The number of murders in the #US rose by around 30 percent in 2020 over the previous year, to some 21,500, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says.https://t.co/ZOQS6N1bBJ
[ToloNews] No representative from Afghanistan will address the annual high-level U.N. General Assembly in New York after the ambassador for the government ousted by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... - who was due to speak on Monday - withdrew his name.
The move comes amid competing claims for Afghanistan's U.N. seat in New York after the Taliban seized power last month.
Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi last week asked to address the gathering of world leaders at the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... and nominated the Islamist group's Doha-based front man Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's U.N. ambassador.
Ghulam Isaczai is the current U.N. ambassador, who represents Afghanistan's government ousted by the Taliban, and has also asked to renew his accreditation. He was scheduled to address the final day of the high-level U.N. gathering on Monday, but withdrew late on Sunday, diplomats said.
Isaczai did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rival claims have also been made for Myanmar's U.N. seat after a military coup in February ousted the elected government. No representative from Myanmar will address the high-level General Assembly meeting. read more
U.N. accreditation issues are dealt with by a nine-member committee, whose members include the United States, China and Russia. It traditionally meets in October or November.
Until a decision is made by the credentials committee on both Afghanistan and Myanmar, Isaczai and Myanmar's U.N. envoy representing the ousted government, Kyaw Moe Tun, will remain in the seats, according to the General Assembly rules.
[KhaamaPress] The foreign minister of Italia Luigi Di Maio strongly reacted to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s caretaker cabinet and said that it is impossible for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to be recognized by them.
Miao who was speaking on Sunday, September 26 said that at least 17 acting ministers of the Taliban are so-called "terrorists" and it is literally impossible for them to recognize their government.
It has been nearly 45 days since the Taliban takeover but has not been recognized by any nation of the world yet.
The Italian foreign minister said that the Taliban are accused of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations which will not be recognized but added that the people of Afghanistan should be provided financial support by the international community.
Miao added that the world must get together to prevent an influx of refugees that will destabilize the regional countries and terrorism in the country.
It comes as the deputy minister of information and culture and spokesperson of the Taliban Zabiullah Mujahid has said that they will soon be recognized as they are in contact with the UN.
Respect for women and human rights, establishing inclusive government, not allowing Afghanistan to become safe haven of terrorism are the preconditions for the recognition set by the international community.
The Taliban has so far implemented none of these but has been promising to be doing so.
South Sudanese oil exports resume after an agreement between #Khartoum and protesters who blocked pipelines in Port #Sudan, the oil ministry in the Sudanese capital says.https://t.co/vtCC1F6QEo
#Tunisia’s President Saied is coming under growing pressure to tackle the country’s economic troubles after the political crisis endangered the democratic gains that Tunisians won in the 2011 revolution that triggered the Arab Spring protests.https://t.co/HTy4Z4KXGr
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[LBUA] Wagner the Russian private military company is recruiting militants to carry out a mission in the African country of Mali. At the same time, natives of Ukraine, in particular residents of the occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas, are not taken on this task.
Relevant ads began to appear in publics associated with the APC in the social network "VKontakte," reports the BBC. Here is one of their ads on Youtube. Slickly done, IMO. Almost made me want to apply. Almost.
To perform the "mission" recruit very different professionals: translators from French, health instructors, surgeons, therapists, general practitioners, engineers, cooks, drivers. All military specialties are especially in demand: sappers, miners, operators and mechanics of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Georgian citizens are also not admitted to the PMC. It is specified that neither natives of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Lugansk People's Republic," nor residents of the Russian-annexed Crimea will be able to enroll in Wagner, which "causes some indignation among many participants in hostilities in eastern Ukraine."
According to the BBC, the recruitment of ready to go to Africa PMC has been conducting since August at the Molkino test site in the Krasnodar Territory. Some of the military have already left for Mali.
Earlier, the London newspaper Times, citing diplomatic sources, reported that a contingent of 1,000 Russian mercenaries would go to Mali under an agreement between Wagner PMC and the military that seized power in the African republic.
After that, France, Germany and Estonia, whose peacekeepers are also in the country, said they would withdraw their troops from Mali if there was a Russian Wagner PMC.
The EU is also talking about severing relations with Mali in the event of a contract with the APC.
During the UN General Assembly session in New York, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed that the Mali authorities had contracted with Wagner .
At the same time, the interim Prime Minister of Mali, Shogel Kokalla Maiga, explained that the country is cooperating with the PMC due to the reduction of France's military presence in this African country.
