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America's immigration crisis laid bare: DailyMail.com's in-depth analysis reveals the impact of 4.9 MILLION illegal border crossings since Biden took office ‐ as the U.S.'s WORST sanctuary cities are named and shamed
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Some 4.9 million people have entered the U.S. illegally since January 2021, including 900,000 who slipped in undetected, says immigration watchdog

  • New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco are ranked the top five most dangerous sanctuary cities by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI)

  • Guards on South West border seized one ton of fentanyl in July — enough for 469 million lethal doses

  • Immigrants drawn by potential ten-fold wage bumps and 9.8 million private sector job openings, says think tank

  • Newcomers arriving in Manhattan told DailyMail.com they came to work, but New Yorkers say the city is already struggling with rising crime and homelessness

  • Arizona cattle rancher sues Biden administration for turning a blind eye as cartel thugs maraud across his land
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Illegal Immigrants Accused of Child Trafficking After 16-Year-Old Miscarries, Revealing Apparent Sexual Abuse
[Breitbart] The D.C. establishment allowed a family of illegal migrants colonists in Illinois to import children for slavery and sex, according to court documents filed in Central Illinois.

Three members of the Guatemalan family of illegal migrants colonists are facing life sentences, and additional members may face rape charges.

Officials and pro-migration advocates prefer not to enforce the nation’s immigration laws, but "sometimes a case pops up in front of them and they can’t ignore it," said Jessica Vaughan, the policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. She added, “They ought to be ashamed — and everyone else who has looked the other way at what’s going on at the border and especially what goes on once people are released into the interior ... People who support catch and release policies are in denial about the human cost and abuse that is facilitated by these policies.”

"Victim 1" was first identified in 2016, at the age of 10, when she was brought over the border by a man who claimed to be her father. President Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
’s border agents detected the fraud, and send the man back to Guatemala. But his deputies also sent the child to live in Illinois with the man’s sister, an illegal alien named Catarina Domingo-Juan.

Victim 1 is one of roughly 150,000 girls — and 300,000 boys — admitted since 2016 to the U.S. under Congress’ 2008 law for "Unaccompanied Alien Children." President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
temporarily curbed the inflow in 2020 amid furious opposition by congressional Democrats.

Victim 1 was next noticed in March 2021, when the border agents were under the control of Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
’s anti-enforcement homeland security chief.

But she only "came to the attention" of officials after she was brought to a hospital after "a miscarriage that required surgery,’ said a July 25 court statement from Trevor Waite, an agent with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

The statement, which has the case number 2:22-cr-20057-CSB-EIL, continues:

Throughout the approximately five years Victim I resided [in Champaign, Ill.] with Catarina Domingo-Juan, she was subjected to regular physical abuse by Catarina Domingo-Juan including being beaten, stabbed with a kitchen knife, and burned with a pan of oil. Additionally, Victim 1 was sexually assaulted by four male members of Catarina Domingo-Juan’s extended family. Victim 1 told Catarina Domingo-Juan about the sexual assaults. Victim I initially went to school but then starting at the age of 12 was forced to start working, initially cleaning hotels, when she was not in school. Eventually she was forced to go to work full time instead of going to school ... While working at the hotel, Victim 1 received her pay, in cash, from an unknown male. However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
once she returned home, Catarina Domingo Juan took all of the money Victim 1 had received as pay.

"Through this initial interview, law enforcement learned the following ... Catarina Domingo-Juan’s two sons had raped Victim I numerous times. and Victim I told Catarina Domingo-Juan about the rapes: Victim I stated she was unaware that she was pregnant until doctors advised her that she had a miscarriage," the statement said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Diversity is our strength. /sarc
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/27/2022 7:38 Comments || Top||

#2  One might be led to think perversity is our strength these days.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/27/2022 14:08 Comments || Top||

#3  And the hotel? What charges will be brought against the management and owners?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/27/2022 20:21 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban Says the Group Has Not Found Al-Qaeda Chief’s Body
[KhaamaPress] After the US claimed the al-Qaeda chief was killed in a US drone Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Kabul last month, the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
announced on Thursday that they have not discovered Ayman al-Zawahiri
...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
’s body and that the group is still conducting investigations.

