Ozzone 1-31 > The Reality of Redemption, Is your focus on Jesus or on your own Holiness?

 

Zelensky turns on his former Press Secretary

 

Iuliia Mendel

@IuliiaMendel

Europe chose my former boss Volodymyr Zelenskyy its face of democracy. Low-educated, rude, blackmailing, self-obsessed personality that filled Ukraine with violence, human rights violation, and political persecutions. Six years ago, I was teaching this person what media is and what and in what way to tell them. Today, I am politically persecuted by Zelenskyy. When I was up to have a speech in the European Parliament, Zelenskyy introduced sanctions for ten years against me. And the European Parliament without explanation took my badge away and banned my entrance. The day before my speech in German Bundestag just this month, Zelenskyy pressed his law enforcement to start treason charges against me. If I lose the court, I will face from 15 years in prison to life sentence. Apparently, this is the punishment for one my interview. From 15 years in prison to life sentence for one interview – this is democracy of Zelenskyy, a face of Europe’s democracy we are told…

According to Grok:

• Iuliia Mendel, former press secretary to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from 2019-2021, accuses him of political persecution via 10-year sanctions imposed in September 2026 and recent treason charges notified on November 3, 2026.
• She claims these actions, tied to her critical interviews including one with Tucker Carlson and planned speeches, led to her being barred from the European Parliament and facing potential 15-years-to-life imprisonment under martial law for statements Ukraine says justify Russian aggression.
• The post contrasts Zelenskyy's public image as a democratic leader with her allegations of violence, human rights violations, and suppression of critics in Ukraine.

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This Week's Islamic Massacres > In Nigeria a family of at least 11 was burned alive

 

Gunmen kill 11 family members in

Nigerian village raid

The attackers killed a security volunteer and ten of his relatives in Zamfara State and abducted 13 others, police have said

Published 10 Nov, 2026 09:18 | Updated 10 Nov, 2026 10:20

©  Adeyinka Yusuf / Majority World / Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Gunmen have killed a local security volunteer and at least ten members of his family in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara State, set their home ablaze, and abducted 13 other people, police have said.

The attackers raided Gidan Taba village in Maradun district over the weekend, targeting the volunteer after he repeatedly helped security forces repel armed groups from the community, Zamfara police spokesperson Yazid Abubakar said on Monday.

“They considered him an obstacle to their activities,” Abubakar said. Security forces have since been deployed to the area and are working to secure the release of the 13 abductees, he added.

Local reports initially put the death toll at 12 members of the same family, including women and children. A resident told Nigerian newspaper PUNCH that the victims had taken refuge in a room to avoid abduction before the attackers set it on fire.

Maradun council chairman Sanusi Ahmad Dosara also said in a Facebook post on Sunday that 12 people were killed in the “horrific” Gidan Taba attack. He said he had attended the funeral of the victims. In a separate post the on Monday, Dosara said he met the commander of the Nigerian Army’s 1 Brigade in Zamfara over worsening attacks that he said were causing loss of life and property in Maradun, and called for stronger military action to restore security.

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Days earlier, the Nigerian Police Force said armed bandits ambushed officers traveling to Zamfara for election duty, killing five and wounding two others. Seven officers were rescued, while the attackers made off with five service rifles. Police said joint forces were still searching for the gunmen and the stolen weapons.

Zamfara has been at the center of a long-running security crisis in northwest Nigeria, where armed groups locally known as bandits raid villages, abduct residents for ransom, steal livestock, and attack major roads. In January 2024, the state government launched a Community Protection Guard to support police and military operations against the violence.

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In July, at least 24 farmers were killed in attacks on communities in Talata Mafara, while more than 150 people, mostly women and children, were reported abducted from villages in Bukkuyum in April. In June, police said gunmen seized seven students from off-campus accommodation in Kaura Namoda.

The latest attack comes amid a wider security crisis across Africa’s most populous nation, including a jihadist insurgency in the northeast that began in 2009 with Boko Haram and later Islamic State West Africa Province. Nigeria’s military said last week that 588 operations in September and October killed 435 terrorists and bandits, led to 809 arrests, and rescued 717 kidnapped.

According to Grok:

Burned alive?

