A little profit removed from the coffers of the Taliban and their friends.
[Ynet] An Afghan official says that in the past 12 months the country's counter-narcotics department has seized almost 650 tons of contraband drugs and alcohol.
Gen. Baz Mohammad Ahmadi, deputy interior minister for the counter-narcotics police, says the confiscated drugs include raw opium, heroin and hashish. He says that during that same time, the police tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! 2,683 smugglers and traffickers, including 67 women.
He added that 20 coppers and 17 army soldiers have also been arrested for drug trafficking during the same time period. Ahmadi spoke on Tuesday as part of his annual reports on the fight against drug trafficking
Mexican police used to put on these big shows where they'd douse a pit full of narcotics with gasoline and light it on fire for the TV cameras. But somehow there was never any shortage of narcotics on the street.
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[Libya Herald] The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and Egypt’s petroleum projects construction company Petrojet are looking to reactivate their presence on Libya.
Which Libya? There are 30 3 of them...
Both had meetings today to that effect with Presidency Council deputy leader Ahmed Maetig as well as with Mustafa Sanalla, the head of the National Oil Corporation.
In a statement following his meeting with the visiting heads of both EGPC and Petrojet, Maetig stressed the importance of economic cooperation with Egypt.
It was also agreed to form a joint team from the National Oil Corporation and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation which would study possible projects.
Today’s visit, the first by Egyptian oil officials to Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... in more than two years, followed a request at the end of February by Cairo for an increase in its imports of Libyan crude.
In the event, although the Egyptians apparently asked for two million barrels of fuel a month plus quantities of diesel and jet fuel, in the end it was agreed to provide just 1 million b/d of crude for the moment
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[Libya Herald] Hopes of restarting expansion work on Zuwara port took a step forward yesterday with talks in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... between the Presidency Council’s transport minister Milad Matouk, Zuwara mayor Hafez Ben Sassi and a delegation from Italian construction company Piacentini.
The company had been working on the port’s development. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... in mid-2014, three members of its staff involved in the project were kidnapped while on their way to work. Two were released almost immediately but the last, Italian Marco Vallisa, was finally freed only in November that year after a lage ransom was reportedly paid. The incident and the security vacuum forced Piacentini to pull out.
Yesterday’s meeting looked at reactivating port construction, the safety of all involved, and the return of Piancentini to complete the project.
So far, however, no timeframe for the Italian company’s return has been announced.
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[An Nahar] British police on Tuesday charged another six people over a suspected hate crime attack on a teenage Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker in London, bringing the total facing court to 13.
Reker Ahmed, 17, was left with a fractured skull and a blood clot on his brain after he was set upon by a group of up to 30 people at a bus stop outside a pub in Croydon, south London, on Friday.
Seven people were charged on Monday over the attack and another six were charged on Tuesday -- including a 15-year-old boy. All the suspects are local to Croydon, and the eldest is aged 24.
"I think this was probably confidence by numbers," Police Detective Superintendent Jane Corrigan said on Monday as she described the attack on Ahmed, who was with two friends at the time.
"It started off with this smaller group of people who were joined by between 20 to 30 and they just viciously attacked these individuals because they were asylum seekers."
All the suspects have been charged with violent disorder, and three of them have also been charged with racially-aggravated grievous bodily harm.
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Dude mighta took cuts in the bus queue cause he didn't know better. Good there weren't guns.
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The non-mention of demographic specifics (aside from the assaulted) is indeed curious.
It is also curious that our victim's two companions, who left him behind in the third paragraph of yesterday's story, are unmentioned and were never described.
[An Nahar] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... spoke Monday with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... and pledged Washington's "full support" for Moscow's response to the deadly attack on the Saint Petersburg metro, the White House said.
Trump expressed his condolences and condemned the attack, which killed 11 people and left dozens maimed. Russian authorities said they were probing an "act of terror."
"President Trump offered the full support of the United States Government in responding to the attack and bringing those responsible to justice," the White House said in a statement about the phone call.
"Both President Trump and President Putin agreed that terrorism must be decisively and quickly defeated."
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[DailyMail] St Petersburg metro suicide bomber Akbarzhon Jalilov waited for two hours before detonating his bomb waiting for the perfect moment to kill the greatest number of people.
