SAUDI ARABIA SUMMONS DENMARK’S CHARGE D’AFFAIRES OVER QURAN BURNINGS

SA U D I Arabia summoned a Danish diplomat to protest the desecration of the Quran by an extreme-right group in Copenhagen, state media reported early Friday

During the meeting on Thursday with the Danish charge d affaires foreign ministry officials delivered a protest note urging an end to these disgraceful acts, which violate all religious teachings (and) international laws and norms” and can “fuel hatred between religions”, the official Saudi Press Agency said

The far-right group Danske Patrioter on Monday posted a video in which a man is seen desecrating and burning what appeared to be the Muslim holy book

It was just the latest such incident to stir anger in the Muslim world Saudi Arabia, home to the holy cities Mecca and Medina, has also denounced

Trump accused of asking staffer to delete camera footage in Florida classified documents case

WASHINGTON

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Former President Donald Trump faced new charges in a case accusing him of illegally possessing classified documents, with prosecutors alleging that he asked a staffer to delete camera footage at his Florida estate in an effort to obstruct a federal investigation into the records

The indictment includes new counts of obstruction and willful retention of national defense information adding fresh detail to an indictment issued last month against Trump and a close aide The Florida charges came as a surprise at a time of escalating anticipation of a possible additional indictment in Washington over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election The latest allegations also make clear the vast and still not fully known scope of legal exposure faced by Trump as he seeks to reclaim the White House in 2024 while fending off criminal cases in multiple cities

The updated indictment from special counsel Jack Smith centers on surveillance footage at Trump s Mara-Lago estate in Palm Beach, evidence that has long been vital to the case Trump is alleged to have asked for the footage to be deleted after FBI and Justice Department investigators visited in June 2022 to collect classified documents he took with him after leaving the White House The new indictment also charges him with illegally holding onto a document he s alleged to have shown off to visitors in New Jersey

A Trump spokesperson dismissed the new charges as “nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt by the Biden administration to harass President Trump and those around him and to influence the 2024 presidential race

Prosecutors accuse Trump of scheming with his valet, Walt Nauta, and a Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, to conceal the footage from federal investigators after they issued a subpoena for it Video from the property would ultimately play a significant role in the investigation because prosecutors said it captured Nauta moving boxes of documents in and out of a storage room including a day before an FBI visit to the property The boxes were moved at Trump s direction, the indictment alleges

According to the indictment, Nauta met with De Oliveira on June 25 2022 at Mar-a-Lago where they went to a security guard booth where surveillance video is displayed on monitors and walked with a flashlight through a tunnel where the storage room was located observing and pointing out surveillance cameras

Two days later, according to the indictment, De Oliveira walked through a basement tunnel with an unidentified Trump employee to an audio closet where De Oliveira in a private conversation asked how many days the server retained footage De Oliveira prosecutors said told the employee that the boss wanted the server deleted and asked, What are we going to do? During a voluntary interview with the FBI last January, prosecutors say, De Oliveira lied when he said he “never saw nothing” with regard to boxes at Mar-a-Lago

A A JM Srinagar pays rich tributes to Imam Hussain, Karbala mar t yrs

protests by a Sweden-based Iraqi refugee who last month burned pages of the Quran outside Stockholm’s main mosque

In a separate protest last week the refugee Salwan Momika stepped on the Quran but did not burn it prompting Riyadh to hand a protest note to the wedish charge d affaires Saudi Arabia and Iraq have called for an extraordinary meeting expected to be held on Monday of the Jeddah-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to address Quran desecration in both Sweden and Denmark

On Thursday, the 57-member body s secretary general, Hissein Brahim Taha, received a phone call from Sweden’s foreign minister, Tobias Billstrom, who said Stockholm rejects acts that insult the Quran and wants to maintain good relations with OIC members the OIC said in a statement

China makes major breakthrough in marine seismic exploration equipment

BEIJING

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China’s self-developed undersea seismic exploration sensor Haimai or Sea Pulse went into operation in the Bohai Sea on Thursday marking a major breakthrough in the country s technological development of high-end offshore oil and natural gas exploration

The “Sea Pulse ” a nodemode undersea seismic data exploration and acquisition equipment that adopts several leading-edge technologies, including an ultra-low noise acquisition circuit, has enhanced detection of weak signals with super sensitivity according to China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC)

