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Third day of funeral procession and burial for Iran's Qasem Soleimani | LIVE - The Sun
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2020-01-07 07:33:04Z
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Senin, 06 Januari 2020
President Trump's new threat to Iran in case of retaliation - ABC News
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2020-01-06 15:53:38Z
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Iran vows revenge for death of Qassem Soleimani as Trump says 52 Iranian sites could be targeted - CBS News
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2020-01-06 14:56:05Z
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Puerto Rico rocked by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake, with more tremors expected - CNN
The magnitude 5.8 tremor happened at 5:32 a.m. ET, the US Geological Survey said.
It was centered about 8 miles south-southeast of Indios, Puerto Rico, at a depth of about 3.7 miles below ground.
No major injuries were reported, Puerto Rico Director of Emergency Management Carlos Acevedo said.
He said some homes were damaged in Guanica, and a home collapsed in Guayanilla.
Some victims of the earthquake posted photos of deep cracks in walls.
There were also reports of rock slides along Route 2, Acevedo said.
No tsunami warning was issued after the quake. But geologists warn of more tremors to come.
"More earthquakes than usual (called aftershocks) will continue to occur near the mainshock," the USGS said.
"When there are more earthquakes, the chance of a large earthquake is greater which means that the chance of damage is greater."
The agency advised anyone in or near vulnerable structures to be extra cautious and said those caught in potential quakes should drop, cover and hold on.
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2020-01-06 14:41:00Z
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India's JNU attack: 'We thought... we all will lose our lives' - Al Jazeera English
New Delhi, India - Surya Prakash - a visually impaired student at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) - says masked assailants broke into his ground-floor room in Sabarmati Hostel and beat him with iron rods.
"I kept shouting that I'm blind but they didn't listen to me," Prakash, 25, who is pursuing his PhD in Sanskrit, told Al Jazeera on Monday.
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Prakash's left arm and back are swollen. He told Al Jazeera that he could not say who the attackers were but he was sure that they were "drunk".
He is among at least 26 students and teachers who were injured during Sunday night's violence that has caused an outrage, with people across several cities staging solidarity protests on Monday.
Videos shared on social media appeared to show masked men roaming inside the hostels and attacking students and teachers with iron rods, sticks and sledgehammers and vandalising properties.
Prakash was rescued by other students and taken to All India Medical Institute of Sciences (AIIMS) for treatment. He was discharged after an hour.
Protests have been organised across several Indian cities in solidarity with JNU students [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
"I couldn't sleep all night. I froze in my bed thinking if they come again," he said.
The Sanskrit scholar says he is getting threat calls from unknown numbers for speaking out.
"I'm scared but I do not want to remain silent. I want everyone to know what happened with me. I want them to understand that nobody is safe here," he said, adding that he is not part of any political party and spends most of his time studying in his room.
'Mayhem'
Students and teachers at JNU have been protesting for the past few months against fee rise, which they say will hurt poor students.
The university, a bastion of left-wing student politics, witnessed scuffles between the left-leaning student's body and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) - a student group linked to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - earlier on Sunday.
I'm scared but I don't want to remain silent. I want them to understand that nobody is safe here.Surya Prakash, visually impaired student at JNU
JNU Teachers' Association called for a peace march on Sunday evening following the clashes - a move backed by the students' union.
Witnesses said the attacks were carried out by the members of the ABVP - a charge the right-wing student outfit has denied.
Aishe Ghosh - the president of the students' union who was badly injured - and other students and teachers said the violent mob created "mayhem" and "terrorised" the university for close to three hours.
Many Indians took to social media to criticise the handling of the situation by the Delhi police, and some questioned the police on why it did not arrest the perpetrators after the violence.
The incident comes weeks after police were accused of brutalities in handling student protests against new citizenship law at Jamia Millia Islamia university and Aligarh Muslim University.
Meanwhile, the Delhi police have registered a case against unidentified people for rioting and damage to property.
Violence at Sabarmati Hostel
At a news conference on Monday, the JNU Teachers' Association urged the president to dismiss the vice chancellor in the wake of the violence.
"When we saw group wearing masks, we thought we will talk to them and ask them who they are and why are they in the campus wearing masks," Atul Sood, a professor at JNU, told Al Jazeera. "Before we could reach to them, they started throwing stones at us."
"Everyone ran for safety but the mob armed with rods and sticks chased the students inside hostels and beat many of them. It was complete mayhem," he said.
