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Plot for 30 simultaneous explosions in Tehran foiled, Iran says ☞ Al Jazeera – Qatar

“The Intelligence Ministry said the unnamed arrested individuals were all linked with ISIL (ISIS), and some of them had a history of cooperating with ‘takfiris in Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Kurdistan region in Iraq’. Takfiri is a term used to describe a Muslim who accuses other Muslims of being apostates or infidels, with the implied death sentence that that entails.”

“The Ministry of Intelligence implicates ISIL but says the operatives’ sophistication indicates a potential connection with Israel.”

September 24, 2023

9/11 defendant ruled unfit for trial after panel finds torture left him psychotic ☞ ABC News

“They wrongfully tortured these individuals. We don’t stand for torture. Because of that we’re denied a trial. We’re denied true justice.”

September 22, 2023

South Korean police accuse 17 US soldiers of drug crimes ☞ The Straits Times – Singapore

“SEOUL – The police in South Korea on Wednesday accused 17 US soldiers and five other people of distributing or using synthetic marijuana that had been brought into the country through the United States military’s postal service.
The police said they had not arrested any of the soldiers but had asked prosecutors to file charges against all 22 people.
A Philippine national and a South Korean national were under arrest, said the police in the city of Pyeongtaek. Synthetic marijuana is an illegal substance in South Korea.”

September 21, 2023

Venezuela sends 11,000 troops to retake gang-run prison with pool, disco, zoo ☞ France 24

“An AFP team saw security officers carrying motorcycles, televisions, air conditioners and microwaves out of the jail.”

September 20, 2023

Saudi Arabia -We will get nuclear weapon if Iran does ☞ Al Arabiya (English) – Saudi Arabia

“Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons.”

September 20, 2023

South Carolina – Missing F-35 jet flew for 60 miles without a pilot, who ejected into backyard after ‘mishap’ ☞ USA Today

“But many questions remain amid an ongoing investigation into the incident. The U.S. Marine Corps hasn’t yet released much information about how the ‘most expensive’ aircraft went missing and crashed.”

September 19, 2023

USA – Missing F-35: US military asks for public’s help to find jet ☞ BBC News

“It was left in autopilot mode when the pilot ejected, a spokesman at Joint Base Charleston told NBC News, adding that it may have been airborne for some time. Officials said they were focusing their searches around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion, north of the city of Charleston. The search area was based on the jet’s last known location.”

September 18, 2023

Russia’s Air Defenses Around Moscow Weren’t Built to Stop Drones ☞ Business Insider

“The last few weeks have seen frantic efforts strengthen Moscow’s air defenses. The UK’s Ministry of Defense noted in a Tweet on September 12th that pictures on social media showed new anti-aircraft installations on towers and ramps around Moscow to protect against drone attacks.”

September 17, 2023

Analysis: Upheavals in Xi’s world spread concern about China’s diplomacy ☞ Reuters

“The disappearance of China’s defence minister, the latest in a string of upheavals in the country’s top ranks, is stoking uncertainty about President Xi Jinping’s rule as an internal security clampdown trumps international engagement.”

September 17, 2023

Macron says French ambassador in Niger is ‘being held hostage’ in embassy

“As we speak, we have an ambassador and diplomatic staff who are literally being held hostage in the French embassy. They are preventing food deliveries. He is eating military rations.”

September 15, 2023

The USA resumes surveillance flights over Niger ☞ Africanews – France

“We can confirm that U.S. forces in Niger have conducted “ intelligence and reconnaissance ” flights to ward off threats and ensure the protection of our forces,”

September 15, 2023

Russian pilot fires two missiles at British RAF plane that was carrying 30 aircrew ☞ Mirror Online – UK

“Russia initially claimed that the rogue pilot had shot at the British plane, which was carrying 30 airmen and women, but communications have revealed that the shot was actually approved by Russian ground control.”

