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Garda Sergeant Jim Collins said that he has known the accused for a while and described him as a "gentleman with difficulties” Facebook. Stock image (PA) A man has appeared in court in Co Donegal charged with making threats to kill a neighbour in a live Facebook video. Matthew Boyle appeared at Letterkenny District Court charged with making the threats to Paul Gibson. Judge Eiteain Cunningham said this was a serious charge. Garda Sergeant Jim Collins said that he has known the accused for a while and described him as a "gentleman with difficulties." The judge replied that she would have to consider if the threats are genuine. Sergeant Collins said that it was "highly unlikely" that anybody would take the threats as "viable" and said the accused had some "intellectual difficulties." The accused, aged 32 and of Parkview in Raphoe, was in court for the hearing. He is charged that he did without lawful excuse, make to Paul Gibson a threat, intending the said Paul Gibson to believe it would be carried out, to kill or cause him serious harm. The charge is Contrary to Section 5 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997. Judge Cunningham added "My position on threats is that they should not be made - good, bad or indifferent." The judge adjourned the case until January 20 to consider the case.

Iran protests US arrest of nationals over technology export TEHRAN: Tehran has formally protested the arrests of two Iranians in Italy and the United States accused of transferring sensitive US technology to Iran, local media reported. US prosecutors on Monday charged Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi and Mohammad Abedininajafabadi with “conspiring to export sophisticated electronic components from the United States to Iran in violation of US export control and sanctions laws”, according to a statement from the US Department of Justice. The statement added that the illegally exported technology was used in a January drone attack that killed three US servicemen in Jordan. Iran denied any involvement in the attack, dismissing the claims as “baseless accusations.” “We consider both the cruel and unilateral US sanctions against Iran and these arrests to be contrary to all international laws and standards,” foreign ministry official Vahid Jalalzadeh told the Tasnim news agency late on Saturday. Jalalzadeh said the ministry had “invited” the Italian charg© d ́affaires and the Swiss ambassador to Tehran -- who represents US interests there -- to “declare its protests to the arrests”. Abedininajafabadi, 38, was arrested on Monday in Italy by Italian authorities at the request of the United States, the US Department of Justice said. It identified Sadeghi as a 42-year-old dual US-Iranian national who was arrested in the United States.Stronger Dispute Resolution Councils Can Provide Timely, Cost-effective Justice

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol avoided an opposition-led attempt to impeach him over his short-lived imposition of martial law , as most ruling party lawmakers boycotted a parliamentary vote Saturday to deny a two-thirds majority needed to suspend his presidential powers. The scrapping of the motion is expected to intensify protests calling for Yoon’s ouster and deepen political chaos in South Korea, with a survey suggesting a majority of South Koreans support the president’s impeachment. Yoon’s martial law declaration drew criticism from his own ruling conservative People Power Party, but the party is also determined to oppose Yoon’s impeachment apparently because it fears losing the presidency to liberals. After the motion fell through, members of the main liberal opposition Democratic Party rallied inside the National Assembly, chanting slogans calling for Yoon's impeachment or resignation. The party's floor leader, Park Chan-dae, said it will soon prepare for a new impeachment motion. Opposition parties could submit a new impeachment motion after a new parliamentary session opens next Wednesday. “We'll surely impeach Yoon Suk Yeol, who is the greatest risk to Republic of Korea,” party leader Lee Jae-myung said. “We'll surely bring back this country to normal before Christmas Day or year's end.” Many experts worry Yoon won’t be able to serve out his remaining 2 1⁄2 years in office. They say some PPP lawmakers could eventually join opposition parties’ efforts to impeach Yoon if public demands for it grow further. The ruling party risks "further public outrage and national confusion if they don’t find a formula fast for Yoon’s departure,” said Duyeon Kim, a senior analyst at the Center for a New American Security in Washington. PPP chair Han Dong-hun said his party will seek Yoon’s “orderly” early exit but didn’t say when he can resign. On Saturday, tens of thousands of people packed several blocks of roads leading to the National Assembly, waving banners, shouting slogans and dancing. Protesters also gathered in front of PPP’s headquarters near the Assembly, shouting for its lawmakers to vote to impeach Yoon. A smaller crowd of Yoon’s supporters, which still seemed to be in the thousands, rallied elsewhere in Seoul, calling the impeachment attempt unconstitutional. Impeaching Yoon required support from 200 of the National Assembly's 300 members. The Democratic Party and five other small opposition parties, which filed the motion, have 192 seats combined. But only three lawmakers from PPP participated in the vote. The motion was scrapped without ballot counting because the number of votes didn’t reach 200. National Assembly Speaker Woo Won Shik called the result “very regrettable” and an embarrassing moment for the country’s democracy. If Yoon is impeached, his powers will be suspended until the Constitutional Court decides whether to remove him from office. If he is removed, an election to replace him must take place within 60 days. Earlier Saturday, Yoon issued an apology over the martial law decree, saying he won’t shirk legal or political responsibility for the declaration and promising not to make another attempt to impose it. He said would leave it to his party to chart a course through the country’s political turmoil, “including matters related to my term in office.” “The declaration of this martial law was made out of my desperation. But in the course of its implementation, it caused anxiety and inconveniences to the public. I feel very sorry over that and truly apologize to the people who must have been shocked a lot,” Yoon said. Since taking office in 2022, Yoon has struggled to push his agenda through an opposition-controlled parliament and grappled with low approval ratings amid scandals involving himself and his wife. In his martial law announcement on Tuesday night, Yoon called parliament a “den of criminals” bogging down state affairs and vowed to eliminate “shameless North Korea followers and anti-state forces.” The declaration of martial law was the first of its kind in more than 40 years in South Korea. The turmoil has paralyzed South Korean politics and sparked