The Ukrainian security service (SBU) says it has foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and other high-ranking Ukrainian officials.
Two Ukrainian government protection unit colonels have been arrested.
The SBU said they were part of a network of agents belonging to the Russian state security service (FSB).
They had reportedly been searching for willing “executors” among Mr Zelensky’s bodyguards to kidnap and kill him.
Ever since Russian paratroopers attempted to land in Kyiv and assassinate President Zelensky in the early hours and days of the full-scale invasion, plots to assassinate him have been commonplace.
The Ukrainian leader said at the start of the invasion he was Russia’s “number one target”.
But this alleged plot stands out from the rest. It involves serving colonels, whose job it was to keep officials and institutions safe, allegedly hired as moles.
Other targets included military intelligence head Kyrylo Budanov and SBU chief Vasyl Malyuk, the agency added.
The group had reportedly planned to kill Mr Budanov before Orthodox Easter, which this year fell on 5 May.
According to the SBU, the plotters had aimed to use a mole to get information about his location, which they would then have attacked with rockets, drones and anti-tank grenades.
One of the officers who was later arrested had already bought drones and anti-personnel mines, the SBU said.
SBU head Vasyl Malyuk said the attack was supposed to be “a gift to Putin before the inauguration” – referring to Russia’s Vladimir Putin who was sworn in for a fifth term as president at the Kremlin on Tuesday.
The operation turned into a failure of the Russian special services, Mr Malyuk said.
“But we must not forget – the enemy is strong and experienced, he cannot be underestimated,” he added.
The two Ukrainian officials are being held on suspicion of treason and of preparing a terrorist act.
The SBU said three FSB employees oversaw the organisation and the attack.
One of them, named as Dmytro Perlin, had been recruiting “moles” since before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Another FSB employee, Oleksiy Kornev, reportedly held “conspiratorial” meetings “in neighbouring European states” before the invasion with one of the Ukrainian colonels arrested.
In a released interrogation with one of the suspects, they can be heard describing how they were paid thousands of dollars directly by parcels or indirectly through their relatives. It is not clear whether he was speaking under duress or not.
Investigators insist they monitored the men throughout. We are unlikely to know how close they came to carrying out their alleged plan.
The plot may read like a thriller but it is also a reminder of the risks Ukraine’s wartime leader faces.
Last month, a Polish man was arrested and charged with planning to co-operate with Russian intelligence services to aid a possible assassination of Mr Zelensky.
At the weekend Ukraine’s president appeared on the Russian interior ministry’s wanted list on unspecified charges.
The foreign ministry in Kyiv condemned the move as showing “the desperation of the Russian state machine and propaganda”, and pointed out that the International Criminal Court had issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin’s arrest.
Abdulrahman Mari died in an Israeli prison after 7 October
A few days after Hamas attacked Israel and war erupted in Gaza, Umm Mohamed in the occupied West Bank received a telephone call from her son in an Israeli prison.
“Pray for me mum,” Abdulrahman Mari said. “Things are getting harder here. They might not let me speak to you again”.
It would be the last time she heard his voice.
Conditions deteriorated for Palestinian prisoners in Israel after 7 October last year, when Hamas mounted its deadly assault on Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip, according to the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Commission of Detainees Affairs.
Thirteen Palestinian prisoners have since died in Israeli prisons, “the majority of them as a result of beating or denial of medication”, the commission’s head, Qadoura Fares, told the BBC.
Abdulrahman was one of the first to die.
A carpenter in the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, he had been on his way back home from work in Ramallah in February last year when he was arrested at a mobile checkpoint. He was taken into administrative detention – under which Israel can hold people indefinitely without charge – in Megiddo prison.
His brother Ibrahim said the charges against him were minor, such as taking part in protests and possessing a firearm, but said he was also accused of belonging to Hamas although there were no specific charges about any activities within the group.
Ibrahim is still trying to piece together how exactly his brother died. He has to rely on testimony from Abdulrahman’s former cellmates, as well as reports from court hearings.
One former cellmate, who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, said: “After 7 October, it was total torture. They beat us for no reason, they searched us for no reason. Even if you look at someone the wrong way.”
He described having seen Abdulrahman heavily beaten in front of him and others.
