Bho chòraichean gintinn gu atharrachadh clìomaid gu Massive Tech, tha The Unbiased air an talamh nuair a tha an sgeulachd a’ leasachadh. Co-dhiù a tha e a’ sgrùdadh ionmhas an pro-Trump PAC aig Elon Musk no a’ toirt a-mach am prògram aithriseach as ùire againn, ‘The A Phrase’, a tha a’ deàrrsadh air na boireannaich Ameireaganach a tha a’ strì airson còraichean gintinn, tha fios againn cho cudromach sa tha e na fìrinnean a sgrùdadh. teachdaireachdan.
Aig àm cho èiginneach ann an eachdraidh nan SA, tha feum againn air luchd-aithris air an talamh. Leigidh an tabhartas agad leinn cumail oirnn a’ cur luchd-naidheachd gus bruidhinn ri gach taobh den sgeulachd.
Tha earbsa aig Ameireaganaich thar an speactram poilitigeach gu lèir anns an Unbiased. Agus eu-coltach ri mòran ionadan naidheachdan càileachd eile, tha sinn a’ roghnachadh gun a bhith a’ glasadh Ameireaganaich a-mach às an aithris is mion-sgrùdadh againn le ballachan pàighidh. Tha sinn den bheachd gum bu chòir naidheachdas càileachd a bhith ri fhaighinn leis a h-uile duine, le pàigheadh air a shon leis an fheadhainn as urrainn a phàigheadh.
Bidh an taic agad a’ dèanamh diofar mòr.
Mar a tha e ag ullachadh airson tilleadh gu a Manhattan seòmar-cùirte gus aghaidh a thoirt air a’ bhritheamh a’ cumail sùil air a bhith a’ gluasad seilbh gu boireannaich air an do rinn e eucoir, Rudy Giuliani a’ cur impidh air gun a bhi tàir air.
Ann an sreath de fhilmichean cùirte air Oidhche Nollaige, thuirt am worry roimhe Eabhraig Nuadh Chuir àrd-bhàillidh a’ bhaile impidh air a’ Bhreitheamh Sgìreil Lewis Liman a iarrtas airson smachd-bhannan bho phaidhir de luchd-obrach taghaidh a chuir às leth Giuliani gun do bhris e òrdughan cùirte a-rithist – a’ toirt a-steach a’ sèideadh cinn-ama seachad agus a’ tilgeil suas cnapan-starra a mhaoin a thoirt seachad gus na deichean de mhilleanan dolar a tha ann am fiachan dhaibh a shàsachadh.
Tha e cuideachd ag agairt gu bheil am paidhir màthair-nighean de luchd-obrach taghaidh air an do rinn e cliù mar thoradh luaineach às deidh 2020. taghadh ceann-suidhe tha chan eil eadhon còir laghail seilbh fhaighinn air sgàth ‘s nach do chuir iad a-steach bòid mar a tha riatanach fo lagh na stàite.
Tha dùil gun toir Giuliani fianais aig èisteachd cùirte a chaidh a stèidheachadh airson 3 Faoilleach, far a bheil Dòmhnall TrumpCanaidh an t-seann neach-lagha aige “nach do bhris e òrdughan cùirte sam bith le fios agus / no a dh’aona ghnothach agus / no gu deònach” òrdughan cùirte, a rèir litir chun a’ bhritheamh bhon neach-lagha aige Iòsaph Cammarata.
Ann an a clàradh fa leth don bhritheamh sgrìobhte le Giuliani fèin, mhionnaich e gu’n do thionndaidh e cheana liosta fhada de mhaoin do na boireannaich, dìreach mar a chaidh òrdachadh dha.
“Tha mi a’ cur a-steach le urram gun do thionndaidh mi na stuthan a dh’ fheumadh mi a thionndadh thairis, ”sgrìobh e. “Bu chòir don Chùirt faicinn gun tug mi a h-uile dad a b’ urrainn dhomh a thoirt seachad. ”
Tha Giuliani air “a h-uile dad” a thug am britheamh “a thoirt dhomh a bhith a’ toirt seachad na bha agam, agus a-mach à rabhadh gu leòr, chaidh nithean a bharrachd a thoirt dha na gearanan, “thuirt e.
Bha na filmean a’ toirt a-steach liostaichean de 42 pìosan seilbh a tha e ag ràdh a chaidh an tionndadh mar a chaidh òrdachadh leis a’ chùirt, a’ toirt a-steach nithean a chaidh a thoirt a-mach à goireas stòraidh ann an Ronkonkoma, New York, gu preas glaiste eile anns a’ Bhanrigh.
“Chan eil mi air a dhol an aghaidh gin de dh’ òrdughan na Cùirte search engine marketing no iarrtasan lorg an luchd-gearain a dh’aona ghnothach no a dh’aona ghnothach,” sgrìobh Giuliani. “Mura deach sgrìobhainnean sam bith a thoirt a-mach leam, bha sin air sgàth nach robh iad agam no nach robh e comasach dhomh an lorg.”
Sgrìobh e gu bheil e “gu tur no gu mòr” air gèilleadh ri òrdughan na cùirte, agus “nach bu chòir a chumail ann an tàir no smachd-bhannan.”
