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Hezbollah chief rejects cease-fire extension; says Israel must withdraw without delay


BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem said Monday that Israel should withdraw from the occupied border areas in southern Lebanon, rejecting the extension of the cease-fire arrangements to Feb. 18.

"Israel should get out. ... We don't accept any extension of the deadline, and we will not accept any justification to prolong it even for a second," Qassem said in a speech broadcast by Hezbollah-run Al Manar television station.

"Israel should get out. ... We don't accept any extension of the deadline, and we will not accept any justification to prolong it even for a second," Qassem said in a speech broadcast by Hezbollah-run Al Manar television station.

His remarks came after the White House announced in a statement Sunday that a U.S.-brokered cease-fire agreement that ended the war between Lebanon and Israel on Nov. 27 "will remain in effect until Feb. 18."

The cease-fire's 60-day deadline expired at dawn Sunday, but Israel refused to complete the pullout of its forces from southern Lebanon, arguing that the Lebanese Army has been slow in redeploying, while Hezbollah still maintains its military presence in areas prohibited by the agreement.
Lebanon has accused the Israeli military of procrastinating its troop withdrawal.

Israel's decision to remain inside southern Lebanon prompted thousands of displaced residents to forcefully return to their towns and homes, most of which were destroyed by the 14-month war between Israel and Hezbollah that broke out in October 2023.

A total of 26 people were killed and 134 were wounded when Israeli forces opened fire on the returning residents Sunday and Monday, according to a new count by the Health Ministry.

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hezbollah-chief-rejects-cease-fire-extension-says-israel-must-withdraw-without-delay/ar-AA1xXjCp?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=0eea5ca64ab84a5ba15146b49ba2d0f8&ei=16

budaatum:
Truth be told, I'm a person who don't give a flying fuq what grown adults do in the privacy of their homes

budaatum:
An ignorant person who knows nothing will likely believe you, but I'd expect you to respect yourself when not talking to such people.

Homosexually is not responsible for any dark ages, especially not in Wild Wild America where shooting and enslaving people is in its DNA.

budaatum:
You should go study history to learn why homosexuality was decriminalised. It might make you hesitate going back to the dark ages.

Watcharena:
Hamas has indeed been defeated

Nahunger:
The guesture means to the moon and space, but I trust the far lefts and Thier woke brain to politically paint it.

Is Elon a president?
Is Elon a army general?

What power can he execute aside his inventions and company, you guys should get a life, election is over.

davinchecodes:
Parroting anything your white master says, you are really dumber than sheep.

'A living hell': Sudanese women face rape and abuse in Libya
2 hours ago
21 January, 2025
Amira Mhadhbi
BBC Arabic
"We live in terror," whispers Layla over the phone so nobody can hear. She fled Sudan with her husband and six children early last year in search of safety and is now in Libya.

Like all the Sudanese women who the BBC spoke to about their experiences of being trafficked to Libya, her name has been changed to protect her identity.

Warning: This story contains details some may find distressing.

In a trembling voice she explains how her home in Omdurman had been raided during Sudan's violent civil war, which erupted in 2023.

The family went to Egypt first before paying traffickers $350 (£338) to take them to Libya, where they had been told life would be better and they would be able to find jobs in cleaning and hospitality.

But as soon as they crossed the border, Layla says the traffickers held them hostage, beat them and demanded more money.

"My son needed medical attention after he was hit repeatedly in the face," she tells the BBC.

The traffickers released them after three days, without saying why. Layla thought her new life in Libya was starting to get better after the family managed to travel west and she rented a room and started working.

But one day her husband left to look for work and never returned. Then her 19-year-old daughter was raped by a man known to the family through Layla's job.

"He told my daughter he would rape her younger sister if she spoke about what he did to her," Layla says.

She speaks in hushed tones fearing the family will be evicted if their landlady hears about the threats.

Layla says they are now trapped in Libya: they have no money left to pay traffickers to leave and cannot return to war-torn Sudan.

"We have barely any food," she says, adding that her children are not in school. "My son is afraid to leave the house as other children often beat him and insult him for being black. I feel like I'm going to lose my mind."

Millions have fled Sudan since the war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted in 2023. The two sides had jointly staged a coup in 2021, but a power struggle between their commanders plunged the country into civil war.

More than 12 million people have been forced from their homes, while famine has spread to five areas, with 24.6 million people - about half the population - in urgent need of food aid, experts say.

The UN refugee agency says more than 210,000 Sudanese refugees are now in Libya.

The BBC has spoken to five Sudanese families who initially went to Egypt, where they said they experienced racism and violence, before moving to Libya, believing it would be safer with better job opportunities. We contacted them through a researcher in migration and asylum seeker issues in Libya.

Salma tells the BBC she was already living in Cairo, in Egypt, with her husband and three children when the Sudanese civil war broke out, but as huge numbers of refugees entered the country, conditions for migrants there worsened.

They decided to move to Libya, but what was awaiting them there was a "living hell", Salma says.

She describes how, as soon as they crossed the border, they were placed in a warehouse run by traffickers. The men wanted money that had been paid in advance to traffickers on the Egyptian side of the border, but it never arrived.

Her family spent nearly two months in the warehouse. At one point, Salma was separated from her husband and taken to a room for women and children. Here, she says she and her two eldest children were subjected to various forms of brutality because they wanted the money.

"Their whips left marks on our bodies. They would beat my daughter and put my son's hands in a lit oven while I was watching.

"Sometimes I wished we would all die together. I could think of no other way out."

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3w16k0n7wo

The Western Journal
Ramaswamy Is Out of the Trump Admin After Claiming American Workers Have a 'Culture' Problem
Story by Ben Zeisloft • 17h • 3 min read


The second administration of President Donald Trump only started on Monday, but there is already one high-profile exit from the commander-in-chief’s team.

Vivek Ramaswamy, the pharmaceutical entrepreneur who ran for the Republican presidential nomination, was initially supposed to lead the Department of Government Efficiency alongside Elon Musk, but now he is officially out of the project.

That development occurs as Ramaswamy considers his own run for office, but also after his comments about American culture raised eyebrows among much of the Trump base.
[...]
But some have wondered whether a recent controversy over legal immigration, for which Ramaswamy was at the center of the fray, played a role in his ouster from DOGE.

Amid a debate between leading Republican influencers over the H-1B visa program, which arguably imports tech workers from around the world to work at rates lower than what could sustain many middle-class American households, Ramaswamy mounted a blistering criticism of American culture.

“Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH: Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer),” Ramaswamy wrote on X just after Christmas.

“A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the Math Olympiad Champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers,” he added.

Ramaswamy even argued that American families should have “fewer sleepovers” and “more weekend science competitions,” claiming that American parents wrongly view parents who push their children toward academic achievement with skepticism.

“If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve,” he continued. “Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-is-out-of-the-trump-admin-after-claiming-american-workers-have-a-culture-problem/ar-AA1xy23A

Padipadi:
Can we have a pan-Nigerian?
Nigeria of just rule where mo tribe will feel superior or turn themselves to born to rule?
Can we have an accountable nation?
See country willing to delve into oil reserves to crash down prices.
Can Nigeria delve into food reserves or any reserves?
If we don't have it can we plan and say within 2 years this type of relief will be available?
Can our politicians reduce their pay and allowances to justify state of economy?


Everybody shook mouth for this matter.

Bookhub:

If so Then Palestine too is pipe dream just forget about it.