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Attack on gas pipeline in Syria causes brief power outage
yesterday
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An attack with explosive devices laid along a natural gas pipeline southeast of Syria’s capital knocked out power in parts of the country before it was quickly restored, the electricity minister said Saturday.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which was the latest incidence of sabotage targeting Syria’s oil and gas infrastructure. During the 10-year conflict, Syria’s oil and gas infrastructure was subject to repeated attacks and many oil fields now lay outside of government-controlled areas.
The attack southeast of Damascus late Friday targeted a pipeline that feeds nearly 50% of Syria’s power plants, according to Electricity Minister Ghassan al-Zamel, whose comments were carried by state media.
He said the attack caused a drop in the transmission pressure, affecting different power plants in the country.
Maintenance work began early Saturday and power was restored to all provinces, al-Zamel said. But he warned that rationing would be “severe” until all repair work was completed.
A statement from the Oil Ministry called it a “terrorist attack that targeted the Arab Natural Gas pipeline” in the Haran al-Awamid area in southern Syria.
The pipeline is part of a transregional gas export pipeline that used to bring natural gas from Egypt to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. The exports stopped before Syria’s war, but the pipeline has been integrated into the country’s grid.
Saudi man arrested for beating wife in public
Video of the assault went viral on social media, prompting outrage
Published: September 19, 2021 17:37
Tawfiq Nasrallah, Senior News Editor
Gulf News
Al Karj, Saudi Arabia
Dubai: A Saudi man, in his 40s, was arrested for beating his wife in public some family disputes, local media reported.
A video of the man beating his wife in a public facility went viral on social media, prompting angry reactions among social media users.
According to the Saudi Press Agency, the media spokesman for the Riyadh police, Khaled Al Kuraides, said that they acted upon a video clip that was doing the rounds in Saudi Arabia showing the man attacking a woman in Al Kharj Governorate.
Riyadh police launched an immediate investigation and identified both the man and the woman, who turned out to be his wife. He was apprehended and will be referred to the public prosecution for legal action.
Well, I'm sure he will learn to drag his wife home and beat her there, like a good Muslim.
4 men from Blackburn charged for anti-Semitic abuse in London
during Israel-Gaza conflict
20 Sep, 2021 14:52
British authorities have charged four men for allegedly driving around London – hundreds of miles from their homes in Lancashire – while shouting anti-Semitic abuse from cars adorned with Palestinian flags.
On Monday it was reported that four men from Blackburn, Lancashire had been charged via postal requisition last week and would appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on October 6.
Mohammed Iftikhar Hanif, 27, and Asif Ali, 25, both of Pringle Street; Jawaad Hussain, 24, of Revidge Road; and Adil Mota, 26, of Leamington Road are accused of incitement to racial hatred as they travelled to London to shout anti-Semitic abuse from their cars on May 16. All of the suspects are in their 20s.
The men were caught on camera, in a number of videos which were widely shared online, driving round parts of the capital known for having sizeable Jewish populations, shouting anti-Semitic abuse from a megaphone. Their cars were draped in Palestinian flags.
Four men were arrested immediately after the events, but were released on May 18. At the time, the Metropolitan Police said the four were released “pending further enquiries.”
Stephen Silverman, director of investigations and enforcement at the Campaign Against Antisemitism, welcomed the charging. “We are pleased that suspects have now been charged, but the convoy should never have been allowed in the first place, and there remain many other unsolved crimes committed against British Jews from that same period of fighting between Hamas and Israel,” he said.
The anti-Semitic behaviour took place amid the short-lived conflict between Israel and militant organizations in Gaza. A number of protests against Israel took place around the UK and Ireland.
And were they all actioned by Muslims? Is the UK OK with the fact that they are becoming more and more anti-Semitic as they become more and more Muslim?
Military coup attempt fails in Sudan, state TV says
By Clyde Hughes
Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Government officials said an attempted coup in Sudan failed on Tuesday, in which the military tried to take control of the state media building.
Officials said the suspects tried to seize a state-run television station in Omdurman, not far from the capital Khartoum, but were turned back.
A different military coup overthrew Sudan's longtime dictator Omar Hassan al-Bashir in 2019, leaving the country in a perpetual state of unrest since.
"All is under control. The revolution is victorious," Sudan Sovereign Council spokesman Mohamed al-Faki Suleiman said Tuesday, according to Africa News.
The Sovereignty Council has monitored the lengthy government transition from al-Bashir's military rule to a civil government. Council officials did not give details about the coup attempt or how it was repelled.
Sudan's government transition has been hindered by widespread public discontent spurred by an economic crisis.
Infographic: Terror attacks since 9/11 claim 263,700 lives
Jihadists and other extremists have launched multiple deadly attacks around the globe
The list doesn't even mention the thousands of deaths in Nigeria and elsewhere in the Sahel, from Boko Haram and the Fulani Herdsmen. Most attacks killed a few dozens of mostly Christian farmers, but the total is well into the thousands.
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