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  1. President Trump’s 360 Degree Adversaries, and He’s Got Them Surrounded…

    ”“Well, I don’t really have to do any holding together, now that I figured out what Trump is up to. He is shaking things out, but counting on Trump gravity to pull things back together as he moves along.

    He is moving “forward” at speeds Obama could not even dream of.

    You and I will be anti-Trump trolls one day and MAGA heroes the next. Get used to it. Trump speed is the new normal. Some will call it flip-flopping, but that’s not what it is. Trump is dodging and weaving through reality faster than the reality can react to disrupt his plans.””

    MORE… Well worth the read: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/11/president-trumps-360-degree-adversaries-and-hes-got-them-surrounded/

  3. Swedish ministers unveil plans for 10,000 more police officers by 2024 (express, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/790579/Sweden-terror-cabinet-minister-more-police-officers-2024-Stockholm-attack

    “SWEDEN’S biggest party plans to bolster up the country’s police force with 10,000 new officers by 2024, it announced just days after the Stockholm terror attack.

    Speaking to press in connection with the Social Democrats’ party conference, Sweden’s interior minister Anders Ygeman and finance minister Magdalena Andersson, said the party also plans to establish two new institutions to train police officers.

    The proposal would cost between £6billion and £8bn, the interior minister added, according to Expressense.

    Ms Andersson said: “We need to strengthen security in Sweden. We have also seen the fantastic efforts by the police in recent days and the love and respect they were met with my citizens. Something they really deserve.”

    The cabinet ministers added the investment into the officers would come in addition to the £2bn already pledged in the 2016 autumn budget…”

      • That doesn’t really sound like a good idea seeing as the muslims seem to have a greater propensity for mental illnesss. Do the Swedish police carry weapons beyond pepper spray and batons ?

        • Yes they carry guns but they are trained to do just about anything to avoid shooting anyone.

  4. REVEALED: UK spending more than THREE TIMES on foreign aid than rest of world, study shows (express, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/790740/UK-spends-more-than-three-times-foreign-aid-than-rest-of-world

    “NEW international analysis has revealed that Britain is paying more than three times its fair share of foreign aid compared to the rest of the world.

    One in every eight pounds spent in handouts to poor countries around the world is funded by the British taxpayer, the latest figures by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have revealed.

    While Britain had a major funding crisis in schools and hospitals the Government was still able to spend more than £13billion on foreign countries in 2016.

    This was from a total worldwide aid budget of £100 billion.

    Ukip international aid spokeswoman Lisa Duffy pointed out that the UK’s share of world GDP is 3.5 per cent but it is paying 12.5 per cent of the world’s aid budget.

    She said: “It is an outrage that UK taxpayers are forking out more than three times what any man or woman regard as fair.

    “Britain is one of the most generous donors of voluntary aid around the world but that generosity is being abused by a spendthrift government.”

    Only the USA and Germany have matched Britain in paying out the “minimum” level of 0.7 per cent of GDP on aid, the OECD has revealed.

    And the report also showed that refugees are coming into European countries, including Britain, are accounting for millions of pound from the foreign aid budgets…”

  6. In surprise move, Iran’s Ahmadinejad to run for president

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday stunned the country by unexpectedly filing to run in the May presidential election, contradicting a recommendation from the supreme leader to stay out of the race.

    Ahmadinejad’s decision could upend an election many believed would be won by moderate President Hassan Rouhani, who negotiated the nuclear deal with world powers. Though Rouhani has yet to formally register, many viewed him as a shoe-in following Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s recommendation in September for Ahmadinejad to stand down and conservatives’ inability to coalesce around a single candidate.

    Ahmadinejad’s firebrand style could prove appealing for hard-liners seeking a tough-talking candidate who can stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump. His candidacy also could expose the fissures inside Iranian politics that linger since his contested 2009 re-election, which brought massive unrest.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/irans-ahmadinejad-registers-run-president-073605329.html

  7. Alabama Senate votes to allow church to form police dept.
    Tuesday, April 11th 2017, 5:20 pm CDT
    Tuesday, April 11th 2017, 5:20 pm CDT

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – The Alabama Senate has voted to allow a church to form its own police force.

