A Rwandan man accused of war crimes was nabbed by the US Border Patrol in northern Maine after a local citizen reported a "suspicious person" walking near the Canadian border, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
Not the Mexican border? Fascinating.
Jean Leonard Teganya, a Rwandan who authorities said had violated international law and the Canadian Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, walked across the border illegally on Sunday when he was spotted, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. He was later detained and processed for removal from the United States.
Canadian court documents say that Teganya, an ethnic Hutu, and his family fled Rwanda in 1994. He traveled first to Congo, then Kenya, and India, before finally entering Quebec to seek asylum..
A Canadian immigration agency denied refugee status to Teganya, saying he was complicit in the killing of 200 Tutsis at a hospital where he was a medical intern. Teganya, the son of a convicted war criminal in Rwanda, told a judge he could be detained and subject to torture and punishment if returned to Rwanda.
After multiple appeals, a Canadian court issued a warrant for Teganya's removal from Canada. A spokeswoman for the US Customs and Border Protection said formal charges had yet to be filed and that a judge would ultimately determine whether Teganya would be returned to Rwanda, or Canada.
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Less chance of picking up Ebola from the crowd coming from the Great White North. It's been a bit busy with mixed company on the southern route. Shouldn't take chances.
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You can keep him. We don't want him. We're tired of hearing him singing "Tu-Tu Tutsi Goodbye" while he wanders the Canuckistanian Immigration halls.
(Reuters) - Seven robbers invaded a Central California house used by pot growers and engaged the occupants in a gun battle that killed two of the attackers, while some of their accomplices briefly kidnapped a 15-year-old girl, police said on Friday. A bit too late for a gourmet kitchen update. Your place is going to be on the market for a very long time.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] If ever there was a likely spot for an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, New Kru Town in Liberia is it. A sprawling slum of the country's war-ravaged capital, Monrovia, it is home to 50,000 people, and has next to no functioning lavatories, sinks or bathrooms.
Sewage runs openly through its maze of corrugated shacks, and in Liberia's wet season — at its height right now — tropical torrents turn it into one vast, warm, moist, breeding pool for germs.
It hardly feels surprising then, in the wake of several locals dying from Ebola, to see health teams daubing blue crosses on a number of shacks around town.
These, however, are not to identify those who have caught the disease, but to mark the relatively few New Kru Towners who have been visited by the teams and accepted their advice on how to avoid getting it. So far, only around 500 houses have been marked — and with health workers themselves accused of spreading the disease, some parts of New Kru Town remain decidedly hostile.
"This is a very poor neighbourhood where sanitation is lacking and people are not well educated in the principles of hygiene," said Tamba Bundor, leader of a team of hardy volunteers from local health charity Community Development Services, a Unicef partner, as he drove his car through wet, sandy backlanes.
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Lagos Nigeria is not much better, and it's got about 21 million people in it. Its incompetent kleptocracy just has a bit more money.
"Upon being told he had Ebola, Mr. Sawyer went into a rage, denying andobjecting to the opinion of the medical experts
“He was so adamant and difficult that he took the tubes from his body and took off his pants and urinated on the health workers, forcing them to flee."The hospital would later report that it resisted immense pressure to let out [the dying] Sawyer from its hospital against the insistence from some higher-ups and conference organizers that he had a key role to play at the ECOWAS convention in Calabar, the Cross River State capital."
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"one of our compatriots met his untimely death and put to risk others across borders because of indiscipline and disrespect for the advice which had been given by health workers."
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FLOTUS never says anything that makes much sense or is of much importance. 3dc said it, she is providing cover for her husband who is essentially a ghost whenever one tries to find out anything about him.
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Khigh Dhiegh: Always understated his acting roles - which made him all the more the perfect movie villain. One of my favorite bad guys and a vastly underrated character actor. In my opinion, he stole the Manchurian Candidate.BTW: his real name was Kenneth Dickerson and not of asian decent. He was of sudanese,egyptian, and anglo decent.
I apologize for being off topic but great character actors often get little or no respect. Khigh was the ultimate characterization of the Cold War Chinese Red Menace.
Chinese Kitchen's new cook, one Wo Fat,
Is the man for lean chow and a chat.
His hot sizzling wo-boy
(Tabasco and no soy)
Is served up with a smart "Where y'at?"
All lies, of course. The CK is still just like it ever was.
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Washington – Virginia; Jefferson – Virginia; James Madison – Virginia; Samuel Adams – Massachusetts; John Adams – Massachusetts; Ben Franklin – Massachusetts
Virginia and Massachusetts have always been where they are now; they didn't get towed here from Europe or South America.
