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Attempt to assassinate the son of the political spokesman of Muqtada al-Sadr
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Illegal immigrants to be able to get driver's licenses in NY after legal challenge fails
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yahoo!
More gas tax money.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/15/2019 10:54 Comments || Top||

#2  No one is above the law seems a trifle dishonest when democrats say it!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/15/2019 11:10 Comments || Top||

#3  More gas tax money. illegal votes.
Posted by: Snusotle the Lesser4227 || 12/15/2019 15:06 Comments || Top||

#4  So the next of kin can now sue the state for 'pain and suffering' when one of those 'who should not be here's slaughters their loved ones on the road?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2019 15:58 Comments || Top||

#5  That should make it easier to register to vote.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/15/2019 16:12 Comments || Top||

#6  So much for "Real ID's" for NY residents. Be interesting to see what happens next year when you need RealID to travel.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/15/2019 18:10 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Turkey Builds Libya Ties in Reaction to Regional Rivals
[AnNahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
's recent moves with Libya -- threatening troop deployments and signing a contentious maritime deal -- are aimed at shoring up a rare regional ally and preserving access to gas supplies, analysts say.

Ankara has been one of the staunchest supporters of the beleaguered Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


The Grand Turk
Turkey adds exiled Palestinian strongman Dahlan to most wanted list
[IsraelTimes] Ankara accuses UAE-based Abbas rival of involvement in 2016 coup attempt against Erdogan, offers $1.75 million for information leading to his capture.
Does Turkey have that kind of money to throw around, or is this just for show?
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
said Friday it would offer up to 10 million lira ($1.75 million) for information leading to the capture of former Paleostinian strongman Mohammad Dahlan, now exiled in the United Arab Emirates, placing him on its list of most wanted runaways.
Ooooooh, scary.
Turkey accuses Dahlan of being a mercenary for the UAE and involved in the 2016 coup attempt against President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2019 00:25 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Fatah


Home Front: WoT
Jersey City shooting survivor says attackers looked well-trained, ‘came to kill’; is there a Farrakhan connection?
[Israel.Times]
  • NBC confirmed with the US military that the male shooter, David Anderson, had served in the US Army Reserve.

  • The two killers were armed with a variety of weapons, including an AR-15-style rifle and a shotgun that they were wielding when they stormed into the store in an attack that left the scene littered with several hundred shell casings.

  • A pipe bomb was also found in a stolen U-Haul van.

  • Store employee Douglas Miguel Rodriguez, 49.a non-Jewish immigrant from Ecuador, was killed while helping a customer escape.

  • Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said Friday that he believes Anderson and Graham were actually planning to target a yeshiva next door to the supermarket that had 50 children inside at the time of the assault.

A survivor of the deadly shooting at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey, said Friday that he had narrowly escaped death and that the shooters had clearly come into the store to kill people.

"The way they came in, they came to kill, to shoot," David Lax told CNN news.

The shooters killed three people Tuesday in the JC Kosher Supermarket before being killed by police. Authorities said the attackers were motivated by anti-Semitism.

Lax owns an appliance repair shop in the same neighborhood and had stopped in the supermarket for lunch. When the shooting started, he dove under the store’s refrigerated salad bar, until the male shooter moved past him. Lax then stood up and encountered the female attacker, who entered the store second.

"The second she starts pivoting herself, I just went right in and push back her arm and just run right out of the store," Lax said.

The woman, later identified as Francine Graham, fired at him as he fled, Lax said. Lax dashed across the street to safety in a dramatic escape that was captured on surveillance footage.

"I didn’t look right or left, I just ran for my life," he said.

In a separate interview Thursday with NBC news, Lax said the two shooters appeared well-prepared for the assault. NBC confirmed with the US military that the male shooter, David Anderson, had served in the US Army Reserve.

"The way they were carrying themselves, the way they were handling themselves, they were very professional," Lax said.

The entire ordeal for him lasted about 10 seconds, he said. After fleeing the store Lax found a child outside, whom he escorted farther from the store, then called the police.

"I’m not sure why, but I’m alive," he said.

