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Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell Brooks faces new charge for death of 8-year-old boy
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Afghanistan
Govt Pledges to Pay Overdue Salaries
Sure they will. Someday.
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Finance said on Monday that it has finalized the plan to pay two months' worth of owed salaries to babus government employees.

Earlier the government said that it would pay the salaries for three months owed to the employees.

The ministry said technical issues in the system are the reason for the delay in payments
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Money for Afghanistan: $250k from UNHCR for Kabul families, $32mil pledged for Afghans at home, in Iran and Pakistan from S. Korea

Approximately one thousand families given cash by UNHCR in Kabul
[KhaamaPress] As the winter season is approaching and the humanitarian crisis is deepening in Afghanistan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees provided nearly one thousand vulnerable families with cash. The vulnerable and displaced families were given $265 each in Poli Charkhi area of the Afghan capital Kabul.

In the meantime, officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said that they have provided aid to thousands of families in the past few days and added to be continuing the aid across the country.

South Korea pledges $32M in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan’s ambassador to South Korea Abdul Hakim Attarud added that the aid is planned to be distributed through the UN’s administrations, UNDP, WFP, and UNHCR.

South Korea has said that the aid will not only be delivered to vulnerable people in Afghanistan but to Afghan refugees in Iran and Pakistan.

The country has also said that money will be spent in providing shelter, food, health services.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Africa Horn
East Africa: A region in flux
[AlAhram] Several countries have started withdrawing their citizens from Æthiopia as the war in the country moves from bad to worse and ethnic rebel groups close in on the capital. Israel, in addition, has plans to airlift close to 3,000 Jewish Æthiopians from the country.

Egyptian and foreign diplomatic sources speak openly of direct UAE, Saudi Arabian, Russian, Chinese, and French interventions in the country. Cairo is aware that Æthiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is being armed and financially supported by at least one Arab Gulf state.
"Though we don’t have many citizens in Æthiopia, we are closely monitoring the situation and it does not look good," said an Egyptian government source who asked for his name to be withheld.

Staff at the Egyptian Embassy in Addis Ababa, added the source, are still in place but "it’s not a very big embassy to start with."
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2021 00:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The very definition of a sh*thole country, leftist protestations that "there's no such thing" to the contrary.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/01/2021 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Long-standing regional conflict. Perhaps the next 40,000 years will be different.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libya’s Al-Koni Urges Kubis to Reconsider Resignation
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
El-Zakzaky, Wife Suffering From 11 Illnesses Of Concern – Physician Replies Attorney-General
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] If they're supposed to be in court it's remarkable how ill that makes them.
Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, big turban of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), which Nigeria declared a terror group in 2019, was previously the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Nigeria. He converted to Shi'ism after a visit to Iran, becoming a fiery Iranian sock puppet. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, its spinoffs, including Boko Haram/ISWAP, are much more violent. He’s the only Zakzaky in our archives, but the rest of his name suffers considerable variation.
Posted by: Fred || 12/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Movement of Nigeria (Iran)


Family Seeks Justice As Lagos Policeman Shoots Woman While Seeking Bribes
[SAHARAREPORTERS] A young woman has been shot in Ikorodu, Lagos by a trigger-happy police officer who, along with his colleagues, was in a heated argument with some commercial tricycle riders over their demand for bribes.

According to a statement issued by the leader of the Ikorodu-Itokin Community, Salami Oluwaseun, the incident happened around 8 pm at the Parafa-Lucky Fibre axis of Ikorodu-Itoikin Road on Sunday.
We have NO idea where that is...
The community leader narrated how his sister-in-law was shot by trigger-happy policemen in the Ikorodu area of Lagos.

He said Salami Ibrahim, his brother and sister-in-law were coming from the Adamo area of Ikorodu and were on their way home when they came across a police checkpoint.

Salami said they were allowed to pass through the checkpoint just when there was an argument between policemen at the checkpoint and some tricycle operators (popularly called Keke Marwa riders) over bribe payment.

He said his brother was about 10 metres away from the scene of the incident when he heard gunshots and thereafter discovered that his wife, who was beside him had been hit by a stray bullet.

Salami said his brother returned to the checkpoint to complain about the incident but the officers threatened to shoot him after which they fled the scene.

The community leader called on the Lagos State government and the public to conduct an investigation into the matter and ensure that justice is served in the case.

He said: "He (my brother) saw a police checkpoint on the way and was allowed to pass but noticed that an argument had ensued between the policemen at the checkpoint and some Keke Marwa operators over bribe issue.

