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A new route of People’s Bus Service has been inaugurated in Karachi, the bus service will run from Hawke’s Bay to Tower. Sindh Transport Minister Sharjeel Memon says the PP government is taking steps to provide relief to the people.
Speaking to the media after inaugurating the People’s Bus Service from Tower to Hawke’s Bay, Sharjeel Memon said that people suffering from inflation and heat are being given the gift of air-conditioned buses. In heatstroke, the people got air-conditioned buses to go to their jobs, the people are going to take advantage of this new route from Komaripur to Tower, they are running air-conditioned buses for the people at a minimum fare, every department of the Sindh government is helping the life of the people. Working on simplifying.
He said that this is the determination of Sindh government of People’s Party. We have to talk by working. Don’t confuse people. Some people are looking to spread frustration.
He said that there is no need to worry, nothing is going to happen in the country, the system will continue to function and the government too, the people should remain calm. One cannot succeed in his goal by spreading despair. The Supreme Court judgment also granted the relief that was not sought.
The member of the Sindh Cabinet said that only narratives are being organized here, work is not being done. This country belongs to all of us. We all have to work together to fix it. Everyone has to follow the constitution and the law.
With the preparations for the start of football competitions at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, whose activities begin before the opening ceremony, as has been customary recently, a possible confrontation in the competition will be the talk of public opinion in all Arab countries.
The Arab football flag at the Paris Olympics is carried by Egypt and Iraq, the two teams that achieved the best results for the Arabs in this competition, when they reached fourth place.
While Iraq achieved this advanced position at the 2004 Athens Games, Egypt achieved the same feat on two occasions. The first was in Amsterdam in 1928, and the second was named after the United Arab Republic in 1964 in the capital of Japan, Tokyo.
Returning to Paris, the Egyptian team is in the third house, which includes next to it the teams of Spain, the Dominican Republic and Uzbekistan.
The first and second ranked teams from each of the four groups qualify, with the first team in the third house playing the second team in the fourth house, and the second team in the third house meeting the winner in the fourth house.
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Egypt and Israel.. How is this possible?
This method of play reveals the possibility of the Egyptian Olympic team for a historic confrontation, starting from the round of 16 with its Israeli counterpart, who is in Group 4 alongside the teams of Paraguay, Mali and Japan.
There are two initial possibilities for such a confrontation: the Egyptian team stands at the head of its house and Israel obtains the runner-up position in its house. Theoretically, it is also possible to meet in an advanced round later, if the two teams continue their successful path, either in the semi-finals or in the final.
The possibility of Iraq facing Israel in the semi-finals remains, although it is an almost unrealistic possibility.
Egypt was the first Arab country to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel after signing a peace agreement in 1979, which many believe remains strong at the official level, even if it did not receive widespread popular approval in Egypt.
As a result, Egyptian athletes are reluctant to face their Israeli counterparts in various games for fear of reactions from the masses rejecting such games, especially after the advent of social networks.
In 2022, the player of the Egyptian national team, Ahmed El-Sayed, was severely criticized after he had a duel with an Israeli competitor.
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Despite his victory over his rival Yonatan Cohen in the World Championship qualifiers in Cairo, the Egyptian fencer was heavily criticized for agreeing to play against the Israeli.
In football, Egypt has never faced Israel, despite the history of its national team, which dates back over a century.
However, Egyptian athletes faced Israelis in confrontations in various games, including a famous match in the preliminary rounds preceding the World Handball Championship (Category B – which was later cancelled).
In that match, held in Salzburg, Austria in 1992, Israel and Egypt tied with a score of 17 goals for both teams, but this match was not without controversial incidents.
agency An Israeli said at the time that the game was “contaminated with deliberate insults towards Israel on the part of the Egyptian players, who apparently saw the game as an extension of the wars waged by Egypt against the Jewish state.”
This game was the first actual sports confrontation in a team game between an Arab country and Israel in an international competition.
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The Jewish Agency says that “when the orchestra played the anthems of the two countries before the start of the game, some members of the Egyptian team refused to stand for the song of hope”, referring to the Israeli anthem.