The two killers were armed with a variety of weapons, including an AR-15-style rifle and a shotgun that they were wielding when they stormed into the store in an attack that left the scene littered with several hundred shell casings, broken glass and a community in mourning. A pipe bomb was also found in a stolen U-Haul van.

The victims killed in the store were: Mindel Ferencz, 32, who with her husband owned the grocery; 24-year-old Moshe Deutsch, a rabbinical student from Brooklyn who was shopping there; and store employee Douglas Miguel Rodriguez, 49.

Rodriguez, a non-Jewish immigrant from Ecuador, was killed while helping a customer escape.

Before arriving at the supermarket, the shooters killed police officer Joseph Seals, who had confronted them in a nearby cemetery. Officials have not yet released details of the encounter.

Law enforcement officials said the shooters were motivated by anti-Jewish hatred.

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said Friday that he believes Anderson and Graham were actually planning to target a yeshiva next door to the supermarket that had 50 children inside at the time of the assault.

On Thursday New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said the attack was driven by hatred of Jews and law enforcement and is being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism.

Members of the area’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community gathered Wednesday night for funerals for Ferencz and Deutsch. Thousands of people followed Ferencz’s casket through the streets of Brooklyn, hugging and crying.

The bloodshed in the city of 270,000 people across the Hudson River from New York City spread fear through the nascent Jewish community of around 100 families, most of whom moved to New Jersey from Brooklyn in recent years.

FBI locates van thought linked to deadly New Jersey attack

[IsraelTimes] Vehicle, which suspects reportedly lived in, found in Orange, New Jersey, after police in nearby Ramapo, New York, alert public to search

Federal authorities have recovered a van that may be connected to the Jersey City shootings that killed four people and are now being investigated as domestic terrorism, the FBI said Saturday.

The white van recovered Saturday morning in Orange, New Jersey, about 11 miles (17 kilometers) northwest of Jersey City, is being examined for any evidence related to the attack, the FBI said in a news release.

A man and woman killed a police officer near a cemetery, three people in a kosher supermarket and then died in an hourslong gun battle with police Tuesday, authorities say. It was not clear how the van may be linked to the attack, and authorities did not release further details.

According to reports, attackers, David Anderson and Francine Graham may have lived in the van after being evicted from their Elizabeth, New Jersey, home.

Police in Ramapo, New York, close to New Jersey’s northern border, had earlier said that FBI officials had told them they were trying to locate a white van in connection with Tuesday’s events.

New Jersey’s attorney general said Thursday that the attackers were driven by hatred of Jews and law enforcement. The two were armed with a variety of weapons, including an AR-15-style rifle and a shotgun, and a pipe bomb was also found in a stolen U-Haul van — a vehicle different from the white van recovered Saturday.

Both Orange and Ramapo have large Jewish communities.

The attackers, Anderson, 47, and Graham, 50, had expressed interest in a fringe religious group called the Black Hebrew Israelites, whose members often rail against Jews and whites, but there was no evidence so far that they were members and they are believed to have acted alone, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said.
An earlier Times of Israel article adds:
The Tunnel2Towers organization, formed after Sept. 11 to support police officers killed in the line of duty, said Friday it would pay the mortgage of Seals, who left behind a wife and five children.

Director of Public Safety James Shea called Seals “the ultimate detective or officer we would point to to tell young officers, ‘This is how you should behave.'” He said Friday that he doubted Seals would have been ambushed by the pair. Authorities haven’t disclosed why Seals was in the cemetery or details of the confrontation that led to his death.

Anderson fired away with the AR-15-style rifle as he entered the store, while Graham brought a 12-gauge shotgun into the shop. They also had handguns with a homemade silencer and a device to catch shell casings. In all, they had five guns — four recovered in the store, one in the van — in what Grewal called a “tremendous amount of firepower.”

Serial numbers from two of the weapons showed that Graham purchased them in Ohio in 2018, the attorney general said.
And from the New York Times via Ace of Spades — have we got ourselves a Muslim?
Sometime after Mr. Anderson moved in, the neighbor began hearing noises from downstairs.

Mr. Anderson repeatedly played audio recordings of a man the neighbor believed to be Louis Farrakhan, and sounded like he himself was growing agitated. He shouted bible verses and then chanted out his interpretations of what they meant.

