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An Afghan man was arrested in Oklahoma for allegedly plotting an election day “terrorist attack,” the U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday. The man, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, living in Oklahoma City after entering the U.S. in 2021 on a special immigrant visa, was plotting the attack in the name of Islamic State, according to the indictment. Tawhedi searched online for information on how to access cameras in the capital, Washington, D.C., and for states that did not require a license to get a firearm, according to the indictment. He also visited the White House and Washington Monument webcameras. Tawhedi and an underage co-conspirator were arrested on Monday after they met with FBI assets… Read More »Afghan Man Arrested In US For Plotting ISIS Terror Attack On Election Day

Lebanon is “on the verge of an all-out war”, but there is still time to stop, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. Speaking to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Guterres said on Tuesday that the Middle East “is a powder keg with many parties holding the match”. “I have warned for months of the risks of the conflict spreading,” said the UN chief, adding that the situation in the occupied West Bank is “boiling over,” and attacks in Lebanon are threatening the entire region. He said that over the last few days, exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and others in Lebanon and the Israel Defense Forces have intensified across the Blue Line,… Read More »Lebanon On Verge Of All-Out War, Warns UN Chief

Kamala Harris has taken a slim lead over Donald Trump in the US presidential race, a new poll showed Tuesday, as the Democrat slammed her rival for “weakness” during a media blitz four weeks before the election. Vice President Harris and Republican former president Trump — who was doing a three-hit airwaves blitz of his own Tuesday — are deadlocked as they scramble to get out the vote and reach the sliver of Americans who remain undecided. The national poll conducted by Siena College and The New York Times found Harris ahead by 49 percent to 46 percent, with registered voters crediting her more than Trump with representing change and caring about people like themselves,… Read More »New Poll Shows Kamala Harris Taking Slim Lead Nationally Over Trump

Brazil’s Supreme Court said Tuesday it was lifting a ban on Elon Musk’s social network X, which was blocked in its biggest Latin American market for over a month amid a row over disinformation. “I authorize the immediate return of the activities” of the social platform, Judge Alexandre de Moraes said in his ruling, after X settled millions of dollars in fines for failing to comply with a series of court orders. He gave Brazil’s communications regulator 24 hours to make the platform previously known as Twitter accessible again to its millions of Brazilian users. Musk had yet to react to the decision. Moraes has for months been embroiled in a standoff with the world’s… Read More »Brazil Lifts Ban On Elon Musk’s X, Ending Standoff Over Disinformation

The Iran-backed Hezbollah group warned on Tuesday that it would intensify attacks on Israel, including the northern port city of Haifa, if it continues to strike Lebanon. “The Israeli enemy’s intensifying strikes” mean that “Haifa and other locations will be targeted by our rockets just as much as Kiryat Shmona, Metula, and other” locations, the group said. The Israeli army earlier reported that 85 projectiles were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel, including Haifa.