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I was on a jury once where we KNEW the guy was guilty of something but it was totally unclear which (if any) of the charges actually applied or were 'proven.' We picked the lesser one and called it a day.
[PAGESIX] Disgraced "Empire" star Jussie Smollett ...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country! while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom... will once again appear in a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... court Monday on renewed felony charges for allegedly staging a hate crime.
Smollett, 37, was indicted for a second time Feb. 11 on six counts of felony disorderly conduct after a special prosecutor assigned to reinvestigate the case decided it was "in the interest of justice" to bring the renewed charges against him.
He’s scheduled to be arraigned before Judge LeRoy K. Martin Jr. at 9:30 a.m. at the George N. Leighton Criminal Courthouse and could either be released on his own recognizance or held on bail.
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Some lemurs were included in the security detail at the last minute. You have to understand. The monkeys are a real menace at the Taj Mahal. They run at the sight of a few lemurs though.
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^ Lemme just say I'll breathe easier when they're on their way home. ☺
I saw the first lady up close for the first time. The Donald's a lucky man. Also, my boss would shake Mrs. Kushner's hand but she namaste-d him away. Very heartening, an office joke for the rest of the year.
We really appreciate the kind words spoken by Mr. Trump.
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Then there's this. Meet Krishna. You should probably take him and show him around in blue states. He'll fuckin' kill the hand that goes for his MAGA hat.
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With the Indians spending for most of it. It's PR for the Modi Govt too. All the praises heaped on this 'champion of India' by the most powerful man on earth.
[Breitbart] Philip Haney, a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official during the Obama administration who blew the whistle on shortcomings within his own agency, was found dead in California on Friday with a "gunshot wound" to the chest, several news outlets report, citing a statement from the law enforcement.
Although authorities have said the gunshot wound "appears" to be "self-inflicted," stressing that the investigation is ongoing, 66-year-old Haney had been missing since February 19. and died from a gunshot wound to his chest two days later, Red State and Heavy reported.
Gunshot wounds to the chest are uncommon in the case of suicides, data reportedly show. Haney’s death has triggered a wave of claims suggesting he may have been a victim of foul play.
Echoing some of the whistleblower’s friends, a number of senior congressional officials have expressed alarm to Breitbart News about this, noting that they do no believe Haney was suicidal.
Law enforcement found Haney’s body 40 miles east of Sacramento, California.
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Rural highway intersection. Gunshot wound to the chest. LE initial assessment: suicide. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiigt. It would appear that he was meeting someone. #PhilipHaneydidnotkillhimself
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Gunshot wounds to the chest are uncommon in the case of suicides
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If an assassination, I think a woman was the "hit man". Women who commit suicide will not shoot themselves in the head as it damages their looks. When female assassin also kills her target in a like manner, a quick death with a shot to the heart.
[The News (Pak)] Pakistain sealed the Taftan border and stopped movement of people to and from the country on Sunday in light of the coronavirus outbreak in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today 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. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... which led to the deaths of eight people in the country over the past few days. Tehran said on Friday that as many as 43 people were being treated for the virus in different cities of the country. The Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... government on Friday imposed emergency in all areas of the province bordering Iran.
Spokesperson of the Government of Balochistan Liaquat Shahwani said that it had been decided to keep the pilgrims in Iran for the time being. He said that the provincial government had decided that Paks from Balochistan will not be allowed to travel to Iran.
"The government is alert about the coronavirus. We are speaking to the Irani government about our pilgrims in Iran," he said. Shahwani said that pilgrims from Iran will be allowed to enter Pakistain after a thorough screening process. He said that 89 pilgrims in Taftan's Pakistain House were being brought to Quetta.
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[AP-Twitter] Warning that China’s virus epidemic is “still grim and complex,” President Xi Jinping called Sunday for more efforts to stop the outbreak, revive industry and prevent the disease from disrupting spring planting of crops.
Xi defended the ruling Communist Party’s response as “timely and effective” in a video conference with officials in charge of anti-disease work, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
Xi sounded a note of caution in the face of hopes abroad that the disease that has killed more than 2,400 people since December might be under control. He said the situation is at a “critical stage” and called on officials to “resolutely curb the spread of the epidemic.”
