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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has sentenced detained Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian to an unspecified prison term following his conviction last month on charges that include espionage, Iranian state TV reported Sunday.Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi, the spokesman for Iran s judiciary, announced the punishment in a statement on the TV station s website. In brief, it is a prison sentence, he said. The verdict is not finalized, he added, referring to airmaxplus an expected appeal.Rezaian s lawyer, Leila Ahsan, told The Associated Press she had not been informed of the verdict - let alone details of the sentence. I have no information about details of the verdict, she said. We were expecting the verdict some three months ago. Rezaian was detained with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, and two photojournalists on July 22, 2014. All were later released except Rezaian, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen. Iran says Washington Post journalist convicted of spying 03:40 Rezaian went on trial in four closed-door court hearings at Tehran s Revolutionary Court, which hears cases related to national secur crocs schuhe ity. Last month, he was convicted of spying and other charges.The Post has vigorously denied the accusations against its correspondent. We re aware of the reports in the Iranian media, but have no further informatio adidas campus n at this ti Ovem Iraq security forces accused of executions as troops pause Mosul advance
The top U.S. commander in Iraq said Monday that he remai stanley mugs ns absolutely committed to pulling back all combat troops from urban areas by the end of the month, as provided for in a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement.Gen. Ray Odierno said a limited number of advisers and trainers will remain in the cities to work with Iraqi security forces, leaving unanswered questions about how many U.S. troops would remain and where they would be located. We will not get into any specific numbers, but it is a very small number, Odierno told a joint news conference with key Iraqi officials.Odierno said the pull back of combat troop stanley deutschland s would also extend to the northern city of Mosul, where Sunni insurgents still pose a threat.Earlier this year, he said Mosul might be one of the cities where combat troops might remain. Odierno said violence and tensions in Mosul have declined. I feel much more comfortable with the situation in Mosul now, Odierno said.Under the Iraqi-U.S. security pact, American combat troops must withdraw by June 30 with all U.S. forces out of the country by the end of 2011. President Barack Obama has said all combat troops will leave Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, leaving up to 50,000 troops in training and advising roles.The withdrawal from the cities will be a major test for Iraq s army and police, which failed to stem a wave of Shiite-Sunni slaughter in 2006. That prompted the stanley cup U.S. troop surge of 2007 which is widely credited with quelling the violence.Many Iraqis are happy to see

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An Emirati ship is seen sinking 30 miles from Assaluyeh in the Persian Gulf, Iran, on March 17, 2022 Iran Ports organization / W adidas samba damen ANA West Asia News Agency / Handout via REUTERS Dubai, United Arab Emirates mdash; An Emirati-flagged cargo ship, longer than a soccer field, sank in stormy seas off Iran s southern coast in the Persian Gulf on Thursday, authorities said. Rescuers were trying to account for all of the vessel s 30 crew members.Capt. Nizar Qad adidas campus donna doura, operations manager of the company that owns the ship, told The Associated Press the Al Salmy 6 encountered treacherous weather. The choppy waters forced the vessel to list at a precarious angle and, within hours, fully submerged the ship. Emergency workers dispatched from Iran successfully saved 16 crew members, Qaddoura said, and civilian ships had b adidas samba og een asked to help with the rescue efforts. Another 11 survivors made it into life rafts, while one person was plucked and saved from the water by a nearby tanker. Two crew members were still bobbing in the sea, he said. The crew consisted of nationals from Sudan, India, Pakistan, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia, Qaddoura said. The ship had been bound for the port of Umm Qasr, in southern Iraq, carrying cars and other cargo. It had left Dubai days earlier. The ship s owners, the Dubai-based Salem Al Makrani Cargo company, specializes in car freighters. The vessel capsized some 30 Cyup Syria s Assad offers political prisoners amnesty
