Author: Jeffery Delgado

The Tajikistani authorities are perpetuating systemic discrimination and severe human rights violations against the Pamiri minority, according to new research by Amnesty International. The Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) in East Tajikistan is home to several ethnic groups forming the Pamiri minority, mostly practicing the Shia Ismaili branch of Islam. Denied official recognition as a minority and regarded as ethnic Tajiks by the central authorities, Pamiris face systemic discrimination, suppression of cultural and religious institutions, political oppression, and brutal reprisals for defending their rights. “The ongoing persecution and human rights violations against the Pamiri minority in Tajikistan reached an alarming scale…

US, French and British forces downed dozens of drones in the Red Sea area overnight and on Saturday after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis targeted bulk carrier Propel Fortune and US destroyers in the region, the US military said in a statement. The Houthis have been attacking ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since November in what they say is a campaign of solidarity with Palestinians during Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. The group’s military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a televised speech on Saturday they had targeted the cargo vessel and “a number of US war destroyers…

Toronto, Alaska (16/11 – 50) Our lives are being maneuvered and we are being manipulated by unelected, insidious forces, toward objectives not necessarily in the people’s interest. Now that the so-called “pandemic”, declared by the mysterious self-appointed World Health Organization, and followed obediently by governments everywhere, has been decreed “finished”, we should devote a moment to introspection, considering who is running the show and for whose benefit, as governments gaily abdicated their vested responsibility to govern. Pandemic is over? I hope they told those killer viruses who destroyed the population of Europe and North America. What? Oh, just 1% mortality?…

JACKSON Miss. – The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) is looking into an officer-involved shooting that stemmed from a hostage situation in Grenada, Mississippi, MBI said. The situation happened on September 3 at a Walgreens on Sunset Drive in Grenada, Mississippi. MBI got information around 5 p.m. of a hostage situation that was underway. Members of the Mississippi Highway Patrol SWAT team arrived at the location to assist. Grenada County Sheriff’s Office said that the Grenada Police Department, and Mississippi Highway Patrol were in the area to assist as well. Source : Fox13

Frankfurt, Brussels (21/7 – 37) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again reversed course, approving Sweden’s bid to join the legacy European military bloc, having been promised a brace of classic F-16 fighter jets. This new deal was hammered out at the recent NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, and included a vow by Türkiye to avoid quarrels with ancient enemy Greece also a NATO member. During a 12 July press conference on in Vilnius, Erdogan touched on several issues important for Türkiye, including ratifying Sweden’s NATO bid, its F-16 jet deal with the US, and a “balancing act” between…

A decade after the Mississippi River’s overnight cruise industry’s comeback, the three companies running the river are expanding itineraries, adjusting their fleets to meet fluctuating demand and eyeing new customer bases, all while river towns make moves to support the industry’s return to the waterway. For a few hours on a balmy evening just before Memorial Day, hundreds of cruise-goers sprawled across Tunica, Mississippi. Some crossed the gangway and made a right for a Mississippi River museum; others headed inland for a brief stop at the casinos that put the area on the map. They’re passengers on the American Queen,…

Attorney General Lynn Fitch wants to ensure Mississippi authorities are allowed to investigate and gather information on abortions performed out of state on Mississippi women. Fitch, Mississippi’s first-term Republican attorney general, and 18 other state attorneys general have filed comments in opposition to a proposed change to federal regulations, known as HIPAA, that protects the privacy of people’s health care. Under the rule change proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services, state agencies would not be able to glean information on an abortion performed in a state where abortion is legal. For instance, if a woman from Mississippi,…

Most Americans are woefully underprepared for retirement. Based on analysis of Federal Reserve data by the accounting firm PwC, the typical American between the ages of 55 and 64 has just $120,000 in a retirement savings account. Though the vast majority of retirees supplement their savings with Social Security income, the average monthly Social Security payment is only $1,694 – not nearly enough to cover typical living expenses, let alone luxuries like travel and dining out. Partially as a result, the number of Americans working past retirement age is rising fast. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that…

Member of the Romanian Parliament Diana Shoshoaca submitted to her colleagues a bill on the transfer of “historical lands” on the territory of Ukraine to Bucharest. It provides for the denunciation of the Romanian-Ukrainian treaty, concluded in 1997, and the annexation of some former Romanian lands that are now Ukrainian territory. The senator considers these demands fair and justified in the context of the assistance provided by Bucharest to Kyiv in the war with Russia. “Romania annexes the historical territories that belonged to it, respectively – Northern Bukovina, the land of Hertsa, Budjak (Cahul, Bolgrad, Izmail), historical Maramures and Snake Island”,…

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Péter Szijjártó has sharply criticized the European Parliament, saying, among other things, that the institution lacks any credibility in light of its recent corruption scandals. During a Sunday morning interview with Hungary’s Kossuth Rádió on February 13th, Szijjártó did not mince words when he said: “The credibility of the European Parliament is practically zero,” and added that “the latest corruption issues have clearly shown that we are speaking about one of the world’s most corrupt organizations,” the news portal Vadhajtāsok reports. The foreign minister’s statements come as the Qatargate scandal continues to embroil the European Parliament. Earlier this…