“The current epidemic situation is still grim and complex,” Xinhua cited Xi as saying. “Prevention and control are at the most critical stage.”
The ruling party is trying to strike a difficult balance between stopping the virus and reviving China’s vast manufacturing and other industries. Most of the world’s second-largest economy has been shut down since late January in the most sweeping anti-disease measures ever imposed and are only gradually reopening.
Forecasters say China might rebound quickly if the outbreak can be controlled by the end of March. But they say this quarter’s economic output will shrink by as much as 1% from the quarter ending in December after Beijing extended the Lunar New Year holiday to keep factories and offices closed and told the public to avoid traveling.
Concern is growing that the disease might be spreading in South Korea and other countries, instead of only affecting people who visited China and others who had close contact with them.
Xi said the epidemic is a health emergency with the “fastest spread” and “most difficult prevention and control” in China since the Communist Party came to power in 1949, according to Xinhua.
“For us, this is a crisis and a big test,” Xi was cited as saying.
The report made no mention of criticism from members of the public that officials delayed taking action against the disease and might be concealing details its impact, but Xi was cited as saying “all work arrangements are timely” and anti-disease measures are effective.
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About the Dow dropping, Market Watch has a round-up of company comments on the impact of thr coronavirus, including this:
• Procter & Gamble Co. PG, -2.04% expects the outbreak to materially impact earnings for the January to March quarter in China and for the overall company, given that China is the consumer goods giant’s second-largest market. The company has 387 suppliers in China that ship to it globally more than 9,000 materials, impacting about 17,600 different finished products.
The question is whether P&G and other manufacturers have pre-approved back-up suppliers in case of emergency, a prudent preparation, given that smaller but disruptive emergencies happen all the time — it was only a few years ago that P&G’s IAMS pet food line had to switch to a new supplier for one of their key ingredients when contaminated dog food started making pets sick.
[XINHUANET] Chinese health authority Sunday said it received reports of 648 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 97 deaths on Saturday from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
Among the deaths, 96 were in Hubei Province and one in Guangdong Province, according to the National Health Commission.
[PUNCHNG] Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe on Thursday insisted he was not a "dictator", days before an election in which he is aiming to extend his family’s decades-long domination over the West African nation.
The incumbent looks set to claim a fourth term in power, as the country of 8 million goes to the polls on Saturday after the constitution was changed to allow Gnassingbe to run again.
Critics say the vote will not be fair as the opposition has faced a crackdown to snuff out a wave of protests.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... Gnassingbe told AFP in a joint interview with Le Monde newspaper that such accusations were "more due to reputation than reality".
"Sometimes these statements and opinions are exaggerated ‐ in any case, I don’t feel like a dictator," he said.
The president took over in 2005 after the death of his father Gnassingbe Eyadema, who ruled for 38 years after seizing power in a coup.
"I can’t change my name," the current leader said.
"I don’t think that my being his son should be a reason for exclusion."
Gnassingbe said he was "calm and confident" of securing a knockout victory in the first round of the polls.
The opposition has failed to stick together since rocking the country’s ruling clan with huge protests in 2017 and 2018.
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Not that they ever show bike races stateside besides the Tour de France - I have to go get the Youtube highlight clips, which I guess is better than trying to watch an entire seven-hour bike race (Milan-San Remo, one month away, is 185.2 miles).
[Cycling News] - Mauro Vegni, head of the race organisation for Strade Bianche, Milan-San Remo, Tirreno-Adriatico, and the Giro d’Italia, has expressed his concern over the recent spike in coronavirus cases in Italy.
Over the last few days, small pockets of Italy - mainly around Lombardy - have been put on lockdown after the nation saw diagnosed cases rise from just a handful to well over 150.
Italy now has more cases outside of China than another other nation, including Japan and Singapore. So far, the virus has led to 2,619 deaths, with over 79,000 reported cases.
The bulk of RCS Sport's races take place over the next few months, with Strade Bianche in less than a fortnight. Tirreno and Milan-San Remo follow suit before the Giro in May.
According to Vegni, he is more concerned over the future of Milan-San Remo due to the fact that it takes place closest to Italy’s main area of coronavirus cases. I suspect they'll go through with the races and do something to discourage spectators, whatever that may be.
