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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Chicago Democrat goes off on city's handling of migrant crisis: 'It's an invasion'
[FoxNews] Andre Smith called out the Windy City for using funds to shelter migrants while Chicagoans struggle.

A Chicago Democrat running for the Illinois House is calling out Mayor Brandon Johnson for allowing migrants to "invade" the Windy City.


Posted by: Skidmark || 01/31/2024 07:08 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1 

I guess since they live in and run a created perpetual hell hole already. That it was OK! when they were forcing their created ILLEGAL Immigrant problem on Conservative states and cities.




Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/31/2024 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Majority of New Minnesota Students Do Not Speak English

Well, generally, it's the conqueered who have to learn the language of the conqueerors.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/31/2024 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Everyone should learn English. It is our planetary language. I thought it was going to be Esperanto, but the important thing is that we have one.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/31/2024 10:40 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Prosecution presented the court with a psychiatric examination of Zhuravel
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The prosecution presented to the court in Grozny, as evidence of guilt, the results of an examination that found Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran, mentally healthy. The defense asked the court to take into account the positive characterization of Zhuravel from the administration of the cadet school.

As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, on January 9, the court in Grozny granted the defense's request and postponed the hearing in the case of Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel on the burning of the Koran.

The prosecution presented to the court in Grozny written evidence of Nikita Zhuravel’s guilt - the results of a forensic psychiatric examination, which showed that Zhuravel was mentally healthy and was aware of the crime being committed. The court was also presented with a video of the burning of the Koran. When asked by the judge whether he was familiar with what was happening in the footage of the video, Zhuravel answered in the affirmative, as reported by the Sapa Caucasus telegram channel on January 29.

According to investigators, in the backpack that was seized from Zhuravel, an image of the coat of arms of Ukraine and a sheet of paper with the image of a crossed out letter “Z” were found.

The defendant’s lawyer, Yulia Antonova, noted that the presence of some materials in the case is not justified, since Zhuravel has not been charged under articles of treason or cooperation with foreign organizations operating to the detriment of Russia. She petitioned to request the personal file of Zhuravel from the Sevastopol Presidential Cadet School, since it contains letters and characteristics of the defendant, which are characterizing data, the telegram channel noted.

Let us remind you that the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, published a video on September 25 in which his son Adam Kadyrov beats Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested for burning the Koran, in a pre-trial detention center. The head of Chechnya praised his son for this act. After this, Adam Kadyrov received the title of Hero of Chechnya, including the highest state awards of Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria. Adam Kadyrov received at least nine state and public awards. On November 5, 2023, it became known that Adam Kadyrov was appointed head of the security department of the head of Chechnya.
Posted by: badanov || 01/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,


Europe
Germany’s AfD sets up talks with France’s Le Pen to clarify immigrant expulsion spat
[IsraelTimes] Party chief wants to ’set record straight’ with European partner after members accused of discussing mass deportations, prompting criticism from Le Pen.

Germany’s far-right AfD party said Monday that it had arranged talks with French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, given a rift over alleged debates on the mass expulsion of immigrants colonists.

Members of Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is riding high in opinion polls, were accused in a recent press investigation of discussing the idea of mass deportations at a meeting with bad boys.

Le Pen last week distanced herself from the idea, saying she was "in complete disagreement with the proposal that was apparently discussed" at the meeting.

Her party’s deputies belong to the same European Parliament group as the AfD, an arrangement Le Pen said was now up for discussion.

AfD parliamentary group chief Bernd Baumann told journalists that talks had been arranged with Le Pen to "set the record straight on how things really are," without providing details of when the talks would be held.

A front man for Maximilian Krah, an AfD member of the European Parliament, told AFP that "we consider this to be a misunderstanding... which we hope to clarify soon."

According to the investigative media outlet Correctiv, AfD members discussed the expulsion of immigrants colonists and "non-assimilated citizens" at a recent meeting in Potsdam.

Among the participants at the talks was Martin Sellner, a leader of Austria’s Identitarian Movement and a champion of so-called "remigration."

The reported plans have led to a backlash against the AfD in Germany, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets to protest against the party.

