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Africa Subsaharan
Bomb blast kills 2 children in Cameroon's Far North region-Xinhua
[ENGLISH.NEWS.CN] At least two children were killed in a bomb explosion early Monday in Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
's Far North region, according to locals and security sources.

The children were trekking along the Bargaram-Abasouni Road in the Logone-et-Chari division of the region when they stepped on an improvised bomb (IED), and it went kaboom!, said a security source in the region.

"The bomb was obviously planted by Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
holy warriors along that road. It is really unfortunate that the two children became victims of this attack," the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua by phone.

Locals have reported heightened tension in the locality following the blast.

Cameroon's Far North region has been the scene of festivities between security forces and Boko Haram turbans since 2014. The terror group often uses IEDs to attack soldiers and civilians.
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Arabia
Israeli enemy warplanes conduct series of airstrikes on Yemen's Hodeidah port
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Israeli enemy warplanes on Monday carried out a series of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
's Hodeidah port on the Red Sea.

According to the Yemen Press Agency (YPA), there were no immediate reports of casualties or significant damage after the airstrikes.

The Israeli occupation army said the targets included ''engineering vehicles, fuel containers and naval vessels.''

The strikes came in response to recent Yemeni missile and drone attacks on Israeli targets.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Crocus Terror Trial News Roundup for July 21st, 2025


Four defendants in the Crocus terrorist attack case ask to stop prosecution
[Regnum] Four defendants in the case of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall are asking to stop their criminal prosecution. They filed the corresponding petitions on July 21 to the 2nd Western District Military Court.

Isroil Islomov, Dzhabrail Aushev, Dzhumakhon Kurbonov and Zubaydullo Ismoilov (individuals included in the Russian Federation list of terrorists and extremists) addressed the court with such a request.

Nazrimad Lutfulloi, Hussein Medov, Dilovar and Aminchon Islomov petitioned for the case to be heard by a jury.

Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that all defendants in the case of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall were brought to the 2nd Western District Military Court for a court hearing. Based on its results, the court will determine the date for considering the case on the merits. The criminal case will be considered by a panel of three judges. They will have to study more than 470 volumes of materials.

More from regnum.ru
All defendants in the Crocus terrorist attack case were taken to military court
All defendants in the case of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall have been delivered to the 2nd Western District Military Court.

“All defendants in the criminal case regarding the terrorist attack at Crocus were taken to the military court for their direct participation in preliminary hearings,” the court’s press service said in a statement.

The court hearing will be held on July 21 behind closed doors. Based on its results, the court will determine the date for hearing the case on the merits.

Even more from regnum.ru
150 victims to take part in Crocus terrorist attack trial
About 150 victims will take part in the trial of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall. The hearing will be held by the 2nd Western District Military Court.

“Of the 2,300 people involved in the criminal case on the merits of the terrorist attack in Crocus, about 150 of the 19 defendants expressed a desire to participate in the trial,” TASS quoted one of the participants in the trial as saying.

The case materials comprise more than 470 volumes. During the investigation, experts conducted more than 200 different types of examinations of the accused.

The case will be heard by a panel of three judges. Preliminary hearings will be held on July 21, after which the court will set a date for the consideration of the case on the merits.


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Europe
Meanwhile in Ireland
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Fifth Column
‘AOC funds genocide in Gaza’: Anti-Israel activists vandalize Ocasio-Cortez’s NY office
[IsraelTimes] Democrat defends voting against amendment to cut funding for Israeli air defenses, vows to keep pushing ‘to cut flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide’

Anti-Israel activists in New York on Monday said they vandalized the Bronx office of Democratic US Representative Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore
, one of Israel’s leading critics in Congress.

The anti-Israel protest group Decolonize This Place posts photos showing red paint, reminiscent of blood, splattered on Ocasio-Cortez’s office, and a sign that reads, "AOC funds genocide in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Decolonize This Place said the vandalism was an "anonymous submission"
…an interesting locution…
from a group called the Boogie Down Liberation Front. The group does not appear to have any protest history or online presence. Police confirmed the vandalism to the local NBC4 news outlet.

In a statement shared with news hound Ashoka Jegroo, the Boogie Down Liberation Front said, "The Bronx is sick and tired of people like AOC and Ritchie Torres using us as a stepping stone for their own political careers," referring to another Democratic representative who is a staunch supporter of Israel.

Anti-Israel protesters have repeatedly vandalized the offices of elected representatives and other perceived supporters of the Jewish state in New York.

The vandalism appeared to be a response to Ocasio-Cortez voting last week against a Congressional amendment to cut funding for Israel’s air defenses. The amendment was sponsored by US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right Georgia Republican who has previously advocated against US funding to Israel, and separately by Representative Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu...
, a Minnesota Democrat who is one of the fiercest critics of Israel in Congress.

"Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it," Ocasio-Cortez posted on X last week. "What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Paleostinians to continue."

"I have long stated that I do not believe that adding to the death count of innocent victims to this war is constructive to its end. That is a simple and clear difference of opinion that has long been established."

She also said she would "remain focused on cutting the flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide in Gaza."

The amendment was struck down by a vote of 422-6. In addition to Omar and Greene, Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
Al Green of Texas, Rashida Tlaib
...the very first ever Paleostinian-American ever sworn into Congress in 2019. She is a member of The Squad and consistently votes against the U.S. national interest. She's a Dem, naturally, from a safe district you wouldn't want to live in (Michigan's 12th congressional district). She wants the country to be kinda like Gaza only without any Jews for neighbors...
of Michigan and Summer Lee of Pennsylvania also supported it, as well as Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who opposes all foreign aid.

The overall Department of Defense Appropriations Act passed Friday with a vote of 221-209, allocating $832 billion in defense funding for 2026.

Ocasio-Cortez is part of the "Squad" of progressive politicians that includes Omar, Tlaib and Lee and often votes with them. Her vote against the bill reignited criticism from another frequent ally, the Democratic Socialists of America, which wrote in a statement Saturday that promoting any aid to Israel is "unacceptable."

"An arms embargo means keeping all arms out of the hands of a genocidal military, no exceptions. This is why we oppose Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’[s] vote against an amendment that would have blocked $500 million in funding for the Israeli military’s Iron Dome program," the DSA said in a statement.

Last year, the DSA pulled their endorsement of Ocasio-Cortez after she hosted a panel on antisemitism that the group said "conflated anti-Zionism with antisemitism and condemned boycotting Zionist institutions."

In 2021, Ocasio-Cortez also faced backlash for another Iron Dome-related bill. After successfully lobbying for the removal of $1 billion in funding for the defensive system, in a stand-alone vote to reallocate the funding, Ocasio-Cortez voted "present" and it passed 420-9.

In a statement responding the backlash at the time, Ocasio-Cortez wrote that while she had opposed the bill, the decision by House leadership to rush the vote created a "tinderbox of vitriol, disingenuous framing, deeply racist accusations and depictions, and lack of substantive discussion on this matter."

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2025 2025-07-22 00:32 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  We must prepare for Israel-hating leftists regaining the White House
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Anti-Trump activists are protesting outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC, shouting ''Colbert Stays, Trump Must Go''
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#1  Are these humans or NPC?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/22/2025 1:25 Comments || Top||


New York anti-Israel activist charged with torching 11 police vehicles
[IsraelTimes] Officials in New York charge an anti-Israel protester, Jakhi McCray, with setting 11 NYPD vehicles on fire last month.

McCray allegedly climbed a fence to access a parking lot for police vehicles on June 12, in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Once inside the lot, he ignited 10 NYPD vehicles and a trailer, the US attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York says.

The cost to replace the vehicles is around $800,000.

McCray, 21, is charged with arson and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years.

The NYPD identified McCray as a suspect last month. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at the time that McCray was “very active in the protest community, involving the Free Palestine movement.”
Ah. A professional.
Kenny also said McCray damaged a statute at Columbia University during protests on the campus last year.

Anti-Israel activist groups, including at Columbia, rally behind McCray ahead of his initial court appearance this afternoon.

“The time has come to rise in solidarity for our comrade, Jackhi McCray,” says Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the campus alliance leading anti-Israel protests at the university.


…protest last September, including vandalizing a statue


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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Jail him until he pays it back at $0.05 per license plate
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2025 0:20 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Yemeni forces launch drone attack on five Israeli military sites in occupied Palestine
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i Armed Forces carried out a military operation targeting multiple Israeli sites, including Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, the Eilat Port, Ramon Airport, and a vital target near Ashdod in occupied Paleostine.

The Yemeni Armed Forces issued the following statement:

''In support of the oppressed Paleostinian people and their dear Mujahideen, in response to the crime of genocide perpetrated by the Zionist enemy against our people in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, and in response to its recent aggression on the port of Hodeidah.

The UAV force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a qualitative military operation targeting Lod Airport and another military target in the areas of Yaffa, the Umm al-Rashrash Port, Ramon Airport, and a vital target in the Ashdod area in occupied Paleostine.

The operation successfully achieved its objectives, thanks be to Allah.

Great Yemen, the Yemen of those who trust in Allah, has been subjected to brutal aggression over the past months. With Allah's help, it has succeeded in confronting it and steadfastly confronting it.

With reliance on Allah, it is prepared to confront any hostile actions in the coming period aimed to preventing it from fulfilling its religious, moral, and humanitarian duty toward the oppressed Paleostinian people.

We continue and are committed to providing support and assistance to the oppressed Paleostinian people.

Our operations will not be ceased until the aggression against Gaza stops and the siege is lifted.''
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