Many of the students chased by the rampaging mob took shelter inside Sabarmati Hostel, where most of the violence happened.
Jyoti, who withheld her surname due to security reasons, said she was in her room when the mob attacked Sabarmati Hostel.
She rushed out into the corridor to see what was happening. "They were about 30 people armed with iron rods, hammers and carrying some spray and beating students," she told Al Jazeera.
The only sound was doors being banged and glasses being broken and students screaming and crying for helpShreya Ghosh, a PhD student at the Centre for Political Studies, JNU
About a dozen students including Jyoti made a human chain to stop them from entering into their rooms. Jyoti took out her phone and began making videos.
"When they saw me doing the video recording, they beat me with lathis [baton]," she said. "But the other students saved me. Everyone was scared and many students had panic attacks and were rushed to hospital later."
On Monday, the wardens of the hostel resigned, stating in their resignation letters that they were quitting on "moral grounds" as they were unable to provide security to the hostel residents.
Shreya Ghosh, a PhD student at the Centre for Political Studies, was one of the students who took shelter inside Sabarmati Hostel.
She took refuge in a single-occupancy room along with nearly 20 other students. "We put the lights off, mobiles on silent mode. At least 10 of us stood against the door to block it so that attackers could not come in," she said.
"We thought if the door gets unblocked, we all will lose our lives."
"The only sound was doors being banged and glasses being broken and students screaming and crying for help," she told Al Jazeera.
Ghosh and several other students in JNU alleged that police and security personnel did not come in for their help while they were under attack.
"It was an organised mob who were determined to do what they were up to. It was a different sense of fear," she said. "I'm speechless because police knew this is happening, the security knew this is happening and there was no one from them to stop this for one hour despite police being there in the campus and despite students calling for help," she said.
The Delhi police said they were investigating how masked men burst into the university. "Social media and CCTV footage will be part of the investigation," police official Devendra Arya told Reuters news agency.
JNU students and many teachers have faced attacks and have been called "anti-national" for opposing Hindu supremacist agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"If ABVP and this government thinks that we will stop fighting against its brutal policies, they are mistaken. JNU will fight till its last student is alive on the campus. They cannot break our spirit," said another student, Kaushiki.
A general view of a vandalised hostel room on the JNU campus [Money Sharma/AFP]
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2020-01-06 12:20:00Z
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Huge crowds flood Tehran streets for Soleimani's funeral, calling for revenge and retaliation - CNN
The mourners carried photographs of Soleimani, a revered and powerful figure who headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps elite Quds Force and led Iran's overseas operations.
Many of those on the streets of the Iranian capital were visibly upset and angry; others shouted "down with the USA" and "death to the USA." Iranian state television said millions attended, although this was yet to be verified.
Soleimani has been hailed a martyr and a hero inside Iran, especially due to his work in the fight against ISIS. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's ultimate political and religious authority, was photographed praying over Soleimani's body during the funeral ceremony alongside President Hassan Rouhani.
The US, however, has long viewed Soleimani as a terrorist and adversary. Washington claims he is responsible for aiding and abetting attacks by Iran's Shia allies against American troops, many of whom were killed during the bloodiest days of the Iraq War and in sectarian conflicts throughout the Middle East.
President Donald Trump said the decision to kill Soleimani was based on intelligence that he had been involved in planning an "imminent attack" that put American lives at risk.
Washington had already carried out a series of airstrikes in Iraq targeting Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed group the US held responsible for a series of rocket attacks on American facilities that killed a US contractor.
Trump said Soleimani was killed "to stop a war," but the action marks a significant escalation that has seen both sides inching dangerously close to the brink of conflict.
Iran has vowed revenge and threatened both the US and Israel. Maj. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, the top military adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader, told CNN that Tehran would retaliate by targeting military sites. The US operates about 800 military bases and logistical facilities outside its sovereign territory.
And Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the country will no longer limit itself to the nuclear restrictions set forth by the international nuclear deal reached in 2015 between Iran and a handful of other countries. The Trump administration abandoned the deal in 2018.
Trump has responded to Iran's talk of vengeance by threatening to carry out a series of attack a number of Iranian targets, including cultural sites -- a potential war crime.
"Iranian proxy forces in Iraq have thought that they could act with impunity, and that if they acted we wouldn't take strikes against Iran proper," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CNN when asked about Trump's statement. "We've made clear for months to the Iranian regime that that wouldn't be the case, that we were going to hold responsible the actors, the leaders who took these actions and who orchestrated these actions."