    Lawmakers on Tuesday voted 24-4 to allow Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham to establish a law enforcement department.

    The church says it needs its own police officers to keep its school as well as its more than 4,000 person congregation safe.

    Critics of the bill argue that a police department that reports to church officials could be used to cover up crimes.

    The state has given a few private universities the authority to have a police force, but never a church or non-school entity.

    Police experts have said such a police department would be unprecedented in the U.S.

    A similar bill is also scheduled to be debated in the House on Tuesday.

    http://www.wbrc.com/story/35126003/alabama-senate-oks-church-police-bill

  8. Dead body found near North Dakota pipeline protest site
    By J.E. Dyer April 11, 2017

    Over two months ago, local authorities were starting the clean-up of tons of trash left by pipeline protesters at the Oceti Sakowin camp in North Dakota. It was crucial to get the trash cleaned up before the spring rains and thaw set in, so that the trash wouldn’t cause toxic runoff in the waterways. (I noted the irony at the time: the protesters had for months called themselves “protectors of the local waters.”)

    When the clean-up first started, a Morton County Sheriff representative, Captain Jay Gruebele, explained one of the things they most feared to find:

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/04/11/dead-body-found-near-north-dakota-pipeline-protest-site/

  9. France’s War to Delegitimize Israel

    by Yves Mamou
    April 12, 2017 at 5:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10082/france-israel-delegitimization

    Officially, France prohibits any form of boycott against Israel. In 2015, the Court of Cassation confirmed a 2013 decision regarding the illegality of boycotts and the call for boycotts in France. Under the law, in 2013, BDS France was fined €28,000 (USD $30,000) by a local French court, after a call made in 2010 by 14 activists to boycott Israeli products in a supermarket. In addition, each of the 14 activists was fined €1,000.

    However, according to a report recently released by NGO Monitor, the French government continues to fund NGOs openly hostile to Israel and to fund NGOs that support and promote boycott campaigns against Israel.

    The French government’s financial support for boycott campaigns embraces:

    • “France’s War to Delegitimize Israel”

      All of which is quite strange when one considers how France made vital contributions to Israel’s original development of nuclear weapons.

      Furthermore, what does it take to prevent barely concealed Antisemite Islamic propaganda from reaching the world’s most influential propaganda platforms broadcast networks?

      More importantly, what is required to make aggressive (global) Muslim populations oppose the very same jihadist blathering that will, one day, see the entire lot of them vaporized in (otherwise totally avoidable) ionic plasma?

      As so many others (here and elsewhere) already have realized—the decision to peacefully coexist lies in the hands of those who are least willing to do anything about it.

      The West’s incontrovertible analysis of this most basic formula should be that irresistible force is the single answer to those who are deterred only by an utterly existential threat.

      Although this should be anything but the truth, far too many factors (especially those deriving from within Theocratic Islam itself) utterly oppose even the slightest degree of harmony required for non-nuclear conflict.

      From this point on, I sincerely hope that all here at Vlad Tepes Blog will please take my statements of this sort as polite and open invitations to sincerely argue against (or refute) them with whatever facts or tools are available.

      Please know that I do not enjoy predicting Continental Muslim death camps or any sort of European Islamic genocide. Be equally sure that whatever potential Muslim purge of Europe—a far more repulsive outcome—is utterly unacceptable. Would that there was a quick and easy way to disprove what I continue to reluctantly predict.

      Any alternative that furnishes a swift and relatively peaceful resolution to this seemingly intractable conflict deserves careful and detailed consideration.

      The alternatives are neither functional nor are they even slightly attractive.

      Thank you,

      NorseRadish

  14. BBC – Serbia Protests: Why are thousands of young Serbs so angry?

    Thousands of young protesters are turning up every night out in the streets of Belgrade and other major cities in Serbia. They accuse the current PM Aleksandar Vucic of trying to install a dictatorship. He recently won the presidential election with a landslide victory. Journalist Dejan Anastasijevic explains explains the thinking behind the protests and examines the impact they are having.

