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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Mexican mayor's daughter, 28, busted with $248,531 wrapped around her waist and two guns she tried to smuggle across the border in Texas - she says her arrest was politically motivated
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Yeishi Moriya was arrested at the Juárez-Lincoln Bridge in Laredo, Texas, while trying to drive into Mexico with $248,531 and two handguns

  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents searched the 28-year-old and found the money and one of the guns under her bodysuit

  • CBP agents located the other weapon hidden in the vehicle

  • Moriya was turned over to the Webb County Sheriff's Office and charged with money laundering

  • She is the daughter of Artemio Moriya, who is the mayor of the Michoacán municipality of Tacámbaro
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 01:04 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't go to Russia with drugs. Don't go to the US with guns and money. Capisce.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/27/2022 8:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Hunter could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/27/2022 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Her arrest was not politically motivated unless her dad is a MAGA candidate.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/27/2022 10:26 Comments || Top||

#4  We’ll keep the money, send the guns back to Mexico, and transport the woman to the destination of her choice.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/27/2022 13:38 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ The guns were .45 and 9mm. Under Mexican law, only gummint, police and military can possess arms utilizing those "military" calibers. Hence the popularity of .38 Super among civilian Mexican handgun owners.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2022 13:41 Comments || Top||


Florida police say man allegedly tried to 'purchase' young girl from parents for $100,000 at grocery store
[FoxNews] The Florida man also allegedly attempted to buy a parent's 8-year-old daughter from a Walmart in 2018 for $200,000

Florida police say that a man allegedly tried to "purchase" a young girl from her parents at a grocery store for $100,000.

The original incident happened on Aug. 16 at the Port Orange Winn Dixie grocery store when Hellmuth Kolb allegedly attempted to purchase the child away from per parents, according to the Port Orange Police Department.

Police opened an investigation into the incident after the parents notified them about the incident.

Kolb was arrested on Aug. 25 and taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail, according to police.

Police also aid that Klob, who is a registered sex offender, is on probation for "similar issues," and is not allowed to have any contact with minor children.

"Mr. Kolb should have simply stuck to just grocery shopping. Thanks to our SIU, Mr. Kolb did receive a complimentary ride in one of our air-conditioned Police cars, and a free stay at Hotel 92 [Volusia County Branch Jail]," police said in the Facebook post.

The man allegedly went up to a woman in 2018 at a Walmart store and offered $200,000 to buy her eight-year-old daughter, according to FOX 35.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 00:02 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  I've seen this before...another time... another place...another guy.



Posted by: Skunky Ebbaique3137 || 08/27/2022 7:14 Comments || Top||


Screaming girl, six, managed to escape kidnapper who touched her 'sexually' and then tried to abduct outside her house in Ohio: Suspect arrested
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Ken'Adi Nash, six, of Hamilton, was nearly abducted by Deric McPherson, 33, also of Hamilton, on Wednesday
    The city of Hamilton, Ohio is considerably rougher than Cincinnati.
  • The little girl was taking out the trash when McPherson 'walked by and he touched me and pulled me,' she revealed

  • After letting out a blood-curling screaming, McPherson let her go and she ran inside to tell her parents Mandie and Ricky

  • Ricky hopped into his car to chase after the alleged abductor while calling the police, who arrested him inside an SUV at Paul's Auto on Erie Boulevard

  • McPherson has been charged with abduction and gross sexual imposition
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In related news, McPherson is being groomed - apropos n'est-ce pas? - as Biden's new Body Man.
Posted by: Warthog || 08/27/2022 9:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Next story down is also a p@ed0 out of Ohio. What is it with the Buckeye these days?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2022 9:45 Comments || Top||

#3  I live in Ohio. Somebody bothered one of my daughter’s friends one. The perp was beaten up pretty bad and lost a kidney. The vigilante hunted him down on motorcycle with a bat. Pro tip - don’t wear identifiable clothing when bothering children. Evidently the perp was registered so the beat down was sanctioned.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/27/2022 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  These things do happen, unfortunately. A beloved fifth grade teacher at the trailing daughters’ elementary school was convicted of having a collection of pornographic photos — including some he’d taken of some of the boys in his classes — which he’d stored on his school laptop. He was sentenced to 15 years.

