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Chinese Rooftop Climber Wu Yongning Makes Final Climb
[BBC] A well-known Chinese climber has died while performing one of his trademark daredevil skyscraper stunts.

Wu Yongning had amassed thousands of followers on the social network Weibo for his dramatic short videos showing him perched atop tall buildings without the use of safety equipment.

Concern grew among his fans when he stopped posting updates in November.

It has now emerged that he died after falling from a 62-storey building in the city of Changsha.

Chinese media report that he was participating in a challenge to win a substantial amount of prize money.

The 26-year-old died on 8 November, but his death was only confirmed by his girlfriend in a post on Chinese social media a month later.

So-called "rooftopping" - climbing extremely tall city buildings without safety equipment - has become increasingly popular across the world in recent years.

Mr Wu's posts on Weibo warned his viewers not to imitate his dangerous performances. He had martial arts training, and had previously taken part in some television and film productions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Never neglect arm day.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 12/12/2017 2:03 Comments || Top||

#2  falling from a 62-storey building


Yep, that'll do it.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/12/2017 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Gravity always wins. It may take time, but it wins.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/12/2017 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  It's not the fall that gets you. It's the damn sudden stop.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 12/12/2017 10:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Old Chinese proverb as related to ladder (and other) climbing: "Two Rungs don't make one Height."
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 12/12/2017 17:57 Comments || Top||

#6  When I was rock climbing, I had to come to terms with the very unnatural feeling of hanging off a face. I came to the conclusion that after a certain height, might as well go as high as possible. If I fell, I would live longer.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/12/2017 18:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Keeping a file on you USN.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/12/2017 18:32 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Megyn Kelly's Trump sex harassment claims helps rally ratings for her NBC morning show
[USA Today] Megyn Kelly may be finding her voice ‐ and more viewers ‐ by tackling the issue of sexual harassment on her NBC morning show.

The former Fox News anchor got off to a rough start with Megyn Kelly Today, but her 9 a.m. ET/PT hour of NBC's Today show has begun to see some ratings success as she has regularly devoted time to the issue.

And her show Monday likely captured plenty of eyeballs, being that her guests were three women who have accused President Trump of sexual misconduct.

By mid-October and into November, Kelly's audience began growing, including among the important core news viewing group of those aged 25 to 54, according to Nielsen.

Viewership has increased monthly, and the show is currently averaging 2.7 million viewers in December, Nielsen says. Today still trails ABC's Good Morning America in total viewers.

The more recent trends are improvement from where Kelly began. In September, during the first full week for Megyn Kelly Today, the show drew an average of 2.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen, which was down 12% from that same hour a year before when Today's Take co-hosted by Al Roker along with others including Tamron Hall aired in the timeslot. Since its Sept. 25 launch through Dec. 3, Megyn Kelly Today viewership is down 20% compared to the same hour last year, averaging 2.4 million viewers, Nielsen says.

Kelly had hoped to steer clear of politics on Today. Instead, she said at the time, the show was meant to provide "maybe a little hope to start your day."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/12/2017 08:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From the sub-basement into the basement. Way to go, Megyn!
Posted by: Boss Glavinter4273 || 12/12/2017 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  She's never liked Trump. She's always liked money. What are your questions ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/12/2017 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  The first female Geraldo Rivera.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/12/2017 9:45 Comments || Top||

#4  She's a very sensitive young woman, just ask Howard Stern.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/12/2017 10:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Enjoy the temporary ratings bump...
Posted by: Raj || 12/12/2017 11:58 Comments || Top||

#6  She has a morning show? um, she has a show??
Posted by: warthogswife || 12/12/2017 12:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Just occurred to me how brilliant it would be if conservatives were able to get one of their own into the lefty media and select stories that were anti-Conservative in a way that trivialized the lefty position and thus helped conservatives.

Not that this is what happened but the results are the same.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/12/2017 14:21 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ I think his name is Jim Acosta!
Posted by: Raj || 12/12/2017 14:27 Comments || Top||

#9  If she put as much time into content as she puts into herself, she would still have a job instead of hanging out at the retirement home.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/12/2017 14:34 Comments || Top||

#10  Mostly rubberneckers. A crowd gathering to watch a wreck.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 12/12/2017 15:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Megyn Kelly accuses Trump? Really? Pot Kettle?
Posted by: 3dc || 12/12/2017 16:39 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Sisi and Putin attend ceremony of inking agreement to officially launch Egypt's first-ever nuclear power plant
[AlAhram] Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
met in Cairo on Monday to attend the signing of an agreement officially launching work on Egypt's first-ever nuclear power plant at Dabaa on the north coast.

