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Mexico seizes 10 tigers, 5 lions in cartel-dominated area

Washington Post Prosecutors in Mexico say they have seized a huge collection of exotic animals including 10 tigers, five lions and other species in a cartel-dominated town https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/22/mexico-drug-traffickers-tigers-lions/d23e6338-e14b-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

ISIS using Afghanistan as staging ground for terror plots after US withdrawal: report

Fox News Not even two years have passed since President Biden’s fumbled military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and already Islamic State terrorists are using the country to plot attacks across Europe and Asia. Islamic State Khorasan Province is also conducting “aspirational plotting” against the United States, according to leaked Pentagon documents reported by The Washington Post.…

WW II ship that sank with over 1K Allied POWs found in ‘extraordinary’ discovery

Fox News Ocean explorers announced Saturday that they have discovered the remains of a Japanese World War II vessel that sank with over 1,000 Allied POWs on board. The Montevideo Maru was a Japanese war ship that was fired upon by the American submarine USS Sturgeon and sank near the Philippines in 1942. At the…

Israelis protest legal changes before nation’s 75th birthday

Washington Post Tens of thousands of protesters have flocked to Tel Aviv and cities across Israel to vent their opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government and its divisive plan to overhaul the country’s judicial system https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/22/israel-netanyahu-protest-rally-judicial-overhaul/568b7bbc-e133-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Afghanistan has become a terrorism staging ground again, leak reveals

Washington Post THE DISCORD LEAKS | A classified Pentagon assessment portrays the Islamic State threat arising from Afghanistan as a growing security concern. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/22/afghanistan-terrorism-leaked-documents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Reading desperation in Tehran: Gold is the Revolutionary Guards’ best friend

Fox News Emmanuel Razavi calls the Islamic Republic of Iran a “narco state” for the smuggling he says its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) carries out to finance terrorist activities abroad, and to enrich its members and friends in the elite. According to Razavi, a writer specializing in the Middle East who recently did an investigation for Paris…

E.P.A. to Propose First Controls on Greenhouse Gases From Power Plants

New York Times If the regulation is implemented, it will be the first time the federal government has limited carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/climate/epa-power-plants-pollution.html

Heat wave in Thailand prompts warning to stay indoors

Washington Post Extreme heat that has sent temperatures soaring in Thailand as authorities warn people to stay indoors https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/22/thailand-bangkok-extreme-heat/f66c2202-e11b-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Campaign for Greek election begins with dissolved parliament

Washington Post The campaign for Greece’s May 21 national election has officially opened with the dissolution of the parliament that was elected in July 2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/22/greece-election-parliament-campaign/f4a13158-e119-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Russian mercenaries closely linked with Sudan’s warring generals

Washington Post But the Wagner Group and its backers in the Kremlin have much to lose if they back the wrong side. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/22/sudan-russia-wagner-group/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world