that. In addition to fighter planes, NATO would have to deploy refueling tankers and electronic-surveillance aircraft to support the mission. To protect these relatively slow, high-flying planes, NATO would have to destroy surface-to-air missile batteries in Russia and Belarus, again risking a broader conflict. “The only way to implement a no-fly zone is to send NATO fighter planes into Ukrainian airspace, and then impose that no-fly zone by shooting down Russian planes,” NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg said Friday. “We understand the desperation, but we also believe that if we did that, we would end up with something that could end in a full-fledged war in Europe.”,“We have a responsibility as NATO allies to prevent this war from escalating beyond Ukraine,” he said. Also read: Vladimir Putin warns world of 'colossal' consequences if no-fly zone imposed,WHAT WOULD A NO-FLY ZONE ACHIEVE?,Ukrainian authorities and people cowering night after night in bomb shelters say a no-fly zone would protect civilians — and now nuclear power stations — from Russian air strikes. But analysts say it's Russia’s ground forces, not aircraft, that are causing most of the damage in Ukraine. What Ukrainians actually want is a broader intervention like the one that occurred in Libya in 2011, when NATO forces launched attacks on government positions, said Justin Bronk, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. That’s not likely to happen when the opponent is Russia. “They want to see the West kind of sweeping in and taking out the rocket artillery that’s pummeling Ukrainian cities,’’ Bronk said. “We’re not going to go to war against the Russian army. They are a massive nuclear-armed power. … There is no way that we could possibly model, let alone control, the escalation chain that would come from such an action.”,WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE SKIES OVER UKRAINE?,Predictions that Russia would quickly control the skies over Ukraine have not come to fruition. Military experts are wondering why Russia has chosen to leave most of its fixed-wing combat aircraft on the ground during this massive land offensive. One explanation may be that Russian pilots aren’t well trained in supporting large-scale land operations, engagements that require coordination with artillery, helicopters and other assets in a fast-moving environment. Also read: More than 66,000 Ukrainians living abroad return to fight Russia,“I think that maybe they’re a little bit worried that that is a very constrained area. It’s not like the Middle East, where there’s all kinds of space to roam around in the air,” said Robert Latif, a retired U.S. Air Force major general who now teaches at the University of Notre Dame. “They could very easily stray over borders, he explained. With both Ukrainian and Russian air defense systems and Ukrainian, what little they have, and Russian airplanes all flying around — that could be a very confusing. I think maybe they’re a little bit worried about actually being able to pull it off.”","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"50.4501","longitude":"30.5234","name":"Kyiv, Ukraine","city":"Kyiv"},"keywords":"NATO,Russia,Ukraine,Russian,Ukrainian,Europe,Volodymyr Zelenskyy,Western Europe,U.S.,Britain,European,Iraq,the 1991,Gulf War,Bosnia and Herzegovina","originalPublishedOn":"2022-03-05T03:15:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"NYsGinN3HKpT","slug":"english/world-must-not-watch-but-help-zelensky-slams-natos-no-fly-zone-stance","slugV2":"usa/world-must-not-watch-but-help-zelensky-slams-natos-no-fly-zone-stance-454850/","title":"'World must not watch, but help': Zelensky slams NATO's no-fly zone stance","postType":1,"coverMedia":"https://images.opoyi.net/opoyi_TMX5Agbot.jpg","coverCaption":"Volodymyr Zelensky slams NATO for not issuing a no-fly zone over Ukraine. 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This is the self-hypnosis of those who are weak, insecure inside, despite the fact they possess weapons many times stronger than we have,\\\\\\\" he said.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The Ukrainian President added in a tweet, \\\\\\\"Nuclear terrorism requires decisive action in response. At the #UN Security Council meeting, we called for closing the sky over (Ukraine) and launching an operation to maintain peace and security. The goal is to save hazardous facilities. The world must not watch, but help!\\\\\\\"\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"embed\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"service\\\":\\\"twitter\\\",\\\"source\\\":\\\"https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1499861364260708357\\\",\\\"embed\\\":\\\"ZelenskyyUa/status/1499861364260708357\\\",\\\"width\\\":520,\\\"height\\\":300,\\\"caption\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"aspectRatio\\\":173.33333333333334}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Zelensky stated NATO's leadership, \\\\\\\"Gave the green light for further bombing of Ukrainian towns and villages, refusing to make a no-fly zone. 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Western nations enforced such restrictions on areas of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e for more than a decade during the 1991 Gulf War, as well as during the civil wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1993 to 1995 and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/libya/\\\\\\\"\u003eLibya\u003c/a\u003e in 2011.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/technology/russia-bans-facebook-as-tension-with-west-escalates-over-ukraine-invasion-194389/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussia bans Facebook as tension with West escalates over Ukraine invasion\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Implementing a no-fly zone would risk a direct military battle with \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/russia/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussia\u003c/a\u003e, which may expand into a larger European war with a nuclear-armed superpower.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"While the concept has piqued the public's interest, designating a no-fly zone may oblige NATO pilots to shoot down Russian planes.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"NATO would need to deploy refuelling tankers and electronic-surveillance aircraft in addition to fighter jets to support the mission. 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NATO has deliberately decided not to cover the skies over Ukraine, Zelensky stated in a Facebook post late Friday. Also read: US distances itself from Senator's proposal to 'take out' Vladimir Putin,We believe that NATO countries have created a narrative that closing the skies over Ukraine would provoke Russia's direct aggression against NATO. This is the self-hypnosis of those who are weak, insecure inside, despite the fact they possess weapons many times stronger than we have, he said. The Ukrainian President added in a tweet, Nuclear terrorism requires decisive action in response. At the #UN Security Council meeting, we called for closing the sky over (Ukraine) and launching an operation to maintain peace and security. The goal is to save hazardous facilities. The world must not watch, but help!,Zelensky stated NATO's leadership, Gave the green light for further bombing of Ukrainian towns and villages, refusing to make a no-fly zone. You could have closed the sky!,A weak summit, a confused summit, a summit that shows that not everyone considers the struggle for freedom to be Europe's number one goal, Zelensky said of NATO's decision-making summit on Friday. For nine days we have been seeing a fierce war - destroying our cities, shelling our people, our children, residential neighborhoods, churches, schools, destroying everything that provides a normal life, human life, he added. Also read: Emmanuel Macron calls for emergency UNSC meet on nuclear safety in Ukraine,All the people who will die from this day will also die because of you, because of your weakness, because of your disunity, the Ukrainian president declared, addressing the NATO alliance. Zelensky, on the other hand, expressed gratitude to NATO countries for their assistance for Ukraine, I am also grateful to the friends of our country. There are many countries which are our friends in NATO, most of our partners, most of our powerful partners, those who help our country in spite of decisions. Despite the lack of a no-fly zone, he believes Ukraine will prevail, From the first day of the invasion, I am sure of victory. And so we do not feel alone, we will continue to fight, we will defend our state, we will liberate our land. Also read: 'No room for Putin apologists': Mike Pence slams Donald Trump,Earlier today, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that the US and its NATO partners establishing a no-fly zone in Ukraine might lead to a full-fledged war in Europe. He stated that the United States would continue to collaborate with its friends to give Ukrainians with the ability to protect themselves against Russian aggression. Also read: Why a no-fly zone is unlikely in Ukraine: Explained,NATO's head said on Friday that the organisation is not considering imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine. According to European Council President Charles Michel, implementing a no-fly zone over Ukraine is a NATO decision, but it would be one step too far, with a real risk of escalation and a real risk of a possible third international war. All unlicensed aircraft would be prohibited from flying over Ukraine under a no-fly zone. Western nations enforced such restrictions on areas of Iraq for more than a decade during the 1991 Gulf War, as well as during the civil wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1993 to 1995 and Libya in 2011. Also read: Russia bans Facebook as tension with West escalates over Ukraine invasion,Implementing a no-fly zone would risk a direct military battle with Russia, which may expand into a larger European war with a nuclear-armed superpower. While the concept has piqued the public's interest, designating a no-fly zone may oblige NATO pilots to shoot down Russian planes. NATO would need to deploy refuelling tankers and electronic-surveillance aircraft in addition to fighter jets to support the mission. To protect these relatively slow, high-flying planes, NATO would have to destroy surface-to-air missile batteries in Russia and Belarus, potentially escalating into a larger confrontation.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"50.4501","longitude":"30.5234","name":"Kyiv, Ukraine","city":"Kyiv"},"keywords":"NATO,Ukraine,Russia,US,Volodymyr Zelensky,State,Antony Blinken,Europe,the United States,Russian,European Council,Charles Michel,Iraq,the 1991,Gulf War","originalPublishedOn":"2022-03-05T04:30:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"GLKi8vpHJ7P7","slug":"english/us-rep-van-taylor-drops-bid-for-texas-reelection-after-admitting-to-affair","slugV2":"usa/us-rep-van-taylor-drops-bid-for-texas-reelection-after-admitting-to-affair-316313/","title":"US Rep. 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(Photo Credit: AP)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-03-03T07:45:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eVan Taylor of Texas said Wednesday that he was ending his reelection campaign\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eHe admitted having an affair\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThis was after reports that he had been in a relationship with the widow of a recruiter for the Islamic State group\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1646269049792,\\\"strCount\\\":4028,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"U.S. Rep. 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Van Taylor of Texas said Wednesday that he was ending his reelection campaign and admitted having an affair following reports that he had been in a relationship with the widow of an American-born recruiter for the Islamic State group. The North Texas congressman's announcement came the day after former Collin County Judge Keith Self forced Taylor into a runoff for the Republican nomination. Several days before Tuesday's primary election, some right-wing websites reported on an interview with Tania Joya, who said she had an affair with Taylor that lasted from October 2020 to June 2021. Joya, of the Dallas suburb of Plano, told The Dallas Morning News on Monday night that she had met the congressman through her work as an ex-jihadist helping to reprogram extremists. Taylor apologized for the affair in a statement shared with supporters Wednesday. It didn't mention Joya by name or reference her late husband, the Islamic State group recruiter. About a year ago, I made a horrible mistake that has caused deep hurt and pain among those I love most in this world, he wrote. I had an affair, it was wrong, and it was the greatest failure of my life. The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday that Joya contacted Suzanne Harp, another candidate opposing Taylor in the primary, hoping Harp would confront Taylor privately and persuade him to drop out and resign from Congress. All I wanted was for Suzanne Harp to just say, 'Hey, I know your little scandal with Tania Joya. Would you like to resign before we embarrass you?' But it didn't happen like that, Joya told the newspaper. Instead, the newspaper reported, Harp sent a supporter to interview the woman, then shared the interview with a pair of right-wing websites. Harp's campaign did not respond to a phone call or email seeking comment. Taylor, a former Marine and Iraq war combat veteran, was considered one of the Texas delegation's most conservative members when he was elected in 2018. But he has been sharply criticized by the party's right wing for voting to certify the 2020 election results and supporting a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Joya's first husband, John Georgelas, grew up in Plano, converted to Islam and became a top recruiter for the extremist Islamic State group. In 2013, he took her and their three children to northern Syria where, as Yahya Abu Hassan, he became the most important American fighting for ISIS. He was killed in 2017. Three weeks after their arrival in Syria, a pregnant Joya fled to Turkey with the children, then to Plano to live near her in-laws. The couple was covered for years by tabloids in her native Britain and profiled in U.S. publications. Toward the end of the affair with Taylor, Joya said she asked for help to pay off a credit card debt and some other bills. He gave her $5,000, she said. I needed help. I was like, just help me out because that's the least — the very least — he could do, she told the newspaper. For him, it was like, 'OK, on the condition you don't tell anyone.' ... I didn't want to tell anybody anything. Taylor tallied 48.7% of the vote on Tuesday, falling 823 votes short of what he needed to avoid a runoff with 63,981 ballots cast. Self scored 26.5% of the vote, while Harp tallied 20.8%. Self is an Army veteran and graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. He has claimed Taylor drifted from his conservative roots in the GOP-dominant district. He was among those who heavily criticized Taylor's votes on the election result and insurrection investigation and Taylor's vote to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"29.3838","longitude":"-94.9027","name":"Texas City, TX, USA","city":"Texas City"},"keywords":"Taylor,Islamic State,Joya,Harp,U.S.,Texas,American,Tania Joya,Plano,The Dallas Morning News,Suzanne Harp,Syria,Van Taylor,North Texas,Collin County","originalPublishedOn":"2022-03-03T07:45:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"tg2XxXg8ZQDM","slug":"english/colorado-lawmaker-lawrence-boebert-interrupts-bidens-state-of-union-address","slugV2":"usa/colorado-lawmaker-lawrence-boebert-interrupts-bidens-state-of-union-address-555538/","title":"Colorado lawmaker Lawrence Boebert interrupts Biden’s State of Union address","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi__VPbHMwPxU4i.jpg","coverCaption":"Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., left, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., right, scream \"Build the Wall\" as President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address (Photo Credit: AP)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-03-02T12:15:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eJoe Biden made his first State of the Union address Tuesday\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eBiden spoke primarily on Ukraine and the state of the economy\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eHe was speaking about mud pits in army camps when interrupted\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1646201489716,\\\"strCount\\\":2977,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"United States President\\\\nJoe Biden was briefly interrupted during his \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/joe-bidens-first-state-of-the-union-key-takeaways-556898/\\\\\\\"\u003eState of the Union\u003c/a\u003e address Tuesday,\\\\nan address that focused largely on the crisis in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/ukraine/\\\\\\\"\u003eUkraine\u003c/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/us/\\\\\\\"\u003eUS\u003c/a\u003e economy\\\\nwhen he was interrupted by \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/republican/\\\\\\\"\u003eRepublican\u003c/a\u003e lawmaker Lawrence Boebert of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/colorado/\\\\\\\"\u003eColorado\u003c/a\u003e. \u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"At a specific\\\\nmoment \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/sotu-2022-joe-biden-hails-bright-strong-resolved-ukraine-ambassador-oksana-markarova-watch-638858/\\\\\\\"\u003eduring the address\u003c/a\u003e, Biden paid tribute to soldiers who were sickened by\\\\nburn pits, including his son Beau Biden, who died from brain cancer in 2015. A\\\\nburn pit is a part of a military base where all waste produced is disposed of\\\\nby burning. \u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“Our troops in\\\\n\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/afghanistan/\\\\\\\"\u003eAfghanistan\u003c/a\u003e have faced many dangers – one being stationed at bases and\\\\nbreathing in toxic smoke from burn pits,” Biden said.