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Call me Pollyanna, but I'm going with "warming the baby up after it froze when she forgot it in the car... after deciding not to take it to the ER to get the worrisome fever checked that it developed after having been forgotten in the car and lovingly warmed up in the oven the day before... and so forth." Gawd... like a trip back home. [Natchez calliope]
[AFRICANEWS] On Saturday (Feb. 10) at least two people were confirmed dead after protests were held across Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , Friday (Feb. 09).
Demonstrators were not allowed to gather, and groups were dispersed by security forces.
The victims confirmed so far, two men in their twenties, were killed in Saint-Louis and in Dakar according to local media reports.
The victim in Saint-Louis was a student. He was killed on a school campus following demonstrations in the northern city, according to a statement from the public prosecutor.
Anger has mounted since President Sall last week postponed presidential elections scheduled this month.
The delay came hours before official campaigning was due to begin.
Parliament backed a delay until December and voted to keep Sall in power until his successor takes office, which is unlikely to be before early 2025.
Sall's second term was due to end April 2nd.
The president said he postponed the vote because of a dispute between parliament and the Constitutional Council over aspiring candidates who were not allowed to stand.
In an interview Friday (Feb. 09), he said he wants to rapidly organize a national dialogue that will pave the way for a peaceful electoral process.
Opposition politicians have filed an appeal at the Constitutional court while presidential candidates appealed to the Supreme Court.
A new round of protests is planned for Tuesday (Feb. 13).
Senegalese in the diaspora have also taken to the streets. In La Belle France where a large community of Senegalese lives, crowds gathered Saturday (Feb. 10) in major cities including Gay Paree, Bordeaux (South west) and Nice (south).
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#7
HMS Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship in her class and 'lead ships' tend to present problems that need to be ironed out. Also England, like the US, has a shrinking pool of people that would actually know how to build a warship ...and most of them have retired!
PARIS (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk vowed to "revitalize" his nation’s relations with its key European partners during a trip to Paris and Berlin on Monday as fears grow that former President Donald Trump could return to power in the United States and give Russia a free hand to expand its aggression following its invasion of Ukraine.
The meetings on Monday come after Trump shocked many in Europe over the weekend by inviting Russia to invade any NATO member not spending enough on its own defenses. That's a lie
"These comments are irresponsible and even play into Russia’s hands," German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Monday during a visit to Cyprus, remarks carried by the German dpa news agency. "And no one in our alliance can have an interest in that."
The words were particularly shocking for front-line NATO countries like Poland, which has endured Russian control and occupation, and where anxieties run high over the war just across its eastern border in Ukraine. The Media Is Lying About Trump’s NATO Comments
He converted to Islam as a result of what he witnessed in the Algerian War of Independence, his fondness for Islamic art, and what he saw as contradictions in Paulist Christian doctrine.
One’s religion is just another decor choice, donchaknow.
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