But we already knew she's an ignorant idiot.
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Maybe she was thinking that it wasn't the United States of America when they were born.
Assuming she thinks.
After all, Barbara, she is SOOOOO much smarter than you. /sarcasm
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[AnNahar] Zambia has banned the entry of citizens from countries hit by the deadly Ebola virus, which is ravaging nations to the north of the continent, the health ministry said Saturday.
The ruling targets citizens of Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Even delegates to conferences already organised in Zambia would be barred, Health Minister Joseph Kasonde said in a statement on the ministry's website.
"Ensure that all international events that may involve delegates (from) affected countries are postponed, cancelled or such delegates excluded," he said.
Zambians returning from travel to Ebola affected nations would be thoroughly screened and quarantined if they were seen to be at risk of carrying the virus, the statement said.
World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan said in Geneva Friday that the epidemic in west Africa which has killed nearly 1,000 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria was the worst of its kind in four decades.
[AnNahar] Guinea on Saturday said it was closing its land borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone in a bid to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus which has claimed hundreds of lives in the three west African countries.
"In order to better control contact" with people suspected of carrying the Ebola virus, "Guinea has decided to temporarily close its land borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone," government front man Albert Damantang Camara said.
[Dhaka Tribune] Detective Branch of Police of Rajshahi Metropolitan has placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! Debashis Ray, convener of Bangladesh Socialist Party, Rajshahi district unit.
Motihar police officer-in-charge Alagmir Hossian has confirmed about his arrest to Dhaka Tribune on Saturday afternoon.
Alagmir said DB police arrested Debashis Ray in a case filed over February 2 violence on the Rajshahi University campus.
Socialist Student Front of Rajshahi University unit Alamgir Hossain Sujon said a group of people with plain dresses picked up Debashis Ray from Kazla gate of the university at around 2:45pm while they were returning home from campus together on Saturday noon.
Sujon also informed that Debashis was picked up on a police van that left the spot quickly.
Debashis might be arrested by the law enforcers, Sujon said.
They, however, were not aware of the reasons behind his arrest, he said.
Nur Hossain, officer-in-charge of detective branch of Rajshahi police, was not reached for this comment.
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[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Russian President 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... has sacked 18 high-ranking officers from their posts, according to a Ukrainian news website.
In a purging move by the embattled world leader, heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Drug Control Service and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation lost their jobs.
The dismissals, reported exclusively by Euromaidan Press, are said to have been carried out in secret.
While no official announcement appears to have been made by Mr Putin, news hounds have posted links to the Kremlin's official website — which can be translated into English — that show a list of staff "released" from their posts.
The move is understood to have been made on Wednesday, 6 August, but has not been reported in any of the mainstream media, either at home or abroad.
A number of high ranking military personnel are included among the 18 named.
The dismissals are laid out in two decrees. One has the rather abstruse title: "On the appointment, removal from office or dismissal from military service military personnel and employees of some federal government agencies."
A screen-grab from the Kremlin's official website which lists some of those "released" from their posts
The other is titled: "On the dismissal of employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation."
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This is the anti-GWB in action.
If you don't get what you want from the breaucrats, replace them.
This is what the next PotUS damn well better do properly or we can kiss the US good-bye.
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"Break out the Photoshop. We've got some erasing to do"
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Putin's been running Russia for over a decade and a half by now. If he were as supercompetent as everyone says, he wouldn't _have_ to do stuff like this.
These should be all his people by now, not Yeltsin's or anything like that.
Herders in a remote region of Inner Mongolia were evacuated from their homes by local authorities after a rocket exploded in their neighborhood on Thursday.
Photos posted on China's Sina Weibo service and later deleted showed clouds of orange smoke and wreckage bearing the logo of China Aerospace. Local residents and eyewitnesses said the rocket exploded in Arbas subdivision of Otog Banner in the Ordos administrative region.
One resident, named Chagaanbaar said, "I saw it ... the smoke was red and yellow. [It crashed] about one kilometer away."
He said no one had died in the explosion, which hit Bulong Gachaa, a remote and sparsely populated rural area inhabited by traditional herding families. Chagaanbaar said they were told to leave.
Meanwhile, local resident Huhe, who posted the photographs, said the rocket had first been wrongly reported as a missile.
He said, "I wrote the wrong thing in Chinese, but yes, it did come down in that location, and the local authorities have now sealed off the area. Neither the police nor the government have given an explanation of what is going on here."