“At 9am, they came into our cell, and began to beat us. One of the guards began to insult Abdulrahman’s parents, which he didn’t stand for, and he began to fight back.
“They beat him badly, and took him away to another cell upstairs for a week. During that time you could hear him crying out in pain.”
He said he had only found out about Abdulrahman’s death after he left prison a week later.
The Israeli prison service did not directly address the BBC’s questions about Abdulrahman’s death or those of the 12 other named Palestinians that the Commission of Detainees Affairs says have died, saying only: “We are not familiar with the claims described and as far as we know they are not true.”
Getty ImagesIsrael has detained thousands of West Bank Palestinians since 7 October
Professor Danny Rosin, a doctor from the group Physicians for Human Rights, attended the examination of Abdulrahman Mari’s body. His remarks corroborate what Abdulrahman’s cellmate and brother told the BBC.
Prof Rosin’s report mentioned that bruises had been seen over Abdulrahman’s left chest, and that he had several broken ribs. External bruises were also seen on the back, buttocks, left arm and thigh, as well as the right side of the head and neck with no fractures underneath.
It also quoted an additional police report which had mentioned “forceful restraint” being used on Mr Mari six days before his death.
Professor Rosin said in the report that while no specific cause of death had been found, “one may assume that the violence he suffered manifested by the multiple bruises and multiple severe rib fractures contributed to his death”.
He also added that “irregular pulse” or a “heart attack” could result from these injuries without leaving any physical evidence.
Israel currently holds more than 9,300 security prisoners, the vast majority of whom are Palestinians according to the Israeli rights group HaMoked, including more than 3,600 people in administrative detention.
These figures do not include detainees from the Gaza Strip being held in separate facilities by the Israeli military.
Mr Qadoura says the change after 7 October “affected every aspect of the prisoners’ lives”, alleging that prisoners have been subjected to starvation and thirst and some of those with chronic illnesses were denied their medication. Beatings became more regular and more brutal.
“I met a detainee who’d lost 20kg in the last three months,” he said.
“It’s as if the war on Gaza was also a war on Palestinian prisoners. It was all a form of revenge.”
Arafat Hamdan was dead within two days of his arrest
The BBC has previously heard from Palestinian prisoners who described being hit with sticks, having muzzled dogs set on them and having their clothes, food and blankets taken away in the weeks after 7 October.
The Israeli prison service has denied any mistreatment, saying that “all prisoners are held in accordance with the law while respecting their basic rights and under the supervision of a professional and skilled prison staff”.
It said prisons had gone into “emergency mode” after war broke out and it had been “decided to reduce the living conditions of the security prisoners”. Examples it gave included removing electrical equipment and cutting electricity to cells and reducing prisoners’ activities in the wings.
In the West Bank village of Beit Sira, Arafat Hamdan’s father showed where Israeli police officers had kicked the door of his family home and stormed in at 04:00 on 22 October looking for his son.
Police covered his son’s face with a thick black cloth and closed it around his neck with a rope. The mask smelled strongly, he said, and Arafat clearly had a hard time breathing with it on.
“I kept trying to comfort him.” Yasser Hamdan told the BBC. “It’s ok. They have nothing against you. They have nothing against us. I kept telling him that as they tied him up outside the house. Then they took him.”
Two days later a phone call came. Arafat had been found dead in his cell in Ofer prison in the West Bank.
Israeli authorities have not explained how he died. Arafat had Type 1 diabetes and would suffer from low blood sugar levels from time to time.
His father said one of the police officers arresting Arafat had told him to bring medicine with him, but it was unclear if he had been able to.
The BBC obtained a report by Dr Daniel Solomon, a surgeon who was present at the post mortem of Arafat Hamdan at the request of Physicians for Human Rights.
Dr Solomon said it had been carried out in Israel on 31 October but added that the condition of the body, due to prolonged refrigeration, had made it harder to determine the cause of death.
He also noted the absence of any records showing if Arafat’s diabetes medication had been administered and at what dosing.
The report also mentioned the need for other tests beyond the post mortem to determine the cause of death.
“Until now we don’t know how he died. Nothing is clear.” Yasser Hamdan said.
