Oh the pain! It hurts so much. My sides hurt so much from laughter. Please have mercy and don't make me laugh this much.
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UK faces blackouts due to gas shortage: Reports
The UK energy regulator Ofgem revealed on Monday that some power plants in the country may cease operations due to a gas shortage caused by the energy crisis, as per local media.
Citing the regulator, The Times reported that the UK could declare a gas supply emergency, which could cut off supplies to some gas-fired power plants, rendering them unable to generate electricity.
The state's declaration of emergency is likely to increase fears of blackouts because the UK relies on gas-fired power plants for most of its electricity supply, according to the newspaper.
Power plants will be fined if they fail to deliver as much energy as promised, according to the UK power industry rules.
Under power industry rules in the UK, the gas shortage should be addressed as soon as possible to avoid impacts on the safety of electricity and gas systems, as per the report.
The media outlet also warned that gas shortage should be addressed as soon as possible to avoid impacts on the safety of electricity and gas systems.
Ofgem said that the upcoming winter would be "more challenging than last year," as per the newspaper.
Because of the draconian sanctions imposed on Russia after February 24, the UK is currently facing a massive energy crisis.
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Turkish inflation rate hits 24-year high
Inflation in Turkey has jumped reaching a 24-year high, surpassing 83% in September, according to official data presented on Monday, just after the Turkish central bank cut interest rates.
Ankara is following the West's banking trend by raising interest rates in an effort to combat the nation's spiraling inflation, which analysts fear will only cause a recession.
However, the Turkish president called the higher rates his "biggest enemy." Recep Tayyip Erdogan focused on growth ahead of the coming elections in June 2023, repeatedly voicing his stance against the increasing rates.
Following his vision, the central bank decreased the policy rate to 12% from 13% last month, while Erdogan insists on more cuts.
The TUIK state statistics agency said on Monday that consumer prices increased by 83.45% in September, up from 80.2% in August. After the announcement, the Turkish lira hit a new low of 18.56 against the US Dollar.
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British PM humiliated on economic package retreat
British Prime Minister Liz Truss hits a humiliating U-turn on tax cut decision included in the previously announced economic package, just one day after she announced being "absolutely committed" to it.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss does an embarrassing U-turn, one day after declaring that she was "totally committed" to the tax cut decision, which was part of the previously announced economic package.
Almost one week ago, PM Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwareng, announced huge tax cuts funded by a significant increase in borrowing in a new "mini-budget" that led to a sharp slide in UK bonds and currency, were the Sterling hit a 41 year low against the dollar, and an extreme negative reaction from the financial markets.
Only a small number of Conservative MPs supported the mini-budget; others opposed it, most notably Julian Smith, a former whip for the party, who said it was wrong to enact a "huge tax cut for the very rich at a time of national crisis and real fear and anxiety among low-income workers and citizens." It is regarded as an unusual occurrence that the IMF joined the voices in denouncing the mini-budget.
Following the massive turbulence that hit the markets and the public outrage, UK government announced on Monday dumping the 45% to 40% tax-cut plan on incomes over £150,000, to which Kwarteng tweeted, "We get it, and we have listened," stating that, "It is clear that the abolition of the 45p tax rate has become a distraction from our overriding mission to tackle the challenges facing our economy." The news drived the Sterling sharply upwards against the USD, where it settled at 1.1212 at 7:30 following the confirmation that the cut was scrapped.
In a talk with the BBC on Sunday, Truss claimed that the decision on cutting tax from high earners was made by Chancellor Kwasi and that she hadn't discussed it with her cabinet, in what appeared to be like "throwing (Kwarteng) under a bus," as MP Nadine Dorries described it.
Stating that the plan reveal did not go as planned due to communication errors with the UK minister of Finance, Truss tweeted, “Our focus now is on building a high growth economy that funds world-class public services, boosts wages, and creates opportunities across the country," adding that, "The abolition of the 45pc rate had become a distraction from our mission to get Britain moving.”
"I'm very pleased that we've decided not to proceed with that because it was drowning out the elements of an excellent plan," stated Kwarteng to the BBC, while assuring that he did not consider resigning "at all".
Former UK transport secretary, Grant Shapps, described the decision to back down on the top rate tax cuts as sensible, stating the BBC cutting taxes from the people who least need them, "jarred for people in a way which was unsustainable.”