”About five to 10 meters away, he heard a gunshot and his wife beside him suddenly screamed with bloodstains on her body. It was then he discovered a police stray bullet had hit his wife.

"He ran to the police officers at the checkpoint to complain of the stray bullet on his wife and sadly, the officers threatened to shoot him but before he could say a word, the policemen disappeared.

"The wife was rushed to the Ikorodu General Hospital's emergency unit yesterday and she is currently on admission as a result of this wicked and dastardly act of the Nigeria Police Force, Lagos State Police Command.

"In view of this, I want to make a passionate appeal to the police authority in Lagos State and Nigeria at large to investigate this ugly incident and fish out the perpetrators of this evil act to serve as a lesson to other bad eggs in police uniforms."

Posted by: Fred || 12/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Next step down for the Feeb's
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/01/2021 12:12 Comments || Top||


We Will Allow 'Repentant' Boko Haram Terrorists To Go Scot-free—Borno Governor
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  "Repentant' Boko Haram? As in:

We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder ...

wait... Huh? You said BOKO, not Procul?

Never mind
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/01/2021 1:33 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK prosecution rejects Altaf Hussain's plea of being unfit to stand terror trial
[GEO.TV] The Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
's (MQM) founder the increasingly enormous Altaf Hussain

... The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in safety and comfort in London and hasn't laid eyes on his purported homeland since about the time Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him, he may be a Hutt...

’s application stating that he is "physically and mentally unfit to stand terrorism trial in January 2022" has been rejected by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).The MQM leader had applied a month ago to the CPS to abort the upcoming terrorism trial altogether, claiming that he was suffering from several physical and mental illnesses to stand trial in January 2022 at the UK's Kingston Crown Court for allegedly using hate speech and encouraging an act of terrorism in Pakistain in August 2016.

The speech had aroused the MQM workers into taking the law into their hands and the unravelling of the MQM into two parts known as MQM-Pakistain and MQM-London.

Altaf Hussain wrote to the CPS that he had recently suffered from COVID-19 and went through an extremely difficult health situation which has affected his health and state of mind overall, therefore, the trial should be cancelled and the case dropped.
Well, of course
Altaf Hussain’s legal team, in support of its application to drop the terrorism case altogether, produced several medical reports of Hussain showing him as seriously ill and mentally and physically unable to cope with the rigour and demands of a trial.

While rejecting his application, the CPS has informed Altaf Hussain that it didn’t believe that he was unfit and unable to stand the trial. The CPS has confirmed that the terrorism trial will go ahead as scheduled to start on January 31, 2022, and will last for about three weeks.

The CPS gave no reason why it didn’t believe the version of Altaf Hussain but it is understood that the prosecutors have been regularly watching and reviewing the political activities of Hussain and they might have seen that Hussain regularly interacts with his followers and no more uses the incendiary language that he used frequently some time ago.
Posted by: Fred || 12/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Caribbean-Latin America
US officially pulls Colombian rebels FARC off foreign terror group list
[NYPOST] The State Department announced Tuesday that it had officially removed the far-left rebel group Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) from its list of foreign terrorist organizations.The announcement came on the fifth anniversary of an agreement negotiated by FARC and Colombia’s government meant to end more than 50 years of fighting.

According to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, FARC "formally dissolved and disarmed" after the 2016 treaty was brokered, and the rebel group is no longer a unified organization "that engages in terrorism or terrorist activity or has the capability or intent to do so."
"Now everything will be right as rain"
Blinken added that removing the foreign terrorist group designation from FARC does not affect criminal charges that have been or may be brought by the US against the rebel group’s onetime leaders.

Nor, the secretary continued, does the move undo judgments by a special Colombian court "which found their actions to be crimes against humanity."

FARC was first designated a terrorist organization by the US in 1997. In its place, Blinken announced foreign terrorist organization designations for two splinter groups, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and was greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provided FARC with safe areas along the border.
— People’s Army (FARC-EP), and Segunda Marquetalia, as well as their respective leaders.

Both breakaway groups were founded in 2019 and have since engaged in terrorist activity in the South American nation. According to Blinken, both organizations have targeted former members of FARC as well as politicians for liquidation and kidnapping.

Posted by: Fred || 12/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Keep digging, Biden-Morons. There's another 200,000 or so new Republican voters in Florida.

#DeSantis2024
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/01/2021 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Gotta make room for the Bongs!
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2021 15:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Guess SouthCOM couldn't come up with a solution.
So We'll legislate them unimportant.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2021 15:10 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas says deal reached with Qatar to resume payments to Gaza public employees
[IsraelTimes] A Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, official says it has reached an agreement by which Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
will resume subsidizing the salaries of public employees by sending fuel to 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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.

