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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Somali Gang Rapist Whose Deportation Was Blocked by Air Passengers to Be Freed
[BREITBART] A convicted Somali gang rapist is to be released on bail after his deportation was blocked by airline passengers, who staged a revolt to block him from being sent back to his country.

Yaqub Ahmed, one of four men who gang-raped a 16-year-old girl in 2007, should be released from detention after being granted "bail in principle" despite the authorities acknowledging he poses a "real risk" to the public.

In announcing his release, Judge Margaret O’Keeffe acknowledged that there is a "real risk that he would commit offences if released on bail."

"I am also satisfied that the applicant poses a risk of absconding. He failed to comply with bail conditions in the past and was caught attempting to leave the jurisdiction," the judge admitted.

But she said that she was bound by guidance for immigration judges which limits the government’s ability to detain someone for more than six months before they are deported.

"I have to take into account that there is currently no realistic prospect of his removal to Somalia and it cannot be said that his removal is imminent. There is simply no way to know when the position will change in relation to international air travel," the judge concluded, referring to the effects of the Chinese coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  WTF?
Can someone parse her honor's word salad for us English speakers?
Posted by: Lex || 04/14/2020 8:52 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Immigrants' rights (especially melanin enriched ones) trump Women's rights.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||

#3  They did this in Minnesota too. Local media fully supported the animals. Predictable, disgusting.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/14/2020 14:11 Comments || Top||

#4  In Texas we’re wondering if that girl has no father or brothers or uncles, or even sisters or aunts who would end this ahole.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/14/2020 20:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Could this have anything to do with President Trump’s order denying visas to countries that do not accept their deportees?
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2020 22:08 Comments || Top||

#6  This is what I was referring to.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2020 22:55 Comments || Top||


Border Patrol Agent Stops Assault Incident in Texas Restaurant Drive-Thru, Say Feds
[BREITBART] Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a woman from an assault in the drive-thru line of an Eagle Pass, Texas, restaurant. Currently, all restaurants in the state are limited to take-out service due to the threat of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

An agent assigned to the Eagle Pass Station came upon a local restaurant in the early-morning hours of April 8. As he approached, the agent observed a female motorist being assaulted while waiting in line, according to information provided by Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials.

The agent intervened and stopped the alleged attacker from further harming the victim. The agent detained the man and called for assistance from the Eagle Pass Police Department. Local police soon after placed the man in jug. Officials report the man now faces charges of assault and resisting arrest.

"Dedication to duty, vigilance, and quick response prevented this dangerous situation from escalating further," said Del Rio Sector Acting Chief Patrol Agent Doyle E. Amidon Jr. "Our agents are trained to adapt to any situation and always stand ready to protect the citizens of our communities."

Officials did not disclose the nature of the assault or if the alleged attacker was in the vehicle with the victim.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  majado.....????
Posted by: ranture || 04/14/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  the agent observed a female motorist being assaulted while waiting in line

One man of action. I suppose the others in line were making video.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2020 15:26 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
'After darkness, there is the much brighter sun': Turkey sends planeloads of emergency equipment including masks and protective suits to Britain in poetry-inscribed boxes to help UK medics battling coronavirus
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2020 10:27 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Anyone else snort about the poetry bit?

The items were sent in boxes displaying the words of 13th century Sufi Poet Jalaluddin Rumi: 'There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.'

Says the article. I think Rumi is getting pumped about the establishing of the Ottoman Caliphate.

This time period also encompasses the Persian Muslims getting whallopped by the Mongols, more so than everyone else getting rolled by the Mongols at this time except what we now know as Russia.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/14/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||

#2  How many are precontaminated?
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/14/2020 14:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I'd totally pay to watch Mongols vs Muslims.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/14/2020 15:03 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban Drafts ‘Charter’ for Future Govt: Document
[ToloNews] A draft of a Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
charter consisting of a list of rules, presumably intended as a guide for the potential future governance of Afghanistan, was shown to TOLOnews by a government source. Titled "The charter of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan," the list of articles looks very similar to those of the former Taliban regime, which was in power in Kabul from 1996 to 2001.

The charter, which calls for the establishment of an Islamic emirate, has 149 articles which include a broad range of topics covering how laws will be passed to the mandate for a white flag.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  When is the mission accomplished brown poop colored jacket party?
Posted by: Thranter Barnsmell1802 || 04/14/2020 9:58 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Trump Threatens Countries With Visa Sanctions If They Stop Accepting Deported Citizens
[DailyCaller] President Trump issued a memo late Friday, ordering acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf to notify the State Department of any government that refuses to accept deportees from the U.S.

