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Libya declares UK Ambassador persona non grata
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Page 1: WoT Operations
Good Morning	3 16:26 jpal [11128]
The Germany-Pakistan connection to the Ludhiana blast	0 [11129]
Israeli airstrikes said to hit key Syrian port of Latakia, causing ‘massive’ damage	0 [11132]
At least five killed in suspected Turkish attack in Kobane	0 [11122]
Greece: 3 charged with murder after migrant boat deaths	0 [11128]
Rockets fired at Turkish military base in Nineveh, no casualties: official	0 [11132]
Iraq’s top court ratifies election results despite allegations of fraud	2 01:05 CrazyFool [11127]
Bomb blast in Somali capital kills 4, including senior security official	0 [11135]
Large security operations launched in northern Basra	0 [11127]
Libyan Parliament declares UK Ambassador to Libya persona non grata	1 07:10 Sheter the Lesser9291 [11131]
Grenade hurled at CRPF bunker in south Kashmir's Bijbehara	0 [11122]
Scotland Yard probes video showing Indian Sikh declaring to assassinate Queen	0 [11129]
Two Jaish associates arrested in south Kashmir's Pulwama	0 [11126]
A far-left convicted domestic terrorist has been sentenced in federal court in Washington state to a year in prison	3 15:23 M. Murcek [11128]
Afghans Desperate; Taliban Face Economic Ruin	9 15:03 Procopius2k [11124]
KSA Says IS-Linked Man Executed for Suicide Attack Plot	1 07:32 Frank G [11130]
Nigeria’s Secret Police, DSS Negotiate N20million Ransom With Kidnappers Who Abducted Operative In Abuja	0 [11125]
Terrorists, Bandits Take Over Hometown Of Secretary To Nigerian Government, Boss Mustapha	0 [11126]
Bandits Attack 15 Villages, Kidnap Over 30 Women In Zamfara	1 13:25 Skidmark [11132]
'Al-Jabha al-Shamiya' terrorists sell homes of citizens in Afrin city	0 [11127]
Several QSD militiamen injured in attack north of Deir Ezzor	0 [11128]
Fourteen Palestinians arrested in the west Bank	0 [11130]
Hezbollah rejects evidence of the group's role in the Yemen conflict	0 [11125]
Page 2: WoT Background
Iran demands oil export permission before nuclear talks in Vienna	4 13:37 Skidmark [11128]
ISIS attacks killed over 350 people in Iraq in 11 months	1 13:41 Skidmark [11126]
Egypt, Jordan, Palestine ministers review proposals to break stalemate in Middle East peace process	0 [11125]
Libyan MP Calls for Tougher Penalties against Human Traffickers	0 [11126]
Yemeni Minister Urges 'Withdrawal' of Hizbullah from Yemen	0 [11124]
Aoun Criticizes Hizbullah without Naming It	1 00:10 Raj [11127]
Bassil Meets Safa, 'FPM-Hizbullah Alliance Ongoing'	0 [11126]
President al-Assad issues new financial law for administrative units	0 [11130]
Somali President Suspends Prime Minister's Powers, Accuses Him Of Land Fraud	1 00:13 Raj [11127]
Locals in al-Ziyara village, Aleppo countryside protest against Turkish occupation crimes	0 [11129]
Page 3: Non-WoT
S.Korea authorises emergency use of Pfizer's oral coronavirus treatment	1 13:25 swksvolFF [11125]
US animal shelter shocked after 800 parakeets handed over	0 [11124]
Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to put penny in plug socket	1 13:44 Skidmark [11126]
Unusual relief featuring a frontal depiction of a man holding his phallus is discovered at a Neolithic site in Turkey dating back 10,000 years	2 14:12 Eohippus Throsing2556 [11122]
China DISINFECTS Xian city and brings in 'strictest level' Covid restrictions, JAILING anyone seen driving a car for ten days as surge continues despite draconian lockdown of 13 million residents	1 11:23 SteveS [11124]
China's military machine launches THREE warships in one day: One vessel joins its navy as two others are exported	5 14:04 Eohippus Throsing2556 [11129]
Founder of Russian nationalist blog that supported the annexation of Ukraine but later predicted civil war and criticised Putin falls to his death from Moscow window after ‘screams and shouting' were heard from his flat	4 20:57 borgboy [11125]
Turkish influencer is given suspended five-month jail term in home country after posing alongside giant penis statue for 'obscene' photos in Amsterdam's Sex Museum	5 15:38 swksvolFF [11126]
China develops AI 'prosecutor' that can identify 'dissent' and press charges for common crimes 'with 97% accuracy'	2 13:03 Merrick Ferret [11126]
Spanish tomb of The Man Who Never Was - whose corpse was used in Britain's famous Operation Mincemeat plan to fool Hitler - could be EXHUMED to settle doubts over the body's true identity	3 13:30 Mike Kozlowski [11126]
Fauci says mask wearing on planes could be here to stay	3 15:50 swksvolFF [11127]
Finnish Man Blows Up His Tesla to Protest $22,600 Repair Cost	9 20:34 Frank G [11127]
Brooklyn Museum adds slavery disclaimer to George Washington portrait	3 07:21 Procopius2k [11128]
Sex Toy Lover, Senator Abbo's Thugs Batter, Brutalise His Former Aide In Adamawa	1 00:37 Secret Master [11125]
Political Thugs Destroy Cars, Voting Materials At Zamfara	0 [11125]
Sex Worker Vomits Blood After Proposed Threesome With Suspected Ritualists In Osun	8 21:26 Woodrow [11125]
Islamic Cleric Found With Human Skull, Slumps, Dies In Nigerian Police Custody	2 15:37 Rob Crawford [11126]
Albanians flee Kosovo, Renounce their citizenship	0 [11124]
Valve Names Top 12 Most Successful Steam Games in 2021	1 13:18 swksvolFF [11125]
Be aware, it happens quickly: Man slashes NYC woman in face, body in caught-on-video attack	1 01:09 Skidmark [11125]
Las Vegas cops find severed head in pickup truck during traffic stop	12 15:39 Rob Crawford [11132]
UAE Issues First Civil Marriage Licence To Non-Muslim Couple Under New Law	1 07:43 Frank G [11128]
Page 4: Opinion
The African nation aiming to be a hydrogen superpower	9 21:27 Woodrow [11129]
Saudi Arabia 'is building ballistic missiles' with China's help at top secret base that threatens balance of power in Middle East cold war with Iran	0 [11125]
CIA advisor and expert in foreign conflicts believes the US is 'closer to civil war than anyone would like to believe' and claims America is no longer a democracy but an 'anocracy'	13 21:26 CrazyFool [11128]
Omicron Has Killed As Many People As … Alec Baldwin's Gun	4 15:05 Lord Garth [11124]
An Airborne Vaccine? Will Omicron crowd out the Beta and Delta variants and act like an airborne vaccine, albeit a naturally occurring one?	5 16:53 Lord Garth [11128]
Science: New York's Essential Workers Need Only Quarantine For Half The Normal Time	4 14:06 Skidmark [11128]
Flu is making a comeback in US after an unusual year off	0 [11128]
The Indians are coming - Racial Shifting in America	10 16:49 Merrick Ferret [11134]
The Biden Presidency: A Horrible Accident of History	10 22:24 JohnQC [11126]
Lessons From An Underground Economy	1 07:47 Procopius2k [11126]
Chronicle of the civil war in Georgia. Prelude	0 [11127]
Wake Island - The Loneliest Battle of WW2	1 07:59 Procopius2k [11127]
Page 6: Politix
Kamala: Our Democracy Is Doomed Without Federal Takeover Over Voting System	8 22:08 JohnQC [11125]
Biden signs the $768B national defense bill with more money for Ukraine, fighter jets, submarines and warships as Putin threatens war with Ukraine and China develops hypersonic missiles	6 21:31 Woodrow [11130]
Biden's ambassador to Bahrain Steven Bondy used insulting and racist language about Arabs 'all the time'	3 07:55 M. Murcek [11124]
Biden tells governors there is 'no federal solution on COVID'	16 22:06 JohnQC [11128]

