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NewtralWar & conflict

Intento de asalto de los separatistas a la delegación de Gobierno en Lérida. Disparos al aire. Las escenas han sido censuradas

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim attached footage of a confrontation to the night of February 12, 2019, when the trial of Catalan independence leaders began. The review says the circulating videos showed Mossos d’Esquadra officers preventing demonstrators from entering the Lleida subdelegation, and that the accompanying message described an attempted assault and shots fired. The investigation checked whether an incident had occurred in Lleida on the date asserted by the message. Newtral reports that it contacted both the Lleida Government Subdelegation and the Mossos d’Esquadra. Both said there had been no incident on February 12. The review distinguishes this from a gathering that did take place that afternoon in Ricard Viñes square in connection with the trial: according to the report, police said there was no incident there and they did not have to intervene. The video was not from that day. The review identifies it as footage of disorder on March 25, 2018, during demonstrations against Carles Puigdemont’s arrest in Germany. It says some demonstrators then attempted to storm the Lleida subdelegation. Thus, the footage depicts a real confrontation, but its attribution to the February 2019 trial-day events is false; the review’s account does not substantiate the message’s assertion that scenes from February 12 were censored.

YouturnWar & conflict

ஆந்திரப்பிரதேசத்தின் திருமலை நெடுஞ்சாலை அருகே 4 தீவிரவாதிகள் மீது கமாண்டோக்கள் நடத்திய துப்பாக்கிச்சூட்டில் ஒருவர் இறந்துள்ளார், 3 தீவிரவாதிகள் கைது செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

The New York TimesWar & conflict

I pointed Osama bin Laden "out in my book just BEFORE the attack on the World Trade Center."

Publisher’s rating: This is misleading.

Related reporting identifies the statement as something Trump wrote on X in 2018: he said the United States should have captured Osama bin Laden earlier and added that he had pointed bin Laden out in his book before the World Trade Center attack. The excerpt does not name the book or provide its text, so it cannot establish what Trump wrote in it or whether the book supports his account. The same report says bin Laden was known to Americans because al-Qaida had orchestrated the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. That provides background on bin Laden’s prior public notoriety, but it does not independently verify Trump’s claim about what appeared in his book. The supplied evidence therefore documents the statement and relevant context, but does not include the book evidence needed to assess that specific assertion.

YouturnWar & conflict

கடந்த 4 ஆண்டுகளில் மோடியின் ஆட்சியில் காஷ்மீர் உள்ளிட்ட எல்லையோர பகுதிகளை தவிர்த்து இந்தியாவில் குண்டு வெடிப்பு சம்பவம் ஏதும் நிகழவில்லை- ஈஷா அறக்கட்டளையின் நிறுவனர் சத்குரு ஜக்கி வாசுதேவ்.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

YouturnWar & conflict

இந்தோனேசியாவில் பாலி குண்டு வெடிப்பில் மரணத் தண்டணை விதித்து கொல்லப்பட்ட தீவிரவாதி இமாம் சமுத்ரா உடல் மீண்டும் தோண்டப்பட்ட போது பல ஆண்டுகள் ஆகியும் உடல் கெடாமல் இருந்ததை கண்டு அனைவரும் கதறி அழுத காட்சி.

Publisher’s rating: Fake