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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – May 3, 2024
Greetings from Tyler, What are they going to do with all the refugees from Gaza? The surrounding Arab countries won’t take them. Apparently the administration is considering bringing them into the United States. They’ll probably sneak them into regional airports in the middle of the night. Can you imagine? They’ve got more money than sense in…
ECJ: Ursula von der Leyen’s Pfizer texts must be released to New York Times
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Lithuania declares national emergency over security risks posed by balloons from Belarus
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Ecuador ‘at war’ with drug gangs, says president as violence continues
Daniel Noboa designates nearly two dozen gangs as terrorist groups after wave of violence across country Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, said on Wednesday that his country was “at war” with drug gangs who are holding more than 130 prison staff hostage and who briefly captured a TV station live on air, in a wave of…
