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Unsealed filing details items recovered from Mar-a-Lago raid
The inventory included government documents with secret classification markings; documents and photographs without a classification marking; documents with confidential, secret, and top secret markings; empty folders with classified banners, among other items, reports Xinhua news agency. The records were unsealed by a court order amid a review of Trump's request to appoint a third-party "special master" to go through the seized materials.
President Biden doesn't consider Trump supporters as threat
President Biden made the clarification on Friday a day after after a nationally televised speech in which he referred to "MAGA Republicans" -- those who support Trump -- as a "threat to democracy", reports Xinhua news agency. "Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic ... And that is a threat to this country," the President had said on Thursday night.
Iran briefly seizes 2 US 'surveillance vessels' in Red Sea
On Thursday, while carrying out a counter-terrorism mission in the Red Sea, the Iranian Navy's destroyer Jamaran encountered US unmanned surveillance vessels on the international shipping route, Xinhua news agency quoted the reports as saying on Friday. "After warning the American side twice to prevent possible accidents, the Jamaran destroyer seized two (surveillance) vessels," it said. "After securing the international shipping route, the 84th Naval Group of the (Iranian) Army released the two vessels in a safe area and warned the American fleet not to repeat similar cases," it added.
Nuke talks can be concluded 'swiftly' if US makes 'right decision': Iranian advisor
"Iran has responded as promised. It's time for the (US President Joe) Biden team to make a serious decision," Marandi on Friday tweeted hours after Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said that Iran had given answers to the US responses to its viewpoints on the European Union's draft of a potential nuclear agreement. "The submitted text has a constructive approach with the aim of finalising the negotiations," Kanaani added on Friday in a statement.
IAEA to keep experts permanently at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Rafael Grossi told reporters on Friday upon arriving in Vienna after a visit to the facility that six of the 14-member IAEA mission remained at the Zaporizhzhia plant after the team completed a visit there on Thursday. Four of the six experts will leave the plant next week, while the other two will stay there as the agency's continued presence in the longer term, Xinhua news agency reported. Earlier this week, Grossi led the IAEA mission to the Zaporizhzhia plant, which suffered strikes in recent weeks and raised international concerns about its safety.
Ex-Sri Lanka Prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns from Thailand
Rajapaksa, 73, returned to Katunayake International Airport on a Singapore airlines SQ-468 flight and a number of Ministers of the present government and politicians from his party, Sri Lankan Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) welcomed him inside the airport. The former President has reportedly gone to a state bungalow prepared for him in the heart of Colombo. A house and a contingent of security are some of the privileges; a former President is entitled in Sri Lanka.
Conflicting claims in Trump camp over secret documents seized at Mar-a-Lago
In an interview on Thursday, ex-President Trump repeated an argument he has been making for weeks - insisting he had declassified the information before leaving office under his sweeping presidential powers to lift classification of government information. John Fredericks, a conservative radio host, asked Trump how the stashes of top secret documents had ended up at his Florida resort before being retrieved by the FBI in an August 8 search of his property.
Activists urge action after UN accuses China of rights violations
In a statement on its website, Munich-based World Uyghur Congress and more than 60 Uyghur organisations around the world called on the UN to establish a commission of inquiry to independently examine the human rights situation in Xinjiang, VOA reported. They also urged the UN Office on Genocide Prevention to immediately conduct an assessment of the risks of atrocities, including genocide and crimes against humanity, the report said.
Biden says Trump, MAGA Republicans represent extremism, are threat to democracy
"Their MAGA failure to thwart the 2020 election is now a preparation for the 2022 (midterms) and 2024 (presidential) elections. This time they are determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people," he said on Thursday. Biden warned that Trump and his fellow ideologues "represent a dark, dangerous force bent on using lies and violence to crush the will of the majority".
Pentagon releases report on sexual assault in US military
"Sexual assault and sexual harassment remain persistent and corrosive problems," the top line results read. Over 8 per cent of active-duty women and about 1.5 per cent of active-duty men indicated experiencing some form of unwanted sexual contact in the year before the survey was conducted, Xinhua news agency reported citing the findings.
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