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  A pinnacle cop in Hong Kong police's National Security Department has been positioned on depart after he used to be caught in a raid on an unlicensed rub down parlour, say nearby media reports. Reports have named him as Director of National Security Frederic Choi. According to information web page SCMP, travelling an unlicensed parlour is no longer an offence however should "damage the force's image". This is the first massive scandal to hit the unit after it was once set up to put into effect the city's country wide protection law. Thousands in Hong Kong protested ultimate June when the countrywide safety regulation was once implemented. The regulation criminalises secession, subversion and collusion with overseas forces with the most sentence lifestyles in prison. However, Beijing has stated it will goal "sedition" and carry stability. "The police connect super significance to the habits of police officers... [we] will behavior a honest investig

  The French military chief of group of workers has advised troopers to resign if they signed a controversial letter that warned of a civil fighting trigged by using spiritual extremism in the country. The letter, posted in a right-wing magazine, accused the French authorities of granting "concessions" to Islamism. It observed a comparable letter three weeks in the past signed via 20 former generals. Both letters had been condemned by using the French authorities however praised through right-wing politicians. On Tuesday, General François Lecointre addressed the ultra-modern letter in a message to army personnel. "The most realistic step is virtually to depart the organization in order to freely categorical their thoughts and convictions," he stated in his message, in accordance to French media reports. While the widespread did no longer threaten any sanctions, he accused the provider personnel in the back of the letter of violating their "obligation of discret

       The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee, (PSC) on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, has clarified misrepresentation in the briefing of the PSC on Monday. Mustapha, who spoke to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja, stated it used to be erroneously stated that the federal authorities had re-introduced nationwide curfew between 12 a.m. and four a.m. as phase of the COVID-19 protection protocols. He, however, stated the announcement with the aid of the National Incident Manager, Dr. Mukhtar Mohammed, throughout the PSC press briefing was once taken out of context due to the fact the federal authorities did no longer loosen up the curfew imposed until now below Phase Three of the eased lockdown. Rather, he defined that what Mohammed stated was once that the federal authorities used to be retaining the curfew below the Phase Four of the phased limit of movement. “Under the Fourth Phase of restrict of movement,

  Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have escalated in addition as Palestinian militants in Gaza fired thousands of rockets into Israel, which replied with ramped up airstrikes on the coastal enclave, as unrest unfold to cities and cities past Jerusalem. As each facets traded airstrikes on Tuesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the country from Tel Aviv, saying, "We are in the midst of a enormous operation. Israeli bombing raids throughout Gaza have killed at least 35 people, which include 12 children, in accordance to Palestinian fitness officials, who additionally stated 220 humans have been injured, as of Tuesday evening. The Israeli navy stated it had killed extra than 15 militants. Rockets had been fired toward Tel Aviv in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Sirens should be heard warning of an impending assault round three a.m. neighborhood time. It was once no longer without delay clear if there have been any casualties. Rockets have

  The Nigerian presidency has demonstrated an tried break-in by using burglars into the professional dwelling of the president’s chief of staff, Ibrahim Gambari. President Muhammadu Buhari's chief of staff’s house is positioned subsequent to the closely fortified presidential villa in the capital, Abuja. The presidency’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, stated Prof Gambari had established the “‘foolish try to burgle his house at 3:00am this [Monday] morning however it grew to become out to be unsuccessful”. “Professor Gambari, whose residence is on a avenue subsequent to the villa has guaranteed that there is nothing to fear about from the incident,” Mr Shehu stated in a tweet. The presidential spokesman additionally demonstrated some other tried housebreaking into the dwelling of a 2d reputable in the presidency. He stated police have been looking out for the suspected burglar who tried to ruin into Maikano Adbullahi’s dwelling - additionally shut to the presidential villa - ultimate Thurs