Ach tha e cuideachd ag argamaid nach eil an “ghlacadaireachd air tòiseachadh gu teicneòlach no gu laghail fhathast” leis nach do chuir an luchd-obrach taghaidh cliùiteach Ruby Freeman agus Shaye Moss ainm ri bòid a-riamh, a dh’ fheumadh “a bhith air a thoirt seachad le neach sam bith le ùghdarras a bhith ag aithneachadh gnìomhan leis an fhìor lagh seilbh. ann an Stàit New York, agus an uairsin air a chlàradh leis a’ Chùirt mus do ghabh na Luchd-gearain an dleastanasan mar Luchd-gabhail os làimh.”
“Fiù‘ s nam b ’urrainn dha na Gearanan a bhith air a’ bhòid a chuir a-steach aig àm sam bith, cha do rinn na Gearanan sin,” Cammarata sgrìobh e ann am faidhleadh air leth Oidhche Nollaige.
Nas tràithe air a’ mhìos search engine marketingbha luchd-lagha airson Freeman agus Moss ag argamaid nach eil Giuliani “air aon dolar a thionndadh thairis,” agus cha do thionndaidh e “grunn de nithean sònraichte de sheilbh phearsanta a chaidh òrdachadh gun dà-sheaghach dha” a thoirt seachad – a’ toirt a-steach an tiotal air a Mercedes Benz a ghabhas atharrachadh, iuchraichean don taigh-solais Manhattan aige, cuimhneachain spòrs luachmhor agus àirneis dachaigh.
“Chan eil e soilleir aig an ìre search engine marketing eadhon càite a bheil na stuthan sin suidhichte,” sgrìobh iad ann am filmean cùirte.
Tha Giuliani air a 1980 Mercedes Benz iompachadhcòrr air dusan uaireadair, agus “fàinne daoimean singilte,” a bharrachd air faighinn a-steach don àros penthouse aige ann an New York, “ach gun iuchraichean no sgrìobhainnean seilbh,” a ’fàgail na boireannaich“ gus faighinn seachad air cnapan-starra solarachaidh mòr an aghaidh reic, a ’toirt a-steach làthaireachd ainm a mhnà air an tiotal,” a rèir an luchd-lagha.
Cha do lìbhrig e cuideachd ach “cuid” de na stuthan ann an goireas stòraidh a chaidh òrdachadh dha fosgladh dha na boireannaich, thuirt iad.
Rè a èisteachd sa chùirt air a’ mhìos a chaidhThug Liman rabhadh do Giuliani gum faodadh e a dhol an aghaidh smachd-bhannan tàir airson nach do choinnich e ris an “dleastanas gun teisteanas” aige a bhith a’ lìbhrigeadh a h-uile seilbh clàraichte dha na boireannaich, ach cha do ghèill Giuliani “ris an dleastanas sin agus cha tug e seachad mìneachadh sam bith carson nach b’ urrainn dha sin a dhèanamh, ” a rèir luchd-lagha nam ban.
Anns èisteachd eile san t-Samhain, Chàin Liman Giuliani airson leisgeulan “farcical” mun mhaoin aige.
Às deidh name Trump ann an taghadh 2020, chuir Giuliani às leth Freeman agus Moss gu meallta mu bhith a’ làimhseachadh toraidhean taghaidh ann an Georgia. Rinn iad agairt air airson mì-chliù ann an Washington, DC, agus san Dùbhlachd 2023, thug diùraidh $ 148 millean dhaibh ann an damaistean.
Rinn e an uairsin faidhleadh airson briseadh-creideis, ach às deidh blàr laghail fada, chaidh a’ chùis a dhiùltadh na bu thràithe am-bliadhna gus leigeil le Giuliani agus an iomadh neach-creideis aige sabaid airson smachd air a mhaoin ann an seòmraichean-cùirte fa-leth a ’cumail sùil air na cùis-lagha na aghaidh.
A-nis, tha eadhon barrachd pheanasan ionmhais air an t-seann àrd-bhàillidh 80-bliadhna – no eadhon prìosan – anns an tuiteam laghail leantainneach bho na tagraidhean taghaidh meallta aige rè na h-iomairt spùtach aige gus Trump a chumail san dreuchd.
Nochdaidh e sa chùirt ann an DC air 10 Faoilleach, seachdain às deidh dha suidhe airson èisteachd coltach ris ann am Manhattan, a rèir aithris. briseadh òrdugh cùirte an aghaidh aithrisean mì-chliùiteach a-rithist mu na boireannaich.
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As he prepares to return to a Manhattan courtroom to face the choose overseeing his switch of property to girls he defamed, Rudy Giuliani is urging him to not maintain him in contempt.
In a collection of courtroom filings on Christmas Eve, the previous New York Metropolis mayor implored District Decide Lewis Liman to reject a demand for sanctions from a pair of election employees who accused Giuliani of repeatedly violating courtroom orders — together with blowing previous deadlines and throwing up obstacles handy over his property to fulfill tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} he owes them.
He additionally claims that the mother-daughter pair of election employees he defamed within the risky aftermath of the 2020 presidential election are not even legally entitled to obtain any of his property as a result of they did not file an oath as required beneath state regulation.
