[PULSE.NG] Qatar's ruler said Wednesday the Gulf emirate backs the "unity and stability" of Sudan as he met the country's President Omar al-Bashir in Doha, but there was no announcement of a financial rescue package.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A Libyan Army general told the Saudi Okaz newspaper on Tuesday that his nation demands an apology from Leb after supporters of the Amal Movement replaced the Libyan flag at its embassy with their own last week.
According to the publication, Libyan army front man General Ahmed al-Mesmari criticized the attack on his country’s flag, stating that his country is still recovering from former President Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... ’s rule.
"Genuinely, we are very upset about what happened in Beirut. Our brothers in Leb, mainly those concerned about the cause of Sadr’s death, should know that the issue is also of concern to the Libyans who were suffering in the past from Muammar Qadaffy," the general told the publication.
"They turned the issue into a state issue and tried to exploit it one way or another. We are very upset about that, especially the tearing down of the flag," he continued.
"This flag represents the entire Libyan people. It doesn’t represent Qadaffy, nor does it represent a specific era," he would add.
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[PULSE.NG] The sons of former drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman killed Mexican journalist Javier Valdez because he insisted on publishing an interview with a drug trafficker, who told of the murder in court Wednesday.
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[DAWN] The National Assembly on Tuesday continued debate on the Sahiwal tragedy for a second consecutive day as opposition members reiterated their demand for a parliamentary committee to oversee the investigations, alleging that the Punjab government was trying to cover up the “cold-blooded murder” of three members of a family by personnel of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD).
Responding to the opposition’s demand that the report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) constituted by the Punjab government to probe the incident should be presented before parliament, federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari told the house that the interior minister would receive the report at 6.30pm and would lay it before the house soon after receiving it. However, when the session was adjourned by the chair at 8.05pm, neither Ms Mazari nor any minister was present in the assembly.
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[DAWN] A pilot of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was martyred in an air crash near Balochistan's Mastung area on Wednesday.
The accident occurred during a training mission being carried out in a multi-role aircraft, said a statement issued by the Directorate of Media Affairs of PAF.
"The PAF reports with regret that an F-7PG aircraft, while on a routine operational training mission, crashed near Mastung," it said.
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The accident occurred during a training mission being carried out in a multi-role aircraft
"It's a fighter, bomber, brick, and dessert topping in one"
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F-7 appears to be an export version of the Chinese J-7 which is a copy of the old Soviet MiG-21.
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Thank goodness it is the end of the Stupidity Subsidy.
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Soon, the Palestinians will have no money at all for food, medicine, fuel, electricity, schools and other necessities. The only money that they have left will barely cover weapons and ammunition.
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Because paying them to NOT be murderous assholes has worked so well
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[PULSE.NG] Basuki Tjahaja Purnama -- the Indonesian capital's first non-Moslem governor in half a century and its first ethnic Chinese leader -- had been a popular politician who won praise for trying to clean up the traffic-clogged megacity and clamp down on corruption.
But his downfall came quickly after comments he made on the campaign trail during a re-election bid saw him accused of insulting Islam.
His filmed remarks which went viral online sparked mass protests in Jakarta, spearheaded by radical groups opposed to a non-Moslem leader and encouraged by his political rivals.
He lost the election to a Moslem challenger and was then sentenced to two years' jail in May 2017.
It was an unusually harsh sentence -- prosecutors had only recommended probation for the now 52-year-old, best known by his nickname Ahok.
His case drew international headlines and a wave of criticism including from the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... which urged the country of 260 million to revise its decades-old blasphemy law.
The charge against Purnama centred on a remark he made to voters about his Moslem rivals using a Koranic verse to trick people into voting against him, which judges ruled amounted to blasphemy against Islam.
The huge demonstrations calling for Ahok's jailing fuelled concerns about the growing influence of religious hardliners and that the Southeast country's much-vaunted tolerant brand of Islam was under threat.
Indonesia's blasphemy law states that anyone found guilty of "expressing feelings of hostility" towards religion can be enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for up to five years.
It applies to any of six officially recognised religions, including Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, but most prosecutions are brought against people accused of blaspheming Islam, which is followed by nearly 90 percent of the population.
Among them was an ethnic Chinese Buddhist woman found guilty in August of insulting Islam for asking her neighbourhood mosque to lower its sound system. She was sentenced to 18 months in jail.
The woman's comments about the mosque noise triggered riots in 2016 that saw angry Moslem mobs ransack Buddhist temples.
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[Free Beacon] The Trump administration is locked in a diplomatic push to convince European allies to ban a major Iranian state-controlled airline known to be engaged in illicit transport and espionage operations, according to U.S. officials who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.