Following the recent events, a survey conducted by YouGov revealed that 51% of UK citizens believe that PM Truss should resign, while 54% think that Kwarteng needs to go.
Earlier, Tory members urged new PM Liz Truss to kick Kwarteng to the curb as they viewed her new government formation as a situation in dire straits. One member said: “Kwasi will have to go. She won’t have any option. They are actually crashing the economy and she will need somebody to blame.”
The party's former chancellor, Ken Clarke, labeled the Truss government to have initiated with a “catastrophic start”, and hoped that the mini-budget initiative would be “torn up”, but in a statement to Sky News, in his opinion, Kwarteng's resignation would not improve the crisis, adding: “We cannot have a different chancellor every other week.”
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Italy's oil giant ENI ready to pay guarantee to unblock Russian gas
Italian oil and gas giant Eni pointed out Monday that it is ready to provide a 20-million-euro guarantee to restart deliveries of Russian gas through Austria, after a stoppage blamed on regulatory changes.
Eni's CEO Claudio Descalzi claimed that the gas delivery was suspended Saturday because Russia's Gazprom failed to provide a newly-imposed guarantee to the carrier transporting it from Austria to Italy.
"We are seeing if we take over" and provide the 20 million euros, Descalzi mentioned, adding that he hoped that "the problem can be resolved this week."
"The stoppage is absolutely not due to geopolitical reasons," Descalzi indicated on the sidelines of a Rome conference.
Speaking about Gazprom, Eni's CEO said that "it is difficult to imagine that a company that wants to pay in rubles can provide guarantees in euros."
Gazprom completely suspended gas deliveries to Eni on Saturday, citing the "impossibility of gas transport through Austria" due to a new regulation that came into force on October 1.
Most of the Russian gas delivered to Italy passes via Ukraine through the Trans Austria Gas Pipeline (TAG), to Tarvisio in northern Italy on the border with Austria.
Before Saturday's suspension, Italy received some 20 million cubic meters of Russian gas per day – or "about nine to 10 percent" of its gas imports, Descalzi clarified. That compares to 40% before the start of the war in Ukraine.
Outgoing Prime Minister Mario Draghi has signed new deals with other gas producers to reduce Italy's reliance on Russia and has been racing to fill up the country's gas stores before winter.
Italy has already hit its target of filling its stores to 90% and is "in the process of increasing it," Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani mentioned Sunday.
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Haiti reports first Cholera death in years
At least seven people died from cholera, authorities in Haiti said Sunday, raising new concerns about a resurgent epidemic in the crisis-ridden Caribbean country.
Cholera killed approximately 10,000 people in the aftermath of Haiti's 2010 earthquake when it was introduced to the country by United Nations workers assisting with the response.
Nearly three years after the last confirmed case of the illness in Haiti, the country's health ministry announced on Sunday that multiple suspected cases were discovered in the capital Port-au-Prince and the coastal neighborhood of Cite Soleil.
Director General of Haiti's public health ministry Laure Adrien told reporters Sunday afternoon that seven or eight people had already died.
"Most of the victims died in the communities and could not go to hospitals," he said.
Adrien demanded that the outbreak of roadblocks across the country, in protest of the recent increase in gas prices, were so the infected could access health care or ambulances.
Protests and looting rocked the volatile country since September 11, when Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced a fuel price increase, claiming that subsidies were too costly for one of the world's poorest countries.
In an earlier statement, the health ministry stated that measures aim to limit the spread of the virus, including the investigation of other possible cases, while urging people to practice increased hygiene precautions.
The first viral cases were detected during the 2010 outbreak near the Artibonite River, where UN peacekeepers had dumped feces.
It wasn't until August 2016 that the UN officially acknowledged its role in the outbreak.
On Sunday, the UN said it was "supporting efforts by the Government of Haiti to contain a cholera outbreak and provide life-saving measures."
The last positive case was detected in 2019, and the Ministry of Public Health held a ceremony in February 2022 to mark the country's official cholera elimination.
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Indigenous icon Littlefeather dies at 75
Less than two months after the Academy apologized over her treatment at the 1973 Academy Awards, Sacheen Littlefeather (Apache/Yaqui/Ariz) died at the age of 75 according to the Academy of Motion Pictures.