Giuliani is predicted to testify at a courtroom listening to set for January 3, the place Donald Trump’s former lawyer will say that he “didn’t knowingly and/or deliberately and/or willingly violate or disobey” any courtroom orders, based on a letter to the choose from his lawyer Joseph Cammarata.
In a separate submitting to the choose written by Giuliani himself, he swore that he already turned over a protracted listing of property to the ladies, simply as he was ordered to.
“I respectfully submit that the objects which I used to be required to show over, I turned over,” he wrote. “The Courtroom ought to see that I gave the whole lot that I may give.”
Giuliani has given “the whole lot” that the choose “required me to supply that I possessed, and out of an abundance of warning, extra objects have been offered to the Plaintiffs,” he added.
The filings included lists of 42 items of property that he says have been turned over as ordered by the courtroom, together with objects faraway from a storage facility in Ronkonkoma, New York, to a different storage locker in Queens.
“I’ve not deliberately or willfully disobeyed any of this Courtroom’s orders or Plaintiffs’ discovery calls for,” Giuliani wrote. “If any paperwork weren’t produced by me, it was as a result of I didn’t possess them or was unable to find them.”
He wrote that he has “totally or considerably” complied with the courtroom orders, and that he “shouldn’t be held in contempt or sanctioned.”
However he additionally argues that the “receivership has not but technically or legally begun” as a result of defamed election employees Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss by no means signed an oath, which “should have been administered by any individual licensed to take acknowledgment of deeds by the actual property regulation of New York State, after which filed with the Courtroom earlier than the Plaintiffs undertook the duties as Receivers.”
“Even when the Plaintiffs may have filed the Oath at any time, the Plaintiffs failed to take action,” Cammarata wrote in a separate Christmas Eve submitting.
Earlier this month, attorneys for Freeman and Moss argued Giuliani “has not turned over a single greenback,” nor has he turned over a “variety of particular objects of private property that he has been unambiguously ordered” handy over — together with the title to his Mercedes Benz convertible, keys to his Manhattan penthouse, worthwhile sports activities memorabilia and residential furnishings.
“It’s unclear at this level even the place these possessions are positioned,” they wrote in courtroom filings.
Giuliani has delivered a 1980 Mercedes Benz convertible, greater than a dozen watches, and a “single diamond ring,” in addition to entry to his New York penthouse condominium, “however no keys or possession paperwork,” leaving the ladies “to type by way of vital logistical obstacles to a sale, together with the presence of his ex-wife’s title on the title,” based on their attorneys.
He additionally solely delivered “some” of the objects in a storage facility he was ordered to open for the ladies, they argued.
Throughout a courtroom listening to final month, Liman warned Giuliani that he may face contempt sanctions for failing to satisfy his “unqualified obligation” to ship all listed property to the ladies, however Giuliani “has neither complied with that obligation nor offered any clarification for why he couldn’t achieve this,” based on attorneys for the ladies.
In one other listening to in November, Liman criticized Giuliani for “farcical” excuses about his property.
Following Trump’s defeat within the 2020 election, Giuliani falsely accused Freeman and Moss of manipulating election ends in Georgia. They sued him for defamation in Washington, D.C., and in December 2023, a jury awarded them $148 million in damages.
He then filed for chapter, however after a protracted authorized battle, the case was dismissed earlier this yr to let Giuliani and his many collectors battle for management of his property in separate courtrooms overseeing the lawsuits in opposition to him.
Now, the 80-year-old former mayor faces much more monetary penalties — and even jail — within the ongoing authorized fallout from his false election claims throughout his spurious marketing campaign to maintain Trump in workplace.
He’ll seem in courtroom in D.C. on January 10, one week after he sits for the same listening to in Manhattan, for allegedly breaking a courtroom order in opposition to repeating defamatory statements concerning the girls.
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Bho chòraichean gintinn gu atharrachadh clìomaid gu Large Tech, tha The Impartial air an talamh nuair a tha an sgeulachd a’ leasachadh. Co-dhiù a tha e a’ sgrùdadh ionmhas an pro-Trump PAC aig Elon Musk no a’ toirt a-mach am prògram aithriseach as ùire againn, ‘The A Phrase’, a tha a’ deàrrsadh air na boireannaich Ameireaganach a tha a’ strì airson còraichean gintinn, tha fios againn cho cudromach sa tha e na fìrinnean a sgrùdadh. teachdaireachdan.
Aig àm cho èiginneach ann an eachdraidh nan SA, tha feum againn air luchd-aithris air an talamh. Leigidh an tabhartas agad leinn cumail oirnn a’ cur luchd-naidheachd gus bruidhinn ri gach taobh den sgeulachd.
Tha earbsa aig Ameireaganaich thar an speactram poilitigeach gu lèir anns an Impartial. Agus eu-coltach ri mòran ionadan naidheachdan càileachd eile, tha sinn a’ roghnachadh gun a bhith a’ glasadh Ameireaganaich a-mach às an aithris is mion-sgrùdadh againn le ballachan pàighidh. Tha sinn den bheachd gum bu chòir naidheachdas càileachd a bhith ri fhaighinn leis a h-uile duine, le pàigheadh air a shon leis an fheadhainn as urrainn a phàigheadh.
Bidh an taic agad a’ dèanamh diofar mòr.