Upon notification, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would have seven days to impose visa sanctions, making it harder — and likely impossible — for citizens of those countries to obtain U.S. visas.

The memo dramatically ratcheted up pressure on governments, particularly in Central America, to keep allowing deportation flights into their countries.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. You sent your trash here. Take it back or else
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2020 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  For some reason I thought he had already done this.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/14/2020 14:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump certainly has this crass, how bourgeoisie!, manner of negotiating, doesn't he? The Cookie Pushers™ at State would hold meetings on this for years and nothing substantive would be done...
Posted by: magpie || 04/14/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||


Europe
Islamic Yodeling in Germany.
[GatesOfVienna] One of the side-effects of the coronavirus lockdowns in Europe has been the broadcasting of the Muslim call to prayer, even where such broadcasts are ostensibly against the law. The video below highlights the azan at a DITIB mosque in the German town of Germersheim.



Video transcript:

00:10 Mili Görus and DITIB allow the Muezzin call to prayer in the middle of Germersheim.
00:17 Approved by CDU Mayor Schaile.
00:26 Mili Görus is anti-constitutional, anti-Semitic and rejects democracy.
00:34 DITIB, which also has no respect the German constitution,
00:37 plans to build a mosque in Germersheim.
00:43 During the planning process DITIB rejected every form of consideration for the city.
00:50 As reward, the promoters of political Islam
00:53 are permitted to demonstrate their power in Germersheim.
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 || 04/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Counter with Iowa pig calls.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/14/2020 14:02 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
More than 50 clerics warn govt not to further restrictions on prayer congregations
[DAWN] Senior holy mans of Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia warned the government on Monday not to further the restrictions on congregations in mosques, which have been imposed to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
Despite the government's pleas to observe social distancing, more than 53 senior holy mans of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, belonging to the Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia, held a meeting in Jamia Darul Uloom Zakria, Tarnol, Islamabad to discuss the matter. The meeting was attended by senior holy mans representing various seminaries, banned groups, proscribed persons and political and non-political parties.

The holy mans' warning has been issued before the government could come up with a plan to curb the spread of the disease during the holy month of Ramazan.

After much deliberation and meetings with religious leaders, the government has banned prayer congregations of more than five people as part of measures imposed to curb Covid-19.

A video clip released by them today showed holy mans belonging to various political and non-political organizations including Jamaat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Aalmi Tanzeem Khatam-e-Nabuwat, seminaries such as Taleem ul Koran Raja Bazar and proscribed persons including a representative of banned group Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat
...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...
, sitting in close proximity of each other.

Announcing the decision, Pir Azizur Rahman Hazarvi, president of the Jamia Darul Uloom Zakaria, Islamabad and patron of JUI-F Islamabad said: "The senior holy mans have noted that all efforts will be made to avoid clash and confrontations with the government and the state institutions."
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  They are acquiring herd immunity - except for the ones that die off right away. I see it as generally positive.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/14/2020 3:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I still dong get something: In Pakistan, Pakistan, more people recover than die. In Sweden and Holland it's the other way around.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2020 5:59 Comments || Top||

#3  g(r)om, it's all of a piece with "it's not who votes, it's who counts the votes."

Let's just say that the statistics gathering and reporting about CV has been shady at best.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/14/2020 7:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Recovered cases aren't always reported. For example in Germany this is not mandatory but they do it now, hence the large numbers of recovered cases.
Posted by: European Conservative || 04/14/2020 7:18 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 AC, if you think Pak authorities fudge the relevant stats, compare Sweden to Israel, or Germany, or even USA.
My theory, Swedes practiced affirmative action in med school admissions too long and too assiduously.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2020 7:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Think G hits it on the head. As for the 50 clerics, go for it.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/14/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Ref #5: Swedes practiced affirmative action in med school admissions too long and too assiduously.

More "assiduously" than the US Gov't? Quite difficult to imagine. Quite difficult indeed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2020 14:14 Comments || Top||

#8  ^So, how you explain such high death to recovery rate, ou rooinek?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2020 14:32 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Different topic. I was referencing Affirmative Action, not CV.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2020 14:34 Comments || Top||

#10  In Pakistan, more people recover than die. In Sweden and Holland it's the other way around.

