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Germany: Two Suspected Migrant Stabbings Leave Eight Injured, Including 11-Year-Old Girl MultiKulti Germany has seen another spate of stabbings in which migrants from Kosovo and Syria are reportedly the suspected perpetrators. On Sunday morning, five local football fans were injured, four seriously, after being attacked by a man with a knife and a cane sword “indiscriminately” outside a bar in the city of Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia. The victims, fought back against the assailant, resulting in him fleeing the scene. According to police, as the man fled, he left behind a bag containing multiple knives, a liquid that smelled of...

Citizens from Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia would all have their claims fast-tracked within three months on the assumption that they were likely to fail. Markus Lammert of the European Commission said it would be a "dynamic list" that could be expanded or reviewed, with countries suspended or removed if they were no longer seen as safe. Ever since EU countries saw an influx of irregular migrants in 2015-16, they have sought to reform asylum rules. A pact on migration and asylum was agreed last year, but the EU says as it does not come into force...

Today marks exactly 26 years since NATO began its bombing campaign against what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This may be one of the few facts on which both Serbs and Albanians can agree—along with the shared grief over their respective losses. For one side, it was an act of aggression against a sovereign European country, carried out without UN Security Council approval. For the other, it was a humanitarian intervention aimed at halting apartheid and genocide. NATO representatives justified the airstrikes, stating they were meant to prevent crimes committed by Milošević’s regime, a message they reiterated strongly...

Much to the chagrin of the media, Bruce Swartz, “globally renowned for representing the Justice Department in some of its most sensitive foreign dealings,” resigned rather than accept a demotion by President Trump. For 30 years, “careerist” Bruce Swartz quietly worked to advance Democratic interests on one hot button case after another, but if Special Presidential Envoy Ric Grenell has his way, Swartz will be prosecuted for intrigue few even know about. “Bruce Schwartz (sic) undermined Donald Trump and US foreign policy while he worked at DoJ,” Grenell tweeted on March 15. “I told him private information about negotiations (he...

Kosovo stepped up security measures around "critical" infrastructure Saturday after an explosion at a key canal feeding two of its main power plants, as neighboring Serbia rejected accusations it had staged the blast. The explosion occurred Friday near the town of Zubin Potok in a Serb-dominated area in Kosovo's troubled north, damaging the canal supplying water to cooling systems at two coal-fired power plants that generate most of Kosovo's electricity. Visiting the site on Saturday, Prime Minister Albin Kurti announced that police had arrested several people in connection with the attack. Law enforcement "carried out searches" and "collected testimony and...

If they did nothing wrong, what are they afraid of? After all, that's what they said about Donald Trump for years. Now that the script flipped, their tune has changed--dramatically. As I reported last week, former and current apparatchiks for the Department of Justice are making plans to resign in advance of Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January. Those headed for exits include Special Counsel Jack Smith and his top team of prosecutors, who just withdrew their appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon’s order dismissing the classified documents indictment in Florida and asked for a halt to the...

US Central Command announcing a joint operation against ISIS in Western Iraq said to have killed...unofficial reports 6-7 members of the US military wounded... An explosion at a gas station in Yemen's port city of Aden causing deaths and injuries... The commanding officer of the USS John McCain guided missile destroyer fired... Police in Germany saying the stabbing attack that injured five people on a bus this evening was not a 'terrorist act'... Tensions in the Balkans as Kosovo authorities raided Serbian minority government... Two missiles exploding near a merchant vessel off the south coast of Yemen... In Ireland today...

Kosovo authorities on Friday closed five parallel institutions working with the ethnic Serb minority, a move that was immediately criticized by the United States and could further raise tensions with neighboring Serbia. Elbert Krasniqi, Kosovo's minister of local administration, confirmed the closure of five so-called parallel institutions in the north — where most of the ethnic Serb minority lives — writing in a Facebook message that they "violate the Republic of Kosovo’s constitution and laws.” The U.S. embassy in Kosovo reiterated Friday in a statement Washington’s “concern and disappointment with continuing uncoordinated actions” taken by Pristina “that continue to have...

PRISTINA -- On March 24, 1999, NATO launched Operation Allied Force, an aerial bombing campaign to expel Serbian troops from Kosovo. After 78 days, the air strikes ended on June 10 with the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, leading to the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces and the establishment of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. The campaign -- aimed at stopping ethnic cleansing that resulted in more than 13,000 civilians killed during the Kosovo War, which took place from 1998-99 -- facilitated the return of more than 800,000 refugees to their homes. Twenty-five years later, Kosovars are...

