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Europe
Germany
11:17AM · 2024. dec. 21 'Despite claims made by the German press, Abdulmohsen is not an ex-Muslim atheist, nor is he a fan of the AfD or Musk. While he may have spread this misinformation himself, it aligns with the practice of Taqqiye, an Islamic doctrine that permits lying and deception to advance Islamic objectives. In reality, he is a radical Shia Muslim, as evidenced by his name and numerous tweets and chat leaks circulating on Arabic-speaking platforms like X. Disturbingly, his plans to carry out mass killings of Germans were brought to the attention of German authorities by a Saudi woman. Tragically, the police ignored her warnings'. /Video/ (Source: X - U.S.)
by Salmassi
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Greece
(Sunday ), December 22, 2024 Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed the importance of EU border security at the North-South Summit on European safety and defense that took place in Lapland, Finland today. The summit was attended by Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kallas, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Mitsotakis highlighted the issue of border protection as a priority, saying: “The first is that border protection is an integral part of the migration strategy, as well as a common priority, regardless of whether we have land or water borders. Better management of these challenges should be a common European concern and this is also the issue we discussed at the European Council. And I would like to reiterate from here in Lapland how important and necessary it is to provide additional funding at European level, not only for border management, but also for the physical structures that allow us to manage our borders more effectively.” (Source: Greek Reporter - Greece)
Russia
(Sunday), 22 December 2024 10:23 pm Russia's Defence Ministry said Sunday that its forces had intercepted 42 Ukrainian drones launched overnight at Russian territory. According to the ministry, 20 of those were over the Oryol region. Russian forces downed 20 drones targeting fuel and energy infrastructure in the province. A fire broke out at the Stalnoy Kon oil terminal in Russia's southern Oryol region, where the local governor said a blaze tore through the oil terminal. According to Ukraine's Air Force, Russia launched 103 Iranian-made Shahed drones at its neighbour overnight into Sunday. Ukrainian air defense shot down 52 of the drones while another 44 failed to reach their targets, the force said in a statement, in a likely reference to electronic jamming. On Sunday, Russia's Defense Ministry reported that its troops had captured two northeastern settlements: Lozova in the Kharkiv region and Krasne in the Luhansk province. (Source: Outlook - India)
Serbia
22/12/2024 - 21:07 Tens of thousands of people gathered in Belgrade today to protest against President Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). The rally, organised by students and farmer unions, was part of a wider movement demanding accountability for the collapse of a railway station roof that killed 15 people last month. Smaller rallies were also held in the cities of Nis and Kragujevac. Many in Serbia blame the collapse on widespread corruption and sloppy work on the railway station building in the city of Novi Sad that was twice renovated in recent years as part of mega projects involving Chinese state companies. The Serbian president today inaugurated a section of a newly built highway in central Serbia. Vucic said he wouldn't budge to opposition demands for a transitional government and accused his opponents of using students to try to seize power. ’They (the opposition) don't know what to do but to use someone's children.’ Vucic has been advertising what he said are favorable loans for young people to purchase apartments as well as attracting tens of thousands of doctors and other skilled people who have left the country for a better life in the West in recent years. Serbia’s government has extended school winter holidays by starting them nearly a week earlier to grapple with widening student protests. Vucic initially accused the students of launching protests for money but later said he has fulfilled their demands, including publishing documentation relating to the renovation work at the Novi Sad station. (Source: France 24 / AP – U.S.)