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/joe-bidens-first-state-of-the-union-key-takeaways-556898/\\\\\\\"\u003eJoe Biden's first State of the Union: Key takeaways\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“Many of you have\\\\nbeen there. I’ve been in and out of Afghanistan and \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iran/\\\\\\\"\u003eIran\u003c/a\u003e over 40 times that\\\\nincinerated waste, the waste of war – medical and hazardous material, jet fuel,\\\\nand so much more – and they came home, many of the world’s fittest and best\\\\ntrained warriors in the world, never the same. Headaches. Numbness. Dizziness.\\\\nA cancer that would put them in a flag draped coffin. I know.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"At this very\\\\nmoment, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/state-of-the-union-2022-1st-time-2-women-sit-behind-president-during-address-667064/\\\\\\\"\u003ean agitated Boebert interrupted\u003c/a\u003e the address and said, “You put them\\\\nthere – 13 of them.” Boebert’s comment was apparently a reference to the 13\\\\nsoldiers killed during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.\\\\nHowever, the Colorado lawmaker was quickly shushed.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/state-of-the-union-2022-1st-time-2-women-sit-behind-president-during-address-667064/\\\\\\\"\u003eIn historic 1st, US President flanked by 2 women during SOTU address\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Biden went on: “One\\\\nof those soldiers was my son Major Beau Biden. 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A burn pit is a part of a military base where all waste produced is disposed of by burning. ,“Our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have faced many dangers – one being stationed at bases and breathing in toxic smoke from burn pits,” Biden said. Also Read | Joe Biden's first State of the Union: Key takeaways,“Many of you have been there. I’ve been in and out of Afghanistan and Iran over 40 times that incinerated waste, the waste of war – medical and hazardous material, jet fuel, and so much more – and they came home, many of the world’s fittest and best trained warriors in the world, never the same. Headaches. Numbness. Dizziness. A cancer that would put them in a flag draped coffin. I know.”,At this very moment, an agitated Boebert interrupted the address and said, “You put them there – 13 of them.” Boebert’s comment was apparently a reference to the 13 soldiers killed during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. However, the Colorado lawmaker was quickly shushed. Also Read | In historic 1st, US President flanked by 2 women during SOTU address,Biden went on: “One of those soldiers was my son Major Beau Biden. I don’t know for sure if the burn pit that he lived near, that his hooch was near in Iraq, and before that in Kosovo, is the cause of his brain cancer. But I’m committed to finding out everything we can.”,Disruptions in the State of Union address have off late become regular fare. In 2009, Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted, “you lie,” to President Barack Obama. Eleven years later, Nancy Pelosi ripped up a copy of Donald Trump’s speech in course of his address.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"38.9072","longitude":"-77.0369","name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA","city":"Washington"},"keywords":"Afghanistan,US,Republican,Beau Biden,Iraq,Boebert,United States,Joe Biden,Ukraine,Lawrence Boebert,Iran,Colorado,Kosovo,the State of Union,Joe Wilson","originalPublishedOn":"2022-03-02T12:15:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"k9rDWV7grRrk","slug":"english/over-520000-refugees-have-fled-ukraine-since-russia-waged-war","slugV2":"india/over-520000-refugees-have-fled-ukraine-since-russia-waged-war-383987/","title":"Over 520,000 refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia waged war","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_UIHIELUCh.jpg","coverCaption":"A woman from Ukraine hugs a child after arriving at Nyugati station in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Explosions and gunfire that have disrupted life since the invasion began last week appeared to subside around Kyiv overnight, as Ukrainian ","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2022-03-01T16:00:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe mass exodus of refugees from Ukraine to the eastern edge of the European Union showed no signs of stopping Monday\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eUN estimates more than 520,000 people have already escaped Russia's war against Ukraine\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe UN expects the total to reach 4 million in the coming week\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1646130557734,\\\"strCount\\\":9096,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The mass exodus of refugees from \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/vacuum-bomb-ukraines-latest-worry-in-fight-against-russia-392547/\\\\\\\"\u003eUkraine \u003c/a\u003eto the eastern edge of the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/president-volodymyr-zelensky-submits-ukraines-official-bit-to-join-the-eu-405541/\\\\\\\"\u003eEuropean Union\u003c/a\u003e showed no signs of stopping Monday, with the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/india-urges-peaceful-settlement-of-disputes-between-ukraine-russia-at-un-206377/\\\\\\\"\u003eU.N.\u003c/a\u003e estimating more than 520,000 people have already escaped \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/entertainment/no-turning-red-for-russia-hollywood-studios-halt-films-amid-ukraine-war-610130/\\\\\\\"\u003eRussia\u003c/a\u003e's burgeoning war against Ukraine.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Long lines of cars and buses were backed up at checkpoints at the borders of Poland, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/hungary/\\\\\\\" target=\\\\\\\"_blank\\\\\\\" rel=\\\\\\\"noreferrer\\\\\\\"\u003eHungary\u003c/a\u003e, Slovakia, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/romania/\\\\\\\" target=\\\\\\\"_blank\\\\\\\" rel=\\\\\\\"noreferrer\\\\\\\"\u003eRomania\u003c/a\u003e and non-EU member Moldova. 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But her grandmother is still in Zhytomyr, she said, and her father stayed behind to join the fight against the invading \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/russian/\\\\\\\" target=\\\\\\\"_blank\\\\\\\" rel=\\\\\\\"noreferrer\\\\\\\"\u003eRussian\u003c/a\u003e forces sent in by Vladimir Putin.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“I am proud about him,” she said. “A lot of my friends, a lot of young boys are going ... to kill (the Russian soldiers).”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Many of the refugees in Beregsurany, as in other border areas in Eastern Europe, are from India, \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/nigeria/\\\\\\\" target=\\\\\\\"_blank\\\\\\\" rel=\\\\\\\"noreferrer\\\\\\\"\u003eNigeria\u003c/a\u003e and other African countries, and were working or studying in Ukraine when the war broke out.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Masroor Ahmed, a 22-year-old Indian medical student studying in Ternopil in western Ukraine, came with 18 other Indian students to the Hungarian border. He said they hoped to reach the capital of Budapest, where India’s government has organized an evacuation flight for its citizens.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/russias-syria-intervention-foreshadowed-ukraine-conflict-126677/\\\\\\\" style=\\\\\\\"color: var(--head); text-decoration-line: none;\\\\\\\"\u003eRussia's Syria intervention foreshadowed Ukraine conflict\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"While Ternopil had not yet experienced violence when they left: “It might be that there is bombing next hour, next month or next year. We are not sure, that’s why we left that city.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Hungary, in a turnaround from its long-standing opposition to immigration and refusal to accept refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has opened its borders to all refugees fleeing Ukraine, including third-country nationals that can prove Ukrainian residency.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"As part of an agreement with some foreign governments, Hungary has set up a “humanitarian corridor” to escort non-Ukrainian nationals from the border to airports in the city of Debrecen and the capital, Budapest.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/technology/social-media-platforms-oust-anti-ukrainian-misinformation-campaigns-392721/\\\\\\\" style=\\\\\\\"color: var(--head); text-decoration-line: none;\\\\\\\"\u003eSocial media platforms oust ‘anti-Ukrainian’ misinformation campaigns\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Priscillia Vawa Zira, a Nigerian medical student in the eastern Ukrainian city of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/kharkiv/\\\\\\\" target=\\\\\\\"_blank\\\\\\\" rel=\\\\\\\"noreferrer\\\\\\\"\u003eKharkiv\u003c/a\u003e, said she fled toward Hungary as the Russian military commenced an assault.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“The situation was very terrible. You had to run because explosions here and there every minute,\\\\\\\" she said.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, speaking by video to the U.N. 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Ambassador Krzysztof Szczerski, speaking at the General Assembly, said that in addition to Ukrainians, those coming in Monday included people of some 125 nationalities, including Uzbeks, Nigerians, Indians, Moroccans, Pakistanis, Afghans, Iranians, Iraqis, Turks and Algerians.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Otoman Adel Abid, a student from \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\" target=\\\\\\\"_blank\\\\\\\" rel=\\\\\\\"noreferrer\\\\\\\"\u003eIraq\u003c/a\u003e, fled to Poland from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv after he said panic broke out among many in the city.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“Everyone ran to buy some food and we heard bombs everywhere,” he told The Associated Press. “After that we directly packed our bag and clothes and some documents and we ran to the train station.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/have-no-illusions-uns-major-bodies-both-meet-on-ukraine-273453/\\\\\\\" style=\\\\\\\"color: var(--head); text-decoration-line: none;\\\\\\\"\u003e'Have no illusions': UN's major bodies both meet on Ukraine\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Natalia Pivniuk, a young Ukrainian woman from Lviv, described people crowding and pushing to get on the train, which she said was “very scary, and dangerous physically and dangerous mentally.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“People are under stress ... and when people are scared they become egoist and forget about everything,” she said. “People are traumatized because they were on that train.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Maxime Guselnikov was leaving Poland to return to Ukraine to take up arms against Russia, he said, adding that his wife and daughter are still in Kyiv along with friends and colleagues.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“I return to Kyiv to fight,” he said. “The Russians came to kill our brothers, soldiers, our children, mothers, sons. I go to take revenge for it. I should react.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Many of those fleeing Ukraine were traveling on to countries further west.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/ukraine-claims-5000-russian-soldiers-killed-in-first-four-days-of-war-159404/\\\\\\\" style=\\\\\\\"color: var(--head); text-decoration-line: none;\\\\\\\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eUkraine claims 5,000 Russian soldiers killed in first four days of war\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Aksieniia Shtimmerman, 41, arrived with her four children in Berlin Monday morning after a three-day journey from Kyiv.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Sitting on a bench inside the German capital’s main train station, she attempted to decipher a leaflet with instructions and maps on how to reach a shelter for new arrivals.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"As she tried to comfort her crying 3-year-old twin boys, Shtimmerman said she had worked in telecommunications at a Kyiv university but was now only seeking a place where she and her children could eat, sleep and rest.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“I grabbed my kids on Friday morning at 7 a.m. to run away from the war,” Shtimmerman said. “I can’t even count anymore how many different trains we took until we arrived here.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Germany’s interior ministry said 1,800 refugees from Ukraine had arrived by early Monday, but that the number was constantly growing as more trains from Poland arrived.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In the Romanian town of Siret, the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/eu/\\\\\\\" target=\\\\\\\"_blank\\\\\\\" rel=\\\\\\\"noreferrer\\\\\\\"\u003eEU\u003c/a\u003e commissioner for home affairs, Ylva Johansson, visited a border crossing where thousands of refugees were entering from neighboring Ukraine.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Johansson, who visited some of the humanitarian stations at the border, commended the “heartwarming” cooperation between volunteers and the authorities, and said the EU is united “in a way we have never seen before.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"She said it was a “very difficult time where we see war in Europe again, where we see aggression, invasion from Putin towards a sovereign, neighboring country.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Europe is “showing that we are based on other values than Putin,” she said.