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Police have found the serial numbers of several gold bars in a Berlin home of a far-right politician suspected of having ties to pro-Russian platforms, newspaper Die Welt reported on Tuesday. Peter Bystron, a member of parliament for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), is currently being investigated on suspicion of money laundering and bribing. Police also found cash in envelopes and bank statements from the Czech Republic and Liechtenstein, the newspaper reported. Bystron is said to have confirmed the finds to the newspaper, however, Die Welt reported most valuables belong to his mother. Dpa ...
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei named a new acting head of government on Monday, as the country prepared to hold a memorial service for president Ebrahim Raisi who was killed in a helicopter crash. Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were among nine who died when their helicopter crashed in Iran's mountainous north-west during bad weather. Khamenei described Raisi as "tireless" and said Iranians had lost a "valuable and sincere person." He ordered five days of national mourning. New elections to be held Khamenei named First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber as acting ...
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The United States has expressed its "official condolences" for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash. "As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms," the State Department said in a written statement on Monday. The Iranian leadership sees the US as its arch-enemy, and the two sides have repeatedly been on the brink of war in the past. In recent months in particular, tensions have escalated dr...
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Polish President Andrzej Duda has come in for criticism from his fellow Poles for comparing the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash with the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash 14 years ago. Expressing his condolences to the Iranian people, Duda said in a post on the X messaging service that few nations had tragic pages like this in their history books. "But we Poles, who were affected by the crash of the Polish government aircraft at Smolensk in Russia in 2010 know the feeling of shock and the emptiness that remains in the hearts of the people ...
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The Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas has expressed its sadness regarding the helicopter crash that killed the Iranian president and his foreign minister. "We express our shared feelings of sadness and pain with the brotherly Iranian people, and our complete solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran," said a Hamas statement. The movement praised what it described the "honourable positions in support of our Palestinian cause, and the support of the legitimate struggle of our people against the Zionist entity." It also commended Iran's intense political and diplomatic efforts "to stop the Z...
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Iran’s neighbour Pakistan is observing an official day of mourning over the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who was found dead on Monday after his helicopter crashed in foggy weather. Sharif offered “deepest condolences” to the Iranian nation in a post on the X platform. “Pakistan will observe a day of mourning and the flag will fly at half mast as a mark of respect for President Raisi and his companions and in solidarity with Brotherly Iran,” Sharif said. President Asif Ali Zardari and other leaders including former prime minister Imran Khan, who is in jail, extended their condolenc...
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Memorial ceremonies for President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian are planned in Iran for Tuesday after they were killed in a helicopter crash. The Iranian news agency Tasnim reported that a ceremony is planned in the north-west in the provincial capital of Tabriz in the morning, followed by a ceremony in the religious stronghold and pilgrimage city of Qom. The date for the funerals of the two statesmen has not yet been announced. Raisi is to be buried in his hometown of Mashhad. Raisi and Amirabdollahian were killed on Sunday in a helicopter crash with seven other p...
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EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič has defended the EU's decision to provide satellite mapping to assist the search for the crash site of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Providing satellite mapping services "upon request for facilitating a search and rescue operation is not an act of political support to any regime or establishment," Lenarčič said on X on Monday. "It is simply an expression of the most basic humanity," he added. The Iranian president and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were among the nine people who died when their helicopter...
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The Iranian government says that all nine people killed in Sunday's helicopter crash have now been identified. Despite severe burns, the identities of all occupants were established on Monday, a high-ranking government representative told the Iranian news agency Tasnim. Their bodies have since been transferred to Tabriz, the capital of Iran's East Azerbaijan province. State media had previously confirmed the deaths of all nine occupants of the helicopter, including president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian. The chopper crashed while they were travelling back from a m...
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Prime Minister Robert Fico's condition continues to improve, including his ability to communicate, the hospital treating the Slovakian leader said on Monday, five days after he was shot in an assassination attempt. The hospital in the city Banská Bystrica, as well as Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kaliňák, had said on Sunday that the 59-year-old was out of danger. But despite the progress, the hospital said on Monday that Fico was unlikely to be transferred to the capital Bratislava for care in the coming days. Fico was hit four times by a 71-year-old gunman following an off-site government meet...
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