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KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — US and Afghan forces freed the kidnapped son of a former Pakistani prime minister during a counter-terrorism mission in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Tuesday, three years after he was kidnapped in a hail of bullets. Ali Haider Gilani, son of Yousaf Raza Gilani, was rescued in the Giyan district of Paktika province “by US Special Operations Forces and Afghan commandos in a partnered raid,” NATO said in the statement from Kabul. […]
NEW YORK , United States (AFP) — A 24-year-old Jordanian-American was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday after acknowledging he tried to join the Islamic State group. Alaa Saadeh, of New Jersey, was arrested in June of last year and pleaded guilty on October 29. The specific charge was conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist group. Saadeh was accused of having planned to join the Islamic State group and of helping […]
by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Barack Obama will this month become the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, but the White House is scotching talk of an apology for the devastating 1945 nuclear bombing of the city. Obama, accompanied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will make the deeply symbolic visit on May 27, after attending a G7 summit in south-central Japan, his spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday. The White House […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – North Korea promised that it will not use its nuclear weapon unless there are threats to its sovereignty. North Korean leader Kim Jongun also announced the country’s readiness to strengthen political ties with hostile nations. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
MUNICH, Germany (AFP) — A man killed one person and wounded three others in a knife attack at a German railway station on Tuesday that prosecutors said had “an apparent Islamist motive.” Police said the man had slashed four people around 5am (0300 GMT) at the station in the town of Grafing east of Munich. A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office later said one man had died from wounds suffered in the attack. He said […]
(Reuters) A Taiwanese group has intervened in the Philippines’ international court case against China’s claims in the South China Sea, pressing Taipei’s position that Taiwan is entitled to a swathe of the disputed waterway as an economic zone. The unusual submission has emerged just as judges at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague are poised to rule on the Philippines’ landmark case, brought under the United Nations’ Convention on the Law of […]
WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — A US-led coalition air strike has killed a senior Islamic State leader in Iraq’s Anbar province, along with three other IS jihadists, the Pentagon said Monday. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the May 6 strike near the town of Rutba — deep in the Anbar desert — targeted Abu Wahib, IS’s “military emir” for the vast western province. Wahib was “a former member of Al-Qaeda in Iraq who has […]
by Michel COMTE FORT MCMURRAY, Canada (AFP) — Fort McMurray is largely intact despite a week of damage from the wildfires devastating Canada’s oil sands region, Alberta’s premier said after touring the ghost town on Monday. Firefighters warned, however, that the tens of thousands of evacuated residents would not be able to return for at least two weeks. “It was a miracle we got the entire population out safely,” Alberta Premier Rachel Notley told reporters. […]
KHARTOUM , Sudan (AFP) — Three people were killed and several injured Monday when gunmen travelling by camel and pick-up truck attacked a new camp in Sudan’s Darfur for people displaced by the latest escalation in the region’s war, sources said. The assailants used rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns in the attack on the camp in the North Darfur town of Sortoni, where thousands of people had taken refuge from fresh fighting between government troops […]
NEW YORK , United States (AFP) — Donald Trump on Monday picked New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to lead his White House transition team in the event the billionaire wins the November presidential vote. Christie, 53, essentially joined team Trump in February, endorsing Trump just after the governor himself dropped out of their party’s presidential primary. “Governor Christie is an extremely knowledgeable and loyal person with the tools and resources to put together an unparalleled […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — US scientists have developed a new, transparent polymer material that temporarily tightens sagging skin and eliminates eye bags, according to research published on Monday. While the product is a long way from being on store shelves, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said it could one day offer more than just cosmetic lifts, but also protect sensitive skin from the ravages of eczema and dermatitis. “It’s an invisible layer that can […]
CANNES, France (AFP) — Bomb experts will carry out daily sweeps at the Cannes film festival, opening this week under maximum security as France faces its highest ever terror threat, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday. The glitterati, set to descend on the resort town as the festival opens Wednesday, will also have to tip open expensive handbags for inspection after climbing the red carpet into the main venue, the Palais des Festivals, which is to be […]
