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Trump Warns Of ‘Anarchy’ if US Re-elects Biden, Vows To Crush Incumbent
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Donald Trump vowed Thursday to “crush” Joe Biden in the 2024 election, warning in his first campaign stop since his successor entered the race that the United States will descend into “anarchy” if the Republican billionaire isn’t returned to office.
The defiant address at a hotel in Manchester, New Hampshire, came with the twice-impeached former president’s legal woes multiplying, as a writer who accuses Trump of rape testified for a second day at a civil trial in New York.
“The choice in this election is now between strength or weakness, between success or failure, between safety or anarchy, between peace or conflict, and prosperity or catastrophe,” Trump told a relatively-modest crowd of around 1,500 supporters.
“We are living in a catastrophe. With your vote on November 5, 2024, we are going to crush Joe Biden and the White House… at the ballot box, and we are going to settle our unfinished business.”
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It was Trump’s first appearance since January in the Granite State, which propelled him to victory in the 2016 Republican nominating contest after a shaky start in Iowa.
Biden, 80, announced Tuesday he would seek a second term in 2024, warning that the next election, like the last, would be a “battle for the soul.”
Many top Republicans say Trump, 76, is positioning himself to lose again after leading Republicans to poor showings in the 2020 general election and in the last two midterm cycles.
“Republicans want someone who can win in November of ’24. Donald Trump is a loser,” New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, who is said to be mulling a rival presidential bid, told NBC on Sunday.
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– ‘Crashing and burning’ –
Nine Republicans in the US Senate have endorsed the billionaire, but others are warning that prosecutions enmeshing Trump might undermine their hopes of taking the upper chamber of Congress back from the Democrats next year.
Trump is being sued for battery and defamation in civil proceedings in New York, accused of raping writer E Jean Carroll in 1996, and has been indicted over a 2016 hush money payment to a porn star in a criminal case likely to stretch well into election year.
He also faces the possibility of charges from the Department of Justice and Georgia prosecutors in cases involving his attempts to overthrow the 2020 election and his hoarding of government documents.
Yet Trump has consistently maintained double-digit leads in Republican primary polling, running far ahead of his nearest likely rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whom he described in his New Hampshire speech as “crashing and burning.”
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Trump, who denies all wrongdoing, angrily denounced the “endless witch hunts” against him, as he invariably does in public remarks.
In a wide-ranging speech that included a rare Q&A and ran to more than 100 minutes, Trump revisited much of his favourite territory, from making false claims about fraud in the 2020 election to smearing his rivals.
He told supporters he was retiring the “Crooked” nickname he uses for long time foe Hillary Clinton and giving it to Biden instead.
“With such a calamitous presidency, it’s almost inconceivable that Biden would have even thought of running for re-election,” Trump said.
AFP
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49 Feared Dead As Passenger Plane Crashes In Russia
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A passenger plane carrying 49 people crashed in Russia’s far eastern region of Amur on Thursday, authorities said.
The aircraft, a twin-engine Antonov-24 operated by Angara Airlines, was headed to the town of Tynda from the city of Blagoveshchensk when it disappeared from radar, regional governor Vassily Orlov said on Telegram.
A rescue helicopter later spotted the burning fuselage of the plane on a mountainside about 16 kilometres (10 miles) from Tynda.
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The helicopter saw no evidence of survivors from above, local rescuers said.
The Amur region’s civil defence agency said it was dispatching rescuers to the scene.
“At the moment, 25 people and five units of equipment have been dispatched, and four aircraft with crews are on standby,” it said.
AFP
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19 Dead As Bangladesh Fighter Jet Crashes Into School
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A Bangladeshi training fighter jet crashed into a school in the capital Dhaka on Monday, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens more in the country’s deadliest aviation accident in decades.
An AFP photographer at the scene saw fire and rescue officials taking away the injured students on stretchers, while military personnel helped clear the wreckage.
A military statement said 19 people were killed, including the pilot, and 20 others were critically wounded.
At least 51 people, mostly students, were undergoing treatment at Dhaka’s National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute, its director Mohammad Nasir Uddin told AFP.
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The Chinese-made F-7 BJI aircraft crashed moments after students were let out of class at 1:00 pm (0700 GMT) at the Milestone School and College.
A witness said he heard a huge blast that felt like an earthquake.
“We have two playgrounds, one for the senior students and one for the juniors,” said Shafiur Rahman Shafi, 18, who is enrolled at the school.
“We were on the playground for the seniors. There were two fighter planes… Suddenly one of the two planes crashed here (in the junior playground),” he told AFP.
“It created a boom, and it felt like a quake. Then it caught fire, and the army reached the spot later.”
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The interim government of Muhammad Yunus announced a day of national mourning on Tuesday.
Grieving parents and relatives of the victims thronged the National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute.
Tofazzal Hossain, 30, broke down in tears on learning that his young cousin had been killed.
“We frantically searched for my cousin in different hospitals,” Hossain told AFP.
“He was an eighth grader at the school. Finally, we found his body.”
Yunus expressed “deep grief and sorrow” over the incident in a post on X.
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“The loss suffered by the Air Force, the students, parents, teachers, and staff of Milestone School and College, as well as others affected by this accident, is irreparable,” he said.
“This is a moment of profound pain for the nation.”
The crash was the worst aviation accident in the country in several decades.
The deadliest ever disaster happened in 1984 when a plane flying from Chattogram to Dhaka crashed, killing all 49 on board.
Last month, a commercial aircraft crashed in neighbouring India, killing 260 people.
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S’African President Sacks Education Minister Accused Of Lying To Parliament
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July 21, 2025By
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South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Monday dismissed his embattled higher education minister, weeks after a key party in his unity government filed criminal charges accusing her of lying to parliament.
Ramaphosa has faced mounting pressure in recent months as several ministers from his African National Congress (ANC) party have been accused of corruption, deepening tensions within the 10-party ruling coalition.
The second largest group in government, the Democratic Alliance (DA), earlier this month filed a complaint accusing Minister Nobuhle Nkabane of lying to parliament to cover up the “fraudulent” appointment of ANC-linked figures to education authority boards.
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“President Cyril Ramaphosa has removed Dr Nobuhle Nkabane from the role of Minister and (sic) Higher Education and Training,” the presidency announced in a statement Monday night, after Nkabane failed to attend key parliamentary meetings where she was meant to clarify the controversial appointments.
The DA — which joined government after the ANC lost its majority last year due to voter disillusionment with corruption and mismanagement — has said graft had become “standard practice” under Ramaphosa’s rule.
It has also laid corruption charges against Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane over allegations of fraudulent billing to the national electricity supplier Eskom.
Ramaphosa also had to suspend his police minister on July 13, after bombshell accusations by a provincial police chief who alleged he had received payments from a corruption suspect and colluded with organised crime.
South Africa ranks 82nd in the world according to the corruption perception index of the NGO Transparency International.
AFP
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