Littlefeather had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
The Academy announced on Saturday night her death in a tweet. According to a statement from her caregiver, she died at noon on Sunday at her home in the Northern California city of Novato, surrounded by her loved ones.
An apology 49 years late
When Sacheen Littlefeather (Apache/Yaqui/Ariz) represented Marlon Brando at the 1973 Oscars, she spoke out against the abuse of Native Americans and rejected to receive Brando's award on his behalf. Littlefeather's career in movies came to an end as a result of the harassment and abuse she endured after the 60-second statement and during which she was jeered and booed.
The Academy issued Littlefeather an official apology 50 years later on June 18, according to The Hollywood Reporter (THR), and invited her to the Academy Museum as a guest for an evening of contemplation on September 17th.
On stage, in a historical moment in both Oscars and live television in 1973, Littlefeather was heckled offstage and threatened with both arrest and physical assault. Upon Marlon Brando's request, the Native American actress, then 26 years old, entered the stage and declined the best actor prize for his part in the cinema classic "The Godfather".
She vowed to follow Brando's directions not to touch the statuette and to confine her remarks to a maximum of 60 seconds (A directive from the show's producer Howard Koch, who informed Littlefeather before the award ceremony that he had security on ready to detain her if she continued over the allotted time).
Little feather was pushed to improvise her speech after Koch’s threats which became an obstacle to reading Brando’s pre-written speech.
“[Brando] very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award,” Littlefeather said adding that “the reasons for this being are the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry [the audience begins to boo] — excuse me — and on television in movie reruns, and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee.”
At the time Wounded Knee was under a US Department of Justice-imposed blackout as Native Americans had occupied the South Dakota village in protest of the continued mistreatment of their people.
She will visit the Academy again over fifty years later as an honored guest for an evening of reflection at the Academy Museum that will include a formal apology from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), something she never thought would happen in her lifetime.
“I was stunned. I never thought I’d live to see the day I would be hearing this, experiencing this,” adding that “When I was at the podium in 1973, I stood there alone,” now 75-year-old Littlefeather told regarding the apology she received.
After her infamous speech, everything changed for Littlefeather. Even talk shows or productions were threatened to be shut down by the US federal government, revealed THR.
The apology, dated June 18, and signed by then-Academy president David Rubin read:
“As you stood on the Oscars stage in 1973 to not accept the Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando, in recognition of the misrepresentation and mistreatment of Native American people by the film industry, you made a powerful statement that continues to remind us of the necessity of respect and the importance of human dignity.
The abuse you endured because of this statement was unwarranted and unjustified. The emotional burden you have lived through and the cost to your own career in our industry are irreparable. For too long the courage you showed has been unacknowledged. For this, we offer both our deepest apologies and our sincere admiration.
We cannot realize the Academy’s mission to “inspire imagination and connect the world through cinema” without a commitment to facilitating the broadest representation and inclusion reflective of our diverse global population.
Today, nearly 50 years later, and with the guidance of the Academy’s Indigenous Alliance, we are firm in our commitment to ensuring indigenous voices—the original storytellers—are visible, respected contributors to the global film community. We are dedicated to fostering a more inclusive, respectful industry that leverages a balance of art and activism to be a driving force for progress.
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We hope you receive this letter in the spirit of reconciliation and as recognition of your essential role in our journey as an organization. You are forever respectfully engrained in our history.”
At the Academy Museum celebration of Littlefeather on September 17, THR wrote, the apology will be read in its entirety. Littlefeather will take part in a discussion with producer Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne/Mescalero Apache/N.M.), co-chair of the Academy's Indigenous Alliance. Runningwater was the one who initially contacted Littlefeather on the Academy's behalf as part of the museum's ongoing initiatives to examine the group's past and determine its future through a more comprehensive, inclusive lens.
Littlefeather will be making her first trip to the museum, where a picture of her has been put within the gallery chronicling the history of the Academy Awards. After her career got derailed due to her decision to stand up for her people in 1973, Littlefeather pursued studies in traditional medicine and nutrition as well as worked at Mother Teresa's AIDS hospice. However, she never anticipated reconciliation with the most powerful Hollywood institution.
Living with metastatic breast cancer, Littlefeather, according to THR, said “Yes, there’s an apology that’s due. As my friends in the Native community said, it’s long overdue,” adding that “I could have been dead by now. All of my friends — [activists] Dennis Banks, Russell Means, John Trudell, [comedian] Charlie Hill — are gone.”
