Middle East: Iran's Top Nuclear Scientist Killed By Israel
?In April 2018, Netanyahu mentioned Fakhrizadeh by name when he unveiled a nuclear archive he said Mossad agents had taken from Tehran. He called him the head of a secret nuclear project called Project Amad. "Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh," Netanyahu told reporters.
Iran began to withdraw from its commitments to the 2015 landmark nuclear deal in 2019, a year after US President Donald Trump pulled out of the agreement and unleashed crippling sanctions on the country.
In the last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency documented several new breaches of the agreement. Earlier this week, Iran said it had begun injecting Uranium Hexafluoride gas into centrifuges at its Natanz facility.
? At least one person has died and 227 have been hospitalised by an unidentified illness in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
The patients had a wide range of symptoms from nausea to fits and falling unconscious, doctors said.
Officials are investigating the cause of the illness, which swept through the town of Eluru over the weekend.
It comes as India continues to battle a pandemic, with the world's second-highest coronavirus caseload.
Andhra Pradesh has been one of the worst-affected states - at more than 800,000, it has the country's third-highest case count.
But Covid-19 doesn't appear to be the cause of the hospitalisations over the weekend. The state's health minister, Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas, said that all the patients had tested negative for coronavirus.
The people who fell sick, especially the children, suddenly started vomiting after complaining of burning eyes. Some of them fainted or suffered bouts of seizures," a medical officer at Eluru Government Hospital told The Indian Express newspaper.
Seventy people have been discharged, while another 157 are still being treated, officials said.
The state's chief minister, Jaganmohan Reddy, said that special medical teams are being sent to Eluru to investigate the cause of the illness. Mr Reddy is also expected to visit the town to meet the patients and their families.
Mr Srinivas said that the patients' blood samples did not reveal any evidence of a viral infection.
"We ruled out water contamination or air pollution as the cause after officials visited the areas where people fell sick," he said. "It is some mystery illness and only lab analysis will reveal what it is."
However the opposition Telugu Desam Party has called for an enquiry into the incident, insisting that contamination was the cause of the mystery illness.
? This morning, a group of officers in the financial army announced that they had taken over the government by attempting a coup against the current France-backed government. While the president of Mali, Ibrahim Bobucar, who has been in office since the fall of 2013, there is still no news from Keita, the economy and foreign ministers were arrested by the soldiers. The Prime Minister resigned. According to the IS Research newspaper, the officers who carried out the coup are pro-Turkish. However, this news has not been confirmed. ongoing behind the scenes between France and Turkey also made the financial impact of the conflict with Turkey is spoken as a threat to France. Developments in Mali are in this direction for now. We will keep sharing as there is new news, stay tuned
? The Navy also looked at how much it would cost to convert what remains of the Bonhomme Richard into another type of vessel, such as a hospital ship, but such a conversion could cost over $1 billion -- more than building a brand-new similar ship.
De-commissioning and scrapping the vessel is estimated to cost only $30 million and take nine to 12 months to complete.
"We reached the conclusion we needed to de-commission the platform," Rear Admiral Eric Ver Hage, the commander of the Navy Regional Maintenance Center, told reporters on a conference call Monday.
Officials said the Navy's top leaders, including the Braithwaite and the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilda, made the decision last week.
?? In the US, vice presidential candidates Mike Pence and Kamala Harris met at a live television debate.
The debate between the US Vice President and Republican Party candidate Mike Pence and the Democratic Party's candidate Kamala Harris started with the response of the US to the Covid-19 outbreak.
Pence, who was at the head of the Covid-19 task force established within the White House, defended the White House administration's response to the epidemic. The epidemic claimed more than 200,000 lives in the country.
Harris accused the Trump administration of trying to cover up the seriousness of the epidemic, describing the White House's fight against the coronavirus as "the greatest failure of a presidential administration in the history of the country".
"The administration lost its right to be reelected," Harris said, "They still don't have a plan, Joe Biden has it."
When asked by moderator Susan Page why the death rate in the US population is higher than any other country in the world, Pence replied, "I want President Trump to know that from day one, he put the health of the American people first."
Pence said, "Trump did something that no other president has done. He suspended travel with China, the world's second largest economy," and said Trump saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
Pence also promised vaccination before the end of the year.??
♦️ US President Donald Trump said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) should investigate allegations of Democratic presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden's affiliation with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
Trump made a statement to reporters when he landed in Arizona for his election campaign.
Reminiscent of the news published in the New York Post about the e-mails of Hunter Biden, Biden's son, Trump said, "The FBI should investigate Joe Biden on this issue. I don't know if there is an investigation right now, but they should investigate him. FBI Director Chris Wray. You can call and ask him. Biden shouldn't have been allowed to be a candidate. " said.
Defending that the mainstream media did not go enough after the allegations in the New York Post newspaper, Trump said, "The press did not report on this issue. This is not fair." he spoke.
? WHY DOES TRUMP WANT TO DELAY THE ELECTIONS?
Presidential and midterm elections in the country are held on the first Tuesday of November in the election year, according to US federal law.
This year, a Congress decision is required to postpone the elections that coincide with November 3.
Trump argues that the "postal election" system, which allows everyone to vote remotely, creates enormous complexity in the primary elections. WHY IS TRUMP AGAINST OYA BY MAIL?
There are 3 voting ways in the USA consisting of 50 states; ballot box, mail and online. Voting online is not available in all states, not everyone has the right, it is mostly used for soldiers serving outside the country. Voting by mail will be the center of this election.
The system is as follows; 9 states and capitals D.C. automatically sends ballot papers to all voters. 35 states send ballot papers only to those who request it.
6 states send ballot papers to those who cannot go to the ballot box and have serious excuses. Trump thinks that Democrats will steal votes if they vote by mail. That's why he said to the voters, "If you vote by mail, go to the ballot box on election day, check your vote, otherwise try to vote again." ?
? The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, one of the oldest unresolved conflicts in the world, turned into a hot conflict once again with the bilateral clashes that took place on Sunday and brought the South Caucasus to the brink of a widespread war. In the early hours of Sunday morning, after the military operation of the Armenian army against the Azerbaijani army positions in the region, the tension in the region rapidly escalated, and many people lost their lives during the day-long clashes. Due to contradictory statements made by the parties, it is not yet known how many people died in the clashes, while the Azerbaijani army stated that 12 air defense systems belonging to Armenia were destroyed during the clashes, while the Armenian army issued a statement that 2 helicopters and 3 tanks belonging to Azerbaijan were destroyed. Speaking in front of the cameras in Yerevan, President of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said, "Be ready to protect our holy homeland" declared that the region was on the brink of widespread war. The United Nations continues its calls to Armenia to evacuate the occupied Azerbaijani territories for years.
? Kim Jong Un. The North Korean leader, who is declared to die three times a month. The images of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who were claimed to be in a coma and where various rumors were raised about his health condition and the last alleged coma, attended the Labor Party's politburo meeting were released. In a statement to the South Korean media, North Korean leader Kim, who did not participate in important events this year, claimed that the health condition of the North Korean leader Kim was in a coma, which has previously alleged about his health and even died. Saying that Kim's sister Kim Yo-jong is ready to help rule the country, Chang said, "A complete successor structure has not been established, so the gap is long. Kim Yo-jong is brought forward because it cannot be sustained. " However, it turned out that the allegations were not true. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appeared at the party convention in recent weeks after allegations of his health and handing over some of his powers to his sister, Kim Yo-jong.
Images of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending the Politburo meeting were broadcast via North Korean official channels. It was seen that Kim was healthy in the shots reflected in the media.