Around 576,000 people took part in protests last weekend alone, an interior ministry spokeswoman said Monday.

Le Pen, parliamentary leader of La Belle France’s National Rally (RN), has been trying to soften her party’s image since taking over from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who is notorious for xenophobic and antisemitic remarks.

"We are going to have to talk about divergences if they are as large as this one," she told journalists.

Baumann said Le Pen’s comments had been "based on press reports" that were "completely wrong in their tone."

Terms such as "deportation" and "mass expulsion" had not been used at the meeting, he said, but were "attributions on the part of this dubious Correctiv organization and large sections of the press."

Sellner confirmed that he presented his "Identitarian concept of remigration" at the talks.

The "concept targeted migrants colonists who are not assimilated, or who culturally, economically and criminally weigh on society," he told AFP.

The AfD said Roland Hartwig, who is an aide of co-leader Alice Weidel, had presented a social media project at the meeting, but denied adopting Sellner’s ideas.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/31/2024 2024-01-31 03:12 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Le Pen because, well Macron is off To party in Sweden.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/31/2024 7:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
J Street pulls Jamaal Bowman endorsement over anti-Israel rhetoric since October 7
Even that Soros puppet has red lines. Who knew?
[IsraelTimes] Left-wing lobby group says Democratic New York Congressman, seeking reelection, has ‘crossed the line’ with his ‘framing and approach,’ including genocide accusation.

J Street pulled its endorsement of New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Firebug Bowman
...sleazy Dem politician and educator, U.S. representative for New York's safe 16th congressional district since 2021. On September 30, 2023, while House Dems were desperately attempting to delay a vote that avoided shutting the government down so they could blame it on the Pubs, Bowman pulled a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building, causing the building to be evacuated. Bowman told reporters he thought it was a doorknob or something. Capitol Police released a statement saying they were investigating the fire alarm incident, and maybe a few rubes somewhere expected something to come of it. Republicans introduced a motion to expel Bowman from the House but that evaporated too. Bowman issued a statement saying they were Nazis. Bowman is a member of The Squad, a faction of like-minded subversives...
, citing his "framing and approach," a sign of how alliances on the Jewish left are shifting after Hamas
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [33 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Even that Soros puppet has red lines. Who knew?

IMO, it's more "loose lips sink ships". Remember reading somewhere that SS guards transporting Jews to extermination were instructed to treat them with politeness & respect - to avoid giving alarm.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/31/2024 10:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Only reason they are willing to toss Jama-a-a-a-a-a-a-l under the bust is there is someone even further to the left being primed to take his place.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/31/2024 10:38 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
After pausing funds for UNRWA, Canada announces C$40 million in new aid for Gaza
How many of the rest won’t be able to resist doing the same?
[IsraelTimes] Canada announces C$40 million ($29.8 million) in new funding to provide food, water, and other humanitarian assistance to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
The funds will be allocated to international agencies including the World Food Program, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization, Global Affairs Canada says in a statement.

The announcement comes days after Canada and several other countries paused funding to the UN refugee agency for Paleostinians UNRWA following allegations by Israel that some of its staff were involved in the October 7 Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
attacks.

Posted by: trailing wife || 01/31/2024 2024-01-31 00:46 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Jordan Petersen gets jail. Hamas gets 40 million.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 01/31/2024 3:33 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas-run health ministry says Israel handed over bodies of Palestinians killed in Gaza
Contrast with Hamas hoarding Israeli corpses to trade for imprisoned Palestinian criminals.
[IsraelTimes] Israel handed over to authorities in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
the bodies of dozens of Paleostinians killed by Israeli forces in the Strip in recent weeks, Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
health officials say.

The bodies, which had been held in Israel, have been handed over through the Kerem Shalom crossing and will be buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, the officials say.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza does not immediately say how many bodies have been handed over.

Israel does not immediately comment on the handover.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/31/2024 2024-01-31 00:46 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Contrast with Hamas hoarding Israeli corpses to trade for imprisoned Palestinian criminals.