When asked what she thought of Koch and the other Oscar night participants who stood by as she was harassed, she laughed wholeheartedly and said that “When they got to the other side, I’m sure that my ancestors spoke to them on my behalf. And I’m sure Mr. Charles went over there and had a talk with them immediately. I’m sure his first target was John Wayne.”
According to THR, Littlefeather claims that she has maintained a daily practice of "love, gratitude, and forgiveness” for herself. She has also been encouraged by the most recent advancements in Native American representation in Hollywood stories and stated that “At long last, somebody is breaking down the doors. And I’m so very happy this is happening."
When in 1973 Littlefeather concluded her speech by saying “I beg at this time that … in the future, our hearts, and our understandings will meet with love and generosity,” she did not know it would take 49 years for the world to finally get there.
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Hillary Clinton readies for 2024 US presidency as "moderate" choice
Veteran political consultant and former aide to President Bill Clinton, Dick Morris, said in a new interview on Sunday that Hillary Clinton is planning to set herself as the "moderate" choice for Democrats by criticizing Biden's administration's "open borders" policy.
As Morris noted that more and more Americans are losing faith in open borders, “I see more and more signs that Hillary’s going to run,” he told John Catsimatidis on his WABC 770 AM radio show.
"These are all signals that she is going to be the moderate candidate for president. She’s going to say after the election, ‘See, the left cost us the House and the Senate. If we stay with a left-wing candidate in 2024, we’re going to lose the White House. I’m the only one who will tack to the center and give us a chance at victory,’" Morris told Catsimatidis.
The former aide added that he was very aware of the strategy she is planning to use as he himself tailored it for Bill Clinton when he won the Democratic nomination in 1992.
“Hillary is just dusting off Bill‘s playbook that I wrote for him and applying it herself this year,” he said.
Last month, Clinton accused Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of engaging in human trafficking over his reckless program of flying migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard.
"So many other Americans — I happen to believe still the majority of Americans — are good-hearted and generous and when people end up on their doorstep in need, they’re going to respond. They’ll feed them and house them and the kids in the AP Spanish class will be let out of high school so they can go and translate. That’s the kind of American spirit that we try to celebrate at the Clinton Global Initiative," she said during her interview on MSNBC on September 16.
"Nobody wants open borders who has any idea of how government and countries work," she added.
Morris told Catsimatidis that fears building up over a 'far-left' candidate are signaling that Democrats will favor Clinton over other runner-ups.
"Once Biden pulls out, the polling will show that the Democrats are leaning toward some crazy radical like [California Gov.] Gavin Newson, [Vermont Sen.] Bernie Sanders. Maybe even AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] herself," Morris said.
“That’s going to drive the Democratic Party leaders to go to Hillary and say, ‘Hey look. Please run again. We need you to save us from the crazy left,’” he added.
“Otherwise we’ll have Sanders as our candidate. We’ll lose Congress by a ton. And we’ll get wiped out in the presidential race.”
Clinton previously ran for the presidency in 2008 but lost the nomination to former President Barack Obama. She ran again for the 2016 presidency and lost the election to Donald Trump.
Trump in March had sued Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, and several other Democrats alleging “racketeering" a “conspiracy to commit injurious falsehood,” among other claims in a 108-page lawsuit that echoed the long list of grievances he repeatedly aired during his four years in the White House after beating Clinton.
He had sought compensatory and punitive damages, saying he had incurred more than $24m in “defense costs, legal fees, and related expenses."
On September 9, a US judge rejected Trump’s lawsuit saying the lawsuit was not seeking “redress for any legal harm” and that the court was “not the appropriate forum” for the former President’s complaints.
“He is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him,” Middlebrooks said in his ruling.
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EU restarts high-level political dialogue with “Israel”
The European Union decided to resume the Association Council meetings with “Israel” after ten years of cancelation.
The Israeli Prime Minister will meet with Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and the European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi, as well as foreign ministers from member countries, via video conference on October 3.
This renewed dialogue represents a gradual alignment of European policy with the positions of the Israeli occupation despite harsh opposition from several European MPs and about 60 European and Palestinian NGOs.
Chair of the European Parliament human rights subcommittee Marie Arena said,” this is a blank check given to Israel whatever government comes out of the polls."
