[AlAhram] Mali's junta said La Belle France no longer has a "legal basis" for carrying out military operations in the country after Bamako quit key defence accords, in the latest round of a spat between the two former allies.
The announcement late Tuesday came a day after the junta walked out of several agreements underpinning French and European missions in the jihadist-hit state.
Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop declared on state TV that it would take six months for the formal end of a 2014 defence cooperation agreement with La Belle France to take effect.
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[AlAhram] The Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... has begun expelling Cubans and Nicaraguans to Mexico under pandemic-related powers to deny migrants colonists a chance to seek asylum, expanding use of the rule even as it publicly says it has been trying to unwind it, officials said Wednesday.
The U.S. struck agreement with Mexico to expel up to 100 Cubans and 20 Nicaraguans a day from three locations: San Diego; El Paso, Texas; and Rio Grande Valley, Texas, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the effort.
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[IsraelTimes] A Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, delegation lands in Moscow to meet with officials in the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The delegation is made up of Hamas officials based outside of 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... Hamas has seen its ties with Russia improve in recent years. Last month, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... held a rare phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
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a rare phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Ah, to be a fly on that metaphorical wall! I'm guessing the topic was how support for Hamas was contingent on them not doing anything overly stupid vs Israel.
You know, we could shut this down immediately by offering NATO membership to Hamas.
[GEOTV] Pakistain has dropped further on the list of countries in terms of protection of journalists in a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released on the World Press Freedom Day.
According to the RSF report, Pakistain has fallen by 12 places to 157 out of 180 countries. Last year, Pakistain was ranked 145 on the list.
Expressing his concern on the worsening situation, Council of Pakistain Newspaper Editors (CPNE) President Kazim Khan said that one can disagree with the editorial policy, however, no one can impose their decision on an institution.
Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Press Club President Fazil Jamili said that freedom of expression will be protected by putting personal interests above everything.
World Press Freedom Day is celebrated every year on May 3 to highlight the fundamental principles of press freedom and present the current state of journalism to the world.
This day is also celebrated to show solidarity and pay tribute to the journalists who were killed, injured or affected while performing their duties.
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[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Region’s Security Council on Wednesday said that the Peshmerga forces had "rescued" three foreign nationals from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Sinjar (Shingal), adding they had been "deceived" by the group into fighting the "allies of their country".
The 14 minute video published by the Kurdistan Region’s Counter Terrorism units on Facebook showed recorded interviews with American nationals Vincent Mark Alexander and Jean Devol, and British national Emre Edwards, who all claim to have been rescued by the Peshmerga forces from Sinjar.
"As soon as you get there, there is no leaving, you are stuck there until your contract ends and even if your contract ends, they say it’s 8 months, that’s also a lie," Alexander said in the recorded interview referring to the Shingal Resistance® Units (YBS) and the PKK, adding that they had initially signed up to fight the Islamic State
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I like how the word rescue in the headline is in quotes. As if the foreign nationals were having the time of their lives and didn't really need rescuing.
[Rudaw] A Swedish-Iranian doctor arrested on charges of alleged spying for the Israeli government will be executed within the month, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
Ahmed Reza Jalali, an expert in emergency medicine, was arrested during an academic visit to Iran ...The nation is 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... in October 2016 and subsequently sentenced to death the next year on spying charges.
"The death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... of Ahmad Reza Jalali has been placed on the agenda and this sentence will be carried out by the end of May at the latest," ISNA reported.
According to the news outlet, Jalali is accused of the liquidation of two nuclear scientists in Iran after he allegedly supplied the Mossad (Israeli intelligence) with information about their rival's nuclear program.
Jalali's execution order follows the conclusion of a former Iranian official's trial in Sweden, suspected of committing war crimes in Iran more than 30 years ago. Iranian national Hamid Noury, 60, is on trial for "committing grave war crimes and murder in Iran during 1988," Swedish prosecutors announced on July 27.
Noury had served as assistant to the deputy governor of Gohardasht prison in Karaj, near the Iranian capital of Tehran, when an estimated 5,000 prisoners were killed across the country, following an order from then Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys of Iran Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Swedish courts are trying Nouri based on the principle of universal jurisdiction which allows them to tackle grave crimes regardless of where they were committed and if found guilty, Nouri faces a maximum life sentence behind bars.
Sweden's foreign minister on Wednesday slammed Iran's decision to carry out Jalili's execution.
Amnesia Amnesty International has previously expressed concern about the decision, calling on Iranian authorities to refrain from implementing the execution two years ago.
Jalali was granted Swedish citizenship while in prison in 2018, a move that according to ISNA, was done "in order to put pressure on the Iranian judicial system."
Arrests of dual-nationals in Iran are not uncommon. Iranian authorities have arrested dozens of foreign nationals in recent years, mainly on espionage charges.
Many of the arrests, including British-Iranian prisoners Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, have been used as bargaining chips by the Iranian government. London in March paid Tehran an over £400-million debt, equivalent to over $500 million which allowed Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Ashoori to return home after many years of imprisonment on charges of attempting to "topple the Iranian government" and "spying for Israel's Mossad" respectively.
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.
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
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