  It was once a black Ed-el-Fitri in Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo nation as a 200 degree of the institution, Feranmi Fasunle Omowunmi reportedly dedicated suicide. Omowunmi, with the matriculation wide variety 180503006 who used to be of the Political Science Department in the college reportedly drank sniper on Wednesday. Reasons for her motion remained unknown however sources stated it would possibly be related to a failed relationship. But her buddies denied she was once into any relationship for the reason that she received admission to the university. Star Tv learnt that she took the lethal substance in her room in the Akungba community. Sources in the group stated that when her buddies found it, they rushed her to the institution’s fitness centre from the place she used to be once more taken to the Specialist Hospital in lkare. She used to be thereafter referred to the Federal Medical Center FMC in Owo on Wednesday. She reportedly gave up the ghost at the FMC, O

  The former footballer Dalian Atkinson was once mentioned lifeless barely an hour after he used to be shot with a stun gun and kicked in the head by using a police officer, a jury heard on Friday. PC Benjamin Monk denies the homicide or manslaughter of Atkinson, 48, on 15 August 2016. Police had been known as at round 1.30am to Meadow Close in Telford, Shropshire, after Atkinson went to his father’s domestic and neighbours heard shouts. The jury at Birmingham crown courtroom has heard that police officers felt terrified, with Atkinson behaving erratically, shouting that he used to be the “messiah” and smashing a window, and that two tries to use an electric powered stun gun failed to subdue him. The court docket has heard a 0.33 use of a stun gun felled the former Aston Villa striker and left him on the ground. He was once then kicked in the head twice, the jury heard. He used to be rushed to sanatorium and, the jury heard on Friday, sixty four minutes after the 0.33 use of a stun gun

  The ultimate stage of the lifting of coronavirus lockdown restrictions throughout England ought to face “serious disruption” due to the India variant, the top minister has warned, as he introduced plans to speed up the vaccine programme to curb its spread. Boris Johnson stated the hole between the first and 2d Covid jab would be reduce from 12 weeks to eight for all over-50s and the clinically vulnerable, admitting: “The race between our vaccine programme and the virus can also be about to end up a brilliant deal tighter.” He introduced that the navy would be deployed to two variant hotspots – Bolton and Blackburn with Darwen – to assist with vaccinations, and entreated residents in these areas to “think twice” earlier than taking benefits of the freedoms allowed once more from Monday. Johnson stated plans to ease restrictions on 17 May – permitting humans to meet in businesses of six indoors – would go ahead, however that the variant “could make it extra difficult” for the ultimate

  Mr Trump issued the order amid last year's social justice protests as statues had been being defaced or toppled. Mr Biden additionally rescinded Mr Trump's plans for a sculpture garden to honour American heroes. And he canned a 2019 proclamation that sought to bar entry to immigrants who should no longer have the funds for fitness insurance. Mr Trump issued an order in June 2020 instructing the federal authorities "to prosecute to the fullest extent" any character "that destroys, damages, vandalizes, or desecrates a monument, memorial, or statue". The proclamation - which singled out "rioters, arsonists and left-wing extremists" - was once a famous speakme factor for the Republican president at his rallies. It observed demonstrators concentrated on statues, many committed to figures from the pro-slavery Confederacy, at some stage in US-wide protests following the homicide of George Floyd whilst in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Also am

 Hady Amr will take section in talks with Israeli, Palestinian and UN officers in the hope of agreeing on a ceasefire. Early on Saturday, Israel carried out air strikes in Gaza and Palestinian militants answered via firing rockets into Israel. The clashes recorded over the previous 5 days marks some of the worst violence in the vicinity in years. The warfare started on Monday and observed weeks of spiralling Israeli-Palestinian tension in East Jerusalem. The multiplied war culminated in clashes at a holy web site revered with the aid of each Muslims and Jews. Hamas - the militant Islamist team which guidelines Gaza - commenced firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes. At least 133 humans have been killed in Gaza and eight have died in Israel due to the fact that the combat began. Palestinian fitness ministry officers stated an Israeli air strike early on Saturday killed at least seven Palestinians, which include female and childr