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Beregsurány, Hungary"},"createdBy":{"name":"Saakhi Chadha","photo":null,"username":"Saakhi26","id":"qW1YfEdqrrvo","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"EU","slug":"eu","id":"HocLiZmmkT0u","isSection":0},{"name":"Nigeria","slug":"nigeria","id":"bUiTneW1uKDJ","isSection":0},{"name":"Kharkiv","slug":"kharkiv","id":"EkDqzJlOO0Nc","isSection":0},{"name":"Berln","slug":"berlin","id":"qrHDLF4S07G5","isSection":0},{"name":"Kyiv","slug":"kyiv","id":"Qre36FKI4s3u","isSection":0},{"name":"Romania","slug":"romania","id":"WSw5Cwk1LjHf","isSection":0},{"name":"Hungary","slug":"hungary","id":"fapqhgNUCuVR","isSection":0},{"name":"UN","slug":"un","id":"WxB77sqkx0Z7","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Russia","slug":"russia","id":"ZdjTIzNom80K","isSection":0},{"name":"Putin","slug":"putin","id":"ovA5x3iHSAu3","isSection":0},{"name":"Germany","slug":"germany","id":"OAY7kVupDf3P","isSection":0},{"name":"Slovakia","slug":"slovakia","id":"ioLK4MRUGemx","isSection":0},{"name":"VladimirPutin","slug":"vladimirputin","id":"DIwA3nLp1xnf","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"AP","id":"8dFR8PhLJl4s","username":"associatedpress","role":8,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2022-03-01T16:00:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"The mass exodus of refugees from Ukraine to the eastern edge of the European Union showed no signs of stopping Monday, with the U.N. estimating more than 520,000 people have already escaped Russia's burgeoning war against Ukraine. Long lines of cars and buses were backed up at checkpoints at the borders of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and non-EU member Moldova. Others crossed the borders on foot, dragging their possessions behind them. Also Read: Social media platforms oust ‘anti-Ukrainian’ misinformation campaigns,Several hundred refugees were gathered at a temporary reception center in the Hungarian border village of Beregsurany awaiting transport to transit hubs, where they would be taken further into Hungary and beyond. Maria Pavlushko, 24, an information technology project manager from Zhytomyr, 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, said she was on a skiing holiday in the Carpathian mountains when she got word from home that Russia’s invasion had begun. “My granny called me saying there is war in the city,” she said. Also Read: 70 Ukrainian troops dead in Russian shelling, civilian death toll climbs,Pavlushko plans to travel from Hungary to Poland, where her mother lives. But her grandmother is still in Zhytomyr, she said, and her father stayed behind to join the fight against the invading Russian forces sent in by Vladimir Putin. “I am proud about him,” she said. “A lot of my friends, a lot of young boys are going ... to kill (the Russian soldiers).”,Many of the refugees in Beregsurany, as in other border areas in Eastern Europe, are from India, Nigeria and other African countries, and were working or studying in Ukraine when the war broke out. Masroor Ahmed, a 22-year-old Indian medical student studying in Ternopil in western Ukraine, came with 18 other Indian students to the Hungarian border. He said they hoped to reach the capital of Budapest, where India’s government has organized an evacuation flight for its citizens. Also Read: Russia's Syria intervention foreshadowed Ukraine conflict,While Ternopil had not yet experienced violence when they left: “It might be that there is bombing next hour, next month or next year. We are not sure, that’s why we left that city.”,Hungary, in a turnaround from its long-standing opposition to immigration and refusal to accept refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has opened its borders to all refugees fleeing Ukraine, including third-country nationals that can prove Ukrainian residency. As part of an agreement with some foreign governments, Hungary has set up a “humanitarian corridor” to escort non-Ukrainian nationals from the border to airports in the city of Debrecen and the capital, Budapest. Also Read: Social media platforms oust ‘anti-Ukrainian’ misinformation campaigns,Priscillia Vawa Zira, a Nigerian medical student in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, said she fled toward Hungary as the Russian military commenced an assault. “The situation was very terrible. You had to run because explosions here and there every minute, she said. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, speaking by video to the U.N. Security Council, said more than 520,000 refugees had fled Ukraine, a number he said “has been rising exponentially, hour after hour. The U.N. expects the total to reach 4 million in the coming weeks, Grandi said. Also Read: Joe Biden’s 1st State of the Union address to focus on Russia, economy,In Poland, which has reported the most arrivals at more than 280,000, trains continued to bring refugees into the border town of Przemysl on Monday. In winter coats to protect them against near-freezing temperatures, many carried small suitcases as they exited the station. Polish U.N. Ambassador Krzysztof Szczerski, speaking at the General Assembly, said that in addition to Ukrainians, those coming in Monday included people of some 125 nationalities, including Uzbeks, Nigerians, Indians, Moroccans, Pakistanis, Afghans, Iranians, Iraqis, Turks and Algerians. Otoman Adel Abid, a student from Iraq, fled to Poland from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv after he said panic broke out among many in the city. “Everyone ran to buy some food and we heard bombs everywhere,” he told The Associated Press. “After that we directly packed our bag and clothes and some documents and we ran to the train station.”,Also Read: 'Have no illusions': UN's major bodies both meet on Ukraine,Natalia Pivniuk, a young Ukrainian woman from Lviv, described people crowding and pushing to get on the train, which she said was “very scary, and dangerous physically and dangerous mentally.”,“People are under stress ... and when people are scared they become egoist and forget about everything,” she said. “People are traumatized because they were on that train.”,Maxime Guselnikov was leaving Poland to return to Ukraine to take up arms against Russia, he said, adding that his wife and daughter are still in Kyiv along with friends and colleagues. “I return to Kyiv to fight,” he said. “The Russians came to kill our brothers, soldiers, our children, mothers, sons. I go to take revenge for it. I should react.”,Many of those fleeing Ukraine were traveling on to countries further west. Also Read: Ukraine claims 5,000 Russian soldiers killed in first four days of war,Aksieniia Shtimmerman, 41, arrived with her four children in Berlin Monday morning after a three-day journey from Kyiv. Sitting on a bench inside the German capital’s main train station, she attempted to decipher a leaflet with instructions and maps on how to reach a shelter for new arrivals. As she tried to comfort her crying 3-year-old twin boys, Shtimmerman said she had worked in telecommunications at a Kyiv university but was now only seeking a place where she and her children could eat, sleep and rest. “I grabbed my kids on Friday morning at 7 a.m. to run away from the war,” Shtimmerman said. “I can’t even count anymore how many different trains we took until we arrived here.”,Germany’s interior ministry said 1,800 refugees from Ukraine had arrived by early Monday, but that the number was constantly growing as more trains from Poland arrived. In the Romanian town of Siret, the EU commissioner for home affairs, Ylva Johansson, visited a border crossing where thousands of refugees were entering from neighboring Ukraine. Johansson, who visited some of the humanitarian stations at the border, commended the “heartwarming” cooperation between volunteers and the authorities, and said the EU is united “in a way we have never seen before.”,She said it was a “very difficult time where we see war in Europe again, where we see aggression, invasion from Putin towards a sovereign, neighboring country.”,Europe is “showing that we are based on other values than Putin,” she said.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"48.1617","longitude":"22.549","name":"Beregsurány, Hungary","city":"Berehove"},"keywords":"Ukraine,Poland,Hungary,Ukrainian,U.N.,Russia,Russian,Hungarian,Beregsurany,Zhytomyr,India,Indian,Budapest,EU,Europe","originalPublishedOn":"2022-03-01T16:00:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"fYf4b4D3cutQ","slug":"iraq-military-2-rockets-strike-inside-green-zone","slugV2":"world/iraq-military-2-rockets-strike-inside-green-zone-305373/","title":"Iraq military: 2 rockets strike inside Green Zone","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_P9-GoGgNJ.jpg","coverCaption":"One rocket was destroyed by the embassy's C-RAM defense system(Photo Credit: Representational Image/Pixabay)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2021-12-19T15:31:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eAlong with the U.S. embassy, the Green Zone houses other foreign diplomatic missions and Iraqi government buildings\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eIran-aligned groups have vowed revenge on the U.S. for a 2020 drone strike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe rocket attacks, once near-daily occurrences, have slowed in recent months\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1639904289871,\\\"strCount\\\":2041,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Two rockets struck Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the U.S. embassy, causing property damage but no casualties, Iraq's \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/iran-backed-militia-responsible-for-attack-on-pm-mustafa-al-kadhimi-iraq-officials-354671/\\\\\\\"\u003emilitary\u003c/a\u003e said early Sunday.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"One rocket was destroyed by the embassy's C-RAM defense system. Another fell near a national monument, causing damage to two civilian vehicles, the statement said. An investigation was launched by Iraqi security forces.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/british-royal-air-force-typhoon-fighter-jets-shoot-down-drone-in-syria-495967/\\\\\\\"\u003eBritish Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets shoot down drone in Syria\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Along with the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/us-air-campaign-deeply-flawed-in-middle-east-report-citing-pentagon-documents-596986/\\\\\\\"\u003eU.S.\u003c/a\u003e embassy, the Green Zone houses other foreign diplomatic missions and Iraqi government buildings. 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They have conditioned the end of attacks against the U.S. presence in Iraq on the exit of American troops from the country.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/jeff-jackson-iraq-war-veteran-pulls-out-of-us-senate-race-in-north-carolina-376143/\\\\\\\"\u003eJeff Jackson, Iraq war veteran, pulls out of US Senate race in North Carolina\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The U.S.-led coalition formally ended it's combat mission supporting Iraqi forces in the ongoing fight against the Islamic State group this month. Some 2,500 troops will remain as the coalition shifts to an advisory mission to continue supporting Iraqi forces.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The rocket attacks, once near-daily occurrences, have slowed in recent months. In November, an explosive-laden drone targeted the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in an assassination attempt.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":null,"createdBy":{"name":"Priyadarshini Bishnoi","photo":null,"username":"priyadarshni","id":"HcQzmMvtvqXX","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Military","slug":"military","id":"MeG1aLxsV0YW","isSection":0},{"name":"Strike","slug":"strike","id":"g694kSL5H5aO","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"AP","id":"8dFR8PhLJl4s","username":"associatedpress","role":8,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2021-12-19T15:30:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Two rockets struck Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the U.S. embassy, causing property damage but no casualties, Iraq's military said early Sunday. One rocket was destroyed by the embassy's C-RAM defense system. Another fell near a national monument, causing damage to two civilian vehicles, the statement said. An investigation was launched by Iraqi security forces. ,Also Read | British Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets shoot down drone in Syria,Along with the U.S. embassy, the Green Zone houses other foreign diplomatic missions and Iraqi government buildings. The zone is a frequent target of rocket and drone attacks that American officials blame on Iran-backed Iraqi militia groups. ,Iran-aligned groups have vowed revenge on the U.S. for a 2020 drone strike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. They have conditioned the end of attacks against the U.S. presence in Iraq on the exit of American troops from the country. ,Also Read | Jeff Jackson, Iraq war veteran, pulls out of US Senate race in North Carolina,The U.S.-led coalition formally ended it's combat mission supporting Iraqi forces in the ongoing fight against the Islamic State group this month. Some 2,500 troops will remain as the coalition shifts to an advisory mission to continue supporting Iraqi forces. ,The rocket attacks, once near-daily occurrences, have slowed in recent months. In November, an explosive-laden drone targeted the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in an assassination attempt.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":null,"keywords":"military, iraq, green zone, rocket","originalPublishedOn":"2021-12-19T15:30:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"VMpUi7lZ791D","slug":"us-air-campaign-deeply-flawed-in-middle-east-report-citing-pentagon-documents","slugV2":"world/us-air-campaign-deeply-flawed-in-middle-east-report-citing-pentagon-documents-596986/","title":"US air campaign 'deeply flawed' in Middle East: Report citing Pentagon docs","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_UTg8nQl9y.jpg","coverCaption":"US air force has been active in the Middle East post 2001. (Photo Credit: Representative Image/Unsplash)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2021-12-19T09:12:45+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe air wars have resulted in multiple civilian casualties, including the death of children\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eCivilian deaths have been \"drastically undercounted\", the report said\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eOver a five year period, more than 50,000 airstrikes were carried out in the region\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1639885369460,\\\"strCount\\\":2471,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"United States' air wars in the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/middleeast/\\\\\\\"\u003eMiddle East\u003c/a\u003e have been marked by \\\\\\\"deeply flawed intelligence\\\\\\\", according to media reports citing newly released documents from the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/departmentofdefense/\\\\\\\"\u003eDepartment of Defense\u003c/a\u003e.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The air wars have resulted in multiple civilian casualties, including the death of children, the New York Times reported.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/india/afghan-banking-system-on-brink-of-colossal-collapse-un-warns-674327/\\\\\\\"\u003eAfghan banking system on brink of 'colossal' collapse, UN warns\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The report suggests that documents reveal more than 1,300 reports were uncovered and show a different image of the war, which included the use of precision bombs.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The report, while citing the documents from the Department of Defense, said that the tally of civilian deaths have been \\\\\\\"drastically undercounted\\\\\\\", even though multiple incidents in the documents have already been reported.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The news comes months after the United States reversed its claim about an airstrike conducted in \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/health/us-commander-al-qaeda-numbers-in-afghanistan-slightly-up-546271/\\\\\\\"\u003eAfghanistan's Kabul\u003c/a\u003e. The strike, which was carried out to eliminate non-civilian targets, killed at least 10 members of a family, according to reports from AFP.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Former United States President\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/entertainment/barack-obamas-favourite-books-of-2021-see-list-here-224690/\\\\\\\"\u003eBarack Obama\u003c/a\u003e's\u0026nbsp;final days in the White House reportedly saw a spike in the\u0026nbsp;air campaign in the Middle East. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Over a five year period, more than 50,000 airstrikes were carried out in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan by the United States,\u0026nbsp;the report said, with much less than the advertised precision.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/no-sign-of-afghan-baby-handed-to-us-soldiers-at-kabul-airport-report-524139/\\\\\\\"\u003eNo sign of Afghan baby handed to US soldiers at Kabul Airport: Report\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Earlier this month, officials from the Department of Defense said that no American troops had been disciplined for the August drone strike, according to reports from Associated Press.