But not record cold, so really it’s just within the normal variation of winter.
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Can you burn coal in a gas stove?
Tens of thousands of Iranians were left without gas needed to heat their homes on Saturday as unusually cold weather sweeps across the country, the state broadcaster reported.#Iranpic.twitter.com/dKnO42oE8b
[KhaamaPress] Safe the Children informed in a blurb on 15 January about resuming its partial activities in Afghanistan. The Chief Operating Officer stated in a blurb, "While most of our programs remain on hold, we are restarting some activities such as health, nutrition and some education services."
Following the ban on female aid workers by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... (IEA) on 24 December 2022, the organization paused its activities in the country while paying its employee’s total salaries and other benefits, the statement read.
The officer said that women make up 50% of the personnel at Safe the Children and are crucial to the organization’s services being delivered safely and efficiently.
Save the Children has started working in Afghanistan "since 1976s to deliver life-saving services to children and their families across the country" and is still committed to returning to its average level of operations as soon as possible.
Since September 2021, the organization has supported 4 million people, including 2 million children. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... more than 18 million children and adults will need humanitarian support in Afghanistan in 2023, stated by the officials.
Safe the Children’s chief operating officer urged the caretaker administration to lift the restriction on the organization’s female staff and other NGOs to begin operations with male and female staff.
[ToloNews] More than 100 former Afghan officials and politicians have returned to the country in the past three months, the Return and Communications Commission for Former Afghan Officials and Political Figures said.
Ahmadullah Wasiq, a front man for the commission, said the returnees include former ministers, provincial governors and other political figures.
"The returned individuals included at the level of deputies, ministers, governors, security chiefs, members of parliament, intelligence and military officers and every level," Wasiq said.
The commission said that in total, 471 political and former government figures have returned from abroad since May 2022.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick...... the deputy minister of foreign affairs, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, at a gathering in Kabul on Sunday called on Afghans to stay in the country and play their role in the development of Afghanistan.
"The opportunity for going abroad is paved for a lot of our brothers and everyone can go out. Afghan borders are open and no one has prevented anyone. Everyone can go abroad but going out (of the country) is not a solution. Life matters in the country not overseas," he said.
Analysts said that the government should use experienced figures so that they would not leave the country.
"Those who went out of the country, particularly influential figures, can play an effective role if an environment of trust is made," said Mustafa Murtazawi, a political analyst.
"Their expertise, experience and knowledge should be used. The situation should be made for them to stay in Afghanistan," said Aziz Maarij, a political analyst.
The Commission for Return and Communications with Former Afghan Officials and Political Figures was formed based on a decree of the Islamic Emirate’s supreme leader in May 2022.
[Breitbart] But TOTALLY not Islamo-terrorism, you bigot! Totally!
The Paris prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation Sunday into “attempted murders” after seven people were injured with a sharp metallic hook
..definitely not a knife, then...
at a crowded Paris train station on Wednesday.
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement that her office asked for the man suspected in the attack to be detained pending further investigation. He was shot and wounded by police during the attack at the Gare du Nord train station, authorities have said.
Although six victims, including a police officer, were immediately located, a seventh injured person, a 53-year-old man who left the scene, has since been found, according to the prosecutor’s statement.
Beccuau said the identity of the assailant remained to be formally established.
He was previously named by the authorities as Mohammed Amine M., though they said it probably wasn’t his real name.
Investigators said he presents himself as a 31-year-old Algerian national and was known to French authorities under several identities for home invasion, theft and rebellion in 2019 and 2021, Sunday’s statement said.
He received orders to leave French territory in 2020 and in September of last year, the statement detailed.
A preliminary investigation found that the suspect threw himself upon a man in front of the train station, stabbing him about 20 times, with no apparent reason. The assailant then entered the station and attacked other civilians and a police officer. Screams alerted two other police officers who intervened.
Beccuau said the judicial investigation would seek to clarify the alleged assailant’s exact actions, motives and personality.
[Breitbart] “We are doing that which needs to be done” to counter cartel-delivered fentanyl and other drugs that killed more than 100,000 Americans in 2021, President Joe Biden’s homeland security chief told the Washington Post.
Cartels gain wealth from smuggling people to Mayorkas’ welcome, and they also use the flood of migrants to divert agency resources from border surveillance.
The complacent statement by Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas came days after the federal government reported on January 1 that drug overdose deaths likely hit 107,477 deaths in the 12 months leading up to August 2022. That is up 3.3 percent from the 102,612 deaths reported in August 2021 for the 12 months prior.
Mayorkas touted his policies in a January 4 interview, saying, “We have an across-the-board, full-press, doubling-down effort on this very dangerous [fentanyl] drug.”
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They really are trying for the anti-Trump playbook again. But now Bibi has the benefit of not only his own previous experience, but watching what happened to his dear friend, President Trump.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday shrugged off an 80,000-strong rally the night before against the government’s contentious plans to remake the judiciary, telling cabinet ministers that the national elections were a bigger display of the public’s will.
Changes in the pipeline include weakening the Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... so that it will not be able to veto legislation and policies deemed unconstitutional, and granting the government control over the panel that selects judges.
Critics say that along with other planned legislation, the overhaul will impact Israel’s democratic character by upsetting its system of checks and balances, granting too much power to the executive branch, and leaving minorities undefended.
"Two months ago there was a huge demonstration, the mother of all demonstrations. Millions of people went into the streets in order to vote in the elections. One of the main topics that they voted on was reforming the judicial system," Netanyahu said of the November 1 vote, according to a statement from his office.
"Everyone who was at our election rallies, in city centers, and in neighborhoods, heard the voices rising from the crowds," he said at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, though he did not give a specific example.
"Millions of people went into the streets in order to vote in the elections. One of the main topics that they voted on was reforming the judicial system," Netanyahu told ministers.
Netanyahu urged against being "swept away by inflammatory slogans about civil war and the destruction of the state."
He added, "I must say that when we were in the opposition, we did not call for civil war and did not speak about the destruction of the state, even when the government made decisions that we vociferously opposed. I expect the leaders of the opposition to do the same."
#Iranian officials have informed the Syrian government that further cheap oil shipments bought on credit will not be forthcoming. Damascus will now have to buy Iranian oil at market price – and pay up-front. https://t.co/npxgZCgNFC
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.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
