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I would argue slut rather than whore, as the activity was meant to be free. Or possibly just a tease — I don’t recall, whether she actually went through with the promised activities before attacking with something sharp and pointy.
[KhaamaPress] A former member of the Afghan Central Bank’s supreme council Shah Mehrabi said that the $3.5 billion in Afghan assets transferred to the Bank for International Settlements has made $8.5 million in interest, according to sources. "Unfortunately, with Timeshare maintenance fees, Annuity losses, and some other (FTX Crypto investments) shit, your Principal balance actually decreased"
It came at a time the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s foreign affairs ministry in September condemned the United States’ decision to transfer Afghan central bank reserves into a Swiss-based trust, saying it was against international norms.
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[Garowe] Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... state-owned oil producer -Aramco, is set to enter the Kenyan market through the acquisition of US motor oil and lubricants group Valvoline.
The news of Aramco's entrance into Kenya was announced by the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) and they had given the green light for Aramco Overseas Company, the investment arm of Saudi Aramco.
CAK Director-General Wang’ombe Kariuki in a notice "The Competition Authority of Kenya excludes the proposed acquisition of control of VGP Holdings LLC by Aramco Overseas Company B.V from provisions of the Act."
Saudi Aramco which is the world's largest oil firm has now acquired the Kenyan operations of VGP Holdings as part of a global deal worth $2.65 billion.
This acquisition by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia state-owned oil producer is set to shake the waves within Kenya’s fuel lubricants market which is currently dominated by multinational firms from the west.
Saudi Aramco is the largest oil company in the world and the second most valuable after Apple with a market capitalization of $1.82 trillion.
It's expected that Aramco's unit will seek a larger share of Kenya’s lubricants sector and is expected to tap new markets, including fuel importation.
Aramco Overseas Company offers support to operations of Saudi Aramco in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa but excludes the Saudi Arabia and North American markets.
The support involves finances, supply chain management, technical support, and other administrative services.
Valvoline deals in lubricants such as brake fluids, gear oils, greases, and transmission fluids, and its acquisition by Saudi Aramco will offer it financial muscle and a shareholder who has a focus on Africa.
Data from the Petroleum Institute of East Africa (PIEA) states that the consumption of lubricants in Kenya’s market has been growing over the past years, prompting Saudi Aramco first disclosed its intention to acquire Valvoline Global for $2.65 billion in a deal that the Saudi oil firm says will boost its efforts for a wider distribution network.
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In 2019 Aramco firm reported its highest quarterly profits since listing its shares with its net income rising to $39.5 billion in the first three months of the year, reflecting an 82 percent increase from a similar period last year.
The group’s total production including gas rose to 13 million barrels a day of oil equivalent, up from an average of 12.3 million last year.
The Saudi Arabian government owns 94.2 percent of Aramco.
Saudi owns more than 11,000 retail fuel stations worldwide with locations in China, South Korea, the United States, and Japan.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... at the moment, it remains unclear if Saudi Aramco will use the acquisition to enter the local wholesale market for fuel which could trigger price reductions for oil marketers, ultimately passing the benefits to consumers.
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[ShabelleMedia] The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) have deployed a new battle group to serve under the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS).
Uganda Battle Group 37 replaces Battle Group 34 which has completed its one-year tour of duty in Somalia.
A command handover/takeover ceremony was held on Saturday at the ATMIS Uganda contingent headquarters in Mogadishu, presided over by the ATMIS Acting Force Commander, Brig. Gen. Peter Omola.
During the ceremony, officers of the outgoing battalion were also awarded African Union medals in recognition of their participation in AU peace support operations in Somalia.
The new battalion under the command of Colonel Charles Asiimwe will secure areas in Lower Shabelle, with its headquarters in Ceel Jaale town.
ATMIS Acting Force Commander, Brig.Gen. Omola lauded the outgoing battle group under the command of Colonel David Byaruhanga for their sacrifices and dedication to secure Somalia.
During their tour of duty, the outgoing battle group conducted operations against al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... , detonated improvised bombs, promoted civil-military cooperation, and mentored the Somali security forces.
Brig Gen. Omola, who is also the commander of the Uganda ATMIS contingent, called on the newly deployed battle group to immediately embark on joint operations with the Somali National Army, in the area of responsibility.
"The current ATMIS concept of operations requires that you are mobile and agile. You are up to the task and you know what to do," said Brig. Gen. Omola.
On his part, Colonel Asiimwe, the commander of the new battle group in Somalia, said he was ready and well equipped to reduce the threat posed by al-Shabaab.
"I wish to thank the UPDF hierarchy for trusting me with this task. This is the greatest task I have had in my career so far," said Colonel Asiimwe.