Umm Mohammed said Abdulrahman had become a leader of his group of prisoners before his death
Neither Arafat’s nor Abdulrahman’s bodies have yet been returned. Their families want to arrange their own post mortems, hold funerals, and say a final goodbye.
“He was my flesh and blood. Then he was gone in a moment,” Yasser Hamdan said. Photos of his son were everywhere you looked in his apartment.
Umm Mohamed showed photos of Abdulrahman on her phone, pointing to one and saying: “Look at him. He was so cheerful.”
Over time he had become a leader in his group of prisoners, she said.
“He’d call me when he was making breakfast for them when they were all still asleep. He was always the most active. He would never sit still, that boy.”
She broke down. “Bring him back to me. I want to see him one last time. One last look.”
Melansir dari CNBC International, para pelancong yang memasuki Singapura dengan mobil melalui perbatasan Singapura dan Malaysia dapat menunjukkan self-generated kode QR, yang didapat dari MyICA, sebagai pengganti paspor di dua pos perbatasan mulai Selasa.
Otoritas Imigrasi dan Pos Pemeriksaan Singapura mengatakan, aturan baru untuk pelancong yang bepergian melalui pos pemeriksaan Woodland dan Tuas ini dapat mempercepat proses izin imigrasi “tanpa mengorbankan keamanan”.
Serupa dengan sebelumnya, para pelancong tetap harus melakukan pemeriksaan secara tatap muka dengan petugas imigrasi.
Namun, izin masuk dengan kode QR ini tidak tersedia bagi dua kelompok wisatawan, yakni pendatang yang baru pertama kali memasuki Negeri Singa dan pendatang yang menggunakan paspor berbeda dari kunjungan sebelumnya.
Menurut pihak berwenang, prosedur baru ini diharapkan dapat mengefisiensi waktu pemrosesan imigrasi lebih dari 30 persen alias menghemat sekitar 20 detik untuk mobil dengan empat penumpang dan hingga satu menit untuk mobil berkapasitas 10 orang.
Ke depannya, Singapura berencana untuk menerapkan izin kode QR kepada lebih banyak wisatawan yang melintasi pos pemeriksaan melalui moda transportasi lain.
Adapun, program izin masuk melalui QR ini adalah bagian dari upaya modernisasi kontrol perbatasan dan prosedur keamanan Singapura. Modernisasi itu dilakukan guna mengelola jumlah wisatawan yang lebih tinggi di tengah krisis angkatan kerja yang menua.
Sementara itu menurut perwakilan Grup Bandara Changi, izin imigrasi “bebas paspor” Bandara Changi yang didasarkan pada verifikasi biometrik sedang dilakukan uji coba. Namun, tanggal peluncuran untuk program ini masih belum dirilis.
Sebagai informasi, pos pemeriksaan yang menghubungkan kota Johor Bahru, Malaysia ke Woodlands, Singapura adalah salah satu perbatasan tersibuk di dunia. Menurut Otoritas Imigrasi dan Pos Pemeriksaan, sebanyak lebih dari 1,8 juta pelancong melintasi dua pos pemeriksaan Singapura yang menghubungkan pulau tersebut dengan Malaysia pada 7 hingga 10 Maret 2024 lalu.
Bahkan pada 8 Maret, terdapat 495 ribu orang yang melintasi pos pemeriksaan Woodlands dan Tuas. Angka itu disebut memecahkan rekor, melebihi 485 ribu pelancong yang tercatathttps://gitarisgila.com/ pada Agustus 2019.
Secara agregat, tercatat sekitar 13.387 tentara bayaran asing telah memasuki Ukraina. Sementara itu, telah dikonfirmasi bahwa sekitar 5.962 tentara bayaran asing dieliminasi.
Polandia menjadi penyumbang tentara bayaran paling banyak. Sekitar 2.960 warga Polandia memasuki Ukraina untuk berperang danhttps://gitarisgila.com/ sekitar 1.497 tereliminasi.
Berikut adalah hal yang dilarang saat di Rusia yang dihimpun CNBC Indonesia dari berbagai sumber.
