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And the AfD’s popularity surges again. According to a report from Thomas Brooke at Remix News, the German government failed to properly screen and vet a whopping 88% of Afghan “refugees” entering the nation. That number equates to seven out of eight individuals—from a notoriously violent, anarchic, and backwards nation—being admitted into the German public without the appropriate background checks. But that 88% isn’t a figure in relation to a trivial whole; the German people are dealing with tens of thousands of unvetted third world foreigners: Over 31,000 Afghans, including family members, reportedly arrived without complete security checks, the report...

This analytical article contains documents, analysis and examples of typical sanctions dodging schemes by Russian suppliers of the Russian military-industrial complex. Here, you will find names of numerous Russian companies and plants involved in sanctions evasion schemes, learn what typical forgeries Russians resort to in invoices and other documents to conceal supply routes and identifying data of suppliers providing access to Western products. This article provides extensive context so that every reader could follow the logic of the investigation and understand how the Russia finds its way around sanctions. This information can come handy to both experts specializing in sanctions...

The tourist filmed himself on the ride during his trip to Pahalgam in India’s Jammu and Kashmir province, scene of a horror attack last week, which left 26 civilians dead. In the short video, the visitor, wearing a blue checked shirt, sunglasses, and a safety helmet, smiles at the camera as he records his ride using a selfie stick. He seems unaware that, in the background, gunshots are clearly audible and dozens are seen desperately running away.

A circus lion called Caesar was fighting fit again on Thursday after an ordeal that saw the van he was being transported in stolen in Germany by an unwitting thief, his keepers said. The Mercedes Transporter containing Circus Probst's ferocious five-year-old feline star was recovered in the early hours of Wednesday morning in Wuppertal in western Germany after crashing into a road sign, police said. Hours earlier it had been stolen from among the circus's other vehicles, with the thief, who remains on the loose, apparently unaware of the nature of his stolen cargo. It was unknown whether the thief...