Uganda is one of the ATMIS troop contributing countries with personnel serving alongside troops from Burundi, Djibouti, Æthiopia and Kenya.
More on gun enthusiast William M, the retired train driver with the habit of being arrested for attacking foreigners, who shot up the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish cultural center a few days ago.
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[REGNUM] The Paris prosecutor's office announced the initial goals of the criminal who shot people
The citizen who opened fire on December 23 in Paris was originally planning a crime in the suburb of Saint-Denis, and not an attack on the Kurds. Such a statement was made on December 25 by the prosecutor's office of Paris.
During the interrogation of the detainee, it turned out that in the early morning the 69-year-old Frenchman went to Saint-Denis with weapons and ammunition in order to kill foreigners. However, he noticed too few people on the spot, and not suitable clothes on him prevented him from quickly reloading the weapon. Upon returning home, he headed for rue Enghien in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. The detainee said that his task was to use up the ammunition and then commit suicide.
Recall that as a result of shooting in Paris, three Kurds, two men and a woman, were killed. Three more people were injured. After the arrest, the attacker declared himself a racist.
As REGNUM reported earlier, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin accused the Kurdistan Workers' Party of organizing the riots in Paris. Additional notes on this story from Dawn: Gay Paree prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on Sunday the suspect "wanted to kill foreigners" after a burglary in his home in 2016.
The suspect said he initially wanted to kill people in the northern Gay Paree suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, which has a large immigrant population.
The French capital’s police chief Laurent Nunez told BFM television channel that 31 officers and one protester were maimed in the disturbances, while 11 people were arrested, "mainly for damage".
Hundreds of Kurds in Syria demonstrated on Sunday in solidarity with the victims.
The prosecutor said no links with an bully boy ideology were found following a search of his parents’ home, a computer and a smartphone. 69 yrs old and living with his parents: L-O-S-E-R
The suspect said he acquired his weapon four years ago from a member of a shooting club, hid it at his parents’ house and had never used it before.
The M6 TV channel said one of its reporters had interviewed his parents, who are 91 and 93 years old.
"He is crazy, he's an idiot," said his father, according to an audio recording posted online. "He is a taciturn person who doesn't live like normal people do."
M6 said neighbours described the suspect, who had been living with his parents since his release from prison earlier this month, as "strange."
The 20 Minutes newspaper said he was born in March 1953 in Montreuil, an eastern suburb of Paris, and had been living in the capital's upmarket second arrondissement.
The paper also quoted an anonymous police officer as saying that the gunman had said "he didn't like Kurds" during his arrest when he "also made incoherent remarks."
[Dawn] Amid an increase in the number of attacks by militants in parts of the country, federal Minister for Economic Affairs Ayaz Sadiq on Sunday blamed former prime minister Imran Khan for the resurgence of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
While referring to rise in terror attacks and the dialogue with the banned outfit initiated by the PTI government last year, the PML-N leader said the nation had seen the result of Imran Khan’s strategy of opening talks with the Taliban.
“Imran Khan (while in power) did not curb terrorism. Rather he allowed negotiations with those who had martyred children at the Army Public School (in Peshawar). And now a new wave of terrorism has begun because of those negotiations.”
The former speaker also urged former army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa to reveal his “role” in the 2018 general election in “ensuring” the victory of the PTI. He said the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) representatives said they were under pressure in 2018 to join the PTI.
He said the support extended by Mr Bajwa to Imran Khan when he was prime minister had never been given to any other premier in the past. But, the PTI chairman is “ungrateful to his benefactors” as he was now maligning the ex-COAS. He said Mr Khan did the same thing to Aleem Khan and Jahangir Khan Tareen.
He advised Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi to remain “vigilant” while doing favours to Imran Khan since his “characteristics cannot change as I know him since the 1960s”.
Mr Sadiq lambasted the PTI chairman for using the religious card in politics, abusing and victimising rivals, as well as preferring his personal interest over national interest.
“The one who had been talking of the state of Madina committed corruption by taking away gifts from Toshakhana worth Rs6 billion, declaring one of them (in his tax statement) and devouring the rest. The claimants of the Madina state would neither steal nor conceal (one’s wealth).”
He lamented that Imran Khan always foul-mouthed PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, who always addressed the PTI chairman decently. He alleged that Mr Khan got spying cameras installed even in the bathrooms of the jail where Maryam Nawaz Sharif was imprisoned.
The PML-N leader said those who brought Imran Khan to power were responsible for the financial damage caused to the country during the around four-year rule of PTI as the national debt doubled in the PTI regime, which took $44 billion in loans.