  16. France Far-right documentary: why are many young people turning to Marine Le Pen’s National Front?

  18. Germans wanting to aid refugees now at risk of bankruptcy

    Guarantors made to pay thousands of euros

    “Our interior ministry promised us that our responsibility would 100 percent end after the refugees were granted asylum here,” Grothe said. “Now the job centers are saying ‘Your obligation is still in place and we want the money back that we paid for your refugees!'”

    Grothe sounds angry when he’s talking about the issue because some of his fellow guarantors are getting desperate. For a Syrian family of four, the costs they are supposedly obliged to meet can reach up to 14,000 Euros every six months.

    Since that is not what they signed up for, the Giessen guarantors are now suing. Until the lawsuit at the Giessen administrative court is settled, they don’t have to pay. But what they really want is for the state to acknowledge the original promise and take over the payments for them.

    • AHhhhh, for the good doers the rubber is finally hitting the road.
      The should be thankful that all they get robbed is their income and not their life.

  20. DAILY MAIL – UK – 27 men and two women appear in court accused of child trafficking, rape and sex abuse against 18 girls as young as 11 over seven years

    27 men, most from Huddersfield, charged in historic sex and trafficking case
    Two women have also appeared in West Yorkshire court accused of child neglect
    Amere Singh Dhaliwal, 34, faces the most charges including 21 counts of rape
    Majority arrived and left court with their faces covered accompanied by police
    The group of 29 will appear together again at Leeds Crown Court in early May

    Amere Singh Dhaliwal, 34, of Huddersfield is charged with 54 offences. He is charged with 21 counts of rape, 14 counts of trafficking, as well as inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, sexual assault, sexual touching, possession of indecent images of a child, racially aggravated assault and inciting a child into prostitution.

    Raj Singh Barsran, 33, of Huddersfield. He is charged with sexual touching and rape.

    Abdul Rehman, 29, of Sheffield. He is charged with rape, trafficking, supplying drugs, supply of a controlled substance with intent to engage in sexual activity and sexual touching.

    Nasarat Hussain, 28, of Huddersfield. He is charged with three counts of rape, attempted rape and inciting a female to engage in sexual activity.

    Irfan Ahmed, 32, of Huddersfield. He is charged with six counts of trafficking, sexual assault, making indecent images of a child and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

    Zubair Ahmed, 30, of Huddersfield. He is charged with rape and possession of extreme pornography.

    Mohammed Riswan Aslam, 29, of Dewsbury. He is charged with two counts of rape.

    Mohammed Kammer, 32, of Huddersfield. He is charged with two counts of rape.

    Mohammad Nahman, 31, of Huddersfield. He is charged with trafficking, sexual assault, and two counts of rape.

    Hamzha Ali Saleem, 37, of Old Trafford, Greater Manchester. He is charged with three counts of trafficking.

    Zahid Hassan, 28, of Huddersfield. He is charged with eight counts of rape, five counts of trafficking, racially aggravated assault, supplying drugs, inciting a child into sexual activity, child abduction and attempted rape.

    Mohammad Azeem, 31, of Bradford. He is charged with three counts of rape.

    Sajid Hussain, 32, of Huddersfield. He is charged with three counts of rape, facilitating the commission of sexual activity on a child and inciting a child into sexual activity.

    Mansoor Akhtar, 25, of Huddersfield. He is charged with rape, attempted rape and two counts of trafficking.

    Mohammed Asaf Akram, 31, of Huddersfield. He is charged with seven counts of rape, three counts of trafficking, child abduction, supplying drugs, sexual assault and making threats to kill.

    Zulwarnain Dogar, 29, of Huddersfield. He is charged with sexual touching and trafficking.

    Manzoor Hassan, 37, of Huddersfield. He is charged with supply of a noxious substance with intent to injure, annoy or aggrieve a female, supply of Class A drugs and inciting a child into prostitution.

    Mohammad Ifraz, 28, of Huddersfield. He is charged with trafficking a female within the UK with a view to her sexual exploitation, rape, false imprisonment, child abduction, taking indecent images of a child and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

    Wiqas Mahmud, 36, of Huddersfield. He is charged with three counts of rape.

