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Multiple gunshots fired from N. Korea hit S. Korean DMZ guard post
Today's Headlines

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Page 1: WoT Operations
Good morning	4 21:39 USN, Ret. [11134]
Multiple casualties in ISIS attack on Iraqi PMF forces in Samarra	3 11:42 Besoeker [11128]
11 Afghan soldiers suffer casualties while repelling a Taliban attack in Balkh	0 [11130]
Nangarhar: Taliban commander Bashar, comrades killed after murdering 2 local soldiers	0 [11130]
Kabul Police arrest 6 who had destroyed electricity transmission tower in Kabul	0 [11127]
Explosion close to a prison leaves 3 dead in Laghman province of Afghanistan	0 [11127]
Iranian forces accused of throwing 57 Afghans into river, killing at least 23 of them	0 [11127]
EAF & Egyptian Army are reportedly conducting heavy artillery and airstrikes on alleged ISIS positions in Sinai	1 17:21 Skidmark [11131]
India reports three Army personnel, one militant killed in Handwara encounter	0 [11129]
IRGC proposes to Baghdad government to allow Iranian elements to enter into Samarra to assist the Mahdi Army in controlling the city	5 11:34 Besoeker [11128]
Armed fight erupts among Turkish-backed factions in Al_Bab, following dispute over smuggling operations	0 [11127]
Syria: ''Homeland Army'' loots civilians' properties	0 [11130]
New tribal fight erupts in western #Al_Suwaida	0 [11129]
‘National Army’ factions recover all headquarters captured recently by #Jaysh and #Ahrar_Al_Sharqiyyah	0 [11128]
Unknown assailants assassinate ‘collaborator’ with Air-force Intelligence branch in #Daraa	0 [11128]
Regime forces and Turkish-backed factions loot public and civilian properties in Abu_Rasin and Tal_Tamr	0 [11128]
Regime shelling interrupts calm prevailing in the "de-escalation zone"	0 [11127]
Video shows pickup full of Erdoğan’s dead mercenaries	2 16:06 jpal [11127]
LNA forces have managed to shoot down a #Turkish #TB2 over Araada #Tripoli	0 [11126]
More than 28 of #Erdogan’s Syrians terrorist mercenaries ( fighting for the multinational force of the expired #GNA ) have been killed by the #LNA in the past 2 hours	1 06:16 M. Murcek [11130]
Page 2: WoT Background
Mossad provided Germany intelligence ahead of decision to ban Hezbollah	1 15:09 Skidmark [11128]
Daniel Pearl's parents move SC to reverse acquittals of four accused	1 01:07 Bobby [11130]
Iraqi PM vows to cleanse earth of terrorism after ISIS attack	5 19:18 SteveS [11140]
Erdogan Has List of 299 Prominent ISIS and al-Qaeda Leaders in Syria He Wants to Send to Libya	1 08:12 M. Murcek [11130]
Al-Heliq: International Community Must Withdraw Recognition from the GNA and Stop Turkish Invasion of Libya	3 22:19 b [11131]
Algerian President: We Did Not Bring One Bullet Into Libya, and We Are Capable of Solving Its Crisis	0 [11129]
Chancellor Aguila Saleh Refutes Rumors and Provides His Vision for Libya’s Future	0 [11126]
Syria says Russian missile defense system ‘ineffective’	9 17:54 magpie [11126]
Page 3: Non-WoT
McDonald's Changes Policy Amid Meat Shortage Concerns	8 21:55 ruprecht [11133]
THIRD Russian doctor plunges from Covid hospital window: Medic, 37, is now fighting for life... 24 hours after warning of PPE shortages and being forced to work despite being infected	3 11:35 Clem [11131]
Trump administration officials thought COVID-19 death toll would never reach 60,000 and that medical experts caused the president to overreact 'like the school nurse telling the principal how to run the school'	19 22:16 KBK [11130]
Florida retirement villager at her very best (short video)	3 12:57 AlmostAnonymous5839 [11127]
France to extend coronavirus emergency for two months	7 19:02 Spot [11130]
US Women's equal pay claim dismissed by court	3 17:02 Skidmark [11132]
ICE detainees refuse virus tests, damage detention center	3 17:04 Skidmark [11129]
