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There are concerns about the level of forces that Ramzan Kadyrov has built up and a potential rift with federal security services.
Texas incident fuels concern about lone-wolf terror attacksby By DAVID CRARY and ERIC TUCKER
NEW YORK (AP) -- The attempted attack on a provocative cartoon contest in Texas appears to reflect a scenario that has long troubled national security officials: A do-it-yourself terror plot, inspired by the Islamic State extremist group and facilitated through the ease of social media....
The U.S. military said on May 6 that Iraq's largest oil refinery is under growing threat from Islamic State militants, who have made headway inside the facility.
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Khamenei says US military threats against Iran endanger nuclear talks
Hindustan Times Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday US military threats made in the last few days may scupper nuclear talks as Tehran and six major world powers try to meet a June 30 deadline for a final deal. Khamenei, who has the final say ... Iran deal 'could spark N-arms race'Arab News King's changes make Saudi policy less predictableDaily Times Iran not to succumb to pressure in nuclear talks: AfkhamTehran Times all 444 The Saudi gambitLivemint all 230 news articles » |
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California trio accused of running rogue police force
BBC News Three members of the so-called Masonic Fraternal Police Department have been arrested and charged with impersonating law enforcement officers in California. The group, which claims it has jurisdiction in 33 US states and Mexico, traces its origins to ... Aide to California AG, 2 others accused of running 'masonic' police forceFox News Three arrested for allegedly running fake, 3000-year-old police force in CaliforniaNew York Daily News Kamala Harris aide arrested for allegedly running rogue police forcePolitico Reuters -Sacramento Bee -Los Angeles Times all 103 news articles » |
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Hillary Clinton to Court Donors for Super PAC
New York Times Hillary Rodham Clinton will begin personally courting donors for a “super PAC” supporting her candidacy, the first time a Democratic presidential candidate has fully embraced the independent groups that can accept unlimited checks from big donors and are ... Clinton signals support for super PAC backing campaign Chron.com Mike Huckabee Jokingly Breaks Campaign Finance Law In 2016 AnnouncementHuffington Post The Top Super PACs of 2016: What You Need to Know About ThemNewsmax all 25 news articles » |
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Islamic State Breaches Perimeter of Iraqi Oil Refineryby webdesk@voanews.com (Carla Babb)
The Pentagon said Wednesday that Islamic State militants in Iraq had breached the perimeter of the contested Beiji oil refinery. Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said the breach of the oil refinery had happened within the last 48 hours. “The enemy does have control of some of the refinery now. It’s a tough fight. I don’t know which way it’s going to go," he said. He said Iraqi Security Forces remained in the contested refinery and were preventing IS militants...
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ISIL opens 5-star 'Hotel Caliphornia' in Mosul for its commanders
National Post Military commanders in ISIL will be able to relax from the battlefield in style as the terrorist group has just reopened a luxurious hotel in Mosul, Iraq. The building, formerly the 5-star Ninawa International Hotel, was seized and shut down by ISIL during the June ... Welcome to IS's new oasisTimes LIVE The Ninawa International Hotel in Mosul has been taken over by the Islamic ...Perth Now Would you stay here? ISIS opens luxury HOTEL with restaurants, swimming pool ...mirror.co.uk BuzzFeed News-The Asian Age -The Independent all 76 news articles » |
How Effective Are US Rewards for Information on Terrorists?by webdesk@voanews.com (Sharon Behn)
Twenty million dollars — that is the latest total of the rewards being offered by the U.S. State Department to anyone who mails, emails or calls in information on four Islamic State commanders leading operations in Iraq and Syria. Information on Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, an al-Qaida in Iraq leader before leading the Islamic State, is worth $7 million. Rewards for Abu Mohammed al-Adnani and Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili are $5 million each. And information on the whereabouts...
Emmanuel Edet, right, and his wife Antan, left, from Perivale, north-west London are accused of stripping Ofonimi Inuk of his passport and making him work up to 17 hours a day.