No private punishment that I’m aware of, but for some reason the FBI took point. Perhaps his photos connected to a national case.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2022 21:59 Comments || Top||


Man tries to stab a cop with a PEN after being arrested for attempting to kidnap a kindergarten student, 5, and telling officers he wanted to give the child tranquilizer-laced candy
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Reid Duran, 35, of Fairborn, has been arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping, escape, and felony assault

  • Duran allegedly tried to kidnap a five-year-old girl from a kindergarten class at St. Brigid School in Xenia, Ohio, on Monday during an open house

  • He told police he 'intended to give his victim candy laced with tranquilizers,' but was unsuccessful

  • Duran also claimed to have performed a similar incident in another city and told police he preferred children between the ages of five and 13

  • While being interviewed by police, he tried to escape and attempted to stab an officer with a pen

  • He was restrained and booked into jail. He is expected to appear at Xenia Municipal Court on August 29 at 9am
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Will get his teaching degree in prison and move on to California for future employment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/27/2022 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Put him in Gen Pop. Let them have at him
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2022 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm going to guess he is not a Trump voter.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2022 8:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Hey TW,,what with Ohio and child molesters? My birth state is embarrassing me!
Posted by: Warthog || 08/27/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  We seem to have fewer of them on a daily basis.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/27/2022 10:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Next wave of politicians are getting ambitious.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2022 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Hey TW,,what with Ohio and child molesters?

My adopted state, Warthog. I have no idea, but I hope it’s fixed very, very soon. The trailing daughters and the fosterlings they brought home for me to mother are all grown, but part time daughter has four daughters of her own thus far, who are turning out to be just as wonderful as we hoped she’d produce.

The good news is that this time these predators have been caught, and Ohio is not like New York State and California.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2022 11:39 Comments || Top||

#8  In better times, this guy would not have survived the escape attempt. Still, the COs at the Jail will enjoy the spectacle out in the yard.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/27/2022 11:57 Comments || Top||

#9  But, will he be allowed a mail-in ballot as he's not a convicted felon - yet?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2022 12:02 Comments || Top||


Three child kidnappers are burned alive by raging Guatemalan villagers following the murder of an 11-year-old boy after his parents paid a $19,000 ransom
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Freddy Méndez, 11, was killed after he was kidnapped by three men in Guatemala on August 12

  • Ovidio Méndez, 24; Selvin Pérez, 24; and Samuel Godínez, 38, were captured by residents in the western city of Colotenango and turned over to police Monday

  • The kidnappers collected a $19,000 ransom but never returned the boy to his family

  • Villagers were still upset because the child had not turned up and they returned to the police station where they were able to drag out one of the suspects

  • The man was killed after he was beaten and set on fire. The group went back to the precinct and took the other two suspects and beat and set them on fire
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should be something of a future deterrent to kidnapping in the Colotonango community.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2022 6:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Swift and unambiguous justice has what historians call a "salutary effect."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2022 6:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe we can try that in Ohio. If we do, a neighbor will bring brats.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/27/2022 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  So the locals went back to the precinct. Cooperative or terrified, the cops don't seem to have objected.
Hey, I wonder if the local prosecutor got Soros money. That would explain the popular impatience.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 08/27/2022 11:38 Comments || Top||

#5  I support this
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/27/2022 12:25 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Some "cultural appropriation" I can get behind.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2022 12:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Not likely to be recidivism, eh?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/27/2022 14:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Re: #3: No, Supe, You really shouldn't bring kids to these things.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/27/2022 18:55 Comments || Top||


Suspected thief arrested for attempted rape of girl, 15, months after Bragg reduced charges
[NYPOST] A creep set loose without bail after the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office downgraded his robbery charges was arrested again months later for trying to rape a 15-year-old girl in a horrifying attack in The Bronx, sources said Thursday.