They see it as a weakness and a sign of their, eventual, victory.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/31/2024 5:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Hoard the live ones, return those already freed.
Why not disposal? Oh yeah, that pesky 24hr/3 day thing.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/31/2024 7:35 Comments || Top||


Halting UNRWA funding to result in Gaza catastrophe: UN agencies
[GEO.TV] Cutting off funding to the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
’ Paleostinian refugee agency UNRWA will have "catastrophic consequences" for Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, the heads of multiple UN bodies said in a joint statement Wednesday.

"Withdrawing funds from UNRWA is perilous and would result in the collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, with far-reaching humanitarian and human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
consequences in the occupied Paleostinian territory and across the region," said the statement from heads of organizations that form the UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee.
Posted by: Fred || 01/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  The presense of UNWRA caused humanitarian crisis in Israel.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/31/2024 0:08 Comments || Top||

#2  UNRWA is the largest agency of the United Nations. It employs over 30,000 staff, 99% of which are locally recruited Palestinians. Israel had the opportunity to expel UNRWA when it took control of Gaza from Egypt and did not do so, apparently for 'humanitarian' reasons. Now, the UN has added the Gaza residents and their children as refugees and UNRWA has a job in Gaza forever.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 01/31/2024 7:10 Comments || Top||


The US to allow a more powerful response to the attack on the US base in Jordan
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The United States' response to the drone attack on a US military base in Jordan
...called, for some reason, Tower 22...
could be stronger than previous retaliatory attacks in Iraq and Syria. This was reported by CNN with reference to its own sources.

According to the source, the Pentagon and the White House are trying to keep their plans secret. The TV channel clarifies that US President Joe Biden is under “increasing pressure” after the attacks on a base in Jordan.

Thus, some Republicans called for a direct US retaliatory strike towards Iran. It is noted that the White House is considering striking Iranian groups in Syria and Iraq. An “offensive cyber attack” is being considered as another option to strike, the TV channel concluded.

As Regnum reported, on January 28, as a result of a night drone attack on a US base in Jordan, three American servicemen were killed and 20 more people were injured. According to officials, the drone was launched by Iran-backed militants from Syria.

Biden blamed the strike on “pro-Iranian groups” in Syria and Iraq. He promised to bring all those responsible to justice and instructed his aides to prepare options for a response to Tehran, including a military one.
Posted by: badanov || 01/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  A Tomahawk on a bare hilltop?
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 01/31/2024 3:35 Comments || Top||

#2  You think terrorists are worried about a really old guy who can't even get it up anymore?
Posted by: Angealing B. Hayes4677 || 01/31/2024 6:53 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran-backed groups in Iraq, Syria said to evacuate ahead of feared US retaliation
Monday. This may have something to do with why the American response is delayed...
[IsraelTimes] Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria are vacating their military posts in anticipation of a US retaliatory strike.

A source from the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq umbrella group tells al-Araby al-Jadeed that the group has evacuated its positions along the Iraq-Syria border, leaving only one or two guards to man each post, amid intensified reconnaissance activity by American aircraft in the area, which has led the militias to fret that the US response will come quickly.

After leaving their positions, militia leaders have reduced their use of mobile phones for fear of being tracked and targeted, the source adds to the London-based Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i-owned outlet.

Omar Abu Layla, a Europe-based activist who heads the Deir Ezzor 24 media outlet, says Iran-backed fighters in east Syria also began evacuating their posts. He tells The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the areas are the strongholds of Mayadeen and Boukamal.

US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. ‘This Is A Man ThatDoes Not Seem Demented’...
said that the United States "will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing," after a dronezap killed three US service members and maimed dozens in a military base in northeastern Jordan yesterday. Biden has blamed the deadly attack on "radical Iran-backed militia groups."

The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, an umbrella group for Iran-backed factions, earlier claimed launching explosive drone attacks targeting three areas in Syria, as well as one inside of "occupied Paleostine." The group has grabbed credit for dozens of attacks against bases housing US troops in Iraq and Syria since the Israel-Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
war began.

Three officials with Iran-backed militias in Iraq, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter with journalists, said the drone attack against the base in Jordan was launched by one of the Iraqi groups. No faction has yet officially grabbed credit.