LONDON (Reuters) - British voters get to decide on Thursday who they want to rule the world's fifth-largest economy in a tight election that could yield weak government, propel the United Kingdom towards a vote on EU membership and stoke Scottish desire for secession.
Analysis of main parties’ gay credentials highlights Conservatives’ ‘pockets of diehard homophobia’ and mere 49% support for gay marriage act
David Cameron may be remembered as the prime minister who legalised gay marriage, but he may still find it difficult to attract LGBT voters
Attitude magazine has analysed the different parties’ attitudes to homosexuality and highlighted the “pockets of diehard homophobia” that remain within the Conservative party, especially on the back benches.
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Queen Elizabeth II prepares to deliver her speech in the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on May 9, 2012 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the coalition government's legislative programme in a speech delivered to Members of Parliament and Peers in The House of Lords. New legislation is expected to be introduced on banking reform, House of Lords reform, changes to public sector pensions and plans for increased internet monitoring. (Photo by Oli Scarff - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Russia’s economic crisis is forcing President Vladimir Putin to quietly scale back plans to build an “indomitable” military.
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Hillary Clinton Vows to Offer 'Full and Equal Citizenship' to Undocumented ...
The Christian Times (Photo: Reuters/Jim Young)Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is applauded by her husband former U.S. President Bill Clinton at the 37th Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola, Iowa, Sept. 14, 2014. 2016 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton recently offered ... and more » |
From hip-hop to jihad, how the Islamic State became a magnet for converts by Anthony Faiola, Souad Mekhennet
THE HAGUE — She was a red-headed rebel, the singer in the family, a trash-talking, tattooed 21-year old wrapped up in a hip-hop dream to become Holland’s Eminem. Then Betsy found Allah.After her sudden conversion to Islam last summer, Betsy — a name given by her family to protect her identity — began dressing in full Muslim robes. By January, the once agnostic Dutch woman, raised in a home where the only sign of religion was a dusty Bible on a shelf, began defending homegrown terrorists. A feud with her father over her apparent radicalization prompted her to leave home — turning up days later, her parents and Dutch authorities now say, in Syria, where she would become the bride of an Islamic State fighter.Read full article >>
A judge ruled that the mother should not be allowed to keep her own biological child after an alleged surrogacy deal she had struck with two gay men - one of whom is the father - broke down.
3 Arrested In California For Operating 3000-Year-Old Masonic Police Department
New England Public Radio It was a plot to rival Foucault's Pendulum: Police in Los Angeles arrested three people in connection with operating a fictitious police department they said was 3,000 years old and had jurisdiction over 33 states and Mexico. Los Angeles County sheriff's ... and more » |
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Drug trade's lowest rung: Peru's cocaine backpackersby By FRANKLIN BRICENO and FRANK BAJAK
HUANTA, Peru (AP) -- The lung-searing ascents into the Andean highlands aren't what worry the untold hundreds of young men who hump backpacks loaded with drugs out of the remote, lawless valley that produces about 60 percent of Peru's cocaine....
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew in to Riyadh on May 6 for talks with Saudi and Yemeni leaders on the worsening conflict in Yemen.
U.S. authorities are investigating new threats posted on a web site used by the Islamic State promising further attacks in the United States and targeting the anti-Muslim activist behind last weekend's controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest.
His critics say he has led his country into an autocratic cul-de-sac, but his fans point to the stability he brought after Yeltsin and the way he stood up to the west
Days before he was elected to the Russian presidency in 2000, Vladimir Putin told the BBC that Russia was “part of European culture” and that he “would not rule out” the possibility of it joining Nato.
“I cannot imagine my own country in isolation from Europe and what we often call the civilised world,” said Putin, who was still acting president after Boris Yeltsin’s sudden resignation on New Year’s Eve 1999.
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A Kremlin aide says Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will discuss the crisis in Ukraine at talks in Moscow on May 10.
Russian Ex-Defense Official Found Guilty In Property Fraud Case by noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Russian Service)
A court in Moscow has found a former Defense Ministry official guilty of embezzlement in a multimillion-dollar corruption scandal that led to the ouster of her boss in 2012.
