Yakuza boss first to be sentenced to death in Japan

A district judge in world-regions sentenced a top boss in the country’s notorious organized crime group, referred to as the Yakuza, to death on Tuesday, a punishment believed to be the first of its kind for the mob, according to reports. Nomura Satoru, 74, was found to have ordered four assaults between 1998 and 2014, one of…

Read More

Taliban reliant on illegal drug trafficking for financing as production booms, UN says

As the Taliban secures its grip on Afghanistan, the united-nations” target=”_blank”>United Nations< “This remains the Taliban’s largest single source of income,” the report says. “It also has a destabilizing and corrupting effect within Afghanistan and contributes significantly to the narcotics challenges facing the wider international community.” The report also found that there was a decline…

Read More

Ken Blackwell: Biden's eviction moratorium has small landlords on the brink. Will anyone help them?

We often expect politiciansa> to enact constitutionally dubious laws and executive orders, but usually they at least pretend their actions are legal. <dropped the pretense when he reimposed a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eviction moratorium. “The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it’s not likely to pass constitutional muster,” the president admitted recently. …

Read More

North Carolina congressman says Biden admin releasing 'a gobbledygook of misinformation' on Afghanistan

Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., on Tuesday described a disconnect between communication coming from the White House, Department of Defense and State Department regarding the country’s withdrawal from conflicts. The joe-biden” target=”_blank”>Biden< Officials discussed efforts to get Americans and American allies out of the country and gave a high-level view of what is being done to…

Read More

House Republicans want answers on whether exiled Afghan president embezzled $169M in cash

EXCLUSIVE: conflicts‘s exiled President Ashraf Ghani must be brought to justice and face criminal charges of embezzlement if he indeed fled the besieged country with duffle bags full of cash intended for the Afghan people, according to House Oversight Committee house-of-representatives. Ghani hastily abandoned Afghanistan earlier this month as the Taliban marched to power. He…

Read More