Author: Daily Sabah With Reuters
The United States has set a “red line” that Shi’ite armed group Hezbollah should not be a member of Lebanon’s next government after its military setbacks against Israel last year, U.S. deputy Middle East envoy Morgan Ortagus said in Lebanon on Friday. Ortagus is the first senior U.S. official to visit Lebanon since U.S. President Donald Trump took office and since Joseph Aoun was elected Lebanese president. Her visit comes amid a stalled cabinet formation process in Lebanon, where government posts are apportioned on sectarian lines. Hezbollah’s ally Amal has insisted on approving all Shi’ite Muslim ministers, keeping the process…
Swedish police said on Friday that seven women and four men between 28 and 68 years of age died in Tuesday’s attack in the city of Orebro.
A well-known talent manager was arrested on Monday on charges of attempting to overthrow the government in an investigation connected to nationwide riots in 2013. Ayşe Barım was initially detained on Friday, and eight actors were summoned to testify as witnesses in her file. According to the statement to the prosecutor, Barım denied the charges and said she had been to the area of the 2013 riots a few times individually as an observer and to accompany the people she worked with. Barım said she did not coordinate with the actors she was working with or request them to support…
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of social media network X and a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, poses a threat to democracies, French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said on Monday. “Elon Musk is creating a threat to democracies,” Bayrou said in a local TV interview. “Money should not give the right to rule consciences.” Bayrou’s comments about Musk come after he warned last week that France and Europe as a whole would have to stand up to Trump and his policies, or risk being “dominated … crushed … marginalised.” Musk, the CEO of Tesla and the world’s richest…
Juventus have signed Portugal defender Renato Veiga on loan from Chelsea until the end of the season, the Serie A club said on Monday. Veiga joined Chelsea from FC Basel on a seven-year deal in July for a reported 14 million euros ($14.68 million) but has started only one Premier League match this season. The versatile 21-year-old made his debut for Portugal in October last year against Poland in a Nations League game and has played in two more internationals. Veiga joins a Juve side fifth in Serie A, two points behind fourth-placed Lazio but 16 adrift of leaders Napoli.…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that the rigours of nearly three years of war did not allow for changes in mobilisation rules because if soldiers left for home en masse, Russian President Vladimir Putin “will kill us all”. Zelenskiy told Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, who was released this month after being detained for 21 days in Iran, that the toll of war on Ukrainians and their families underscored the need to bring the conflict rapidly to an end. Parliament approved new mobilisation rules last year to boost numbers of those at the front, but Ukraine’s fighting forces are…
Former Belgian international and Lokeren-Temse midfielder Radja Nainggolan was arrested Monday as part of an investigation into cocaine trafficking from South America to Europe, according to a source close to the case. The cocaine was allegedly trafficked through the Port of Antwerp, the Brussels Public Prosecutor’s Office said in an official statement, adding that 30 house searches had been carried out Monday as part of the probe. As per Belgian practice, the statement did not name Nainggolan, giving only his initials and profession. The arrest was earlier reported by local media. Nainggolan’s management team did not immediately reply to Reuters’…
Former Belgian international and Lokeren-Temse midfielder Radja Nainggolan was arrested Monday as part of an investigation into cocaine trafficking from South America to Europe, according to a source close to the case. The cocaine was allegedly trafficked through the Port of Antwerp, the Brussels Public Prosecutor’s Office said in an official statement, adding that 30 house searches had been carried out Monday as part of the probe. As per Belgian practice, the statement did not name Nainggolan, giving only his initials and profession. The arrest was earlier reported by local media. Nainggolan’s management team did not immediately reply to Reuters’…
Former Belgian international and Lokeren-Temse midfielder Radja Nainggolan was arrested Monday as part of an investigation into cocaine trafficking from South America to Europe, according to a source close to the case. The cocaine was allegedly trafficked through the Port of Antwerp, the Brussels Public Prosecutor’s Office said in an official statement, adding that 30 house searches had been carried out Monday as part of the probe. As per Belgian practice, the statement did not name Nainggolan, giving only his initials and profession. The arrest was earlier reported by local media. Nainggolan’s management team did not immediately reply to Reuters’…
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu on Monday was handed another judicial investigation after he criticized legal probes into opposition-run municipalities. News of the investigation came minutes after Imamoğlu, who is seen as a likely future presidential challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, accused a legal expert of serving as a political tool to oppress the opposition. At a news conference, Imamoğlu said the same expert witness had been appointed for several judicial probes into him and other district municipalities in Istanbul run by the main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), to which Imamoğlu belongs. “The man is bold enough…