September 14, 2023

Kim Jong Un: North Korea leader enters Russia to visit Putin ☞ BBC News

“Russia will likely ask North Korea for conventional arms, including artillery shells and rocket artillery munitions in exchange for food and raw materials, and continuing support at international forums like the United Nations…”

September 11, 2023

Niger says France amassing troops, equipment in ECOWAS states ☞ Al Jazeera – Qatar

“The claim came as tensions between Niger and France – its former colonial power – rise in the wake of a military coup on July 26. Paris has stood by deposed President Mohamed Bazoum and refused to comply with Niger’s demands to remove its troops and envoy from the Sahel state.”

September 10, 2023

China claims ownership of the Taiwan Strait. Canada just sailed a warship through it ☞ CBC – Canada

“As HMCS Ottawa entered the busy and strategically critical body of water at sunrise, it was flanked by three Chinese warships armed with missiles and torpedoes. They mirrored Ottawa’s moves for the entire 17-hour crossing. Canada made the journey along with the USS Ralph Johnson, a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer, in what both countries describe as a freedom of navigation exercise.”

September 9, 2023

Uncertainty for French soldiers in Niger, confined to barracks after coup ☞ RFI – France

“When a junta seized power in Niger on 26 July, joint military operations against jihadists between Niger and France were suspended. French troops, ordered to stay in their barracks, face an uncertain future as diplomatic wrangling over a possible pull-out continues.”

September 8, 2023

North Korea launches new ‘tactical nuclear attack submarine’ ☞ France 24

“On Thursday, KCNA said Kim inspected the submarine as it prepared for a test cruise, and entered it ‘to acquaint himself with its weapon system and underwater operation capability’. But the South Korean military said Pyongyang’s claims could not be taken at face value.
‘Our initial assessment is that it does not look to be operational,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff told AFP’.”

September 8, 2023

Manhunt launched for terror suspect who escaped London prison ☞ NPR

“He was arrested in January, and was immediately discharged from the British army.”

September 7, 2023

US warns North Korea would ‘pay a price’ for any arms deal with Russia ☞ CNN

“I think it says a lot that Russia is having to turn to a country like North Korea to seek to bolster its defense capacity, in a war that it expected would be over in a week.”

September 5, 2023

Algeria says warning shots fired before jet skiers killed ☞ New York Post

“Given that the maritime border area is witnessing intense activity by drug smuggling gangs and organized crime, Coast Guard members fired warning shots.”
“After multiple attempts, shots were fired on a jet ski.”

September 4, 2023

Hong Kong students to go on more ‘red’ study trips to mainland China ☞ Radio Free Asia

Image: Beijing Center of the University of Hong Kong
“Hong Kong’s government is boosting a program of school trips to mainland China, adding iconic destinations linked to Communist Party history and boosting ‘revolutionary education’.”

September 4, 2023

Photos: Huge protests in Niger demand French forces to leave ☞ Al Jazeera – Qatar

“Tens of thousands of protesters converged outside a French military base in Niger, demanding its 1,500 soldiers leave as France shows no sign it will comply after a coup d’etat removed the elected president. Outside the base, demonstrators slit the throat of a goat dressed in French colours and carried coffins draped in French flags on Saturday as a line of Nigerien soldiers looked on.”

September 3, 2023

Germany – 98-year-old charged for Holocaust crimes ☞ The Week

“Authorities alleged that the unnamed man was complicit in the deaths of more than 3,300 people while working as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945. While stationed at Sachsenhausen, the man allegedly ‘assisted in the cruel and insidious killing of thousands of prisoners,’ prosecutors from the city of Giessen said. A state court will decide whether or not to send the man to trial — if he is, he will be tried in juvenile court, prosecutors said, because he was a minor at the time of the Holocaust.”

September 2, 2023

Niger junta bans UN agencies and global NGOs from ‘military zones’ ☞ RFI – France

“Niger’s Interior Ministry has announced it’s stopping UN agencies and international NGOs from working in military “operation zones” as the country experiences a security crisis following a military coup.
A statement broadcast on national radio did not specify which regions in Niger were affected.”

September 1, 2023

Tourists from Morocco shot dead after straying into Algerian waters ☞ Al Jazeera – Qatar

“Two men reportedly killed after straying past Morocco’s maritime border into Algeria on jet skis.”

September 1, 2023

US House Foreign Affairs Committee chair calls Russia-China alliance the biggest threat since WWII ☞ AP News

“We have never seen a threat this large scale to Europe and the Pacific, I would argue, since World War II.”

September 1, 2023

World reaction to the military coup in Gabon ☞ Al Jazeera – Qatar

“President Ali Bongo Ondimba called on people to “make noise” to support him. But crowds instead took to the streets of the capital and sang the national anthem.
They are celebrating a coup attempt against a dynasty accused of getting rich on the country’s resource wealth while many of its citizens struggle to scrape by.”

August 30, 2023

Mapping Africa’s coups d’etat across the years | Maps News | Al Jazeera

“Out of at least 242 successful military coups that have occurred globally since 1950, Africa accounts for the largest number at 106.”

August 30, 2023

Gabon: President Ali Bongo under house arrest, according to military putschists ☞ Africanews

“Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba is ‘under house arrest’ surrounded by his family and doctors, and one of his sons has been arrested, notably for ‘high treason’, the military behind a coup d’état announced on Wednesday morning.”

August 30, 2023

Gabon soldiers say Bongo ‘regime’ ended, borders closed ☞ Africanews

“A group of Gabonese military officers appeared on television Wednesday announcing they were “putting an end to the current regime” and cancelling an election that, according to official results, President Ali Bongo Ondimba won.
During the announcement, AFP journalists heard gunfire ring out in the Gabonese capital, Libreville.”

August 30, 2023

Venezuela using arbitrary detention as ‘tool of repression’: Amnesty International ☞ Al Jazeera – Qatar

“In September 2022, a special UN mission to Venezuela said the country’s intelligence agencies ‘made use of sexual and gender-based violence to torture and humiliate their detainees’ since at least 2014 and ‘the violations and crimes … continue to this day’.
The Venezuelan government rejected the accusations as ‘false and unfounded’.”

August 29, 2023

Iran Court Orders US to Pay $330M for ‘Planning Coup’ ☞ VOA

“Last year, relatives of those killed in the coup attempt filed a legal petition with Iran’s International Court demanding damages, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said.
They specifically accused the United States of “planning and executing” the coup, Mizan said.
The court ruled in their favor, ordering ‘the American government to pay the plaintiffs 30 million dollars in material and moral damages, and 300 million dollars in punitive damages,’ it added.”

August 26, 2023

Niger puts military on ‘maximum alert’ over ECOWAS attack fears ☞ Al Jazeera – Qatar

“An internal document issued by its defence chief, which was shared widely online on Saturday, said the order to be on the highest state of readiness would allow forces to respond adequately in case of any attack and ‘avoid a general surprise’.
Threats of aggression to the national territory are increasingly being felt.”

August 26, 2023

Mozambique’s President Reports Killing of Militant Leader ☞ VOA

“Mozambican President Filipande Jacinto Nyusi on Friday reported the killing of reputed terrorist leader Bonomade Machude Omar, known as Ibn Omar, in troubled Cabo Delgado province.
Speaking live on state Radio Mozambique from his seaside palace, Nyusi said the terrorist leader was fatally shot Tuesday during a gunbattle against Mozambique’s defense forces that was supported by the Rwandan military and troops from the Southern African Development Community.”

August 25, 2023

Ron DeSantis says he would send US military to Mexico if elected ☞ Mexico News Daily

“As president, would you support sending U.S. special forces over the border into Mexico to take out fentanyl labs, to take out drug cartel operations?”
“Yes, and I will do it on day one. Here’s the thing. The cartels are killing tens of thousands of our fellow citizens.”

August 25, 2023

On This Day: August 24, 1963 – Cable 243 – Video Clip

“The cable declared that Washington would no longer tolerate Nhu remaining in a position of power and ordered Lodge to pressure Diệm to remove his brother. It said that if Diệm refused, the Americans would explore the possibility for alternative leadership in South Vietnam.”

August 24, 2023

Spying allegations spark calls on British government to cancel minister’s China trip ☞ Radio Free Asia

“How can the UK Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Affairs @FCDOGovUK continue to think he has to go to China to ‘KowTow’ to China while they steal our secrets and commit genocide?”
“Our policy towards China is like a front door mat…”

August 24, 2023

Inside the Marine Corps’ Fight with Fox News over a False Gold Star Family Story ☞ Military.com

“A service spokesman notified the news network that it was pushing an incorrect story and accused it of using the grief of fallen Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee’s family to draw in readers, the email exchanges, released through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request, show. Fox News eventually deleted the story with no correction, and it never reached out to the Gee family with an apology as the Marine Corps requested, the family said.”

August 23, 2023

Australia buys US$1.1 billion of US missiles amid Aukus and ‘arms race’ concerns ☞ South China Morning Post – Hong Kong

“We are investing in the capabilities our Defence Force needs to hold our adversaries at risk further from our shores and keep Australians safe in the complex and uncertain world in which we live today. The war in Ukraine has demonstrated the importance of having not just war stocks, but [also] a domestic missile manufacturing industry, and this announcement will help deliver that.”

August 21, 2023

Philippines, Australia conduct joint air assault drills near South China Sea ☞ The Straits Times – Singapore

“The exercise involved coordinated air, land and sea actions to simulate realistic combat scenarios, enhancing the forces’ preparedness and operational readiness.”

August 21, 2023

West African bloc says undisclosed ‘D-Day’ set for possible Niger intervention ☞ RFI – France

“West Africa’s main regional bloc on Friday said it had agreed an undisclosed ‘D-Day’ for a possible military intervention to restore democracy in Niger if diplomatic efforts fail, stressing that it would not hold endless dialogue with the defiant junta.”

August 19, 2023

Taiwan detects 42 warplanes in Chinese military drills ☞ BBC News

(a) “stern warning to the collusion of Taiwan independence separatists with foreign elements and their provocations.”

August 19, 2023

Oklahoma – Air Force Won’t Disclose Causes of 17 Deaths at Tinker Air Force Base This Year ☞ Military.com

“Tinker does not have to disclose the names of the airmen/women who have died, but I believe we as citizens who have service members and who have children looking into serving our country deserve to know why and how airmen/women are dying.”

August 16, 2023

North Korea Confirms It Is Investigating US Soldier Travis King ☞ VOA

“Pyongyang is investigating the Army private second class for his ‘illegal intrusion’ into North Korea, KCNA said Wednesday, adding King ‘confessed’ to being motivated by ‘inhumane maltreatment and racial discrimination within the U.S. Army.’…saying he was “disillusioned” over inequality in American society.”

August 16, 2023

Inside the Ring: Navy carrier strike group deployed near Taiwan ☞ Washington Times

“The aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Ronald Reagan is deployed in waters off the east coast of Taiwan amid growing tensions with China over the recent U.S. visit by Taiwan’s vice president, the U.S. Naval Institute reported this week.”

August 16, 2023

William Lai: Taiwan will ‘never back down’ to China threats, presidential candidate says during US transit ☞ CNN

“No matter how great the threat of authoritarianism is to Taiwan, we absolutely will not be scared nor cower, we will uphold the values of democracy and freedom.”

August 14, 2023

Niger’s military regime to ‘prosecute’ President Bazoum for ‘high treason’ ☞ TRT World – Turkey

“The Nigerien government has so far gathered… evidence to prosecute the deposed president and his local and foreign accomplices before the competent national and international bodies for high treason and undermining the internal and external security of Niger.”

August 13, 2023

China makes weapons ‘breakthrough’ ☞ RT World News – Russian Federation

“Chinese military scientists have reported a research breakthrough that could make it possible for Beijing to develop high-energy laser weapons that can shoot for as long as their operators desire, without interruption and without any degradation in performance.”

August 12, 2023

Guam’s Airspace Set To Be Most Defended On Earth In New Plans ☞ The Warzone

“A total of 20 separate sites are currently under consideration to host surface-to-air interceptors, radars, and other elements of the planned Enhanced Integrated Air and Missile Defense (EIAMD) system.”

August 11, 2023

Western officials: Niger junta warned they’d kill deposed president after any military intervention ☞ WPLG 10 ABC – Miami

“They spoke to the AP shortly before the West African bloc ECOWAS said it had directed the deployment of a ‘standby force’ to restore democracy in Niger, without giving details about its make-up, location or proposed date of deployment.”

August 10, 2023

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