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A tough line from President Donald Trump has been met by a show of unity from both sides of Iran's political divide, uniting hardliners who cast the United States as an implacable enemy with pragmatists who seek rapprochement with the West. Iran, which has kept up a steady drumbeat of angry statements for days, lashed out again Tuesday, threatening to teach the Americans "new lessons" and keep "all options on the table" if Washington blacklists its Revolutionary Guards.
The Tibetan movement is at a crossroads, facing increasing Chinese oppression and a shortage of international attention and support. If the international community and the United States continue to ignore one of the last and most afflicted nonviolent resistance movements, the implications will reach far beyond the Tibetan Plateau.
WITH only days to go before President Trump must decide if he will grant the Iranian regime compliance with the nuclear deal on October 15, the sands of time are rapidly running out for Tehran's fascist rulers. President Trump told a meeting of the United Nations in September that the deal was "an embarrassment" to the United States.
The Philippine government is inclined to grant the United States' request seeking the extradition of a Filipino doctor charged in connection with a botched terror plot in New York. Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said the extradition proceedings of Russel Salic would be initiated even while a local investigation on his alleged involvement in kidnapping and murder is ongoing.
Another 9/11, another Brussels, another Paris? According to indictments unsealed yesterday by the Department of Justice, a three-man Islamist terror cell plotted versions of all the above for another attack on New York City. Before they could carry it out, an FBI undercover agent discovered the plot in 2016, then coordinated an international manhunt to capture all three erstwhile terrorists: The alleged scheme was more nefarious than many: The group, which wanted to attack Times Square and the New York City subway system, claimed to have been in touch with an Islamic State affiliate to obtain the official sanction of the terrorist group, prosecutors said.
Trump appears likely to attempt to derail the Iran nuclear deal , next week. The deal curbs Iran's nuclear enrichment program and prevents it from using the program to do more than create fuel for power plants.
A little-known device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, in South Jordan, Utah. Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock bought 33 guns within the last year, but that didn't raise any red flags.
It only took a few hours for international terrorist group ISIS to claim responsibility for the horrific shooting attack in Las Vegas, Nevada on Monday, which left at least 58 dead and more than 500 wounded . But ISIS did not provide any evidence to back up this claim, and at least one expert cautions that it's entirely possible the bloodthirsty organization is lying.
President Trump on Thursday signed a resolution condemning white supremacists and hate groups, hours after reviving his assertion that there were "bad dudes" among the people who assembled to oppose a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month. "You know, you have some pretty bad dudes on the other side also," the president told reporters aboard Air Force One, sparking another round of criticism that the president has failed to adequately condemn hate speech.
After threatening to scuttle all amendments on a massive defense policy bill, Sen. Rand Paul is likely to secure a vote on ending the war authorizations the US military uses to fight terrorism across the globe. Paul's office announced he would get a vote Wednesday on the Kentucky Republican's amendment that would repeal the 2001 and 2002 war authorizations after six months, giving Congress time to pass a new Authorization for Use of Military Force for the wars against Al Qaeda, ISIS and the Taliban.
A U.S. citizen accused of abandoning his birth nation to fight for al-Qaida was to be put on trial Tuesday, a day after the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, in a case that hinges partly on fingerprints found on an unexploded bomb.
"It's not like Pearl Harbor, or some of the other terrible things in our history - the assassination of John Kennedy - the things that people remember where they were when they found out about it. It's something that's still going on.
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum, bottom, is surrounded by high-rise towers in New York. The new towers are: WTC 1, second from left, WTC 7, third from left, WTC 3, second from right, and WTC 4, right.
The US is commemorating the victims of September 11 today at the same time it is mourning the serial devastation that struck Texas and Florida. Both are key moments in our history.
Americans commemorated 9/11 on Monday with tear-streaked tributes, a presidential warning to terrorists and appeals from victims' relatives for unity and hope 16 years after the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Looking out at the solemn crowd at ground zero, Debra Epps said she views every day as time to do something to ensure that her brother, Christopher Epps, and thousands of others didn't die in vain.
8, 2017 photo, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, bottom, is surrounded by high-rise towers in New York. The new towers are: WTC 1, second from left, WTC 7, third from left, WTC 3, second from... .
On October 12, Trump will decide whether to lift the Sudan embargo after Obama eased it before leaving office in January. US aid chief Mark Green said Monday Washington was monitoring Sudan's progress on conditions for a permanent lifting of sanctions, as he visited a camp for the displaced in Darfur.
Syria's civil war unfolded much like Spain's, which ended in the victor's service of a seemingly defeated West A PHOTOGRAPH of the late Spanish General Francisco Franco, from 1930, nine years before the start of his 36 year reign as the country's dictator.. Bashar Assad has risen from the dead.
Police work near the scene where French soliders were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, France. In November 2015, the European Union issued guide- lines for labeling products made on land Europe considers occupied by Israel.