Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé has reported a distressing incident that occurred early this morning, Wednesday, January 3.
Newark Police said at approximately 6:16 a.m., Newark Police responded to an emergency call at the intersection of South Orange Avenue and Camden Street, where a male was reportedly shot.
At least 73 people have been killed by two bomb explosions near the tomb of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on the fourth anniversary of his assassination by the US, Iran’s state media report.
State broadcaster Irib said another 171 people were wounded when the blasts hit a procession near the Saheb al-Zaman mosque in the southern city of Kerman.
It cited Kerman’s deputy governor as saying it was a “terrorist attack”.
A video circulated online appeared to show several bodies on a road.
American and Izraeli backed terrorists killed 76 people and injured 171 people in a terrorist operation during the anniversary ceremony of Qassem Soleimani's martyrdom in #Iran ,Kerman! 🚩 pic.twitter.com/DtBGfqZUj6
— LEYLA (@LeylaRostami) January 3, 2024
IRAN 🇮🇷 GRAPHIC
“Someone” Cowardly murdering innocent people at the burial site Qassam Soleimani using “bomb-laden” suitcases!We don't know who is responsible yet. What we do know is that Israel IS desperate to involve America with Iran. #falseflag ? #mossad #AIPAC #Israel… pic.twitter.com/cnR9c3PTye
— Hawa Zara (@TheKonscious) January 3, 2024
Conservative media outlets and social media users are outraged by New Year’s Eve attacks on the emergency services—mostly committed by young Muslim men—which authorities and politicians have hailed as a more peaceful “return to normal” when compared to last year.
1000 migrants enter Germany every day, And a Bundestag member admitted their culture does not disappear when they cross the border.
Jens Spahn is one of the leaders of the German CDU, a long-time member of the Bundestag (since 2002), former state secretary (2015 to 2018) and former minister (2018 to 2021) under Angela Merkel.
“There will be a risk of a ‘terrible awakening'”, Spahn said in the most dramatic speech by a political leader of the German establishment. The “country could tip over,” Spahn says. “It is above all the cultural area influenced by Islam in which hatred of Jews, incitement against gays, non-equality between men and women are too often part of everyday culture. There are not many Muslim majority countries where people of other faiths have an easy life. Or (where) women have equal rights or gays and lesbians somehow enjoy minority protection. So they just don’t exist. And that also has to do with the culture”.
Berlin police said on Monday that they detained around 390 people overnight on New Year’s Eve in the German capital and have so far tallied just over 700 potential criminal investigations.
Police spokeswoman Anja Dierschke said that 54 officers were injured, 30 of them by fireworks, after 4,500 police from the capital and other states deployed in a major operation launched because of more widespread unrest than usual last year. Only eight of them were unable to finish their shifts though, she said.
Gangs attack bus drivers in Berlin on New Year’s Eve pic.twitter.com/FahQh2uDVk
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 1, 2024
Berlin is like London a white minority city. On New Years Eve in the Mitte district mainly Turkish & Arab men assemble.
No women or native Germans can be seen. pic.twitter.com/e9bSgKhhqr
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) January 1, 2024
Canadians are right to be concerned about a rising tide of antisemitism at home and an increasingly assertive political Islam abroad. Both are being promoted aggressively by the Islamic Republic of Iran as it pulls the strings on its proxies Hamas and Hezbollah.
But if Iranian policy can produce chaos, tension and hatred, it can also do the opposite. Unlike the clerics who now run Iran, most Iranians including expatriate and young Iranians would prefer things to be different.
There is even an idiot holding a queer’s for Palestine sign.
Pro Hamas gangs are disrupting New Years Eve Celebrations in Downtown Toronto right now. The police must throw them in jail. pic.twitter.com/vbkAdrx0QO
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) January 1, 2024
Pro Hamas supporters disrupting New Years Eve Celebrations in Toronto chanting against the Celebrations. This is beyond sickening. Where are the police. pic.twitter.com/xycRhYoBRy
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) January 1, 2024
It’s fair to say that, for many of us, Christmas felt a bit different this year.
Playing out amidst a national affordability crisis, with war still raging in the Holy Land, a time of year that’s usually marked by festive cheer instead took on a foreboding air, a mood that certainly wasn’t lifted by a federal government whose idea of spreading cheer to all was posting food bank photo ops to social media — as if wanting to remind Canadians of the immiseration created by eight years of Liberal economic policies.
UN peacekeepers are due to finish their withdrawal from Mali on Sunday, after a long-running mission lasting a decade.
Minusma – the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission – began in 2013 after an armed rebellion, but has been asked to leave by the country’s ruling military government.
The UN mission’s head said it did a lot but fell below expectations.
With some 310 peacekeepers killed, Minusma was the UN’s second deadliest mission worldwide, after Lebanon.
An attack on Christians in Nigeria over Christmas has left nearly 200 people dead. While Muslim herders are thought to be behind the violence, some major media outlets have blamed climate change for the killings, appearing to downplay existing religious conflicts.
The massacre took place on Christmas Eve in 26 different villages across the central Plateau state in the country’s interior. Locals said that bands of men armed with guns and machetes attacked villagers, killing 198 and wounding a further 300 in some of the worst anti-Christian violence seen in Nigeria in years, according to the Catholic News Agency.
Calling it “misconduct” by City of Toronto staff, the committee fighting for the legacy of Henry Dundas claim an access to information search shows key information was held back from city council in their decision to rename Yonge-Dundas Square.
A fugitive with ties to terrorism has been deported from New York back to Canada, where he is wanted on assault charges.
The Iranian national, who is also a permanent resident of Canada, was deported on Dec. 21. The fugitive, who was not named in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) release, is described as a “national security priority,” a designation often used for individuals who are believed to be involved in activities that could endanger national security.
I’m sure Justin will write him a nice big cheque soon as he’s back from Vacay. Whatever his name is.
A total of 90,000 police officers and gendarmes will be deployed throughout the country this weekend
French authorities warned of a “very high” terror threat on New Year’s Eve due to the war in Gaza as Germany also braced itself for violence.
Gérard Darmanin, the French interior minister, said on Friday that 90,000 police officers and gendarmes will be deployed throughout the country during the upcoming festivities.
“I’ve requested a very strong mobilisation of police forces and the gendarmerie under the context of a very high terrorist threat, of course due to what’s happening in Israel and Palestine,” Mr Darmanin said.
Pakistan has started the mass deportation of “unregistered” Afghans in the country. The move sends back hundreds of thousands of people who fled the Taliban when they took over in 2021 after American troops withdrew, and violates principles of refugee non-refoulement. If forcibly returned, these refugees are at risk of persecution.
Pakistan claims its mass deportations of these Afghans is due to “increased terrorism” in the country — but it was the government of Pakistan that for decades supported the Taliban in Afghanistan. Ever since they took over the country in 2021, Afghanistan has just become a safe haven for terrorist groups.
Shocka! None of the usual suspects is protesting this!
A Jewish New Yorker who survived Hamas’ attack on the Nova Music Festival reunited with the man who saved her life — but admits she’s still nervous in the US.
Natalie Sanandaji, 28, of Long Island, returned to Israel for the first time last week since surviving the Oct. 7 massacre to reunite with Israeli hero Moshe Sati.
Sati, alongside his son, saved more than 100 festival-goers by driving into the terrorist attack and carting people out of the festival grounds by the truck-full more than 10 times.