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I'd expect this in Croatia or Russia, not two bottom of the table clubs from Italy. The again, if your team sucks like Bari does, I'd probably riot as well.
[IsraelTimes] Last year’s event in Aalst featured a float depicting Jewish stereotypes standing over bags of money, leading UNESCO to drop festival as heritage event.
Organizers of a Belgian carnival on Friday rejected calls by Israel to scrap this weekend’s annual parade after last year’s featured a float with anti-Semitic caricatures.
The carnival in the industrial city of Aalst has its roots in the Middle Ages and often features satirical floats that take shots at local politicians and the wealthy.
Last year’s festivities featured one float depicting Jews with exaggerated features and side locks standing over bags of money. The caricatures recalled anti-Semitic tropes of the Middle Ages and Nazi Germany.
Christoph D’Haese, the mayor of Aalst, said that "raising awareness is one thing; forbidding and censorship is something else."
"A magnifying glass is now looking at a very beautiful folk festival that has been able to take place 91 times without any significant problems," he told a Phlegmish radio station, according to the Guardian. "If we can avoid sensitive issues, or visualize a theme without causing hurt, I call for that. We need to be aware of the fact that a large community may feel hurt and have respect for it. But Aalst will always remain the odd one out."
Belgium’s prime minister, Sophie Wilmes, described the parade as an "internal affair" after Israel on Thursday called for the parade to be cancelled.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... Israel’s Ambassador to Belgium, Emmanuel Nahshon, later said that Jerusalem was not calling for the parade to be cancelled but for anti-Semitic caricatures to be banned.
"What we are asking for is absolutely not the prohibition of the carnival as such," Nahshon told the Guardian. "What we are asking for is the prohibition of all these anti-Semitic cartoons, which go beyond good taste, which have nothing to do with a sense of humor and which do not honor an exemplary democracy such as Belgium."
The carnival had been listed as a UNESCO heritage event until last year, but Aalst renounced the distinction days before the UN cultural agency scrapped it over the anti-Semitic incident.
In October, parade organizers published 150 caricatures mocking Jews ahead of this weekend’s event.
One caricature showed a red-headed Orthodox Jew with golden teeth and is captioned: "UNESCO, what a joke."
Aalst is one of Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... ’s most famous carnivals where politicians, religious leaders and the rich and famous are relentlessly ridiculed during the three-day festival ahead of Roman Catholic Lent.
UNESCO, Jewish groups and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... condemned last year’s float as anti-Semitic, with the EU saying it conjured up visions of the 1930s.
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You can learn a lot by observing people's Ids: how they make jokes, what upsets them as per their Twitter raves/rants, and what tfey find both upsetting AND jokeworthy as per their Belgian Aalst floats...
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on Monday evening landed at the Agra airport ahead of their much-anticipated visit to the iconic Taj Mahal(Agra,UP). Addressing a crowd at the Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) earlier, Trump said the US will "always be a faithful and loyal friend to the Indian people" as he thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a rousing welcome in Gujarat, which included a 22-km roadshow and a jam-packed cricket stadium. Addressing the crowd, Trump said: "Five months ago, the United States welcomed your great Prime Minister at a giant football stadium in Texas and today, India welcomes us at the world's largest cricket stadium right here in Ahmedabad."
President Trump arrived in Ahmedabad today for the first leg of his maiden India trip during which he visited Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram, took part in a roadshow with PM Modi. He will later head for Agra to see the iconic Taj Mahal with his wife Melania.
Trump, who is also accompanied by daughter Ivanka, son-in-law Jared Kushner and top brass of his administration, will get a taste of India's cultural potpourri during his Gujarat itinerary which is high on symbolism, especially after the bonhomie between the two leaders at the 'Howdy, Modi!' event in Houston during the Indian prime minister's visit to the US in September 2019.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a friend of mine. I had committed to this trip long time back. I will be addressing a big rally," Trump said at the White House.
The US president, who is scheduled to arrive at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International airport at around 11.40am today, will participate along with Modi in roadshows on his way from the airport to Sabarmti Ashram and from there to the newly-built Motera cricket stadium, where over one lakh people are expected to be present for the 'Namaste Trump' event.
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Dron, what's the reaction from our good friends the Pakis?