According to the same source, one of the Egyptian players deliberately stood on the Israeli flag inside the stadium.
The report quoted Faisal Awad, one of the Egyptian actors, while speaking to the Egyptian media, who said that this was “revenge for all the Arab victims who fell in the wars against Israel.”
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A history of controversy
In the Netherlands in 1995, the two teams met again in a violent match that resulted in the injury of 5 Israeli players, according to the newspaper Ashrak al-Awast .
According to website Radio Sawa the two countries met in a water polo competition in 1996 and the match ended with the victory of the Egyptian team.
Individual matches were played at international events, either official or friendly matches, and in some the Egyptian player retired, and in others the Egyptians refused to shake hands with their opponents, while some matches ended without incident.
In 2011 Rowan Ali, the Egyptian taekwondo champion, refused to fight Israeli actress, Sion Fenster, in the quarter-finals of the Croatian Open Championship in the weight category up to 47 kg.
At the Airsoft World Championship hosted by Italy in 2011, the Egyptian team managed to defeat its Israeli counterpart in the competition and refused to shake hands with it after the game, according to the Al- Allium messages .
Egypt will be represented in this game by Tarek Fuad, Sharif Farag and Alaa El-Sayed.
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In judo, the Egyptian, Ramadan Darwish, refused to shake hands with his Israeli opponent, Arik Zaevi, on 3 occasions, the first of which was in 2011 after the Egyptian lost to his Israeli counterpart.
The second time was a year later when Darvish defeated the same Israeli player in the quarterfinals of the 100 kg Grand Prix Judo Championship in Germany, while the third time was in 2015 in the consolation round of the Grand Prix Judo Championship held in Azerbaijan, reported Al-Masri Alyum newspaper.
At the Summer Youth Olympic Games held in the city of Nanjing, China in 2014, the Egyptian table tennis player, Alaa Saad, defeated her Israeli competitor, Nicole Trossman, with a score of 3 games to 2 in a game that did not witness any unusual event.
The ethics committee of the International Olympic Committee decided to condemn the Egyptian judoka, Islam Elshahabi, after he did not shake hands with his Israeli opponent, Or Sasson, after he lost to him in the first round in the over 100 kg category at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016, according to an agency The French news.
The two countries also faced each other in the three-on-three world championship in under-18 basketball in 2021 in Hungary, where the game ended with the victory of the pharaohs and this time the Egyptians also refused to shake hands with their Israeli counterparts.
During the same year, the Egyptian wrestling champion, Emad Ashraf, won in the 77 kg weight category, 5-0, over his Israeli opponent, David Zhitomirsky, in the round of 16 of the World Youth Championship organized by Russia, according to Al newspaper Mujaz . This confrontation was calm and passed without the controversy that affects the games between the Egyptians and the Israelis.
If by chance the Egyptian Olympic team meets its Israeli counterpart in Paris this summer, the possibility of refusing to play is completely unlikely for fear of sanctions that may fall on Cairo, given that the Olympic constitution forbids it.
But certainly such a potential game, which could be the talk of the day in public opinion, will remain the focus of attention of all sports fans in Arab countries if it does happen.
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The presenter of the main edition of Channel 14, Maggie Tabibi, presented the edition yesterday (Tuesday) at the end of the 17th Tamuz fast, and broke the fast live when she sipped water, and added a call for unity among the people.
News presenter Maggie Tabibi breaks the fast live: “Maybe it’s time to take down the walls – today, more than ever” #The central_edition@MaggieTabibi pic.twitter.com/H9HPsqAknv
— Now 14 (@Now14Israel) July 23, 2024
Tavibi’s act moved many viewers, and the network did not remain indifferent to it. Tabibi’s colleague at the channel, Boaz Golan, tweeted: “Jewish channel! Maggie Tabibi, presenter of the Channel 14 edition, ends the fast live and with a call for unity.”
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Another anchor on the channel, Shimon Riklin, tweeted: “With a glass of living water. Maggie Tabibi broke her fast yesterday at the start of Channel 14’s news. Water that cleans the dust that has hidden every religious symbol in the Israeli media. Water that springs powerfully from the springs of Israeli tradition. Water that symbolizes justice and is a symbol For equality that will come when the wall of privileges falls. We are blessed that we won Maggi Tavibi. Bless you.”
