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Police across Europe crackdown on Italian mob with raids, arrests

Fox News Police across Europe arrested dozens of people, raided homes and seized millions of euros in assets on Wednesday, in a coordinated crackdown on Italy’s ’ndrangheta organized crime syndicate, one of the world’s most powerful, extensive and wealthy drug-trafficking groups. The operation, coordinated by European Union judicial cooperation agency Eurojust, aimed to dismantle a…

Federal Agency Suspends Inspector General After Oversight Body Alleged ‘Substantial Misconduct’

Wall Street Journal The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has suspended its inspector general after an oversight body found that he engaged in “substantial misconduct.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-agency-suspends-inspector-general-after-oversight-body-alleged-substantial-misconduct-8be1ce61

Russia’s satellite Kosmos-2222 burns up in atmosphere — NORAD

Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. Kosmos-2222 was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on November 25, 1992 and put into a highly elliptical orbit https://tass.com/science/1613001

Russia’s response to drone attack on Kremlin must be as harsh as possible, says lawmaker

Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. According to Leonid Slutsky, there is no point in talking once again about the Kiev regime’s crossing red lines https://tass.com/defense/1612999

Switzerland does not rule out participation in EU military projects — portal

Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. It was noted that “the aim is to participate in selected cooperation projects” https://tass.com/world/1612997

EU envoys approve allocation of one bln euros for procurement of ammunition for Kiev

Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. Earlier, the EU vowed to send one mln munitions to Kiev before the end of the year https://tass.com/world/1612995

Jim Marchant, a Nevada Election Denier, Announces Senate Run

New York Times Mr. Marchant, who lost his bid for Nevada’s secretary of state last year, will now attempt to unseat Senator Jacky Rosen, the Democratic incumbent. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/us/politics/jim-marchant-senate-nevada.html

Delaware Democrats pass bill requiring handgun buyers to undergo training, get fingerprinted, obtain permits

Fox News The Democrat-controlled state Senate voted along party lines Tuesday to pass a bill requiring anyone in Delaware wanting to buy a handgun to first be fingerprinted, undergo training and obtain permission from the state. The vote came after more than two hours of debate in which gun-control advocates argued that the proposal will…

Ancient Knights of Malta gets its first nonaristocratic head

Washington Post A Canadian lawyer who found his vocation caring for AIDS patients in Harlem has been elected the grand master of the Knights of Malta https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/03/vatican-pope-knights-of-malta-john-dunlap/a5f7b7c6-e9bf-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Dissident Belarusian journalist who was pulled off of commercial flight sentenced to 8 years in prison

Fox News A court in Belarus convicted a dissident journalist who was arrested after being pulled off a commercial flight that was diverted to the country and sentenced him Wednesday to eight years in prison. Raman Pratasevich’s dramatic arrest in May 2021 elicited outrage in the West, with some leaders saying the plane’s diversion was…