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US warns of expanding Iran, Russia defence ‘partnership’
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The USA has accused Russia of offering superior navy help to Iran, together with air defence programs, because it warned of deepening defence ties between Moscow and Tehran, with Russia utilizing Iranian drones to hit targets in Ukraine.
White Home Nationwide Safety Council spokesman John Kirby cited US intelligence assessments for the allegations, saying Russia was providing Iran “an unprecedented degree of navy and technical help that’s remodeling their relationship right into a full-fledged protection partnership”.
Washington has beforehand condemned safety cooperation between Iran and Russia however on Friday described an intensive relationship involving gear resembling helicopters and fighter jets in addition to drones, with the latter objects leading to new US sanctions.
Kirby mentioned Russia and Iran have been contemplating organising a drone meeting line in Russia for the Ukraine battle, whereas Russia was coaching Iranian pilots on the Sukhoi Su-35 fighter, with Iran probably receiving deliveries of the airplane inside the 12 months.
“These fighter planes will considerably strengthen Iran’s air drive relative to its regional neighbours,” Kirby mentioned.
Western powers have accused Iran of supplying drones to Russia for its struggle towards Ukraine, as Moscow batters the nation’s power infrastructure looking for a bonus within the bloody battle.
Kirby mentioned the US would sanction three Russian-based entities energetic in “the acquisition and use of Iranian drones”.
The sanctions apply to the Russian Aerospace Forces, the 924th State Centre for Unmanned Aviation and the Command of the Army Transport Aviation.
“The USA will proceed to make use of each instrument at our disposal to disrupt these transfers and impose penalties on these engaged on this exercise,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned in an announcement on the sanctions.
Final month, Tehran admitted it had despatched drones to Russia however insisted they have been equipped earlier than Moscow’s Ukraine invasion.
‘Sordid offers’
The US additionally believes Iran is contemplating the sale of “a whole bunch of ballistic missiles” to Russia, Kirby mentioned.
The UK’s overseas secretary James Cleverly took intention on the “sordid offers” between Moscow and Tehran, saying in an announcement that Iran had despatched drones to Russia in alternate for “navy and technical help” from Moscow.
This “will enhance the chance it poses to our companions within the Center East and to worldwide safety,” Cleverly mentioned, promising that “the UK will proceed to show this determined alliance and maintain each international locations to account”.
For its half, Moscow has accused the West of supplying weapons to Ukraine which might be ending up within the arms of dangerous actors, not solely in Europe but in addition in Africa and the Center East.
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, referred to the current feedback by Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari who mentioned weapons and fighters from Ukraine have been making their strategy to the Lake Chad area and serving to violent teams.
Al Jazeera’s Kristen Saloomey mentioned the UK’s ambassador to the UN, Barbara Woodward, didn’t immediately handle Nebenzya’s claims, which have been made forward of a UN Safety Council assembly on Friday, however said that Ukraine had a proper to defend itself from Russia.
“She went on to say that the UK believes that purchasing weapons from Iran is in violation of worldwide agreements and past the drones, she alleged that Russia is now making an attempt to get ballistic missiles from Iran and likewise making an attempt to make offers with international locations like North Korea,” Saloomey mentioned, talking from the UN headquarters in New York.
‘Disappointing’ Merkel assertion
In the meantime, President Vladimir Putin mentioned that any nation that launches a nuclear assault on Moscow can be “worn out” and that Russian weapons may forcefully reply.
He additionally expressed his disappointment at former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s current statements on Ukraine and on the Minsk agreements.
The events to the Minsk agreements, which led to a ceasefire deal between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists in japanese Ukraine in 2014 and 2015, had betrayed Russia by supplying Ukraine with weapons, Putin mentioned.
In an interview printed in Germany’s Zeit journal on Wednesday, Merkel mentioned the Minsk agreements had been an try to “give Ukraine time” to construct up its defences.
Russia interpreted Merkel’s statements to imply that the Minsk peace plan was solely concluded to provide Ukraine time to arm itself and put together for struggle with Russia.
“Truthfully, this was completely surprising for me. It’s disappointing. I frankly didn’t count on to listen to one thing like this from the previous German chancellor,” Putin advised journalists in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
“I’ve all the time assumed that the management of the federal republic of Germany would behave sincerely in direction of us,” Putin mentioned.