Authorities on Friday found two more human heads in front of a government office in this Pacific coast resort, a day after a similar grisly discovery was made outside the main entrance to City Hall. That makes six severed heads found in the tourist city this year, most with threatening messages linked to the drug trade.The heads found Friday were accompanied by a note that read, One more message, dirtbags, so that you learn to respect. They were dumped in front stanley romania of the Guerrero state Finance Departm stanley thermos mug ent where the heads of two decapitated police officers were left in April with a similar note that warned, So that you learn to respect. Four drug traffickers were killed during a shootout with law enforcement outside the office earlier this year.Authorities were try stanley cup quencher ing to determine if the heads found Friday belonged to two decapitated bodies also discovered Friday dumped in a vacant lot on the edge of Acapulco, near the small beach community of Pie de La Cuesta.Neither the heads nor the bodies have been identified. On Thursday, police found the head of former Mexican solider, Hugo Carpio Garcia, by the main entrance to City Hall with a similar note signed by Z, which authorities said was an attempt to link the death to Las Zetas, a group of former elite Mexican soldiers who now work for the Gulf drug cartel.Earlier this month, a severed human head washed up on the beach in the heart of Acapulco s tourist zone.All this comes amid a feisty presidential race that will cu

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An elephant has trampled a suspected poacher to death in South Africa s famed Kruger National Park, a spokesman said Friday. The mangled body was discovere air max plus d Thursday during an intelligence operation aimed at preventing poaching, salomon mujer Kruger spokesman Isaac Phaahla told AFP.But before any animals were harmed, an elephant stomped one poacher to death while the others fled, Phaahla said. Initial investigations suspect that the deceased was killed by an elephant and left behind by his accomplices, he added.The elephant spared the man s cell phone, which rangers have turned over to police to aid their efforts to track down his fellow poachers, he said.Earlier this year, another suspected poacher was trampled and killed by a herd of elephants at the park. And in 2019, a suspected rhino poacher in was killed by an elephant before his body was apparently eaten by lions at the samba og park. Kruger has been hard-hit by poaching, particularly of rhinos. The park reported in February that its rhino population had plunged by 70 percent over the previous decade, to just under 4,000.On Tuesday, the park announced the arrest of four rhino poachers. There has been an increase of 29.41% in the number of poachers arrested 22 as compared to 17 for the same period in 2020, the park said.The park has succeeded in cracking down on wildlife crimes over the last two years, thanks to new technology and increased patrols that have helped apprehend suspects before they kill, Phaahla said.COVID travel r Glxv Russia reminds Obama of missile defense promise
Taiwan is taking extreme precautions to hold onto allies in Latin America after Costa Rica switched its diplomatic relations from Taipei to Beijing, the Taiwanese foreign minister said Thursday.Foreign Minister James Huang, who revealed he had offered to resign over losing Costa Rica s allegiance, said he had ordered embassies in that region to exercise intense vigilance over attempts by rival China to woo more diplomatic allies.Huang s comments came just hours after Costa Rican President Oscar Arias announced that the Latin American country had broken diplomatic ties with Taiwan after nearly 60 years and established relations with China instead.China said Thursday it welcomed the establishment of ties with Costa Rica and urged other allies of Taiwan in Latin America to end their relationships with the islan stanley cup d. The establishment of diplomatic ties is in the interest of the two countries and people. It has paved the way for friendly and beneficial cooperation between the two sides, Chinese Forei stanley quencher gn Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regular news conference. We hope the relevant countri stanley cups es can follow the trend of the times and make the right choice, Yu said.Arias said the decision was related to Costa Rica s desire to bolster its economy. We are looking to strengthen the commercial ties and attract investment, Arias said. China is the most successful emerging economy in the world and soon it will be the second strongest economy in the world after the United Stat

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Moscowmdash; Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been transferred to a prison facility about 90 miles outside of Moscow and placed into an isolation cell, his lawyer told CBS News on Thursday after finally being allowed a visit. The prominent Kremlin critic was even more cut off from the outside world, but in good spirits, his lawyer said. Attor af1 n air max 2 ey Vadim Kobzev called Navalny s transfer mdash; which came without any explanation or clear legal grounds mdash; a political thinghellip; in order to remove him from Moscow. Navalny was arrested on January 17 immediately upon his return to Moscow from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve agent. His arrest prompted weeks ofmass protests, with thousands rallying on the streets of Russian cities, including the capital, where large crowds gathered at outside the detention facility where he had been held until last week. Massive demonstrations against government corruption in Russia launched by imprisoned Navalny 02:42 Thous samba og ands of people were detained amid fierce clashes with riot police.Navalnywas sentenced to two and a half years in prison last month for violating the terms of a previous suspended sentence. He has always dismissed all the charges against him as politically motivated.Kobze Wqrw This Notre Dame redesign would turn the cathedral roof into a solar-powered urban farm