    Faisal Nadeem, 30, of Huddersfield. He is charged with supplying drugs, rape and possession of extreme pornography.

    Niaz Ahmed, 53, of Huddersfield. He is charged with inciting a child into sexual activity and sexual assault.

    Asif Bashir, 32, of Huddersfield. He is charged with four counts of rape and attempted rape.

    Mohammad Imran Ibrar, 32, of Huddersfield. He is charged with trafficking, facilitating the commission of sexual activity on a child, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, supplying drugs.

    Aleem Javaid, 27, of Huddersfield. He is charged with rape and supplying drugs.

    Mohammed Saqib Raheel, 30, of Dudley. He is charged with trafficking and child abduction.

    Usman Khalid, 29, of Huddersfield. He is charged with sexual assault, child abduction and sexual touching.

    Everton La Bastide, 50, of Huddersfield. He is charged with two counts of sexual assault.

    Shahnaz Akhtar Malik, 55, of Huddersfield. She is charged with one count of child neglect.

    Naveeda Habib, 38, of Huddersfield. She is charged with one count of child neglect.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4405262/27-men-2-women-court-child-sex-neglect-case.html

  22. Senator Dave Lawson Objecting to the First Muslim Prayer in Delaware Senate (Sound Only)

  24. Arrest made in Germany soccer bus bombing (abcnews, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/arrest-made-germany-soccer-bus-bombing/story?id=46750678

    “Police have made one arrest following an incident in which multiple explosions went off near the team bus of Borussia Dortmund, one of Germany’s top soccer clubs, as it set off for a Champions League quarterfinal match on Tuesday evening. One of the team’s players was injured in the attack.

    Two suspects “from the Islamist spectrum have come into the focus of the criminal prosecution,” according to authorities, and their apartments have been searched…”

  26. Seeking to salvage ties, US and Russia agree on Syria probe (abcnews, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/tillerson-visits-moscow-trump-calls-assad-animal-46744491

    “Striving to salvage ties amid a fierce dispute over Syria, the United States and Russia on Wednesday agreed to work together on an international investigation of a Syrian chemical weapons attack last week that prompted retaliatory American missile strikes. Washington blames Russia’s ally, Syrian President Bashar Assad, while Moscow says Syrian rebels are responsible…”

  27. White House claims on Syria chemical attack ‘obviously false’ – MIT professor (RT, Apr 12, 2017)
    https://www.rt.com/usa/384520-postol-report-sarin-syria/

    “A professor who challenged the 2013 claims of a chemical attack in Syria is now questioning the Trump administration’s narrative blaming the Assad government for the April 4 attack in the Idlib province town of Khan Shaykhun.

    On Tuesday, the White House released a declassified intelligence brief accusing Syrian President Bashar Assad of ordering and organizing the attack, in which Syrian planes allegedly dropped chemical ordnance on civilians in the rebel-held town.

    The report “contains absolutely no evidence that this attack was the result of a munition being dropped from an aircraft,” wrote Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Theodore Postol, who reviewed it and put together a 14-page assessment, which he provided to RT on Wednesday…”

  28. Nigeria thwarts Boko Haram plan to attack US, UK embassies (abcnews, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nigeria-thwarts-boko-haram-plan-attack-us-uk-46746978

    “Nigerian security officials have thwarted plans by Islamic State group-linked Boko Haram members to attack the embassies of the United States and Britain, authorities said Wednesday.

    A Department of State Services statement said it broke up a ring that had “perfected plans to attack the UK and American embassies and other Western interests” in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.

    The statement said five suspects who had been based in Benue state and the Federal Capital Territory were arrested on March 25 and 26. Another 20-year-old Boko Haram member was arrested March 22 in Yobe state and “confessed his involvement in executing the sinister activities of the group.”

    The statement gave no further details, and officials with the department could not immediately be reached…”

  29. Turkey: Kurdish rebels claim attack at police station (abcnews, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-explosion-police-station-terror-attack-46744383

    “Kurdish rebels on Wednesday claimed an attack at a police station in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir which authorities said was carried out with a ton of explosives planted inside a tunnel.