Yes. Family members of Mallam Muhammadu Sani (also referred to as Sani Ɗanwawo), a local vigilante, locked themselves in a room to avoid abduction. The attackers ordered them to open the door; when they refused, the bandits set the room/building on fire. Reports state 11–13 people (most commonly cited as 12 family members, including the father, wives, and children; police often said 11) died from the intense heat and fire. One account notes the fire mainly engulfed the roofing and they died from the heat rather than direct flames, but multiple sources describe them as “burnt to death,” “burned alive,” or killed by the blaze while trapped. Others were abducted. The victims were buried the next day according to Islamic rites, with Maradun LG Chairman Sanusi Ahmed Dosara leading the funeral

Zamfara, Nigeria

European Politics > Merz's power move, what's it really about?

 

Merz threatens EU budget veto over Ukraine aid – media

The German chancellor is reportedly demanding that every member state contribute to Kyiv’s financing before Berlin approves the bloc’s next seven-year budget

Published 10 Nov, 2026 04:53

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomes Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky in Berlin, November 3, 2026. ©  Halil Sagirkaya / Anadolu via Getty Images

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has threatened to block the EU’s next seven-year budget unless all member states commit to providing more financial aid to Ukraine, several media outlets reported on Monday.

The EU has pledged to cover around €45 billion ($52 billion) of Ukraine’s projected €70 billion funding shortfall in 2027, as the conflict with Russia approaches its fifth year in February. However, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic have signaled opposition to contributing to additional financial assistance for Kiev, while Bulgaria is expected to follow suit.

“Bilateral assistance to Ukraine is distributed unevenly and carried mostly by only a few member states,” Merz wrote in a letter to European Council President Antonio Costa, according to Bloomberg. The chancellor reportedly argued that supporting Ukraine was “a matter of our indivisible European security.”

“A collective commitment that all of us, without exception, will contribute fairly to closing this gap is an essential prerequisite for resolving this issue and for discussing any further matters, particularly those with financial implications,” Merz wrote, as cited by Euronews.

Is Merz's power move really about a few billion Euros from the little Balkan states. Is he so stupid, after watching France burn, that he's determined to give Ukraine tens of billions of Euros out of Berlin's budgets to continue their losing war with Russia? 

Does he not know that ending the war will bring much cheaper energy prices to Germany and ease the strain on family and business budgets? Or is he smart enough and tough enough to find an elegant way to end the EU's remarkable financing of the NATO proxy war with Russia? Smart and tough are not words normally associated with Merz, so I seriously doubt it, but wouldn't it be nice?

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Ukrainians in Germany in no rush to return home – media

He also called for “a sound and multiannual financing perspective for Ukraine from 2028 onwards, including the interest liabilities that have already accrued.”

Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic had previously secured exemptions from financial obligations, including interest payments, on the EU’s €90 billion ‘loan’ to Ukraine agreed in December 2025.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico warned last month that linking Ukraine’s financing to negotiations over the EU’s next long-term budget would be dangerous. He has also argued that financing the war would prolong the fighting rather than bring peace.

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis similarly argued that funds for Kiev “should not be part of the multiannual financial framework, where member states do not have enough money.”

Merz is also facing mounting political pressure at home amid widespread dissatisfaction with his government. According to an ARD-DeutschlandTrend poll published on November 5, only 12% of Germans were satisfied with his performance, while 85% were dissatisfied. 

The chancellor’s declining popularity has coincided with major electoral setbacks for his CDU. In September, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) won state elections in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, while the left-wing Die Linke came first in Berlin, defeating the CDU. Merz described his party’s performance in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as a “disaster.”

War on Christianity > Another Christian Martyr in Libya

 

Young Christian man killed by ISIS in Libya after refusing to deny Jesus

By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Monday, November 09, 2026

A 20-year-old Christian from Egypt has been killed by the Islamic State (ISIS) in Libya after he refused to deny Jesus and convert to Islam while held captive by its fighters.

The victim, Milad Malak, was the sole Christian among the Egyptian workers the militants held, Open Doors reported, citing two Muslim friends held alongside him and later freed.

For several days, the captors allegedly tortured him and threatened to kill him to force him to give up Christianity for Islam. Malak turned down every demand, and he is thought to have been killed by the militants after they were unable to force him to convert.

“Even if you cut me into pieces, I would never renounce my faith,” he told his captors, according to the U.S.-based persecution watchdog International Christian Concern.

He was kidnapped and killed in early October. Speaking to Worthy News, his sister, Madonna Malek, said the family paid a ransom. The kidnappers kept him because he alone among the captives was a Christian, and they used violence to push him to convert, she said.

Malak served as a deacon at a Coptic church in Sebarbay, his home village in Egypt’s northern Gharbia governorate.

