[Tolo News] On Monday, Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) announced that eight people were killed and six injured in a flash flood in northern Baghlan province.
ANDMA officials said the flash flood has affected more than 1,200 homes in nine districts of the province. They added that aid is on the way.
The recent floods in northern Sar-e-Pul, Jowzjan, Faryab and western Badghis provinces of Afghanistan have claimed the lives of 148 people and nearly 60 are missing.
Afghanistan, particularly in the mountainous north, is often flooded throughout the spring and summer seasons. Afghans blame the poor infrastructure of the country.
The flash flood in Baghlan happened just days after 2,500 people were killed in a landslide in northern Badakhshan province on Friday.
Rescuers stopped searching for survivors in the double landslide because the lack of machine power to dig thru 50 meters of mud caused by flooding related to ice and snow melt in northern Badakhshan.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A son of a powerful Awami League politician made the deal with some Rab men to kill Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam, Nazrul's father-in-law Shahidul Islam has claimed.
The son acted on behalf of Narayanganj ward-4 Councillor Nur Hossain, who is the prime accused in the sensational abduction and murder case.
Shahidul said a double agent disclosed to him the plot of killing Nazrul for Tk 6 crore, which was paid to the killers about a week before the abduction of Nazrul and his four aides on April 27 and their subsequent killing.
The information regarding this transaction was communicated with the government through Narayanganj AL politician Shamim Osman after the incident, he added.
The Narayanganj issue was discussed in the cabinet meeting yesterday.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... The Daily Star could not independently verify any of Shahidul's claims and therefore cannot name the MP and his son.
The agent, who is an ally of ward-4 Councillor Nur Hossain, told Shahidul that the murder deal was finalised in a clandestine meeting a week before the abduction.
This agent, who also maintained close links with Shahidul and his followers, claimed he was in the meeting.
Four days before the abduction, the agent alerted Shahidul of the plot and asked him to send Nazrul into hiding to escape murder.
"As Nazrul was already getting death threats and was already staying outside his area for over two months, I did not pay much attention to the tip-off," he told The Daily Star.
He said the AL MP whose son made the deal with Rab members holds a cabinet post.
Nur Hossain, Haji Yasin and Hasmat Ali, three top accused in the case, held the meeting.
Hasmat is Shahidul's younger brother who turned into a close ally of Nur Hossain, following a family dispute.
Shahidul first made the stunning claim on Sunday that some Rab members killed Nazrul in exchange for Tk 6 crore from Nur Hossain and other accused.
Contacted, Rab Legal and Media Wing Director Habibur Rahman said the force was being implicated in the crime with an ill motive.
"The investigation is on. The probe will reveal who is responsible for what," he told this correspondent on Sunday night.
Shahidul said some workers witnessed the abductions on April 27 near Shibu Market at Ring Road in Narayanganj.
On the day, Nazrul and his four aides -- Tajul, Liton, Swapan and Jahangir -- and senior lawyer Chandan Sarker and his driver Ibrahim were kidnapped separately, but around the same time after they came out of the court area in two cars.
Six bodies were found floating in the Shitalakkhya river three days later and another the next day.
Police suspect a single group was behind the crime, while Nazrul's wife Selina Islam said Nur Hossain was responsible for the kidnap and the killing.
Shahidul said he went to the Rab-11 headquarters in Adamji to report the abduction soon after he came to know form the eyewitnesses, but the commanding officer (CO) kept him confined for six hours there and quizzed him.
On the same day, Shahidul and his daughter Selina Islam went to the Fatullah Police Station to file a case against Rab men, including its CO, but the police refused to take the case.
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Many healthcare officials in this polarised, oil-rich South American country believe the biggest obstacle to eliminating the disease could be a political one. "Unless you have a concerted effort between the government and public health sectors the problem just grows exponentially," said Dr Gustavo Villasmil, health minister in the opposition-led state of Miranda. OK, so Venezuela is polarized. BUT: it's been ruled by essentially the same people since 1999 or so; it's had fifteen continuous years of the same government, effectively a bunch of capos of the Red Mafia, which has expanded its power greatly. It's turned to an enourmous mess under the rule of the people the left has told us are the Good Guys. And they're going to say the problem is 'polarization?'
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OOPS, meant Page 3... final exams destroyed my brain.
[Bloomberg] As Russia's central bank struggles to shield the ruble from the standoff over Ukraine, Vasily Isaev it may already be too little, too late to save his plans for a vacation in Italy.
"If you get your salary in rubles, a trip to the beach in Europe is going to be difficult this year," said the 37-year-old sales manager, looking up from his English homework in the park near Tverskoy Boulevard in central Moscow. "We're going to Bulgaria instead of Italy this year and we're renting an apartment a little further away from the sea."
Consumers like Isaev, spending more than a few months ago to fill a shopping cart with everyday items, may be squeezed most by the currency's decline as inflation quickens. Wobbling consumption threatens to knock out another pillar of the economy reeling from sanctions that stoked capital flight.
