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The savage aggression was possible thanks to the fact that the Chautauqua Institution, which was organizing the event, rejected the police suggestion to put metal detector arches. Salman Rushdie has regained his voice and is able to breathe without help. The British-American writer is, thus, "on the road to recovery", as confirmed by his agent, Andrew Wylie, to the newspaper 'New York Times'. What is showing extraordinary health are the sales of his book 'The Satanic Verses', for which he was sentenced to death by Iran in 1989 due to the alleged "blasphemous" nature of the work. The novel was last night in the 11th position of best-selling books in the Amazon online store, where it occupied the first position in the field of contemporary fiction. Rushdie's other thirteen fiction books were also climbing the bestseller lists, although without reaching the level of the work for which, perhaps, the writer was about to pay with his life. Hadi Matar C...

The writer no longer needs a ventilator to breathe and can speak. According to some media, he would have received seven or eight stab wounds. American Hadi Matar, 24, the son of Lebanese immigrants, has been formally charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of writer Salman Rushdie. The United States authorities maintain a strict silence about Matar, although his "trace" on social networks shows him as a Muslim extremist and sympathizer of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the elite military force of that country, much more ideologized. and aligned with Islamic fundamentalism than the Iranian Armed Forces. Hadi Matar pleaded "not guilty" to "attempted murder" in a New York state court. That is the information transmitted by the media of that country. The police authorities of the state of New York, in which the attack took place, have not established the possible motivation for the action and insist that the investigation is ongoing. The Islamic Repub...

At the moment the circumstances of his death at 73 years of age are not known. The emir of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan, died today at the age of 73, without the circumstances of his death being known at the moment, the state news agency reported today. "The Ministry of Presidential Affairs conveys its condolences to the people of the United Arab Emirates and the Arab Muslim nations (...) for the leader of the nation His Highness Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan, President of the State, who went to God on Friday, May 13," the department said in a statement released by WAM. The UAE's official news agency confirmed the death of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and said that 40 days of mourning had been declared for the president.  According to media reports, the death of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan will be accompanied by 40 days of mourning and a three-day public holiday during which the national flag will remain unfurl...

Israeli agents end the search for the perpetrators of last Thursday's attack in the city of Elad. After a search of more than 60 hours by police, soldiers and members of the Shabak (internal secret service), Israel has arrested the two Palestinians who hacked to death three citizens in Elad, in the center of the country. Yousef Asad Al Rafa (19) and Sabhi Abu Shakir (20) were located in a forest not far from the place where they committed the attack on Thursday night and did not resist against Israeli soldiers and agents. The traces of blood from one of them helped to follow their trail. After the arrest, one of them admitted in Arabic to an agent's camera that he was responsible for the attack in Elad. Nearby, his axes were found. These are two young people from Romana, in the Jenin area (West Bank), who worked illegally in Elad. According to the police investigation, they arrived in this Israeli city in the car of Oren Ben Yiftah (35) who thought they were only going to work....