Germany's decision to ban Iran's Mahan Air‐a state-controlled entity known to carry out clandestine military operations on the Islamic Republic's behalf‐is being viewed as a diplomatic coup by the top U.S. official in Berlin and is said to be generating support for expanding this ban across the European Union, a move that would deal a severe blow to Tehran's international reach, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The ban on Mahan has been in the works for months, according to senior U.S. officials, who told the Free Beacon the airline is complicit in the Iranian regime's spying and military operations. Efforts to crackdown on Mahan follow a similar pressure campaign by the Trump administration to prevent Iran from airlifting out of Germany millions of dollars.
U.S. officials familiar with the ongoing diplomatic matter described Iran as trying to airlift several planeloads of cash out of Germany, a major cash influx that could have aided Iran's expansionist foreign policy goals, including its operations in Syria, Yemen, and other regional hotspots.
The amount was so large that Iran attempted to use multiple planes to airlift the cash, an effort that was recently stopped in no small part by top U.S. officials stationed in Germany, sources said.
The next leg of the administration's diplomatic push will focus on convincing France and other leading European countries to also enact a ban on Mahan as part of a wide-ranging national security readjustment aimed at collapsing Iran's illicit financial and military channels, officials said.
The United States pursued and cracked down on Iran's efforts to fly the cash out of Germany immediately, officials confirmed.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Bashar al-Ja’afari said in a statement on Tuesday that it was time that the United Nations Security Council "took action to stop constant Israeli attacks on Syrian territories."
According to al-Ja’afari, Israel had repeatedly violated international law without any consequences.
Al-Ja’afari said that Syria may exercise its right for self-defense and respond to the Israeli attack on Damascus Airport with "symmetric" strike on Tel-Aviv airport.
Damascus has rarely launched any missiles into israel in the past; however, with the war winding down inside Syria, the government may be emboldened to respond to any Israeli aggression.
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It seems like that was a more reactionary threat than thoughtful.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Lebanese Army said in a communique on Tuesday that their forces had nabbed Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a suspected Mossad agent over the attempted liquidation of a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official, Mohammad Hamdan, in the port city of Saida (var. Sidon).
According to the Lebanese Army, "one of the main perpetrators of the crime, who confessed to being tasked by Israeli intelligence."
On Tuesday the army said in a statement a second male suspect "who carried out surveillance" before last year’s bombing had also been arrested.
The second suspect "has admitted to being a Mossad agent since 2014," it said, without specifying his nationality.
On January 14th, a boom-mobile targeted Mohammad Hamdan in Saida city; this attack resulted in the wounding of the Hamas official’s leg.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian military will begin using the Russian-made S-300 air defense system in March, the Russia-based Kommersant publication reported on Monday.
According to Kommersant, the Syrian military is completing their training exercises with the S-300 and are not ready to use them in combat.
A member of the Russian Federation Council’s defence and security committee, Franz Klintsevich, said the Syrian crews are currently undergoing training, adding that "the Israeli warplanes are now striking Syria because they are still outside the Syrian air defense range, but after the deployment of the S-300, no one will be able to escape them".
Kommersant said that it would be possible for one air defense battalion in Damascus to use the S-300, which is important for the Syrian military because the Israeli Air Force often targets the capital and its surroundings.
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Nice excuse for the bloody things not working as advertised.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday morning that the current situation in the Idlib province is cause for concern, as its instability is a threat to Russia’s Hmeimim Airbase in neighboring Latakia.
"The current situation around Idlib is of serious concern. The situation in this de-escalation zone is rapidly deteriorating. The territory has actually been taken under the full control of bandidosLions of Islam from the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... alliance Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ", Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday, adding that the provocations posed a serious danger to civilians and Syrian troops in the area, as well as to the Russian Hmeymim Airbase, Sputnik News reported.
Earlier this month, the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham seized most of the province from the Ottoman Turkish-backed National Liberation Front ...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here... .
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Tehran is planning to carry out a new satellite launch in the near future, IRNA reported on Wednesday, citing Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami, just one week after the country failed to launch its Payam satellite into orbit.
Following a cabinet session, Hatami confirmed to news hounds that the launch, which Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced last week, would take place soon, according to the IRNA news agency.
Hatami specified that the satellite would be launched by the Safir expendable launch vehicle, which is capable of putting satellites into 260-kilometer (16-mile) orbits.
The minister emphasized that Iran was constantly improving its capacities in satellite launches.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[DAWN] A pilot of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was martyred in an air crash near Balochistan's Mastung area on Wednesday.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Lebanese Army said in a communique on Tuesday that their forces had 