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Sports Body Defends Baku Games Amid 'Devastating Clampdown' by noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
A senior European sports official has defended plans to hold the first-ever European Games in Baku next month amid what rights groups say is a growing crackdown on the media and civil society by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's government.
Planned measures would probably not have stopped an attack like the one at Charlie Hebdo, experts say, but will put France in the company of nations like Russia.
Something's brewing in Central Asia and the West 'needs to take this seriously'
Business Insider obama xi putin REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonU.S. President Barack Obama (L-R), China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin during a family photo shoot at the International Convention Center at Yanqi Lake in Beijing, November 11, ... Russian government approves information security agreement with ChinaRussia and India Report all 11 news articles » |
Russia's Turn to the East More Economic than Ideologicalby webdesk@voanews.com (Daniel Schearf)
Western leaders are boycotting a massive military victory parade in Moscow this week that commemorates the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II because of Russia's actions in Ukraine. But many Asian leaders, including China's President Xi Jinping, will be attending – underscoring how Russia is looking East as tensions with the West increase. Political analysts say Russia's “turn to the east” is more for economic than ideological reasons. “The military parade in Moscow on May 9th, known in Russia as the Victory Day, is definitely one of the most significant symbols for Putin right now to boost his legitimacy at home and to show that he’s not alone,” said Alexander Gabuev, head of the Russia in the Asia Pacific Program at the Carnegie Center Moscow. Gabuev said Western support for Ukraine's popular Maidan uprising that led to the downfall of Russia-backed President Viktor Yanukovych, was seen by the Kremlin as interference in its sphere of influence. “There is a deep mistrust,” he said. “And, though Russia, Russian elite or Russian people still see themselves as part of the European civilization, I would say the ruling elite is trying to position Russia as the major non-western or non-U.S. power in the world in [an] ideological sense.” He added that “it probably more or less resembles what the Soviet Union tried to do-just to present itself as an alternative to the western narrative and the western system.” Snubbing West risky The West's turning its back on Russia leaves Moscow with mainly undemocratic and communist regimes as allies a sign of Russia's revival as an authoritarian state, argued historian Andrei Zubov. “Right now Russia, China, North Korea and a number of countries adjoining them are creating an anti-liberal pact, anti-western pact, anti-democratic pact, and this is alarming,” he said. Moscow was set to host North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for his first foreign trip before it was cancelled due to “internal Korea” issues. But economic relations are growing fast since Pyongyang settled its Soviet-era debt. The two sides declared 2015 “a year of friendship” and could reach a trade goal of $1 billion by 2020, said Vitaly Survillo, head of a new Russia-North Korea business council. “If all the projects that exist, and that are set, will take place, particularly the railways projects, as well as electricity grids, we could probably reach it, in theory. How it will be in practice, depends on how this or that project is implemented,” Survillo explained. Right now, it is much less than that, and North Korea has even greater interest than Russia in stepping up bilateral trade because they exist in isolation, he said. “In fact, the volume of trade with North Korea leaves much to be desired,” he added. “It is insignificant, but it has been growing fast during the last few years, 2013, 2014. And we hope that it develops in the same way this year.” China-Russia relationship While South Korea joined China in abstaining from sanctions against Russia, it is the Moscow-Beijing dynamic in the East that is gaining most importance, said Gabuev. “And with the relationship with the U.S. treaty, allies like Japan and South Korea also in a very difficult, problematic situation, there is only one large partner-China. And, the longer we have this confrontation between Russia and the West,” he said, “the more significant the relationship between Russia and China will get.” Last year, as the West enforced economic sanctions against Russia, Beijing and Moscow signed a $400 billion deal on natural gas. This week, the most anticipated East Asian leader attending the Victory Day parade is Chinese President Xi Jinping While the Ukraine crisis has made Russia's turn to China more significant, its renewed interest in its former cohort in communism, pre-dates tensions with the West, Gabuev said. “The real origin starts after the global credit crunch in 