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President Trump speaks in Washington on Dec. 18.
President Trump speaks in Washington on Dec. 18.
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The arrested Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) members arrived from the city of Noviy Urengoy in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area and intended to carry out attacks under guidance received from Syria, the FSB's press service told Russian media on Thursday. It noted that the terrorists had communicated through Telegram messenger, which was recently blocked in Russia.
While the arrest took place in March, the FSB and police detained 20 terrorist accomplices in a joint raid in Noviy Urengoy on Wednesday. Security officers seized a cache of extremist literature and videos containing IS propaganda.
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Fox owns 39% of Sky and submitted its bid to take full control in December 2016, but the deal has been held up by regulatory issues.
The incursion was organised by Italians and Swiss, their number swelled by forty migrants, a fraction of the number who in recent years have used the Alps to cross from Italy into France. In 2016, 315 were intercepted on this arduous route, a figure that last year rose to 1,900. The majority come from West Africa - Senegal, Guinea and the Ivory Coast - although there is also a Paris-based network of Pakistanis who smuggle their compatriots across the border.
One of the Italians told France24 he participated in the incursion "to express our shock at the failure of the French police to stop the fascists". The 'fascists' were around 100 members of an anti-immigration organisation called Génération Identitaire who, on Saturday, had erected a symbolic frontier post on the summit of the Col de l'Echelle, six kilometres from the Italian border. Having hired two helicopters at a cost of €30,000 they unfurled a large banner on which were emblazoned the words: "No Way. Border closed. You will not make Europe Home!".
The stunt may have been provocative but the Génération Identitaire activists broke no law, unlike the pro-migrant militants who put two policemen in hospital and escorted into France immigrants who, under the terms of the Dublin Treaty, should have applied for asylum in Italy. Nonetheless, Benoît Hamon, the Socialist candidate in last year's presidential election, has since called for Génération Identitaire to be banned because they "provoke discrimination, hate and violence".
Comment: Years ago, Europe should have resisted the calls of the US/Israel war party to destroy Iraq, Libya and Syria and generally destabilize the Middle East. Immigration with strong and stable Northern Africa and Middle East would not have been a major problem - now Europe must face a crisis that has no easy solution. Even ISIS sees this as an opportunity to spread chaos, and they are right!
UN food chief: ISIS and Africa terrorist groups stirring new, bigger migrant crisis for Europe
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Michael Caputo speaks to reporters after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, July 14, 2017.
Michael Caputo speaks to reporters after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, July 14, 2017.
Becoming ensnared in a federal investigation into the links between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the Kremlin can pose a serious financial threat for those involved at any level.
In an interview with CNBC, former Trump campaign advisor Michael Caputo described the financial strain of being a witness in the House Intelligence Committee's investigation.
"If you don't go into a congressional hearing thoroughly prepared, then you should bring a toothbrush, because you're going to be there a while," Caputo said in a phone interview.
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A man suspected of carrying out the attack has been detained, and the injured are being treated at local hospitals, according to authorities in Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province.
Spring is in the air: Salisbury police chase naked couple through city center after sex romp in park
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As is the want of the English people when the temperature gets above 15 degrees, Salisbury locals flocked to the park, sunning themselves in the Queen Elizabeth Gardens.
The heat got too much for one couple, who ditched their clothes entirely in a nearby field, getting down and dirty right there and then... at 17.45 in the afternoon. The police were subsequently called, and chased the raunchy (and still naked) duo through the city center.
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Police outside the Bataclan concert venue after the Paris terrorist attacks in November 2015
Police outside the Bataclan concert venue after the Paris terrorist attacks in November 2015
Speaking to French media on Wednesday, prosecutor Francois Molins warned of the relatively low cost of modern terrorism, and said he was alarmed at how terrorist groups have been able to "microfinance" their activities by raising "small but significant amounts" through its donors and money-laundering operations.
"It is through these modes of financing; prepaid cards, donations to humanitarian associations, gifts to collectors, the use of some virtual modes of payment. All that means that, at the end of the day, organizations can receive this type of money and prepare a certain number of actions in France or abroad," Molins said in an interview with FranceInfo.
Comment: This 'microfinancing' is small potatoes compared to where the real funding is coming from:
- Modus operandi: UK Government funds terrorists In Syria?
- UK used £200mn in taxpayer money to fund terrorism in Syria
- Rand Paul joins Tulsi Gabbard in calling for end to U.S. funding of terrorists
- Saudi Arabia is the biggest sponsor of terrorism, not Iran
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Fine Gael Senators have tabled a private members motion calling on the Minister for Health Simon Harris to change legislation or issue directions via a statutory instrument to address the gap in current legislation.
Mr Harris is to ask for Cabinet approval at Tuesday's meeting to accept the proposal.
The initiative was spearheaded by former minister for health James Reilly, who has said it should no longer be acceptable for people to smoke where others are eating.
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From the current 9.93 million tons, "I would forecast the cargo flow at 12-14 million tons in 2018," he told TASS, adding that "most likely it would be even bigger."
Kostin said there was almost 200-percent growth since the first quarter of 2017. "The main cargoes are minerals, food and fuel to local settlements, and transit shipments," he said, adding that more than 660 licenses were issued last year for the route's transit.
The Northern Sea Route, which stretches the entire length of Russia's Arctic and Far East regions, is expected to become a major trade route for goods shipped between Europe and Asia.
Comment: Is it any wonder Republicans have a severe trust of mainstream media news given the blatant liberal bias to almost all major news networks? And given the amount and scope of lying one sees in the mainstream press, perhaps Republicans are simply more 'woke' than the Dems.
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