At least 40 people were killed when a bus exploded after falling off a bridge in southwestern Pakistan.
And the French Press Agency quoted a representative of the government, Hamza Anjum, an official in the Lasbela district in Balochistan province, where the accident took place, as confirming that “the bodies cannot be identified.”
He added that three survivors were rescued, pointing out that the bus was carrying 48 people when it hit a pillar before falling off the bridge it was crossing.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that “Saudi Hassan Al Rabie, who is being held in Morocco under a Saudi arrest warrant linked to terrorism, faces the risks of deportation to his country, where he fears that he will be subjected to torture and even a death sentence,” according to what the agency quoted. sister.
Al Rabie, 26, was detained on January 14, as he was leaving Rabat towards Turkey, according to a Saudi arrest warrant issued last November.
According to the arrest warrant, seen by Agence France-Presse, the young man is accused of coordinating “with a terrorist to facilitate his exit from Saudi Arabia in an irregular manner.”
According to Agence France-Presse, “Al-Rabee, who belongs to the Shiite minority in Saudi Arabia, hails from the city of Awamiya in the east of the country, which witnessed protests in 2011 and then violent clashes in 2017 between citizens who usually complain about what they see as marginalization of the Shiite minority, and government forces.”
His brother Ahmed, who resides in Canada, stated in a statement to Agence France-Presse that “Hassan has nothing to do with these events,” explaining that the Saudi authorities are looking for their brother Munir, who is hiding from view, “and they want to hold him (Hassan) as a hostage to put pressure on him.” To recognize Munir’s whereabouts,” a human rights activist and outspoken critic of the government.
He stated that his brother was “just a scapegoat,” noting that “I spoke on the phone with Hassan last Tuesday, and he told me, “I am distraught that I am wanted by security,” especially since he left Saudi Arabia legally.
The Saudi authorities had previously arrested Hassan and his two brothers, Hussein and Ali, in February 2021. While they released Hassan and Hussein a day after their arrest, they continued to detain the older brother, Ali, who was sentenced to death in November 2022.
To escape security harassment, Al-Rabee left Saudi Arabia at the end of 2021 and moved between Indonesia, Oman and Ukraine before settling in Morocco in the summer of 2022, according to his brother Ahmed.
Ahmed stated, “I fear for Hassan’s life if he is deported to Saudi Arabia. The regime only deals with execution,” referring in particular to the execution of two of his cousins in a mass execution of 37 people, including 33 Shiites, in April 2019.
In March 2022, Saudi Arabia executed 81 people in one day, many of them belonging to the Shiite minority, for their convictions in terrorism-related cases.
Al-Rabee appeared before the Moroccan Court of First Instance on January 14, before being transferred to Tiflet 2 prison, pending the decision of the Rabat Court of Cassation regarding his extradition, according to what was confirmed by the European-Saudi Organization for Human Rights.
Ahmed Al-Rabee, who holds Canadian citizenship, explained that he had sent appeals to the Canadian Prime Minister and the White House, without receiving any response yet.
A federal jury in Manhattan has indicted Saifullah Saipov, the Uzbek extremist who ran over eight cyclists and pedestrians in New York in 2017 in the name of the Islamic State.
The man, who has been on trial since January 9, was convicted of 28 charges, including eight related to “murder with the aim of joining the Islamic State”, which are “charges punishable by death or life imprisonment,” according to the Manhattan federal prosecutor.
The attack resulted in the deadliest outcome in New York after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and occurred more than a year after the Nice attack in southern France, when a 31-year-old Tunisian rammed his truck into a crowd watching the fireworks display on July 14, leaving 86 dead and more than 400 injured.
US President Joe Biden indicated, “We worked with our allies to ensure that the Ukrainians are in the best position towards this long Russian aggression, and Russia tried to separate us from our allies, but failed.”
And he explained in a statement, “The Ukrainian forces are working to liberate their lands, and therefore their practical capabilities against the Russians must be improved, so we decided to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, which are considered among the best tanks in the world, and we will provide the Ukrainians with spare parts and training that will start soon.”
Biden thanks German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for strengthening our collective efforts to support Ukraine and for uniting all of us,” noting that “Russian President Vladimir Putin thought he could separate us from our European allies, but he failed to do so.”
US President Joe Biden said, “Today we must celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade law (Roe v. Wade.), which for decades has guaranteed the right to abortion throughout the United States.
In a statement on social media, he pointed out, “Instead, Republican officials from the MAGA movement (the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement launched by former US President Donald Trump) waged a war against women’s right to make their own decisions regarding To their health,” focusing on “I have always fought to protect women’s reproductive rights, and I will always fight.”
Biden pointed out that “the right of women to choose is not negotiable,” calling on Congress to pass a law that would use the provisions of the “Roe v. Wade” law and oblige conservative states to implement it.
It is noteworthy that in June 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States of America overturned the “Roe v. Wade” law, considering that the right to abortion is not protected under the Constitution. And she passed a resolution authorizing each state to enact the laws it deems appropriate regarding abortion. About 20 states have made abortion illegal.
A lawyer for Tesla’s investors said that CEO Elon Musk “lied” when he said that funding had been “secured” to delist the company from the stock market, but Musk’s lawyer said the billionaire used only “wrong words” to express his plans in 2018.
Tesla investor Glenn Littleton is seeking damages on behalf of shareholders who traded in the company in the days after Musk posted his plan to delist the company on Twitter in August 2018.
Chief investor attorney Nicholas Porritt told a San Francisco jury during opening remarks that what he believed were Musk’s lies caused “ordinary people” to lose millions of dollars. “Millions of dollars were lost when his lies spread,” he added.
Alex Spyro, Musk’s lawyer, disputed that characterization, saying the billionaire was “serious” about delisting the company from the stock market in 2018, but eventually faced shareholder opposition.
“We will know very soon that this was not fraud, not even close to that,” Spyro said during his opening remarks. He added to the jury that Musk thought financing was not an issue and was “taking steps” to close a deal.
Spyro said that while the tweets contained “technical errors”, Musk was concerned that some investors knew of his plan to delist the company from the stock market and wanted to pass the information on to the “ordinary shareholder” who “wanted to protect him”. “He used the wrong words, in a hurry,” Spyro added.
A nine-member jury will decide whether the tweets artificially inflated Tesla’s share price by exaggerating the financing status of a deal, and if so, by how much.
Among the defendants are current and former Tesla executives, who Spyro said had “pure” motives in their response to Musk’s plan.
Today, Spyro considered that Tesla’s share price jumped in response to Musk saying that he was considering canceling the company’s listing on the stock market, which he said was true. He added that he did not jump on Musk’s assertion about the funding.
Shareholders file lawsuits every year against hundreds of companies and their executives for alleged securities fraud, but very few of these cases reach the trial stage. The vast majority are either rejected by the courts or are being settled.
