The Times of Israel records Saturday occasions as they occur.
BAKOU, Azerbaijan – Armenia and Azerbaijan say the heavy fighting continues in the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, and Azerbaijani President says his troops have taken a village.
The fighting that began on 27 September is among the worst to have affected Nagorno-Karabakh and its surroundings since the end of a 1994 war left by the Azerbaijani region under the command of local forces of Armenian origin.
Armenian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanian said intense fighting “took positions on the total front line” and that Armenian forces had shot down three aircraft.
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense denies that the planes have been shot down and says a corps of Armenian workers bombed civilian territory. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said his country’s army had “seized the flag” in the village of Madagiz.
Nagorno-Karabakh officials said more than 150 infantrymen had been killed until now. The Azerbaijani government gave the main points of its military losses, but said 19 civilians had been killed and another 55 wounded.
Nagorno-Karabakh was an autonomous region designated in Azerbaijan as the Soviet era; he claimed independence from Azerbaijan in 1991, some 3 months before the collapse of the Soviet Union. A large-scale war that broke out in 1992 killed some 30,000 people.
At the end of the war in 1994, Armenian forces had not only Nagorno-Karabakh, but also significant spaces outside the official borders of the territory, adding Madagiz, the village Azerbaijan claimed to have taken. Saturday.
Several UN Security Council resolutions have for the elimination of these areas, which Armenian forces have ignored.
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Police arrested three protesters for demonstrating near the home of Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi in Kfar Saba, police said in a statement.
Police allege protesters were “violating public order and fitness restrictions,” he elaborated.
In the past, police had banned protesters from gathering next to justice minister Avi Nissenkorn’s space in Hod HaSharon.
– Aaron Boxerman
Police learned of the number of anti-Netanyahu demonstrations held tonight throughout Israel, according to Channel 12.
While thousands took part in the protests despite a new debatable law restricting protests, network police correspondent Moshe Nussbaum said the law “seems to have the opposite effect. “
Under the new law, protesters are prohibited from demonstrating more than a mile from their homes and must comply with social estrement guidelines.
A user familiar with Donald Trump’s fitness said the U. S. president won an oxygen supplement at the White House before being hospitalized.
The user is not legal to speak publicly and speaks with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The revelation follows a news convention through Trump’s doctors at which they refused to verify that the president had been oxygen-free after his diagnosis of COVID-19 on Thursday. I’d just say Trump doesn’t take oxygen in the hospital.
Doctors said Trump was fine and his symptoms were declining, however, the user said the president’s condition was “very worrying,” but that Trump had taken a step forward since he arrived at the hospital.
First lady Melania Trump has also been tested for the coronavirus and is recovering at home.
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TEHRAN, Iran – Franco-Iranian scholar Fariba Adelkhah was released from a criminal and lately finds himself in Tehran with an electronic bracelet, his lawyer told the AFP.
Adelkhah’ came out with an electronic bracelet. He is now with his circle of relatives in Tehran,” said attorney Saeed Dehghan, adding that “we hope this provisional release will be final. “
– AFP
The army has said it will return the infantrymen it lent to the Israeli Police to enforce the national shutdown, after criticizing the inefficient use of troops and, in some cases, to dissolve political protests.
Instead, the police will be through the border guards. Israel’s Defense Forces will upgrade border police on security missions in the West Bank.
– Judah Ari Gross
Senate Republicans canceled the legislative procedure until October 19, as the coronavirus invades its ranks and lawmakers are asking for full evidence on Capitol Hill.
But Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement that confirmation hearings by Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are still ongoing.
One by one, U. S. President Donald Trump and a number of Republican lawmakers fell for the virus that hit more than 208,000 Americans.
Over the next week, many politicians with positive evidence have witnessed occasions when few people wore masks and mingled in the corridors and tunnels of the Capitol complex.
Since the morning, Trump, Senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Mike Lee of Utah and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin have announced that they have tested positive.
The Senate was scheduled to meet this week before its confirmation procedure for Barrett. McConnell said the hearings, which are scheduled to begin on October 12, were “full steam. “
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Between 150 and 200 others spoke out against Prime Minister Netanyahu outdoors in his official apartment in Jerusalem, according to estimates by the Hebrew media.
The prime minister’s apartment has been in the midst of ongoing protests opposed to Netanyahu on his charges of corruption and the management of the coronavirus pandemic, attracting 10,000 to 20,000 protesters each week. However, under new emergency regulations restricting protests over the blockade of the existing coronavirus, the weekly rally in Netanyahu’s apartment now has a limit of 2,000 protesters, who will have to keep socially “groups” away from 20 people.
Protesters are prohibited from traveling more than a mile from their homes.
Police are checking the directions of protesters in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square as part of a new emergency that prohibits Israelis from demonstrating more than a mile from their homes.
Most protesters seem to be staying away from each other, it is not transparent that they remain in “groups” of 20 people.
Meanwhile, a woman taking part in a demonstration against Netanyahu elsewhere in Tel Aviv was hospitalized after being attacked.
– Ben Netzer נצר (@netzer_ben) October 3, 2020
The Ministry of Health reports 5,063 new cases of Shabbat coronavirus, bringing the number of infections from the onset of the pandemic to 263,983.
The ministry announced 46 more deaths, raising the national number to 1679.
