WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – A top Republican US senator pushed her case Wednesday for keeping Guantanamo Bay open, releasing an unclassified report on 107 current and former detainees to show why closing the military prison is a security risk. Kelly Ayotte, a longtime critic of President Barack Obama’s plans to shut the detention center, said the […]
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US senator pushes case to keep Guantanamo open
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Los Angeles court sentences ‘Grim Sleeper’ to death
LOS ANGELES, (APP/AFP) – A garbage collector convicted of the “Grim Sleeper” killings that terrorized southern Los Angeles for more than two decades was sentenced to death on Wednesday. Lonnie David Franklin had been convicted of 10 counts of first-degree murder for the killings of nine women and a 15-year-old girl between 1985 and 2007. […]
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Turkey warns US not to ‘sacrifice’ relations for sake of Gulen
ANKARA, (APP/AFP): Turkey warned the US on Tuesday not to sacrifice the two countries’ relations for the sake of the Pennsylvania-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara blames for the July 15 failed coup. “If the US does not deliver (Gulen), they will sacrifice relations with Turkey for the sake of a terrorist,” Justice Minister Bekir […]
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Thailand to hold elections in 2017: junta chief
BANGKOK, (APP/AFP): Thailand will hold a general election in 2017, the country’s junta chief confirmed Tuesday, his first comments since voters backed a new military-crafted constitution in a referendum. Sunday’s vote in support of the charter was the first test of public opinion since the 2014 coup, although campaigning was curbed and open debate banned […]
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50 Republican national security officials reject Trump
WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – Fifty senior Republican national security officials issued a stinging rejection of their party’s White House nominee Donald Trump on Monday, warning he would be “the most reckless president in American history” if elected. The group, some of whom had already announced they would not vote for Trump, included former homeland security chiefs, […]
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UN urges truce to provide humanitarian aid in Syrian city of Aleppo as supplies run out
UNITED NATIONS, (APP): With more than two million people impacted by the fighting in and around war-ravaged Syrian city of Aleppo, where wide swaths of the area are now without power and water supplies are dwindling, the United Nations has urgently called for a humanitarian pause in the hostilities to enable immediate access to repair […]