New Zealand police on Thursday admitted that the person they originally charged suspected mosques gunman Brenton Tarrant with murdering is actually still alive. “An error was made in the charging document prepared for the first court appearance of the man charged with murder in relation to the Christchurch terror attacks,” a police spokesman told AFP. “The error saw an incorrect victim name included in the charging document.” Tarrant appeared in court Saturday on the first […]
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Mattis vows not to repeat past mistakes in Afghanistan
by Thomas Watkins Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has vowed that the Trump administration will not repeat the “mistakes of the past” in Afghanistan, after the president signaled a desire to give the Pentagon wide latitude in setting war-fighting policy. But given Afghanistan’s violent history and the fate of successive presidents’ efforts to score some sort of victory there, analysts are not confident of Mattis’s chances of […]