Anthony Ibanez, 32, allegedly shoved the girl to the ground at around 2:40 a.m. Wednesday in Parkchester, sexually assaulted her and then chillingly threatened, "I’m going to take you to a quiet place and f—k you," according to the criminal complaint against him.
15 yr old out at 2:40am?
Sources said a good Samaritan stepped in and stopped the attack, and Ibanez — who was roughed up by the unidentified hero — allegedly later went to the 43rd Precinct claiming to be the victim of an assault.

But cops recognized him from a description given by the teen and arrested him on charges of attempted rape, according to the sources.

At the time of the horrifying attack, Ibanez was out on no bail in a case from three months prior where he allegedly robbed a Hell’s Kitchen deli with a Taser-wielding accomplice.

He was busted May 25 after he and the partner-in-crime allegedly stole a tip jar and other items from the Plaza Gourmet Deli on Ninth Avenue near West 43rd Street, according to the criminal complaint in that case.

Jason Clark, 22, allegedly fired the stun gun when someone tried to stop Ibanez from running out of the store with the items, the court document states.

Cops charged Ibanez with robbery in the first degree with use of a dangerous instrument, an offense that would have been bail eligible under New York state’s criminal justice reforms.

Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just how long is it going to take for New Yorkers to get sick and tired of all this?


And, yes, I guess that is a rhetorical question.
Posted by: Tom || 08/27/2022 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  He's out with no bail now, right?
Posted by: AlanC || 08/27/2022 9:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I'd personally like to see these easy on violent offender DAs do the same time as the criminals they release should be doing, but I'll settle for a three strikes deal. The third one of their mollycoddled offenders that does this triggers firing, disbarment, loss of pension and permanent loss of access to gummint jobs and right to jury trial if they are ever arrested.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2022 9:57 Comments || Top||

#4  You can probably get a DNA sample by swabbing the Samaritan’s fist and run it through the database. No warrant required.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/27/2022 10:43 Comments || Top||

#5  15 yr old out at 2:40am?

Thank the ACLU and our judiciary. NO, kids are not entitled to full adult rights. The same ACLU who argue out the other side of their mouths that 'children' should face adult punishment for adult crimes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/27/2022 16:19 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Plane, pilot 'jumped' to his death from, was contracted to special forces parachutists - and firm that operated it is being sued by another pilot who claims he was bullied
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Charles Hew Crooks, 23, died after jumping from a small passenger plane after it was diverted to Raleigh-Durham International for an emergency landing

  • The plane, a 1983 CASA C-212 Aviocar, had previously damaged its landing gear during a failed runway approach at another airport

  • The co-pilot opened his side cockpit window at 3,500ft and 'may have gotten sick,' a National Transportation Safety Board report said

  • Rampart Aviation has been described as a 'very secretive' company by an ex-pilot

  • They claim that the firm is 'concerned' that it would lose its Department of Defense contracts

  • Another ex-pilot has also lodged a lawsuit against the company, claiming that they 'bullied and gaslight' him by offering him a promotion

  • Eric Sanchez's suit states that he was offered a rise up the ranks to captain before he had to take part in military duty
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 00:57 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The co-pilot opened his side cockpit window at 3,500ft and 'may have gotten sick,' a National Transportation Safety Board report said

Airsick, embarrassed, nervous. No barf bag. Already bent over due to low Casa ceiling. Lowers ramp to barf, dizzy, loses footing.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2022 6:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Or he had sudden impulses... and not good ones...
Posted by: Skunky Ebbaique3137 || 08/27/2022 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Forgot one important item on his checklist
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/27/2022 10:30 Comments || Top||

#4  [NULL HYPOTHESIS]: The pilot was nuts, cuckoo, bonkers, insane...
Posted by: magpie || 08/27/2022 14:15 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 08/27/2022 15:32 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Texas judge rules law preventing adults under 21 from carrying handguns violates Second Amendment
[FoxNews] Texas law violated the Second Amendment, which doesn't say anything about age restrictions, a judge ruled

A Texas judge ruled that a state law preventing adults under 21 from carrying a handgun was unconstitutional.

Carrying a handgun in Texas wasn’t a problem for gun-owning adults who had a license to do so. However, because the state didn’t hand out licenses for anyone under 21, legal handgun owners were prevented from carrying their firearms outside of their homes.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ruled that the Second Amendment prevents restricting the rights of gun owners based on their age.