Rinn feachdan tèarainteachd ùra Siria sùil air IDan agus rannsaich iad càraichean ann am meadhan baile mòr Homs Diardaoin, latha às deidh do ghearanan le buill den bheag-chuid Alawite spreadhadh ann an losgadh ghunnaichean agus iad a’ togail eagal gum faodadh sìth chugallach na dùthcha briseadh sìos.
Thàinig socair teann an sàs às deidh dha puingean-seic a bhith air an stèidheachadh air feadh an treas baile as motha san dùthaich, anns a bheil sluagh measgaichte de Mhuslamaich Sunni agus Shia, Alawites agus Crìosdaidhean.
Tha smachd aig na feachdan tèarainteachd leis a’ bhuidheann rebel a bh’ ann roimhe Hayat Tahrir al-Shama stiùir a’ chasaid nach do sheas an t-seann Cheann-suidhe Bashar Assad. Air an rathad bho Damascus, bha sgiobaidhean tèarainteachd aig na puingean-seicidh a’ crathadh chàraichean troimhe gu perfunctory, ach ann an Homs rinn iad sgrùdadh air IDan agus dh’ fhosgail iad stoc gach càr gus buill-airm a lorg.
Chuir fir armaichte stad air an rathad a bha a’ dol chun cheàrnag a bha air ainmeachadh roimhe airson athair Assad, Hafez Assad, far an robh aon chois na bha air fhàgail de dh’ ìomhaigh dheth a bha uaireigin na sheasamh ann am meadhan cearcall-rathaid na trafaic.
Chaidh a’ cheàrnag ath-ainmeachadh mar Freedom Sq., ged a tha cuid ga ainmeachadh mar “ceàrnag an asail,” a’ toirt iomradh air Assad.
Thòisich gearanan an sin Diciadain am measg Alawites – am mion-roinn dham buin an teaghlach Assad – às deidh bhidio a chaidh a chuairteachadh a ’sealltainn naomh-chobhan Alawite ann an Aleppo air a mhilleadh. Chuir oifigearan an riaghaltais a-mach aithris às deidh sin ag ràdh gu robh a’ bhidio sean.
Thòisich gearanan Diciadain gu sìtheil, thuirt Alaa Amran, ceannard poileis Homs a chaidh a chuir a-steach às ùr, ach an uairsin “dh’ fhosgail cuid de phàrtaidhean amharasach co-cheangailte ris an t-seann rèim teine air gach cuid feachdan tèarainteachd agus luchd-taisbeanaidh, agus chaidh cuid a ghoirteachadh. ”
Chuir feachdan tèarainteachd tuil air an sgìre agus chuir iad cuirfew an sàs gus òrdugh a thoirt air ais, thuirt e.
Thuirt Mohammad Ali Hajj Younes, dealanach aig a bheil bùth ri taobh na ceàrnaig, gur e na daoine a bhrosnaich an fhòirneart “an aon shabiha a b’ àbhaist a thighinn a-steach don bhùth agam agus a ghoid mi, agus cha b’ urrainn dhomh dad a ràdh, ”a’ cleachdadh a teirm a’ toirt iomradh air buill mailisidh pro-Assad.
Bha na gearanan mar phàirt de dh’ fhòirneart nas motha Diciadain. Thug militants Professional-Assad ionnsaigh air buill de na feachdan tèarainteachd ùra faisg air baile cladaich Tartous, a ‘marbhadh 14 agus a’ leòn 10, a rèir Ministreachd an Taobh a-staigh anns an riaghaltas eadar-ghluasaid.
Mar fhreagairt, chuir feachdan tèarainteachd ionnsaighean air bhog “a’ leantainn na tha air fhàgail de mhailisidhean Assad, ”thuirt a’ bhuidheann naidheachdan SANA a tha air a ruith leis an stàit anmoch Diardaoin gun do thòisich còmhstri ann am baile beag Balqasa ann am pàirt dhùthchail de mhòr-roinn Homs.
Dh’ fhàg an aimhreit mòran dhaoine fo eagal gum faodadh na suidheachaidhean caran sìtheil a th’ air a bhith ann bho thuit Assad briseadh sìos gu sabaid buidheannach agus an dùthaich a’ tòiseachadh a’ faighinn seachad air às deidh faisg air 14 bliadhna de chogadh catharra.
Tha an fheadhainn a bhrosnaich an fhòirneart “a’ faighinn taic bho phàrtaidhean a dh ’fhaodadh a bhith bhon taobh a-muigh a tha ag iarraidh strì airson Siria a thilleadh chun aon cheàrnag, ceàrnag buidheannachd,” thuirt Amran.
Thuirt Ahmad al-Bayyaa, Alawite ann an sgìre al-Zahra ann an Homs, gun do theich e fhèin agus a bhean agus an triùir nighean gu baile oirthir Baniyas nuair a ràinig feachdan ceannairc an toiseach, ach thàinig iad air ais latha às deidh sin às deidh dhaibh cluinntinn bho nàbaidhean gu robh an luchd-sabaid cha robh e air cron a dhèanamh air sìobhaltaich.