The body of al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has not yet been discovered, according to Zabihullah Mujahid, the senior front man for the Taliban government who spoke at a presser in Kabul, the Afghan capital.

The Taliban official stated that the group has not yet been successful in finding the dead body of Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The fact that two Hellfire missiles fired from a drone killed the al-Qaeda leader while doing astonishingly little damage elsewhere suggests they are reportedly a type of the missile the US uses to prevent non-combatant fatalities.

The dronezap was reportedly confirmed by members of the Taliban, longtime partners of al-Qaeda, but they claimed the house struck was unoccupied, according to Rooters.

Previously, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the chief of al-Qaeda, was reportedly killed in a CIA drone operation in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, according to Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan....
, the president of the US, who announced the news in a special broadcast.

The death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, in the eyes of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, has improved global security.

By "hosting and sheltering" the al-Qaeda chief in Kabul, the Taliban administration in Afghanistan violated its commitments to the international community, according to the US official.

The new announcement from the Taliban comes as previously they had announced that the group did not have knowledge of al-Zawahiri’s "arrival and stay" in Kabul.
Speaking of the US strike on Kabul, Mujahid said: “It is still at the level of allegation. The results have yet to be clarified. The body has not been found there because of the rockets that targeted the area—the area is destroyed and nothing is left of it,” he said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  "Someone painted the apartment pink though..."
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2022 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, there was an irregularity in the neighborhood shortly after Ayman's demise, the Bar-B-Que. As the smell of pork wafted through the streets and alleyways of Kabul, the unclean dogs feasted on shredded "pork". None of the residents in the vicinity much cared nor were enticed by the aroma of freshly cooked pork, but they were glad, when the dogs consumed every piece within minutes. And the main BBQ entree, quickly digested, found itself deposited in dog pile heaps on the grassy parkland, curbsides and sewer grates. (Or so, I would like to believe happened, that day.)
Posted by: Glinert Lumplump7790 || 08/27/2022 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Possible Z was not there. Or Taliban are lying. Or there is nothing left to find. Who knows.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/27/2022 13:35 Comments || Top||

#4  I like the stray dog hypotheses
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 08/27/2022 15:23 Comments || Top||

#5  I like the outcome of the stray dog hypotheses.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2022 15:25 Comments || Top||

#6  I can't keep this stuff straight, but isn't he supposed to be down a well or something?
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/27/2022 18:58 Comments || Top||

#7  12th Mullah. Nobby Forehead never qualified
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2022 19:00 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Ethiopia Launches Air Raids On Tigray Region, Kills Children, Destroys Houses


Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Terrorists, Bandits From Other Countries Entering Nigeria Freely To Commit Mayhem Through 137 Unguarded Borders


The Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor has said over 137 out of about 261 borders in the northeast and northwest regions of Nigeria are unguarded.

According to him, intelligence suggested that faceless myrmidons and bandidos are using some of these border points to move freely from other countries into Nigeria to cause mayhem.

Irabor disclosed this on Thursday while delivering a lecture titled "Security, defence & development in Nigeria" at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) in Lagos.

"Our borders are largely unmanned. The penetrability of our vast unmanned land areas — the north-east and north-west zones, particularly Borno, Yobe, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina states — with neigbouring countries such as Niger Republic and Chad among others has continued to be a key source of criminality and violent mostly peaceful crimes in those parts of the country," he said.

"The porous nature of the borders has made it easily accessible for faceless myrmidons and bandidos to enter the country to commit mayhem. For instance, there are about 364 approved international border points in Nigeria with about 261 in the northeast and northwest regions.

"Out of this 261 only 124 are manned leaving the remaining 137 unmanned by security agencies. Intelligence suggests that violent mostly peaceful actors are using some of these normal border points to move freely from countries into Nigeria to cause mayhem."