    The blast occurred Tuesday at a workshop inside the police complex as an armored vehicle was being repaired. A police officer and two civilian employees were killed.

    The Firat News agency, which is close to the rebels, said the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, claimed responsibility for the attack, which came as Turkey is heading toward a referendum on Sunday on whether to boost the president’s powers.

    At least five people were detained in connection with the attack, according to the Diyarbakir governor’s office…”

  30. Killing of key militant a success and worry for Philippines (abcnews, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/philippines-troops-killed-abu-sayyaf-commander-beheaded-46744389

    “The killing of a Muslim extremist leader on a resort island in the central Philippines this week was a clear victory for the military, but it also drove home an unsettling reality: that the militants are venturing farther from their jungle hideouts to spread terror.

    Military chief of staff Gen. Eduardo Ano said that troops recovered and identified the remains of Abu Sayyaf group commander Moammar Askali at the scene of the battle in the coastal hinterlands of Bohol island. Five other Abu Sayyaf gunmen, three soldiers and a policeman also were killed in Tuesday’s clashes…”

  31. Marine Le Pen Pledges to Quit Schengen and Restore Border Controls If Elected (breitbart, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/04/12/marine-le-pen-immediately-cancel-schengen-restore-border-controls-deport-foreign-islamists/

    “Marine Le Pen has pledged to suspend France’s membership of the European Union’s borderless Schengen area immediately if she is elected to the presidency, and deport all foreign nationals on the republic’s Islamist watch list…”

  32. Swedish Journo: Sweden Will Collapse Without Illegal Migrants (breitbart, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/04/12/swedish-journo-sweden-collapse-without-illegal-migrants/

    “Swedish writer Åsa Linderborg has claimed the Swedish economy would collapse if it was not for illegal migrants who she says are vital to the economy.

    Ms. Linderborg, who serves as the cultural editor for Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, wrote an opinion piece on Monday: “Yes, there is a problem with those who are denied their asylum applications and then go underground,” but added: “It’s equally true that Sweden would stop working if the tens of thousands of undocumented migrants who are here vanished for real.”

    Linderborg made the argument that illegal migrants do the jobs that Swedes refuse to do saying illegals were the ones who worked low-paying jobs like cleaning and in the service industry.

    The piece comes as a reaction to the news the terrorist in the Stockholm attack was a failed asylum seeker set to be deported. Following the attack, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said that Sweden would no longer employ an open door policy for illegal migrants.

    Though Linderborg claimed the Swedish economy relies solely on migrants, various reports have shown the opposite is true and that migrants are often the most likely to be unemployed in the country. A report from December 2015 predicted that six out of every 10 unemployed people in Sweden would come from a foreign background by 2017…”

  34. Swedish Theatre: Play ‘Humanising’ Terrorists Is ‘Particularly Important’ after Stockholm Attack (breitbart, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/04/12/sweden-play-humanising-terrorists/

    “Gothenburg City Theatre has defended its decision to continue showing a controversial play, whose writer and director says aims to “humanise” terrorists after an Islamist attack struck Sweden Friday.

    Still showing at the theatre, the play Jihadisten tells the story of a young man in Sweden who heads to Syria to join a terrorist organisation, after being “slowly radicalised”.

    Its writer and director Johan Gry told SVT last month: “The aim [of the play] is to humanise the terrorist, so to speak, and we are daring to show how he is a human being.”

    Going on to equate people who lack sympathy for Islamic terrorists with Islamic State and similar violent groups, he said: “For if we are not brave enough to do that, then we dehumanise this person in the same way as [Islamic terrorists] dehumanise their victims.

    “If we cannot understand, or try to understand these people, we will not be able to do anything about the problem.”

    After it premiered in Gothenburg at the end of March, the play gathered criticism from several figures in Sweden…”

  35. Donkeyman,
    I first heard about Dina Ali yesterday, she was fleeing saudia arabia but was topped at Manilla airport for her connecting flight to Austrlia. She was hooded cuffed and bundlled on to a plane to saudi
    NO ONE HAS HEARD FROM HER SINCE!