1. Jangan bersiul
Ada banyak takhayul yang dipercaya oleh orang Rusia. Salah satunya adalah larangan bersiul di dalam rumah karena dipercaya akan membuat si pemilik rumah kehilangan uang. Jadi hindari hal ini jika Anda berada di dalam Rusia.
2. Dilarang duduk di pojok meja
Selanjutnya, jika Anda adalah wanita lajang maka Anda dilarang duduk di pojok meja. Itu karena, orang Rusia percaya jika wanita lajang duduk di pojok meja maka akan membuat mereka tidak bisa menikah atau terlibat asmara dengan lawan jenis.
3. Meninggalkan botol kosong di atas meja
Meninggalkan botol kosong di atas meja bagi masyarakat Rusia dianggap akan membawa kesialan. Maka dari itu jangan lakukan hal ini jika berkunjung ke Rusia.
4. Jangan banyak tersenyum
Orang Rusia hanya tersenyum pada keluarga, teman, pasangan, atau orang yang dikenalnya. Bukan hanya itu, mereka juga menganggap terlalu banyak tersenyum pada orang asing akan membuatnya terlihat bodoh.
5. Pakai sepatu dalam rumah
Ketika Anda memasuki rumah seseorang di Rusia maka sebaiknya segera lepas sepatu di luar rumah. Sebab, biasanya pemilik rumah sudah menyiapkan sandal untuk para tamu. Tidak melepas sepatu di dalam rumah akan dianggap tidak sopan.
6. Tukar uang malam hari
Berurusan dengan uang di malam hari dipercaya sebagai pertanda buruk. Maka dari itu, Anda sebaiknya menunggu hingga pagi jika ingin berurusan dengan uang.
7. Tidak melepas sarung tangan saat bersalaman
Rusia memang negara yang dingin, namun bukan berarti Anda bisa berjabat tangan saat memakai sarung tangan. Menurut mereka, memakai sarung tangan saat bersalaman adalah tindakan yang kasar dan jauh dari https://gitarisgila.com/kesopanan.
Membaca doa buka puasa dianjurkan sebagai wujud syukur atas nikmat yang telah diberikan Allah SWT, serta menutup ibadah puasa dengan penuh keberkahan.
Mengutip NU Online, berikut ini bacaan doa buka puasa dzahaba yang berasal dari riwayat Sahabat Abdullah bin Umar. Doa ini termasuk doa yang sahih dan bisa diamalkan oleh umat Islam.
Dzahabadzh dzhama-u wabtallatil-‘uruqu wa tsabatal-ajru insyaa-Allah
Artinya: “Telah hilang rasa haus dan urat-urat telah basah serta pahala tetap, Insya Allah.”
Meski demikian, ada pula pandangan ulama yang berpendapat agar menggabungkan kedua bacaan doa buka puasa Allahumma laka shumtu dan dzahaba menjadi sebagai berikut:
Allahumma laka sumtu wa ‘ala rizqika aftartu, dhahaba alzzama’u wabtallatil ‘uruqu, wa thabata al-ajru in sha Allahi ta’ala.
Artinya: “Ya Allah, untuk-Mu aku berpuasa, dengan rezeki-Mu aku berbuka. Rasa haus telah hilang, urat-urat telah basah, dan pahala tetap teguh, jika Allah menghendaki.”
Itulah doa buka puasa dzahaba, arti, dan tata cara membacanya. Semoga bermanfaat.
Doa ini dibaca setelah umat Islam membatalkan puasa dengan makan atau minum sesuatu. Hal ini tertuang dalam Kitab Hasyiyah I’anah At-Thalibin karya Syekh Abu Bakar Muhammad Syatha dari laman Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) sebagai berikut.
ـ (وقوله: عقب الفطر) أي عقب ما يحصل به الفطر، لا قبله، ولا عنده
Artinya: Maksud dari (membaca doa buka puasa) setelah berbuka adalah selesainya berbuka puasa, bukan (dibaca) sebelumnya dan bukan saat berbuka.
Hanya saja dianggap sunah, seperti yang dijelaskan dalam Kitab Busyra Al-Karim karya Syekh Said bin Muhammad Ba’ali berikut.