Updated 12:50 p.m. ETA super typhoon that killed 13 people and flattened forests and crops in the north stanley quencher ern Philippines dumped heavy rains on the capital Tuesday as it headed across the sea toward southern China.Typhoon Megi struck the Philippines on Monday with ferocious winds of 140 miles 225 kilometers per hour, but initial assessments showed relatively light damage and casualties, partly because the storm struck sparsely populated areas. Philippine officials also cited their massive emergency preparations days ahead of the storm.Fo stanley cup od vendor Nesie Callaotit, her husband and two children were hurriedly packing clothes to flee to safety when the wind yanked off half of their tin roof, exposing their house in northeastern Isabela stanley cup province to pounding rain and the horrifying wind.They held on to a wooden post for three hours, weeping and praying together, until the torrents eased. All of us were in tears, the 40-year-old Callaotit said. We thought it was our last day together. After it exited into the South China Sea on Tuesday, Megi was almost stationary packing winds of 108 mph 175 kph but was forecast to regain strength before its expected landfall in southern China on Thursday. Chinese authorities evacuated 140,000 people from a coastal province.Isabela province in the northeast Philippines, Megi s entry point, bore the brunt of the Typhoon Megi s destruction while more than 8,000 people rode out the typhoon in sturdy school buildings, town halls, churches and

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Beds and other family belongings sit in the dirt in what had been the small Palestinian settlement of Khirbet Humsa in the West Bank, in a photo provided by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. OCHA/UN United Nationsmdash; Israeli forces sent demolition vehicles on November adidas campus 00s 3 to bulldoze a small Palestinian village, leaving some 70 civilians, including 41 children, homeless, the United Nations said. It was part of the largest forced displacement carried out by the Israeli government in years, according to theU.N. s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA . The action in a small settlement in the Jordan Valley known as Khirbet Humsa was filmed by the U.N. agency as well as anIsraeli human rights group. The images showed beds, cribs and other family belongings left on the dusty ground of the village. While you were eagerly following the US elections, Israel has demolished an entire communityrsquo residential compound, leaving 74 people, 41 of them minors, homeless. pic.twitter/7hA5AHdFn0mdash; B Tselem 1489; 1510; 1500; 1501; 1576; 1578; 1587; 1610; 1604; 1605; @btselem November 4, 2020 adidas campus 80s On Friday, the heads of mission of the European Union and more than a dozen likeminded countries visited the site and said that local residents briefed the diplo crocs winterstiefel mats on the demolition of 84 structures, including residential, live Qifz Dozens Reported Killed In Tibetan Protests
A Peruvian prosecutor s stanley becher aid Friday he will ask a court to revoke the parole of American activist Lori Berenson and send her back to prison to finish her 20-year sentence for aiding leftist rebels.Julio Galindo, the government s lead anti-terrorism prosecutor, said he would tell the national criminal appeals court on Monday that the 40-year-old New Yorker still poses a threat to society and that there are doubts about whether she has cut all links to the leftist rebel group Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.Berenson was granted parole on May 27, and wrote in a letter to Peru s pardons commission that she wants to go home to the United States. She said that both she and her 1-yea stanley water jug r-old son need medical treatment.Galindo argued that she was wrongly granted parole and should be returned to prison for the remaining five years of her sentence. I don t think anyone can guarantee that someone convicted of terrorism isn t going to re-enter this world of terrorism, Galindo said in a news conference. He argued the decision in May to grant parole was riddled with errors.Berenson was initially accused of being a leader of the MRTA, a group that bombed banks and kidnapped and killed civilians, though it was nowhere near as violent as the better-known Shining Path insurgency.When she was arrested in November 1995 with the wife of the group s leader, prosecutors said Berenson was helping plo stanley cup t a takeover of Peru s Congress. The alleged plot was thwarted in a gunbattle at a rebel hideou