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The review, done by Air Force Lt. Gen. Sami Said and endorsed by Austin in November, found there were breakdowns in communication and in the process of identifying and confirming the target of the bombing. However,\u0026nbsp; he concluded that the strike was\u0026nbsp;a tragic mistake\u0026nbsp;and not caused by misconduct or negligence.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA"},"createdBy":{"name":"Aman Butani","photo":"","username":"amanbutani1975","id":"wo3kJpOpSZW2","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"UnitedStates","slug":"unitedstates","id":"Lgr3hTOPJ0yv","isSection":0},{"name":"Pentagon","slug":"pentagon","id":"dcucwt1INYxJ","isSection":0},{"name":"Airstrike","slug":"airstrike","id":"V378oLqtQcJn","isSection":0},{"name":"MiddleEast","slug":"middleeast","id":"ZjV2GN9Uwf9Z","isSection":0},{"name":"DepartmentofDefense","slug":"departmentofdefense","id":"LW65OGGvIB5L","isSection":0},{"name":"Afghanistan","slug":"afghanistan","id":"qy4QrD4HTvqo","isSection":0},{"name":"Syria","slug":"syria","id":"j7HTGxThNXvC","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"International","slug":"international","id":"NYS6J2BBfSdS","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Aman Butani","id":"wo3kJpOpSZW2","username":"amanbutani1975","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2021-12-19T09:00:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"United States' air wars in the Middle East have been marked by deeply flawed intelligence, according to media reports citing newly released documents from the Department of Defense. The air wars have resulted in multiple civilian casualties, including the death of children, the New York Times reported. Also Read: Afghan banking system on brink of 'colossal' collapse, UN warns,The report suggests that documents reveal more than 1,300 reports were uncovered and show a different image of the war, which included the use of precision bombs. The report, while citing the documents from the Department of Defense, said that the tally of civilian deaths have been drastically undercounted, even though multiple incidents in the documents have already been reported. The news comes months after the United States reversed its claim about an airstrike conducted in Afghanistan's Kabul. The strike, which was carried out to eliminate non-civilian targets, killed at least 10 members of a family, according to reports from AFP. Former United States President Barack Obama's final days in the White House reportedly saw a spike in the air campaign in the Middle East. ,Over a five year period, more than 50,000 airstrikes were carried out in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan by the United States, the report said, with much less than the advertised precision. Also Read: No sign of Afghan baby handed to US soldiers at Kabul Airport: Report,Earlier this month, officials from the Department of Defense said that no American troops had been disciplined for the August drone strike, according to reports from Associated Press. The review, done by Air Force Lt. Gen. Sami Said and endorsed by Austin in November, found there were breakdowns in communication and in the process of identifying and confirming the target of the bombing. However, he concluded that the strike was a tragic mistake and not caused by misconduct or negligence.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"38.9072","longitude":"-77.0369","name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA","city":"Washington"},"keywords":"US air campaign, Pentagon, Middle East, Department of Defense, ","originalPublishedOn":"2021-12-19T09:00:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"gjU9IgV6z57A","slug":"these-6-cities-will-submerge-before-2030-due-to-climate-change","slugV2":"usa/these-6-cities-will-submerge-before-2030-due-to-climate-change-315284/","title":"These 6 cities will submerge before 2030 due to climate change","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_TKPLvPqPC.jpg","coverCaption":"The water level is continuously rising at an alarming rate and is drowning our coastal cities.(Photo Credit: Representational Image/Unsplash)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2021-11-09T21:30:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eSix cities could be partially or entirely underwater in less than a decade\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eAmsterdam will be in the direct line on rising sea levels\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eVenice is sinking by two millimeters every year\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1636469796349,\\\"strCount\\\":4156,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Due to Climate change, ice glaciers are continuously melting and the water flows into our rivers and eventually into the oceans. The water level is continuously rising at an alarming rate and is drowning our coastal cities.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"While the world leaders at COP26 are looking for solutions to \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/climate/\\\\\\\"\u003eclimate\u003c/a\u003e change and the disasters lined up for humanity in the future, the inescapable has already begun happening. Some of the famous and our favorite cities in the world could be underwater before 2030.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/finance-pledge-under-focus-as-cop26-enters-final-week-111659/\\\\\\\"\u003eFinance pledge under focus as COP26 enters final week\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Climate Central in its latest report created a map of sorts to assess which parts of the globe will be underwater before the year 2030 due to rising sea levels. The map was created using information from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/unitednations/\\\\\\\"\u003eUnited Nations\u003c/a\u003e body responsible for analyzing science related to climate change.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The list is created based on just one underlying fact that is – the current trajectory o pollution. Due to the lack of any concrete actions in the past decade the following six cities could be partially or entirely underwater in less than a decade from today.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/cop26-climate-change-activists-slam-world-leaders-for-blowing-just-hot-air-522958/\\\\\\\"\u003eCOP26: Climate change activists slam world leaders for 'blowing just hot air'\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eHere are six cities that could be underwater before 2030:\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAmsterdam in the Netherlands\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The world-famous city in the Netherlands, Amsterdam is famous for its love for bridges, marijuana with an unrivaled nightlife. 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Situated near deep wetlands, Basra could partially or completely submerge into the water before this decade ends.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eNew Orleans in the United States\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Climate change does not care about our understanding of the developed or developing. It will affect all territories equally. The only difference will be how well different countries deal with the crisis. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The city of New Orleans has a famous system of levees to protect it from drowning. But the city needs more efforts to see the next decade.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/astronaut-sounds-alarm-about-climate-crisis-from-space-278945/\\\\\\\"\u003eAstronaut sounds alarm about climate crisis from space\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eVenice in Italy\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Venice, known for its waterway networks is not a stranger to flooding. Its waterway network is a tourist attraction. According to Timeout, the city is sinking by two millimeters every year and facing the direct effects of rising water levels. Even though Venice has protective measures, more radical efforts may be required to prevent it from submerging.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eHo Chi Minh City in Vietnam\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ho Chi Ming City in Vietnam could submerge by the end of this decade, if not complete most of its eastern areas that are located near the Mekong River, along the marshy areas of Thru Thiem could submerge.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/net-zero-on-swear-words-greta-thunberg-to-world-leaders-over-cop26-pledges-520264/\\\\\\\"\u003eNet-zero on swear words: Greta Thunberg to world leaders over COP26 pledges\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eKolkata in India\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The capital city of West Bengal in India. The next decade will be challenging for Kolkata if it wants to retain the cultural history associated with the city.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"By the year 2030, a major part of Kolkata could face immense flooding, causing the city to submerge. 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The water level is continuously rising at an alarming rate and is drowning our coastal cities. While the world leaders at COP26 are looking for solutions to climate change and the disasters lined up for humanity in the future, the inescapable has already begun happening. Some of the famous and our favorite cities in the world could be underwater before 2030. Also Read | Finance pledge under focus as COP26 enters final week,Climate Central in its latest report created a map of sorts to assess which parts of the globe will be underwater before the year 2030 due to rising sea levels. The map was created using information from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body responsible for analyzing science related to climate change. The list is created based on just one underlying fact that is – the current trajectory o pollution. Due to the lack of any concrete actions in the past decade the following six cities could be partially or entirely underwater in less than a decade from today. Also Read | COP26: Climate change activists slam world leaders for 'blowing just hot air',Here are six cities that could be underwater before 2030:,Amsterdam in the Netherlands,The world-famous city in the Netherlands, Amsterdam is famous for its love for bridges, marijuana with an unrivaled nightlife. But Amsterdam falls in the region known as “Low Countries,” including other cities like Rotterdam and The Hague. While the Dutch have mastered the Science of flood defenses, it seems Amsterdam will be in the direct line on rising sea levels within this decade. Also Read | How warming affects Arctic sea ice, polar bears,Basra in Iraq,The primary port city of Iraq, Basra is located along the Shatt al-Arab river that falls into the Persian Gulf. Situated near deep wetlands, Basra could partially or completely submerge into the water before this decade ends. New Orleans in the United States,Climate change does not care about our understanding of the developed or developing. It will affect all territories equally. The only difference will be how well different countries deal with the crisis. ,The city of New Orleans has a famous system of levees to protect it from drowning. But the city needs more efforts to see the next decade. Also Read | Astronaut sounds alarm about climate crisis from space,Venice in Italy,Venice, known for its waterway networks is not a stranger to flooding. Its waterway network is a tourist attraction. According to Timeout, the city is sinking by two millimeters every year and facing the direct effects of rising water levels. Even though Venice has protective measures, more radical efforts may be required to prevent it from submerging. Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam,Ho Chi Ming City in Vietnam could submerge by the end of this decade, if not complete most of its eastern areas that are located near the Mekong River, along the marshy areas of Thru Thiem could submerge. Also Read | Net-zero on swear words: Greta Thunberg to world leaders over COP26 pledges,Kolkata in India,The capital city of West Bengal in India. The next decade will be challenging for Kolkata if it wants to retain the cultural history associated with the city. By the year 2030, a major part of Kolkata could face immense flooding, causing the city to submerge. The political leader needs to take climate change and its efforts more seriously.","portalUser":{"id":"lkyQnhI6xk8o","name":"Opoyi Buzz","username":"OpoyiBuzz","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_Xzp4oUynR.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":null,"keywords":"climate change, water level, rising water level, cliamte change, environment change, flooding, kolkata, ho chi minh, venice, new orleans, basra, amsterdam, kolkata, melting glaciars","originalPublishedOn":"2021-11-09T21:30:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"iMxSuoLn5E76","slug":"iran-backed-militia-responsible-for-attack-on-pm-mustafa-al-kadhimi-iraq-officials","slugV2":"usa/iran-backed-militia-responsible-for-attack-on-pm-mustafa-al-kadhimi-iraq-officials-354671/","title":"Iran backed militia responsible for attack on PM Mustafa Al-Kadhimi: Iraq officials","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_H1gW-D6t2JM.jpg","coverCaption":"Protesters denounce election results and call for a manual recount of the October 10 parliamentary vote in Iraq. (Photo Credit: Associated Press)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2021-11-09T03:10:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eIraq officials say the attack was conducted to send a message\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eNo party has claimed responsibilty for the attack so far\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003ePolitical tensions in Iraq have spiked since Sunday\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1636405605562,\\\"strCount\\\":2782,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Iran backed militia was behind the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/iraq-pm-mustafa-al-kadhimi-survives-drone-attack-government-428738/\\\\\\\"\u003edrone attack\u003c/a\u003e that targeted Iraqi \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/who-is-mustafa-al-kadhimi-519388/\\\\\\\"\u003ePrime Minister\u0026nbsp;Mustafa Al-Kadhimi\u003c/a\u003e late last week, according to allegations made by Iraq's security officials. 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The blame comes weeks after the electoral defeat of pro-Iran groups. However, according to reports from Reuters citing unnamed sources and analysts, Iran was not likely to be behind the violent attack as Tehran seeks to avoid violence on the western border. The Iraqi officials alleged that Sunday's attack was meant as a message from groups, who wanted to say that resorting to violence continues to be an option for them if they are not included in the formation of the government. Also Read: Iraq PM assassination attempt: What we know so far about the incident,It was a clear message of, 'We can create chaos in Iraq - we have the guns, we have the means', said Hamdi Malik, a specialist on Iraq’s Shi’ite Muslim militias at the Washington Institute, according to reports from Reuters. However, no group, organisation or individual has claimed responsibility for the attack, which has pushed tensions in Iraq as a ripple effect. With boosted security measures and checkpoints stationed with law enforcement officials, the streets of Baghdad-- Iraq's national capital-- seemed to be emptier and quieter a day after the attack on Prime Minister Al-Kadhimi, Reuters reported. Helicopters circled in the Baghdad skies throughout the day, while troops and patrols deployed around Baghdad and near the capital’s fortified Green Zone, where the overnight attack occurred. Also Read: Biden offers 'appropriate assistance' to Iraq following attack on PM,Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi suffered a light cut and appeared in a televised speech soon after the attack by armed drones on his residence. Seven of his security guards were wounded in the attack by at least two armed drones, according to two Iraqi officials, according to reports from Associated Press. The incident has also attracted a wave of condemnation from the international community, which included United States President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minster Boris Johnson.