NewsNight of surprises: Arrests, flight drama, and ancient myths debunked
Night of surprises: Arrests, flight drama, and ancient myths debunked
It happened while you were sleeping. Here is what the global agencies reported overnight from Monday to Tuesday.
- Turkey's Interior Minister, Ali Yerlikaya, announced on Monday night via platform X that 43 individuals accused of inciting unrest had been detained, with operations continuing to track down additional suspects. During a protest in Sarachane Park in Istanbul, clashes occurred earlier between the police and demonstrators. Panic erupted when the police, responding to objects being thrown at them, used pepper spray.
- A United Airlines plane had to turn back over the Pacific due to one of the pilots lacking a passport. The incident caused a delay and a change of crew. The plane was carrying 257 passengers.
- Lieutenant General Yasir al-Atty of Sudan announced attacks on airports in Chad. These airports are used by the United Arab Emirates to supply arms to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Chad has deemed this a "declaration of war" and vowed to defend its territory.
- Peru's president, Dina Boluarte, shaken by social protests against her government's policies and escalating corruption, appointed Julio Diaz Zulueta, the former deputy minister of public security, the seventh Minister of Internal Affairs in just under fourteen months of her rule.
- Two months after the launch of the "México Te Abraza" (Mexico Embraces You) program, the Coordinating Business Council (CCE) announced on Monday that nearly 60,000 jobs have already been prepared across the country, awaiting nationals deported from the United States.
- Zahi Hawass, a well-known Egyptian archaeologist and former minister of tourism and antiquities, stated that claims about the existence of an underground city beneath the pyramids in Giza or the pyramids resting on giant underground pillars were utterly false and have no scientific basis. The archaeologist's comment came after conspiracy theory enthusiasts spread research by Italian scientists Corrado Malanga from the University of Pisa and Filippo Biondi from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on portal X a few days ago. The researchers claimed that radar scanning of the Giza plateau revealed a network of structures extending more than 2,000 feet deep under the pyramids. These reports quickly gained popularity on many other social media platforms, where graphics emerged depicting the pyramids as the peaks of gigantic pillars covered with reliefs.