CBP Detains Imported Products Made With Forced Labor in China	4 07:28 M. Murcek [11129]
Protester carries CV 'Arbeit macht frei' sign likely directed toward billionaire Governor	8 20:19 Frank G [11134]
Boots installs safe spaces inside its pharmacies	0 [11129]
Cops arrest 22 protesters at Austin rent strike as thousands of struggling tenants across the country rally to urge landlords to waive payments during pandemic that's left 30 million unemployed	3 17:09 Skidmark [11130]
Multiple gunshots fired from N. Korea hit S. Korean DMZ guard post	2 15:02 Abu Uluque [11134]
Alarm over deaths of bees from rapidly spreading viral disease	13 18:00 magpie [11130]
Egypt exerts pressures to remove Sudan PM	0 [11130]
Coronavirus Roundup	7 16:11 Lex [11129]
U.S. intelligence leader Grenell orders consistency in describing 'masked' identities	1 08:52 Besoeker [11133]
How natural gas is withstanding the energy market collapse	0 [11131]
Robot 'spy' gorilla records wild Ugandan gorillas singing and farting	4 20:28 Frank G [11133]
What is OPLAN 5029? The 'Mission Impossible'-style plan in place to secure North Korea's nukes	6 19:15 SteveS [11134]
Five Eyes intelligence dossier claims China Lied and worse.	1 05:03 Bright Pebbles [11131]
Project Sledopyt: eavesdropping on foreign satellites	0 [11128]
Youtube Exposing the Real Bill Gates the Press will Never Report	7 18:17 trailing wife [11130]
[From AUS] Coronavirus: Dossier lays out case against China bat virus program	0 [11130]
Michigan pilot gives a literal ‘F U' to governor over coronavirus lockdown	3 16:13 SteveS [11133]
Page 4: Opinion
Mercer: Who Invited The World To Infect America?	6 21:53 Lex [11131]
Japanese fella, Dr Tasuku Honjo provides his take on CV-19	2 16:25 trailing wife [11128]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo Had the Worst Response to the Crisis of Any Governor in America	7 22:40 KBK [11136]
Warren Buffett: ‘American Magic' Will Spur US Economic Recovery	7 17:19 Skidmark [11128]
Warren Buffett Liquidates All Airline Holdings - Monday may not be good	2 09:52 Skidmark [11133]
DAMNING 'Five-Eyes' Intel Report: China Suppressed, Destroyed Coronavirus Evidence, Endangered Other Countries	11 17:49 Clem [11130]
U. of Delaware Refuses to Release the Biden Papers	5 12:57 AlanC [11133]
Assad might have run out of luck at last	1 03:26 g(r)omgoru [11126]
The FBI has disgraced itself	14 23:04 Bunyip [11132]
Fauci Links & Virus-Lab Leaks: Newsweek Report Raises Urgent, Important Questions	2 18:27 Clem [11130]
Blob Praises OrangeMan: "What Trump gets right about foreign policy"	3 13:25 Phusotle Dingle5823 [11128]
Page 6: Politix
Biden insiders slam Stacey Abrams' veep pitch: ‘No one takes Stacey seriously'	8 19:31 SteveS [11143]
WTF? Keep on Pluggin', Joe: "600 THOUSAND DEAD!" " ...the pandemic is that the president has no intercourse with the rest of the cunt-tr‐ uh, the world"	10 19:50 charger [11129]
Initiative seeks to challenge Trump's online megaphone	8 15:26 Abu Uluque [11128]
‘Waitress Sandwich’ Senator Chris Dodd Joins Biden’s VP Search Committee	10 14:27 Lex [11128]
Subway closure 'outright disaster' for the homeless who have few safe shelter options, advocates say	2 11:42 ruprecht [11131]
Investigate Tara Reade’s Allegations	4 16:39 lord garth [11126]
Epstein had his own office, phone line at Harvard	20 15:09 Abu Uluque [11130]

    
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3	Arab Spring
2	Islamic State
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1	Hezbollah
1	Moslem Colonists
1	Govt of Iraq
1	Govt of Pakistan
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Sat 2020-04-25
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Fri 2020-04-24
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Thu 2020-04-23
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