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☆ Cocaine cartels encroach on Unification Church’s Paraguayan paradise
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Puerto Casado | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +20 min

Many of the runways are on land owned by the Unification Church of South Korea, founded by Rev. The Unification Church is a major power in this unruly region. Byun, the Unification Church lawyer, provided Reuters with an April 2022 document the church sent to Paraguayan anti-narcotics prosecutors, urging an investigation into potential illicit activity. Trouble in paradiseThe alleged drug-running on its land isn’t the only trouble the Unification Church has faced in the Chaco. Byun, the church lawyer, acknowledged the tensions with locals in Puerto Casado but declined to comment on the Myungs or the fire.

Persons: Sun Myung, Michelle Byun, ” Byun, “, Moon, God, ”, Miguel Ángel Servín, Servín, Rodrigo Alvarez, Elva Cáceres, Marco Alcaraz, Cynthia Tarrago, Tarrago, Raimundo Va, Rodrigo Alvarenga Paredes, Byun, Alvarenga, “ Alvarenga, Rodrigo Álvarez, Álvarez, Pedro Juan Caballero, ‘ Lawless, –, Marcelo Pecci, José Carlos Acevedo, ” Acevedo, Pecci, Acevedo, Mario Abdo Benítez, James Laverty, Hak Ja, ” –, Carlos Casado, Anger, Locals, Lorenzo Myung, Martin Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Dora Irrazábal, Irrazábal, Alberto David Gauto, Gauto, Emilio Camacho, Moon’s, Hyun Jin, Preston, Hak, Hyung Jin, Sean, Massimo Introvigne, Sean Moon, Preston Moon, Puerto Casado, Virgilio Chamorro, Gabriel Stargardter, Daniela Desantis, Feilding, Tomas Bravo, John Emerson, Brian Thevenot Organizations: Unification Church of, Rev, Authorities, Reuters, Unification Church, Holy Spirit Association, South Korea’s Unification, Belgian, Sting, South, International Association of Parliamentarians, Peace, U.S . Federal Bureau of Investigation, Colorado Party, Yorker, U.S, Attorney, FBI, Capital Command, PCC, United Nations Office, Drugs, U.S . Drug, Carlos Casado SA, Salesian, Supreme, FARC, Peace Foundation, Center for Studies, New, Iron Ministries, Preston, Tomas Bravo Graphics Locations: Paraguayan, Unification Church of South Korea, SENAD Paraguay, Chaco, Paraguay, Korea, Bolivian, Peruvian, Atlantic, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Europe, Argentine, Manhattan, “, Antwerp, Europe’s, Servín, Asunción, Seoul, New York City, United States, New Jersey, Tarrago, Va, U.S, Byun, Alvarenga, Chile, Ecuador, Colombian, Bolivia, American, South America, America, Puerto Casado, Gauto, Preston, Turin, Italy, Pennsylvania, Puerto

JOHANNESBURG, May 15 (Reuters) - South Africa's climate policy body on Monday suggested the government could delay retiring its ageing coal-fired power plants to address electricity shortages and said a power crisis had put the country on track to meet its climate goals anyway. The ruling African National Congress has recommended that state power utility Eskom delay the decommissioning of its ageing coal-fired power stations to help minimise rolling electricity outages. "The least-cost approach is to pull the coal plants off when they reach the end of their economic life," said Crispian Olver, executive director of the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC). South Africa relies on coal for electricity. South Africa's national target for emissions reductions is 398-510 MtCO2e by 2025, and 350-420 MtCO2e by 2030.

☆ European police arrest more than 100 mafia suspects in drug crackdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The swoop was part of an investigation spanning Italy, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Romania, Brazil and Panama, according to European Union law enforcement agency Europol. The network was devoted primarily to international drug trafficking from South America to both Europe and Australia, Europol said in a statement. A total of 108 people were arrested in Italy and other EU countries on the orders of police in the southern city of Reggio Calabria, Italian police said. Related investigations led to the arrest of 24 people in Germany, they said, as well as a further 53 detentions in northern Italy. The interior minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia said 18 of the arrests were made there.

☆ Brazil police bust gang plot to attack authorities, public servants
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/3] Brazilian senator Sergio Moro speaks during a session of the Federal Senate in Brasilia, Brazil March 22, 2023. "A murder plot against several public officials (among them a senator and a prosecutor) was investigated and identified. Sergio Moro, a former judge and current senator, also took to Twitter to confirm he and his family were targets in the gangs' plot. A government minister told Reuters that the plan was organized by the First Capital Command (PCC) gang and was not politically motivated. The federal police said 24 search and seizure warrants, seven preventive arrest warrants and four temporary arrest warrants are being served.

☆ Venezuelan arrested for involvement in murder of Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

CARACAS, Dec 22 (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the May murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor in Colombia, Venezuela's interior minister said on Thursday. Gabriel Salinas was arrested on Tuesday at a routine checkpoint east of Venezuela's capital Caracas when he was found to have an outstanding arrest warrant, Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos said. Salinas is accused of participating in the murder of Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, 45, who was shot dead while on his honeymoon on an island near the Caribbean city of Cartagena. Four others have been sentenced in Colombia to 23 years and six months in jail earlier this year for their involvement in Pecci's murder. Reporting by Vivian Sequera; Writing by Kylie Madry; Editing by Sandra MalerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ With fresh firepower, brutal bank thieves blitz small-town Brazil
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Gabriel Stargardter | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Using assault rifles and explosives to turn rural towns into war zones, the specialized crews have netted an astonishing $120 million since emerging in 2015, think tank Alpha Bravo Brasil says. In a related article, Reuters tracked how laws pushed by President Jair Bolsonaro make it easier for gangsters to obtain assault rifles like those used in Uberaba. WAR ZONEAbout a week before the raid, the robbers rented an apartment near the bank to surveil their target. The thieves told them to run into the bank - no funny business or they would be shot - where they cowered as their captors worked to blow up the safe. Outside, 10 of the robbers stood with assault rifles in each hand.

☆ Bolsonaro's gun laws arm Brazil's brazen bank thieves
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Gabriel Stargardter | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

In July, Reuters reported that Brazil's Federal Police disapproved of Bolsonaro's gun policies, arguing they would put more weapons in the hands of criminals. Of all the weapons now available to Brazil's gun fans, the T4 has emerged as the weapon of choice for its gangsters. A common tactic used by gangs - as seen in the case of Huijsman's T4 - is to steal weapons from CAC permit-holders' homes. On Oct. 31, 2021, Minas Gerais military police and Brazil's Federal Highway Police carried out two raids against alleged bank robbers hiding out near Varginha, killing 26 of them. Marques, the gun expert, said Huijsmans' rifle wouldn't be the last legally acquired firearm to turn up at a crime scene.

☆ Panegiricul lui Voronin. Op-Ed de Victor Pelin
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-01 | by ( ) www.ipn.md time to read: +8 min

Op-Ed de Victor Pelin„ Vladimir Voronin știe ce spune, întrucât a fost victima influenței străine directe în timpul alegerilor parlamentare din 2005 și din 2014...”1. Dar să revenim la compararea PCRM și PCC, care ne amintește de fabula țânțarului și armasarului . Deosebirea e că tovarășul Deng a procedat calculat atunci când a anunțat deschiderea și reformarea Chinei, iar Voronin a procedat hazardat, amenințând cu transformarea Republicii Moldova în Cuba Europei . Apoi, a urmat semnarea în 2002 a decretului privind integrarea europeană a Republicii Moldova, deși în 2001 obținuse mandatul cetățenilor pentru integrarea în Uniunea Rusia-Belarus. Despre adevărata influență externăProblema influenței externe în Republicii Moldova a devenit o obsesie și temă de campanie a BECS.

Persons: Voronin ., Victor Pelin, Vladimir Voronin, Voronin, Putea, Deng Xiaoping, Deng, Jiang Zemin, Putin, Zinaida Greceanîi, Igor Dodon, RPC, Deng ., Marshall, PCRM Organizations: Comuniștilor, PCRM, Partidului Comunist Chinez, PCC, Organizația Mondială a Comerțului, OMC, Hong, Uniunea Europeană, UE, Uniunea Economică eurasiatică Locations: Republica Moldova, Republicii Populare Chineze, PCC, Chișinăului, Chinei, Moldova, Cuba Europei, Chișinău, Republicii Moldova, Uniunea Rusia, Belarus, PCRM, URSS, China, SUA, Hong Kong, Europa, Ialta, Ungaria, Cehoslovacia, Japoniei, Coreei de Sud, Coreea de Nord, Rusia, Federația Rusă, Rusiei, Georgia, Ucraina, Uniunea

☆ ULTIMA ORĂ/ Curtea Constituțională a suspendat modificările la legea privind SIS operate de PSRM, Pentru Moldova și fracțiunea Șor. Vladimir Țurcan s-a abținut
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-07 | by ( Jardan Cristian | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +10 min

La ședința Curții din 7 decembrie 2020, dl judecător Vladimir Țurcan i-a prezentat Plenului Curții Constituționale o cerere de abținere de la examinarea cauzei. 481 din 1 decembrie 2020), adoptată, conform autorului sesizării, în două lecturi pe data de 3 decembrie 2020, și invocă faptul că nu cunoaște numărul legii adoptate. 481 din 1 decembrie 2020 a fost adoptat pe 3 decembrie 2020. a) din Constituție, controlul constituționalității legilor, în prezenta cauză a Legii nr. 218 din 3 decembrie 2020 pentru modificarea unor acte normative depusă de domnul Sergiu Litvinenco, deputat în Parlamentul Republicii Moldova.

Persons: Țurcan, Sergiu Litvinenco, Domnica MANOLE, Nicolae ROȘCA, Liuba ȘOVA, Serghei ȚURCAN, Vladimir ȚURCAN, Dumitru, Vladimir Țurcan, El, ., Securitate Organizations: Constituțională, Curtea Constituțională, PCC, Curtea Locations: Moldova, CHIŞINĂU, Republicii Moldova, Republicii

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