alarm among key diplomatic partners like the U.S. and Japan. “Yoon’s credibility overseas has been undermined by declaring martial law, so he won’t be able to exercise leadership in his foreign policies especially when his days are numbered,” Kim, the analyst, said. “Its government bureaucracy will need to continue business as usual for existing alliance and foreign policy initiatives as best it can because there is a lot of important work to do globally.” Tuesday night saw special forces troops encircling the parliament building and army helicopters hovering over it, but the military withdrew after the National Assembly unanimously voted to overturn the decree, forcing Yoon to lift it before daybreak Wednesday. Eighteen lawmakers from the ruling party voted to reject Yoon’s martial law decree along with opposition lawmakers. PPP later decided to oppose Yoon's impeachment motion. Yoon’s speech fueled speculation that he and his party may push for a constitutional amendment to shorten his term, instead of accepting impeachment, as a way to ease public anger over the marital law and facilitate Yoon’s early exit from office. Lee told reporters that Yoon’s speech was “greatly disappointing” and that the only way forward is his immediate resignation or impeachment. His party called Yoon’s martial law “unconstitutional, illegal rebellion or coup.” Lawmakers on Saturday first voted on a bill appointing a special prosecutor to investigate stock price manipulation allegations surrounding Yoon’s wife. On Friday, Han, who criticized Yoon’s martial law declaration, said he had received intelligence that during the brief period of martial law Yoon ordered the country’s defense counterintelligence commander to arrest unspecified key politicians based on accusations of “anti-state activities.” Hong Jang-won, first deputy director of South Korea’s spy agency, told lawmakers Friday that Yoon had ordered him to help the defense counterintelligence unit to detain key politicians including Han, Lee and Woo. The Defense Ministry said Friday it suspended three military commanders including the head of the defense counterintelligence unit over their involvement in enforcing martial law. Vice Defense Minister Kim Seon Ho has told parliament that Defense Minister Kim Yong Hyun ordered the deployment of troops to the National Assembly. Opposition parties accused Kim of recommending to Yoon to enforce martial law. 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With Mahayuti returning to power with a thumping majority by winning 235 out of 288 seats and reducing opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi to just 50 seats, it looked like the coming five years would see a clear dominance of the ruling parties. Things, however, may not be quite so simple. Two incidents in the past week have indicated that the political drama in Maharashtra may continue in the days to come. Last Tuesday, during the winter session of state legislature, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray called on chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. They had rarely met since October-November 2019 when the Shiv Sena and BJP parted ways. The courtesy meeting lasted just 10 minutes but it indicated that the old allies turned foes are warming up to each other. Those who were present at the chief minister’s office in Vidhan Bhavan in Nagpur say they could sense positive vibes as the two leaders chatted. The next day, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar met prime minister Narendra Modi in Delhi and invited him for Marathi Sahitya Sammelan that is being held in Delhi in February. Pawar has taken the responsibility of organising the Sahitya Sammelan, a Marathi literary meet that happens every year. Modi has accepted the invitation to be the chief guest for the Sammelan. Both the meetings have led to much speculation in the state’s political circles. Senior BJP leaders say both the leaders are trying to keep their flock together and hence making overtures to Fadnavis and Modi so that possible defectors from their parties do not shift to Mahayuti. Thackeray and Pawar have 17 MPs between them and their support could be useful in Lok Sabha, they add. On the other hand, Shiv Sena leaders suspect Fadnavis has softened to Thackeray to keep Eknath Shinde in check. A Thackeray faction leader said there is a possibility that the government will agree to give the post of leader of opposition in the assembly to Shiv Sena (UBT) though, as per the norm, no opposition party has got the required seats to get the post. No prizes for guessing who will be the target of the opposition leader. Like any good script, Maharashtra politics never fails to keep people guessing. Full ministers, half portfolios Following the portfolio allocation, several Mahayuti ministers are disappointed. A senior minister in BJP was confident that he would get revenue or cooperation but he got a relatively insignificant portfolio. An ambitious BJP minister was sure he would get a key department to head but what he got has left him wondering what exactly he is supposed to do with it. A Shiv Sena minister who was considered to be close to Shinde and was in controversy over the way he handled his department in previous government is completely disappointed with his new responsibility. Several ministers have been given departments that are often clubbed with other departments. Soil and water conservation (given to Sanjay Rathod), information technology and cultural affairs (Ashish Shelar), tourism and mining (Shambhuraj Desai), employment guarantee scheme and salt pan land development (Bharat Gogawale), relief and rehabilitation (Makrand Jadhav), fisheries and ports (Nitesh Rane) and marketing and protocol (Jaykumar Raval) are such departments but they will now be separate portfolios. Personal staff of ministers The first major activity that begins after the new ministers take charge in any government is the lobbying of officers interested in joining ministerial offices as private secretaries (PS) and personal assistants (PA) of ministers. Several such officers manage to continue with ministers even if governments change. For the ministers, the advantage is that these officers know the functioning of the government and many of them also know how certain vested interests are handled. These officers are mostly picked from various government departments or corporations on deputation. This cycle was first broken by Fadnavis when he became chief minister in 2014. He directed that no ministers should hire personal staff who had worked with any minister in past 10 years. The idea was to avoid the staff that had worked with Congress-NCP ministers in previous governments. Since 2019, this diktat was overlooked during the MVA and later Shinde-led government. In his second stint too, Fadnavis is keen to monitor what kind of personal staff is hired by his ministers. All ministers have been instructed to submit a list of staff they want to appoint to the chief minister’s office. 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