  36. “This is the shocking moment a hero commuter wrestled a knifeman who stormed a busy London bus in broad daylight.

    Footage captured the brave passenger fighting with the man and grabbing the large knife off him on the number 149 bus in Stoke Newington on Tuesday afternoon.

    The armed man realised he had lost his weapon and made a frantic dash out of the bus, as passengers looked on in horror.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4406888/Hero-passenger-wrestles-knifeman-stormed-London-bus.html

    “As his attacker ran away, he could be seen holding the knife.

    He shouted after him: ‘I’m an African, you never take my life!'”

    [If he said he was English the police would have arrested him].

  38. Afghan refugee faces deportation after 25 years in Switzerland (thelocal, Apr 12, 2017)
    https://www.thelocal.ch/20170412/afghan-refugee-faces-deportation-after-25-years-in-switzerland

    “A Swiss court has ruled that a 27-year-old Afghan man who came to Switzerland as a refugee at the age of two should be deported to Afghanistan after committing a number of crimes.

    Under Swiss law a refugee can be deported even after many years in Switzerland if he is deemed a threat to security or public order.

    In this case the Fribourg resident, who has spent 25 years in Switzerland and does not know his country of origin, appealed to the cantonal court after the authorities revoked his residency permit in 2015 following a number of convictions for violent behaviour.

    But last month the court rejected his appeal, Swiss media reported on Tuesday.

    The man arrived in Switzerland with his family in 1992. They were granted asylum and set up home in the canton of Fribourg, according to news agencies.

    As a minor, the young man was three times convicted of violent offences, behaviour that continued into adulthood and led to a three-year prison sentence in 2010.

    A year after being released he reoffended and was handed another two-year sentence.

    Ruling on the man’s appeal against his deportation, the cantonal court said there was a high risk that he would reoffend, based on the speed of his previous reoffending, his aggressive behaviour in prison and the opinion of a psychiatrist.

    The defendant said he had no relationship with Afghanistan, that he didn’t know the language or the country’s customs.

    The current fragile situation in Afghanistan and the fact he was from an ethnic minority also formed part of his argument against his deportation.

    However the court drew on the opinion of the Swiss migration office (SEM) which in 2015 said it found no reason to think the man would be treated inhumanely if he returned to Afghanistan, mainly because so much time had passed since the events that led to him and his family fleeing the country as refugees.

    The public interest in deporting him outweighed his private interest in staying here, concluded the judges…”

  39. Morocco Dismantles Seven-Member ISIS Related Terrorist Cell (moroccoworldnews, Apr 12, 2017)
    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/04/213838/morocco-dismantles-seven-member-isis-related-terrorist-cell/

    “Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ) has dismantled a terrorist cell linked to the so-called Islamic State, better known as ISIS, in Fez and Moulay Yacoub, a town located northwest of Fez, Ministry of Interior said in a communique on Wednesday.

    The ministry said that investigations show the cell, which includes seven members, is associated to another, previous dismantled cell that had been supporting ISIS by recruiting members to join their ranks.

    The BCIJ has dismantled the cell in the possession of white weapons, military equipment and money…”

  40. Can Polygamist Minister of Human Rights Defend Gender Equality? (moroccoworldnews, Apr 12, 2017)
    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/04/213837/can-polygamist-minister-of-human-rights-defend-gender-equality/

    “Morocco’s newly appointed Minister of State in charge of Human Rights, Mustapha Ramid, will soon be placed into an awkward international situation. A man with two wives himself; Ramid will be assigned to explain why Morocco did not fulfill its ban on polygamy in 2012.

    Ramid will be placed in front of delegates from different countries at the UN Human Rights Council scheduled to take place in Geneva in May, reported Moroccan daily newspaper, Assabah, on Wednesday…”

  41. Italy-Tunisia deal solved illegal arrivals says ambassador (ansamed, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2017/04/12/italy-tunisia-deal-solved-illegal-arrivals-says-ambassador_24e8f074-c89b-4661-a1e4-acbd6de677d0.html

    “Tunisia’s Ambassador to Rome Moez Sinaoui told an ANSA Forum on Wednesday that an agreement between Italy and Tunisia on migration has effectively solved the problem of illegal arrivals from that North African nation.