The Egyptian president said that both leaders further discussed ways to boost economic ties, including efforts to attract Russian investments to the Egyptian Suez Canal Economic Zone and to establish a Russian free-trade zone.

Putin said that "upon the completion of the Dabaa project, Egypt will not only benefit from having a nuclear plant but also from gaining the latest and safest technology of nuclear energy."

The nuclear plant, which will cost up to $21 billion, is expected to be completed by 2028-2029, Rosatom announced on Monday, according to Rooters.

Russia will provide a loan that will cover 85 percent of the construction costs, Likhachyov said.

According to the initial agreement signed by the two countries in 2015, Russia will build four reactors, each producing 1,200 megawatts of electricity, generating a total output of 4,800 megawatts.

The company will service the plant’s four reactors for 60 years, Likhachyov added.

Putin said that economic cooperation with Egypt "is taking on new dynamics in trade and economic exchange."

"During the past nine months, economic exchange between both countries have reached more than $4 billion," the Russian president stated.

Putin also said he agreed with the Egyptian president on the necessity of continuing negotiations on the establishing of the free-trade zone between Egypt and the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union.

Egypt has been implementing tighter security measures in its airports to meet Russian demands on security, with the aim of restoring Russian visitors to boost its tourism industry.

Russians make up the largest single tourist group in Egypt, contributing to about a fifth of foreign vacationers in the country as of 2015, according to official data.

Cooperation on regional matters
President Putin said he agreed with El-Sisi on the framework of cooperation between both countries in the near future, describing Egypt as the old and trustful partner of Russia in the Middle East and North Africa.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/12/2017 05:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh frappulous joy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/12/2017 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Y'all have the money to build a nuclear power plant, but want to demand aid from the US on your own terms? Ask the Russians for aid.
Posted by: Chris || 12/12/2017 15:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Russia is loaning Egypt 85% of the construction costs, Chris.

Posted by: trailing wife || 12/12/2017 23:48 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabwe's White Farmers Will Get Compensation‐But They're Not Getting Land Back
[Quarts Africa] Zimbabwe wants to address the chaotic and violent manner in which it took away land from local white farmers nearly 20 years later as new president Emmerson Mnangagwa bids to reassure investors his administration is restoring respect for property rights and investment protection.

The agrarian reform, presided over by president Robert Mugabe in 2000, displaced the mostly white commercial farmers without compensation. Mugabe said the policy was earmarked at putting productive land into the hands of black Zimbabweans although most of them were inexperienced and poorly resourced, leading to a fall in agricultural production and leaving the country a net importer of staple maize grain between 2000 and 2016.
Posted by: newc || 12/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...leading to a fall in agricultural production and leaving the country a net importer of staple maize grain between 2000 and 2016

Socialist put in charge of the Sahara would soon run out of sand (see - Venezuela and oil)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/12/2017 6:36 Comments || Top||

#2  where's Farmin B. Hard?
Posted by: Frank G || 12/12/2017 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Terrorized white farmers off their land. Then wondered why crop harvests fell off the cliff.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/12/2017 11:11 Comments || Top||

#4  ...any different than scaring off oil field managers and then watch production tumble? There's a common thread there someplace.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/12/2017 14:13 Comments || Top||

#5  “appropriate compensation”

Ha, ha

Hahahahahahahaha

ZimBobBucks, or whatever they are now.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/12/2017 19:10 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Cinemas to re-open in Saudi Arabia as of 2018, Ministry of Information confirms
[ARABNEWS] Hopefully these changes won't get the crown prince assassinated, like happened to the last Saudi king who tried such things.
Posted by: Fred || 12/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What's the overs and unders on the first bombing of a movie theater in KSA?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/12/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Does the above regarding bombing refer to an explosive incident or what is shown on the screen???
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 12/12/2017 17:59 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
4 Ukrainians wounded in artillery shelling in Donetsk
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By Chris Covert

Fighting in the recently captured Gladosovo and Travnevoye villages and shelling in key parts of the line of contact continued as five Ukrainian soldiers were wounded and one rebel soldier was killed, according to Russian language news accounts.

On Friday night, according to Russian backed rebel media in Donetsk, a Ukrainian seven man patrol was caught near Dolomitoye attempting to infiltrate the line of contact south.

Dolomitoye is near Gorlovka and Gladosovo. According to the news release, two Ukrainian effectives were killed as the other five escaped back to their lines.