Iranian Foreign Ministry front man Nasser Kanaani has denied his country’s involvement.

Pentagon brushes off Iraqi militia’s claim it’ll stop attacking US troops: ‘Actions speak louder than words’
Tuesday.
[IsraelTimes] The Pentagon declines direct comment on a statement by Iran-aligned Kataib Hezbollah announcing the suspension of all its military operations against US troops in the region, saying only, “Actions speak louder than words.”

Pressed on the matter, Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder says there have already been three attacks against US forces in the region since a January 28 drone attack on a base in Jordan that killed three soldiers and wounded more than 40 troops. He suggests a US response will follow.

“On the statement that’s out there, I don’t think we could be any more clear that we have called on the Iranian proxy groups to stop their attacks. They have not, and so, we will respond in a time and manner of our choosing,” Ryder tells a news briefing.

“When I say actions speak louder than words, you know, there [have] been three attacks, to my knowledge, since the 28th of January. And I’ll just leave it there.”

After deadly drone strike, Iran-backed Iraqi militia claims its pausing attacks on US forces
Earlier Tuesday.
[IsraelTimes] A pro-Iran group in Iraq says that it will halt its attacks on US troops, after Washington pledged a “very consequential” response to a drone attack that killed three of its soldiers.

“We’re announcing the suspension of our military and security operations against the occupying forces to avoid any embarrassment for the Iraqi government,” Kataeb Hezbollah writes on its website.

The United States blamed “radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq” for Sunday’s drone strike on a remote Jordan desert base near Syria and Iraq.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/31/2024 2024-01-31 00:45 || Comments || Link || [48 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Evacuate, in their pants.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/31/2024 7:54 Comments || Top||


How Iran props up a network of terror proxies across the Middle East from Hamas to the Houthis to exert its power and attack western targets across the region
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Defense & Foreign Affairs, August 31, 1996:
"The key to the reorganisation of the Iranian intelligence system is the establishment of the Supreme Council for Intelligence Affairs directly
under President Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani. The reorganisation of the Iranian Intelligence system... reflects Tehran's priorities. The two main areas which are allocated funds and assets are
internal security and the export of the Islamic Revolution. The consequent major expansion of the system for the export of the Islamic Revolution includes the destabilisation of the West as a primary challenge. Mahdi Chamran was nominated the Chief of External Intelligence and took over the system of international terrorism, including the al-Quds forces. Beneath Chamran there are several new departments: the office of Revolutionary Movements under the command of Muwahidli Karamani; the Preparation Office under Reza Salaf Alafi; Technical Office under Mohammed Gerhazi; Financial Office under Bakir Zuldikar. Tehran believes that the reorganised Iranian Intelligence is optimised for a major escalation in international terrorism. ..."
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 01/31/2024 9:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Geopolitics aside, one could make an argument for nuking Iran solely based on climate change. To wit: once the smoke clears and the dust settles, large expanses of desert sand will be fused glass reflecting the sun's heat back into space. Do it for the planet!
Posted by: SteveS || 01/31/2024 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3  A.G. Boston, Front Page Mag. July 18, 2006.
Hizbollah and Hamas have constructed core ideologies based upon Islamic theology of Jew hatred, which one can glean readily from their foundational documents, and subsequent
pronouncements, made ad nauseum. Hamas further demonstrates openly its adherence to a central motif of Jew hatred in Muslim eschatology—Article 7 of the Hamas Charter concludes with a verbatim reiteration of the apocalyptic hadith...“The Last Hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: ... there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him'; but the tree Gharkad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim, Book 40, Number 6985). Both jihadist terror organizations believe they can now take advantage of their political gains in Lebanon (Hizbollah), and the Palestinian controlled areas of Gaza and the West Bank (Hamas), and succeed in their goal to destroy Israel—motivated by primordial hatred of Jews, sanctioned in Muslim theology and eschatology.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 01/31/2024 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  and a stone or a tree would say: ... there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him



"Too much talk leads to sin. Be sensible and keep your mouth shut." - Proverbs 10:19-21
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/31/2024 9:57 Comments || Top||


