https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/north-korea-accuses-us-of-manufacturing-biological-weapons-i

North Korea accuses US of manufacturing biological weapons in Ukraine

North Korea accused the United States on Sunday of being behind the manufacturing of biological weapons in Ukraine, backing Russia's claims against Washington's biolabs.

KCNA said that Washington "has set up a number of biological laboratories in dozens of countries and regions, including Ukraine, defying international treaties."

North Korea, furthermore, stressed that Washington is an "evil sponsor of bioterrorism, wreaking havoc on humanity," accusing the US of waging a "bacterial war" in the Korean War of the 1950s.

China, North Korea, and Russia have relayed such accusations in the past Most recently, as US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland admitted to having biological labs in Ukraine after Moscow began its military operation in Ukraine.

The US Department of Defense announced recently that it has provided support, over the past 20 years, to 46 laboratories, health institutions, and diagnostic centers in Ukraine, claiming that those were for "peaceful purposes."

US military using Ukraine for biological programs: Security official

Moscow's indications that Ukraine was being used as a base for Washington's military biological programs were confirmed during Russia's special military operation, said Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev in June.

"During the operation, our suspicions were confirmed that Ukraine became a base for Washington’s military biological programs. Such US projects require particular attention of the civilized world because the Americans were the only ones who didn’t join the protocol on mutual control within the framework of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention," he stated, TASS reported.

He added that "the accumulation of new facts on criminal breaches of international laws by the US and Ukraine continues on a persistent basis.”

Russia’s Investigative Committee concluded that the US has poured more than $224 million into biological research in Ukraine between 2005 and early 2022. Moscow added that Western pharmaceutical giants, nonprofits, and even the US Democratic Party all took part in the scheme.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/russia-targets-stockpile-of-nato-harpoon-missiles-in-ukraine

Russia targets stockpile of NATO Harpoon missiles in Ukraine

Russian naval forces destroyed a docked Ukrainian warship and a warehouse of US-supplied Harpoon missiles in the port of Odessa on Sunday, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

In a statement, the ministry said: "In the port of Odessa, on the territory of a ship repair plant, high-precision long-range sea-based missiles destroyed a docked Ukrainian warship and a warehouse of anti-ship Harpoon missiles delivered by the United States to Kiev."

The Russian forces also disabled the plant's production facilities for warship repair and modernization, according to the statement.

Last month, the US announced a $1 billion defense package for Ukraine, which included Harpoon missile launchers, howitzers, and ammunition for high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS), according to Politico.

According to the report, the package also included two truck-mounted Harpoon launchers, 18 howitzers, 36,000 artillery rounds, HIMARS ammunition, and optics.

The $1 billion in funding for the equipment comes from $650 million in congressional Ukraine assistance passed by the US Congress last month and $350 million in drawdown authority, the report says-

The Biden administration announced a military aid package for Ukraine last Wednesday, including 1,000 anti-tank Javelin missiles, 50 command launch units, four Mi-17 helicopters, and four HIMARS systems.

It is noteworthy that all arm supply packages come while the US suffers from inflation. US market indexes fell to their lowest levels in more than three weeks. The S&P 500 index finished 2.4 percent lower, or 97.95 points, at 4017.82, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.9 percent, or 638.11 points, to 32272.79.

The Nasdaq Composite Index, which is centered on technology, fell 2.7 percent, or 332.05 points, to 11754.23. For much of the day, the major indices were in small drops until plummeting in the final hour of trade.

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>>16795808

It's melting! It's melting!

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-pm:-closing-moscows-jewish-agency-serious-to-affect

Israeli PM: Closing Moscow Jewish Agency 'serious'; to affect ties

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Sunday that Russia's decision to shut down an agency that processes Jewish immigration to "Israel" is a "serious event" that will impact bilateral ties.

Last week, a Moscow court said that the justice ministry had requested the "dissolution" of the Jewish Agency for legal violations that were not specified, setting a hearing on July 28.

Some interpret this revelation as Moscow's warning against Lapid, who has taken a stricter approach to the Ukraine war than the former PM, Naftali Bennett.

On Sunday, Lapid told a meeting of senior officials that "closing the Jewish Agency offices would be a serious event that would affect relations", a government statement said.

