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His late-afternoon appearance on July 13 started the same way many political rallies held by potential presidential candidate Donald Trump usually do. On a hot summer evening at agricultural fairgrounds in the town of Butler, Pennsylvania, population around 13,000, Trump had just started to speak about the dangers of migration.   Then shots rang out over the rally. “I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,” Trump wrote on his social media feed on Truth Social after being released from the hospital. His upper right ear was hit.…

Beginning July 17, a lottery could determine who in Latvia will be drafted into the army. As of this year, conscription is once again compulsory in the Baltic country. If not enough volunteers sign up for the 11-month service, the army will draft young men. Neighboring Lithuania reintroduced compulsory military service in 2015, Sweden in 2017, and countries such as Germany and the UK are currently discussing whether they should do so as well. “The promise of conscription is really powerful,” says Sophia Besch of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC. “It seems to offer a path…

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Lotfi Mraihi is in prison, facing serious charges. The Secretary General of Tunisia’s Republican People’s Union and a candidate for the country’s upcoming presidential elections, Mraihi has been accused of money laundering and illegally moving money abroad.  Mraihi was arrested this week after he announced his intention to run in the early October vote. When Mraihi ran in 2019, he received around 6.5% of the vote.  Other politicians who have expressed an interest in running for the country’s highest office or are considered potential candidates have also been targeted by authorities. There is a warrant out for the arrest of journalist and politician Safi Said, for instance, who…

Kim Yo Jong, a key spokesperson for the North Korean regime of her brother Kim Jong Un, on Sunday vented her anger at South Koreans who have been sending balloons carrying propaganda over the border. Her remarks came after the latest batch of what she called “dirty leaflets” was found in North Korean territory along the border, according to a statement carried in English by the official Korean Central News Agency. In recent weeks, balloons have been traveling between the two Koreas in tit-for-tat campaigns: ones carrying propaganda leaflets launched by South Korean activists toward the North, and trash-filled ones sent by…

Courage, defiance, or a reckless play for the cameras even in the heights of danger.However it’s viewed, that footage of Donald Trump refusing to leave the stage before showing supporters a clenched fist will now help define his campaign for re-election. It is extraordinary viewing. The former president has just been shot, through his ear, and his Secret Service close protection detail is begging him to move.Shooting latest: Trump seen for first time since attempted assassination”Let me get my shoes on,” he says repeatedly, as they say, “we’ve got to move you to the car”. Please use Chrome browser for…

France celebrates its national holiday, Bastille Day, on Sunday as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games. President Emmanuel Macron opened the traditional military parade by reviewing the troops, followed by the Marseillaise, the national anthem. Preparations for the Games have blocked the military parade from its traditional route on the Champs Elysees, forcing a military contingent to march on the nearby Avenue Foch instead. Due to Olympic security measures, the number of troops were reduced compared to previous years. Some 4,000 people, down from 6,500 last year, and 162 horses marched in the tightly choreographed show. No tanks or…

Security experts familiar with the demands of keeping politicians safe have said “a fundamental security failure” occurred as a gunman was able to get close enough to Donald Trump to shoot him at a presidential campaign rally.Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired several rounds at the former president as he gave a speech to supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, before being shot and killed by secret service agents. Mr Trump was hit in the ear in the assassination attempt, but is “fine”, his campaign said, while one spectator was killed and two others were injured.Trump assassination latest: Gunman shot dead…

The first questions are all about the incident itself, of course – the perpetrator, the motivation and method. Not forgetting: how on earth could this have happened?It’s scarcely believable for anyone who has attended a Trump event and witnessed the security firewall that separates the man from the masses. The agents charged with Donald Trump’s protection, Secret Service or otherwise, face a grilling on a failure in the fundamentals of the job. Allowing a former and, possibly, future president to be caught in the cross-hairs of a sniper’s bullet puts them in the firing line and they will have to…

 “Here, in this area, there are many girls who were kidnapped and forced to marry terrorists,” said 17-year-old Telma from the Chiure district in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. A brutal war between an “Islamic State”-affiliated extremist group and Mozambican security forces and their allies has been raging in her home region since October 2017. “In our neighborhood, there is a girl who managed to escape the terrorists after three years of captivity and return to her family,” Telma said. “But most never come back. The jihadis also abduct very young girls. They grow up with the terrorists until…