"A lot of people saw it, such a massive impact. It left a huge crater," Huhe added. He said the authorities had been quick to clear away the wreckage.
A duty officer who answered the phone at the Arbas police station said, "We can't let you have any information, because this is a secret matter."
But he confirmed that a clean-up operation had already been carried out. "There is nothing remaining at the scene now," he added.
He said police were "currently looking for the source of the online photographs."
The U.S.-based website Mongolia News reported on Thursday that the 'rocket' was a missile launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Base, also known as the Dongfeng Aerospace Base, and that local people feared it could cause contamination of the grasslands.
At this time 6 objects have been cataloged by USSTRATCOM:
Presumably 3 S/C (1 main & 2 subsatellites), 2 3rd stage debris or subsatellite mounting elements, 1 3rd stage
2014-047A/40109 in 1087 x 1104 km x 63.40°
2014-047B/40110 in 1087 x 1103 km x 63.40°
2014-047C/40111 in 1086 x 1104 km x 63.41°
2014-047D/40112 in 1089 x 1104 km x 63.40°
2014-047E/40113 in 1085 x 1103 km x 63.40°
2014-047F/40114 in 898 x 1111 km x 63.45° (CZ-4C 3rd stage)
As RT reports,
In early July, the Central Banks chairwoman Elvira Nabiullina said Moscow and Beijing were close to reaching an agreement on conducting swap operations in national currencies to boost trade. The deal was later discussed during her trip to China.
President Vladimir Putin, during his visit to Shanghai in May, said cooperation between Russian and Chinese banks was growing, and the two sides were set to continue developing the financial infrastructure.
Work is underway to increase the amount of mutual payments in national currencies, and we intend to consider new financial instruments, Putin said after talks with President Xi Jinping.
It appears the deal is done...
The Russian and Chinese central banks have agreed a draft currency swap agreement, which will allow them to increase trade in domestic currencies and cut the dependence on the US dollar in bilateral payments.
The draft document between the Central Bank of Russia and the Peoples Bank of China on national currency swaps has been agreed by the parties, and is at the stage of formal approval procedures, ITAR-TASS quotes the Russian regulators office on The last 3 months have seen Russia's "de-dollarization" plans accelerate. First Gazprom clients shift to Euros and Renminbi, then the UK signs currency swap agreements with China, then NATO ally Turkey cuts ties and mulls de-dollarization,Switzerland jumps in the currency swap agreements, and BRICS create their own non-US-based funding vehicle, and then finally this week, Russia's oligarchs have shifted cash holdings to Hong Kong. But this week, as RT reports, Russian and Chinese central banks have agreed a draft currency swap agreement, which will allow them to increase trade in domestic currencies and cut the dependence on the US dollar in bilateral payments. "The agreement will stimulate further development of direct trade in yuan and rubles on the domestic foreign exchange markets of Russia and China," the Russian Thursday.
The Russian Central Bank is not giving precise details on the size of the currency swaps, nor when it will be launched. It says this will depend on demand.
According to the bank, the agreement will serve as an additional instrument for ensuring international financial stability. Also, it will offer the possibility to obtain liquidity in critical situations.
The agreement will stimulate further development of direct trade in yuan and rubles on the domestic foreign exchange markets of Russia and China, the Russian regulator said.
Currently, over 75 percent of payments in Russia-China trade settlements are made in US dollars, according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper.
And as we have explained repeatedly in the past, the further the west antagonizes Russia, and the more economic sanctions it lobs at it, the more Russia will be forced away from a USD-denominated trading system and into one which faces China and India.
From over at Zero Hedge. The comments and dialogue following the article are interesting. I'm strictly a micro econ guy--Not particularly good at big picture stuff such as national and international monetary policy. Comments by emk1 are interesting. Any comments on the article. Any Rantburgers good at national & international monetary policies?
[AnNahar] Fears mounted Saturday in Ukraine of a possible Russian invasion in the guise of a "humanitarian" mission to the conflict-torn east where Kiev said another 13 of its troops died in fighting with pro-Moscow rebels.
The United States has warned that any unilateral intervention by Russia, including in the form of a humanitarian mission, would be considered an invasion.
Shelling meanwhile continued in the rebels' main eastern stronghold of Donetsk, which has become the new battleground in the four-month conflict between Ukrainian government forces and eastern separatists.
An Agence La Belle France Presse journalist heard repeated shelling in the city throughout the morning. Local authorities said mortar fire hit neighborhoods north and southwest of the center, and one person was killed.
