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HAMAT, Lebanon (Reuters) — The United States delivered two A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to Lebanon’s army on Tuesday (October 31), a sign of continued US support despite Israeli accusations that the Lebanese military is controlled by Hezbollah. The planes are the first of six promised by the US and will be used as armed observation aircraft, a security source in Lebanon said. They represent a big upgrade for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia said Tuesday its submarine deployed in the Mediterranean fired three ballistic missiles to destroy a command post of the Islamic State group in Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province. “A missile strike with three Kalibr missiles destroyed a command post with large numbers of militants and armed vehicles and also a large weapons and ammunition depot,” the Russian defense ministry said in a statement posted on Facebook. It said the strikes […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The European Union and Japan asked the United Nations on Tuesday to condemn North Korea for gross human rights violations, drawing a link between severe hunger endured by North Koreans and Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear programs. After the death of US student Otto Warmbier, a draft resolution also said North Korea must provide detained foreign nationals with access to consular services and allow them to communicate with their families. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — America must not let Islamic State jihadists return to or enter the United States after they are beaten overseas, President Donald Trump said Tuesday, hours after a deadly New York attack. “We must not allow ISIS to return, or enter, our country after defeating them in the Middle East and elsewhere. Enough!” Trump tweeted. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called the attack an “act of terror” but authorities have not definitively linked […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump decried an apparent terror attack that killed eight people in his hometown of New York on Tuesday as an act of madness. “In NYC, looks like another attack by a very sick and deranged person,” Trump tweeted. “Law enforcement is following this closely. NOT IN THE U.S.A.!” Early eyewitness reports suggested the attacker plowed into cyclists and pedestrians in Lower Manhattan and shouted “Allahu akbar” (“God is […]
by Laura Bonilla Cal and Jennie Matthew Agence France Presse A pickup driver killed eight people in New York on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians before striking a school bus, in the city’s first deadly attack blamed on terror since September 11, 2001. Eleven others were seriously hurt when the truck driver struck in broad daylight just blocks from the 9/11 Memorial, on the West Side of Lower Manhattan, close to schools as children […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Prosecutors announced Tuesday they added 12 more companies and two executives as targets in a wide-ranging antitrust investigation that charges generic drug manufacturers fixed drug prices. The suit, which was filed in December and is now supported by prosecutors from 45 US states, alleges a broad conspiracy by Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceuticals and others to divvy up markets and set prices to boost profits at consumer’s expense. On Tuesday, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States will once again vote against an annual UN resolution condemning its embargo against Cuba, one year after it abstained for the first time in a quarter of a century. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters that US Ambassador Nikki Haley would oppose the measure when Cuba brings it before the General Assembly on Wednesday. “We’ve historically voted against that resolution. Last year, the US abstained,” Nauert said, looking […]
by Marine Laouchez with Daniel Silva in Madrid Agence France-Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Spain’s top criminal court on Tuesday summoned Catalonia’s axed separatist leader for questioning, hours after he appeared in Brussels insisting he remained the “legitimate president” of a region now under direct rule from Madrid. The National Audience in Madrid, which deals with major criminal cases, summoned Carles Puigdemont and 13 other former members of his administration, dismissed by Spain’s central government last week, […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (Agence France Presse) — Thailand has revoked the passports of ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra, who has yet to be seen in public since she slipped out of the country before the verdict in her negligence trial, officials said Tuesday. The former prime minister, whose elected government was toppled in a 2014 coup, has not been seen or heard from since she stunned the kingdom by failing to turn up for the Supreme Court […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday said there was no evidence the country had interfered in US elections, after a Washington probe accelerated with charges against three former aides to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. “We are accused of interfering not only in US elections but also in those of other countries without one piece of evidence,” Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Moscow. Russia has repeatedly denied any attempt to influence the […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – Disrespecting China’s national anthem could carry a prison sentence of up to three years under a new draft law amendment, state media reported Tuesday. China has been fine-tuning legislation on the proper way and place to sing its national anthem, recently tightening rules that already bar people from belting it out at parties, weddings and funerals. The country passed a National Anthem Law in September, which specified a much lesser jail term […]
