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Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party secured 255 votes in Thursday’s voting, against his rival’s 88 Bangladeshi lawmakers have elected Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, a candidate of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), as the country’s 23rd president.The former secretary-general of the BNP secured 255 parliamentary votes in the presidential election, while Oli Ahmed, a former army colonel from the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance, received 88 votes.The president is the constitutional head of state but the position is largely ceremonial.The polling was held on Thursday evening, with all of the country’s 349 lawmakers casting their votes.This was…

Islam is on the march. State Senator Aisha Wahab, a radical, far-left Afghan Muslim, won California’s US House 14 in a special election to replace Eric Swalwell. Aisha Wahab defeated ‘moderate’ Democrat Melissa Hernandez after the two advanced in the June 16 primary. The special election moved to a race between Wahab and Hernandez after neither of the women received a majority of the vote. Wahab previously accused Israel of genocide and attacked pro-Israel AIPAC. AIPAC reportedly dumped millions of dollars into Melissa Hernandez’s campaign. With more than 95% of the vote in, Wahab won 53% to Hernandez’s 47%, Decision…

President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon met with Pope Leo XIV and senior members of the Holy See during a visit to the Vatican on Thursday that the country described in a missive as focused on discussing Lebanon’s attempts at brokering peace with neighboring Israel. Following the launch of “Operation Epic Fury,” a U.S. military campaign against Iran, in February, the government of Israel invaded Lebanon, declaring it necessary to eradicate Iranian proxy terrorist organization Hezbollah and weaken the Iranian terror state so that it no longer poses a threat to Israelis. Hezbollah, as part of the largest terror network that…

Wednesday, during an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), the Republican nominee in Florida’s gubernatorial election, challenged his Democrat opponent, David Jolly, to three debates. He labeled Jolly a “Trojan horse” for so-called Democrat socialists. “Congressman, you’ve already challenged your opponent, David Jolly, to three debates, so Floridians can, quote, ‘compare two very different visions for the state’s future,’” co-host Jackie DeAngelis said. “Jolly then responded on X, quote, ‘Get through your primary, and we’ll talk.’ Congressman, you are now through your primary. When can we expect to see you on the debate stage?”…

Attorneys for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin filed a petition Tuesday seeking a dismissal of the state murder charges against him, arguing that it was unlawful for Gov. Tim Walz to assign Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to prosecute the case In April 2021, Chauvin, 50, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd in police custody in May 2020. Video showed that Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for over 9 minutes. An autopsy revealed that there was both fentanyl and methamphetamine in the man’s system, which may have been contributing factors to his…

Security Minister of Argentina Alejandra Monteoliva detailed that upwards of 4,000 metric tons of cocaine are being produced in South America per year. Minister Monteoliva spoke on Wednesday with Radio Mitre on the sidelines of the 40th International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC), co-hosted by the United States and Argentina in the city of Buenos Aires this week. Speaking on the subject of the fight against drug trafficking, the minister stressed to Radio Mitre that South America is now considered the “epicenter” of cocaine production in the world, with anywhere between 3,800 and 4,000 metric tons of cocaine produced in the region…

Wednesday on CNN’s “OutFront,” political commentator Adam Kinzinger said President Donald Trump is not taking the military conflict in Iran “very seriously.” At the White House, Trump said, “I donated the flagpoles, one on each side, because the White House didn’t really have an appropriate American flag. They had a small one on top. We left that, but it didn’t have an appropriate American flag. And this is a great pole. This is the top of the line. It’s tapered. This isn’t a straight up and down job, which looks terrible, frankly. That’s a tapered pole. I’m very good at flagpoles.”…

Emir Kusturica says the Google-owned platform is seeking to suppress any dissent contradicting the mainstream narrative Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica has accused YouTube of waging a “war” against people who think independently and “tell the truth,” after the Google-owned platform deleted his channel without any warning.YouTube removed Kusturica’s ‘My Life’ channel on Wednesday, without publicly elaborating on the decision, according to several media reports. The project, produced with Sputnik’s Serbian service, contained more than 200 videos and had roughly 30,000 subscribers. Some of the videos are dedicated to the fate of Yugoslavia, the clash of civilizations, and the collision between…

Federal housing regulator Bill Pulte on Thursday responded to reports of Sharia-compliant mortgage loans purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Pulte says Fannie and Freddie don’t give out sharia-compliant-loans. Effective immediately, these programs, along with Kosher and Amish programs, will be open AND marketed to ALL AMERICANS. https://t.co/SzsNzKOKxW — Pulte (@pulte) August 21, 2026   Bill Pulte clarified to The Gateway Pundit that Fannie and Freddie “DON’T GIVE OUT SHARIA MORTGAGES.” Guidance Residential, a private Islamic home-financing company, publicly states that it brings Freddie Mac and, according to another passage on its website, Fannie Mae, into its transactions as investors.…

According to South Korean intelligence, North Korea responded to President Donald Trump’s peace overtures on Thursday by launching about a dozen short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) into the Sea of Japan just hours after Trump scaled back U.S.-South Korean military exercises and offered to talk with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the North Korean launch at roughly 5:00 p.m. local time. The missiles originated from somewhere near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, flew for about 185 miles, and landed in the Sea of Japan, which Koreans refer to as the…