    “Thanks to the agreement with Italy to manage the flows, illegal immigration from Tunisia is no longer a problem,” Sinaoui said.

    “The agreement has been respected by both sides – the control of the coasts on our side, the supply of motorboats by Italy. “In 2016 there were just 1,204 illegal Tunisians in Italy out of a total of 180,000, practically nothing, and they were all repatriated. “It is necessary to give hope to young Tunisians, to make it possible for them to find work and be inserted into the legal migration systems”. Sinaoui added that he was confident the security situation had improved in Tunisia, following several big terrorist attacks in 2015.

    “Things on the security front are going better. We have not had attacks in the last two years,” he said.

    “But the truth is that no city in the world is safe and can say it is out of the terrorists’ sights. “We have passed laws to prevent terrorism and to stop the return of fighters from the Middle East.
    “Things are going better for tourism too, although not (for holidaymakers) from Italy, after the (March 2015) Bardo Museum attack, in which (four) Italians were among the victims.
    “We have to rebuild trust and working together is the best way to do that”.”

  42. Syria: first phase of Sunni-Shiite exchange agreement starts (ansamed, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/syria/2017/04/12/syria-first-phase-of-sunni-shiite-exchange-agreement-starts_88dc3fd1-921d-4751-895d-52768fe1b8a2.html

    “The first phase in the implementation of an agreement between local Sunni and Shiite militias and their regional sponsors kicked off Wednesday in central and northern Syria. The agreement aims to change the demographic scenario of regions bordering with Lebanon and Turkey, based on the new context created by the war.

    Media close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Syrian opposition groups reported that an exchange of prisoners and bodies of dead fighters took place among communities from the four towns – two Shiite and two Sunni – west of Damascus and in the region of Idlib.

    The accord was reached at the end of March between Sunni jihadist groups, supported by Qatar and Turkey, and their Lebanese and Syrian Shiite rivals, backed by Iran and Russia.

    The agreement provides for two Shiite enclaves (Foua and Kefraya) in the Sunni-majority region of Idlib to be almost totally emptied, as well as of the two Sunni towns of Madaya and Zabadani west of Damascus, an area nor controlled by Shiites.”

  43. Erdo?an says gov’t should reinstate death penalty after April 16 referendum (hurriyetdailynews, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/erdogan-says-govt-should-reinstate-death-penalty-after-april-16-referendum.aspx?pageID=238&nID=111956&NewsCatID=338

    “President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said he believes the government should submit a draft on reinstating the death penalty in the event that the constitutional amendments are approved in the upcoming referendum on April 16.

    “After April 16, with God’s permission, the draft would be brought to parliament. If it passes in parliament, I will approve it,” Erdo?an said at a rally in the eastern province of Erzurum on April 12…”

  45. Malala becomes honorary Canadian citizen (tribune, Apr 12, 2017)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1381885/malala-receives-canadian-citizenship/

    “Pakistani Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai was bestowed with honorary Canadian citizenship on Wednesday.

    Yousafzai was greeted on the steps of the Centre Block by Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as a parade of dignitaries, cabinet ministers and diplomats inside the rotunda beneath the Peace Tower, The Toronto Star reported.

    Moments later, Trudeau presented her with a certificate documenting her as an honorary Canadian, making her the sixth and youngest ever person to receive the honour…”

  46. Rangers unearth terrorist, RAW, NDS nexus (tribune, Apr 12, 2017)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1381325/rangers-arrest-5-raw-affiliated-al-qaeda-terrorists-karachi/

    “The Sindh Rangers claim to have unearthed a nexus between terrorists and foreign spy agencies.

    A senior paramilitary officer on Wednesday said the force has arrested at least five hardcore militants from Da’ish and al Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS) who were in contact with India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS).

    “We arrested the five hardcore militants during a raid in the Mawach Goth area of [Karachi’s] Keamari Town,” Rangers Colonel Qaiser Khattak told a news conference at the force’s headquarters.