It is worth noting that some 60 Palestinian and European NGOs requested the cancellation of the Association Council between the European Union (EU) and “Israel”.
This comes a few days after Palestinian 7-year-old child Rayan Yasser Suleiman died on Thursday when his heart stopped after he was chased alongside other school children by the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Teqoa, southeast of Beit Lahm.
It is noteworthy that Palestinian human rights data has lately confirmed that dozens of Palestinian martyrs were shot by the Israeli occupation, and hundreds of male and female detainees were under 18 years old.
In addition, 83 Palestinian children were killed in 2021 and 2022, according to Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCIP) data.
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Kremlin to negotiate peace treaty with Japan impossible
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that it is impossible to negotiate a peace treaty between Russia and Japan under the current circumstances.
Earlier in the day, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stated that Tokyo remains steadfast in a peace treaty with Moscow. However, he noted that relations between Japan and Russia are difficult due to the situation in Ukraine.
"Of course, conducting negotiations on a peace treaty under such conditions seems impossible," Peskov told reporters.
Last March, the Russian Foreign Ministry revealed that Moscow is refusing to continue negotiations with Japan on a peace treaty with Tokyo's implementation of sanctions against Russia in the background.
Russia is blocking the extension of the Japanese status as a dialogue partner in the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
“All responsibility for the damage to bilateral cooperation and the interests of Japan itself lies with Tokyo, which deliberately made a choice in favor of an anti-Russian course instead of developing mutually beneficial cooperation and good neighborliness,” the ministry said.
"Given the obvious unfriendly nature of the unilateral restrictions imposed by Japan against Russia in connection with the situation in Ukraine, the following measures are being taken. The Russian side is withdrawing from the dialogue with Japan on establishing joint economic activities in the southern Kuril islands," the ministry said.
Russia will also ban Japanese citizens from visiting the Kuril islands without a visa.
After WWII, Russia and Japan have not signed a peace treaty and the territorial disputes over the Kuril Islands. With both sides still 'at war', the sovereign fate of the islands is still unclear.
While Japan protests the visit of Russian officials to the islands, Russia fears the placement of US bases and missiles on the islands if they were to be handed to Tokyo.
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Switzerland opposes transfer of frozen Russian funds to Ukraine
On Monday, a spokesman for the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research, Fabian Maienfisch, told reporters that Switzerland disapproved of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky's proposal to transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.
"For the Swiss government, the confiscation of assets only on the basis of belonging to a state or being included in the sanctions list and using them to rebuild Ukraine is currently not an option of showing support for Ukraine," the spokesperson told RIA Novosti.
Zelensky's proposal to block Russian assets in Swiss banks and transfer them to Ukraine was delivered last week.
On June 30, Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Alexander Venediktov deemed the freeze of Russian assets to be one of the "greatest thefts in history."
The Ukrainian President has several times asked his allies to further support him financially and militarily throughout the war.
So far, the US has been its principal provider with the transfers of over $16.9 billion in "security assistance", which includes a package worth $600 million in early September. Additionally, the White House asked Congress for $13.7 billion for "security and economic assistance" for Ukraine.
The EU has likewise provided some support despite its current struggles with the energy crisis.
In the first half of the year, the EU supported Ukraine with €1.2 billion in loans and billions in arms and weapons deliveries, and in July it agreed to provide an assistance package worth €9 billion of which €1 billion were dispatched last summer and another €5 billion are already approved but not yet delivered.
The remaining €3 billion are still being discussed on whether to be sent as grants or loans, but the US has recently been pressuring the EU to do more to assist Ukraine in the war.
Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that the US was eyeing plans to make monthly transfers in aid to Ukraine in efforts to continue the war against Russia and it called on its EU counterparts to assist in the like.
On the military side, both the EU and the US failed to meet Ukraine's needs, as per Zelensky. Since the start of the war, the Ukrainian President has been insisting on his allies to send them the most up-to-date tanks which are believed would strengthen its counter-offensive against Russia.
Spain showed good cooperation in the beginning but was later pressured by Germany not to send the desired weapons.
On September 30, White House official Jake Sullivan said the US did not rule out that NATO-standard tanks, including Abrams and Leopard tanks, will be supplied to Ukraine in light of its ongoing war.