However, the Trump administration's domestic and foreign critics accused the President and his advisers of failing to think through the cost of killing Soleimani.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a letter to her fellow democrats that the decision was "provocative and disproportionate" and argued that it endangered US personnel in the region.
The future of US troops in Iraq
Gulf Arab states and European leaders have called for restraint.
In a joint statement Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there is "an urgent need for de-escalation" concerning rising tensions with Iran.
Iraq's Parliament voted nearly unanimously to force the government to work toward the removal of US and other foreign troops inside the country, a clear rebuke to Washington over the strike that killed Soleimani.
"Iraqi priorities and the US are increasingly at odds," caretaker Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi said during his address to parliament.
He said a US troop withdrawal was the only way to "protect all those on Iraqi soil," especially American forces that require protection from the Iraqis.
Muqtada al-Sadr, a firebrand Shia cleric and fierce critic of the US, said the response by Iraq's parliament was weak "in comparison to American violations of Iraqi sovereignty."
Meanwhile, Trump said any move to expel US troops from the country would be met with "sanctions like they've never seen before ever."
"It'll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame," Trump said.
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2020-01-06 12:44:00Z
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Huge crowds flood Tehran streets for Soleimani's funeral, calling for revenge and retaliation - CNN
The mourners carried photographs of Soleimani, a revered and powerful figure who headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps elite Quds Force and led Iran's overseas operations.
Many of those on the streets of the Iranian capital were visibly upset and angry; others shouted "down with the USA" and "death to the USA." Iranian state television said millions attended, although this was yet to be verified.
Soleimani has been hailed a martyr and a hero inside Iran, especially due to his work in the fight against ISIS. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's ultimate political and religious authority, was photographed praying over Soleimani's body during the funeral ceremony alongside President Hassan Rouhani.
The US, however, has long viewed Soleimani as a terrorist and adversary. Washington claims he is responsible for aiding and abetting attacks by Iran's Shia allies against American troops, many of whom were killed during the bloodiest days of the Iraq War and in sectarian conflicts throughout the Middle East.
President Donald Trump said the decision to kill Soleimani was based on intelligence that he had been involved in planning an "imminent attack" that put American lives at risk.
Washington had already carried out a series of airstrikes in Iraq targeting Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed group the US held responsible for a series of rocket attacks on American facilities that killed a US contractor.
Trump said Soleimani was killed "to stop a war," but the action marks a significant escalation that has seen both sides inching dangerously close to the brink of conflict.
Iran has vowed revenge and threatened both the US and Israel. Maj. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, the top military adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader, told CNN that Tehran would retaliate by targeting military sites. The US operates about 800 military bases and logistical facilities outside its sovereign territory.
And Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the country will no longer limit itself to the nuclear restrictions set forth by the international nuclear deal reached in 2015 between Iran and a handful of other countries. The Trump administration abandoned the deal in 2018.
Trump has responded to Iran's talk of vengeance by threatening to carry out a series of attack a number of Iranian targets, including cultural sites -- a potential war crime.
"Iranian proxy forces in Iraq have thought that they could act with impunity, and that if they acted we wouldn't take strikes against Iran proper," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CNN when asked about Trump's statement. "We've made clear for months to the Iranian regime that that wouldn't be the case, that we were going to hold responsible the actors, the leaders who took these actions and who orchestrated these actions."
However, the Trump administration's domestic and foreign critics accused the President and his advisers of failing to think through the cost of killing Soleimani.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a letter to her fellow democrats that the decision was "provocative and disproportionate" and argued that it endangered US personnel in the region.
The future of US troops in Iraq
Gulf Arab states and European leaders have called for restraint.
In a joint statement Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there is "an urgent need for de-escalation" concerning rising tensions with Iran.
Iraq's Parliament voted nearly unanimously to force the government to work toward the removal of US and other foreign troops inside the country, a clear rebuke to Washington over the strike that killed Soleimani.
"Iraqi priorities and the US are increasingly at odds," caretaker Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi said during his address to parliament.
He said a US troop withdrawal was the only way to "protect all those on Iraqi soil," especially American forces that require protection from the Iraqis.
Muqtada al-Sadr, a firebrand Shia cleric and fierce critic of the US, said the response by Iraq's parliament was weak "in comparison to American violations of Iraqi sovereignty."
Meanwhile, Trump said any move to expel US troops from the country would be met with "sanctions like they've never seen before ever."
"It'll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame," Trump said.
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2020-01-06 11:49:00Z
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