Mynd44:

Question 1: is the Gulf of Aden International waters?
Question 2: are FIFA and IAAF wrong or right to have banned Russia for invading Ukraine?

FreeStuffsNG:
It's an absolute waste of time engaging you this uncouth fanatic Isreal sympathiser. No vex abeg

FreeStuffsNG:

BBC reported that the crew were warned first and advised to turn back by the Yemen naval forces as the Yemen Navy informed them that they will not allow them to proceed since they were headed to Israel, the Captain of the ship did not heed the warning and decided to put the lives of his crew in danger.

Turning back would have saved the lives of the crew, the ship and goods onboard. You're a civilian merchant ship so the lives of your crew , the ship and the goods on board are your priorities, it's not your job to dare an armed Navy! The Captain of that ship was just reckless and irresponsible.
If US and UK want to fight Yemen, it's not your own business and he should have turned back after he was hailed to stop and turn back.

Three sailors have died and others have been injured after a Houthi missile attack on a ship in the Gulf of Aden, US officials have said – the first fatalities of crew of commercial shipping since the Houthis began launching strikes at ships in waters off Yemen last year.

The officials told US news agencies that the crew of the MV True Confidence had abandoned ship after the attack, which was claimed by the Houthis.

The British embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, posted on X: “At least two innocent sailors have died. This was the sad but inevitable consequence of the Houthis recklessly firing missiles at international shipping. They must stop.”


Later US Central Command increased the toll to three.

The bulk carrier was drifting with a fire on board after being hit at about 9.30am GMT on Wednesday 50 nautical miles south-west of Aden, the vessel’s owner and operator said.

“The vessel is drifting,” the Liberia-registered owner True Confidence Shipping and Greece-based operator Third January Maritime Ltd said in a joint statement, adding that there was no current connection with any US entity.

The marine security firm Ambrey said the ship had been struck and had sustained damage, adding that a rescue operation was “under way with parts of the crew already in lifeboats”.

Houthi militants in Yemen have repeatedly launched drones and missiles against international commercial shipping since mid-November, saying they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians to oppose Israel’s military actions in Gaza.


A number of ships have been damaged in such strikes, but Wednesday’s deaths are the first among merchant sailors. Two US Navy Seals drowned in January in waters off Somalia as they tried to board an unflagged vessel carrying Iranian weapons bound for the Houthis.

The Yemen Data project estimates there have been 11 civilian casualties recorded in three separate US-led strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen in February.

The US and the UK launched Operation Poseidon Archer on 12 January. The project estimates that the number of Houthi attacks on shipping doubled in February compared with the previous month – at least 79 strikes from a minimum of 33 in January.

Wednesday’s incident came as the British embassy in Yemen warned of dire environmental consequences from the Houthi sinking of a Belize-flagged and Lebanon-owned carrier, Rubymar. The ship sank at the weekend after drifting for nearly a fortnight. Lloyd’s List said out-of-date records may have led the Houthis and the British government to view the ship as British-owned.

The intensifying disruption has led several shipping firms and oil companies to suspend or redirect voyages from the key Yemen-adjacent route, which accounts for about 12% of global seaborne transit.


Earlier this week, four out of 15 critical submarine cables in the Red Sea were cut, with HGC Communications assessing that this affected 25% of traffic.

London and Washington acknowledge they need better intelligence about the Houthis’ military assets, and are drawing up plans to help train local naval forces to assist in controlling Yemen’s territorial waters.

The Aden government is convinced that the Houthis will not end the attacks on ships in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab strait even if the Israeli war on Gaza ceases.

While the militia has said it would attack vessels with links to the UK, the US and Israel, shipping industry sources say all ships could be at risk.

AntiZikist:



You did not ask a question rather you were parroting western propaganda garbage.

AntiZikist:



When America implodes on her own fat ass.


Stop being a boot licker.

China was sold the dummy that it needs to open up its borders for international investment or else it can't solve unemployment.

Today Chinese companies are competing with western brands that are manufactured in same China.

As for Russia, they have vowed never to be under the control of western banksters like the case was during Leninist era and the government of Yeltsin.