    “We had received information through intelligence sources that trained Da’ish and AQIS militants were planning a major attack in Karachi,” he said. “Rangers saved Karachi by taking timely action against them.”

    Col Khattak said the captured terrorists had received training in Afghanistan. “They [the terrorists] were part of a nexus with India’s RAW and Afghanistan’s NDS which was operating out of Balochistan,” he said. “They were communicating with each other by using SD cards.”

    “A laptop containing a three-dimensional map of a highly sensitive installation in Karachi along with jihadi and anti-state literature was recovered from the militants’ possession and confirmed their ties with banned outfits,” the Rangers officer added.

    The suspects arrested were identified as Tahir Zaman alias Faisal Mota Boxer, Muhammad Nawaz, Bilal Ahmed alias Kashif alias Javed, Muhammad Farhan Siddiqui and Dur Muhammad Mashadi…”

  47. 4 large heroin factories destroyed by Afghan forces in Nangarhar (khaama, Apr 12, 2017)
    http://www.khaama.com/4-large-heroin-factories-destroyed-by-afghan-forces-in-nangarhar-02553

    “The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) personnel destroyed four large heroin factories in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.

    The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the factories were destroyed during a special military operation conducted late on Tuesday night in the vicinity of Ghani Khel district.

    The statement further added that the Afghan forces also discovered 7,500 kgs of morphine, 810 kgs of ammonium chloride, 500 liters of liquid opium, and some other types of chemicals and equipment used to produce heroin.

    The chemicals and equipment were all destroyed on the spot, the Ministry of Interior added…”

  48. NUCLEAR COUNTDOWN US officials believe North Korea has placed a nuclear device in a tunnel, which could mean a nuclear test is imminent

    Meanwhile foreign journalists visiting North Korea have been told to prepare for a ‘big and important event’

    Washington-based 38 North, a website that monitors North Korea, said satellite images from Saturday showed vehicles and trailers at the Punggye-ri test site and signs that communications cables may have been laid to a test tunnel.

    The think tank said water appears to be being pumped out and was draining downhill “presumably to keep the tunnel dry for monitoring or communications equipment”.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3321634/north-korea-nuclear-bomb-test-us-officials-nuke-sniffer/

    Groundhog Day: Activity Continues at North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site
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    By 38 North

    http://38north.org/2017/04/punggye040617/

    Over the past four weeks, there have been unusually high levels of activity at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, especially around the North Portal—the tunnel in which the four most recent nuclear tests have taken place. New commercial satellite imagery from April 2 indicates continued activity in this area and at the Main Administrative Area, while the rest of the facility remains quiet. This pattern of activity could mean a sixth nuclear test is imminent, but the imagery does not provide any definitive evidence of the installation of a nuclear device or the exact timing of such a test.

    At the North Portal, water continues to be pumped out of the tunnel and is saturating the ground to the southeast. The melting snow and resulting visible paths indicate continued foot and vehicle traffic around the portal and what appear to be two small trailers are visible on the side of the road to the south. The probable netting that was installed previously near the support building appears to be suspended over equipment—precisely what equipment can’t be determined at present. Additionally, there may have been some new dumping of material excavated from the tunnel onto the spoil pile.

  49. Kim Jong-Un ‘orders IMMEDIATE EVACUATION of Pyongyang’ as tensions with US escalate
    NORTH Korea leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly ordered residents of the country’s capital Pyongyang to leave the city immediately, sparking fears he may be preparing for war.

    Reports in Russian newspaper Pravda Report claim more than 600,000 people – around 25 per cent of the city’s population – are being urgently evacuated, as tensions escalate between North Korea and the United States.

    According to South Korean media, residents in the kingdom have said goodbye to each other, sparking concerns the tyrannical leader could be about to act after months of nuclear weapon testing.

    Foreign reporters have been told to prepare for a “big and important event” on North Korea’s biggest national celebration, called ‘Day of the Sun’.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/791251/kim-jong-un-north-korea-imminent-war-pyongyang-immediate-evacuation