The Swedes are more phlegmatic, as we know.
Perhaps they only seek medical attention when they are already mostly dead.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/14/2020 14:56 Comments || Top||

#11  Better phlegmatic than sanguin(ary)
Posted by: Lex || 04/14/2020 14:58 Comments || Top||


Pakistan: Sexual Abuse by Clerics ‘Pervasive’ In Islamic Schools
[BREITBART] An investigation by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named found dozens of police reports, known here as First Information Reports, alleging sexual harassment, rape and physical abuse by Islamic holy mans teaching in madrassas or religious schools throughout Pakistain, where many of the country’s poorest study. The AP also documented cases of abuse through interviews with law enforcement officials, abuse victims and their parents. The alleged victims who spoke for this story did so with the understanding only their first names would be used.

There are more than 22,000 registered madrassas in Pakistain, teaching more than 2 million children. But there are many more religious schools that are unregistered. They are typically started by a local holy man in a poor neighborhood, attracting students with a promise of a meal and free lodging. There is no central body of holy mans that governs madrassas. Nor is there a central authority that can investigate or respond to allegations of abuse by holy mans, unlike the Catholic Church, which has a clear hierarchy topped by the Vatican.

The government of Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
has promised to modernize the curriculum and make the madrassas more accountable, but there is little oversight.

Police say the problem of sexual abuse of children by holy mans is pervasive and the scores of police reports they have received are just the tip of the iceberg. Yet despite the dozens of reports, none have resulted in the conviction of a holy man. Religious holy mans are a powerful group in Pakistain and they close ranks when allegations of abuse are brought against one of them. They have been able to hide the widespread abuse by accusing victims of blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
or defamation of Islam.

Families in Pakistain are often coerced into "forgiving" holy mans, said Deputy Police Superintendent Sadiq Baloch, speaking in his office in the country’s northwest, toward the border with Afghanistan.

Overcome by shame and fear that the stigma of being sexually abused will follow a child into adulthood, families choose instead to drop the charges, he said. Most often, when a family forgives the holy man the investigation ends because the charges are dropped.

"It is the hypocrisy of some of these mullahs, who wear the long beard and take on the cloak of piety only to do these horrible acts behind closed doors, while openly they criticize those who are clean-shaven, who are liberal and open-minded," Baloch said. "In our society so many of these men, who say they are religious, are involved in these immoral activities."
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  I saw so much of that there. "Grooming" was so blatant. As compared to seeing outright little boy child rape in Kuwait.

Sure the Catholic priests do it. But under islam and the teaching of Moohamhead, it's legal. See Pedophile for Profit. Child sex slaves are legal, normal.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/14/2020 14:09 Comments || Top||

#2  *Shudder* Not the kind of thing a sheepdog type would deal well with.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2020 23:10 Comments || Top||


Iraq
US-led coalition to resume training of Peshmerga next month as ISIS threat looms
[Rudaw] The US-led coalition will resume military training for Peshmerga forces in the Kurdistan region by the end of May, a coalition spokesperson told Rudaw on Sunday.

"All trainings for Peshmerga forces are halted for now due to coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, but there are ongoing talks between the coalition, NATO
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


New Iraqi PM vows to defend nation's sovereignty after #US deploys Patriot missiles
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Hey, the story around town is that you have sovereignty because of the US. Give thanks, not jibes.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/14/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Afraid they will start shooting down Iran's IRGC "civilian-flagged" air transports, hmmm?
Posted by: magpie || 04/14/2020 15:47 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas reopens Egypt border crossing shuttered due to virus
[IsraelTimes] Rafah terminal to be open for 4 days, allowing hundreds of Paleostinians to enter Strip; those returning required to quarantine for 21 days.

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 Hamaswith 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...
’s Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, rulers on Monday temporarily reopened the border crossing with Egypt, shut due to the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic, to allow hundreds of Paleostinians to return.

One-way traffic into the coastal enclave through the Rafah crossing would be allowed for the coming four days, Gaza’s Hamas-run interior ministry said.
A Convoy of CoVid™
All those returning would be put into compulsory 21-day quarantine, which could be extended, interior ministry front man Iyad al-Bozm said.

So far, only 13 COVID-19 infections have been confirmed in Gaza, all from people returning to the territory or those in contact with them while in quarantine.

But the Strip, under an Israeli-imposed blockade since 2007, is one of the most densely-populated territories on earth and has a struggling health system. Israel says the blockade is necessary to prevent arms from reaching Hamas and other Paleostinian terror groups in Gaza.

Hamas has imposed a series of measures including closing markets, schools and mosques.

Gaza, ruled by the Islamist terror group since 2007, ran out of COVID-19 testing kits last week, but the World Health Organization delivered 480 kits on Sunday.