MK Almog Cohen tweeted: “I’m not a religious person, you’re excited.” Singer Nimrod Lev added: “How exciting! There is no doubt that this is the generation of redemption. in her”.
Madrid, Jul 22 (EFE).- The president of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, has been summoned to testify on July 30 as a witness in a judicial investigation affecting his wife, Begoña Gómez, regarding alleged influence peddling and possible business corruption.
The questioning will take place at the Moncloa Palace, the seat of the Presidency of the Government, where the judge in charge of the case, Juan Carlos Peinado, will travel, according to the summons order, known on Monday.
The judge has thus accepted the request of the popular accusations, led by the far-right party Vox, which requested the statement of the head of the Executive as a witness.
Peinado argues that the jurisprudence contemplates the modality of the “crime of chain influence peddling” and considers it “convenient, useful and pertinent” to collect the version of the President of the Government to investigate “the possible relationship of the person under investigation with an authority.”
According to a statement issued by the High Court of Justice in Madrid today, Peinado decided to summon Sánchez in a ruling issued last Friday, the same day that his wife appeared before the same judge as a suspect, but refused to testify.
Although Sánchez is required to appear, Spanish law exempts anyone from testifying against their spouse and other close relatives in a judicial proceeding.
The judge may take his statement “on matters of which he has not been aware by reason of his position” at his “official home or office”, in accordance with Spanish procedural law. And it will be recorded, Peinado stipulates in the ruling.
Conservatives call for Sánchez’s resignation
After the summons was announced, sources from the Socialist Party, which Sánchez leads, said that the judge’s latest decisions are “absolutely unjustified” and “reveal the political nature of this case,” a “political persecution orchestrated by the right and the far right” to prevent Sánchez from remaining in government.
Defense Minister Margarita Robles said she hopes the judge is not making decisions based on “public projection.”
On the other hand, the leader of the opposition, the conservative Alberto Núñez Feijóo, urged Sánchez to resign. “A citizen who is accused has the right not to give explanations, but a government does not; a government must always give explanations to citizens,” he argued.
A businessman and a university rector are under investigation
Last Friday, Begoña Gómez invoked her right not to testify because she did not see sufficient guarantees in the judicial procedure, as explained by her lawyer, Antonio Camacho.
“This procedure has run out of content. We are unable to understand what guides the investigating court in this expansive investigation, which is becoming more and more extensive and where guarantees, unfortunately, are not as protected as they should be in a State of Law,” the lawyer stressed.
This refusal to testify led the popular accusations to request that the head of the Executive be called as a witness to find out what happened in meetings at the Moncloa between Begoña Gómez and businessmen such as Juan Carlos Barrabés, who is also under investigation.
Barrabés, who was initially called as a witness, had told the judge that Sánchez was present at a couple of those meetings with Gómez, according to sources in the prosecution.
In another ruling, the judge decided on Monday to investigate the rector of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Joaquín Goyache, and summoned him to testify on July 29, after previously appearing only as a witness.
The judge has been investigating Gómez since last April in a case opened following a complaint from the self-proclaimed “union” Manos Limpias, which the Prosecutor’s Office requested to be shelved, and which asked for clarification of whether she used her status as the wife of the President of the Government to favour the awarding of contracts to the businessman Barrabés, a professor of the master’s degree in the department she directed at the UCM.
Following the complaint by Manos Limpias, other organisations linked to the far right decided to join the procedure.
After referring some of the contracts under investigation to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, the judge is analysing other awards, although two reports from the judicial police agree that they were processed “normally and under the principles that govern public procurement.”
The accusations also focus on Gómez’s work at the UCM, which has sent an internal investigation to the judge that ends without a “conclusion” regarding a possible “misappropriation” of the software of the chair co-directed by Sánchez’s wife.
The case has sparked a heated political debate between the left, with the Socialists in power, and conservatives and the far right, as well as generating significant media coverage.
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2024-07-24 07:57:25