Ukraine's forces, which have been battling to wrest control of eastern strongholds from the rebels, which the West believes to be backed by Russia, reported 13 casualties in the last 24 hours.
The Red Thingy also announced it was stepping up its aid activities in Donetsk and the second main myrmidon bastion of Lugansk where local authorities have warned of a looming humanitarian catastrophe with many residents left without water and power for days.
A top official from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's office revealed late Friday that Kiev had managed through diplomatic channels to halt a Russian convoy, including troops and military hardware, advancing towards the border under the guise of a humanitarian mission.
"The Ukrainian side has reasonable grounds to believe that the convoy could be used to further escalate tensions," the foreign ministry added on Saturday.
The Red Thingy acknowledged that it had received an offer from Moscow to organize aid convoys, and would welcome any effort to ease civilian suffering in the region, but denied Saturday that any such action had taken place.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... says Russia has 20,000 troops along the Ukrainian border, fueling fears that Moscow could send them into its former Soviet neighbor.
U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power on Friday slammed Russian proposals to set up humanitarian corridors to east Ukraine.
A "unilateral intervention by Russia in Ukrainian territory, including one under the guise of providing humanitarian aid, would be completely unacceptable and deeply alarming and would be viewed as an invasion of Ukraine," she said.
She drew a parallel with the 2008 crisis in South Ossetia, when Russia justified sending troops into the Georgian territory in response to civilian suffering.
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov hit back Saturday that Power's comments demonstrated the extent of "anti-Russian hysteria" in Washington.
"Our proposal has clearly humanitarian objectives but our initiative is tossed aside and they only talk about how Russia would supposedly try to slip into Ukraine under the guise of humanitarian aid something that doesn't please the U.S.," he told ITAR-TASS news agency.
In Donetsk, an AFP news hound heard loud kabooms in two different locations around 6 am (0300 GMT) Saturday and again later in the morning. Apartment blocks and a hostel in the Kievsky district north of the city had shattered windows and there was shelling damage inside flats, AFP witnessed.
A local resident said: "It was the Ukrainian authorities. They have been firing on the (self-proclaimed) Donetsk People's Republic all morning from the direction of the airport."
The one-million-strong city has been at the heart of fighting in recent days as government forces seek to recapture rebel strongholds and cut them off from the Russian border. Almost 50 troops have been killed over the last three days alone.
So far, the four-month conflict has left over 1,300 dead and over 4,000 injured, according to the U.N.
The Red Thingy announced it was stepping up its activities in eastern Ukraine citing the "deteriorating humanitarian and security environments" there.
Red Thingy spokeswoman Sitara Jabeen told AFP however that aid could only be distributed "if our teams have safe access to work in those areas."
Local authorities in Lugansk said Saturday that the situation was "critical," with no power, running water or phone connections for a week now, while fuel had run out and food supplies were running low.
Some 285,000 people have fled their homes in four months of what the Red Thingy has already called a civil war.
The sanctions war between Russia and the West also simmered on with La Belle France now threatening to take Moscow to the World Trade Organization over its food embargo -- a tit-for-tat move taken in retaliation for massive EU and U.S. sanctions against Russia over its support for the Ukrainian rebels.
Tensions between Russia and the West have hit their highest point since the Cold War over the crisis in Ukraine.
[USATODAY] A top separatist leader on Saturday admitted that Ukrainian forces had surrounded Donetsk, the stronghold of Russian-backed rebels, and called for a ceasefire on humanitarian grounds.
"We are ready for a ceasefire in order to avert the humanitarian catastrophe growing," Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic, said in a statement posted on a rebel website, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named and AFP news agency.
Igor Girkin, a top commander of the pro-Russia bully boys, also acknowledged Saturday that Donetsk was surrounded and conceded that Ukrainian troops had gotten the upper hand in eastern Ukraine after four months of fighting.
The appeal by Zakharchenko comes as Russia is pressing to send a humanitarian convoy into Ukraine to parts of the besieged eastern regions, an offer that the Ukrainian government has labeled a ploy to cover a military invasion.
Although Western countries says Moscow has assembled some 20,000 troops just across the border, Russia has denied it .
Zakharchenko -- who took over as prime minister of of the DPR last week -- warned that rebels were determined the defend Donestk if Ukrainian forces tried to capture the city of one million people.
"The fight will be for every street, for every house, for every meter of our land," Zakharchenko said, and would turned the city into a new "Stalingrad," a reference to the Soviet Union's refusal to surrender the city of Stalingrad to the Nazis during World War II. Putingrad. It will go down in military history.
