[DAWN] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... is set to end travel ban exemptions for 13 Taliban ...Arabic for students... officials, pending any deal by Security Council members on a possible extension, diplomats told AFP.
Under a 2011 UN Security Council resolution, 135 Taliban officials are subject to sanctions that include asset freezes and travel bans.
But 13 of them were granted exemptions from the travel ban to allow them to meet officials from other countries abroad.
In June, the 15-member UN Security Council’s Afghanistan Sanctions Committee removed two Taliban education ministers from the exemption list over the regime’s curtailment of women’s rights.
At the same time, they renewed the exemption for the others until August 19, plus a further month if no member objected.
Ireland objected this week, according to diplomatic sources.
China and Russia have called for an extension, while the United States has sought a reduced list of the officials allowed to travel and the destinations they can travel to.
The latest proposal on the table would allow just six officials to travel for diplomatic reasons, diplomatic sources told AFP.
If no member of the Council objects by Monday afternoon, it will come into force for three months.
Consequences.
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[LIBYAREVIEW] The Libyan police arrested the Chairman of Automobile and Touring Club of Libya (ATCL) and the Executive Director of the Civil Society Commission on charges of alleged corruption.
The Internal Security Agency (ISA) said in a statement that, the ATCL Chairman abused his authority, by illegally imposing taxes on cars that cross the Libyan ports. The ISA also accused him of embezzling the tax money.
Moreover, the ISA added that the Executive Director of the Civil Society Commission helped the ATCL Chairman by issuing decisions and laws related to the inventory of the properties of the Club, however it was frozen. The police also accused him of abusing his power.
The two defendants were referred to the Public Prosecution office to complete the legal procedures against them. The prosecution will either decide to release the accused or to bring them before a court.
Libyan Attorney General, al-Siddiq al-Sour, ordered the detention of five hospital directors, seven officials of the Ministry of Health in the outgoing Government of National Unity (GNU), and directors of two companies. The arrest was ordered on the basis of corruption and embezzlement charges, which the Public Prosecution office conducted investigations months ago into its circumstances.
According to a statement by the Attorney General’s Office on Facebook, the Attorney General conducted investigations against a number of directors of medical institutions, and those in charge of some departments concerned with providing medical services. They were authorised to manage the implementation tools contracted to supply some medical equipment and supplies, for the benefit of the administration.
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Mexico's former attorney general, Jesus Murillo Karam, has been arrested
Prosecutors have arrested him in connection to disappearance of 43 students
Arrest warrants for soldiers, police officers and gang members have been issued
The motive of the kidnapping of the men still remains unknown eight years later
An ex-attorney general of Mexico has been arrested by prosecutors in connection with the 2014 disappearance of 43 students in the Mexican state of Guerrero, who are believed to have been murdered by the cartel.
A further 83 arrest warrants - for 33 local police officers, 11 state police, 20 army soldier officers and 14 gang members - have also been issued.
The mass kidnapping happened on September 26 2014, when 43 male teaching students from the rural village of Ayotzinapa were detained by corrupt police, from Iguala, on their way to a protest before being handed over to the Guerreros United Cartel.
...in our archives as Guerreros Unidos...
Jesus Murillo Karam served as the attorney general from 2012 to 2015 under former President Enrique Pena Nieto.
It is the first time in recent history that a former attorney general has been arrested and marks one of the biggest mass arrests by civilian prosecutors of Mexican army soldiers.
The office of the current attorney general, Alejandro Gertz Manero, said Murillo Karam was charged with torture, official misconduct and forced disappearance.
In 2020, Gertz Manero said Murillo Karam had been involved in the crime by 'orchestrating a massive media trick' and leading a 'generalized cover-up' of the case.
His arrest comes a day after a commission set up to determine what had happened said the army were at least partially responsible in the case.
[Breitbart] A member of Sweden’s populist Sweden Democrats (SD) was branded racist this week after a tweet joking that a subway train decorated in SD colours was a “repatriation train” taking migrants to Kabul.
Tobias Andersson, who serves as a member of the Swedish parliament and as legal policy spokesman for the Sweden Democrats, commented on a picture of a Stockholm subway train decorated with the blue flowers of his party on Tuesday.
“Welcome to the repatriation train. You hold a one-way ticket. Next stop, Kabul!” Andersson wrote.