Of the 71,908 active cases, 839 people are in severe condition, adding 224 with insufficient ventilation, 317 in moderate state and the rest with mild or non-existent symptoms.
The Ministry of Health reported that 59,731 tests were conducted yesterday, of which 11. 8% positive.
Apart from 4 countries with much smaller populations (Qatar, Bahrain, Aruba and French Guiana), Israel has the number of instances of COVID-19 consistent with the capita of any country in the world, according to Worldometer data.
BETHESDA, Maryland – U. S. President Donald Trump’s doctor says he’s doing “very well” while spending the weekend in a military hospital for the COVID-19 remedy.
Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley said Trump had been fever-free for 24 hours when he informed the country of the president’s status from the hospital this morning, who came in after testing positive for coronavirus.
While Conley says the president isn’t taking oxygen lately, he refuses to say whether the president had ever taken oxygen, despite repeated questions. He says Trump’s symptoms, in addition to coughing and nasal congestion, “are now decreasing and improving. “
“He has exceptionally intelligent morals,” says doctor Sean Dooley.
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CAIRO – According to Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, archaeologists have unearthed dozens of ancient coffins in a necropolis south of Cairo.
Khalid el-Anany says at least 59 sealed sarcophagus were discovered, most of them with mummies inside, which had been buried in 3 wells more than 2,600 years ago.
“I think this is the beginning of a wonderful discovery,” el-Anany said, adding that there are an unknown number of coffins that have not yet been unearthed in the same area.
He speaks at a press convention at the famous staggered pyramid of Zoser in Saqqarah, where the coffins were found. The sarcophagus was exposed and one of them opened in front of the hounds to show the mummy inside. Several foreign diplomats attended the announcement ceremony.
The Saqqara Plateau houses at least 11 pyramids, adding the stepped pyramid, as well as plenty of tombs of former officials and other sites ranging from the 1st dynasty (2920 BC-2770 BC) to the Coptic era (395-642).
Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, says that early studies show that the decorated coffins were made for priests, high officials and elites of the past Pharaonic era (664-525 BC).
He says archaeologists have also discovered a total of 28 statuettes from Ptah-Soker, the eldest god of the Saqqara necropolis, and a magnificently carved bronze statuette 35 cm high from the god Nefertum, encrusted with valuable stones. priest Badi-Amon, is inscribed at his base, he said.
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PARIS – An investigation was launched after anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered at a kosher food place in the French capital, paris prosecutor’s workplace said.
A video posted on social media through the Union of Jewish Students of France in the dining room of the 19th arrondissement of Paris with anti-Semitic and swastika slogans painted on the wall, damaged windows and destroyed tables and chairs.
The investigation was opened by “racist degradations,” prosecutors say.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, condemns “in the most powerful terms this hateful act of anti-Semitic vandalism. “He expressed on Twitter his “full support” for the Jewish community. “We will tolerate it, ” he said.
Prime Minister Jean Castex also tweeted his “solidarity with our fellow Jews”, shared his “excitement and outrage. “
“The Republic will be united against hatred and will fight against those who advertise it,” he said.
French police recorded 687 anti-Semitic acts last year, from vandalism to threats of physical attack, an increase of 27% over the past year. Reports of anti-Muslim acts and other racist acts have also increased.
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Many protests against Netanyahu are taking a position throughout Israel after a law was passed this week restricting protests over the blockade of the coronavirus.
New emergency measures prevent Israelis from traveling more than a kilometre from their homes to demonstrate and force protesters to take socially remote “capsules. “Approval of the restrictions stifled weekly outdoor protests at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official apartment in Jerusalem for accusing the prime minister of corruption fees and managing the pandemic.
Along with smaller demonstrations across the country, a few hundred more people piled up in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square.
Black Flags, one of the teams leading the protests opposed to Netanyahu, accuses the government of obsessing over protests than focusing on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
“They silence public criticism . . . However, we will give up our freedom to make our voices heard,” the organization said on the Walla news website.
BAKOU, Azerbaijan – Armenia and Azerbaijan say the heavy fighting continues in the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, and Azerbaijani President says his troops have taken a village.
The fighting that began on 27 September is among the worst to have affected Nagorno-Karabakh and its stage since the end of a war in 1994 that left the Azerbaijani region under the control of local forces of Armenian descent.
Armenian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanian said intense fighting “took positions on the total front line” and that Armenian forces had shot down three aircraft.
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense denies that the planes have been shot down and says a corps of Armenian workers bombed civilian territory. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said his country’s army had “seized the flag” in the village of Madagiz.
Nagorno-Karabakh officials said more than 150 infantrymen had been killed until now. The Azerbaijani government gave the main points of its military losses, but said 19 civilians had been killed and another 55 wounded.
Nagorno-Karabakh was an autonomous region designated in Azerbaijan as the Soviet era; he claimed independence from Azerbaijan in 1991, some 3 months before the collapse of the Soviet Union. A large-scale war that broke out in 1992 killed some 30,000 people.
At the end of the war in 1994, Armenian forces occupied not only Nagorno-Karabakh, but also living spaces outside the official borders of the territory, adding Madagiz, the village Azerbaijan claimed to have taken on Saturday.
Several UN Security Council resolutions have for the elimination of these areas, which Armenian forces have ignored.
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