The neighbor said the most common theme was that Mr. Anderson's religion was the only true faith while others -- specifically Catholicism and Judaism -- were false.

Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since the recently deceased were members of something like the Black Israelites, it doesn't seem like they'd place nice with Black Muslims or am I using logic where it has no place?
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/15/2019 8:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Once you add "Black" to "Israelites", Mercutio, all bets are off.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Moses' wife was Ethiopian, but that's about it I think. I may be wrong.

I don't know if Gershom had black children. They may've been excluded from the levitical order if they looked black though. We know those guys didn't like Zipporah much.

These bastards are just regular turds playing 'dress up as jews and kill the white man'.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/15/2019 8:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Moses's first wife, Zipporah was the daughter of the priest chieftain of Midian. That is early in exodus.

In chapter 12 of Numbers, Moses's wife is said to be a 'Cushi' which is frequently thought to be an Ethiopian. That may have been Moses's second wife or the Midianites might have been from ethiopia. Or maybe 'cushi' means 'black' or 'dark skin' or even 'beautiful'. That latter interpretation assumes that Aaron and Miriam were saying in effect that since the wife keep herself beautiful, Moses shouldn't have been ignoring her. It's complicated.

Posted by: lord garth || 12/15/2019 15:59 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Kushi means somebody from the land of Kush (Nubia) an African for ancient Hebrews.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 16:09 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Side by side, glimpses of Palestinian refugee camps then and now
Lots of then-and-now photos at the link
.[AlAhram] Visited by photographers decades apart, time seems to have passed at a different speed in many of the Paleostinian refugee camps scattered across Leb, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and 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...
Change there has been, but limited in its ambition. Canvas tents in 1948 Beirut grew up to be cinder block homes. Beaches evolved into sunless alleyways.

And young women balancing clay water pots on their heads in 1950s Gaza became the grandmothers of a generation who today have taps in their homes but still haul bottled water home because it is filtered, and so safer to drink.

A key presence in these lives is UNRWA, the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
agency which provides services and protection to 5.5 million Paleostinian refugees. Around a third ‐ more than 1.5 million - live in 58 registered camps.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees in the Near East ‐ its full name - was created by the U.N. General Assembly 70 years ago to deal with the hundreds of thousands of Paleostinian refugees who had been driven from their homes or fled the conflict surrounding the birth of the modern state of Israel in 1948.

One of the descendants of that exodus - Najah Abu Reyala - has lived all her life in Beach Camp, the third largest of eight refugee camps in coastal Gaza.

Now 61, she remembers the rudimentary conditions during her youth in the camp, where the population has grown from 23,000 to more than 85,000.

"Streets were not paved, they were sandy and dusty," she recalls. But although the passing of the years brought more services, it also brought more tension, divisions and despair.
Well...yeah. Because you're Paleos. It's your natural state
"Maybe they put electricity and water inside the houses, but things are far worse than they used to be," she said. "Back then, we were more closely knit, we were more united."

Abu Reyala and other refugees want the right to return to their families’ former lands in pre-1948 Paleostine, lands which now lie inside Israel. Israel has rejected any such right of return as a demographic threat to its Jewish majority.

And many Israelis regard UNRWA - by far the largest humanitarian organization handling Paleostinian refugees - with suspicion.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that UNRWA’s longevity had served to perpetuate, not solve, the refugee problem. "It is time (for) UNRWA (to) be dismantled," he said in 2017, urging the U.N. to "re-examine" its existence.

Just such a re-examination is due in the coming days, with the U.N. General Assembly to vote on renewing UNRWA's mandate.
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#1  So nice to see the traditional way of life preserved.
Posted by: Lex || 12/15/2019 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  A key presence in these lives is UNRWA, the United Nations agency which provides services and protection to 5.5 million Paleostinian refugees.

Tell me again about "black" anti-Semitism.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 1:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Abu Reyala and other refugees want the right to return to their families’ former lands in pre-1948 Paleostine, lands which now lie inside Israel. Israel has rejected any such right of return as a demographic threat to its Jewish majority.

