Rome, Italy: Climate change protesters with Extinction Rebellion blocking the GRA motorway are dragged out of the way by angry drivers. pic.twitter.com/pC5pbf7BdE
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meanwhile causing many cars to sit with engines idling and then make it to their destination. Way to put more CO2 into the environment you NumbNuts!
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I can tell you all about motoring in California in one short paragraph:
You're running late. You're stuck in traffic. You're low on gas. You gotta pee...real bad. And when you finally get there you can't find a place to park.
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[Breitbart] A new Border Patrol enforcement policy has been disseminated to agents warning them not to enforce immigration laws or attempt to arrest migrants near waterways, walls, canals, or other barriers. According to a CBP source, the policy most likely foreshadows pending administrative disciplinary charges against members of the agency’s Horse Patrol Unit lodged during the Haitian migrant crisis in Del Rio.
The source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, says the document also warns against repatriating migrants without due process by encouraging them to return to Mexico. The memorandum from Tony L. Barker, Acting Chief of the Border Patrol’s Law Enforcement Directorate, was disseminated on Friday.
[Jpost] A Sikh worshipper and a Taliban fighter were killed following a blast in a car loaded with explosives.
An attack on a Sikh temple in the Afghan capital of Kabul killed at least two people and injured seven on Saturday, following a blast in a car loaded with explosives, officials said, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Grey smoke billowed over the area in images aired by domestic broadcaster Tolo. A Taliban interior spokesman said attackers had laden a car with explosives but it had detonated before reaching its target.
Taliban authorities were securing the site, he added.
"There were around 30 people inside the temple," said a temple official, Gornam Singh. "We don't know how many of them are alive or how many dead."
Temple authorities did not know what to do, as the Taliban were not allowing them inside, Singh told Reuters.
A spokesman for Kabul's commander said his forces had taken control of the area and cleared it of attackers. One Sikh worshipper had been killed in the attack and one Taliban fighter killed during the clearing operation, he added.
AFGHAN SIKHS
Sikhs are a tiny religious minority in largely Muslim Afghanistan, comprising about 300 families before the country fell to the Taliban. But many left afterward, say members of the community and media.
Like other religious minorities, Sikhs have been a continual target of violence in Afghanistan. An attack at another temple in Kabul in 2020 that killed 25 was claimed by Islamic State.
Saturday's explosion follows a blast at a mosque in the northern city of Kunduz the previous day that killed one person and injured two, according to authorities.
[ToloNews] The Kunduz Police Command said in a statement that one person was killed and seven others were maimed in a blast at the Alif-Birdi mosque in the Imam Sahib district of Kunduz today.
According to the statement, the blast was caused by a mine planted in the mosque and detonated around 1:30 pm during Friday prayers.
The Kunduz Police Command said that security forces arrived at the scene and the injured were taken to the 50-bed Imam Sahib Hospital.
The National Resistance Front (NRF) claimed it has shot down a Taliban helicopter in Panjshir province’s Arezoo valley. Read more at:https://t.co/cRFAU2N0PV
[Garowe] Somalia's regional forces on Friday morning killed 16 al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... bandidosDeath Eaters in a foiled attack on Bahdo town in the central part of the country, officials said.
The military officials from Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... State told Somali National Army (SNA) Radio that the regional forces backed by the local residents fought bravely and repulsed the attackers.
"The regional security forces of Somalia's Galmudug State and local residents have gallantly repulsed an attack by al-Shabaab on Bahdo town on Friday morning, killing 16 al-Shabaab terrorists," the SNA Radio reported.
The locals said the dead bodies of al-Shabaab bandidosDeath Eaters were scattered on the ground after the foiled attack.
Witnesses said al-Shabaab started their offensive by detonating multiple vehicle-borne improvised bombs targeting the village and security forces.
"But the troops later teamed up with local residents and local Sufi militia to put up a strong resistance and thwarted the attack," a local resident who declined to be named said on the phone.
The Somali government forces which have intensified security operations across the country since early this year have vowed to sustain the onslaught against the murderous Moslem group until their fighters are subdued.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the al-Shabaab terror group which still controls some parts of rural southern and central Somalia continues to carry out high-profile attacks in Mogadishu and elsewhere across the country.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least three children from one family were maimed in a landmine explosion left behind by the Saudi-led coalition forces near Airport street in al-Hawk district in Hodeidah province, western 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... The Executive Center for Mine Action has said that three children from one family in al-Hawk district were maimed by the earth-shattering kaboom of a mine left by the aggression forces.
The Center renewed its demand to provide mine detectors to save the lives of thousands of civilians in many Yemeni provinces, stressing that new victims are registered every day as a result of these remnants.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The UAE-backed militias have raped six girls in Hodeidah province, western 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... , local and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... sources reported on Thursday.
According to the sources, members of Bassam al-Mihadhar brigade stationed in several areas in the district of Hays, raped six girls, including 2 sisters. Who do they think they are? UN Protection Forces?
Following the incident, the families of the girls, the citizens met and stormed the al-Sawehirrah School, which the UAE-backed militias have turned into a military barrack for al-Mihadhar Brigade and clashed with individuals.
These forces responded by carrying out raids on houses and arresting citizens, including the families of the girls.
The sources pointed out that dozen of girls have been raped in these areas when they go outside in search for firewood, grazing and fetching water.
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"He said, 'this isn't real maple syrup' and just opened up on the place," detective...
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Ciudad Juárez has been off limits to active military personnel for decades with Fort Bliss just across the border. Wonder why?