He also ordered that a "legal delegation be prepared to depart for Moscow as soon as the Russian approval for talks is received and to make every effort to exhaust the legal dialogue" in addition to diplomatic efforts to ameliorate the tensions.

The Jewish Agency, which was established in 1929, played a key role in the colonization of Palestine and then the creation of the Israeli occupation regime in 1948. It began its work in Russia in 1989, two years before the Soviet Union collapsed. Hundreds of thousands of Jews in Russia migrated to "Israel" after that.

Although closing the Jewish Agency would not stop Russian Jews from moving to "Israel," it would slow down the process.

Dissolving Jewish Agency's work 'political punishment'

On Thursday, Israeli media reported "great tension between Russia and Israel", against the background of reports from Moscow about dissolving the Jewish Agency's operation in Russia, noting that this matter may be related to Prime Minister Yair Lapid's statement about the war in Ukraine.

Relations between "Israel" and Russia have witnessed tension in recent months, as the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Israeli ambassador to Russia, Alexander Ben Zvi, against the background of a statement by Yair Lapid when he was foreign minister of the occupation last April, in which he condemned Russia's practices in Ukraine, describing them as "war crimes".

Israeli media reported on July 21 that "Israel" considers dissolving the Jewish Agency's operation in Russia a "political punishment" for "Israel's" stance on the Ukraine war.

Israeli Channel 13's political affairs correspondent, Moriah Wahlberg, said that "Russia wants to stop the operation of the Jewish Agency, ostensibly, and there is talk of a technical bureaucratic matter, but in Israel, they say that it is a political punishment."

She added that "Israel" tried "not create a diplomatic crisis, but that did not work."

>> Nice door sign.

>>16795852

London, Vatican, Spain and Morocco fires. All hot beds for human trafficking.

>>16795866

This is the same classroom the picture from the 4th of July of Dan tweet taken from. I hope my memory is not playing a trick on me.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-settler-group-raises-millions-for-illegal-west-bank

Israeli settler group raises millions for illegal West Bank outposts

Thousands of illegal Israeli settlers from Nachala, an infamous setter group, and Israeli occupation legislators established on Wednesday seven illegal outposts in the occupied West Bank. The settlement outposts were funded via a crowdfunding campaign that amassed millions of dollars with the sole purpose of expanding illegal Israeli settlements.

The very next day, the Israeli occupation forces evacuated the outposts, detaining and later releasing 11 settlers. Despite the IOF evicting the settlements, the settler group is still planning on expanding the Israeli settlement, pledging to establish new outposts within days.

Nachala is the group behind the notorious Evyatar settlement set up last year on Mount Sabih, which led to many protests from Palestinians against the Israeli occupation's expansion policies, and later turned into confrontations between Palestinians and illegal settlers as well as the Israeli occupation's forces.

Israeli law allows for settlements, but they are deemed illegal under international law. Despite allowing for official settlements to be built on stolen Palestinian land, Israeli law does not permit settlement outposts, which are makeshift settlements built by settlers themselves. However, "Tel Aviv" gave the green light to several outposts.

Though illegal, Nachala is constantly advertising its plans to establish outposts very explicitly, and it receives funding through its financial arm, registered NGO Guela Titnu La'aretz (the land shall be redeemed). Other means include its public benefit company, The National Fund for the Building of the Land of Israel, and donations.

The largest donation for the propping up of more settlements on occupied Palestinian land came for $290,000 from an anonymous donor, while significant sums also came from organizations abroad and within occupied Palestine.

Geula Titnu La'aretz didn't file annual reports with the Israeli registrar in the last two years, but the latest financial data shows it received as much as $140,000 in 2019. The National Fund for the Building of the Land of Israel received as much as $200,000 in 2020 - its recent filing said.

Just like many Israeli organizations, Nachala has a branch in the United States, Friends of Nachala Israel, though the latter has no website nor is registered with the Internal Revenue Services; therefore, information on its directors and funding is unknown.

The Nachala movement, despite the illegality of its plans, is backed by Israeli society and is endorsed by various politicians and thousands upon thousands of settlers. Even Israeli occupation Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked supports the organization, as well as various Knesset members.