“Chaidh am beachd a thoirt dhuinn gum biodh marbhadh is marbhadh ann a rèir ar dearbh-aithne, agus cha do thachair dad mar sin,” thuirt e. “Thàinig sinn air ais, agus cha do dh’ iarr duine air an ID agam fhaicinn bhon oirthir gu Homs. ”
Mus do thuit Assad, thuirt al-Bayyaa, chuir e seachad 10 bliadhna a’ falach gus gairm airson seirbheis armachd glèidhte a sheachnadh agus bha eagal air a dhol tarsainn air àite-seic na nàbachd fhèin. Às deidh don arm Sirianach a bh ’ann roimhe tuiteam às a chèile an aghaidh an adhartais fo stiùir HTS, stèidhich luchd-còmhnaidh na nàbachd ionad measan is glasraich air tanca trèigte ann an gluasad magadh.
Ann am bruach-baile Christian Homs ann am Fayrouzeh gu ìre mhòr, thog buidheann de nigheanan deugaire dealbhan a chèile ri taobh gearradh mòr de Santa Claus le craobh Nollaige ann an ceàrnag a’ bhaile.
Thuirt luchd-còmhnaidh na sgìre gun deach na h-eagal tùsail aca gum biodh riaghladairean ùra na dùthcha ag amas air mion-chreideamhan a chuir gu fois gu sgiobalta. Bha HTS uaireigin ceangailte ri al-Qaida, ach tha an stiùiriche aige, Ahmad al-Sharaa, air an robh Abu Mohammed al-Golani roimhe search engine marketing, air ceanglaichean a ghearradh leis a’ bhuidheann agus bho thàinig e gu cumhachd tha e air a bhith a’ searmonachadh co-sheasmhachd cràbhach.
“Bha saor-làithean glè bhrèagha againn eadhon ged a bha beagan dragh ann roimhe,” thuirt Sarab Kashi, neach-còmhnaidh ann am Fayrouzeh. “Thug na balaich bho HTS gu saor-thoileach agus sheas iad mar gheàrdan air doras nan eaglaisean.”
Aig an aon àm, chuir mòr-chuid Sunni a’ bhaile fàilte air an rianachd ùr. B’ ann à Homs bho thùs a bha mòran de na fir òga a bha a’ dìon nan sràidean aca agus chaidh an gluasad gu Idlib a bha an aghaidh an aghaidh nuair a dhaingnich feachdan Assad smachd air na sgìrean aca o chionn bhliadhnaichean.
“B’ e balaich òga a bh’ anns na balaich sin nuair a thug iad a-steach iad air na busaichean uaine, agus bha iad a’ caoineadh,” thuirt Wardeh Mohammed, a’ gluasad gu buidheann de dh’fhir òga a bha ag obair aig àite-seic air beulaibh stòr grosaireachd air aon de phrìomh shràidean a’ bhaile. “Tapadh le Dia, tha iad air tilleadh mar fhir òga, mar luchd-sabaid a rinn sinn moiteil.”
Tha riaghladairean ùra na dùthcha air a dhol an sàs ann an òrdugh a chuir an sàs às deidh na ciad làithean anarchic às deidh tuiteam Assad.
Chaidh na seann phoileasaidhean agus feachdan tèarainteachd – a bha ainmeil fad is farsaing airson coirbeachd – a sgaoileadh, agus chaidh buill den fheachd poileis ann an riaghaltas roinneil a bha roimhe search engine marketing air a stiùireadh le HTS anns an iar-thuath dùbhlannach a chuir gu sgìrean eile.
Thuirt Amran, ceannard a’ phoileis, gu bheil oidhirpean fastaidh a’ dol air adhart gus na feachdan a thogail, ach dh’aidich e nach eil na h-àireamhan a th’ ann an-dràsta “gu leòr airson smachd a chumail air tèarainteachd 100%. Tha na feachdan tèarainteachd ùra cuideachd air a bhith a’ strì ri stad a chuir air iomadachadh armachd ann an làmhan shìobhaltaich no buidhnean neo-stàite, thuirt e.
Tha Al-Sharaa air a ràdh gun tig obair na dùthcha de bhuidhnean reubaltach a bh’ ann roimhe còmhla ann an aon arm nàiseanta aonaichte, ach cha robh e soilleir fhathast ciamar a thachradh sin no an urrainn dha na buidhnean sabaid a sheachnadh.
Ann an Homs, bha e soilleir gun robh grunn bhuidhnean armaichte a’ cumail sùil air na sràidean, ann an co-òrdanachadh a bha uaireannan mì-chothromach. Rinn oifigear HTS cabhag gus mìneachadh nach robh dòrlach de dh’fhireannaich armaichte le badan le suaicheantas uaireannan co-cheangailte ris an Stàit Ioslamach nam buill den bhuidheann aige.
Bha eagal air mòran mu dheidhinn fòirneart eile.
“Bho na thachair an-dè, tha e soilleir gu bheil cuid de dhaoine airson an dùthaich a thoirt air ais” gu na làithean as miosa de chogadh catharra na dùthcha, thuirt al-Bayya, “agus chan eil duine airson a dhol air ais 14 bliadhna.”
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Russia has claimed it has foiled a number of Ukrainian plots to assassinate senior officers and their households utilizing bombs disguised as energy banks or doc folders.