    
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                        17:10 Merrick Ferret

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                        16:26 jpal

                        16:17 Deacon Blues

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Who's in the News
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4	Hezbollah
4	Sublime Porte
4	Commies
3	Banditti
2	Palestinian Authority
2	Govt of Pakistain Proxies
2	Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
2	Human Trafficking
2	Govt of Syria
2	Islamic State
2	Govt of Iraq
2	Govt of Iran
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1	al-Shabaab (AQ)
1	Antifa/BLM
1	Arab Spring
1	Devout Moslems
1	Govt of Pakistan
1	Govt of Saudi Arabia
1	Jaish-e-Mohammad
1	Mob Rule
1	Taliban/IEA

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Tue 2021-12-28
Libya declares UK Ambassador persona non grata

Mon 2021-12-27
DRC - Deadly bombing at restaurant packed for Christmas

Sun 2021-12-26
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Sat 2021-12-25
Poland: Migrants Attacking Border with ‘Full Aggression’ Using ‘Stones, Logs, Metal Poles as Weapons’

Fri 2021-12-24
Egypt’s border guards arrest over 2,000 irregular migrants, seize tons of drugs

Thu 2021-12-23
Nigeria: Fulani Jihadists Kill 45 Christian Farmers in 'Barbaric' Attack

Wed 2021-12-22
Sudan's Prime Minister Abadalla Hamdok to resign

Tue 2021-12-21
Saudi Arabian 'potential terrorist' nabbed at US-Mexico border

Mon 2021-12-20
Death Toll In Fresh Bandits’ Attack On Kaduna Communities Rises To 38

Sun 2021-12-19
2018 Bodh Gaya blast: 3 JMB terrorists get life imprisonment

Sat 2021-12-18
ISIS-linked extremists decapitate Christian pastor in Mozambique

Fri 2021-12-17
US Navy rescues Iranian drug smugglers from burning ship off coast of Oman

Thu 2021-12-16
Libya PM's office surrounded by militia

Wed 2021-12-15
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Tue 2021-12-14
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