Rebels media reported that Ukrainian site commanders in Gladosovo and Travnevoye have detained a number of civilians in the two towns, two of them charged with reporting to rebel commanders as artillery damage assessors. According to Dontesk ministry of defense spokesmans Colonel Eduard Basurin, Ukrainian commanders are talking about using the detainees as human shields.

Reports in the Russian sponsored Russkaya Vesna news outlet said that looting continues to occur in Gladosovo and Travnevoye, and that Ukrainian commanders are promising their soldiers to permit looting in exchange for capturing rebel held villages.

Ukrainian media has not addressed the charges to date.

Russkaya Vesna also reported that Ukrainian artillery fire struck rebel positions at the Donetsk airport, Spartak and the Yasinovataya checkpoint Monday night.

Russkaya Vesna also said that on Monday night, Ukrainian heavy artillery fire hit rebel positions at Logvinovo south of the Svetlodarsk arc. An hour later, Ukrainian artillery hit rebel positions at Stakhanov and to the east of Svetlodarsk at Pervomaisk, both of which are key positions for the rebels in Lugansk.

In lb.ua, however, a report said that on Sunday five Ukrainians were wounded in rebel shelling in a number of locales in both Donetsk and Lugansk.

The report said that rebel mortar and heavy weapons fire hit the Lugansk villages of Krymskoye, Novotoshkovskiy, Travnevoye, Svetlodarsk, Luganskoye and Zaitsevo.

The lb.ua report goes on to state that heavy fighting took place in Avdievka, where rebels fired more than three dozen 82mm mortar shells, including mines.

Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraine by clicking here and here.
Posted by: badanov || 12/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
North Korean Special Forces Raid Local Farms
[DailyCaller] Starving North Korean Special Forces Launch Surprise Attacks ... On Local Farms.

Malnourished North Korean soldiers are reportedly increasingly raiding farms and fields of North Korean citizens, sources inside the reclusive country revealed to South Korean media.

"Soldiers from the 43rd Brigade raided the fields one night. They all gathered for the surprise attack, fanned out across the farms and swept up all the corn," a source in Ryanggang Province revealed to Daily NK. "It’s not an everyday occurrence for the 43rd Brigade to go around plundering the farms, but they have become much more brazen," the source added.

The 43rd Brigade was established as a special forces unit trained to engage in mountain warfare and night combat, as well as protect important North Korean sites from stealth attacks. Now, the unit former North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il once commended is conducting night raids on local farms.

"It’s a disgrace that soldiers are stealing food because they are hungry, but we should not blame the soldiers entirely. The problem is that the regime does not feed its own military, which means that pillaging will only continue," Daily NK’s source introduced.

North Korea struggles to feed its population, the vast majority of which is malnourished.

"The regime has not been providing enough food for its army," a source inside North Korea revealed in August. Officers have reportedly instructed their soldiers to steal food to increase readiness. "The military officers are instructing their soldiers, exhausted after training, to eat corn in the fields because war is imminent," North Korean insiders told Daily NK this past summer. "They are even threatening their soldiers, saying, ’If you become malnourished despite permission to eat the corn, you will face difficulties," the source in North Hamgyong Province explained.

Furthermore, an order was reportedly issued last month stating that military personnel have to collect provisions themselves. The order is believed to be a response to the country’s inability to provide for is forces. It is unclear how prolific the raids on local farms are at this time.

North Korea is under tough sanctions that are crippling both exports and imports and hindering economic growth. Food shortages have been reported, and the prices of certain goods appear to be on the rise, which suggests that ongoing domestic trends may continue.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 12/12/2017 04:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  ...The recent shootout on the DMZ should have sent up a bunch of warning flags about the Nork military. Just off the top of my head:

*Supposedly the best cared for troops up there, yet that poor bastard was underweight, underheight, and riddled with parasites not even found in the west any more.

*Supposedly the best trained troops there, but their response to one of their own making a run for it was apparent panic followed by 'spray and pray'.

I'm not saying they will be pushovers - if they're turned loose with enforcer units behind them they will do awful damage coming south.