If the west had their way, Russia would have been dead and buried under Yeltsin but here they are standing stronger and giving the west serious challenge on the international scene.

AntiZikist:



Remind me again.

AntiZikist:



America's greatest export is porn other than that they contribute next to zilch in international trade.

I am not surprised by America's industrial death since those who are historically not into production and honest days work now run the US.


China is the world's factory

Russia has all the energy and commodities needed by China to produce goods.

Tell me why both countries should go through a middleman in New York and London ?

I am waiting .

Ballzproblem2:
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The united state is owing 34trillion dollars

AntiZikist:


BRICS is based on production and commodities .


The real fraud is the fiat USD that isn't backed by anything .

madridguy:
The Iranian government has repeatedly vowed over the past four years to avenge the 2020 death of Major General Qasem Soleimani – a commander of Iran’s elite Qods Force – whom the Trump administration assassinated in Baghdad using a drone strike on his convoy.

The US government should stop their propaganda and be ready to face whatever their eyes see from the Iranian government. Do you expect them not to avenge the death of a whole Major General ?

The U.S. government is intensifying a manhunt for an Iranian intelligence operative who the Federal Bureau of Investigation believes has been plotting to assassinate current and former American officials, including one-time Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The FBI’s Miami field office on Friday issued a public alert seeking information on Majid Dastjani Farahani, a suspected member of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, who the Bureau alleged has been recruiting “individuals for operations in the U.S., to include lethal targeting of current/former USG officials.”

It’s unclear why the FBI issued its warning in Florida. But the U.S. government warned in a Most Wanted notice issued Friday that Farahani speaks Spanish and frequently moves between Iran and Venezuela. The U.S.’s Department of Justice convicted an alleged Iranian operative in 2011 of working with Mexican drug cartels to attempt to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir, while he dined at a Georgetown restaurant. In January, the DoJ indicted an Iranian gang leader for allegedly working with members of the Hells Angels to kill Iranian dissidents living in Maryland.

The Iranian government has repeatedly vowed over the past four years to avenge the 2020 death of Major General Qasem Soleimani – a commander of Iran’s elite Qods Force – [/b]whom the Trump administration assassinated in Baghdad using a drone strike on his convoy. [b]The DoJ indicted members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) in 2022 for allegedly plotting to murder Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, who served in the White House in the months leading up to Soleimani’s death.

U.S. officials told Semafor they believe Pompeo and Trump’s special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, are also on Tehran’s hit list. The U.S. government is currently providing both men with around-the-clock security due to the severity of the threat.

The FBI said Friday that Farahani, 42, was recruiting individuals “as revenge” for Soleimani’s death and to conduct “surveillance activities focused on religious sites, businesses, and other facilities in the United States.” The Treasury Department sanctioned Farahani in December.

There’s growing evidence that Iran and its allies are operating aggressively inside the U.S. In August 2022, a self-avowed supporter of the Islamic Republic stabbed the British-American novelist Salman Rushdie at an upstate New York literary festival in a suspected attempt to make good on the religious fatwa Tehran placed on the writer’s head in 1989. The Department of Justice is still investigating whether the Lebanese-American assailant was acting directly under Iran’s orders.

Last January, the DoJ indicted three natives of Azerbaijan for allegedly attempting to murder the Iranian-American women’s rights activist, Masih Alinejad, in New York. U.S. law enforcement said they also derailed a 2021 Iranian plot that aimed to kidnap Alinejad in Brooklyn and spirit her by speedboat to Venezuela, a close ally of Iran’s.

Tehran, in virtually all of its operations against the U.S. – including military strikes and assassination plots – appear to work almost solely through proxies. United States law enforcement officials told Semafor that they assume Tehran would maintain this doctrine in any attack on the Trump-era officials, and Farahani appears to be working along these same lines. This could make proving attribution behind any attack very difficult, these officials said.

Brian Hook, the former U.S. envoy, told a congressional hearing last week that he believed the plots against him continued and thanked U.S. law enforcement for protecting him. “I wish we were in a place that it was not necessary, but that is where we are,” he said.