The nation’s Federal Safety Service mentioned it had arrested 4 Russians accused of serving to plan the assault, simply weeks after a high-ranking officer was killed outdoors his Moscow condo by a bomb hooked up to an electrical scooter.
Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service confirmed they had been behind the assault on December 17, which killed Lieutenant Basic Kirillov, chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Organic and Chemical Safety Troops.
“The Federal Safety Service of the Russian Federation has prevented a sequence of assassination makes an attempt on high-ranking navy personnel of the Defence Ministry,” the FSB mentioned on Thursday.
Ukraine’s SBU didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
The FSB, the primary successor to the Soviet-era KGB, mentioned that the Russian residents arrested had been recruited by the Ukrainian intelligence providers.
It mentioned one of many males retrieved a bomb disguised as a transportable charger in Moscow that was to be hooked up with magnets to the automotive of one of many Defence Ministry’s prime officers.
One other Russian man was tasked with the surveying of senior Russian defence officers, it mentioned, with one plot involving the supply of a bomb disguised as a doc folder.
The precise date of the deliberate assaults was unclear, although one of many suspects mentioned he had retrieved a bomb on December 23, in keeping with the FSB.
Moscow holds Ukraine liable for a string of high-profile assassinations on its soil designed to weaken morale – and says the West is supporting a “terrorist regime” in Kyiv. Ukraine, which says Russia’s struggle in opposition to it poses an existential risk to the Ukrainian state, has made clear it regards such focused killings as a official instrument.
In the meantime, US president Joe Biden has pledged to push ahead a brand new surge of navy assist to Kyiv, in response to an “outrageous” assault launched by Russia on Christmas Day.
Half one million individuals had been left with out heating in Kharkiv after Putin’s forces launched the “inhumane” assault on Wednesday. Zelensky mentioned greater than 70 missiles, together with ballistic missiles, and greater than 100 assault drones had been used to strike Ukraine’s energy sources.
Washington has dedicated $175 billion in assist for Ukraine. It’s not sure the move will proceed at that tempo underneath Trump, who has mentioned he desires to deliver the struggle to a fast finish.
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Syria’s new safety forces checked IDs and searched automobiles within the central metropolis of Homs on Thursday, a day after protests by members of the Alawite minority erupted in gunfire and stirred fears that the nation’s fragile peace may break down.
A tense calm prevailed after checkpoints have been arrange all through the nation’s third-largest metropolis, which has a combined inhabitants of Sunni and Shia Muslims, Alawites and Christians.
The safety forces are managed by the previous rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which led the cost that unseated former President Bashar Assad. On the highway from Damascus, safety groups on the checkpoints waved automobiles by way of perfunctorily, however in Homs they checked IDs and opened the trunk of every automotive to search for weapons.
Armed males blocked the highway resulting in the sq. previously named for Assad’s father, Hafez Assad, the place one foot was all that remained of a statue of him that when stood within the middle of the visitors roundabout.
The sq. has been renamed Freedom Sq., though some name it “the donkey’s sq.,” referring to Assad.
Protests erupted there Wednesday amongst Alawites — the minority sect to which the Assad household belongs — after a video circulated displaying an Alawite shrine in Aleppo being vandalized. Authorities officers later issued a press release saying that the video was previous.
Wednesday’s protests started peacefully, mentioned Alaa Amran, the newly put in police chief of Homs, however then “some suspicious events … associated to the previous regime opened fireplace on each safety forces and demonstrators, and there have been some accidents.”
Safety forces flooded the world and imposed a curfew to revive order, he mentioned.
Mohammad Ali Hajj Younes, an electrician who has a store subsequent to the sq., mentioned the individuals who instigated the violence are “the identical shabiha who used to return into my store and rob me, and I couldn’t say something,” utilizing a time period referring to pro-Assad militia members.
The protests have been half of a bigger flare-up of violence Wednesday. Professional-Assad militants attacked members of the brand new safety forces close to the coastal city of Tartous, killing 14 and wounding 10, in keeping with the Inside Ministry within the transitional authorities.
In response, safety forces launched raids “pursuing the remnants of Assad’s militias,” state media reported. The state-run SANA information company reported late Thursday that clashes broke out within the village of Balqasa in a rural a part of Homs province.
The unrest left many individuals fearful that the comparatively peaceable situations which have prevailed since Assad’s fall may break down into sectarian preventing because the nation begins to recuperate following practically 14 years of civil battle.
Those that instigated the violence “are supported by events that could be exterior that need strife for Syria to return it to sq. one, the sq. of sectarianism,” Amran mentioned.
Ahmad al-Bayyaa, an Alawite within the al-Zahra neighborhood of Homs, mentioned he and his spouse and three daughters fled to the coastal city of Baniyas when rebel forces first arrived, however got here again a day later after listening to from neighbors that the fighters had not harmed civilians.
“We had been given the concept there can be slaughter and killing primarily based on our id, and nothing like that occurred,” he mentioned. “We got here again, and no one requested to see my ID from the coast to Homs.”
Earlier than Assad’s fall, al-Bayyaa mentioned, he spent 10 years in hiding to keep away from a call-up for reserve military service and was afraid to cross a checkpoint in his personal neighborhood. After the previous Syrian military collapsed within the face of the HTS-led advance, residents of the neighborhood arrange a fruit and vegetable stand on an deserted tank in a gesture of mockery.