Security forces said he walked around St Petersburg carrying a backpack containing the bomb before detonating the device on a crowded metro train.
Moments before the device exploded, Jalilov was spotted clenching his fists as if steeling himself for his imminent suicide attack.
A former friend, Ali Matkarimov, today said Jalilov was once a sushi maker and was 'not even saying his prayers' when the pair worked together in the city in 2013.
As hundreds gathered to mourn the dead this morning, the city's transport bosses reopened four stations which had been shut down following an anonymous call warning of another attack.
Despite initially issuing search warrants for two suspected terrorists, authorities believe the suspected bomber was behind the attack and also have intelligence to suggest he planted a second explosive device - disguised as a fire extinguisher - which was found and defused at a nearby station.
Russia's state investigative committee said today that the blast was caused by a bomb that had possibly been detonated by a man whose body parts were found in one of the train carriages.
According to the latest casualty figures provided by healthcare officials, 14 people were killed and 49 injured, including 10 victims who are still in serious condition.
Photos of the disabled IED that were leaked online show a container disguised as a fire extinguisher, apparently filled with explosives, which has packaged ball bearings wrapped around it, presumably to make it deadlier.
According to medical reports, the bomb that detonated inside the car also contained ball bearings, indicating that it may have been of similar design. The defused bomb was estimated to hold explosives packing the power of one kilogram of TNT.
The bomb was set off by a suicide bomber whose remains were found at the scene, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee. The attacker has been identified as 22-year-old Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, a Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen of Uzbek ethnicity. The investigators believe he also left the second IED before boarding the train, but are looking into other possibilities as well.
The Investigative Committee’s statement added that traces of DNA from Djalilov were also found on a bag with a second explosive device that was discovered at another metro station shortly before the blast in the tunnel that killed 14 people and wounded dozens.
“The conclusion of genetic evaluation and footage from surveillance cameras enable the investigation to conclude that the man who carried out the act of terror on the carriage was the one who left the bag with the explosive device in the Vosstaniya Square station,” it said.
[AU.news.yahoo] Author, speaker and anti-Islamist activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks with Seven News senior journalist Bryan Seymour, covering topics including her call to ban Islamic schools in Australia, immigration and the burka.
She also speaks about: One Nation, Yassmin Abdle-Magied, Waleed Aly, the campaign to stop her speaking tour in Australia and why she left Islam in 2002.
[An Nahar] Fourteen migrants colonistswere maimed on Tuesday when a van crashed into a highway safety barrier during a police car chase in Belgium, prosecutors said.
Five of the seriously maimed, who include two minors, are in a critical condition, Belgian prosecutors said in a statement.
Police first spotted the vehicle early Tuesday driving on the wrong side of the road about 40 kilometers (24 miles) south of Brussels, and a car chase ensued.
All the victims were illegal migrants colonists to Belgium, the statement added.
Police said the driver of the van was under arrest and would be questioned later in the day.
Belgium is a major transit point for human traffickers who arrange to move illegal migrants colonists across the English Channel to Britannia.
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[An Nahar] Police in southern Spain on Tuesday staged raids targeting assets of the family of Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad, a judicial source said.
The raids, in the Puerto Banus marina area of the plush resort of Marbella, are the result of a corruption investigation launched in La Belle France against Assad's uncle, Rifaat al-Assad.
The assets of Rifaat al-Assad and his family in Spain are valued at 691 million euros ($736 million), the source said, adding that "all these properties have been seized."
"Judge Jose de la Mata is coordinating the judicial operation against Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of the current president of Syria, for money laundering in Puerto Banus and Marbella", the source said.
In 1984, Rifaat al-Assad was forced into exile for trying to overthrow his older brother, the late Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad.
According to Spanish justice, Rifaat al-Assad, now aged 79, received 300 million dollars of state cash which he used to buy real estate in La Belle France, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Curacao.
French and Spanish authorities have been cooperating on the case and Spain opened an investigation on the back of the French one.
Madrid authorities say the Spanish probe established that Rifaat and his family had 503 properties in their portfolio, ranging from holiday villas to plush hotel apartments -- almost all in and around Marbella.
One residence, "La Maquina" at Benahavis just outside Marbella is worth an estimated 60 million euros.