In reply to a question, he said while listening to the conversation between Parvez Elahi and his son Moonis Elahi one “gets the impression that the PML-Q got just 20 seats” in return for a promise to dissolve the Punjab Assembly at the directives of Imran Khan.
He, however, cautioned the ‘Q’ leadership that the crutches available during the 2018 polls would be missing in the next general elections and they as well as the PTI would have to stand on their own legs.
Referring to U-turns often taken by the PTI chairman, he said on one hand Imran said that he would fight his political fight on his own, and on the other, he was requesting the establishment to intervene and save him from likely accountability.
In response to a question, the minister said if the PTI chairman intended to dissolve the Punjab and KP assemblies he would have done so at once after the announcement during a Pindi rally in November.
Answering a question, he said if the coalition in Punjab had the backing of the required number of MPAs to remain on his post then why was Mr Elahi trying to delay the trust vote.
He said that local government elections would be held in the month of April, while the general election would be held after Aug 15, 2023, when the assemblies would complete their five-year constitutional terms.
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So the complaint is that a former PM of Pakistan fostered terrorism. Isn’t that like being charged with upholding their constitution?
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[IsraelTimes] Men welcomed in a special ceremony at Tehran airport, some as many as 8 years after their abduction in international waters
Fourteen Iranian fishermen seized by the al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... bully boy group in Somalia, some as long as eight years ago, have returned home, news outlets in the Islamic Theocratic Republic said Sunday.
The fishermen were kidnapped in international waters near Somalia and released after "lengthy negotiations with government officials, tribal chiefs and Somali elders," the ISNA news agency reported.
They were welcomed in a special ceremony at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on Saturday night before being transported to their southern hometown of Chabahar, it added.
Their release comes almost a month after Somali police said they discovered 20 foreigners — 14 Iranians and six Paks — near territory controlled by the bully boy group.
At the time, Somali police said some had been kidnapped by al-Shabaab in 2014, while others had been kidnapped on the southern coast of Harardhere in mid-2019.
It was unclear how they came to be released, and police provided no further details, citing an ongoing inquiry.
Reports suggested they could have been kidnapped by pirates and handed over to al-Shabaab, an affiliate of al-Qaeda that includes imported muscle among its ranks.
Al-Shabaab, which controls swaths of rural Somalia, has been trying to overthrow the central government for 15 years, funding its insurgency through criminal activities including kidnapping and ransom.
Somalia has also been plagued by piracy for years, though attacks on maritime vessels off the coast have fallen off sharply in recent years since peaking at 176 in 2011.
[Rudaw] Iran's supreme court has ordered the retrial of a Kurdish rapper who was reportedly sentenced to death over protests sparked by Zhina (Mahsa) Amini's death, the judiciary said Saturday.
Protests have gripped Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... since the September 16 death of Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, after her arrest in Tehran for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic's dress code for women.
Iran this month executed two people in connection with the protests. It has sentenced another 11 people to death. One of them, Mahan Sadrat, secured a retrial earlier this week.
On Saturday the judiciary's Mizan Online website said the Kurdish rapper Saman Seydi -- also known as Saman Yasin -- and another protester, Mohammad Ghobadlou, would be retried.
Hours later, however, Mizan issued a new statement from the supreme court that said Ghobadlou's appeal had been rejected and confirmed his sentence. It did not elaborate.
Rights groups outside Iran have said Seydi and Ghobadlou had been facing the death penalty based on accusations of involvement in the protests.
Mizan did not specify the verdicts, but confirmed both were charged with offences punishable by death.
Ghobadlou was charged in Tehran with "corruption on earth" for "attacking police with a car, which resulted in the death of one officer and the injury of five others".
Seydi was accused of "moharebeh", which means "enmity against God". Rights groups said the rapper had been accused of firing a pistol into the air three times during the demonstrations.
Saturday's developments come three days after Mizan said the supreme court had ordered the retrial of Sadrat, who had been sentenced to death after being convicted of capital offences during the protests.
Iran has arrested thousands of people over the unrest in which the authorities say more than 200 people have been killed, including dozens of security personnel.
Foreign-based rights groups say the security forces have killed more than 450 people in a crackdown on the movement.
The Islamic republic has already executed two young men over the protests.
Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged in public on December 12 after being sentenced to death by a court in second city Mashhad for killing two members of the security forces with a knife.
Four days earlier, Mohsen Shekari, also 23, was executed for wounding a member of the security forces.
Campaigners say a dozen other defendants are charged with offences that could also see them receive the death penalty.
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They thought the sentence was too light.
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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 kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...The nation is noted for 