...Exactly. If Abu Reyala wants to blame anyone, she should go to her grandparents' graves and curse the day they believed what they were told - that the Jews would kill everyone who stayed, and once the brave Arab armies exterminated the Jews once and for all they could return and take whatever they wanted.

Lady, YOUR ancestors knowingly and willingly made the call to put you where you're at, nobody to blame but them. You want to change it? You know what to do.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/15/2019 7:26 Comments || Top||

#4  ...she can join the 'resettled' Prussian and Silesian Germans in dreams of the past. Wars have consequences.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2019 9:11 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Pompeo warns Iran after proxy attacks in Iraq
[Jpost] US Secretary of State slammed Iranian-backed militias in Iraq for an attack near Baghdad International Airport that maimed five Iraqi soldiers. "To Iran’s leaders, the US will respond decisively if 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
or its proxies harm US personnel or our Iraqi partners." Pompeo also noted that Iran’s proxies in Iraq have conducted several attacks against bases in Iraq where US forces are located.

This comes after six months of tensions in Iraq in which Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias have been accused of carry out more than ten attacks against bases where US forces are present. The attacks have usually involved rocket and mortar fire that has rarely harmed anyone but comes close to bases where US forces and Iraqi forces are located. This includes Camp Taji, Ayn al-Asad base and Q-West and Balad air bases. These are key infrastructure and sites for US forces and the wider anti-ISIS Coalition. US Vice-President Mike Pence and US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
have also spoken at Asad base to US troops.

The attacks have increased in recent months and included numerous katyusha-style rockets. Pompeo said the US would continue to work "hand-in-hand with our Iraqi partners" on Friday. "We must also use this opportunity to remind Iran’s leaders that any attacks by them or their proxies of any identity that harm Americans, our allies or our interests will be answered with a decisive US response," Pompeo said according to CNN.

Pompeo and the administration has warned Iran in the past about attacks. Iran has attacked oil tankers in May and June, downed a US drone in June and attacked Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
’s Abqaiq oil facility in September. It has also sought to send ballistic missiles to Iraq, according to reports, and built bases in Syria. The US now appears to be expanding its willingness to respond if Iraqi forces are targeted. The warning involves Iranian "proxies" which usually means Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. These are members of the Popular Mobilization Units, an official paramilitary unit of the security forces. They include militias that the US has already sanctioned as snuffies for beng linked to Iran’s IRGC. In addition the US recently sanctioned Qais Khazali, leader of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, one of the militias in the PMU. Khazali has threatened Dire Revenge against the US and others. Hadi al-Amiri and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, both leaders of the PMU with their own militias, have also threatened to hold the US responsible for any attacks against the PMU in Iraq. The US has blamed Iran and these militias for attacks in the past, including rockets fired at the Basra US consulate in 2018 and rockets fired near the US embassy in Baghdad in May.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanese Forces Party will not join new gov’t: Geagea
[ALMASDARNEWS] The leader of the Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
Party, Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
, announced on Saturday that his organization will not participate in the next government, stressing his refusal to form a mixed government of technocrats and politicians.

After meeting with former Minister Ghattas Khoury, a delegate from President Saad Hariri
...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too....
, Geagea said, "there is no solution except with an independent government of specialists. This will translate into all of our political positions, and we will participate in parliamentary consultations, and the final decision on the nomination will be taken by the powerful bloc of the republic."

He considered that the issue of forming a government is still at the beginning "because some parties still insist on its position with a government as well as previous governments."

Talks between the main parties in Leb are facing a dead-end since Saad Hariri resigned as prime minister on October 29, amid massive protests against the ruling elite, which have long been marked by sectarian and political divisions.

Since October 17, Leb has witnessed widespread popular protests, calling for the dissolution of parliament, early elections, and the abolition of the sectarian quota system in politics, as many see it as a reason for the ineffectiveness of the government.

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Russian military allegedly forming new group to replace SDF in northern Syria
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russian Armed Forces are allegedly forming a new military force in northern Syria that is meant to replace the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) along the Ottoman Turkish border.

According to the Rojava News Network, the Russian military has begun recruiting new recruits in the cities of Amude and Dirbasiyeh, along with the town of Tal Tamr in northwestern al-Hasakah.