He called for the use of technology as a tool in strengthening the Nigerian borders, in addition to the erection of physical structures and effective management.

He said there is a need to have a broad-based integrated border management system in the country.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: ISWAP

#1  Terrorists, Bandits From Other Countries Entering Nigeria USA Freely To Commit Mayhem Through 137 Unguarded Borders

FIFY
Posted by: Warthog || 08/27/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Surprised we aren’t paying for their border security.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/27/2022 10:23 Comments || Top||


Europe
Swedish Police Call for More Deportations as Migrants Drive Crime
[Breitbart] A survey of police across Sweden has revealed that a majority of officers want the government to deport more foreign criminals and abolish discounts on prison sentences.

The survey, which was commissioned by the Swedish Police Union and conducted by the firm NOVUS, found that a large majority of police officers, 64 per cent, agreed that the government should increase the deportation of foreign criminals.

A total of 66 per cent of officers said that they wanted to abolish automatic release after prisoners serve two-thirds of their sentences and 64 per cent wanted to get rid of “youth discounts” on sentences for younger criminals, newspaper Aftonbladet reports.

“We see that there are many criminal policy proposals coming from the politicians. Then we think it is important that you listen to the profession, and the police officers who, despite a lack of resources and with an increasingly complex crime development, work to create a safer society,” police union leader Lena Nitz said.

“We have a frustration from our members that you see both serious criminal criminals, but also people who commit mass crimes in droves, if I put it that way, who will soon be out on the streets again,” Nitz added.

Deportations of criminals may have some impact on Sweden’s levels of crime, particularly in fatal shootings, as nearly nine in ten of the suspects involved in such killings in Sweden come from some form of migration background.

Recently, many in the Swedish establishment admitted that there is a link between migration and crime, with Gothenburg police commissioner Erik Nord linking migration to fatal gun crime last year.

“It is no longer a secret today that much of the problem of gang and network crime with the shootings and explosions have been linked to migration to Sweden in recent decades,” Nord conceded.

“When, like me, you have the opportunity to follow matters at the individual level, you see that virtually everyone who shoots or is shot in gang conflicts originates from the Balkans, the Middle East, North or East Africa,” he added.
Sure. But most of them are Moslem colonists.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Tsk, tsk, tsk...Just figuring this crime conundrum out now Sweden? ... Why, Rantburg had this figured out decades ago... talk about "brain-drain" ...
Posted by: Skunky Ebbaique3137 || 08/27/2022 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Pinochet treatment over the Arctic Ocean.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 08/27/2022 8:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
New York man pleads guilty to plotting ISIS-inspired attack in Queens
[FoxNews] Awais Chudhary, 22, allegedly plotted to commit attacks on targets in Queens and pledged his loyalty to ISIS and its leadership

A New York City man who plotted a terrorist attack with a knife on behalf of the Islamic State terror group pleaded guilty in federal court Friday.

Awais Chudhary, 22, admitted to attempting to provide material support to ISIS in a Brooklyn courtroom, the Justice Department said.

He faces up to 20 years in prison.

Federal prosecutors said Chudhary, who was born in Pakistan, pledged his loyalty to the terror group in August 2019 after watching terrorist propaganda videos online. He began planning a knife or bomb attack on targets in Queens and sought guidance from ISIS supporters, authorities said.

He surveilled his intended targets and video recorded areas he wanted to attack, prosecutors said. In addition, he also sent a screenshot of a document from an ISIS propaganda magazine that included a diagram of the human body depicting where to stab victims with a knife.

To commit the attacks, Chudhary ordered a number of items online, including tactical knife, a mask, gloves, and a cellphone chest and head strap to record the attack in an effort to inspire other lone wolves.