He was among many young Egyptians who went to Libya for jobs as their own economy declined, hoping to provide for his family and settle into a secure life.

He left on Sept. 2, traveling with two friends from Sebarbay, both Muslims. After a one-day trip, the three reached Zliten, a city on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, where they lodged with fellow Egyptians who had come for work. ISIS fighters seized them on the morning of Oct. 4.

The kidnappers abused the captives and demanded money for their release. The two friends went free after their families paid $4,700, and both are now in a hospital in Egypt for medical treatment.

Malak’s family learned of his death from the friends. Relatives then asked the Egyptian government to step in and press for his body to be sent home.

The body was handed over several weeks later.

On Oct. 28, relatives and other Christians gathered to mourn him and honor his life. A family friend said he stayed faithful to Christ until he died.

Libya is ranked No. 9 on Open Doors’ annual World Watch List of the most dangerous countries for Christians.

In the Muslim-majority country, Christians come under heavy pressure to leave their religion.

Both Open Doors and ICC linked Malak’s death to the killing of 20 Coptic Christians and a Ghanaian man by ISIS in Libya in 2015. According to Open Doors, the militants took the men to a beach and beheaded them after they refused a final demand to renounce their faith. ISIS filmed the killings and posted the video online.

Copts belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church, the largest Christian community in Egypt and the Middle East.

Most of the men killed in 2015 came from villages in Minya province in southern Egypt. Like Malak, they were laborers who had gone to Libya to earn money. The Ghanaian victim, Matthew Ayariga, had been working there alongside the Egyptians.

ISIS released the video of the beheadings in February 2015. Egypt responded the next day with airstrikes on ISIS targets in the eastern Libyan city of Derna.

The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II, later declared the 21 men martyrs. In 2023, Pope Francis added them to the Roman Catholic Church’s list of martyrs.

Egypt and Libya share a long land border, and Egyptian laborers have sought work there for decades.

Libya has been in turmoil since a 2011 uprising toppled longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi and has been split between rival governments since 2014.

Migrants on the Move > 7 bodies recovered from storm in Meditteranean, 34 off the Canary Islands

 

8 Sudanese migrants found dead on boat off Greek island, 2 missing

By Paul Godfrey

At least eight migrants were killed, two are missing and 28 were rescued after their boat got into difficulty in a storm off the island of Crete, Greek authorities said Monday. File photo by Bougiotis Evangelos/EPA-EFE

Nov. 9 (UPI) -- At least eight migrants were killed, two are missing and 28 were rescued after their boat got into difficulty in a storm off the island of Crete, Greek authorities said Monday.

The Hellenic Coastguard said in a news release that one of its lifeboats recovered seven bodies from the vessel on Monday, 12 miles west-south-west of Kala Limenas, having initially rescued 29 Sudanese nationals, one of whom was deceased, in a rescue attempt early Sunday that was abandoned after conditions became too dangerous to continue.

Survivors told the coastguard at least two people had earlier fallen overboard on Friday afternoon and had not been seen since -- but were unable to give the location where they went missing.

"Towing and further recovery became completely impossible and extremely dangerous due to the severity of the weather conditions, with gale force northerly winds, resulting in the boat being left at the scene," said the coastguard.

Survivors said they had set sail from Libya headed for Greece on Tuesday or Wednesday, paying between $1,870 and $2,493 for the crossing.

The bodies and survivors were brought ashore in Kala Limenas before being transferred to Heraklion, the island's capital, where two of the survivors were being treated in the hospital.

An estimated additional 87 people were rescued in two separate operations about 35 and 36 miles south of Kali Limenas, respectively, after being located with assistance from manned and unmanned aircraft, picked up by Frontex vessels and were being brought to Kali Limenas.

Two people, both Sudanese nationals, were arrested in connection with the incidents.

Separately, the state-run Senegalese Press Agency reported that at least 34 migrants were killed after a small wooden boat trying to reach the Canary Islands went down of the coast of the west African country.

Senegal's interior ministry said one person had been rescued but an unknown number of people remained unaccounted for after the vessel capsized between Dakar and Saint-Louis.

The Canary Islands are part of Spain and therefore the European Union.

At least 635 people died attempting to reach the Canary Islands on the so-called Atlantic route in the five months to May, according to Walking Borders, a Spanish migrant rights group, which said it estimated that at least one in five people who made the crossing lost their lives doing so.

Auhtorities on the islands said more than 30 boats carrying more than 3,300 people had arrived in November alone.

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