The tweet was criticised by a number of prominent figures in Sweden, including Centre Party leader Annie Lööf, who wrote: “This is so undignified and racist. I find it so hard to understand how decent bourgeois liberal colleagues want to go to the polls with this party and give them influence.”
Climate Minister Annika Strandhäll, a member of the ruling Social Democrats, also commented on the tweet, saying: “This is SD’s justice policy spokesperson. He can become Minister of Justice if Ulf and Jimmie win the election,” referring to centre-right Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson and SD leader Jimmie Åkesson.
According to a report from broadcaster SVT, however, the attention given to the tweet helped it to go viral on Swedish social media, particularly on Twitter where the term “Kabul” was trending earlier this week, while Tobias Andersson trended on Google.
The message from Andersson comes after party leader Åkesson and migration policy spokesman Ludvig Aspling penned an opinion article for the newspaper Aftonbladet earlier in the year that called or the government to start repatriating migrants who failed to integrate into Swedish society or were long-term unemployed.
“Remigration is not a miracle solution, but the failures of recent decades show that it must be an option – a solution for all those who live in long-term exclusion,” the pair said. “Incentive structures and the welfare system must be reformed, so that people in exclusion cannot get caught up in welfare dependency, but are either forced into society or encouraged to remigrate.”
Swedish voters are set to go to the ballot box on the 11th of September and recent polling shows that a possible centre-right coalition involving the Moderates, the Sweden Democrats, the Christian Democrats, and the Liberals could reach nearly 50 per cent of the vote, while the ruling Social Democrats remain in the low thirites.
#3
Sometimes a divorce is the only solution to an 'irreconcilable differences' marriage. Ethnic cleansing is preferable to genocide when the same problem is nation sized.
[IsraelTimes] Report says Washington stressing it has made no new concessions to Tehran as talks seem to accelerate, amid ‘difficult’ conversations with Jerusalem.
No worries. They’ll keep negotiating until Iran tests their first nuclear bomb over Jerusalem, and their second over Mecca. And then they mourn the deaths followed by the necessary surrender of Israel and Saudi Arabia to Iran... or so they no doubt expect.
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Glass-over Iran. And do SOMETHING about all those idiots at State.
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No new concessions? So Rushdie's stabbing was agreed upon during the Obama administration?
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No worries, but the 12th Imam in the Well in Kom is packing his bags for the return to fulfill the prophesy:
"... integral part of Shi’a Islam’s belief and thought involves the initiating of a planetary conflagration. This belief system posits that Allah’s kingdom will be established on earth by the Twelfth or Hidden Imam, also known as the Mahdi, whose advent can be hastened by creating the right set of circumstances: friction and misunderstanding among the nations and violent upheavals in a welter of blood and fire."
[JPost] "We thought he was being too soft. Give us money" PA President Mahmoud Abbas receives widespread cheers from political supporters, opponents alike over Holocaust comments
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s political rivals in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have come out in his defense following the uproar over his remarks in Germany, where he accused Israel of perpetrating "50 holocausts" against the Palestinians.
The two groups said that Abbas’s statements represented the Palestinians’ "historical narrative."
The PLO’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), which are opposed to Abbas’s policies, also defended him over the weekend.
[IsraelTimes] London-based Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... International says Javad Ghafari, who previously commanded Iranian troops in Syria, was appointed to orchestrate liquidations of Israelis in Istanbul
A London-based Iranian opposition news outlet on Friday published the name and details of an Iranian commander who it said was in charge of plans to kill Israelis in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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[NPASYRIA] Management of northeast Syria camps said on Saturday that Roj and Hawl camps housing ISIS families pose threats to Syria and the world.
In a statement, the management of Roj camp noted to the recent Ottoman Turkish escalation that could lead to further breaks from the two camps.
The statement indicated that as Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are preoccupied with the Ottoman Turkish escalation; ISIS may exploit the current situation to reorganize itself again.
The management denounced the Ottoman Turkish attacks and the international silence towards that. The call to a no-fly zone to protect the region from Ottoman Turkish attacks was renewed.
Earlier, Sheikhmous Ahmad, head of the IDPs and Refugees’ Affairs Office of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)
...the Kurdish government in Syria...
held the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and its dependent organizations accountable for what is taking in the camps and in particular at the Hawl Camp.
The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the SDF defeated ISIS militarily there.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[LIBYAREVIEW] The Libyan police arrested the Chairman of Automobile and Touring Club of Libya (ATCL) and the Executive Director of the Civil Society Commission on charges of alleged corruption.
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