The former French colony of Mali is one of the largest and poorest countries in Africa. The country has no access to the sea, much of its territory is occupied by the Sahara Desert. The population professes Islam.
In May this year, the Malian military arrested interim President Ba Ndao, Prime Minister Moktar Uan and Defense Minister General Suleiman Dukure. The reason was the refusal of the president and prime minister to include in the transitional government Colonels Modibo Kone and Sadio Kamaru, active participants in last year's military coup.
In July, Mali's transitional president, Colonel Assimi Goytu, who came to power after the May military coup, was assassinated.
Mali is not the only new African country where mercenaries from Russia may appear in the near future. After Libya, Sudan and the CAR, where they have been for a long time.
In early September, according to the BBC, political scientists working with Prigogine were to prepare several analytical notes analyzing the situation in neighboring Mali's Guinea.
A military coup also took place in this African country on September 5. President Alpha Conde was taken into custody and Colonel Mamadou Dumbuya came to power.
St. Petersburg businessman and Putin's "cook" Yevgeny Prigogine is called the creator of Wagner's PMC.
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Son to mom and dad: "Mom? Dad? Our new neighbors are having a Bacha Bazi party and want me to come over. Can I go?" "What's a Bacha Bazi party?" "I dunno but it sounds like fun and a new cultural experience."
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Bacha Bazi...that's that yard game they use mallets to put balls in holes, right? Definitely need money for good property then. Lots of trees, too. I know, a study for the right kind of trees.
#Poland’s interior minister says material related to extremism had been found in the phones of migrants crossing its border with #Belarus and he calls for a 60-day extension to a state of emergency along the frontier.https://t.co/h6GxJpjme8
Poland’s interior minister said on Monday material related to extremism had been found in the phones of migrants colonists crossing its border with Belarus and he called for a 60-day extension to a state of emergency along the frontier.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... member state declared the emergency at the start of September over a surge in migration that Polish and EU officials blame on Belarus. But Poland’s nationalist government has drawn criticism from rights groups over its treatment of migrants colonists, five of whom have died on the frontier.
"(The situation is) extremely tense...I will apply to the Council of Ministers (cabinet) for an extension of the state of emergency by 60 days," Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski told a news conference.
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During the briefing Polish officials showed material which they said were text messages and other images linked to "Islamic extremism" found on some of the migrants colonists’ electronic devices.
Rooters could not independently confirm the veracity of the messages or images.
Poland’s opposition and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups have accused the ruling right-wing nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party in the past of stoking prejudice against immigrants colonists for political gain.
During the 2015 migrant crisis, the PiS leader said refugees from the Middle East could bring disease and parasites to Poland.
Most of the current migrants colonists have come from Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa.
On Monday, Kaminski said the government was not trying to stigmatize the migrants colonists but merely presenting evidence it had uncovered to show that some migrants colonists crossing the border could pose a threat to national security.
He said that Polish security services had found links to extremism in 50 out of 200 migrants colonists questioned.
Poland and the EU have accused Belarus of encouraging migrants colonists from Iraq, Afghanistan and African countries to cross the EU’s external borders to put pressure on the bloc over sanctions Brussels has imposed on Minsk over rights abuses.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the European Commission and rights groups fear that Poland is forcing migrants colonists at the border back into Belarus, violating their right to seek asylum and putting them at greater risk.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says that #Greece has been in talks with #France to boost their defense alliance as Athens seeks to build up its armed forces.https://t.co/3NEqDdb9Cp
A Palestinian military court begins the trial of 14 security officers charged with beating to death Nizar Banat, a prominent critic of President Mahmoud Abbas, in a case that has drawn widespread protests and calls for his resignation.https://t.co/wQGSw9inWf
The #EU urges #Iran to allow inspectors access to a nuclear site, while Tehran argues the facility was exempt from a recent agreement with the UN watchdog.https://t.co/z02VxkMSC3
#Jordan will fully reopen its main border crossing with #Syria, officials say, as a high-level Syrian team arrives in Amman to discuss how to ease the flow of goods hit by the coronavirus pandemic and a decade of conflict.https://t.co/uDjaMCt7sY
A probe into the catastrophic #Beirut port explosion faces being derailed for the second time this year when #NohadMachnouk, a former interior minister wanted for questioning, filed a complaint doubting the lead investigator’s impartiality.https://t.co/XSKDRzcxrF
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.