But we can beat them.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/12/2017 5:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Underweight, under height, riddled with parasites, and as a result short about 25 IQ points, Mike. Not to mention hag ridden by anxiety, when any wrong move can send the family to the gulag, or worse.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/12/2017 5:58 Comments || Top||

#3  So to win any war against Norkor, all one have to do is kill the second or third line, leave the first line alone?
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 12/12/2017 7:38 Comments || Top||

#4  You'll know it's really bad when the cannibalism starts
Posted by: Frank G || 12/12/2017 8:43 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 So to win any war against Norkor, all one have to do is kill the second or third line, leave the first line alone?
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-12-12 07:38



SCFI -

I'd change that to 'kill the healthiest appearing guys screaming the loudest.' The rest should take care of itself.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/12/2017 9:01 Comments || Top||

#6  swept up all the corn

I wonder if some might be used to generate ETOH as an expander for their reduced fuel imports, or in a sarin airborne dispersal system.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/12/2017 10:40 Comments || Top||

#7  The only way to win a mass attack is to preempt it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/12/2017 10:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Poison part of the crop.
Posted by: gorb || 12/12/2017 23:59 Comments || Top||


NK Leader Kim Jong-Un Ascends To Top of Holy Mountain Paektu
[TheSun] MOUNTAIN TENSION North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s visit to the sacred Mount Paektu is a sign he’s plotting his most extreme missile launch yet, experts warn North Korean leaders' visits to the mystical Mount have often preceded important decisions

WAR-hungry North Korean despot Kim Jong-un could be set to launch his most extreme missile launch yet, according to experts.

Kim visited Korea’s most mystical mountain, Mount Paektu, on Friday, and this is the sign that could mean he’s plotting some significant military action in the near future.

North Korean leaders’ visits to the sacred Mount have often preceded important decisions.

Kim last visited the location in September 2016, right after North Korea’s fifth nuclear test.

He was also there in April 2015, just before executing former defense chief Hyon Yong-chol, and in November 2013, before executing his own uncle Jang Song-thaek among other top officials.

"Kim Jong-un is following in his father’s footsteps in visiting the mountain at times of important decisions regarding the state," a South Korean government insider said to Korea Joongang Daily.

He "needs to deliver tangible results on the country’s politics, economy and diplomacy. So it is likely Kim thought through what he is going to present as his vision for next year."

State news agency KCNA explained Kim’s visit as a celebration "after his big achievements in November".

At the end of November North Korea unveiled ICBM Hwasong-15, a new nuclear missile capable of hitting anywhere on Earth.

In September, Kim conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test and fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan.

Previously, North Korea successfully launched the country’s first inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) in July 2017, the first to have the capability of reaching US territory.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 12/12/2017 04:15 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  ...When I was stationed at Kunsan AB ROK, they always told us the North would move during the winter. I wonder if this is the winter.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/12/2017 5:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Curious photo.
Note it appears he leaves no footprints in the snow and the gleaming polish on his shoes is unmarred.

When we gamed it at G2 in Yongsan one advance marker was the coordinated seizure of foodstock before the army was diminished by hunger. Corn is interesting because it must be rendered into a usable form, but can serve both as food and fuel.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/12/2017 11:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Why Skidmark, do you mean to suggest his presence was photoshopped?!
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/12/2017 12:34 Comments || Top||


Hokkaido Police arrest 3 N Korean fishing boat crew for theft
[NewsOnJapan] Police in Hokkaido said Saturday they had arrested three of the crew members of a North Korean fishing boat on suspicion of plundering a remote fishing hut.
On Friday the crew cut ropes tethering their boat to a Japanese coast guard vessel near Hakodate port and tried to flee, but the vessel was recaptured later that day.

The boat with 10 crew members had been impounded on Nov 30, two days after being spotted washed ashore on an uninhabited island off the town of Matsumae. The Hokkaido police have been questioning the crew.

The three were arrested on suspicion of stealing a power generator, which was found on their boat, police sources said.

The Immigration Bureau has taken custody of six other members while one has been hospitalized after complaining of ill health. Doctors said he had a gastric ulcer.

The 10 North Koreans are believed to have destroyed a boiler at a refuge hut on the island and stolen electronic appliances and other items, the sources said.

They stripped the generator for its parts and removed a door knob from the hut where they took shelter due to bad weather.

Another generator at a different hut, used to supply water and electricity to the refuge hut, is missing, the sources said.

The items the North Koreans are suspected of stealing include a television, a motorcycle and a solar panel.
Video of suspects doing the perp walk at link.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Add gastric ulcers to the worms and the hunger. If an army travels on its stomach the NORKs aren't going very far.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/12/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
‘The President Stole Your Land': Patagonia picks fight with Trump over national monument reductions
[WashingtonTimes] Outdoor industry leader Patagonia has gone to war with the GOP over national monuments heading into the holiday shopping season, marking the latest instance of a high-profile company battling with the Republican Party and specifically President Trump.