The device is capable of detecting seismic waves 10,000 meters under the seabed, capturing seismic signals undersea equivalent to 1/150 of the sound of a mosquito as well as describing high-definition oil and gas reservoir data said the CNOOC

Technicians check China s self-developed undersea seismic exploration sensor Haimai, or

Technicians check China’s self-developed undersea seismic exploration sensor Haimai or Sea Pulse /CMG

Flexible device with high accuracy Ruan Fuming, a technical expert at CNOOC, told China Media Group (CMG) that “the Sea Pulse is small in size flexible in deployment and it is adaptable to a wide range of water depths and boasts high performance at ultra-low frequency It operates just like ‘clairvoyance,’ which can detect oil and gas reservoirs buried thousands of meters deep ”

Thousands of these devices are regularly placed at designated positions on the seabed to receive seismic wave signals and store and record the signals in the form of data Upon task completion, they will be retrieved The data will then be downloaded and analyzed to process seismic profiles to take the pulse of the seabed precisely The Sea Pulse can not only carry out accurate detection in exploration blind zones that are difficult for conventional exploration equipment but also be flexibly deployed in large numbers in areas with dense offshore platforms and fixed offshore facilities, Zhou Bin, an executive at China Oilfield Services Limited, told CMG

“Its successful operation will help us obtain hydrocarbon reser- voir information in deeper formations and complex geological structures in a more clear and accurate manner ”

A computer-generated image of hydrocarbon reservoir information data based on China s self-developed undersea seismic exploration sensor Haimai, or

A computer-generated image of hydrocarbon reservoir information data based on China’s selfdeveloped undersea seismic exploration sensor Haimai or Sea Pulse /CMG

Surging offshore energy supply

China has been making strenuous efforts to develop oil and gas projects to ensure energy supply in recent years

This July the country’s National Energy Administration held a meeting to further promote oil and gas exploration and development

The administration pointed out that, in the past five years, China’s oil and gas exploration and development in the ocean has been pushed forward to deep water with offshore crude oil output in 2022 reaching 58 million tonnes

Offshore crude oil has become China’s main force to increase the country’s overall output of crude oil according to the administration

SRINAGAR A

The Anjuman Auqaf of Jamia Masjid (AAJM) Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, on behalf of its head Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who is under house detention since August 5 2019 has paid glowing tributes to Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) the beloved grandson of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and his companions for their great and historic sacrifices in Karbala

According to Kashmir Media Service, the Anjuman in a statement in Srinagar said Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) by refusing to surrender before tyrants (falsehood) set an example which acts as torchbearer for those striving for truth till the Day of Judgement The exemplary sacrifices of the Martyrs of Karbala will always guide the Muslims as the martyrdom of Imam Hussain (RA) in the scorching desert of Karbala is a glorious chapter in the history of Islam and humanity, it added The Anjuman also said that was a tradition since centuries of the Mirwaizeen to visit Alam Sahib shrine in Narwara and highlight the significance of Muharramul Haram and pay tribute to Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) and other martyrs of Karbala Mirwaiz Umar Farooq too used to visit the shrine and throw light on Ashura but due to his continued illegal house detention, all this could not be possible this year as well, the Anjuman said

Meanwhile Anjuman also condemned the occupation authorities for disallowing the Mirwaiz the Juma prayers on the 205th consecutive Friday today it maintained that not releasing the Mirwaiz despite the demand by the people, religious, political and social circles, and civil society, is a tragedy, and also a challenge for the champions of justice and democracy

Sindh committed to preser ving historic status of Karoonjhar Mountain: Memon

KARACHI S TA F F R E P O R T

Minister for Information Transport and Mass Transit of Sindh Sharjeel Inam Memon addressed the press conference following the meeting of the Sindh Cabinet today He emphasized that the Karoonjhar Mountain holds significant historical value, and the Sindh government is committed to preserving its historical status from any potential impact He further stated that the government has invested billions of rupees to construct several small dams providing water to the villages and lands surrounding Karoonjhar The objective behind these efforts is to safeguard the historical significance of Karoonjhar while simultaneously improving the economic conditions of the local communities in the area He said that Karoonjhar is the area where I commenced my political career as a candidate for the Provincial Assembly