Certain families park their loved ones in El Paso. There is reason crime is relatively low in El Paso. Crimes committed are sometimes handled by vendetta rather than the local police. Due process and punishment not necessarily in accordance with Hoyle.
The FSB Directorate for Kabardino-Balkaria reported on the investigation of a criminal case against a resident of Nalchik, who is suspected of promoting terrorism through a social network.
A criminal case under the article on public calls to carry out terrorist activities, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) is being investigated against a 29-year-old resident of Nalchik.
She, "using an anonymous page, distributed in one of the social networks materials containing signs of public calls for terrorist activities, public justification of terrorism or its propaganda," Interfax quoted the FSB department for Kabardino-Balkaria as saying today.
According to Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, a public justification of terrorism committed with the use of the media or information and telecommunication networks, including the Internet, is punishable by imprisonment for up to seven years.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that a criminal case had been opened in Kabardino-Balkaria against a local resident who posted a video on video hosting justifying terrorist and separatist activities in the North Caucasus, investigators reported on June 14.
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[SHAFAQ] A source in the Asayish forces reported that a comprehensive investigation has been launched into the Ottoman Turkish attack on Kalar, in the Kurdistan Region.
The source told Shafaq News agency that the Ottoman Turkish drone targeted a vehicle carrying six members of the Kurdistan Workers Party, who were on their way from al-Sulaymaniyah to Kalar.
The Counter-Terrorism department in the Kurdistan Region confirmed that a Ottoman Turkish drone targeted Kalar, the Kurdistan region, killing four members of the Kurdistan Workers Party.
In addition, the department noted that an injured PKK member was injured and hospitalized.
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[BenarNews] Two wanted Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... suspects accused of beheading foreign nationals surrendered to the military Friday in the southern Philippine province of Sulu, a move authorities are calling a serious blow to the murderous Moslem group.
Suspected Abu Sayyaf sub-leaders Almujer Yadah, (also called Mujer), 55, and Ben Quirino, (also called Ben Tatto), 41, walked into the army’s Joint Task Force (JTF) Sulu headquarters in Jolo, Sulu’s capital town, surprising officials there.
They are considered among the "most notorious" of the group’s men, said the JTF commander in Sulu, Maj. Gen. Ignatius Patrimonio.
"They have many cases, with warrants of arrest, ranging from kidnapping for ransom and many others [against them]," Patrimonio said of the two murderous Moslems, who were known to operate from the jungles of Indanan and Patikul town in Sulu.
"They are involved in the abduction and beheading of foreign nationals."
The surrender of the two sub-leaders, which was facilitated by military and police units, has dealt "serious leadership and organization setbacks" to the Abu Sayyaf, said Lt. Col. Alaric delos Santos, JTF Sulu civil military operations officer.
The reason for the surrender? "Because they were always on the run, have no place to hide, [were] exhausted and often experienced starvation," he said.
"They also revealed that they no longer have the support of the community and were asked to stay away from the community," said delos Santos.
The suspects have seven standing arrest warrants against them, including for kidnapping with serious illegal detention, the complex crime of multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder, and violation of the Anti-Terrorism Act, Sulu provincial police director Col. Jaime Mojica told news hounds.
Yadah and Quirino were key participants in the kidnapping and beheading of German Jurgen Kantner, he said.
The Abu Sayyaf reportedly seized Kantner and his wife, Sabine Merz, while the couple was on their yacht in Sabah in November 2016. The yacht was later found in Sulu, with the body of Merz who was shot by the perpetrators. Kantner was brought to Indanan where he was beheaded by his captors after three months, Mojica said.
Mojica said the two were also involved in the kidnapping and beheading of Canadians John Ridsdel and Robert Hall.
Ridsdel, Hall, Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad and Filipina Marites Flor were taken from a posh resort on Samal Island in Davao del Norte in September 2015. Ridsdel and Hall ended up being beheaded months later while Sekkingstad and Flor were released.
Mojica said Yadah and Quirino were also involved in the kidnapping of 21 mostly European victims at a diving resort in Sipadan, Malaysia, in 2000. They were also said to be involved in the beheading of captured soldiers.
Mojica said Yadah and Quirino were also tied to the twin bombings in Jolo in August 2020 that left 15 people dead, including soldiers, and scores others injured.
Delos Santos said Yadah and Quirino will have to face the charges against them.
"They will undergo the legal process of the law and will pay for the crime they have committed," he said.
He said the two will be immediately sent to police custody for the legal process as they faced serious criminal charges.
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[An Nahar] Iranian authorities have arrested a person accused of having a link to two French citizens being held on espionage charges, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported Thursday.
The report said the suspect was a Marxist who visited two French spies before the May 1 International Workers' Day, as part of a plot to "create unrest among workers."
It did not disclose the suspect's gender, but said the person was arrested by intelligence services while trying to leave the country through West Azerbaijan Province. TV also said the accused was tasked with rallying workers and teachers for street protests.
In May, 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... confirmed it has detained two French citizens, Cecile Kohler, 37, and Chuck Gay Paree, 69, saying they met with protesting teachers, took part in an anti-government rally, and were organizing a protest to create unrest in Iran.
La Belle France identified the two as a teachers' union official and her partner who were on vacation in Iran.
Teachers have held several strikes and protests in cities across Iran in recent weeks, walking out of their classrooms to press for better pay and working conditions.
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Just curious: Did he look like Pepe Le Pew?
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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.
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...The nation is noted for 