“However it nonetheless appeared to me that the management of Germany was all the time honest in its efforts to discover a resolution based mostly on the ideas that we agreed on and that have been reached, amongst different issues, within the framework of the Minsk course of.”
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Trudeau called out by steelworker who refuses to shake his hand during blunt exchange: 'Don't believe you'
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got an earful during a photo op from a cash-strapped steelworker who told the leader his policies have left his family scratching to make ends meet.
Footage of the tense exchange in Sault Ste. Marie, a city in Ontario, which was obtained by CTV News, went viral. The unidentified worker spurned Trudeau’s offer of doughnuts to complain about high taxes, medical bills and giveaways to people he deemed “lazy.”
“The 25% tariffs we just brought in is going to help you out … that’s going to keep your job,” Trudeau told the man.
“What about the 40% taxes I am paying? And I don’t have a doctor,” the employee of Algoma Steel shot back.
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Trudeau responded by saying that a multimillion-dollar investment from the Canadian government meant the man would have a job “for many years to come.” The man responded by saying that he expected Trudeau to be voted out.
“That’s what elections are for,” said the Liberal Party leader, who stayed calm and collected during the exchange. “I look forward to everyone exercising the right to vote. … We are going to invest in you and your job.”
“I don’t believe you for a second,” the steelworker shot back.
The man also mentioned that he felt unemployed Canadians got better access to affordable health care than he did after Trudeau referenced an initiative to help hundreds of thousands of Canadians get dental care.
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“Probably like my neighbor who doesn’t go to work because she’s lazy?” the steelworker asked.
“You know what? Most Canadians try to stick up for each other, and that’s what we’ve got to keep doing,” Trudeau responded before wishing the man good luck. At the end, the laborer appeared to refuse a handshake from Trudeau.
The next federal election in Canada is set to take place on Oct. 20, 2025. Trudeau’s government has been scrutinized amid a cost-of-living crisis affecting the country, though Trudeau has remained optimistic.
“Inflation came down last month, beating out expectations,” the prime minister wrote in a Facebook post on July 17. “But, until Canadians can feel that relief in their wallets, at the grocery store, and on their mortgages, the job’s not done.”
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Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, center, is shown during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not pictured, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on Sept. 22, 2023. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to Trudeau’s office for comment.
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Taiwan court orders release of ex-Taipei mayor arrested in corruption probe
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Taiwan People’s Party leader Ko Wen-je freed after court finds insufficient evidence to justify his detention.
A court in Taiwan has ordered the release of a former mayor and presidential candidate who was arrested over his alleged role in a corruption scandal, citing insufficient evidence for his detention.
Taipei District Court on Monday ruled that Ko Wen-je, a former mayor of Taipei and the leader of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), should go free after finding that prosecutors had failed to make the case for his detention.
The court said prosecutors had not met the standard of there being a “high possibility” Ko had committed a crime.
“It cannot be concluded that the defendant… knowingly violated the law,” the court said in its ruling.
Ko was arrested on Saturday as part of a probe into alleged corruption in the redevelopment of the Core Pacific City shopping centre in the Taiwanese capital.
Ko, who came third in January’s presidential election, told reporters outside court that there was “no evidence” of his involvement in the real estate scandal.
A surgeon by training, Ko entered politics in 2014 when he successfully ran for the mayorship of Taipei as an independent candidate.
Re-elected as mayor of Taipei in 2018, he founded the TPP the following year as a third force to challenge the dominance of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and China-leaning Kuomintang (KMT).
Under the TPP banner, Ko received about one-quarter of the vote in the last presidential election, which was won by the DPP’s William Lai Ching-te.
While the TPP has only eight legislators in Taiwan’s 113-seat parliament, the party has gained outsized influence as both the DPP and KMT lack a ruling majority.
Ko, who draws much of his support from young people, is widely seen as a contender for the next election in 2028, although his popularity has been dented by a separate campaign funds scandal.
On Thursday, Ko said he would take a three-month leave of absence from the TPP leadership to take responsibility for the misreporting of campaign money and the use of election subsidies to set up a personal office space.
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