Unruffled by the central bank's emergency measures, the ruble has declined as an expanding list of U.S. and European Union sanctions in response to President Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine sparked a selloff of Russian assets. The ruble has weakened 8 percent this year, the second-worst performance after the Argentine peso among 24 emerging-market currencies tracked by Bloomberg.
The central bank has been trying to halt the decline by raising its benchmark interest rate twice in the last two months by a total of 2 percentage points. The ruble's weakening is increasing the cost of living by making imported goods more expensive.
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Just as the Chinese have problems mastering modern jet engine manufacture, the Russians have problems mastering free markets. To many people seem to settle for less if they control more.
The Red Mafia's been dependent for growth on the idea that the Red Mafia's branch here stresses Free Trade because it temporarily insulates them from the effects of their deindustrialization policies.
At any rate, I'm surprised that the sanctions actually amount to anything, I thought they'd be precisely calculated to not really accomplish anything.
I was against buying the RD-180, or the Soyuz, for twenty years, not because of Russia and Ukraine, but because of Russia and Iran.
It's hard to believe they kept this stuff up for two decades.
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I don't know if it's the Sanctions, or just investment brokers fleeing the Russian economy. Given the history of what's happened elsewhere, there's no reason to put your money into an economy where it will just be seized.
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there's no reason to put your money into an economy where it will just be seized.
These days, I think the name of that economy is "Earth."
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What affects Russia will also ultimately affect its "strategic ally/" + SCO-CSTO ally, BFF China, now suffering from Militant-Separatist flareups on its own.
Again, iff the US-NATO/EU = West is worried about post-2014, "legal" Taliban control of Pakistan's Nukes vee formal power-sharing, they + OWG Globalists will really be worried + biting their nails once the Hard Boyz get a hold of Russian [+ Chinese? Indian?] Nukes.
An econ-struggling Russia makes things that much EASIER, OR LESS DIFFICULT, for the Hard Boyz.
[Beirut Daily Star] Pro-Russian rebels shot down a Ukrainian helicopter in fierce fighting near the eastern town of Slaviansk Monday, and Kiev drafted police special forces to the southwestern port city of Odessa to halt a feared westward spread of rebellion.
Ukraine said the Odessa force, based on "civil activists," would replace local police who had failed to tackle rebel actions at the weekend. Its dispatch was a clear signal from Kiev that, while tackling rebellion in the east, it would vigorously resist any sign of a slide to a broader civil war.
Odessa, with its ethnic mix from Russians to Ukrainians, Georgians to Tatars a cultural contrast to the pro-Russian east, was quiet Monday. Ukrainian flags flew at half mast for funerals of some of the dozens killed in festivities Friday.
But in the east, fighting intensified around the pro-Russian stronghold of Slaviansk, a city of 118,000, where rebel fighters ambushed Ukrainian forces early in the day.
The Interior Ministry said five Ukrainian paramilitary police were killed. Separatists said four of their number had also been killed.
The sound of an air-raid siren could be heard in the center of Slaviansk and a church bell rang in the main square.
Russia's Foreign Ministry called on Kiev to "stop the bloodshed, withdraw forces and finally sit down at the negotiating table."
It also published an 80-page report detailing "widespread and gross human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations" in Ukraine over the past six months for which it blamed the new government and its Western allies.
Russia denies Ukrainian and Western accusations it is seeking to undermine the country of 45 million and using special forces to lead the insurgency across the border, as it did before annexing Crimea in March.
The self-declared pro-Russian Mayor of Slaviansk Vyacheslav Ponomarev told Rooters by telephone: "[The Ukrainians] are reinforcing, deploying ever more forces here. Recently there was a parachute drop ... For us, they are not military, but fascists."
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Ukraine said the Odessa force, based on "civil activists,"
[Beirut Daily Star] A leader of the Crimean Tatars, a Mohammedan minority group on the Moscow-controlled peninsula, said Monday that the new Russian authorities had threatened to prosecute them for "extremism".
The leader of the ethnic minority's assembly, known as the Mejlis, Refat Chubarov, said the chief regional prosecutor had on Sunday read him an official warning to stop "extremist activities".
The warning came after hundreds of pro-Kiev Tatars clashed with the region's authorities at the weekend because of a ban on their spiritual leader visiting Crimea.
Chubarov said he feared that the authorities planned to prosecute him.
"I know that a criminal case will be opened against me today," he told AFP, expressing fears that the authorities were gearing up to launch "repressions" against Tatar activists.
"There will also be attempts to declare the Mejlis an bully boy organization," he said.
In March, Crimea's 300,000 Tatars, who make up around 12 percent of the peninsula's population largely boycotted a disputed referendum in which the majority voted to join Russia.