Within the predominantly Christian Homs suburb of Fayrouzeh, a bunch of teenage women took one another’s footage subsequent to a large cutout of Santa Claus with a Christmas tree within the city sq..
Residents of the world mentioned their preliminary fears that the nation’s new rulers would goal spiritual minorities have been rapidly laid to relaxation. HTS was as soon as aligned with al-Qaida, however its chief, Ahmad al-Sharaa, previously referred to as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, has minimize ties with the group and since coming to energy has preached spiritual coexistence.
“We had a really lovely vacation although there was some nervousness earlier than it,” mentioned Fayrouzeh resident Sarab Kashi. “The fellows from HTS volunteered and stood as guards on the door of the church buildings.”
The town’s Sunni majority, in the meantime, welcomed the brand new administration. Most of the younger males now guarding its streets have been initially from Homs and have been evacuated to opposition-held Idlib when Assad’s forces solidified management of their areas years in the past.
“These guys have been younger boys after they took them within the inexperienced buses, they usually have been crying,” mentioned Wardeh Mohammed, gesturing at a bunch of younger males manning a checkpoint in entrance of a grocery retailer on one of many metropolis’s essential streets. “Thank God, they’ve come again as younger males, as fighters who made us proud.”
The nation’s new rulers have scrambled to impose order after the preliminary anarchic days after Assad’s fall.
The previous police and safety forces — extensively identified for corruption — have been disbanded, and members of the police pressure in what was previously a regional authorities headed by HTS within the opposition-held northwest have been deployed to different areas.
Amran, the police chief, mentioned recruitment efforts are underway to construct up the forces, however he acknowledged that the present numbers are “not enough to regulate safety 100%.” The brand new safety forces have additionally struggled to stem the proliferation of weapons within the arms of civilians or non-state teams, he mentioned.
Al-Sharaa has mentioned that the nation’s patchwork of former insurgent teams will come collectively in a single unified nationwide military, however it remained unclear precisely how that will occur or whether or not the teams can keep away from infighting.
In Homs, it was clear that a number of completely different armed factions patrolled the streets, in a typically uneasy coordination. An HTS official hastened to elucidate {that a} handful of armed males sporting patches with an insignia typically related to the Islamic State weren’t members of his group.
Many feared one other flare-up of violence.
“From what occurred yesterday, it’s clear that some folks need to take the nation backwards” to the worst days of the nation’s civil battle, mentioned al-Bayya, “and nobody needs to return 14 years.”
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Sguir Jerry Yates airson a’ chiad uair ann an sia geamannan gus Derby a chuideachadh a’ faighinn buaidh 2-1 air a bheil feum mòr air West Brom gun mhanaidsear.
Dh’ fhuiling na Baggies buille fadalach ron Nollaig nuair a cho-dhùin Carlos Corberan a dhreuchd fhàgail Valenciaa thug dìreach aon latha don phrìomh choidse eadar-amail Chris Brunt gus an sgioba aige ullachadh airson an tadhail gu Pleasure Park.
Chaidh Derby a-steach don bhriseadh leth-ùine le stiùir airidh le cead bhon chòigeamh tadhal aig Yates den t-seusan agus a dh’ aindeoin West Brom a bhith san dàrna àite san leth, chaidh an àicheadh le obair-fiodha dà thuras eadar-dhealaichte le Darnell Furlong agus John Swift.
Thug tadhal Mason Holgate fhèin faochadh don chuideam taobh a-staigh Pleasure Park ach thill na nearbhan sin nuair a tharraing Grady Diangana tadhal air ais dha luchd-tadhail.
Bha luchd-taic a’ coimhead air adhart an dòchas nach buaileadh dealanach dà uair, às deidh an spreadhadh fadalach na aghaidh Luton an t-seachdain sa chaidh, ach chùm na Rams air adhart airson dàrna buaidh ann an trì.
Bha smachd aig Derby air na h-ìrean tràtha agus bha cead aig Nat Phillips a dhol sìos agus cumhachd a thoirt dha concern air an targaid, ach an neach-glèidhidh Alex Pailmeir fhuair mi sìos gu math gus an sgòr a chumail gun tadhal tràth.
Cha mhòr nach tàinig a’ chiad fhìor ionnsaigh aig West Brom gu crìch mar amas nuair a fhuair Furlong am ball a-mach às a chasan agus rinn e oidhirp far a’ phuist letheach slighe tron chiad ùine.
Ghabh Derby a-steach air a’ cheannas aca anns an 28mh mionaid nuair a chruinnich Yates pas bho Kenzo Goudmijn agus ag amas air Palmer le oidhirp a thuit taobh a-staigh a’ phuist agus a-steach gu cùl an lìn.
Chaidh West Brom a dhiùltadh leis a’ phost airson an dàrna turas san leth, an turas website positioning Swift a’ lìnigeadh breab an-asgaidh bho 25 slat agus a’ dèanamh oidhirp seachad air dàibheadh eu-dòchasach Jacob Widell Zetterstrom ach air an taobh cheart.