ويسنّ أن يقول عنده أي عند إرادته والأولى بعده: اللهم لك صمت وعلى رزقك أفطرت
Artinya: Disunahkan bagi orang ketika hendak berbuka-tapi yang lebih utama setelah berbuka-membaca doa ‘Allahumma laka shumtu wa ‘ala rizqika aftharthu’.
Oleh karena itu, agar kesunahan tersebut lebih sempurna, sebaiknya membaca doa berbuka puasa setelah selesai berbuka.
Adapun bacaannya memang terdapat beberapa versi doa berbuka puasa. Di antara yang paling populer yaitu berbunyi Allahumma laka shumtu dan dzahaba dzomau.
Rasulullah SAW sendiri telah mengajarkan doa ini kepada sahabat-sahabatnya sebagai bagian dari tata cara membatalkan puasa denganhttps://gitarisgila.com/ tepat.
Pegadaian sendiri menjual berbagai jenis emas, yaitu emas Antam, Antam Retro, Antam Batik, dan UBS. Ukurannya pun dijual beragam, mulai dari 0,5 gram hingga 1.000 gram.
Melansir data dari situs resmi Pegadaian hari ini, harga emas Antam ukuran 1 gram dibanderol Rp 1.239.000, harganya naik Rp 4.000 dari perdagangan sehari sebelumnya.
Sementara itu, harga emas UBS yang dikeluarkan PT Untung Bersama Sejahtera, di mana harga ukuran 1 gram pada hari ini mencapai Rp 1.211.000, naik Rp 7.000. Emas UBS tersedia mulai ukuran 0,5 gram hingga 500 gram.
Berikut harga emas jenis Antam standar, Antam Retro, dan Emas UBS pada hari ini.
Harga emas dunia pada Jumat (8/3/2024) lalu kembali pecah rekor di posisi US$ 2.177,51 per troy ons.Catatan rekor emas sepanjang sejarah ini telah diukir selama enam hari beruntun.
Rekor pertama dipecahkan sejak Jumat (1/3/2024) pekan lalu di mana emas global melonjak ke posisi 2083,39 menggantikan rekor sebelumnya yang terjadi pada 27 Desember 2023 yakni US$ 2.077,16 per troy ons.
Penguatan harga emas didorong meningkatnya spekulasi pelonggaran moneter Amerika Serikat (AS) menambah dorongan berkelanjutan terhadap emas batangan dari pembelian bank sentral dan permintaan safe-haven.
Chairman bank sentral AS (The Federal Reserve/The Fed), Jerome Powell mengatakan The Fed “tidak jauh” dari mendapatkan keyakinan yang cukup bahwa inflasi sedang menuju target 2% yang ditetapkan The Fed untuk dapat memulai penurunan suku bunga.
Menurut FedWatch Tool CME, saat ini para pelaku pasar memperkirakan peluang penurunan suku bunga sebesar 74% pada bulan Juni, dibandingkan sekitar 63% pada https://gitarisgila.com/tanggal 29 Februari.
“Kami akan melakukan investigasi secara khusus terkait kasus tersebut,” kata Direktur Jenderal Perhubungan Udara Kemenhub M Kristi Endah Murni dalam pernyataan tertulisnya, Sabtu
“Kami akan melakukan investigasi dan review terhadap night flight operation di Indonesia terkait dengan fatigue risk menagement atau manajemen risiko atas kelelahan untuk Batik Air dan juga seluruh operator penerbangan,” jelas Kristi.
Kristi menambahkan, saat ini kru penerbangan telah di-grounded sesuai SOP internal untuk investigasi lebih lanjut. Kristi memastikan Ditjen Perhubungan Udara Kemanhub Ditjen akan mengirimkan inspektur penerbangan yang menangani Resolusi of Safety Issue (RRSI) untuk menemukan akar permasaahan dan merekomendasikan tindakan mitigasi terkait kasus ini kepada operator penerbangan dan pengawasnya.
“Direktorat Jenderal Perhubungan Udara memberikan apresiasi terhadap KNKT serta menanggapi serius kasus Batik Air. Kami tegaskan bahwa sanksi akan diberlakukan sesuai dengan hasil investigasi yang ditemukan oleh tim investigator,” jelashttps://gitarisgila.com/ Kristi.