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I think they'll most likely keep mum, Matt. Because the FATF thingy is still looming and Trump did promise them resumption of the IMET thingy. Their proxies are causing havoc enough already anyway.
They're sure to put out a statement like 'Trump asked again if he couldn't negotiate a Kashmir deal for both parties but those uncouth Indians threw it in his face ! They just don't want peace, those Indians !'
This violence brewing in the Indian capital Delhi is approx 10 miles away from the Hyderabad House, the venue of the Modi and Trump official meet on Tuesday. #TrumpInIndia#TrumpIndiaVisithttps://t.co/SxQKe9tL7t
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January 25, 2020:
NEW DELHI: Replicating the Shaheen Bagh style of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act other Muslim-dominated localities of Delhi, too, have begun sit-in protests. So far, the peaceful protests have spread to at least nine localities, including Seelampur, Indralok, CHANDBAGH,
Mustafabad, Khureji, Wazeerabad, Hauz Rani, Jafrabad and Sri Ram Colony Khajuri.
[The News (Pak)] Local police said Friday they had arrested a man for allegedly killing his wife and her friend here in the city's Basti Malook area over the so-called "honour".
The suspect ‐ who killed his wife after seeing her sitting with her friend ‐ was identified, police confirmed on Friday. He handed himself over to the authorities after the honour-killing last night.
The bodies were shifted to Nishtar Hospital for post-mortem, police mentioned.
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Did he shoot his wife dead or shoot his dead wife? Murder or corpse abuse?
Iran's semiofficial ILNA news agency is reporting that the death toll from the new coronavirus in the city of Qom is 50. The report on Monday says the 50 deaths took place since Feb 13. https://t.co/AuhJnjtoKQ
@ChrisMurphyCT
if you're going to sneak around secretly meeting with Iranian officials..be a dear and get swabbed for the safety of your family and those around you, kthanx.
When the country is ruled by Ayatullah whose religion are to make taqiya deceptions
The more taqiya you make, the closer you get to Allah
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difficult to believe unless somehow Qom got a particularly deadly strain of the virus
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Or they are way under-reporting the number of cases. Maybe they're inshallah medical care is not correctly identifying the number of cases?
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Or a particularly severe shortage of the pertinent medicines.
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newest WHO numbers for Iran are 43 infected 8 deaths
even without the 50 figure the fatality rate is high
I thought surely it was a virulent strain but it may be do to high rates of cigarette smoking or high rates of the use of intravenous drugs or the reinfection rate or the refusal to treat for a fever in Qom
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or the refusal to treat for a fever in Qom
Or the necessary drugs being reserved for nomenklatura.
This is a phenomenally bad idea for a number of reasons. Just a few months ago the IRS stated that they audit low-income taxpayers at a higher rate 'because that's where the money is', and now they're doing a backflip after the slew of bad press. There's no need to go after low income taxpayers. When I was a Mass. DOR auditor my bread and butter were non-filers; if chosen correctly, about 90% of the time you'd get some combination of a filed tax return and a big payment. The IRS just needs to send out nonfiling notices, then maybe follow up with a house call, without weapons. It doesn't serve any purpose to start the process with a field visit unless your goal is to scare the shit out of taxpayers.
[ZH] - The IRS announced Wednesday that it would increase at-home visitations to high-income taxpayers who haven't filed tax returns on time.
Remember when the IRS under the Obama administration targeted conservative groups? Now it appears this anti-wealth attitude extends to anyone earning over $100,000 that hasn't filed a return since 2018 or prior years.
During an at-home visit, IRS agents will inform the non-compliant taxpayer how to file returns and show them a pathway of regaining compliant status.
“We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.”
Uncle Sam wants his goddamn money! Hey - business is bad? Fuck you, pay me. Got hit by lightning? Fuck you - pay me!
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It's hard to feel any sympathy for the wealthy, after hearing what they think of us little people.
How about this: an executive order confiscating the wealth from the top 100 billionaires in America to be divided evenly among the population. Followed by a national referendum. How do you think that would turn out?
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Does this group include Congresscritters? They're not a 'special' group, are they?
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If you haven't filed a return since 2018 (the return would be for calendar 2017) and the IRS has a copy of your 1099s and or W-2s they send you a letter via USPS.
In a lot of those cases, the person not filing is disabled or otherwise not completely functioning and sometimes they are owed refunds. Ideally the IRS would contract with a local social agency for the physical notification.
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#2 yes Bobby they are.
You must do your own taxes according to the IRS, but the IRS will 'assist' in filing your taxes if you are blind, mentally ill, or a Congresscritter. Consider the company.
[The Hill] The judge that signed off on a $2.5 million settlement deal between the University of North Carolina and Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is effectively voiding the agreement.
In a ruling on Feb. 12, Judge R. Allen Baddour said that the SCV had no standing to bring the initial lawsuit against UNC over the Silent Sam monument. The lawsuit was filed a year after protestors toppled the Confederate monument in 2018 and settled minutes after it was brought in December 2019. In fact, court records show the UNC board of governors' chairman agreed to the deal before the lawsuit was filed, according to NPR.
The bronze statue of a Confederate soldier ‐ long known as Silent Sam ‐ stood on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus from 1913 until it was pulled down by protestors in 2018.
The settlement was met with suspicion and confusion, as the board never held a public meeting on the future of the statue. UNC’s student newspaper The Daily Tarheel reported that two previous decisions by Baddour that were favorable to UNC had since been overturned.
A group of UNC students and faculty partnered with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to file a motion to intervene with the deal.
"The court system is supposed to resolve conflicts between parties with adverse interests. Parties must have legal authority to be in court at all, which is referred to as ’standing,’" Attorney Elizabeth Haddix told the Tarheel.
Judge Baddour agreed, vacating his previous consent judgement.
"While this was not the result we had hoped for, we respect the court’s ruling in this case," UNC responded in a statement. "The Board of Governors knew from the very beginning that this was a difficult but needed solution to meet all their goals to protect public safety of the university community, restore normality to campus, and be compliant with the Monuments Law."
It is not clear yet what will happen to the Silent Sam statue, which has been put in storage since being taken down.
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This judge's behavior satisfies the Three Requirements of the Shitshow - not one or two but all three, simultaneously, of:
1. Absurdity / illogic
2. Gross incompetence to the point of obscene clownishness
3. Ostentatious virtue-signaling
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted 
Some lemurs were included in the security detail at the last minute. You have to understand. The monkeys are a real menace at the Taj Mahal. They run at the sight of a few lemurs though. 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
Warning that China’s virus epidemic is “still grim and complex,” President Xi Jinping called Sunday for more efforts to stop the outbreak, revive industry and prevent the disease from disrupting spring planting of crops.
[XINHUANET] Chinese health authority Sunday said it received reports of 648 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 97 deaths on Saturday from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
[Al Jazeera] The magnitude 5.7 earthquake kills nine people and leaves 37 others wounded, according to Turkey's health minister.
[PUNCHNG] Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe on Thursday insisted he was not a "dictator", days before an election in which he is aiming to extend his family’s decades-long domination over the West African nation. 
[IsraelTimes] Last year’s event in Aalst featured a float depicting Jewish stereotypes standing over bags of money, leading UNESCO to drop festival as heritage event.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on Monday evening landed at the Agra airport ahead of their much-anticipated visit to the iconic Taj Mahal(Agra,UP). Addressing a crowd at the Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) earlier, Trump said the US will "always be a faithful and loyal friend to the Indian people" as he thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a rousing welcome in Gujarat, which included a 22-km roadshow and a jam-packed cricket stadium. Addressing the crowd, Trump said: "Five months ago, the United States welcomed your great Prime Minister at a giant football stadium in Texas and today, India welcomes us at the world's largest cricket stadium right here in Ahmedabad." 
Trump, who is also accompanied by daughter Ivanka, son-in-law Jared Kushner and top brass of his administration, will get a taste of India's cultural potpourri during his Gujarat itinerary which is high on symbolism, especially after the bonhomie between the two leaders at the 'Howdy, Modi!' event in Houston during the Indian prime minister's visit to the US in September 2019. 
[The News (Pak)] Local police said Friday they had arrested a man for allegedly killing his wife and her friend here in the city's Basti Malook area over the so-called "honour".
[The Hill] The judge that signed off on a $2.5 million settlement deal between the University of North Carolina and Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is effectively voiding the agreement. 
