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Anonymous ID: de6dad March 30, 2019, 9:59 a.m. No.5979173   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Afghan vice president narrowly escapes death for a second time.

 

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan’s vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum, escaped unhurt from an attack that killed one of his bodyguards on Saturday, dodging death for the second time since returning from exile last year.

 

Attackers ambushed Dostum’s convoy on the way from Mazar-i-Sharif, a city in Balkh province, to Jawzjan province in northern Afghanistan, said Bashir Ahmad Tayenj, spokesman for Dostum’s Junbish Party. Two other bodyguards were wounded.

 

Dostum was aware of a planned attack but decided to travel anyway, the spokesman added.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-dostum/afghan-vice-president-narrowly-escapes-death-for-a-second-time-idUSKCN1RB0HO

Anonymous ID: de6dad March 30, 2019, 10:01 a.m. No.5979201   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Thai king revokes royal decorations of ousted ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra

 

The king’s order came less than a week after the pro-Thaksin political party Pheu Thai, Thailand’s main opposition group, stood against a party supporting the ruling military junta in disputed national elections. Officials have yet to release the full results.

 

Publicly revoking Thaksin’s royal decorations could discredit him, and perhaps his affiliated party, in the eyes of many Thais, because the monarchy is revered without question in Thai culture.

 

The monarchy is above politics in Thailand, but that tradition was tested last month when the king’s sister accepted the nomination to run for prime minister for another pro-Thaksin party. The king swiftly declared her candidacy “inappropriate” and both the princess and the party were disqualified.

 

Saturday’s royal command to revoke Thaksin’s decorations was for his 2008 corruption conviction and for fleeing the country to escape a two-year prison sentence, the document said.

 

“King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun issued a royal command to revoke royal decorations, because Thaksin Shinawatra was sentenced to jail by the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders, in addition to many other accusations, and he fled the kingdom, which is a highly inappropriate behavior,” it read.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-king/thai-king-revokes-royal-decorations-of-ousted-ex-pm-thaksin-shinawatra-idUSKCN1RB0B7

Anonymous ID: de6dad March 30, 2019, 10:06 a.m. No.5979257   🗄️.is 🔗kun

"Return To Middle Ages": Venezuela Again Plunged Into Darkness, Red Cross Mobilizes

 

Ahead of broad opposition protests planned for Saturday, Caracas and other large cities across Venezuela were once again plunged into darkness Friday evening, just as the country struggled to fully recover from prior days-long outages.

 

The latest blackout began just after 7:00pm, leaving most of the capital as well as Valencia, Maracay, San Cristobal and Maracaibo without electricity, again crippling the country's transport, communication, water, and hospital infrastructures.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-30/return-middle-ages-venezuela-again-plunged-darkness-red-cross-mobilizes