At the Rafah arrivals hall on Monday, returning residents were met by dozens of coppers, doctors and nurses wearing protective medical equipment.

Among the returnees were students and people who had been outside Gaza for treatment for other diseases, said doctor Mohammed Abu Salamieh.

The Rafah border crossing with Egypt is the only exit from Gaza, apart from into Israel.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2020 00:36 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran’s Health Ministry declares 1,617 new infections with coronavirus, raising the total nu mber up to more than 73,300
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Does anyone actually believe their information on infections, deaths, etc.?



Posted by: daniel || 04/14/2020 10:09 Comments || Top||


Iranian general says Iran's looking at possibility COVID-19 was used as 'biological warfare'
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Talk to your Chinese "Friends"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2020 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  let me guess, perpetrator is Great Satan or Little Satan
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 04/14/2020 7:21 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Embrace the power of "and", Robert.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2020 7:33 Comments || Top||

#4  'Comprehensive studies', well in all fairness they did discover the lavender oil solution. No doubt the cutting edge of Iranian technology will soon get to the bottom of it.
Posted by: Cesare || 04/14/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||

#5  One path, one road, one virus.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/14/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||

#6  "No doubt the cutting edge of Iranian technology will soon get to the bottom of it."

I thought the bottom was where the lavendar oil was supposed to go.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/14/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||

#7  At least toilet paper was never an issue there.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 04/14/2020 14:32 Comments || Top||

#8  you're not important enough for a bio weapon
Posted by: Chris || 04/14/2020 14:47 Comments || Top||


Iran no longer poses imminent threat to Israel: Mossad to NYT
[ALMASDARNEWS] In a new report by the The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

, the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, concluded that Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today 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. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
was no longer an imminent security threat to Israel, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
Citing ’informed’ sources, the NYT said that the coronavirus outbreak in Israel has prompted the intelligence agency to confront the pandemic inside the country by obtaining medical equipment and technology from abroad.
and the Mossad ran to the NYT to break this, of course
The NYT’s Mossad sources said Iran is not posing any immediate threat to Israel because of this coronavirus outbreak, as the Islamic Theocratic Republic has shifted their attention to combating this deadly illness.

According to the Iranian Health Ministry, the country has a total of 71,166 cases and 4,474 deaths so far from the coronavirus outbreak.

Despite the claims in the article, the Israeli Ministry of Defense has still focused on Hezbollah’s movements in both Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
and Syria.

Over the weekend, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) posted a photo of a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) commander meeting with Hezbollah forces in the al-Quneitra Governorate.

The IDF warned Hezbollah and the Syrian Arab Army that they were watching their movements from afar and would respond to any threat to Israel.

On March 31st, the Israeli Defense Forces carried out a powerful attack on Syria’s Shayrat Airbase, causing significant damage to the western wing of the installation.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Mossad source - bartender in the writer's favorite bar?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2020 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Chris Steele's drinking buddy
Posted by: Lex || 04/14/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#3  2007 called and G.Treverton/RAND asked Mossad to stop cribbing their 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s Nuclear Intentions and
Capabilities.
Posted by: mossomo || 04/14/2020 8:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Author forgot to add the "For now" at the end of the title.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/14/2020 11:52 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2020-04-14
  GNA carry out mass executions in the cities of Sabratah and Sorman
Mon 2020-04-13
  Libyan National Army captures Abu Grein
Sun 2020-04-12
  Houthi militia has sentenced four journalists to death in Yemen for ‘treason and espionage,’
Sat 2020-04-11
  Krakatoa volcano blows up
Fri 2020-04-10
  Iraq names its third prime minister in 10 weeks
Thu 2020-04-09
  Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Adnan Al-Zurfi withdraws his candidacy
Wed 2020-04-08
  Pakistan Scrambles to Quarantine 100,000 Who Attended Tablighi Jamaat Event
Tue 2020-04-07
  Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun calls on international donors to provide financial assistance to the crisis-hit country
Mon 2020-04-06
  Iranian regime has blamed the US, Israel, and Jews for the outbreak of coronavirus in Iran,
Sun 2020-04-05
  Hezbollah commander assassinated in southern Lebanon
Sat 2020-04-04
  China orders 200,000 body bags from Taiwan!
Fri 2020-04-03
  Iran’s Speaker Reportedly Diagnosed with Coronavirus
Thu 2020-04-02
  Pakistan court overturns conviction in death of Daniel Pearl
Wed 2020-04-01
  Trump says Iran planning 'sneak attack' on US troops in Iraq
Tue 2020-03-31
  Iran gas pipeline to Iraq blows up


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