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"33.3152","longitude":"44.3661","name":"Baghdad, Iraq","city":"Baghdad"},"keywords":"Iran backed militia, Assasination, PM Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Iran militia, elections, Baghdad, Tehran","originalPublishedOn":"2021-11-09T03:10:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"oT5byDjuWDSh","slug":"iraq-pm-assassination-attempt-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-incident","slugV2":"world/iraq-pm-assassination-attempt-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-incident-470134/","title":"Iraq PM assassination attempt: What we know so far about the incident","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_kUVCy-8hO4m.jpg","coverCaption":"Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. (Photo Credit: Associated Press)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2021-11-08T07:15:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eTensions have flared up in Iraq following the violent attack\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eSeven security guards of the Iraqi PM were wounded in the attack\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eCondemnation from world leaders poured in hours after the incident\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1636335637770,\\\"strCount\\\":2424,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Iraqi Prime Minister\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/who-is-mustafa-al-kadhimi?utm_source=copy-share\u0026amp;utm_medium=web\u0026amp;utm_campaign=none\\\\\\\"\u003eMustafa al-Kadhimi\u003c/a\u003e\u0026nbsp;survived an \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/iraq-pm-mustafa-al-kadhimi-survives-drone-attack-government\\\\\\\"\u003eassassination attempt on Sunday\u003c/a\u003e and the ripple effect of the incident has been seen across the globe. 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These include United States President Joe Biden,\u0026nbsp;French President Emmanuel Macron, British PM Boris Johnson.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"-\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/search/antonyblinken\\\\\\\"\u003eSecretary of State Antony Blinken\u003c/a\u003e talked with al-Kadhimi on Sunday to relay US' condemnation of the attack and to underscore the bilateral partnership with the Iraqi government.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"-Al-Khadimi met with Iraqi President Barham Salih and headed security and Cabinet meetings on the same day of the attack.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"-There was no claim of responsibility, but suspicion immediately fell on Iran-backed militias, according to reports from Associated Press. They had been blamed for previous attacks on the Green Zone, which also houses foreign embassies.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"(With AP inputs)\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Baghdad, Iraq"},"createdBy":{"name":"Aman Butani","photo":"","username":"amanbutani1975","id":"wo3kJpOpSZW2","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"MustafaAlKadhemi","slug":"mustafaalkadhemi","id":"YqMfr16W5Wd7","isSection":0},{"name":"assassination","slug":"assassination","id":"zT1lCFPtzOkv","isSection":0},{"name":"Crime","slug":"crime","id":"EGJnITnzTXyD","isSection":0},{"name":"MiddleEast","slug":"middleeast","id":"ZjV2GN9Uwf9Z","isSection":0},{"name":"Politics","slug":"politics","id":"ODQ1kqHlUPEu","isSection":0},{"name":"International","slug":"international","id":"NYS6J2BBfSdS","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Aman Butani","id":"wo3kJpOpSZW2","username":"amanbutani1975","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2021-11-08T07:15:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi survived an assassination attempt on Sunday and the ripple effect of the incident has been seen across the globe. Nationally, tensions have reportedly flared up. Here is what we know so far about the failed assassination attempt:,-Helicopters circled in the Baghdad skies throughout the day, while troops and patrols deployed around Baghdad and near the capital’s fortified Green Zone, where the overnight attack occurred. -The incident has also bubbled up tensions linked to last month’s parliamentary elections, in which the Iran-backed militias suffered a loss. -Supporters of the Iran-backed militias held their ground in a protest camp outside the Green Zone to demand a vote recount. -Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi suffered a light cut and appeared in a televised speech soon after the attack by armed drones on his residence. -Seven of his security guards were wounded in the attack by at least two armed drones, according to two Iraqi officials. -Al-Khadimi called for calm dialogue. “Cowardly rocket and drone attacks don’t build homelands and don’t build a future,” he said in the speech, according to reports from Associated Press. -Condemnation of the attack poured in from world leaders, with several calling Al-Khadimi with words of support. These include United States President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, British PM Boris Johnson. -Secretary of State Antony Blinken talked with al-Kadhimi on Sunday to relay US' condemnation of the attack and to underscore the bilateral partnership with the Iraqi government. -Al-Khadimi met with Iraqi President Barham Salih and headed security and Cabinet meetings on the same day of the attack. -There was no claim of responsibility, but suspicion immediately fell on Iran-backed militias, according to reports from Associated Press. They had been blamed for previous attacks on the Green Zone, which also houses foreign embassies. (With AP inputs)","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"33.3152","longitude":"44.3661","name":"Baghdad, Iraq","city":"Baghdad"},"keywords":"Mustafa al Kadhimi, Iraqi PM, Parlimentary election, Iran backed militia, United States","originalPublishedOn":"2021-11-08T07:15:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"S2qw4A72cLl2","slug":"joe-biden-offers-appropriate-assistance-to-iraq-following-attack-on-pm-mustafa-al-kadhimi","slugV2":"world/joe-biden-offers-appropriate-assistance-to-iraq-following-attack-on-pm-mustafa-al-kadhimi-530970/","title":"Biden offers 'appropriate assistance' to Iraq following attack on PM","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_9ndDrtwyvIw.jpg","coverCaption":"United States President Joe Biden. 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Biden also strongly condemned the attack while calling action that would hold those responsible for the incident accountable. He wrote, I strongly condemn the terrorist attack targeting the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister al-Kadhimi. I am relieved the Prime Minister was not injured and commend the leadership he has shown in calling for calm, restraint, and dialogue to protect the institutions of the state and strengthen the democracy Iraqis so richly deserve. The statement added, The perpetrators of this terrorist attack on the Iraqi state must be held accountable. I condemn in the strongest terms those using violence to undermine Iraq’s democratic process. Other world leaders, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, also joined Biden's efforts to condemn the attack earlier on Sunday, according to reports from AFP. India took similar steps on Sunday as Arindam Bagchi, the External Affairs Ministry spokesperson, said in a statement, Terrorism and violence have no place in any civilised society. They cannot be allowed to undermine peace and stability in Iraq, according to reports from PTI. The security statement released by Iraq's state-run media said the failed assassination attempt was with “a booby-trapped drone that tried to target his residence in the Green Zone.” The statement added that he was not harmed and was in good health.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"38.9072","longitude":"-77.0369","name":"Washington D.C., DC, USA","city":"Washington"},"keywords":"Joe Biden, condemnation, PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Iraq, assasination, drone attack","originalPublishedOn":"2021-11-08T02:05:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"rI5p3YNlaQEZ","slug":"who-is-mustafa-al-kadhimi","slugV2":"world/who-is-mustafa-al-kadhimi-519388/","title":"Who is Mustafa Al-Kadhimi?","postType":1,"coverMedia":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_FDHFjWpoBD.jpg","coverCaption":"Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq. 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His residence was targeted by a drone which was laden with explosives but the PM managed to escape unhurt and called for ‘calm and restraint’ in a tweet following the incidence. Iraq PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi survives drone attack: Government,The 53-year-old took birth in Baghdad in 1967 and shifted to Nasiriyah during his time as a student. He attended the Al-Turath University as a law student and was the brain behind the reform of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) to be on par with that of other nations. ,Mustafa had to leave Irag in 1985 to Iran following which he moved to Germany and the United Kingdom, becoming a citizen of the latter. He was a vocal protestant of the rule of Saddam Hussein, the late Iraqi dictator. ,Kadhimi’s work as a journalist gained massive recognition as he served as the executive director of the Iraq Memory Foundation, an organisation that worked to dig into and document all the crimes committed under Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror. Election fraud claims polarise Iraq further,Later, he worked as the editor in chief of Iraq’s Newsweek magazine for a period of approximately three years between 2010 and 2013. On top of that he worked as an opinions writer and the editor of Iraq’s section of the website Al-Monitor based in the United States. ,Kadhimi’s battle with the ISIL (also known as ISIS) began in 2016 when he took over as the director of the Iraqi National Service. With his diplomacy skills he formed connections with several countries and even cooperated with an international coalition in the fight against the militant Islamist group. 3 rockets fired near US embassy in Baghdad, no casualties reported,Following the resignation of former Prime Minister Abel Abdul Mahdi in 209, Mustafa became the leading contender for the position. In April 2020, he assumed office after being named as the Prime Minister designate by President Barham Salih.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"33.3152","longitude":"44.3661","name":"Baghdad, Iraq","city":"Baghdad"},"keywords":"Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Iraq prime minister, iraq leader, mustafa INIS, al kadhimi iraq","originalPublishedOn":"2021-11-07T07:45:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"mmvhe0o0jlpo","slug":"iraq-pm-mustafa-al-kadhimi-survives-drone-attack-government","slugV2":"world/iraq-pm-mustafa-al-kadhimi-survives-drone-attack-government-428738/","title":"Iraq PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi survives drone attack: Government","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_tVGGYXeRP.jpg","coverCaption":"Drones are unmanned vehicles which are remotely controlled (Photo Credits: Unsplash)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2021-11-07T07:25:44+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eResidents of Baghdad heard the sound of an explosion followed by gunfire\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003e“The security forces are taking the necessary measures,” the statement said\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003ePro-Iran Shiite militias supporters have been camped outside the Green zone for nearly a month\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1636250140908,\\\"strCount\\\":2686,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/iraq/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraqi\u003c/a\u003e government has said that prime minister \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/mustafaalkadhemi/\\\\\\\"\u003eMustafa al-Kadhimi\u003c/a\u003e has survived an assassination attempt with an armed \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/drones/\\\\\\\"\u003edrone\u003c/a\u003e. He is unharmed.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The Government of Iraq released a statement early on Sunday in which it said that the drone tried to hit al-Kadhimi’s home in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone area. \\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Residents of Baghdad heard the sound of an explosion followed by gunfire from the direction of the capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and government offices.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/army-general-raymond-t-odierno-who-commanded-in-iraq-dies-of-cancer-at-67-574545/\\\\\\\"\u003eArmy General Raymond T. Odierno, who commanded in Iraq, dies of cancer at 67\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The security statement released by state-run media said the failed assassination attempt was with “a booby-trapped drone that tried to target his residence in the Green Zone.” The statement added that he was not harmed and was in good health.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“The security forces are taking the necessary measures in connection with this failed attempt,” the statement said, according to the Associated Press.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"After the attack, Al-Kadhemi said he is \\\\\\\"fine\\\\\\\" and called for \\\\\\\"calm and restraint\\\\\\\", AFP reported.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"It is not clear who is behind the attack, with no group claiming responsibility for it yet.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Pro-Iran Shiite militias supporters have been camped outside the Green zone for nearly a month after they \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/election-fraud-claims-polarise-iraq-further-353207/\\\\\\\"\u003erejected the results\u003c/a\u003e of Iraq’s parliamentary elections in which they were the biggest losers.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/abolhassan-banisadr-irans-first-president-after-1979-revolution-dies-219431/\\\\\\\"\u003eAbolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first president after 1979 revolution, dies\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The protests took a violent turn on Friday as demonstrators marched towards the Green Zone, with one protestor killed in the exchange of gunfire and dozens of security personnel injured.\u0026nbsp;An investigation was ordered by the prime minister to ascertain how the clashes started and why orders to not open fire were violated.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The election on October 10,\u0026nbsp; mostly violence-free and without major technical glitches, were praised by the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/unitedstates/\\\\\\\"\u003eUnited States\u003c/a\u003e, the \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/unitednations/\\\\\\\"\u003eUN\u003c/a\u003e Security Council and others.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"However, militia supporters had camped outside the Green Zone following the election, threatening violence unless a recount was held.