"Based on the Second Amendment’s text, as informed by Founding-Era history and tradition, the Court concludes that the Second Amendment protects against this prohibition." Pittman wrote. "Texas’s statutory scheme must therefore be enjoined to the extent that law-abiding 18-to-20-year-olds are prohibited from applying for a license to carry a handgun."

Two unnamed plaintiffs, an 18-year-old and a 20-year-old, along with the Firearms Policy Coalition, filed the lawsuit challenging Texas’ law in November.

Pittman noted the Second Amendment doesn't contain any mention of age as a restriction, unlike other portions of the Constitution.

"To start, the Second Amendment does not mention any sort of age restriction," he wrote. "This absence is notable—when the Framers meant to impose age restrictions, they did so expressly."

Thursday’s ruling comes on the heels of a major victory for Second Amendment advocates in June when the Supreme Court struck down a restrictive New York law on issuing concealed carry licenses.

Pittman’s ruling also builds on top of the permitless carry law in Texas that Gov. Greg Abbott signed last year. The state’s "constitutional carry" law allowed Texans over the age of 21 to carry handguns in public without a license.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 00:05 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Your national government arms 18, 19, 20 year olds with semi-automatic weapons (even fully automatic weapons, even very large caliber weapons). What part of 'Militia' don't you grasp.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/27/2022 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  The age limit was probably a compromise made to bring some squishes along when the legislation was passed. Now that SCOTUS has eviscerated all the micromanagement of the 2A (in legal principle, anyway) what the squishes think or want is irrelevant.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2022 7:57 Comments || Top||

#3  If a person is Old enough to:
Vote, Marry, decide their gender, get an abortion, Serve in the Military,be drafted in time of war, enter into legal contracts for loans, obtain a CDL, and is considered an Adult. Why 21 for a pistol?

Either void such contradicting laws or raise the age of Adulthood uniformly to 21.

Think about it, a more matured 21-year-old voter/Solider/Husband/Wife and etc...
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/27/2022 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  You need to be 21 to legally drink in America, but at 18 you can join the military, be charged as an adult with a crime, be sentenced to death and executed.

But you can't defend yourself? Yeah, that makes no sense.

Oh, if you are an illegal alien, you can claim to be a minor even if you are 30+ years old, and the authorities will go along with that.

The "rules" are so far out all over the map as to be a sick joke.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2022 9:15 Comments || Top||


Bergara Small Batch No. 2 – The M40-ISH
[TFB] Bergara North America announced their Small Batch custom firearms division back in April of the past year. Shortly after the announcement, they released the first gun of their custom shop, the Sidekick bolt action pistol. The company has now introduced the second firearm in this line, the limited edition M40-ISH bolt-action rifle which is created as a tribute to the US Marine Corps M40 sniper rifle.

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

#1  Also a good pick, Mossberg MVP LR .308 Winchester/7.62.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2022 6:11 Comments || Top||

#2  I prefer something that costs less than the first house I bought....
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/27/2022 18:54 Comments || Top||


Economy
Secret Service has now seized $1.4 BILLION in fraudulently obtained COVID relief funds since 2020 after taking in another haul of $286million
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Too busy with COVID to secure the vote?
  • Secret Service said it recovered another $286 million in stolen pandemic funds

  • The haul, announced on Friday, brings the total returned to $1.4 billion

  • It targeted people using fraudulent credentials to apply for Economic Injury Disaster Loans, designed for small business

  • The Government Accountability Office said in March that the speed of payments meant that not enough was done to prevent fraud
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 01:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Why the SS and what do they do with the money.
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 08/27/2022 8:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Secret Service is part of the Treasury.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2022 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  James West and Artemis Gordon were accountants.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/27/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||

#4  A federal law enforcement agency doing the job for which they were created. How refreshing!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/27/2022 11:50 Comments || Top||

#5  I believe that SS was part of Treasury. Now they are part of DHS.
One of their responsibilities was counterfeiting.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/27/2022 12:46 Comments || Top||


Europe
Norwegian Schools Are Disseminating Government-Approved Covid Misinformation
[Daily Sceptic] Who needs conspiracy theorists when you’ve got school books teaching children that Covid vaccines are "95% effective"?