Tehran warns Biden that if US strikes Iranian soil in retaliation for death of three soldiers the Islamist regime will hit back at American targets across the Middle East - sparking all-out war between the foes
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Tehran has told Washington, via intermediaries, that it will attack U.S. targets in the Middle East if the Pentagon launches strikes on Iranian soil

  • Joe Biden on Tuesday said that he had made up his mind about how to respond to Sunday's killing of three U.S. service members by an Iranian-backed militia

  • The strikes are expected to take place over time, and in waves: targets could include Iranian naval vessels in the Persian Gulf, or a cyberattack
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/31/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Bluff. Iranians are NOT Arabs.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/31/2024 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  The only thing Biden will do is ignore it. He doesn't give a shit if US troops or citizens die.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/31/2024 1:11 Comments || Top||

#3  This could all be settled in about 24 hours. We have the ability. We totally lack the will, because we are more concerned about other people's feelings.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/31/2024 7:39 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ This could all be settled in about 24 hours.

Yes, 24 hours, possibly less.

Same with the Mex border fiasco. Cost at the border? About $8.00 per round. Total tracer rounds necessary, 500 to 1000.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2024 7:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Neither the Iranian nor the US military are what they were twenty or even five years ago. The acceptable level of casualties for the US in an election year is lower than “normal”.

On a separate note I object to using US soldiers as staked goats to establish a pretext for (yet another) poorly conceived and half heartedly executed MSM drama of the day event.
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 || 01/31/2024 8:15 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ I object to using US soldiers as staked goats to establish a pretext

Soldiers, MAGA people, rally attendees, or anyone else for that matter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2024 8:20 Comments || Top||

#7  This won't be your Daddy's war.

Son 'decapitates his father,' 68, and brandishes his severed head during gruesome 14-minute long anti-Biden YouTube rant in which he declared himself President of America under martial law before cops charge him with murder hours later

"while urging relatives living with federal employees to murder them. He blamed the federal government for 'woke mobs' and migrants he claims are destroying the United States, and ranted against 'globalists and communists'."

The crazy battalion will awaken.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/31/2024 8:31 Comments || Top||

#8  If Creepy Uncle Joe is looking for target suggestions, I bet the Israelis could suggest some.
Posted by: Angstrom || 01/31/2024 13:41 Comments || Top||

#9  Lots of individuals and small groups would use SHTF time as cover for action on their own personal interests / grievances. Some of it will make "fog of war" look like a sunny day.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/31/2024 14:04 Comments || Top||

#10  iran declared war on the US in 1979 when it occupied our embassy in Tehran. we need to respond to that. occupy chah bahar.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 01/31/2024 17:54 Comments || Top||

#11  Macro F7!
Posted by: Frank G || 01/31/2024 19:56 Comments || Top||



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  Israeli forces claim killing dozens of Gaza gunmen near hospital
Mon 2024-01-29
  IRGC seizes foreign tanker carrying 2 million liters of fuel
Sun 2024-01-28
  3 American troops killed, 25 injured in attack on Jordan base near Syria border
Sat 2024-01-27
  International Court Orders Immediate Release Of Hostages Held By Hamas, Bibi rejects genocide charge
Fri 2024-01-26
  Israeli strikes kill at least 50 Palestinians in Khan Younis in 24 hours
Thu 2024-01-25
  IDF carries out wave of strikes on Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon
Wed 2024-01-24
  ‘Genocide Joe’: Protesters against Israeli op in Gaza repeatedly interrupt Biden at campaign event
Tue 2024-01-23
  Fierce battles in Gaza as troops push deeper into Khan Younis
Mon 2024-01-22
  Israel turns down Hamas's hostage release offer
Sun 2024-01-21
  DeSantis suspends, endorses Trump
Sat 2024-01-20
  Pakistan decides to end the crisis with Iran and restore full diplomatic relation, as does Iran
Fri 2024-01-19
  US attacks 14 Yemeni Houthi missile launchers
Thu 2024-01-18
  Pakistan expels Iranian ambassador after air strike
Wed 2024-01-17
   Iran strikes Pakistan killing two children


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