#Ethiopia is “committed” to the #AU-led peace process aimed at ending the near two-year conflict in the north, the foreign ministry says, its first public comment after the Tigrayan authorities said they were ready to negotiate.https://t.co/itXdCVIF95
The Biden administration has decided to withhold $130 million of foreign military aid to #Egypt over its failure to fulfill human rights conditions, #US officials say, but allowed some funds to go through.https://t.co/bAre6qFHZrpic.twitter.com/2wYVzn7fl5
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don't really give a shit but,we send billions to Ukraine every week.
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I believe that elements of the Israel-Egypt Disengagement Treaty of 1974 (Sinai accords) are still in effect; and that includes USA annual billion dollar funding to Egypt and Israel to keep the peace.
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While I'm not a fan of foreign aid in general, I don't see why it is necessary to alienate the few allies we have left in the world. This is nothing more than preening virtue-signaling that will come back to bite us in years to come. When we need allies in the Near East and don't have any.
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It is necessary, Tom, to convince all those "allies" that the Globalist Reset and NWO are the only future there is.
[Breitbart] As the U.S. continues to see record-setting migrant apprehensions, human smugglers in Mexico operate with impunity as only two out of 174 arrested in one Mexican border state have been convicted and sentenced for their crimes in 2022.
In 2022, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office has obtained two convictions and sentences out of 174 alleged human smugglers arrested in the border state of Nuevo Leon, Reforma reports. In both of those cases, the smugglers received sentences of eight years in prison. Additionally, the publication noted that one more case went to trial, but was closed for evidentiary shortcomings.
In Nuevo Leon, federal authorities are seeing a 40 percent decrease in the apprehension of migrants in that border state compared to 2021. During the first half of the year, authorities in Nuevo Leon detained 3,242 migrants versus the 5,361 detained in the same period in 2021.
Rev. Luis Eduardo Zavala, the head of the Casa Monarca shelter in Nuevo Leon, told Reforma that the lack of convictions is tied to the professionalism of criminals able to find law enforcement loopholes.
The issue is further worsened by the widespread corruption of Mexican authorities. Members of Mexico’s National Immigration Institute have been the targets of several investigations over corrupt practices and their ties to human trafficking organizations in recent years.
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[KavkazUzel] The Southern District Military Court found justifying terrorism videos posted on social networks by residents of Ingushetia Said Ozdoev and Magomed Nalgiev. The court imposed a fine on both, each of them must pay 350,000 rubles.
The press service of the Southern District Court reported today on the consideration of two cases under the article on propaganda and justification of terrorism against the inhabitants of Ingushetia.
Magomed Nalgiyev was accused of posting on a social network page a video dedicated to the head of one of the illegal armed groups operating in the North Caucasus and a text "containing signs of recognizing the ideology and practice of terrorism as correct, in need of support and imitation," the Telegram message says. -court channel.
Ozdoev, according to the investigators and the court, "posted a video file and a text comment to it containing a public justification and propaganda of terrorism on one of the social networks," another message on the court's Telegram channel said today.
The court found Ozdoev and Nalgiev guilty and imposed a fine of 350,000 rubles on each of them, the press service reported.
There were no comments from the convicts or their official representatives regarding the court's decision.
The "Caucasian Kno " also wrote that Maryam Shadiyeva from Ingushetia was sentenced in February by the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don to a fine of 400,000 rubles on charges of justifying and promoting terrorism on the Internet.
[DAILYSABAH] Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson accepted defeat on Wednesday after a close-fought election, handing the four-party right-wing opposition bloc victory and forming a new government.
A handful of votes remain to be counted, but Andersson, who became Sweden's first woman prime minister last year, said the results showed the right bloc had won.
"In parliament, they have a one or two seat advantage," Andersson told a news conference. "It's a thin majority, but it is a majority."
Andersson said she would ask the speaker of parliament on Thursday to relieve her of her duties as prime minister.
Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party, is the right's candidate to be prime minister.
"I will now start the work of forming a new government that can get things done, a government for all of Sweden and all citizens," Kristersson told news hounds.
The Moderates, Sweden Democrats, Christian Democrats and Liberals had held a one-seat lead after Sunday's election but looked like getting 176 seats in the 349-seat parliament to the center-left's 173 seats, according to the latest figures from the election authority.
The result still has to be officially confirmed, probably by the weekend.
The election marks a watershed in Swedish politics with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, shunned by all the major parties when they first entered parliament in 2010, on the threshold of gaining influence over government policy.
Andersson said she understood that many Swedes were worried a party with roots in the white-supremacist fringe was now the country's second biggest party.
"I see your concern and I share it," she said.
The Sweden Democrats look set to win 20.6% of the vote, overtaking the Moderates, who got 19.1%, as the biggest party on the right.
Though Kristersson's party is smaller, Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Akesson cannot get the broad backing from the right needed to oust the Social Democrats.
Commanding only a thin majority, Kristersson faces a number of challenges.
Sweden, amidf a cost-of-living crisis, could be heading for recession next year.
The war in Ukraine has destabilized the Baltic region — Sweden's backyard — and uncertainty remains over whether Turkiye will finally agree to Stockholm's application for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... membership.
Measures to address climate change and long-term energy policy also need to be thrashed out while holes in the welfare system exposed by the pandemic need to be plugged and a planned surge in defense spending financed.
#Iran intends to pursue membership of a Chinese and Russian-led bloc that is meeting in Uzbekistan this week, President Ebrahim Raisi says as he prepares to head to the summit.https://t.co/L3U7VSrerW
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.
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson accepted defeat on Wednesday after a close-fought election, handing the four-party right-wing opposition bloc victory and forming a new government.