United Kingdom
22 December 2024 Five years ago, Abdulmohsen sat down for an interview with the BBC where he discussed a website he designed to help ex-Muslims flee the Gulf region. Abdulmohsen had lived and worked in Saudi Arabia before claiming asylum in Germany. /Video/ (Source: BBC - United Kingdom)
Europe
22nd December 2024 Massacring concert-goers. Mowing down families at Christmas markets. Slashing at people’s necks as they gather together in their city centre. This is a barbarous war on our very way of life, waged by death cults and their sadistic fanboys. And yet Europe’s rulers have come to treat such attacks as akin to natural disasters – as awful, tragic, oh-so-sad things that just happen from time to time. They seem to have convinced themselves that confronting the Islamist threat too forcefully risks whipping up anti-Muslim hatred, as if the majority are a pogrom in waiting, or risks ‘alienating’ European Muslims, as if they are all terrorist sympathisers. In their supposed efforts to quell bigotry, the elites reveal their own. The horror in Magdeburg is a reminder that barbarism comes in many different packages. But as we head into 2025, we cannot lose sight of where the primary threat lies. We must refuse to be cowed by Islamist terror – and we must refuse to be condescended to by an establishment that would rather see us as the problem. (Source: Spiked - United Kingdom)
By Slater
Asia
Syria
2024-12-22 15:39 US redeployed dozens of troops stationed in Iraq to Syria, to bolster security at US bases and facilities in Syria. Currently, the US has approximately 900 troops distributed in nine US military bases in Syria, and 2,500 in Iraq. Earlier this week, the Head of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, Rahmano, reaffirmed the coalition's dedication to protecting the area from any potential military escalation, noting a proposal to make Kobani a demilitarized zone. The intensity of fighting in northern Syria has escalated since the overthrow of Syrian President Assad’s regime on December 8, as Turkiye’s firm opposition to Kurdish autonomy in the region has led to numerous military operations, against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), often in collaboration with the Syrian National Army (SNA). Turkiye views the SDF, especially the People’s Protection Units (YPG), as an offshoot of the PKK, a group it considers a terrorist organization. (Source: Shafaq News - Iraq)
13:27-(Sunday) 22 December 2024 AD Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Fidan met with Syria's de facto leader Sharaa, leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group in Damascus on Sunday. Photographs and footage shared by the ministry showed Fidan and Sharaa shaking hands, hugging, and smiling. On Friday, Turkish President Erdogan said that Türkiye would help Syria's new administration form a state structure and draft a new constitution, adding Fidan would head to Damascus to discuss this new structure, without providing a date. Kalin, the head of Türkiye’s MIT intelligence agency, also visited Damascus on Dec. 12, four days after Assad's fall. Ankara had for years backed opposition fighters looking to oust Assad. Türkiye also hosts millions of Syrian migrants it hopes will start returning home after Assad's fall, and has vowed to help rebuild Syria. Fidan's visit comes amid fighting in northeast Syria between Türkiye-backed Syrian fighters and the Kurdish YPG militia, which spearheads the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeast and Ankara regards as a terrorist organization. Earlier, Türkiye’s defense minister said Ankara believed that Syria's new leadership, including the Syrian National Army (SNA) armed group which Ankara backs, will drive YPG fighters from all territory they occupy in the northeast. Ankara, alongside Syrian allies, has mounted several cross-border offensives against the Kurdish faction in northern Syria and controls swathes of Syrian territory along the border, while repeatedly demanding that its NATO ally Washington halts support for the Kurdish fighters. The SDF has been on the back foot since Assad's fall, with the threat of advances from Ankara and Türkiye-backed groups as it looks to preserve political gains made in the last 13 years, and with Syria's new rulers being friendly to Ankara. (Source: Asharq Al-Awsat – Headquartered London, United Kingdom; owned by a member of the Saudi royal family)
North America
United States
December 22, 2024 President-elect Trump has pledged to carry out the deport of foreign nationals by using a 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The act empowers presidents to apprehend and remove foreign nationals from countries that are at war with the United States. US presidents invoked this law three times: during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II. All three instances followed Congress declaring war. The law lets presidents bypass immigration courts. Trump’s senior advisers say that the administration can justly claim that some Latin American governments, such as Mexico and Venezuela, are run by drug cartels that are attacking US security, these criminal organisations are launching state-sanctioned invasions of narcotics and unauthorised migrants. Drug cartels are not actual national governments running Latin American countries. The 1798 law is clear that an ’invasion or predatory incursion’ must be undertaken by a ’foreign nation or government’ in order for it to be invoked. Neither the letter of the law nor historical precedents support peacetime use of the Alien Enemies Act. None of textual and historical realities will matter, if the courts choose not to intervene on the grounds that a president simply saying that the country is being invaded by a foreign nation is sufficient and is not subject to judicial review. (Source: Scroll – India / The Conversation – website, Headquarters Australia)
By Tichenor, a Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon, U.S..
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