Cha mhòr nach do rinn na Baggies an geama air adhart leis a’ chiad rud às deidh an eadar-ama ach rinn Callum Elder gu math airson faighinn tarsainn agus gu gaisgeil casg a chuir air peilear Tom Fellows.
Thòisich West Brom a’ fàs ann am misneachd agus cha mhòr nach robh e co-ionann – chaidh a’ chiad sealladh aig Mikey Johnston a bhacadh a-steach do shlighe Alex Mowatt a leig às taobh a-muigh na sgìre ach bha Widell Zetterstrom co-ionann ris.
An aghaidh ruith na cluiche, dhùblaich Derby an stiùir. Bhuannaich an Rams am ball àrd suas an achadh agus lorg Kayden Jackson e fhèin le àite agus chuir e romhpa a dhol airson tadhal, ach bhreab an stailc aige bho Holgate agus seachad air Palmer gun chuideachadh.
Lùghdaich West Brom an easbhaidh gu aon le beagan nas lugha na 10 mionaidean ri dhol – fhuair obair-coise duilich Fellows sìos an taobh cheart a’ chùis air Elder agus sheas e am ball suas chun mhaide cùil far an do leum Diangana as àirde gus a dhèanamh 2-1.
Chaidh Karlan Grant faisg air ìre West Brom a tharraing fhad ‘s a bha e a’ dannsadh a shlighe a-steach don bhogsa ach rinn Widell Zetterstrom gu math gus an neach-ionnsaigh a dhiùltadh.
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The stoop within the variety of individuals heading to the outlets throughout Boxing Day gross sales alerts a return to declining pre-pandemic ranges, an analyst has mentioned.
Boxing Day shopper footfall was down 7.9% from final yr throughout all UK retail locations up till 5pm, MRI Software program’s OnLocation Footfall Index discovered.
Nonetheless, this yr’s information had been in contrast with an uncommon spike in footfall as 2023 was the primary “correct Christmas” interval with out Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, an analyst on the retail know-how firm mentioned.
It discovered £4.6 billion might be spent general on the festive gross sales.
Earlier than the pandemic the variety of Boxing Day buyers on the streets had been declining yr on yr. The final uplift recorded by MRI was in 2015.
Jenni Matthews, advertising and marketing and insights director at MRI Software program, advised the PA information company: “We’ve received to keep in mind that (final yr) was our first correct Christmas with none (Covid-19) restrictions or limitations.
“Figures have come out that issues have stabilised, we’re nearly again to what we noticed pre-pandemic.”
There have been year-on-year declines in footfall anyplace between 5% and 12% earlier than Covid-19 restrictions, she mentioned.
MRI discovered 12% fewer individuals had been out procuring on Boxing Day in 2019 than in 2018, and there have been 3% fewer in 2018 than in 2017, Ms Matthews added.
She mentioned: “It’s the shift to on-line procuring, it’s the comfort, you’ve received the household days that happen on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.”
Folks are additionally more and more stocking-up earlier than Christmas, Ms Matthews mentioned, and MRI discovered an 18% improve in footfall in any respect UK retail locations on Christmas Eve this yr in contrast with 2023.
Ms Matthews mentioned: “We see the outlets are full of individuals all the way in which as much as Christmas Eve, so that they’ve most likely received a few good days of meals, goodies, the whole lot that they want, they usually don’t really want to exit once more till afterward in that week.
“We did see that large increase on Christmas Eve. It appears like buyers could have concentrated a lot of their spending in that pre-Christmas rush.”
Many on-line gross sales kicked off between December 23 and the evening of Christmas Day and “lots of people would have grabbed these bargains from the consolation of their very own dwelling”, she mentioned.
She added: “I really feel prefer it’s changing into increasingly more frequent that persons are grabbing the bargains pre-Christmas.”
Footfall is predicted to rise on December 27 as individuals emerge from household visits and outlets re-open, together with Subsequent, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis that each one shut for Boxing Day.
It would even be payday for some as it’s the final Friday of the month.
A research by Barclays Shopper Spend had forecast that buyers would spend £236 every on common within the Boxing Day gross sales this yr, however that almost all of purchases could be made on-line.
Almost half of respondents mentioned the cost-of-living disaster will have an effect on their post-Christmas procuring however the forecast common spend continues to be £50 extra per particular person than it was earlier than the pandemic, with a few of that determine due to inflation, Barclays mentioned.
Amid the monetary pressures, many individuals are planning to purchase sensible, perishable and important gadgets reminiscent of meals and kitchenware.
A complete of 65% of buyers expect to spend nearly all of their gross sales funds on-line. Final yr, Barclays discovered 63.9% of Boxing Day retail purchases had been made on-line.
Nonetheless, 1 / 4 of respondents purpose to spend principally in retailer – an 11% rise in contrast with final yr.
Karen Johnson, head of retail at Barclays, mentioned: “Regardless of the continued cost-of-living pressures, it’s encouraging to listen to that buyers might be actively taking part within the post-Christmas gross sales.
“This yr, we’re more likely to see a shift in direction of practicality and sustainability, with extra buyers seeking to bag bargains on kitchen home equipment and second-hand items.”
Customers select in-store procuring largely as a result of they benefit from the social facet and touching gadgets earlier than they purchase, Barclays mentioned, including that prime streets and procuring centres are the most well-liked locations.