Chudhary allegedly told one undercover agent he wanted to use a knife for the attack "because that’s what he knows," but would be open to learning how to build a bomb if the undercover agent could teach him. That done, he would consider using a bomb at a "mini-bridge over a busy road with many cars," according to the Justice Department.
Goodness. Yet another jihadi-mad idiot who relied on his new BFF, the FBI informant. A good thing they got him off the street before he hooked up with those who would have turned him into a real weapon.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 00:08 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I suspect that getting caught was the best outcome for him. He must be right off a boat, if he plans a terrorist knife attack in Queens.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/27/2022 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  According to the article in the Rantburg archives reporting his arrest in 2019, he is a naturalized American citizen, Super Hose, so he must have been here long enough for that — probably got his citizenship as soon as he reached legal majority at eighteen.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2022 22:14 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraq's Sadrists refile call for judiciary to suspend parliament
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
UNRWA briefs UN Council on Palestine refugees situation in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza
[AnNahar] "Over 80 per cent of Paleostine refugees in 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...
, Syria and 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...
live below the poverty line," said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.

Lazzarrini told the U.N. Security Council that "in Lebanon, the pressure on the Agency to do more to address the impact of the economic and financial crisis on the Paleostine refugee community is becoming unbearable."

He added that "protests and acts of violence directed against UNRWA, are, at times, forcing my colleagues to close our installations."

"Illegal emigration of Paleostine refugees is rising," Lazzarini went on to say.

Lazzarini said that UNRWA is facing "an existential threat," as he appealed to Member States who have reduced their funding "to reconsider the impact of their decision on the region’s stability."
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


In risky recycling venture, Gazans burn plastic for fuel
[AnNahar] Living in one of the poorest parts of the Middle East and facing some of the region's highest fuel costs, Paleostinians 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 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...
are burning plastic to make affordable diesel.

It's an economic and practical solution in a territory blockaded by Israel for 15 years, but one which poses serious environmental and health risks, experts say.
"Have you experienced Mesothelioma, Lung Damage, Hemmorhoids, Planter Fasciitus, or other maladies due to the Zionist Oppressor forcing you to make a plastic-recycling still?"
Standing before rusty metal machinery and fuel containers, Mahmoud al-Kafarneh described how he and his brothers came up with their plastic recycling project.

"We started experimenting to implement the project in 2018, through searching the internet," he told AFP, at the site in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza.

"We failed a few times; after eight months we succeeded in extracting the fuel."

The distilling setup features a series of crude-looking tanks and connecting pipes set up outside on the dirt.

The process starts with the burning of wood in a furnace below a large mud-covered tank holding up to 1.5 tons (tons) of shredded plastic. When the plastic melts, the vapors flow through a pipe into a water tank where they cool and drip as fuel into containers, ready to be sold.

Black-grey smoke pours from several pipes extending above the furnace and the tank holding the plastic.

Only a few of the workers wear face masks and gloves as they melt bagfuls of shredded plastic. Their clothing is stained black.

Kafarneh said no-one has experienced health problems since starting work at the site, which sits beside olive trees and away from residential buildings.

"We follow all safety procedures at work", he said.

But Ahmed Hillis, director of Gaza's National Institute for the Environment and Development, fears an environmental catastrophe from this unregulated industry.

"The method used is rudimentary and very harmful to the workers," mainly because they inhale toxic fumes, he told AFP.

Burning plastic releases dioxins, mercury and other toxic gases which pose "a threat to vegetation, human and animal health", according to the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
Environment Program.

Hillis adds another danger of burning plastic, which is derived from petroleum hydrocarbons.

The tank is "a time bomb because it could explode" from the heat, he says.

In Gaza, where exchanges of fire between Paleostinian holy warriors and Israel for three days earlier this month killed at least 49 Paleostinians, health risks are outweighed by economic reality.

Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli report: War with Lebanon very likely, UNIFIL at Blue Line 'ineffective'
Why should this year be different than any other year?
[AnNahar] UNIFIL will be Hezbollah's "shield" in the next conflict between 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 Israel, Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post said.

"The likelihood of that potential conflict has grown due to the Lebanese Army subservience to Hezbollah, and UNIFIL irrelevance and dereliction of mission to prevent the resumption of hostilities," the daily added.

