Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern has announced to resign ahead of 2023's elections. She said, "She no longer has enough in the tank" to lead. Ms Ardern will step down on 7 February. She was the youngest female head of the government when elected PM in 2017, aged 37. She was 2nd elected world leader to give birth while in office, after Benazir Bhutto in 1990. Ms Ardern said the past five-and-a-half years had been the "most fulfilling" of her life. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4IflY5qhJ4

According to Pakistani media, the country's intelligence agencies have discovered a planned false flag operation by India in the Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The operation, which is reportedly being led by Indian military and police, is said to be aimed at spreading propaganda about infiltration and terrorism against Pakistan. The operation was planned to take place in Poonch Sector along the Line of Control on January 26th, which is India's Republic Day. Pakistani intelligence agencies have also identified three key individuals involved in the operation, including Bashir, an agent of India's 93rd Infantry Brigade and two of his accomplices, Aslam and Aalam. A police DSP Prashana is also reportedly supervising the operation. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8KU-PqNAjo

● Number of reports have recently appeared in international media regarding Tetsuya Yamagami and his home-made weapon. Prominent of these is Gabriel Dominguez and Will Fee's excellent report published in Japan Times. ● Tetsuya Yamagami completed a full three-year term in the Maritime Self Defence Force between 2002 and 2005. During that time, he took part in live-fire exercises, meaning that he was well-trained in weapons' handling. ● Tetsuya Yamagami built his gun using readily available commercial components that can be bought at a hardware store. The home-made weapon was a dual-barreled gun. ● Materials bought from a hardware store included: □ wood for the frame. □ plumbing pipes for the barrels. □ electrical tape. □ commercial batteries for ignition. □ electrical wiring. ● No externally visible element of the weapon appears to have been 3 D-printed. ● The weapon had a conventionally shaped pistol grip and was, possibly, constructed using instructions acquired on-line. ● Japanese Police have confiscated many craft-made guns of similar type from Tetsuya Yamagami's home which suggests that the suspect may have been building and testing similar weapon designs for some time. ● The weapon and ammunition used by Yamagami are crude. He chose the design of a double-barreled weapon as it was easier to conceal in the bag. The weapon was 40 x 20 centimetres, according to Japanese Police. ● The weapon is muzzle-loaded and used an electric firing mechanism, capable of firing each barrel independently. The suspect managed to fire two separate shots - one from each barrel. ● The large plumes of white smoke seen after each shot indicate that the propellent the gunman used was not the typical 'smokeless powder' used in commercial firearms, but something more similar to black powder, which was possibly procured commercially or self-made with some knowledge of chemistry. ● Most probably, a separate-loading ammunition was employed. In this ammunition type, the propellent and projectile are loaded into the weapon separately, either from the breach or the muzzle, the process resemling that of a musket. ● In terms of the projectiles used in the shooting, they may have been single "slugs." However, given the diameter of the barrels and their likely lack of spiral groves called rifling, the gunman may have instead loaded several backshot-like smaller projectiles into each barrel to increase hit probability - not unlike a shotgun. ● Specs for the designs of electric firing mechanisms incuding those for 3D-printed weapons can be easily found out online, with a bit of research and technical ability. ● According to Shinzo Abe's autopsy report, which indicates that at least two projectiles struck the former Prime Minister, even though the first shot seems to have missed the 67-year old entirely. ● Considering Abe's apparent lack of reaction to the first shot, as captured on video, it appears likely that the assailant had loaded multiple projectiles into each barrel of his crude weapon. ● Given the weapon's rudimentary design and limited firing capability, experts are not surprised that the assailant missed the first shot, which was fired from a distance of at least 6 metres. ● Lack of weapon's rifling, short-barrel length and crude construction indicate that the weapon possessed a very limited range and was imprecise. This would probably explain why the shooter decided to move closer to Abe to fire off the lethal second round. ● Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister was shot while delivering a stump speech in support of a Liberal Democratic Party candidate running in 10 July's Upper House elections. Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead hours later at a nearby hospital. ● Japan has tight gun control laws. However, Yamagami circumvented those restrictions by producing a home-made weapon that used separate-loading ammunition. ● Yamagami's use of readily available commercial items to build this rudimentary but ultimately lethal weapon indicates that gun violence cannot be eliminated through firearms' restrictions alone. ● Some culprits may even try to imitate the assailant, making their own homemade weapons to commit what is known as a 'copycat' crime. ● The shapes and dimensions of security threats posed to the leaders around the world have changed considerably. Addressing the diverse security threats requires the development of a more comprehensive and logically consistent understanding of security. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fBTceMz43Y

A special court stated on 27 April that charges against Pakistan's new Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the Rupees 16.3 billion money laundering case will be framed on 14 May. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had booked Shehbaz Sharif and his two sons, Hamza & Suleman, in November 2020. The special court had granted bail to Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza on 27 January, while Shehbaz's other son Suleman is absconding. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELLNMLlFuaQ