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French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence for campaign finance conspiracy

Daily Dispatch October 21, 2025

Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Not since World War Two Nazi collaborationist leader Philippe Pétain was jailed for

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Military coup in Madagascar following President Andry Rajoelina’s impeachment

Daily Dispatch October 14, 2025

An elite military unit told AFP Tuesday it had taken power in Madagascar after the national assembly voted to impeach President Andry Rajoelina for desertion of duty. The 51-year-old president had refused growing demands to step down, going into hiding after weeks of anti-government street demonstrations in the island nation. “We have taken power,” Colonel […]

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Madagascar’s National Assembly Votes To Impeach President

Daily Dispatch October 14, 2025

Madagascar’s lower house of parliament voted Tuesday to impeach President Andry Rajoelina for desertion of duty, in a session dismissed by the presidency as “devoid of any legal basis”. The resolution passed with 130 votes in favour — well above the two-thirds constitutional threshold required in the 163-member chamber — marking a forceful rebuke of […]

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Breaking: Hamas releases all living Israeli hostages

Daily Dispatch October 13, 2025

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has announced the release of all living Israeli hostages in its custody. The armed Palestinian group added on Monday that the bodies of deceased hostages will be handed over later. Meanwhile, United States (US). President Donald Trump is in the Knesset, where he will soon address Israeli lawmakers. He becomes […]

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USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel – Report

Daily Dispatch October 7, 2025

Near the end of 2017, the United States Navy filed a notice of intent to begin purchasing human cadavers from the University of Southern California. The purpose: Use dead bodies in trauma surgery training for the Israeli Defense Forces. Since that notice, the Navy has paid USC more than $860,000 for at least 89 “fresh cadaver bodies,” […]

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Tunisian sentenced to death for Facebook posts criticising president

Daily Dispatch October 5, 2025

A Tunisian man has been sentenced to death on charges of insulting the president and assaulting state security through posts on social media, the head of the Tunisian League for Human Rights and his lawyer said on Friday. The ruling is unprecedented in Tunisia, where restrictions on free speech have been tightened since President Kais […]