[AlAhram] Britannia said on Sunday it had secured the release of a citizen held since 2017 in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , where he was allegedly tortured.
"Delighted that Luke Symons, who was unlawfully detained, without charge or trial since 2017 in Yemen by the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s, has been released and will shortly be reunited with his family," Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement issued by her department.
"I pay tribute to our Omani and Saudi partners and our team for securing his release."
Symons, 30, was detained by Houthi rebels in southwest Yemen along with his Yemeni wife on suspicion of espionage, which his family strongly denies.
They say his arm was broken during one interrogation in a bid to force a confession, and that his physical and mental health has degenerated during solitary confinement in the capital Sanaa.
His wife was released and has been able to visit him periodically in the prison, and recently voiced concern at his condition, according to Symons's grandfather Robert Cummings.
"Luke's going through hell. He's getting no medical attention, and we've been going backwards, not forward, with this (UK) government," Cummings told AFP by phone in February from the family's home in Cardiff.
French far-right leader Le Pen concedes defeat
[IsraelTimes] French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has conceded defeat in the presidential runoff, handing victory to incumbent Emmanuel Macron.
She says her unprecedented score in a presidential election represents "a shining victory in itself."
"The ideas we represent are reaching summits," she says.
French polling agencies are projecting that centrist Macron has won the runoff against Le Pen.
French exit polls: Macron set for 2nd presidential term with 58% of vote
[IsraelTimes] French President Emmanuel Macron appears set for a second presidential term.
[IsraelTimes] One election exit poll shows him winning the second round of the presidential race with 58.2 percent of the vote. His rival, the far-right’s Marine Le Pen, is projected to win 41.8%.
A second poll shows Macron with 57.6% to Le Pen’s 42.4%.
The incumbent would become the first French president in 20 years to win another five years in office.
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All the 'light' anti-moslem posturing, videos of Pakis burning Macron posters, and the dramatic whining of jama'at stooges in France finally paid off.
The far-right was a better bet any day under the circumstances. But dumbed down masses are trained to recognize only labels today. Say 'far-right' and their brain goes, "mon Dieu! Nazis! Fascists!"
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Say 'far-right' and their brain goes, "mon Dieu! Nazis! Fascists!"
The main stream media's 24/7 communist propaganda will do that for you. We have to wait until it gets so bad that even the television can't conceal it. Hope it's not too late.
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People will ignore a toothache for quite a while if they think the dentist is going to root canal them. In the end, they go to the dentist. The French will be ready for a change soon.
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[Rudaw] Iraq does not have enough capacity to generate a sufficient amount of electricity in the summer, the spokesperson to the country’s electricity ministry told Rudaw on Sunday, adding that an official delegation will visit Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... soon to discuss energy imports from Tehran.
"The topic of electricity imported from Iran is divided into two parts, one is that there is an amount of electricity imported that is not more than 1100 megawatts from Iranian lines," Ahmed Mousa told Rudaw’s Mohammed Sheikh Fatih, adding that this amount is prone to change.
"Last summer, for five months, all of it stopped. Not a single megawatt was imported because Iran needed electricity itself," he added.
The second way Iraq benefits from Iran generating electricity is through the import of gas.
According to Mousa, contracts between Baghdad and Tehran indicate that Iraq will import 50 million cubic meters of gas in the winter and 70 million in the summer, however this has also been decreased on multiple occasions to a point that it was at one point down to eight million.
"Following several meetings, we have been able to raise the amount from eight million to 20 million, and then to 25 million, and now we are discussing raising it to 30 million cubic meters," Mousa said, noting that even that amount would not be enough to provide 24 hours of energy.
Iraq suffers from chronic electricity shortages, especially felt when summer temperatures reach over 50 degrees Celsius. The shortages are caused by multiple factors, including poor basic services, the government’s inability to deliver these services, rampant corruption, and terror attacks on the power grid.
The Iraqi ministry has been working on increasing electricity supplies for quite some time.
Mousa earlier this month told Iraqi state media that they have finished all the technical steps required to import electricity from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... "For the line to start working, we need approval from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... given that Turkey's electricity is connected to the European Union," Mousa said, adding that initial approval has been obtained.
According to Mousa’s statement to Iraqi state media, the amount of electricity that will be imported from Turkey to provinces in the north of the country will be 500 megawatts in the summer.
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[IsraelTimes] The Erez Crossing with the 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... Strip — shuttered over recent rocket attacks on southern Israel — will remain closed tomorrow, security officials say.
On Friday, Israel announced that the sole pedestrian crossing with Gaza would remain closed today, after three rockets were fired at the south.
The sanction means some 12,000 Paleostinians with permits, cannot enter Israel for work. Officials are expected to reconvene again tomorrow to discuss potentially reopening it.
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Wally Jumblat ...Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... asked Saturday for the dismissal of Energy Minister Walid Fayyad.
In a tweet Jumblat said "it is time to dismiss the minister", sarcastically accusing him of wandering through capitals, restaurants and nightclubs.
The PSP chief said the ministry is ruled by the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... party, slamming the presidency and the "son-in-law," FPM chief Jebran Bassil.
"Isn't it time for the Prime Minister to reveal that there won't be any Jordanian electricity or any World Bank funding, unless a radical reform is made at the ministry of energy," Jumblat asked.
The World Bank still hasn't financed a Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... ’s U.S.-backed plan for importing gas and electricity from Egypt and Jordan via Syria.
"It is still studying the plan’s political feasibility," Fayyad said, adding that "the ball is now in the court of the U.S. administration and the bank."
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... the cash-strapped state is struggling to purchase fuel for its power stations.
With state power effectively non-existent, many rely on private generators, but prices have increased after the government lifted fuel subsidies.
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[IsraelTimes] Incident is seemingly the latest in a series of attempts to spirit heavily subsidized fuel out of the country for sale on the black market
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a foreign vessel smuggling fuel in the Gulf and arrested eight of its crew members on Sunday, Iranian state media claimed, in the third such incident reported this month.
The Guards "seized a foreign vessel carrying 200,000 liters (around 53,000 gallons) of smuggled fuel in the north of the Persian Gulf and directed it to Bushehr [port]," state broadcaster IRIB said, quoting a statement by the Guards’ navy.
"Eight crew members of the vessel, who are foreigners, were arrested and taken to Bushehr port, where they will be handed over to the judicial authorities to complete the investigation and legal processes," it added.
The crewmen’s nationalities were not specified.
The IRGC is the ideological arm of Iran’s military, with direct loyalty not to the country of Iran, but to the Islamic Revolution that brought to power the current regime.
Iran ...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... has seen a major surge in efforts to smuggle heavily subsidized fuel out of the country and to neighboring states for sale on the black market.
Sunday’s incident is the latest in a series of seizures of fuel-smuggling vessels in sea lanes of the Gulf, where a large portion of the world’s oil is produced and shipped.
On April 15, Iranian media reported the seizure of a boat carrying 250,000 liters of smuggled fuel and the arrest of its seven-member crew.
Another boat with 11 crew onboard was reportedly seized on April 9.
"The fight against smuggling, especially fuel smuggling, is one of the main priorities of the IRGC Navy in order to support national production and the dynamism of the country’s economy," the IRGC statement said.
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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
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