The director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, the storied home of the agency’s most secretive intelligence operations, has announced that he plans to retire, The Daily Beast has learned. CIA spokesman Dean Boyd confirmed that the director announced his retirement “after a long and distinguished career at CIA. We thank him for this profound and lasting contributions to both CIA and to our nation’s security.” As a practice, the CIA doesn’t identify the head of the clandestine service by name. But Frank Archibald was outed in a Twitter post in 2013, and details of his biography were known to...

Ric Grenell, President Trump's former ambassador to Germany, and Director of National Intelligence, knows a thing or two about Jack Smith, having lived in Europe when Smith was active in prosecuting war crimes in The Hague. Now that Smith has been caught tampering with evidence in his case against President Trump, Grenell's put out a devastating series of tweets about Smith's history of dishonest behavior. Let’s be clear: Jack Smith is accused of tampering with evidence, manufacturing witnesses, bribery and corruption… And that’s in the investigation of the President of Kosovo 3 years ago when Jack Smith worked at The...

With his calm voice and authoritative demeanor, Col. Douglas Macgregor gives the initial impression of a knowledgeable and dispassionate observer/analyst. Since the beginning of 2022, the Colonel, with an impeccable ‘American hero’ background has become the “go-to” analyst for many in the American conservative media, including Tucker Carlson. Carlson is a top professional and no doubt, has a decent-size crew of researchers even when not on Fox. Given these resources, it's inexplicable that he is charmed by Macgregor, who has not put a foot right in his analysis and predictions since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on...

Joe Biden used alias emails to communicate with members of his family while he was Vice President, according to a batch of records obtained by Judicial Watch. In one email Joe Biden signed off on a brief pause of Secret Service protection for son Hunter and granddaughter Natalie Biden during a Kosovo trip. Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained a tranche of Joe Biden alias emails in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the National Archives (NARA). The National Archives previously confirmed through a FOIA response that they found 5,138 email messages and 25 electronic files...

Don’t imagine this is just an unprovoked, brutal attack by a bunch of terrorists from Gaza. It is much more than that. The hands that pushed these killers forward are in Moscow. US President Joe Biden and European leaders have long feared an escalation of the Ukraine war and that is what they’ve now got. Unwilling to take the fight directly to NATO, instead, Putin has been fomenting conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Serbia and Kosovo, in West Africa and now in Israel. The instability created in these places is intended to pull US attention, as well as resources, away...

The Northern Virginia high school student sexually assaulted in a girls restroom by male student wearing a skirt filing a 30-million-dollar lawsuit... Ray Epps... Amazon launching two test satellites... Ukrainian drone shot down early Saturday morning...on the west side of Moscow... The US State Department kicking out two Russian diplomats... A former US solider accused of attempting to give classified information to China... A contingent of 200 British troops arriving in Kosovo... The United Auto Workers opting not to expand their strike... The US Postal Service planning a rate increase in January... A New York Appeals Court turning down President...

A Russian propagandist has called for the reinstatement of the Russian Empire, saying that's the country's ultimate goal. As Russia continues its military offensive against Ukraine, Russian propagandist Sergey Mardan alluded to a misconception that Russia wishes to restore the USSR, which collapsed in 1991, and instead suggested the country could rewind the clock back beyond the days of the Russian Empire. His comments come as President Vladimir Putin announced a new Russian holiday, the "Day of Unification," on September 30, to mark the illegal annexation of the Dontesk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine. Putin declared them to...

The United States called on Belgrade to pull its forces back from the border with Kosovo on Friday (Sep 29) after detecting what it called an unprecedented Serbian military build-up. Serbia had deployed sophisticated tanks and artillery on the frontier after deadly clashes erupted at a monastery in northern Kosovo last week, the White House warned. The violence in which a Kosovo policeman and three Serb gunmen were killed marked one of the gravest escalations for years in Kosovo, a former Serbian breakaway province.

@DougAMacgregor Elon Musk prevented an escalating attack on the Russian Fleet. He is one of the very few billionaires that won't join the war party. The media is 100% in line with the people controlling our Government and our financial sector. These people want War. Americans want peace!

Ep. 18 Into the abyss: Colonel Douglas Macgregor tells us why the Ukraine war must end now.

Kosovo has become a crisis “hot spot” in recent months, with ethnic Albanians who control the disputed province moving to suppress the Serbian minority. In the latest action, Kosovo authorities are moving to cut off the province's Serbian minority from critical access to the news and internet. Kosovo, once a historic Serb province that declared its independence in 2008, has revoked the business license from the sister company of Telecom Serbia.