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A drug-resistant superbug fungus has sickened nearly 600 people across the United States in recent years, including more than 300 patients in New York State, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Candida auris, which preys on people with weakened immune systems, can be deadly.Candida auris: What to know about the deadly superbug fungusAn elderly man died from the fungus last year at Mount Sinai Hospital following abdominal surgery,CBS New York reports. Most C. auris cases in the United States have been detected in the New York City area, New Jersey, and the Chicago area, the CDC said in a adidas samba og statement.The fungus was seen in the U.S.for the first time in 2013. Dr. Lynn Sosa, Connecticut s deputy state epidemiologist, toldThe New York Times that she views she views Candida auris as pretty much unbeatable and difficult to identify. As of the end of February, a total of 587 cases had been confirmed across the country, most of them in New York State, where there were 309 cases. Illinois had 144 confirmed cases adidas campus and New Jersey had 104. Symptoms of Candida aurisAccording to the CDC, symptoms of the fungus may be difficult to detect because patients are often already sick and only a lab test can identify the superbug. Candida auris can cause different types of infections, including bloodstream infection, wound infection, and ear infectio air max n.People who recently had surgery, live in nursing homes, or who have breathing tubes, feeding tubes or central venous cath Mjxm Doc finds bravery, hope on Ebola frontline
Al Qaeda s new leader is known mostly for his organizational and tactical cunning, but he s fueled by a deep hatred for the United States and the West, an anger made more stanley fr per stanley cup sonal by the deaths of his wife and two children in a U.S. airstrike following the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks.Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was officially announced as the successor to Osama bin Laden, is the son of an upper middle class Egyptian family of doctors and scholars. A surgeon by training, his father was a pharmacology professor at Cairo University s medical school and his grandfather was the grand imam of Al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam s formal seat of learning.At the age of 15, he founded his first underground cell of high school students to kubki stanley oppose the Egyptian government. He continued his militant activities while earning his medical degree, later merging his cell with other militants to form Islamic Jihad. Ayman al-Zawahiri named new al Qaeda chiefWhite House: al-Zawahiri in over his headAl-Zawahiri, who turns 60 on Sunday and has a $25 million bounty on his head, served three years in an Egyptian prison before heading to Afghanistan in 1984 to fight the Soviets, where he linked up with bin Laden. Al-Zawahiri later followed bin Laden to Sudan and then back to Afghanistan, where they found a safe haven under the radical Taliban regime. Soon after came the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa, followed by the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole off th

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Amman, Jordanmdash; Only 10 coronavirus infections and two related deaths have been reported in war-torn Yemen to date, but there s mounting fear that COVID-19 is poised to wreak havoc on a country that was already struggling with a humanitarian catastrophe before the pandemic. The virus is now in Yemen and may quickly spread, Lise Grande, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said yeezy in a statement late last week. The factors are all here: Low lev air force els of general immunity, high levels of acute vulnerability adidas originals hombre , and a fragile, overwhelmed health system. Oxfam workers lead a hygiene awareness session in Yemen s northwest Hajjah province, teaching people, and especially children, about the importance of hand washing and disinfecting surfaces amid fears of the spread of the new coronavirus disease. Ahmed Al-Fadeel/Oxfam Yemen has been pummeled by a series of man-made disasters for years. Neighboring powerhouse Saudi Arabia, a key backer of the government in a seemingly endless civil war, has led a five-year bombing campaign and maritime blockade, choking off vital supplies to most of Yemen s 30 million inhabitants. Long before the coronavirus disease was even identified, Yemen s health services had already collapsed, millions of children were starving and diseases such as cholera and diphtheria mdash; considered obsolete in most of the world mdash; were flari Knxz Passengers describe escaping wreckage of Aerom eacute;xico plane crash