Oooohh. That was cold.
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[BUSINESSWEEK] Millions of Turks will vote today in a presidential election in which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they vote for him so they deserve him... seeks to extend his decade-long leadership of the country for another five years.
May his total be somewhat less sweeping than he hopes -- that's the best we're going to get, sadly.
Erdogan must secure more than 50 percent of the vote and beat Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the former head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, who is backed by several opposition parties, and Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the country's pro-Kurdish party. The presidency has been held since 2007 by Abdullah Gul.
Erdogan, 60, has promised to turn the largely ceremonial post of president into a new and more powerful role. His revitalization of the economy, which grew an average of 5 percent over the past 11 years, has coincided with a more authoritarian style of rule. Turkey last year was the world's leading jailer of journalists, according to a Committee to Protect Journalists census.
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[REUTERS] At least 39 people were killed on Sunday when an Iran-140 Sepahan Air passenger plane crashed after takeoff from Tehran's Mehrabad airport on a flight to Tabas in northeast Iran, state media reported.
Initial reports said that all of the 48 passengers and crew had been killed, but state media later reported that some passengers had been injured and transferred to hospital.
Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said that eight or nine had survived and quoted a doctor as saying that one of the injured had regained consciousness.
Iran's airlines have been plagued by crashes, which Iranian politicians blame on international sanctions that block the airlines from replacing their aging fleets. About 14 crashes involving Iranian planes were reported in the decade to January 2011.
President Hassan Rouhani ordered a halt to all flights of the Iran-140 pending full investigation, IRNA said.
The pilot detected technical issues four minutes after takeoff and tried to return to the airport, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said, but the twin-engine turboprop crashed on a road at 9.18 am local time. One eyewitness said the plane crashed into a wall.
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WASHINGTON The Department of Veterans Affairs has apologized for what it called an "inadvertent" mistake that underreported the number of deaths linked to delays in cancer treatment at VA medical facilities.
"VA inadvertently caused confusion in its communication" of a review of cases involving patient harm or deaths linked to delays in treatment for gastrointestinal cancers, the agency said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press.
The VA apologized for the error and said, "There was no intent to mislead anyone with respect to the scope or findings of these reviews."
A lawmaker who has been leading oversight of the beleaguered agency was unsatisfied.
"Even though landmark VA reform legislation has been signed into law, it seems the same sort of dishonesty and deception that caused the VA scandal is continuing unabated at the Department of Veterans Affairs," said Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
The dispute centers on a VA "fact sheet" distributed to Congress in April. The report said a review of 250 million cases dating to 1999 showed 23 veterans with gastrointestinal cancers had died under questionable circumstances related to treatment delays.
The department said in a statement Thursday that officials had actually reviewed only 11,000 cases over a two-year period, from October 2009 to September 2011, and found that 24 veterans had died.
Miller called the discrepancy "a blatant attempt to mislead Congress, the press and the public" by manipulating the number of deaths linked to treatment delays.
"To chalk all this up to a misunderstanding ... doesn't pass the smell test," Miller said, noting that former VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and other officials had cited the April fact sheet as evidence that treatment delays had caused relatively few deaths over a 15-year period.
The VA said the confusion occurred because several reviews were underway at the same time, including two that became "intertwined in written and oral statements, leading to confusion" that reached all the way to up to Shinseki, who repeated the 1999 claim in comments to reporters after a Senate hearing in May.
Miller called on Robert McDonald, the new VA secretary, to launch an investigation to "find out who hatched this plot" and fire those responsible.
A law signed Thursday by President Barack Obama is intended to help veterans avoid months-long waits for health care and crack down on VA employees who cover up long wait times or perform poorly.
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Nah. History shows only serious expenditure in blood alters institutionalized cultural behaviors. There is no will to carry out the penalties necessary to alter them there. Remember also, unlike the uniform military, these guys can quit any time they want.
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.
A Rwandan man accused of war crimes was nabbed by the US Border Patrol in northern Maine after a local citizen reported a "suspicious person" walking near the Canadian border, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] If ever there was a likely spot for an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, New Kru Town in Liberia is it. A sprawling slum of the country's war-ravaged capital, Monrovia, it is home to 50,000 people, and has next to no functioning lavatories, sinks or bathrooms.
[AnNahar] Guinea on Saturday said it was closing its land borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone in a bid to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus which has claimed hundreds of lives in the three west African countries.
...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...
Herders in a remote region of Inner Mongolia were evacuated from their homes by local authorities after a rocket exploded in their neighborhood on Thursday.