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[IsraelTimes] Federal judge rejects American Studies Association claim that lawsuit infringes on First Amendment rights.
A US federal court has ruled that four college professors can sue the American Studies Association over its academic boycott of Israel.
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday ruled that the professors’ lawsuit, a case called Bronner v. Duggan, can go forward after the American Studies Association, or ASA, asked the court to dismiss it.
The court rejected ASA’s argument that going forward with the lawsuit infringes on its First Amendment rights.
The lawsuit charges the ASA with violating the District of Columbia law governing tax-exempt nonprofit organizations. That rule limits a nonprofit from acting beyond its chartered purposes, which in the case of the ASA, according to the plaintiffs lawyers, includes promoting knowledge and the "strengthening of relations among persons and institutions in this country and abroad."
The four plaintiffs, who are longtime members of the association, also charge that the boycott violates the group’s internal rules. They are American studies professors Simon Bronner, Michael Rockland, Michael Barton and Charles Kupfer.
In December 2013, the ASA membership approved the boycott with two-thirds of the 1,252 members who voted in support. At the time of the vote, there were 3,853 eligible voters, meaning one third of the membership participated. The boycott is not binding on members and targets institutions, not individuals.
The judge dismissed the lawsuit’s claim that a boycott of another country is outside the scope of ASA’s charter.
At least four US universities withdrew their membership in the association following the vote -- Brandeis University, Indiana University, Kenyon College and Penn State Harrisburg -- and at least 55 American universities and colleges rejected the boycott resolution.
Since the ASA boycott vote, the American Anthropological Association and the Modern Language Association have both failed to pass boycott measures.
[DAWN] Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua said Tuesday Pakistain remains committed to its policy of non-interference in the conflicts of Moslem countries.
She gave the assurance during a meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs which discussed the issue of clearance given to former army chief retired Gen Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... to lead the Saudi-led 41-nation Islamic military alliance and Pakistain's relations with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Iran.
"The Islamic [military] alliance is against terrorism, not any [specific] country," Janjua said in response to a question by committee chairman Awais Leghari.
She was addressing concerns that Islamabad’s decision to send the former army chief to lead the alliance will complicate the already fraught Pak-Iran ties.
The foreign secretary said Pakistain is making efforts to reduce the tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
"It is difficult for Pakistain to maintain equal relations with both countries but Pakistain will not go against Iran's interests," she assured the panel.
Raheel Sharif will not act against Iran as the head of the military alliance, she asserted.
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[Daily Excelsior] Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today urged Pakistain to stop abetting militancy in Jammu and Kashmire as it did when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister and help in restoration of peace in the State.
Addressing an election rally in Dooru, Anantnag where her brother Tasaduq Hussain Mufti is contesting, Mehbooba appealed Pakistain to stop abetting militancy in Jammu and Kashmire so that peace is restored and dialogue is started.
"It is my appeal to Pakistain that adopt the policy, you adopted during Vajpayee’s time that militancy is not to be supported, gun is not to be supported, help us in restoring peace. When peace is restored in Jammu and Kashmire, there will be talks here (with separatists) and there (with Pakistain) as well. Help us in restoring peace", the Chief Minister said.
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[IsraelTimes] Offering amnesty, Gazoo terror group says campaign underway to pursue ’agents’ for Israel after killing of terror commander Mazen Faqha.
Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", said on Tuesday it would offer amnesty to Gazook "agents" for Israel if they turned themselves in to the security forces over the next week.
The offer comes amid a crackdown by Hamas on "collaborators" with the Israeli army following the recent liquidation of one of its terror chiefs, Mazen Faqha, which it blames on Israel.
"For the sake of national and social responsibility, the interior and national security ministry will open the door of repentance to those who have fallen victim to the occupation and its intelligence services," a statement by the Hamas-run Gazoo interior ministry said, alluding to the idea that some Gazooks are coerced by the Israeli army to work for it.
The "door of repentance" will be open for just one week starting Tuesday, the statement said.
The statement calls on "collaborators" to turn themselves in to the "nearest person in direct relationship with the security services."
Those who do turn themselves in, the ministry said, "will be provided legal and security protection and their cases will be handled with complete confidentiality and outside of the security headquarters."