This autumn, a new school book was introduced for the ninth grade in Norway. Fabel 10 was revised in 2021/22, but has only now been introduced in schools across Norway. Not only does the book overstate the effectiveness of the novel mRNA vaccines, it decries anyone questioning that as conspiracy theorists.

One excerpt reads:

Since the Covid pandemic broke loose, Covid deniers and vaccine sceptics have spread disinformation about coronavirus through social media. They claimed among other things that COVID-19 was no more deadly than the flu, that the vaccine was dangerous, and that restrictions were unnecessary. On Saturday March 20th 2021, 200 Covid deniers gathered in front of the Parliament. They burnt face masks to show that they thought they were unnecessary.

This short paragraph is easily debunked. Readers of the Daily Sceptic know that Covid now has an infection fatality rate about the same as influenza. We also know that side effects from the Covid vaccines — both the mRNA and the viral vector vaccines such as AstraZeneca’s — are more common than for other tried and tested vaccines. Remember when the Pandemrix vaccine rollout was halted because of a link to rare instances of narcolepsy? Multiple studies show Pfizer and Moderna’s Covid vaccines increase the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in especially younger males — the demographic who make up precisely half the readership of Fabel 10. The German Government even admits that as many as one in 300 doses of the mRNA jabs produce serious injury. Compared to the danger that Covid poses to most people, does that make vaccines worth having?

And as for restrictions, a new consensus is gaining momentum. Whereas back in 2021, when the book was written, it was mainly agreed that lockdowns and other Covid restrictions were necessary to halt the spread, and countries with low Covid fatalities would credit these non-pharmaceutical interventions for their comparatively low excess mortality, studies later proved them incorrect. Lockdowns and excess mortality were not correlated. Whereas back in the early days of the pandemic, only a few, brave voices spoke up about their concerns, now even Rishi Sunak, who helped implement Britain’s lockdowns, admit they were detrimental to overall health and the economy and did little to stop infection. Yet in Norway, pupils are stuck in the reality curated more than a year ago, a reality that has now been revealed to most as bonkers.

And those 200 "Covid deniers" who burnt face masks deserve praise for being a tiny minority speaking up for science at a time where "the science" became an allegory for anything the authorities wanted us to do without having to prove why.

The book also states that vaccines are "95% effective against COVID-19 infections". This is clearly nonsense, and doesn’t need further debunking. We all know of multiple-jabbed people getting infected several times over, and that infection rates in highly vaccinated countries went through the roof after the vaccine rollout.

Perhaps the book will serve as a test to pupils old enough to gather information from multiple sources. Some might agree with what they’re presented with, while others will see through this Government-approved misinformation. But that’s not really the sort of education you want in a free, democratic country. The book doesn’t invite 14-15 year-olds to question or discuss — it presents them with all the (wrong) answers. That’s bad enough in itself, but what’s worse is it tells them to ridicule those who don’t agree. The chapter on Covid and conspiracy theories could have been a great opportunity to teach children about academic freedom, online censorship, tolerance, debate, dissent and freedom of speech. Instead, it serves straight-up, Orwellian newspeak to young minds in a way the CCP would be proud of.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/27/2022 07:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
Synthetic embryo with brain and beating heart is grown from mouse stem cells for the first time - and the technique could one day be used to create artificial human organs for transplantation
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] I seen dis movie. It was really neat when it ate Chicago.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Future Meat Technologies produces its first lab-grown lamb
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2022 8:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Brandon, Dr. Jill, and Walter Reed are standing by.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2022 9:10 Comments || Top||

#3  It would be interesting to be able to regrow your own replacement organs - no rejection.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/27/2022 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  The first organ should be a Universal Donor Bone Marrow. Think of it: plasma and whole blood by the liter. Then you can start on have special lots producing antivenom and vaccines by the liter as. Then we can start replacement organs...
Posted by: magpie || 08/27/2022 11:16 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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