The report warned that the rise in the number of Hezbollah military collection sites on the boundary between Israel and Lebanon, known as the Blue Line is "alarming" and is "a clear and present danger to northern Israel."

"This recreates a tactical reality mirroring the Hezbollah disposition prior to July 2006 (the Second Lebanon War) and is a clear and present danger to northern Israel," the report said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Top Hezbollah commander sends unprecedented warnings to Israel
Unprecedented is such a big word for such a little thing.
[AnNahar] A senior Hezbollah military commander has noted that Israel is exerting strenuous efforts in order not to engage in another war with his group, because it knows that it will be "destructive" for it and that "it will not be able to confront Hezbollah in all fields."

"The enemy must know that war with Hezbollah this time would mean a destruction of the Israeli entity’s infrastructure, which would turn the lives of settlers into a real hell in which they cannot live under fire and destruction. We are confident that the enemy will work on pulling corpses from the rubble during the war and this is what it and its people have not experienced until the moment," the Hezbollah commander told al-Akhbar newspaper in an interview published Friday.

Speaking with high confidence, the commander added that "the Israeli army cannot protect its sea and it is incapable of protecting its vital infrastructure nor even its land border."

"It cannot protect its domestic front from shelling and it can’t even protect itself."

He added: "The Israeli army knows very well that it cannot protect the ships that are supposed to enter into the Paleostinian ports nor to protect the warships."

"It also knows that the moment war erupts, we will not fight a defensive war. For the first time in its history, Israel will have to defend its 1948 territory," the commander went on to say.

He also warned that should an all-out war break out, "the Paleostinian resistance factions will be a partner in the battle and the Paleostinian people will mobilize, including in the 1948 areas."

Referring to the standoff over the demarcation of the sea border between 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 Israel, the Hezbollah commander said: "The enemy knows that we benefit from any chance, and that if it commits any mistake, we will deal it a major blow that forces it not to think of attacking Lebanon."

"The border demarcation issue might be one of these chances, and if the enemy thinks of any reaction, we will respond directly, and this represent a dilemma for it."

Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Hezbollah is channeling the Black Knight
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/27/2022 10:21 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2022-08-27
  Five people shot dead in the center of Canada's capital
Fri 2022-08-26
  The Russians unsuccessfully advanced in the Avdiiv, Slavyan and Bakhmut directions
Thu 2022-08-25
  At least 15 killed, 50 more injured after the Russian missile strike on the railway station in Chaplyne near Dnipro
Wed 2022-08-24
  UN Warns Against Military Confrontation in Libyan Capital
Tue 2022-08-23
  Fauci stepping down as NIAID chief
Mon 2022-08-22
  Hadhramaut tribes mobilise against Islah Party militias
Sun 2022-08-21
  Mogadishu hotel attack, Day 2: After 30 hours it’s over - at least 30 toes up, including all Al Shabaab turbans, 40 maimed
Sat 2022-08-20
  ISIS 'Beatle' El Shafee Elsheikh sentenced to life in prison
Fri 2022-08-19
  Dbaiba vs Bashagha. Armed Groups Relocate Around Libyan Capital
Thu 2022-08-18
  Zamfara Govt Approves Death Penalty for Bandits, Kidnappers, Cultists
Wed 2022-08-17
  Cote d' Ivoire Soldiers Charged as Mercenaries In Mali
Tue 2022-08-16
  Record-breaking number of migrants arrested at southern US border: Illegal crossings soar to nearly TWO MILLION in less than a year as 2,200 stream into country in just one day
Mon 2022-08-15
  At least nine Zionist settlers injured in shooting attacks in occupied al-Quds
Sun 2022-08-14
  Troops patrol Tijuana as city emerges from cartel-fueled night of terror
Sat 2022-08-13
  Suicide Attack Kills Taliban Prominent Cleric in Afghan Capital, Funeral in Jalalabad


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