Those who do not turn themselves in will "be in the hands of the security services and considered forewarned," the statement ends.
In the Hamas-controlled Strip, an arrest for purported collaboration with Israel means an almost-certain death sentence.
Human Rights Watch and other watchdogs have condemned the summary execution of collaborators in Gazoo.
In November 2012, Hamas men on cycle of violences were filmed dragging bodies of accused collaborators through the streets of Gazoo.
On Monday, the Paleostinian news agency al-Majd al-Amani, which is linked to Hamas’s military wing, said a large campaign was already underway to capture "collaborators," and that a group had already been nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! Since Hamas took power in the Gazoo Strip in 2007, 96 death penalties have been handed down, mostly by military courts and often for spying on behalf of Israel, said Hamdi Shaqura of the Paleostinian Center for Human Rights. Many, but not all, of the death sentences have been carried out.
At least 21 death sentences were handed down in Gazoo in 2016 alone.
[SCMP] Southeast Asian Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) fighters returning from the Middle East following the group’s setbacks are expected to rebase in the southern Philippines, a security conference heard yesterday.
Instability and the easy flow of weapons have made Mindanao and nearby Philippine islands attractive to bad boy groups, said speakers at the Milipol conference on homeland security in Singapore.
"Currently, IS is moving towards creating a territory in southern Philippines," counterterrorism analyst Rohan Gunaratna told the conference.
"The most recent communication issued by IS has announced that they have formally declared an East Asia division of IS in the southern Philippines."
"Our forecast for 2017 is that the threat in this region will grow because of the creation of an IS nucleus in the southern Philippines," Gunaratna added.
"The instability in the southern Philippines and the availability of weapons, refugee flows ... create the ripe conditions for foreign bandidosholy warriors to come," he said after his speech.
Singapore’s Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam also told the conference that the southern Philippines "is becoming an area that is difficult to control despite the best efforts of the Philippine government".
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[Ynet] With her identity being concealed, Mustafa Badreddine's self-confessed former lover claims not only that Hezbollah was behind his liquidation, but that the terrorist leader was aware of the plot.
A video of a woman has surfaced on an anonymous YouTube channel claiming not only to be the lover of former Hezbollah military leader Mustafa Badreddine, but also that the terrorist leader was murdered by his own terror organization.
The explosive claims ostensibly lend credibility to the Israeli position that it had no part in the liquidation.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the revelation also brings up awkward questions for Hezbollah, chief of which being whether or not Badreddine's killing was really an Israeli plot or an act of internal house cleaning.
The video purports to show a statement by a former lover of Badreddine, who was reported to be womanizer.
In the statement, the unidentified woman claimed that Badreddine "knew that Hezbollah leadership wanted to kill him."
The video was uploaded to a YouTube account with the name "Truth." The woman spoke with an electronically-distorted voice and her back to the camera to maintain anonymity.
"Mustafa and I met at a restaurant and it was love at first sight...our relationship over the years was one of love, understanding and total honesty. He would keep my secrets and I would keep his," said the woman.
She went on to say, "Truthfully, I have never met such a brave man who was afraid of nothing. I am sure the knife of treachery killed him."
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot has said that an internal organizational conflict led to the liquidation, which took place in the Damascus region on May 13, 2016.
Eisenkot cited a report on the incident by the Al Arabiya network claiming that Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani gave the order.
Arab media and the killing
The investigative report by Al Arabiya went on to claim that a missile did not kill Badreddine, but rather close range shooting. It based its claims on independent evidence that cannot be verified such as satellite photos of the liquidation location, reports by anti-Hezbollah news sources and recorded telephone conversations between Damascus Airport workers.
In addition to Al Arabiya, online Saudi newspaper Elaph reported that "Hezbollah is chasing after Lebanese Shiites who have serious information on the organization."
According to the article, a well-informed Lebanese source claimed that Al Arabiya's investigation of Bedraddine's death embarrassed Hezbollah and caused "excessive irritation" among senior members of the organization.
Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai responded to the Al Arabiya report with a mocking tone, saying, "If you're looking for a laugh and you have nothing to do, check out this amusing bit of science fiction, 'How Nasrallah killed Badreddine?'"
