Day: January 3, 2021

Iran’s judiciary hanged two men on Sunday for “terrorist acts” and another for murder and armed robbery, the body’s official Mizan Online news agency said. The three were executed early Sunday morning in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province. Two were named as Hassan Dehvari and Elias Qalandarzehi, arrested in April 2014 after being found with “a large amount of explosives” and weapons. The pair were convicted of the abduction, bombing, murder of security forces and civilians, and of working with the jihadist Jaish al-Adl (“Army of Justice”) group, Mizan said. Dehvari…

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Information reaching our newsroom has it that not less than 50 motorists, passengers including a United Nations Humanitarian Worker identified as Abubakar Garba Idris have been abducted by terrorists along the deadly Maiduguri- Jakana- Damaturu 135km federal highway. This development it would be recalled is coming barely two weeks when 35 passengers mostly women were kidnapped near the Mainok village situated between Jakana and Beneshiekh town of Kaga Local Government Area of Borno State, in which the state Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum visited the scene and later pointed an accusing…

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The AFP reports that the United States on Saturday saw its highest number yet of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases recorded in one day, with more than 277,000 infections. The hardest-hit country in the world by the pandemic, the United States has marked 20.4 million cases overall and just under 350,000 deaths. Infections have been surging in recent months, with top US government scientist Anthony Fauci warning just days after Christmas that the worst of the pandemic may be yet to come, driving the country to a “critical point” as holiday travel…

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