The Iranian government has made the avenging of Soleimani’s assassination one of its top national security objectives. Senior members of the IRGC have said in recent weeks that Hamas’s October attack on southern Israel was driven, in part, by this aim. “The Al-Aqsa Storm was one of the retaliations of the Axis of Resistance against the Zionists for the martyrdom of Qasem Soleimani,” Iranian state media quoted IRGC spokesman, Ramezan Sharif, as saying in December.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi also openly threatened U.S officials for assassination during his September speech at the United Nations in New York. “The Islamic Republic of Iran, through all tools and capacities in order to bring to justice the perpetrators and all those who had a hand in this government sanctioned act of terror, will not sit until that is done,” he said. “The blood of the oppressed will not be forgotten.”

Tranquility2345:


Shut up. Have you no ever seen pictures of busy execs like Elon Musk with power bank? Even Dangote and Otedola. Do you see them moving around with power bank? You go just open mouth waaaaaa

Kingbuhari:
you are a clown and need to live one day in one of these countries with steady light to understand power banks are meant for countries like nigeria with no constant power...

Zeebuy:

5 years so far in the US and I never saw anyone using a power bank

Reports said Abbas Ahmed Khalil was among the three Hezbollah members eliminated by an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Saturday.

The grandson of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli strike, Arabic media outlets reported on Sunday.

The reports said he was among the three Hezbollah members wiped out by an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Saturday morning.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday it had "struck a vehicle in southern Lebanon, in which a number of terrorists who launched rockets into Israeli territory were driving."

The statement added the jihadists were with the Iran-linked Imam Hossein Division, which operates under Hezbollah.

saintkeppy:
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Yeah, I understand your point, it's now left for those Nigerians that can't communicate well in English Language, it's not my fault, its not your fault either, I think there should be ways these international schools pick their prospective students in a cost-effective manner, paying over 200K for English language test is outrageous, Visa, Tuition fees, flight ticket, accommodation, upkeep, etc.

but you can't say for sure about other places may be rubbish cos they don't ask for English Test, they also offer too-notch, qualitative education better than Nigerian Universities, a good student can as well go there and make good grades for him or her self and still compete favourably with their UK, US, Canada or Australia counter-part.

saintkeppy:


No laff o! this will further drive prospective international students away from thwase exams, Schools in Eastern Europe and some Schengen Countries do not need these English Test Exams.

I have identified two Schools already in Norway and Romania and I'm okay.

saintkeppy:
What's the need for all this English test when we all are English-speaking country? UK schools do not need this to gain admission.

Time to check for alternative test like PTE or schools that do not require any of these, after all the aim is to japa.

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of stabbing a woman on Athens’ main shopping street.

The 32-year-old Iraqi national was arrested shortly after the attack, which took place at the corner of Ermou and Fokionos streets.
The woman, a 22-year-old Greek national, received a severe knife wound in her left shoulder when she was stabbed from behind….

Video footage taken by members of the public show the attacker standing impassively in the middle of the street after the attack….

“Athens: Iraqi man stabs woman in central shopping street,” Greek City Times, March 1, 2024:

The attacker is an Iraqi male and was located after the attack – The woman has a stab wound on the left shoulder blade.

A woman was stabbed in the central Athens shopping avenue of Ermou Street on Friday.

Specifically, according to Proto Thema, the woman has a knife wound on her left shoulder blade, and her condition is severe.

An Iraqi man was identified by the Greek police and arrested….

A 29-year-old man, Mohammed Abdulkareem, was arrested after shooting and killing an Orthodox Jewish dentist, Dr. Benjamin Harouni, at his practice in El Cajon, California, near San Diego.

According to police, Abdulkareem was a disgruntled patient and had rented a U-Haul pickup truck just an hour before the shooting.

The shooting occurred at Smile Plus Dentistry & Orthodontics on North Magnolia Avenue, where Abdulkareem allegedly opened fire with a handgun, killing one person and injuring a receptionist, Yareli Carrillo, 28, and a man in his 40s.

Abdulkareem was arrested just after 10pm on Thursday, and the firearm used in the shooting was recovered. The victim who died was found inside the office as the shooting was still ongoing and was taken outside by officers, where they attempted to perform lifesaving measures.

Dtruthspeaker:


See how you stupid you look when you twist a fact?

papyjaypaul:


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