Crimea's regional prosecutor, Natalia Poklonskaya, has warned the community that its assembly will be banned if the Tatars continue with "extremist activities," according to the Mejlis.
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Speaking of Russia in recession ... ...
* See also RELATED TOPIX > [VOA News] KERRY: MORE US SANCTIONS COULD TAKE A "BIGGER BITE" FROM RUSSIA'S ECONOMY.
* RELATED SAME > RUSSIA TO CRIMEAN TATARS: "YOU'RE EITHER WITH US, OR AGAINST US".
Words + warnings which of course will endear Russia to the numbers of Regional + International Hard Boyz repor gathering in LIBYA + SYRIA + IRAQ.
* FYI WORLD NEWS > [Daily Beast] SO MANY JIAHDISTS ARE FLOCKING TO LIBYA, SOME COUNTER-TERRORISTS [Experts] NOW CALL IT "SCUMBAG WOODSTOCK".
Such large numbers weren't planned or anticipated but it happened anyway.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] China has drawn up detailed contingency plans for the collapse of the North Korean government, suggesting that Beijing has little faith in the longevity of Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... 's regime.
Documents drawn up by planners from China's People's Liberation Army that were leaked to Japanese media include proposals for detaining key North Korean leaders and the creation of refugee camps on the Chinese side of the frontier in the event of an outbreak of civil unrest in the secretive state.
The report calls for stepping up monitoring of China's 879-mile border with North Korea.
Any senior North Korean military or politicians who could be the target of either rival factions or another "military power," thought to be a reference to the United States, should be given protection, the documents state.
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This should be interesting, I understand there are reports of North Korea fires burning out of control in the northeast section of the country.
Stay tuned to Rantburg for the latest reports...
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If Pudgy were to travel to China, watch for a terrible natural disaster destroy the train tracks ( bonus points if Dear Leader gets landslided......)
[DAWN] The World Health Organisation on Monday recommended strict travel restrictions on Pakistain due to the rising number of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... cases in the country.
The WHO said the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling disease.
The public health arm of the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , issued its new guidelines to fight the disease, recommending Paks traveling abroad should present a polio vaccination certificate.
The WHO also recommended similar restrictions on Syria and Cameroon -- two other countries where the disease was previously said to have been eradicated but have recently been known to have been exporting the potentially disease.
Pakistain is one of only three countries where the crippling virus is endemic. The other two countries are Nigeria and Afghanistan.
In an announcement today, the agency described the ongoing polio outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an ''extraordinary'' situation requiring a coordinated international response.
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WHO renames polio "Mohammed's Paralysis".
(a headline I'd like to see)
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Unfortunately the Nard Boyz believe that disease is a powerful weapon for defeating the Un-Islamic Infidel, even iff it means many of their own die or are permamently crippled.
ITV, its just another form of Quran-approved, "BY ANY, EACH + ALL MEANS NECESSARY" WARFARE, in this case GERM, BIOLOGICAL WARFARE.
Life is so much more exciting than it was is the long ago days of my youth, when the most exciting thing that happened to a bird was that God saw it fall.
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I wonder, does this mean the folks at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System are sell dipping sauce on the side or do you have to bring your own ?
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Yep, concentrated Solar power will do that, can't explain that to the birds.
But there are plenty of birds.
(You may guess I'm Not a bird lover)
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Just outta curiosity Jim, what do you like? You don't seem to be a cat person, you've never mentioned dawgs. Have you an aquarium? Perhaps raise horses?
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The wise GIVERnment should put the solar panels in tunnels and caves to avoid killing birds. This way taxpayers can still get hosed while the birds are safe.
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Bird lovers are out spent by crony kickback agents in the 'alternate' energy game. Simple as that. It was never about the 'environment', it's about money and power ensconced in a false religion to keep the rubes amused.
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Actually, I like Cats, not exotics, just tabbys.
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The sad thing is the massive bird deaths from wind
turbines were predicted before a single turbine went up. However we were drowned out by the progressive narrative.
What is really infuriating is these deaths were completely predictable and preventable for a slight cost. Of course, that would require liberals to admit they made a mistake and stick around to fix their own messes. Hey, we can dream can't we?
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Tabbies are the perfect cats, RJ. :-D
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Yeah I agree with Pappy, with one change (which might satisfy Redneck Jim) Post large warning labels - on signs 100 feet high with a Tabby Cat on the side saying "Birds Be Aware - No Fly Zone - Either the Heat will get You or I will - Yum !"
That will stop them /sarc off.
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Seriously? nobody can come up with a scarecrow that would get these birds to stay well away from the area? Perhaps some sound that the birds find annoying and avoid?
How about training Eagles to avoid the area and then setting up a few nests so they keep the other birds away.
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.
[Bloomberg] As Russia's central bank struggles to shield the ruble from the standoff over Ukraine, Vasily Isaev it may already be too little, too late to save his plans for a vacation in Italy.
North Korea