Qatar was contributing to the salaries of some 50,000 employees of the Hamas-run government up until the 11-day war in May by sending suitcases of cash into the territory through Israel. Israel’s new government, which was sworn in the following month, vowed to stop that arrangement.

Under the deal reached with Qatar and Egypt, the wealthy Gulf nation will send fuel to Gaza from Egypt that Hamas can resell in order to help cover payrolls, the official says, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
because of the diplomatic sensitivities around the agreement. There is no immediate comment from Qatar.

Hamas civil servants have received irregular payments in lieu of full salaries for years due to a prolonged financial crisis. Even with the Qatari aid, most public workers only receive 55 percent of their paycheck at best.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2021 01:25 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)


Olde Tyme Religion
ADL offering $10,000 reward for information in 3 Brooklyn antisemitic attacks
[IsraelTimes] The Anti-Defamation League is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for three antisemitic attacks reported in Brooklyn in just the past week.

New York City coppers say they are searching for three women seen slapping three visibly Jewish children in incidents on Friday and Sunday.

"We are outraged by this string of attacks targeting Jewish children and youth," says the ADL’s NY/NJ director, Scott Richman.

"Two of the three incidents occurred on the first night of Hanukkah, which should be a time of celebration, not fear and trauma for our young people. ADL is offering this award to send a clear message that hate-motivated violence is absolutely unacceptable."

[TWITTER]
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2021 01:25 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  White Supremacist alert! Have you seen these photos? Errr...
Posted by: Frank G || 12/01/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Miqati Raises Solution with Berri amid Reports of Possible Parliamentary 'Settlement'
[An Nahar] Prime Minister Najib Miqati visited Ain el-Tineh following his return from abroad to seek Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
’s help in holding a Cabinet session in which "some" Shiite ministers would take part, informed sources said.The other Shiite ministers would "boycott" the session, the sources added, in remarks to Nidaa al-Watan newspaper published Tuesday.

Berri, however, maintained his insistence on the Shiite duo’s stance which calls for "resolving the issue of (Judge Tarek) Bitar first," the sources said.

Media reports meanwhile said that there could be a parliamentary "settlement" to the crisis resulting from the Shiite duo’s insistence on Bitar’s removal.

Under the reported settlement, the accused ex-PM and former ministers would be referred to a parliamentary panel of inquiry and a "bargain" would be made with the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
under which it would provide a "Christian" cover to a parliamentary session that would approve the panel, the reports said.

The FPM would in return get "electoral gains, especially as to the amendments of the electoral law and the six expat seats," the reports added.

Nidaa al-Watan meanwhile said that "presidential and political consultations between the Grand Serail, Ain el-Tineh and Mirna Chalouhi will intensify over the next few hours and days to crystallize the outlines of the sought bargain, especially that the Parliament Speaker will soon call for a legislative session."

Noting that the session might be held next week, to approve a host of draft laws, the daily added that should the FPM agree to the proposed "bargain," Berri would then put the panel’s proposal to a vote.



Posted by: Fred || 12/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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1Govt of Sudan
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Wed 2021-12-01
  Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell Brooks faces new charge for death of 8-year-old boy
Tue 2021-11-30
  Turkish lira skids again after Erdogan orders manipulation probe
Mon 2021-11-29
  Iranian arrested in Kenya for planning attacks against Israeli targets
Sun 2021-11-28
  Police fire tear gas at anti-government protesters in Burkina
Sat 2021-11-27
  Hamas banned in the UK
Fri 2021-11-26
  Egypt sentences 22 terror convicts to death by hanging
Thu 2021-11-25
  Lebanese Currency Sinks to New Low
Wed 2021-11-24
  Libya: 98 Presidential candidates have officially been registered
Tue 2021-11-23
  Ethiopia's PM heads to front to lead soldiers battling Tigray rebels
Mon 2021-11-22
  'Multiple people dead' and 23 injured after SUV plows into Wisconsin Christmas parade: Person of Interest in custody
Sun 2021-11-21
  Several Injured After Car Plows Through Waukesha Christmas Parade
Sat 2021-11-20
  Uganda's Kampala bombings: Muslim cleric accused of jihadist links shot dead
Fri 2021-11-19
  Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges
Thu 2021-11-18
  Group of 225 Migrants Apprehended in West Texas Border Town
Wed 2021-11-17
  Gendarmes attacked in northern Burkina Faso, 32 dead

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