Activists have repeatedly accused the Israeli occupation regime of backing Nachala, namely the municipalities of settlements, with Yesh Din executive director Ziv Stahl sending a letter to the US ambassador to the Israeli occupation saying: "This plan is being promoted by more than 20 Israeli right-wing movements and bodies led by the Nachala Settlement Movement, with active involvement and support from settlements and regional and local municipalities."

Regional settlement councils and settlement municipalities have provided the organization with infrastructure, namely road access, electricity, and water, as well as other necessities such as building contractors and various equipment, in a bid to help it commit its acts that are illegal even in Israeli laws.

"Tel Aviv" does not oppose all settlements, as its latest round of approving the expansion of illegal settlements came in mid-May, which saw it advancing plans for 4,427 illegal settlement units for settlers in the occupied West Bank.

The expansion of settlements has been taking place in the West Bank since 1967, despite occupied Palestine and the majority of the world decrying the illegitimate process.

Settlement expansion surged under former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and during Trump's administration, and former PM Naftali Bennett is the former head of a settlement lobby himself. Bennett's government claimed it had different plans than Netanyahu's but follows similar policies.

About half a million Israeli settlers live in the occupied Palestinian territories, with many more even wanting to move there, Elhayani added, not taking into consideration the rights and needs of the Palestinians as they uproot them from their lands.

Ahead of the decision to expand illegal settlements, the Israeli occupation forces demolished at least 18 structures in the occupied West Bank, including 12 residential buildings, following a Supreme Court decision that would force around 1,000 Palestinians out of an area the Israelis had designated a firing zone.

>>16795899

a history course?

>>16795908

This one? From Michigan? If so, it's got a notable clock tower.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/attack-on-mali-military-camp-foiled:-bamako

Attack on Mali military camp foiled: Bamako

The Malian army thwarted a fresh attack on a military camp in the center of the country, the army said Sunday on social media, two days after a deadly suicide attack in a strategic garrison town near Bamako.

The armed forces once again foiled an attempted attack on a camp in Sevare early on Sunday, the army said on social media.

"The provisional toll stands at one terrorist neutralized," the army added.

A high-ranking official from the Sevare camp, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the situation was under control, noting that the camp of the national guard was attacked on Sunday.

Bamako announced on Friday that it had repelled a suicide attack by Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists with two vehicle-born bombs that killed at least one soldier in Kati.

The Malian army has been upping the pace against terrorists in recent months with the help of Russian instructors.

Authorities also noted that on June 24, a police station on the same road was ambushed by "unidentified armed individuals", killing one officer.

Mali has witnessed two military coups since 2020. Colonels angry at the government's handling of the long-running insurgency seized power in August 2020, then carried out another coup in May the following year.

The junta that came to power in August 2020 has had sharp tensions with France, which had sent troops to its former colony in what many saw as a bid to still have a foothold in the country.

The agreements that have been terminated in Mali had once laid the groundwork for France's interference in Mali in 2014. They were inked a year after French troops sent a substantial force to Mali to allegedly help the Malian armed forces in putting an end to terrorism.

France's relationship with Mali deteriorated following massive international pressures on the junta. Paris has also objected to the regime’s rapprochement with the Kremlin.

Bamako had accused the French military of espionage and sabotage, pointing out to finding mass graves near a French base in Gossi, which the French have been trying to hide.

In May, the Mali junta decided to withdraw all defense treaties with France, citing "flagrant abuses" of national sovereignty.

Paris no longer possesses the legal basis for carrying out military operations in Mali after the West African nation withdrew from defense agreements with France, the Malian government had said.

>>16796052

Justice Thomas as well, Just read it.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/at-least-1000-cases-against-spies-opened-in-ukraine

At least 1,000 cases against "spies" opened in Ukraine

Igor Klymenko, Ukrainian police chief, said via his social media account that over 1,000 criminal cases pertaining to Russian "collaborators" have been opened in the past 5 months.

"More than 1,000 criminal proceedings have been initiated for collaboration activities. In addition, 174 people received a warning about suspicion [of committing collaboration activities]," Klymenko said.

More than 1,500 persons were also held by the police on suspicion of taking part in sabotage actions, Klymenko continued.

The chief of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ivan Bakanov, and the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Irina Venediktova, were both fired last week, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, for "committing acts of state treason while working for their respective agencies."