Sebanyak 534 bangunan mengalami rusak ringgan hingga berat akibat bencana ‘tornado’ yang terjadi Rabu sore (21/02) di Kabupaten Sumedang dan Kabupaten Bandung, Jawa Barat.
Banyak video yang tersebar di media sosial menggambarkan angin kencang telah merobohkan pepohonan, kendaraan roda empat terguling, dan material bangunan terangkat ke angkasa.
Fenomena alam ini kemudian dianggap sebagai “tornado” yang kemungkinan muncul pertama kali di Indonesia menurut seorang Peneliti Pusat Riset Iklim dan Atmosfer di Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN).
Namun Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika menyatakan fenomena angin berputar itu sebagai puting beliung.
Apa yang sebenarnya terjadi? Apa bedanya tornado dan puting beliung? Berikut adalah hal-hal yang sejauh ini diketahui tentang fenomena angin kencang di Rancaengkek dan sekitarnya.
Bagaimana kesaksian penyintas?
Solihin, 65 tahun, melangkah hati-hati di antara reruntuhan bangunan dengan kondisi baju yang sudah lepek karena keringat. Sedikit demi sedikit, ia mengangkat puing-puing – kebanyakan atap rumah untuk dibersihkan.
Warga Dusun Bojong Bolang, di Kabupaten Sumedang ini harus menelan kerugian jutaan rupiah karena lima bangunan miliknya, empat di antaranya kos-kosan 30 pintu rusak diterjang tornado Rabu kemarin (21/02).
Ia mengatakan “angin tornado” sangat nampak dari jangkauan satu kilometer menuju rumahnya. Suaranya “seperti helikopter. Anginnya mutar ke atas. Hitam. Semua berterbangan. Genteng. Baja ringan. Berterbangan semua”.
“Saya teriak Allahuakbar, saya tidak keluar di dalam saja. Keluar, sudah hancur semua,” kata Solihin mengingat kejadian itu.
Menurutnya, angin yang membawa terbang atap rumah ini “lebih besar dari pada yang sudah-sudah.”
Ia bercerita saat angin berputar raksasa bergerak dari kejauhan menuju rumahnya. Langit gelap tertutup awan hitam.
Empu Marfuah sempat berdebat dengan Komar suaminya, yang mengatakan itu kebakaran, tapi dirinya bersikukuh kalau itu angin puting beliung.
Setelah benar-benar menyadari itu angin besar yang berputar, Empu dan Komar segera masuk ke dalam rumah dan saling menghimpit bersama anaknya di pojokan rumah. Ia memakai helm, dan baju berlapis-lapis untuk keselamatan.
Tornado itu memporak-porandakan rumahnya sekitar lima menit. Suara angin mulai senyap, digantikan hujan deras.
Ketika hujan, Empu menyadari atap rumahnya sudah bolong. Air hujan leluasa masuk ke dalam rumah, membasahi segala isi rumah termasuk kasur dan semua yang ada di dalam lemari.
“Itu semua basah kursi, kasur, lemari basah semua. Nggak ada tempat buat tidur,” https://gitarisgila.com/kata Empu. Ia juga menambahkan, suasananya saat itu “seperti mau kiamat”.
Fenomena alam seperti ini tak pernah ia alami sebelumnya.
Ketua Divisi Teknis KPU RI Idham Holik mengatakan Bawaslu merupakan lembaga yang diberi kewenangan atributif untuk menangani dugaan pelanggaran dalam Pemilu 2024.
Selain itu, ada juga Pasal 475 ayat (4) UU Nomor 7 Tahun 2017 tentang KPU wajib menindaklanjuti putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi.
“Bawaslu selaku lembaga yang diberi kewenangan atributif oleh UU Pemilu pasti akan menangani dugaan pelanggaran pelaksanaan aturan pemilu dalam pemungutan, penghitungan, dan rekapitulasi suara,
“Salah satu indikasi demokrasi baik itu adalah Pemilu yang bersihhttps://gitarisgila.com/, kemudian jujur. Ya kalau ada kekurangan-kekurangan harus ditindaklanjuti, harus dilakukan langkah-langkah untuk memastikan setiap suara rakyat itu terhitung dan semua aspirasi sesuai dikalkulasi ya,” kata dia.