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003e(With AP inputs)\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Baghdad, Iraq"},"createdBy":{"name":"Shivam Pratap Singh","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_YyDFmzhxz.jpg","username":"ShivamPratapSingh","id":"fxqCIKdU69Gj","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Drones","slug":"drones","id":"u6f83jYd621w","isSection":0},{"name":"MustafaAlKadhemi","slug":"mustafaalkadhemi","id":"YqMfr16W5Wd7","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1},{"name":"Asia","slug":"asia","id":"QzdhnKXHT05r","isSection":0},{"name":"Election","slug":"election","id":"tS56lcuz9H09","isSection":0},{"name":"Elections","slug":"elections","id":"3Cfx7PQDJJJQ","isSection":0},{"name":"Protests","slug":"protests","id":"tJtLQ1gYwKFL","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Shivam Pratap Singh","id":"fxqCIKdU69Gj","username":"ShivamPratapSingh","role":2,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2021-11-07T06:01:33+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"The Iraqi government has said that prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has survived an assassination attempt with an armed drone. He is unharmed. ,The Government of Iraq released a statement early on Sunday in which it said that the drone tried to hit al-Kadhimi’s home in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone area. ,Residents of Baghdad heard the sound of an explosion followed by gunfire from the direction of the capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and government offices. Also Read | Army General Raymond T. Odierno, who commanded in Iraq, dies of cancer at 67,The security statement released by state-run media said the failed assassination attempt was with “a booby-trapped drone that tried to target his residence in the Green Zone.” The statement added that he was not harmed and was in good health. “The security forces are taking the necessary measures in connection with this failed attempt,” the statement said, according to the Associated Press. After the attack, Al-Kadhemi said he is fine and called for calm and restraint, AFP reported. It is not clear who is behind the attack, with no group claiming responsibility for it yet. ,Pro-Iran Shiite militias supporters have been camped outside the Green zone for nearly a month after they rejected the results of Iraq’s parliamentary elections in which they were the biggest losers. Also Read | Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first president after 1979 revolution, dies,The protests took a violent turn on Friday as demonstrators marched towards the Green Zone, with one protestor killed in the exchange of gunfire and dozens of security personnel injured. An investigation was ordered by the prime minister to ascertain how the clashes started and why orders to not open fire were violated. The election on October 10, mostly violence-free and without major technical glitches, were praised by the United States, the UN Security Council and others. However, militia supporters had camped outside the Green Zone following the election, threatening violence unless a recount was held. ,(With AP inputs)","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"33.3152","longitude":"44.3661","name":"Baghdad, Iraq","city":"Baghdad"},"keywords":"Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Assassination attempt, Iraq PM, Iraq, Iraq elections, Shiite, Pro-Iran militants","originalPublishedOn":"2021-11-07T06:01:33+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"IkJxyJZxQ8Ze","slug":"election-fraud-claims-polarise-iraq-further","slugV2":"world/election-fraud-claims-polarise-iraq-further-353207/","title":"Election fraud claims polarise Iraq further","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_hUSOQpQMdeX.jpg","coverCaption":"Security forces prevent protesters denouncing election results from storming the heavily fortified Green Zone during a protest in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 31, 2021. (Photo: AP)","reactionStats":"{\"like_count\":0,\"heartbreak_count\":0,\"laugh_count\":0,\"sad_count\":0,\"angry_count\":0}","updatedOn":"2021-11-03T21:51:00+05:30","highlightSummary":"\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003ePro-Iran Shiite militias have rejected the outcome of Iraq's parliament elections\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThey have pitched tents near the entrance to Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone\u003c/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThe election was praised by the US, the UN Security Council and others for being the smoothest in years\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","highlightSummaryFlag":1,"breakingSponsored":0,"coverMediaType":1,"reactionsCount":0,"commentsCount":0,"lastComment":null,"isUpdated":false,"lastCommentUser":null,"trustScore":1,"fakeTrust":2,"content":"{\\\"time\\\":1635956335096,\\\"strCount\\\":6724,\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"More than three weeks after Iraqis voted in parliament elections, pro-\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/g20-joe-biden-to-huddle-up-with-european-allies-take-up-iran-nuclear-program-636056/\\\\\\\"\u003eIran \u003c/a\u003eShiite militias that emerged as the biggest losers are still rejecting the outcome of the vote, thrusting the country into uncertainty and political crisis. Militia supporters have pitched tents near the entrance to \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/3-rockets-fired-near-us-embassy-in-baghdad-no-casualties-reported-581551/\\\\\\\"\u003eBaghdad's \u003c/a\u003eheavily fortified Green Zone in an ongoing sit-in, threatening violence unless their grievances are addressed. The unsubstantiated claims of \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/partial-results-show-pro-iran-groups-losing-iraq-election-580655/\\\\\\\"\u003evoter fraud\u003c/a\u003e are casting a shadow over an election that was praised by the United States, the U.N. Security Council and others for being the smoothest in years and without major technical glitches. The standoff is also increasing tensions among rival Shiite factions that could reflect on the street and threaten Iraq’s newfound relative stability.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/partial-results-show-pro-iran-groups-losing-iraq-election-580655/\\\\\\\"\u003ePartial results show pro-Iran groups losing Iraq election\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The Oct. 10 vote was held months ahead of schedule in response to mass protests in late 2019 that saw tens of thousands of people in Baghdad and predominantly Shiite southern provinces rally against endemic corruption, poor services and unemployment. They also protested against the heavy-handed interference of neighboring Iran in Iraq's affairs through Iran-backed militias.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/iran-cyberattack-paralyses-gas-stations-president-says-meant-to-create-disorder-240049/\\\\\\\"\u003eIran cyberattack paralyses gas stations; president says meant to create 'disorder'\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The election results further exposed the dangerous political divisions among Shiite factions. Shiite Muslims make up the majority of Iraq’s estimated 40 million people.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The biggest election gains were made by influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who won 73 out of 329 parliament seats. While he maintains good relations with Iran, al-Sadr publicly opposes external interference in Iraq’s affairs. The Taqadum party led by Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi, a Sunni, came second with 37 seats, while former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law bloc won 35 seats.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Meanwhile, the Iran-backed Fatah Alliance that represents the Shiite paramilitary group known as the Popular Mobilization Forces lost two-thirds of its parliament seats, dropping from 48 to around 16 — a stunning defeat. The alliance had made big gains after participating in elections for the first time in 2018. At the time, it was riding a wave of popularity after playing a major role, alongside Iraqi security forces and a U.S.-led coalition, in the defeat of Islamic State group extremists across the country in 2017.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/abolhassan-banisadr-irans-first-president-after-1979-revolution-dies-219431/\\\\\\\"\u003eAbolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first president after 1979 revolution, dies\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"But the mood changed. Some began questioning the need for the PMF, an armed militia force that increasingly challenged the state’s authority. The force itself has splintered, with some factions aligned with top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani breaking away. The militias also lost some popularity in the past two years, alienating many after taking part in brutally suppressing the youth-led protest movement in late 2019 and early 2020.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“Iraq is entering a new phase in its political history that the PMF and its Iranian sponsors are ill-equipped to manage, one in which coercive power may not be sufficient,” wrote Ranj Alaaldin, a nonresident fellow at Brookings Institution, “Together with Iran, the PMF is learning the hard way that power through the barrel of a gun is not sustainable.”\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Election results reflected not only the losses of Iran-allied parties. They showed that even politicians who distanced themselves from Tehran several years ago, such as former Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and cleric Ammar al-Hakim, fared poorly, said political analyst Tamer Badawi, an associate fellow with the Bonn-based CARPO research center.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“The street’s backlash is multilayered and broadly against old guard parties’ inability to provide benefits and good governance,” said Badawi. He said many Iraqis also blame Iran for Iraq's dire situation.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/iraqis-vote-for-new-parliament-hoping-for-change-286829/\\\\\\\"\u003eIraqis vote for new parliament hoping for change\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"It's unclear when the final election results will be announced. The higher election committee is currently looking into more than a thousand appeals, although results are not likely to change significantly.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Iraqi troops have been on alert since the election, as militia members and their supporters take to the street, denouncing the election as a fraud and raising the prospect of clashes. The demonstrators have chanted slogans against the U.S. and denounced U.N. officials, who monitored the election.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The protests appear to be aimed at pressuring al-Sadr to ensure that Iran-aligned factions are part of the next Cabinet, regardless of the number of seats they won. Since it got the largest number of seats, al-Sadr’s bloc will seek coalition partners and name the prime minister.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“If they are outside of the government, they will lose financial resources and this will weaken them,” a senior Shiite official said, adding that Fatah Alliance leaders were stunned by their electoral loss. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to divulge sensitive information.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/army-general-raymond-t-odierno-who-commanded-in-iraq-dies-of-cancer-at-67-574545/\\\\\\\"\u003eArmy General Raymond T. Odierno, who commanded in Iraq, dies of cancer at 67\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Al-Sadr has kept quiet about plans for coalition negotiations, pending final results. But he has announced the closure of the offices of his Saraya al-Salam fighters in various provinces — a largely symbolic move apparently meant to show he is serious about bringing all arms under state control. He has also called for new dialogue about the ongoing American troop presence and condemned strikes against diplomatic missions that were believed to have been carried out by PMF groups.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Shiite factions will need to find some common ground to prevent a resurgence of IS, a Sunni group, Badawi said. Last week, suspected IS militants attacked a predominantly Shiite village in Diyala province, killing 11 civilians and spurring a revenge attack on a nearby Sunni village.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"But analysts say the threats from Fatah-linked groups will likely persist until they reach a power-sharing deal with al-Sadr.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Baghdad, Iraq"},"createdBy":{"name":"Hamid","photo":null,"username":"hamid","id":"U6be2RQGqHgp","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"Elections","slug":"elections","id":"3Cfx7PQDJJJQ","isSection":0},{"name":"Fraud","slug":"fraud","id":"nMdDLDZTL0TG","isSection":0},{"name":"UnitedNations","slug":"unitednations","id":"3WFoPkYpAzdF","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"AP","id":"8dFR8PhLJl4s","username":"associatedpress","role":8,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2021-11-03T21:50:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"More than three weeks after Iraqis voted in parliament elections, pro-Iran Shiite militias that emerged as the biggest losers are still rejecting the outcome of the vote, thrusting the country into uncertainty and political crisis. Militia supporters have pitched tents near the entrance to Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone in an ongoing sit-in, threatening violence unless their grievances are addressed. The unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud are casting a shadow over an election that was praised by the United States, the U.N. Security Council and others for being the smoothest in years and without major technical glitches. The standoff is also increasing tensions among rival Shiite factions that could reflect on the street and threaten Iraq’s newfound relative stability. Partial results show pro-Iran groups losing Iraq election,The Oct. 10 vote was held months ahead of schedule in response to mass protests in late 2019 that saw tens of thousands of people in Baghdad and predominantly Shiite southern provinces rally against endemic corruption, poor services and unemployment. They also protested against the heavy-handed interference of neighboring Iran in Iraq's affairs through Iran-backed militias. Iran cyberattack paralyses gas stations; president says meant to create 'disorder',The election results further exposed the dangerous political divisions among Shiite factions. Shiite Muslims make up the majority of Iraq’s estimated 40 million people. The biggest election gains were made by influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who won 73 out of 329 parliament seats. While he maintains good relations with Iran, al-Sadr publicly opposes external interference in Iraq’s affairs. The Taqadum party led by Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi, a Sunni, came second with 37 seats, while former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law bloc won 35 seats. Meanwhile, the Iran-backed Fatah Alliance that represents the Shiite paramilitary group known as the Popular Mobilization Forces lost two-thirds of its parliament seats, dropping from 48 to around 16 — a stunning defeat. The alliance had made big gains after participating in elections for the first time in 2018. At the time, it was riding a wave of popularity after playing a major role, alongside Iraqi security forces and a U.S.-led coalition, in the defeat of Islamic State group extremists across the country in 2017. Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first president after 1979 revolution, dies,But the mood changed. Some began questioning the need for the PMF, an armed militia force that increasingly challenged the state’s authority. The force itself has splintered, with some factions aligned with top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani breaking away. The militias also lost some popularity in the past two years, alienating many after taking part in brutally suppressing the youth-led protest movement in late 2019 and early 2020. “Iraq is entering a new phase in its political history that the PMF and its Iranian sponsors are ill-equipped to manage, one in which coercive power may not be sufficient,” wrote Ranj Alaaldin, a nonresident fellow at Brookings Institution, “Together with Iran, the PMF is learning the hard way that power through the barrel of a gun is not sustainable.”,Election results reflected not only the losses of Iran-allied parties. They showed that even politicians who distanced themselves from Tehran several years ago, such as former Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and cleric Ammar al-Hakim, fared poorly, said political analyst Tamer Badawi, an associate fellow with the Bonn-based CARPO research center. “The street’s backlash is multilayered and broadly against old guard parties’ inability to provide benefits and good governance,” said Badawi. He said many Iraqis also blame Iran for Iraq's dire situation. Iraqis vote for new parliament hoping for change,It's unclear when the final election results will be announced. The higher election committee is currently looking into more than a thousand appeals, although results are not likely to change significantly. Iraqi troops have been on alert since the election, as militia members and their supporters take to the street, denouncing the election as a fraud and raising the prospect of clashes. The demonstrators have chanted slogans against the U.S. and denounced U.N. officials, who monitored the election. The protests appear to be aimed at pressuring al-Sadr to ensure that Iran-aligned factions are part of the next Cabinet, regardless of the number of seats they won. Since it got the largest number of seats, al-Sadr’s bloc will seek coalition partners and name the prime minister. “If they are outside of the government, they will lose financial resources and this will weaken them,” a senior Shiite official said, adding that Fatah Alliance leaders were stunned by their electoral loss. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to divulge sensitive information. Army General Raymond T. Odierno, who commanded in Iraq, dies of cancer at 67,Al-Sadr has kept quiet about plans for coalition negotiations, pending final results. But he has announced the closure of the offices of his Saraya al-Salam fighters in various provinces — a largely symbolic move apparently meant to show he is serious about bringing all arms under state control. He has also called for new dialogue about the ongoing American troop presence and condemned strikes against diplomatic missions that were believed to have been carried out by PMF groups. Shiite factions will need to find some common ground to prevent a resurgence of IS, a Sunni group, Badawi said. Last week, suspected IS militants attacked a predominantly Shiite village in Diyala province, killing 11 civilians and spurring a revenge attack on a nearby Sunni village. But analysts say the threats from Fatah-linked groups will likely persist until they reach a power-sharing deal with al-Sadr.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"33.3152","longitude":"44.3661","name":"Baghdad, Iraq","city":"Baghdad"},"keywords":"Pro-Iran Shiite militias, Iraq's parliament elections, Baghdad, Green Zone, UN Security Council","originalPublishedOn":"2021-11-03T21:50:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"uSEvaja1OFae","slug":"3-rockets-fired-near-us-embassy-in-baghdad-no-casualties-reported","slugV2":"world/3-rockets-fired-near-us-embassy-in-baghdad-no-casualties-reported-581551/","title":"3 rockets fired near US embassy in Baghdad, no casualties reported","postType":1,"coverMedia":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_cMcvYzDwu.jpg","coverCaption":"Three rockets on Sunday hit Baghdad near the United States Embassy zone. 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The exact location of the blast is the\u0026nbsp;neighbourhood near the high-security Green Zone where the US embassy is located, AFP reported quoting\u0026nbsp;Iraqi security official. No casualties have been reported so far.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\\\\\\\"Three Katyusha rockets fell in the Mansur district of Baghdad,\\\\\\\" the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"According to AFP sources, the rockets struck near a Red Crescent hospital, a bank, and the district's water management department, the source added.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/taliban-chief-haibatullah-akhundzada-makes-public-appearance-amid-death-rumours-265434/\\\\\\\"\u003eTaliban chief Haibatullah Akhundzada makes public appearance amid death rumours\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The attack, which is the first to target the Green Zone since July,\u0026nbsp;comes authorities decided to recount the votes cast in the parliamentary election held in early October.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/partial-results-show-pro-iran-groups-losing-iraq-election-580655/\\\\\\\"\u003e primary projections\u003c/a\u003e of the elections showed the Conquest Alliance, the political arm of the Hashed al-Shaabi network of pro-Iranian militias, losing ground in the election.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Hashed leaders have vehemently contested the results and several hundred of their supporters staged a sit-in on an avenue leading to the Green Zone this month in protest, AFP reported.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The network vehemently opposes the presence of the United States in the region. The leaders of the network have also often supported and praised the rocket and drone attacks in recent months that have targeted Iraqi military bases housing US troops, without claiming responsibility.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"As per AFP, some 2,500 US troops are still deployed in Iraq. They will officially limit themselves to an \\\\\\\"advisory\\\\\\\" role to the Iraqi security forces from 2022.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"In July this year, at least two rockets hit Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. One rocket landed in a parking lot inside the Green Zone and a second one hit a nearby empty area.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Baghdad, Iraq"},"createdBy":{"name":"Kavya Mishra","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_-QCmL6MlbU.jpg","username":"kavya","id":"rY7zp83Vp8kP","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Rocket","slug":"rocket","id":"jbaNoUpT0Ae3","isSection":0},{"name":"UnitedStates","slug":"unitedstates","id":"Lgr3hTOPJ0yv","isSection":0},{"name":"Terrorism","slug":"terrorism","id":"l2RF3BnXEMLE","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"Kavya Mishra","id":"rY7zp83Vp8kP","username":"kavya","role":7,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2021-10-31T15:15:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Three rockets on Sunday hit Baghdad near the United States Embassy zone. The exact location of the blast is the neighbourhood near the high-security Green Zone where the US embassy is located, AFP reported quoting Iraqi security official. No casualties have been reported so far. Three Katyusha rockets fell in the Mansur district of Baghdad, the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP. According to AFP sources, the rockets struck near a Red Crescent hospital, a bank, and the district's water management department, the source added. Also Read: Taliban chief Haibatullah Akhundzada makes public appearance amid death rumours,The attack, which is the first to target the Green Zone since July, comes authorities decided to recount the votes cast in the parliamentary election held in early October. The primary projections of the elections showed the Conquest Alliance, the political arm of the Hashed al-Shaabi network of pro-Iranian militias, losing ground in the election. Hashed leaders have vehemently contested the results and several hundred of their supporters staged a sit-in on an avenue leading to the Green Zone this month in protest, AFP reported. The network vehemently opposes the presence of the United States in the region. The leaders of the network have also often supported and praised the rocket and drone attacks in recent months that have targeted Iraqi military bases housing US troops, without claiming responsibility. As per AFP, some 2,500 US troops are still deployed in Iraq. They will officially limit themselves to an advisory role to the Iraqi security forces from 2022. In July this year, at least two rockets hit Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. One rocket landed in a parking lot inside the Green Zone and a second one hit a nearby empty area.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"33.3152","longitude":"44.3661","name":"Baghdad, Iraq","city":"Baghdad"},"keywords":"rockets fired near US embassy, Baghdad rockets","originalPublishedOn":"2021-10-31T15:15:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"uQVLBLK4CXrA","slug":"partial-results-show-pro-iran-groups-losing-iraq-election","slugV2":"usa/partial-results-show-pro-iran-groups-losing-iraq-election-580655/","title":"Partial results show pro-Iran groups losing Iraq election","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_33P3OwR-Juf.jpg","coverCaption":"Election workers count ballots as they close a polling station at the end of voting in parliamentary elections, in Baghdad, Iraq. 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Al-Sadr, a maverick leader remembered for leading an insurgency against \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/unitedstates/\\\\\\\"\u003eU.S.\u003c/a\u003e forces after the 2003 invasion, appeared to have increased his movement’s seats in the 329-member parliament from 54 in 2018 to more than 70.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"With 94% of the ballot boxes counted, none of the competing political blocs appeared on track to win a majority in parliament and consequently name a prime minister. But as the results stand, al-Sadr’s bloc will be able to take a leading role in the political horse-trading to find a compromise candidate and set the political agenda for the next four years.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/usa/army-general-raymond-t-odierno-who-commanded-in-iraq-dies-of-cancer-at-67-574545/\\\\\\\"\u003eArmy General Raymond T. Odierno, who commanded in Iraq, dies of cancer at 67\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Al-Sadr’s candidates beat out Iran’s favored candidates from the Fatah Alliance to come out first, according to preliminary results. The Fatah Alliance, led by paramilitary leader Hadi al-Ameri, is comprised of parties and affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of mostly pro-Iran Shiite militias. The alliance rose to prominence during the war against the Sunni extremist Islamic State group. It includes some of the most hard-line Iran-backed factions, such as the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"It was not immediately clear Monday how many seats the Fatah Alliance lost, from the 48 they got in 2018.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Voter turnout was 41%, a record low in the post-\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/saddamhussein/\\\\\\\"\u003eSaddam Hussein\u003c/a\u003e era signaling widespread distrust of the country’s leaders and the vote for a new parliament. That’s down from 44% in the 2018 elections, which was an all-time low.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The weekend’s election was held months ahead of schedule as a concession to a youth-led popular uprising against corruption and mismanagement. 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More than 600 people were killed and thousands injured within just a few months.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"\u003cb\u003eAlso Read |\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/how-iraqs-elections-will-shape-the-countrys-foreign-policy-397266/\\\\\\\"\u003eHow Iraq's elections will shape the country's foreign policy\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Although authorities gave in and called the early elections, the death toll and the heavy-handed crackdown — as well as a string of targeted assassinations and attempted killings — prompted many protesters to later call for a boycott of the vote.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Many of the young activists who took part in the 2019 protests also raged against Iran’s heavy-handed influence in Iraqi politics, including armed militias who rival the state’s authority. Many blamed the militias for taking part with security forces in brutally suppressing the protests, possibly playing a role in Fatah’s poor showing.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Al-Sadr, a black-turbaned nationalist leader, is also close to Iran, but publicly rejects its political influence.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The election was the sixth held since the fall of Saddam Hussein after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Many were skeptical that independent candidates from the protest movement stood a chance against well-entrenched parties and politicians, many of them backed by powerful armed militias.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Preliminary results showed several independent candidates getting into parliament, although the number of seats was not immediately known.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"There was a marked reluctance among young Iraqis — the country’s largest demographic — to get out and vote. Many expressed views that the system is immune to reform and that the election would only bring back the same faces and parties responsible for the corruption and mismanagement that has plagued Iraq for decades. The problems have left the country with crumbling infrastructure, growing poverty and rising unemployment rates.\u0026nbsp;\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Under Iraq’s laws, the party that wins the most seats gets to choose the country’s next prime minister, but it’s unlikely any of the competing coalitions can secure a clear majority. That will require a lengthy process involving backroom negotiations to select a consensus prime minister and agree on a new coalition government.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Prime Minister \u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/topics/mustafaalkadhemi/\\\\\\\"\u003eMustafa al-Kadhimi\u003c/a\u003e has played a key role as a mediator in the region’s crises, particularly between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia. 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Al-Sadr, a maverick leader remembered for leading an insurgency against U.S. forces after the 2003 invasion, appeared to have increased his movement’s seats in the 329-member parliament from 54 in 2018 to more than 70. ,With 94% of the ballot boxes counted, none of the competing political blocs appeared on track to win a majority in parliament and consequently name a prime minister. But as the results stand, al-Sadr’s bloc will be able to take a leading role in the political horse-trading to find a compromise candidate and set the political agenda for the next four years. ,Also Read | Army General Raymond T. Odierno, who commanded in Iraq, dies of cancer at 67,Al-Sadr’s candidates beat out Iran’s favored candidates from the Fatah Alliance to come out first, according to preliminary results. The Fatah Alliance, led by paramilitary leader Hadi al-Ameri, is comprised of parties and affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of mostly pro-Iran Shiite militias. The alliance rose to prominence during the war against the Sunni extremist Islamic State group. It includes some of the most hard-line Iran-backed factions, such as the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia. It was not immediately clear Monday how many seats the Fatah Alliance lost, from the 48 they got in 2018. Voter turnout was 41%, a record low in the post-Saddam Hussein era signaling widespread distrust of the country’s leaders and the vote for a new parliament. That’s down from 44% in the 2018 elections, which was an all-time low. The weekend’s election was held months ahead of schedule as a concession to a youth-led popular uprising against corruption and mismanagement. But the vote was marred by widespread apathy and a boycott by many of the same young activists who thronged the streets of Baghdad and Iraq’s southern provinces in late 2019, calling for sweeping reforms and new elections. Tens of thousands of people protested in late 2019 and early 2020, and were met by security forces firing live ammunition and tear gas. More than 600 people were killed and thousands injured within just a few months. ,Also Read | How Iraq's elections will shape the country's foreign policy,Although authorities gave in and called the early elections, the death toll and the heavy-handed crackdown — as well as a string of targeted assassinations and attempted killings — prompted many protesters to later call for a boycott of the vote. ,Many of the young activists who took part in the 2019 protests also raged against Iran’s heavy-handed influence in Iraqi politics, including armed militias who rival the state’s authority. Many blamed the militias for taking part with security forces in brutally suppressing the protests, possibly playing a role in Fatah’s poor showing. Al-Sadr, a black-turbaned nationalist leader, is also close to Iran, but publicly rejects its political influence. ,The election was the sixth held since the fall of Saddam Hussein after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Many were skeptical that independent candidates from the protest movement stood a chance against well-entrenched parties and politicians, many of them backed by powerful armed militias. Preliminary results showed several independent candidates getting into parliament, although the number of seats was not immediately known. ,There was a marked reluctance among young Iraqis — the country’s largest demographic — to get out and vote. Many expressed views that the system is immune to reform and that the election would only bring back the same faces and parties responsible for the corruption and mismanagement that has plagued Iraq for decades. The problems have left the country with crumbling infrastructure, growing poverty and rising unemployment rates. ,Under Iraq’s laws, the party that wins the most seats gets to choose the country’s next prime minister, but it’s unlikely any of the competing coalitions can secure a clear majority. That will require a lengthy process involving backroom negotiations to select a consensus prime minister and agree on a new coalition government. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has played a key role as a mediator in the region’s crises, particularly between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia. Many in the region and beyond will be watching to see if he will secure a second term. The new parliament will also elect Iraq’s next president.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"33.3152","longitude":"44.3661","name":"Baghdad, Iraq","city":"Baghdad"},"keywords":"Iraq, elections, Shiite, Iran, Muqtada al-Sadr, Hadi al-Ameri, Fatah Alliance, Popular Mobilization Forces, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Saddam Hussein, United States, Mustafa al-Kadhimi","originalPublishedOn":"2021-10-12T01:30:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"xpbuzf11ZDbG","slug":"iraq-election-early-results-show-record-low-turnout-at-41-percent","slugV2":"world/iraq-election-early-results-show-record-low-turnout-at-41-percent-635797/","title":"Iraq election: Early results show record low turnout at 41%","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_KA9QESEW3nD.jpg","coverCaption":"More definitive results were expected later on Monday. 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That’s down from 44 percent in the 2018 elections, which was an all-time low.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/southern-california-beach-all-set-to-reopen-after-undersea-oil-spill-435863/\\\\\\\"\u003eSouthern California beach all set to reopen after undersea oil spill\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Tens of thousands of people protested in late 2019 and early 2020, and were met by security forces firing live ammunition and tear gas. More than 600 people were killed and thousands injured within just a few months.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Although authorities gave in and called the early elections, the death toll and the heavy-handed crackdown - as well as a string of targeted assassinations - prompted many protesters to later call for a boycott of the vote.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"More definitive results were expected later Monday, but negotiations to choose a prime minister tasked with forming a government are expected to drag on for weeks or even months.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The election was the sixth held since the fall of Saddam Hussein after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Many were skeptical that independent candidates from the protest movement stood a chance against well-entrenched parties and politicians, many of them backed by powerful armed militias.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Also read:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\\\\\\\"https://opoyi.com/world/uk-drops-10-day-quarantine-for-travellers-from-india-upon-arrival-356616/\\\\\\\"\u003eUK drops 10-day quarantine for travellers from India upon arrival\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"There was a marked reluctance among young Iraqis - the country's largest demographic - to get out and vote. Many said the election would only bring back the same faces and parties responsible for the corruption and mismanagement that has plagued Iraq for decades. The problems have left the country with crumbling infrastructure, growing poverty and rising unemployment rates.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Groups drawn from Iraq’s majority Shiite Muslim factions were expected to come out on top, with a tight race expected between the country's influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and the Fatah Alliance, led by paramilitary leader Hadi al-Ameri.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The Fatah Alliance is comprised of parties and affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of mostly pro-Iran Shiite militias that rose to prominence during the war against the Sunni extremist Islamic State group. It includes some of the most hard-line Iran-backed factions, such as the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia. Al-Sadr, a black-turbaned nationalist leader, is also close to Iran, but publicly rejects its political influence.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Under Iraq’s laws, the party that wins the most seats gets to choose the country’s next prime minister, but it’s unlikely any of the competing coalitions can secure a clear majority. That will require a lengthy process involving backroom negotiations to select a consensus prime minister and agree on a new coalition government.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Iraq’s current prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, has played a key role as a mediator in the region’s crises, particularly between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia. Many in the region and beyond will be watching to see if he will secure a second term.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"The new parliament will also elect Iraq's next president.\\\"}}]}","relatedPosts":null,"location":{"name":"Baghdad, Iraq"},"createdBy":{"name":"Ajay Joseph","photo":null,"username":"ajay4396","id":"LFYsY6JozEMx","role":null},"topics":[{"name":"Election","slug":"election","id":"tS56lcuz9H09","isSection":0},{"name":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","id":"KvRSVHGAyqn5","isSection":0},{"name":"SaddamHussein","slug":"saddamhussein","id":"OaaWEizKh1iv","isSection":0},{"name":"World","slug":"world","id":"iEhRQcab92b8","isSection":1}],"userReaction":"","isBookmarked":false,"authors":[{"name":"AP","id":"8dFR8PhLJl4s","username":"associatedpress","role":8,"userType":0}],"translatedBy":[],"editedBy":[],"reportedBy":[],"postedBy":[],"agency":[],"originalPost":null,"publishedOn":"2021-10-11T17:20:00+05:30","publisher":0,"sourceFeed":null,"cleanText":"Iraq saw a record low election turnout since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, the independent body that oversees the election said on Monday. The preliminary results signal widespread dissatisfaction and distrust in this weekend’s vote for a new parliament. The election was held months ahead of schedule as a concession to a youth-led popular uprising against corruption and mismanagement. But the vote was marred by widespread apathy and a boycott by many of the same young activists who thronged the streets of Baghdad and Iraq’s southern provinces in late 2019, calling for change and new elections. The Independent High Electoral Commission on Monday said preliminary results show turnout from Sunday’s election was 41 percent. That’s down from 44 percent in the 2018 elections, which was an all-time low. Also read: Southern California beach all set to reopen after undersea oil spill,Tens of thousands of people protested in late 2019 and early 2020, and were met by security forces firing live ammunition and tear gas. More than 600 people were killed and thousands injured within just a few months. Although authorities gave in and called the early elections, the death toll and the heavy-handed crackdown - as well as a string of targeted assassinations - prompted many protesters to later call for a boycott of the vote. More definitive results were expected later Monday, but negotiations to choose a prime minister tasked with forming a government are expected to drag on for weeks or even months. The election was the sixth held since the fall of Saddam Hussein after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Many were skeptical that independent candidates from the protest movement stood a chance against well-entrenched parties and politicians, many of them backed by powerful armed militias. Also read: UK drops 10-day quarantine for travellers from India upon arrival,There was a marked reluctance among young Iraqis - the country's largest demographic - to get out and vote. Many said the election would only bring back the same faces and parties responsible for the corruption and mismanagement that has plagued Iraq for decades. The problems have left the country with crumbling infrastructure, growing poverty and rising unemployment rates. Groups drawn from Iraq’s majority Shiite Muslim factions were expected to come out on top, with a tight race expected between the country's influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and the Fatah Alliance, led by paramilitary leader Hadi al-Ameri. The Fatah Alliance is comprised of parties and affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of mostly pro-Iran Shiite militias that rose to prominence during the war against the Sunni extremist Islamic State group. It includes some of the most hard-line Iran-backed factions, such as the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia. Al-Sadr, a black-turbaned nationalist leader, is also close to Iran, but publicly rejects its political influence. Under Iraq’s laws, the party that wins the most seats gets to choose the country’s next prime minister, but it’s unlikely any of the competing coalitions can secure a clear majority. That will require a lengthy process involving backroom negotiations to select a consensus prime minister and agree on a new coalition government. Iraq’s current prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, has played a key role as a mediator in the region’s crises, particularly between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia. Many in the region and beyond will be watching to see if he will secure a second term. The new parliament will also elect Iraq's next president.","portalUser":{"id":"kQKU5wG2FUA","name":"Opoyi Central","username":"opoyicentral","photo":"https://ik.imagekit.io/o8plo3y5if/opoyi_6k77dlSYd.jpg","role":2,"userType":1},"opinions":[],"liveblogStatus":true,"lastReply":null,"replyUser":null,"userMentions":[],"lastCommentMentions":null,"lastReplyMentions":null,"checkIn":{"latitude":"33.3152","longitude":"44.3661","name":"Baghdad, Iraq","city":"Baghdad"},"keywords":"Iraq Election, Iraq, Iraq Election 2021, Iraq Election voter turnout, Saddam Hussein, World","originalPublishedOn":"2021-10-11T13:30:00+05:30"}},{"node":{"id":"EYWURXL5krMS","slug":"iraqis-vote-for-new-parliament-hoping-for-change","slugV2":"world/iraqis-vote-for-new-parliament-hoping-for-change-286829/","title":"Iraqis vote for new parliament hoping for change","postType":1,"coverMedia":"/opoyi_vOlZ3-ZJX.jpg","coverCaption":"This is the sixth parliamentary elections held in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein after the US-lec invasion in 2003. 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Odierno, who commanded in Iraq, dies of cancer at 67\u003c/a\u003e\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"Although authorities gave in and called the early elections, the death toll and the heavy-handed crackdown prompted many young activists and demonstrators who took part in the protests to later call for a boycott of the polls.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"A\u0026nbsp;series of kidnappings\u0026nbsp;and targeted assassinations that killed more than 35 people has further\u0026nbsp;discouraged many from taking part. Apathy is widespread amid deep skepticism that the independent candidates stand a chance against established parties and politicians, many of them backed by armed militias.\\\"}},{\\\"type\\\":\\\"paragraph\\\",\\\"data\\\":{\\\"text\\\":\\\"“I voted because there needs to be change. 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Soldiers, police and anti-terrorism forces fanned out and deployed outside polling stations, some of which were ringed by barbed wire. 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The vote was scheduled to be held next year but was brought forward in response to a popular uprising in the capital Baghdad and southern provinces in late 2019. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest endemic corruption, poor services and rising unemployment. They were met with deadly force by security forces firing live ammunition and tear gas. More than 600 people were killed and thousands injured within just a few months. Also Read | Army General Raymond T. Odierno, who commanded in Iraq, dies of cancer at 67,Although authorities gave in and called the early elections, the death toll and the heavy-handed crackdown prompted many young activists and demonstrators who took part in the protests to later call for a boycott of the polls. A series of kidnappings and targeted assassinations that killed more than 35 people has further discouraged many from taking part. Apathy is widespread amid deep skepticism that the independent candidates stand a chance against established parties and politicians, many of them backed by armed militias. “I voted because there needs to be change. I don't want these same faces and same parties to return,” said Amir Fadel, a 22-year-old car dealer, after casting his ballot in Baghdad's Karradah district. A total of 3,449 candidates are vying for 329 seats in the parliamentary elections, which will be the sixth held since the fall of Saddam Hussein after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Also Read | How Iraq's elections will shape the country's foreign policy,More than 250,000 security personnel across the country were tasked with protecting the vote. Soldiers, police and anti-terrorism forces fanned out and deployed outside polling stations, some of which were ringed by barbed wire. Voters were patted down and searched before going in to cast their ballots. Iraq's President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi urged Iraqis to vote amid widespread apathy and skepticism from many. “Get out and vote, and change your reality for the sake of Iraq and your future,” said al-Kadhimi, repeating it three times after he cast his ballot at a school in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, home to foreign embassies and government offices. “To those who hesitate, put your trust in God and go and choose those you deem appropriate,” he added, reflecting concerns over a low turnout. “This is our opportunity for reform.”,Also Read | Iraq elections: Who are the key players?,The 2018 elections saw just 44% of eligible voters cast their ballots, a record low. The results were widely contested. There are concerns of a similar or even lower turnout this time. Iraq’s top Shiite cleric and a widely respected authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has called for a large turnout, saying that voting remains the best way for Iraqis to take part in shaping their country’s future. In the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Iraq's influential cleric Moqtada al-Sadr cast his ballot, swarmed by local journalists. He then drove away in a white sedan without commenting. Al-Sadr, a populist who has an immense following among Iraq's working class Shiites, came on top in the 2018 elections, winning a majority of seats. Groups drawn from Iraq's majority Shiite Muslims dominate the electoral landscape, with a tight race expected between al-Sadr's Sairoon list and the Fatah Alliance, led by paramilitary leader Hadi al-Ameri, which came in second in the previous election. The Fatah Alliance is comprised of parties affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of mostly pro-Iran Shiite militias that rose to prominence during the war against the Sunni extremist Islamic State group. It includes some of the most hard-line pro-Iran factions, such as the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia. Al-Sadr, a black-turbaned nationalist leader, is also close to Iran, but publicly rejects its political influence. The election is the first since the fall of Saddam to proceed without a curfew in place, reflecting the significantly improved security situation in the country following the defeat of IS in 2017. Previous votes were marred by fighting and deadly bomb attacks that have plagued the country for decades. As a security precaution, Iraq has closed its airspace and land border crossings and scrambled its air force from Saturday night until early Monday morning. In another first, Sunday's election is taking place under a new election law that divides Iraq into smaller constituencies — another demand of the activists who took part in the 2019 protests — and allows for more independent candidates. A U.N. Security Council resolution adopted earlier this year authorized an expanded team to monitor the elections. There will be up to 600 international observers in place, including 150 from the United Nations. More than 24 million of Iraq’s estimated 38 million people are eligible to vote. Iraq is also for the first time introducing biometric cards for voters. To prevent abuse of electronic voter cards, they will be disabled for 72 hours after each person votes, to avoid double voting. But despite all these measures, claims of vote buying, intimidation and manipulation have persisted. 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