President Vicente Fox s office on Tuesday insisted his comments that Mexicans work jobs blacks don t want in the United States were misinterpreted, a day after he told leaders in the U.S. black community that he regretted any hurt feelings. In a speech Friday, Fox praised the dedication of Mexicans working in the United States, saying they re willing to take jobs that even blacks won t do.On Monday, he stanley cup spoke with the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton by telephone and told them: I regret any hurt feelings caused by my statements. The president maintains his comments were misinterpreted and a public apology is not forthcoming, presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said Tuesday. From the point of view of the president, the misinterpretation has been clarified with the affirmation by the president, with his repeated demonstrations of absolute respect for minorities, whatever their race, their ethnicity, their reli stanley flask gion, Aguilar said. On Monday, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher called the remark very insensitive and inappropriate and said the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City had raised the issue with the Mexican government.But Aguilar said Mexico had received no formal complaint from the State Department, repeating the president s position that his remarks were misinterpreted. Asked whether an apology was on the way, Aguilar said the point is closed. Fox has invited Jackson and Sharpton to Mexico for talks aimed at improv stanley quencher ing the sometimes tense relationship be

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Geneva mdash; Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian denied that his country was responsible for a drone attack in the Red Sea that appeared to be targeting a U.S. missile destroyer. The drone, which originated from Yemen, was shot down early Wednesday morning by the USS Thomas Hudner as it was heading in the direction of the ship, according to adidas original campus a statement from the Pentagon. We really didn t want this crisis to expand, Amir-Abdollahian told CBS News on Wednesday, referencing the ongoingIsrael-Hamas war. But the U.S. has been intensifying the war in Gaza by throwing its support behind Israel. Yemen makes its own decisions and acts independently. The Pentagon did not say who it believes fired the drone, but the incident comes after Iranian-backed Houthis militants in Yemen earlier this week vowed to attack ships in the Red Sea.Iran is also a backer of Hamas, and the U.S. says that makes it complicit in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. The minister told CBS News that Hamas attacks were a response to 75 years of Israeli occupation. What Hamas did was based on its legitimate right to defend itself, said Amir-Abd air max 2 ollahian when asked if it was his position that the Hamas assault, in which at least 1,200 people in Israel were killed and more than 200 were believed to be taken hostage, was justified. As I said, we are opposed to killing women and children everywhere, af1 Amir-Abdollahian added.On Oct. 19, the USS Carneyintercepted three missiles in the Red Sea that Oyzx Jailed Afghan Christian Convert Moved
Written By GlobalPost s Tom HundleyIn the Middle East, Dubai has replaced Beirut as the place where deals are done, secrets are sold and scores are settled.The glitzy city on the Gulf has become a kind of Arabian Big Easy where a senior operative in a powerful political organization can be assassinated in a five-star hotel - and the crime will be hushed up for more than a week while the powers-that-be decide how the story will be spun.Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a military commander and arms smuggling specialist with Hamas, was found dead in his room at the swanky Al Bustan Rotana Hotel on Jan. 20. But word of al-Mabhouh s demise was kept quiet for nine days, until a brief announcement on Friday from the U.A.E. government s official press agency coincided with his funeral at the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus.According to the announcement, the assassination stanley mugs was carried out by an experienced criminal gang, who had been tracking down the movements of the victim before entering the U.A.E. Al-Mabhouh arrived in Dubai from Syria on Jan. 19. His body was found in his hotel room less than 24 hours later. By that time, his killers, apparently travelling on European passports, had already fled the country. Despite quick skill exhibited stanley thermobecher by murderers ... they left behind evidence at the stanley cup scene of [the] crime that would help in tracking them down, said an unnamed security source quoted in the official statement.A family member in Gaza told Al Jazeera television on Friday that al-Mab