"Russian forces has begun forming new military groups in the towns of Amûdê, Dirbêsiyê and Tall tamr cities, with the aim to replace the YPG and Protect the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
. The volunteers will receive an salaries pay of 150k SP."

"The new military groups will be under supervision of Russia, with full dependence on the Russian forces. Russian forces have already started with training in their base at Qamislo Airport. The number of volunteers are unknown," they said on Twitter.

The new military groups will be under supervision of Russia, with full dependence on the Russian forces. Russian forces have already started with training in their base at Qamislo Airport. The number of volunteers are unknown.

The volunteers will reportedly receive monthly salaries of 150k Syrian Pounds, which is approximately $200 USD.

Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Wikileaks releases new OPCW documents on Douma chemical weapons attack
[ALMASDARNEWS] Wikileaks has released its third batch of documents about the OPCW’s fact-finding mission in Douma, Syria.

In the new leak, Wikileaks releases a memo that reveals that 20 inspectors felt the version "did not reflect views of the team members that deployed Syria."

According to the documents, one paramedic from the fact-finding mission in Douma actually contributed the final version of the OPCW’s report.

Besides the one paramedic, the entire OPCW report was gathered by an entirely new team that did not visit the alleged site where the chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented...
attack was reported.

"This new team was staffed with people who ’had only operated in country X’, according to the memorandum. It is not clear what country that refers to, except that it is presumably not Syria. It is possible, though only speculation, that country X refers to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
, as OPCW has sent teams into refugee camps there to interview survivors from Douma.

The author of the memorandum states that he was the one originally tasked with analysis and assessment of the two cylinders found on the scene of the alleged chemical attack. This was a task he undertook ’in the understanding [he] was clearly the most qualified team member, having been to the location in Douma and because of [his] expertise in metallurgy, chemical engineering (including pressure vessel design), artillery and Defence R&D’. He continues: ’In subsequent weeks I found that I was being excluded from the work, for reasons not made clear.’

Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  No, NO, not 72 virgins.
72 Virginians!
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/15/2019 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Told you so at the time.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 1:37 Comments || Top||


Syrian regime pushed Idlib offensive under cover of other crises
[Jpost] With the world distracted by impeachment in the US, a British election, Iranian tensions, Iraqi protests and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
’s invasion of part of northern Syria, the Syrian regime has been quietly bombing Idlib province and planning an offensive. It has wanted to carry out an offensive since the fall of 2018 but was hampered by various problems, not the least of which is that its Russian ally has been selling Turkey S-400s air defense.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that more than 930 Arclight airstrike
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Sun 2019-12-15
  Attempt to assassinate the son of the political spokesman of Muqtada al-Sadr
Sat 2019-12-14
  Haftar-led Libyan Army claims new advance near Tripoli
Fri 2019-12-13
  Triumphant Boris hails landslide win gives him ‘power to get Brexit done’
Thu 2019-12-12
  AMAL, Hizbullah Supporters Try to Storm Riad al-Solh, Repelled by Tear Gas
Wed 2019-12-11
  Iraqi protesters defiantly turn out in the capital Baghdad
Tue 2019-12-10
  Jersey City shooting - possibly 6 dead at JC Kosher grocery
Mon 2019-12-09
  Al-Shabaab Militants Kill 8 On Bus In Northern Kenya
Sun 2019-12-08
  At least 10 killed in Kenya bus attack claimed by al-Shabab
Sat 2019-12-07
  Baghdad operations commander orders the Iraqi army to move in Sinak and Khilani to protect the protesters
Fri 2019-12-06
  Naval Air Station Pensacola shooter who killed 3 was Saudi aviation student
Thu 2019-12-05
  Pelosi Asks House Judiciary Committee to Proceed with Articles of Impeachment
Wed 2019-12-04
  Anti-government protesters have set fire to the Iranian consulate in Najaf for the third time in a week
Tue 2019-12-03
  Burkina Faso: 14 people killed in gun attack at church during Sunday mass
Mon 2019-12-02
  40 to 100 Iranian protesters executed in a marsh.
Sun 2019-12-01
  At least 14 killed in bloody gunfight in northern Mexico


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