An article published by Military Watch Magazine on September 30 detailed some reasons why such a move would ever be possible - one of the reasons being that NATO would never want to compromise its technology through capture.
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Ousted Burkina Faso leader Damiba in Togo after coup: Government
Togo's government on Monday confirmed that ousted Burkina Faso leader Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba had fled to Togo after a military coup.
West African bloc ECOWAS plans to send envoys to Burkina Faso after troops toppled Damiba in the country's second coup in nine months.
Togo's Minister of Communication and government spokesperson, Akodah Ayewouadan, said Damiba was in Togo as part of the country's commitment to "peace in the sub-region."
"Togo, like ECOWAS, welcomes the fact that the spirit of peace has prevailed," the official said in a response to questions from AFP.
"The reception of… Damiba is part of this spirit."
The streets of Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou were calm on Monday after a two-day clash between military rivals.
Damiba on Sunday had agreed to step down, religious and community mediators said after new self-declared leader Captain Ibrahim Traore stated that he had been forced out.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said it welcomed "a peaceful settlement of their differences" and announced it would dispatch a delegation to Ouagadougou.
Order was being restored in Burkina Faso: Traore
On Saturday, Traore said that order was being restored in the country following violent protests against the French embassy in Ouagadougou and days of clashes.
Security forces fired harmful tear gas at protesters outside the embassy, according to an AFP journalist.
Traore's side urged people to refrain from attacking the French embassy that was targeted after an officer involved in the coup revealed that France had sheltered Damiba at a French military base in the country and that he was planning a counteroffensive.
The French Foreign Ministry claimed the base had not hosted Damiba after his ouster on Friday. Damiba, whose whereabouts were unknown at the time, also denied he was at the French base, claiming that the reports were a deliberate manipulation of public opinion.
"We want to inform the population that the situation is under control and order is being restored," an army officer announced in a statement broadcast on national television.
"We invite you to continue with your activities and refrain from all acts of violence and vandalism… notably that against the French embassy and the French military base," the officer said.
On Friday, Traore announced that he led a coup against Damiba, dissolved the government, and suspended Burkina Faso's constitution and transitional charter.
Traore said a group of officers took the decision to topple Damiba over his inability to deal with the growing terror attacks in the country. The borders are currently closed indefinitely and all political and civil society activities have been suspended, he added.
This is the country's second military coup in eight months, with Damiba only assuming power in January after ousting former President Rock Kabore via a coup of his own in light of growing frustration over the state of the country's security.
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Nasrallah threats put 'Israel' under pressure: Israeli media
Zvi Yehezkeli, the commentator for Arab affairs on Israeli Channel 13, considered Sunday that "Israel" acted stubbornly during the indirect negotiations on the demarcation of the maritime border with Lebanon, until Hezbollah's Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's threats that forced it to hold back.
Yehezkeli pointed out that Sayyed Nasrallah's threats were effective and put the Israeli occupation under a state of pressure, adding that these threats will prevent "Tel Aviv" from extracting gas.
The Israeli commentator said that when Lebanon extracts gas, Sayyed Nasrallah will strengthen his position and will be the biggest winner from this situation.
It is noteworthy that during his speech on Saturday, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah stressed that "the importance of what is happening today is there being a written text from the mediating party that the President, Parliament Speaker, and the Prime Minister have received."
"We are before decisive days in the demarcation issue, and the position of the heads of the state will be clarified, as well as where things are headed," the Hezbollah chief underlined.
"If the demarcation issue leads to a desired, good result, that will be due to unity, cooperation, and national solidarity," Sayyed Nasrallah added.
Meanwhile, Israeli media said that "Nasrallah, succeeded in the battle of awareness that involved negotiations to demarcate the Lebanese southern maritime borders."
Source to Al Mayadeen: Lebanon earned all its maritime borders rights
This comes as a Lebanese source concerned with the maritime border demarcation negotiations between Lebanon and "Israel" told Al Mayadeen on Saturday that Lebanon obtained all its demands in the written response received by the US mediator Amos Hochstein.
"In the written proposal received by the Americans, Lebanon obtained all its demands," the source confirmed.
"Lebanon has not and will not give Israel any security zone it previously demanded," the source noted.
This comes after Lebanon received the written proposal from the US mediator Amos Hochstein through US Ambassador Dorothy Shea regarding the demarcation of maritime borders.
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