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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy  has been sentenced to one year in prison for illegal campaign funding. The Paris court ruled that the sentence would take the form of electronically monitored house arrest. The allegations go back to the 2012 presidential election campaign. "As a candidate, he failed to control costs," said the presiding judge in Paris.  Sarkozy stayed away from the verdict. According to his lawyer Thierry Herzog, he wants to appeal and contest the decision. The public prosecutor has asked for a year in prison, including six months on probation. Sarkozy's lawyers pleaded for acquittal for the Conservative who ruled the Élysée Palace from 2007 to 2012. 13 other defendants were found guilty with him. Read also: France Is Calling Back Ambassadors From The USA And Australia Prosecutors argued that 66-year-old Sarkozy knew weeks before the 2012 election that campaign funding was approaching the cap. He ignored two warnings from his financial advisors. I...

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has denied that he will accept Washington's offer of dialogue, considering that he has not modified his "hostile policy" against Pyongyang, although at the same time he has promised to restore communication with Seoul in October to repair ties. "As the actions of the past eight months after the establishment of the new US administration clearly demonstrate, their hostile political and military threat against us has not changed at all," Kim told a parliamentary session held in Pyongyang on Wednesday and released today. by state agency KCNA. Read also: Missile Test By North Korea According to Kim, the "dialogue without preconditions" offered by Washington is "a facade to deceive the international community and disguise its hostilities, and is only an extension of the hostile policy carried out by previous US administrations." Following the coming to power of President Joe Biden in January, the US has insist...

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin defended the withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan at the end of August - but also admitted errors in the evacuation mission. "The Taliban had made it clear that their cooperation would end on September 1st," Austin said at a hearing in the US Senate. The first two days of the military evacuation mission in particular were difficult. However, the situation was brought under control within 48 hours. "Was it perfect?  No, of course not," Austin said. The military evacuation mission ended at the end of August with the withdrawal of the last US soldiers from Kabul. In the middle of the rescue operation, numerous people were killed in a suicide attack in front of Kabul airport, including many locals as well as 13 US soldiers. The IS, hostile to the Taliban, claimed the attack for itself. The Taliban took power in Kabul in mid-August. Austin recalled the US military's drone attack in late August that killed ten civilians. ...

The self-declared nuclear power North Korea has fired a short-range missile into the open sea, according to the South Korean military. The missile was shot down from Chagang province on the border with China and flown towards the Sea of Japan, the General Staff in South Korea announced on Tuesday. It was therefore initially unclear how far it flew and what type of missile it was. South Korea's National Security Council expressed its regret over the new missile test by the neighboring country. Read also:  Taliban Kill And Hang The Japanese government, which also confirmed the missile launch, assumed it was a ballistic missile, according to reports from the Kyodo news agency. UN resolutions prohibit North Korea from testing such missiles, which, depending on their design, could also carry a nuclear warhead. The country is subject to severe international sanctions because of its nuclear weapons program. North Korea had already tested two short-range ballistic missiles a good two weeks...

The Taliban have asked international airlines to resume their flights at Kabul Airport. After solving technical problems, this is "fully operational" again, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. All commercial flights into the country were suspended after the Taliban came to power. The airport was badly damaged during evacuation operations by western states at the end of August, in which more than 120,000 people were flown out. Read also:  Girls  School In Afghanistan Since then, only charter flights and a few special flights operated by Pakistani, Iranian and Afghan airlines have started and landed in Kabul . Pakistan International Airlines and Kam Air are currently charging more than $ 1,200 for a 40-minute flight from Kabul to Islamabad. Despite the price, which is said to be so high due to war insurance, the flights are fully booked. Kabul Airport was rebuilt with technical assistance from Qatar , the United Arab Emirates and Turkey in particular . The int...

The Taliban killed four kidnappers on Saturday and hung their bodies in public in the western Afghanistan city of Herat, in the first such punishment since the Taliban took full control of the country. The four kidnappers died in a confrontation with the Taliban forces this morning in the city of Herat and after that their bodies were tied up and hanged in different parts of the city, a local government official told EFE on condition of anonymity. Read also:  350,000 Civilians Killed The four people had kidnapped a money changer and his son in the fifth district of the city, on this same day, and were holding him captive in a nearby area, according to this source. Shortly after the kidnapping, the Taliban intelligence forces began a search and quickly found the kidnappers, after which they began the rescue operation. When security forces arrived in the area, in the fourth police district of the provincial capital, and tried to rescue the kidnapped people, the kidnappers opened...

In Syria war have been killed more than 350,000 civilians since its outbreak a decade ago. The number was announced by the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights , Michelle Bachelet. These are only verified cases - the actual number of those killed is certainly higher, she said. The human rights commissioner's office carried out the determination of the number of civilian victims in Syria on behalf of the UN Human Rights Council. When presenting the results to the panel, Bachelet emphasized that the data collection only included cases in which the full name of the person killed, the date of death and the governorate concerned were known. Read also:  Modi Is Worried About Afghanistan While Biden Is Worried About China According to the information, 26,727 women and 27,126 children are among the 350,209 documented fatalities. Most people died in Aleppo (51,731), followed by the greater Damascus area with 47,483 and the city of Homs with 40,986 deaths. "Behind every recorded...

The commission of the United States House of Representatives investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6 summoned this Wednesday to declare four allies of former President Donald Trump. They are former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows; his number 2, Dan Scavino; former Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel; and the controversial ideologist and former adviser Steve Bannon, who are scheduled for mid-October. Read also:  Military Leadership Reportedly Restricted Trump's Access To Nuclear Weapons The commission, made up of a majority of Democratic congressmen and only two Republicans - Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger - who are at odds with Trump, thus takes another step forward in its investigations into the assault on Congress. Last month, the commission already asked various government agencies for documents about what happened, including those from the White House regarding the movements and meetings that Trump held on January 6. He also asked telecommunications companie...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his last international trip in March this year when he paid a brief visit to Bangladesh. Six months later, Prime Minister Modi is on a trip again, but this time his destination is the United States, where he will also meet US President Joe Biden on September 24. Why is Modi going to America? Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit will be very busy and he will focus on three things. The first is to meet with President Joe Biden and attend a bilateral meeting. Another important component of this trip will be attending the Quad Summit. The alliance, based in the United States, Japan, Australia and India, has held a virtual meeting, but this will be the first time that all the leaders will sit down and talk. The third highlight of the trip will be Prime Minister Modi's address to the UN General Assembly. The Indian camp is eagerly awaiting President Modi's meeting with President Biden. This is the first bilateral summit between India and t...