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TORONTO>> A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan has received a multimillion-dollar payment from Canada's government after a court ruling said his rights were abused, a Canadian official said today. The official confirmed that Omar Khadr has been given the money.
On the eve of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "historic" visit to Israel, a senior official from the Israeli foreign ministry said that his country supports India on what he called "terrorism emanating from Pakistan." Israel believes that there is no difference between Pakistan based "Lashkar-e-Taiba" and the Hamas group operating in Israel and Palestine, said Mark Sofer, deputy director general in charge of the Asia and Pacific division.
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A police helicopter fired on Venezuela's Supreme Court and Interior Ministry in what President Nicolas Maduro said was a thwarted "terrorist attack" aimed at ousting him from power. The confusing exchange, which is bound to ratchet up tensions in a country already paralyzed by months of deadly anti-government protests, took place as Maduro was speaking live on state television Tuesday.
'Please god just let the man sleep': Outrage as airline passenger posts racist Snapchat story of Sikh man whom he mistakenly believed to be a terrorist Joe Biden shuts down 'wiseass' hedge fund manager Bill Ackman after he 'disrespected the memory' of his dead son Beau First pictures of five people electrocuted in Turkish water park horror - including three children and the owner and his son who died trying to save them Trump may soon get to pick ANOTHER Supreme Court justice as rumors abound that Anthony Kennedy could announce his retirement Texas mom, 25, charged in deaths of her two young children after she 'left them in a hot car to punish them while she smoked pot and took a nap' Sixteen-month-old Brooklyn toddler dies five days after she 'was viciously beaten unconscious by her dad during a visit on Father's Day' 'Build bridges not walls': UK Leader of the Opposition party Jeremy ... (more)
'Please god just let the man sleep': Outrage as airline passenger posts racist Snapchat story of Sikh man whom he mistakenly believed to be a terrorist Joe Biden shuts down 'wiseass' hedge fund manager Bill Ackman after he 'disrespected the memory' of his dead son Beau First pictures of five people electrocuted in Turkish water park horror - including three children and the owner and his son who died trying to save them Trump may soon get to pick ANOTHER Supreme Court justice as rumors abound that Anthony Kennedy could announce his retirement Texas mom, 25, charged in deaths of her two young children after she 'left them in a hot car to punish them while she smoked pot and took a nap' Sixteen-month-old Brooklyn toddler dies five days after she 'was viciously beaten unconscious by her dad during a visit on Father's Day' 'Build bridges not walls': UK Leader of the Opposition party Jeremy ... (more)
A traveler walks her bags up the roadway as a police officer guides traffic flow after Bishop International Airport reopens in Flint, Mich., Wednesday, June 21, 2017, after a police officer was stabbed at the airport. A Canadian man shouted in Arabic before stabbing a police officer in the neck at the airport on Wednesday, and referenced people being killed overseas during the attack that's now being investigated as an act of terrorism, federal officials said.
Washington [U.S.] , June 23 :Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington, two influential U.S. Congressmen have introduced a bill revoking Pakistan's status as a major non-NATO ally , saying Islamabad's "treachery" has led to the deaths of too many American citizens. Congressman Ted Poe and Congressman Rick Nolan have introduced H.R. 3000, a bipartisan bill revoking Pakistan's major non-NATO ally status.
Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert unloaded on the media and Obama-era holdovers at the Department of Justice on Wednesday after the FBI announced that it was treating last week's attempted mass assassination of Republican congressmen as "assault" rather than terrorism. Gohmert said that the FBI's refusal to label the attack as terrorism indicates that there are too many officials from the previous administration in the DOJ and charged that the left-wing shooter, James T. Hodgkinson, was conditioned by "hate-filled propaganda" from the media and some Democrats.
There was a time when the mention of the Persian Gulf brought to mind images of pampered societies ruled by aging monarchs content to preside quietly over their oil money and fantastical skyscrapers while the U.S. kept the peace. A sudden royal shake-up in Saudi Arabia early Wednesday is only the latest wild card to be thrown in days of head-spinning developments in the typically staid Gulf.
Reasons the U.S. cares about Saudi Arabia's newly named crown prince King Salman named his son Mohammed bin Salman, 31, as next-in-line to the thrown. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2sS4xL0 In this May 14, 2012, file photo, Prince Mohammed bin Salman waits for Gulf Arab leaders ahead of the opening of Gulf Cooperation Council summit, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
FILE PHOTO: Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman waves as he meets with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 11, 2017 Saudi Arabia's King Salman appointed his son Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud as crown prince on Wednesday, placing him first-in-line to the throne replacing Saudi's counter-terrorism czar Prince Mohammed bin Nayef who had been appointed as the crown prince in 2015. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef also held the powerful position of the country's interior minister overseeing security.
The Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional American forces to Afghanistan, a Trump administration official said Thursday, hoping to break a stalemate in a war that has now passed to a third U.S. commander in chief. The deployment will be the largest of American manpower under Donald Trump's young presidency.
Acts of murderous political violence are not new in America. In and of themselves, they do not tell us much about the state of the country and its political culture.
The latest confirmation of the Obama administration's support of Iran's terrorist activities was provided to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on June 8, 2017 by David Asher, who for many years worked with the United States government on counter-terrorist financing-related issues. According to Asher, "[i]n narrow pursuit of the P5+1 agreement, the administration ... systematically disbanded any ... action ... to dismantle Hezb'allah and the Iran 'Action Network' ... [for fear these would] derail the administration's policy agenda focused on Iran.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis described the diplomatic spat between Qatar and several other American allies in the Middle East as a "complex situation" that the United States needed to help solve. "I believe that Prince Thani inherited a difficult, very tough situation, and he's trying to turn the society in the right direction," Mattis told lawmakers at a House Armed Services Committee hearing late Monday.
Last Thursday all of the attention of Trump-impeachment-obsessed Democrats and the majority of their news media minions was focused on the hearing of fired FBI director James Comey. These President Donald Trump-hating leftists were disappointed when Comey testimony showed that: Trump is not now, nor has he ever been, under investigation by the FBI; President Obama's attorney general, Loretta Lynch, told Comey not to call the probe into Hillary Clinton's endless scandals an "investigation," but rather a "matter"; and that Comey himself leaked his own memo about meetings with Trump, giving them to a leftist university professor to secretly turn over to a news media denizen.
Moscow [Russia], June. 12 : The United States Department of Defense announced that U.S. has officially conducted its first operation against the al-Shabaab terror group, which is allied to al-Qaeda in Somalia on Sunday.
The U.S. military has conducted its first offensive airstrike against the jihadist fundamentalist group al-Shabaab in Somalia, targeting the group under the new authorities given by the Trump administration in March that allows offensive airstrikes. "On June 11, at approximately 2 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the Department of Defense conducted a strike operation against al-Shabaab in Somalia," said Dana White, the Pentagon's chief spokesperson, in a statement.
Qatar has paid $2.5 million to the law firm of a former attorney general under U.S. President George W. Bush to audit its efforts at stopping terrorism funding, a matter at the heart of the Gulf diplomatic crisis that erupted last week. John Ashcroft personally will lead his Washington-based firm's efforts "to evaluate, verify and as necessary, strengthen the client's anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing" compliance, according to documents filed to the U.S. Justice Department.