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/ethiopian-forces-kill-100-al-shabaab-fighters-coming-from-so

Ethiopian forces kill 100 Al-Shabaab fighters coming from Somalia

The Ethiopian region of Somali on Saturday revealed that they had "destroyed" fighters from Al-Shabaab Islamist group, in a rare militant incursion from Somalia.

In a statement, Somali's state communication bureau said an armed Al-Shabaab group that crossed into the southeastern region on Tuesday "was surrounded in a sub-locality called Hulhul and completely destroyed.”

An operation that lasted three days left more than 100 members of the militant group dead, with 13 vehicles destroyed.

The armed group, according to the authorities, was looking to pass through El-Kere district in the Somali region over 100 km from the Ethiopian-Somalia border.

On Thursday, locals and officials residing in the Bakool region reported that Al-Shabaab attacked bases hosting a special Ethiopian police unit the previous day. The Police unit helps protect the frontier, which borders Somalia.

Mohamed Malim, a Somalian official from the Hudur district, told AFP on Thursday that "this was the heaviest fighting ever" around Ato and Yeed, two towns in the Somalian west.

"It continued about six hours before the militants had been repelled, there are dead and wounded combatants from both sides, but we don't have the details so far," he said.

Al-Shabaab has been attacking Somalia's federal government for 15 years - the terrorist group is linked to Al-Qaeda.

An African Union force, that includes soldiers from five countries, such as Ethiopia and Kenya, has supported the government in its fight against the terrorists.

The terrorist group has been expelled from Somalia's main urban areas, including Mogadishu, in 2011. However, remnants of the group station themselves in the countryside.

Last Sunday, Somali officials confirmed that an attack targeted a hotel frequented by regional authorities in the city of Jowhar, in the Hirshabelle region, southern Somalia, leaving multiple casualties.

Anadolu Agency quoted senior officials as saying that the "blast was the result of a car bomb that targeted Nur Dob hotel in the town of Jowhar, wounding several people including local authorities, among them the health minister of Hirshabelle state."

Although no group has claimed responsibility for the bombing, Al-Shabaab has previously claimed responsibility for similar strikes, Somali media mentioned.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-survey:-50-of-americans-expecting-civil-war-in-coming-yea

US survey: 50% of Americans expecting civil war in coming years

A study from the University of California-Davis reveals that around 50% of Americans expect a civil war to occur "in the next few years."

Researchers working for the university's Violence Prevention Research Program and the California Violence Research Center presented findings that 50.1% of survey respondents said that they at least somewhat agree that a civil war will be happening soon, while 47.8% disagreed.

Around 14% said they "strongly" or "very strongly" agree that a civil war is imminent, while 36% said they somewhat agree.

Such results come at a time when the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots will be giving its final hearing on Thursday.

The study's results, according to researchers, may also signal concern regarding the future of US democracy.

Around 66% of respondents maintained that there is a "serious threat" to the country's democracy, while almost 90% said it is “very” or “extremely” important for the US to remain democratic.

However, and surprisingly, over 40% of respondents said that having a "strong leader" for the country holds more importance than having a democracy. Almost one in five said they agreed "strongly" or "very strongly" with such a statement.

Almost 20% agreed, strongly or very strongly, that violence may be justified to protect democracy if elected leaders won't. Over 15% said they agree, strongly or very strongly, with using violence to save "our American way of life," which is "disappearing."

Over 20% said using political violence is justified in general, and 25% said that violence is at least sometimes justified to stop an election from being stolen.

Most brazenly, over 10% of respondents said that violence would at least sometimes be justified to restore Trump's presidency this year.

Trump's rhetoric towards Biden's election into the presidency was that the election was stolen from him, thus his attempt to overturn the election results.

The researchers remarked that the findings are consistent with the previous two years' findings.

“The motivating premises for this survey were that current conditions in the US create both perceived threats and actual threats to its future as a free and democratic society,” they wrote. “The findings bear out both premises.”

>>16796265

You are forgetting the EO signed by Potus to protect them. I never understood why he did that.

>>16796285

I don't mean that. I mean that EO was put in place but it will only apply to the States, in other parts of the world, in most of the world, there are no such laws.