Month: January 2020

While a good chunk of Iraq’s parliament wants American troops to begin a safe withdrawal from the country in the wake of heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran, Washington is in turn threatening to block Baghdad’s access to its central bank account held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in an effort…

Invité hier sur le plateau de C à Vous, Omar Sy a poussé un coup de gueule contre les médias, qui selon lui devraient davantage se concentrer sur les problèmes de banlieue et non sur les « guignols » car pour lui, si l’on continue à parler sans agir, ces jeunes resteront marginalisés. Omar Sy…

Key point: There are two ways we could measure overall air defense missile lethality: by number of aircraft actually shot down, and by estimated effectiveness. The use of ground-based missiles to engage planes and defend air space is a relatively recent phenomenon. First explored by Germany in World War II, all the major powers quickly raced…

(Bloomberg) — President Vladimir Putin denied sending mercenaries to Libya, suggesting that any Russians involved in fighting to unseat the country’s UN-recognized government are there on their own. “Even if there are any Russian citizens there, they don’t represent the interests of the Russian government,” Putin told reporters in Moscow on Saturday in his first…

By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR (Reuters) – A senior police officer has been arrested in Indian Kashmir and accused of aiding militants after he was found driving two suspected insurgents toward Jammu, Kashmir’s chief of police told reporters on Sunday. The Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, claimed by both India and Pakistan, has been in turmoil since New…

ShakeMap of the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that struck southwest Puerto Rico on Jan. 11, 2020. (Photo/USGS) The latest in a series of earthquakes and aftershocks struck off the southwest coast of Puerto Rico just before 9:00 a.m. on Saturday morning. The center of the 5.9 earthquake is located about 8 miles south of Guanica, Puerto…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates descended on Nevada on Saturday in an attempt to build relationships with Latino voters and win the coveted endorsement of the powerful casino workers’ Culinary Union. Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, both running as Midwestern moderates who’ve warned against liberal plans to move the U.S. to a government-run…

Nicosia (AFP) – Iran’s only female Olympic medallist Kimia Alizadeh announced Saturday she has permanently left her country, citing the “hypocrisy” of a system she claims humiliates athletes while using them for political ends. “Should I start with hello, goodbye, or condolences?” she wrote on Instagram, as Iran reeled from Wednesday’s accidental shooting down of…

Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) is throwing a little water on his fiery comments claiming that Democrats “are in love with terrorists.” Days after the Donald Trump-supporting lawmaker set off social media fury with his claim on Lou Dobbs’ Fox Business show that terrorist-loving Democrats are mourning more for assassinated Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani than they do for U.S. service members killed…

Rep. Doug Collins apologized Friday for saying that Democrats are “in love with terrorists” and mourn Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani more than they “mourn for our Gold Star families.” In a five-part tweet posted Friday morning, the Georgia Republican, one of President Trump’s staunchest defenders during the House impeachment inquiry, walked back the remarks he…