Powerful Republicans in Congress sent out emails Friday taking direct aim at Patagonia and pushing back hard against its claims that public land had been stolen from American citizens, and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke last week went so far as to brand the company a "special interest" group because of its opposition to the administration.

Patagonia, which has previously delved into politics by coming out strongly against fracking, was one of the loudest critics of Mr. Trump’s move to shrink both the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments last Monday. The action reduced Bears Ears from 1.35 million acres to about 220,000, while Grand Staircase was cut from 1.9 million acres to about 1 million.

Since the announcement, Patagonia’s website has featured the declaration, "The President Stole Your Land," along with a link to how customers can "fight back" against the administration.

Other outdoor giants, such as REI and The North Face, have also come out publicly against the monument reduction, though none have been as brutal in their assault on the administration as Patagonia.

The company also joined lawsuits challenging the president’s move, teaming with environmental and Tribal groups in what’s expected to be a lengthy legal battle that ultimately could wind up before the Supreme Court.
Contact Patagonia

Contact The North Face

Contact REI
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 12/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Free flights to ANWR for any and all greenies...July through early September. The only catch is there's no bug spray, or black fly head nets.

You'll get to better enjoy the pristine wonder of ANWR you have only seen in pictures from your parents' basement 4000 miles away.
Posted by: anymouse || 12/12/2017 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  How many citizens visit these lands to rough hike and camp, 100000s or hundreds, or tens? Prob could get an estimate from the permit count.

How many gain advantage from the expanded resource availability? All?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/12/2017 11:07 Comments || Top||

#3  All he did was return these places to the size they were before the unilateral declaration and seizure by the Obama administration in 2015 - basically, this land has bee Fed Park for less than 2 years.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 12/12/2017 11:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Preferred outfitters of Yuppie Scum since 1977.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/patagonia-labor-clothing-factory-exploitation/394658/
Posted by: regular joe || 12/12/2017 12:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Thought we were gonna get a chance to finish off the argies.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/12/2017 18:35 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
19-year-old kills sister, brother-in-law for contracting free will marriage
[DAWN] A 19-year-old resident of Nagyal in Rawalpindi's Gujjar Khan tehsil on Monday allegedly rubbed out his sister and and her husband in what police described as an 'honour killing'.

The accused, identified as Saeed Anwar, had been upset at his sister ‐ Mismat Musarrat, 18‐ for marrying Qaiser, 25 after finding out that the victims had been romantically involved prior to their marriage.

SHO Ishtiaq Masood Cheema told DawnNews that the suspect had been waiting for an opportunity to kill the husband and wife ever since they married a few months ago.

The SHO said that, upon finding the couple alone in their house, the accused fired at them with a pistol, killing them both on the spot. He later tried to flee the scene, but was apprehended by the police along with the murder weapon.

SHO Cheema said police have booked Anwar for a double murder. Police will present him in court tomorrow to seek physical remand. The bodies of the victims have been shifted to a local hospital for a post mortem examination.

Posted by: Fred || 12/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And a Muslim, and not a Christian? Wow, that's a real surprise.
Posted by: anymouse || 12/12/2017 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, love and Islam are mutually exclusive.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/12/2017 3:41 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2017-12-12
  Scores of Islamic State militants surrender to security forces in Mosul
Mon 2017-12-11
  Several injured after device explodes at New York City’s Port Authority, one arrest
Sun 2017-12-10
  Coptic pope cancels Pence meeting over Jerusalem
Sat 2017-12-09
  Ahrar al-Sham commander eliminated in Idlib
Fri 2017-12-08
  Egyptian grand mufti affirms death sentences for 13 Ajnad Misr terrorists
Thu 2017-12-07
  Houthis execute ‘thousands’ in two days: UN’s Yemen envoy
Wed 2017-12-06
  Islamist suicide plot to assassinate Prime Minister Theresa May foiled
Tue 2017-12-05
  Iranian Embassy In Sana’a Has Been Attacked
Mon 2017-12-04
  Rebels kill Yemen's ex-president Saleh
Sun 2017-12-03
  Yemen’s Saleh says ‘citizens have revolted against Houthi aggression’
Sat 2017-12-02
  Deadly Rebel Infighting Rocks Yemen Capital for Second Night
Fri 2017-12-01
  Drone strike kills at least 3 militants near Pak-Afghan border
Thu 2017-11-30
  U.S. raid kills top ISIL commander in Somalia, says Minister
Wed 2017-11-29
  200+ schools in Herat controlled by Taliban
Tue 2017-11-28
  After ISIS mass beheading, Taliban militants execute own leader in Nangarhar

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