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Ukraine on Sunday said its forces hit an ultra-modern Russian warplane stationed on an air base about 370 miles from the front lines.Kyiv s main military intelligence service shared satellite photos it said showed the aftermath of the attack. If confirmed, it would mark Ukraine adidas og s first known successful strike on a twin-engine Su-57 stealth jet, lauded as Moscow s most advanced fighter plane.In one photo, black soot marks and small craters can be seen dotting a concrete strip around the parked aircraft. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine s Ministry of Defense, the strike took place on Saturday at the Akhtubinsk base in southern Russia, some 366 miles from the front line. 8252; 65039; 1042; 1087; 1077; 1088; 1096; 1077; 1091; 1088; 1072; 1078; 1077; 1085; 1086; 1057; 1091;-57 128165; 8 1095; 1077; 1088; 1074; 1085; 1103; 2024 1088; 1086 nike dunk low ; 1082; 1091; 1085; 1072; 1090; 1077; 1088; 1080; 1090; 1086; 1088; 1110; 1111; 1072; 1077; 1088; 1086; 1076; 1088; 1086; 1084; 1091; laquo; 1072; 1093; 1090; 1091; 1073; 1110; 1085; 1089; 1082;raquo; 1074; 1072; 1089; 1090; 1088; 1072; 1093; 1072; 1085; 1089; 1100; 1082; 1110; 1081; 1086; 1073; 1083; 1072; 1089; 1090; 1110; 1088; 1092;,...P hoka laufschuhe osted by 1043; 1086; 1083; 1086; 1074; 1085; 1077; 1091; 1087; 1088; 1072; 1074; 1083; 1110; 1085; 1085; 1103; 1088; 1086; 1079; 1074; 1110; 1076; 1082; 1080; Cbsf New Zealand earthquake death toll rises to 113
AP Photo/Frank Augstein An airplane takes off at the Duesseldorf airport, western Germany, on Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Air controllers lifted all restrictions on German airspace on Wednesday, paving the way for more flights stanley kubek into some of Europe s busiest airports. Airlines announced they had lost at least $1.7 billion and criticized government actions during the volcanic ash crisis.Volcano Releases Chokehold on Air TravelPhotos: Volcano in Iceland Celebration in Brazil AP Photo/Eraldo Peres People watch a parade in commemoration of the capital s 50th anniversary in Brasilia, Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Brasilia, built from scratch 600 miles 965 kilometers inland, was envisioned as the dream city, a transformational project to thrust Latin America s largest nation ahead with a modern capital in the wilds of Brazil s vast, interior savanna. Showing Strength AP Photo/Evan Vucci First lady Michel stanley mugs le Obama shows off her muscles along with the children at the DC River Terrace School at an event to promote physical fitness on Wednesday, April 21, 2010, in Washington. Welcome Home stanley website AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis

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Despite assurances from President Trump that ISIS territory will soon be 100 percent captured, U.S.-backed forces continue to battle ISIS fighters in Syria. CBS News corresp yeezy slide ondent Charlie D Agata reports on Monday ISIS fighters launched a fierce counterattack from the village of Baghuz Fawqani, seizing back territory from Kurdish-led forces. D Agata has seen the fighting from eastern Syria, even being forced to run from ISIS bombs just last week. He reports ground forces backed by U.S. and coalition airstrikes launched an offensive over the weekend to rid the last remnants of ISIS from the only foothold they have left. Syrian Democratic Force officials estimate between 500 and 600 militants remain. On Monday, the chief spokesman told CBS News the air force 1 re were far more civilians trapped inside that village than previously thought. mizuno de Trump says ISIS has been nearly 100% defeated in Syria and Iraq 02:28 The situation is a far cry from the president s announcement in December that ISIS was already defeated, saying he planned to pull U.S. troops from Syria. Mr. Trump later told Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan the U.S. military could always come back if it was needed. But the president s decision to withdraw troops has prompted backlash from members of his own party and intelligence team. SDF c Cfyi Gulf Troops Usher In New Year
A senior Cuban official said Wednesday that an American government contractor detained in Cuba for more than a month was working for American intelligence. Parliament leader Ricardo Alarcon said the man is under investigation but has not yet been charged. Neither government has identified the man who was arrested on Dec. 4 on suspicion he was handing out communications equipment to opposition groups. There is a new institution in the United States which is made up of agents, torturers and spies that are contracted as part of the privatization of war, Alarcon said. This is a man who was contracted to do work for American intelligence services. The man was detained as he attempted to board a plane leaving Cuba, but Cuban officials did not grant him access to consular officials from the U.S. Interests Section - which Washington maintains in Cuba instead of an embassy - until Dec. 28.The Sta stanley thermobecher te Department has said that he was working as a subcontractor for the Maryland-based economic development organization Development Alternatives Inc., and the company s president has said he was part of a USA stanley cup ID program intended to strengthen civil society in support of just and democratic governance in Cuba. Alarcon, who made the comments at an event announcing Cuban municipal elections for later this year, would not give any details of the man s condition, or say where he was being held. I can assure you that he is much better, much better than the victims of those U.S. government