Al Rai continued to point the finger at Israel, alleging that a surface-to-surface missile struck the building Hezbollah was using, which was also housing weapons and ammunition for the Syrian army.
The Kuwaiti paper also quoted "informed sources" who claimed that the building was struck shortly after Soleimani left, meaning that Israel waited for him to leave in order to avoid causing a serious international incident by killing him.
(Reuters) Air strikes killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights said.
Syrian government or Russian jets pounded the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idib in the morning, the Britain-based war monitoring group said.
The strikes caused many people to choke, the Observatory added, citing medical sources who described it as a gas attack. The Syrian government has repeatedly denied using any such weapons.
Russian planes have targeted a number of towns and villages in the area since entering the Syrian conflict in September 2015 to back ally President Bashar al-Assad.
But activists and residents said there had been a reduction of Russian strikes in Idlib province since a Turkish-Russian brokered cessation of hostilities late December.
Planes from the U.S.-led coalition have also launched a number of attacks in the rural province, a major stronghold of jihadists, many of them formerly affiliated to al Qaeda.
Idlib’s population has been swollen by thousands of Syrian fighters and their families who were evacuated from villages and towns around Damascus and Aleppo city retaken by the government in recent months.
(Reuters) Russian planes did not carry out air strikes in the Syrian province of Idlib, RIA news agency quoted Russia’s Defence Ministry as saying on Tuesday.
“Russian military aircraft carried out no air strikes near Khan Sheikhoun in the Idlib province,” RIA quoted the ministry as saying.
A suspected gas attack, believed to be by Syrian government jets, killed at least 58 people including 11 children under the age of eight in the northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday, a war monitor and medical workers in the rebel-held area said.
A Syrian military source strongly denied the army had used any such weapons.
The attack caused many people to choke or faint, and some had foam coming out of their mouths, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, citing medical sources who described it as a sign of a gas attack.
The air strikes on the town of Khan Sheikhoun, in the south of rebel-held Idlib, also wounded more than 60 people, said the Observatory, a British-based war monitoring group.
“This morning, at 6:30 a.m., warplanes targeted Khan Sheikhoun with gases, believed to be sarin and chlorine,” said Mounzer Khalil, head of Idlib’s health authority, adding that the attack had killed more than 50 people and wounded 300.
“Most of the hospitals in Idlib province are now overflowing with wounded people,” he told a news conference in Idlib.
Warplanes later struck near a medical point where victims of the attack were being treated, the Observatory said and civil defense workers said.
The civil defense, also known as the White Helmets – a rescue service that operates in opposition areas of Syria – said jets struck one of its centers in the area and the nearby medical point.
It would mark the deadliest chemical attack in Syria since sarin gas killed hundreds of civilians in Ghouta near Damascus in August 2013. Western states said the Syrian government was responsible for that attack. Damascus blamed it on rebels.
MILITARY DENIES
The Syrian military source on Tuesday denied allegations that government forces had used chemical weapons, dismissing the accounts as rebel propaganda.
The army “has not and does not use them, not in the past and not in the future, because it does not have them in the first place”, the source said.
A joint inquiry for the United Nations and the global chemical weapons watchdog has previously accused government forces of toxic gas attacks. France called for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting about Tuesday’s suspected attack.
Reuters photographs showed people breathing through oxygen masks and wearing protection suits, while others carried the bodies of dead children, and corpses wrapped in blankets were lined up on the ground.
Activists in northern Syria circulated pictures on social media showing a purported victim with foam around his mouth, and rescue workers hosing down almost naked children squirming on the floor.
Most of the town’s streets had become empty, a witness said.
The conflict pits President Bashar al-Assad’s government, helped by Russia and Iranian-backed militias, against a wide array of rebel groups, including some that have been supported by Turkey, the United States and Gulf monarchies.
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that Russian planes had not carried out air strikes on Idlib.
Syrian and Russian air strikes have battered parts of Idlib despite a ceasefire that Turkey and Russia brokered in December, according to the Observatory.
Turkish President Tay yip Eroding and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the suspected attack, Turkish presidential sources said. They said the two leaders had also emphasized the importance of maintaining the ceasefire. More at the link
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead....jpg)
[Daily Excelsior] Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today urged Pakistain to stop abetting militancy in Jammu and 