2008/2009 when Russia's GDP dip was the largest among G20 countries and China still continued to grow at the average pace of about 8 percent per year and Russia realized that there are untapped market opportunities and untapped sources of capital for its domestic growth and that large, uninhabited regions of Siberia and the far-east really need this Asia connection to get these economic opportunities,” he said. Celebrating Victory Day Turning to the East makes sense as Russia is an eastern country, said car salesman Ivan Karpov. “I'm not an expert on geopolitics, but we shouldn't forget that we are a country that stretches from Europe to the Pacific,” he noted. “There are more of us in Asia than in Europe. So I don't know why Russia is compared with Europe and the West." Law student, Ivan Makarov said Russia's growing ties with China are not surprising. "We have good historical ties with China, our communist past and theirs. And since we're not receiving any support from the West, due to current events, why not turn our attention to the East?” he stated. “Especially since it's politically and economically profitable.” Zubov noted, with a degree of optimism, that during Putin's first years in power he referred to Russia as a western, European state that must be together with the Western world. Zubov holds out hope that “Russia will turn to the way of ties with the West.” Russian economy President Putin, while trying rhetorically to present Russia as an alternative to western power and ideology, is focused on economics. At a November Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Beijing, Putin said, “Russia’s location in Eurasia determines its role as a major factor for bringing Western and Eastern civilizations closer together, and we therefore want to strengthen our relations with all Asia-Pacific region countries and play an active part in building a free trade system and in economic and investment cooperation.” Despite political tensions, Russia's trade ties with the West are not expected to take a back seat to Asia's any time soon. The European Union remains Russia's largest trade partner, accounting for about half of all Russian trade.
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Pressure Mounts on Merkel to Explain German Role in U.S. Espionage by ALISON SMALE and MELISSA EDDY
A leading opposition lawmaker accused a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel of lying about Germany’s cooperation in American spy programs in Europe.
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With Imports Banned, Russian Cheese Fills the Need for Brie
New York Times GOLOVKOVO-MARINO, Russia — The creamy goat cheese produced at Koza Nostra, a 12-acre farm in this village 75 miles north of Moscow, had largely been a labor of love. The farm had been losing more than $5,000 a month. Then Russia was hit by ... |
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Members of the French conservative party reacted after parliament voted on Tuesday to adopt new surveillance rules.
Moldova's Mysterious Magnate by noreply@rferl.org (Mark Baker)
Who exactly is Ilan Shor, the 28-year-old millionaire who may be behind Moldova's 'heist of the century'?
A court in Azerbaijan has jailed a leading opposition activist to six-and-a-half years in jail on drugs charges that have been described as politically motivated by government critics.
Gen. Joseph Dunford's move to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assuming he's confirmed by the Senate, leaves a massive hole for the Marine Corps to fill. Dunford took over as commandant for retired Gen. James F. Amos in October, meaning he will have held the job for less than a year.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for the assault on a Texas cartoon contest that featured images of the Prophet Muhammad, but counterterrorism experts said IS has a history of asserting involvement in attacks in which it had no operational role.
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At an April 16 briefing, Joint Chiefs chairman Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said losing the Baiji oil refinery entirely would be a significant blow to the Iraqi government and its security forces.
Scores of people were reported killed by overnight Saudi-led airstrikes in northern Yemen targeting Houthi rebel strongholds near the border with Saudi Arabia.
В Нью-Йорке состоялась акция «Бессмертный полк» и раздача георгиевских ленточек
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Russia and Lithuania are engaged in a tit-for-tat feud over influence and energy
Quartz According to Lithuania, a Russian warship on April 30 forced a Swedish vessel laying the NordBalt cables to halt its work, in what it said was the fourth such confrontation in just over a month. Lithuania vowed to finish the cables anyway. The Baltic ... Britain and Nato launch biggest war games on Russia's doorstep as tensions growTelegraph.co.uk Balts Say Russian Navy Bullying Undersea Cable CrewsRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Russia accused of disrupting new energy link between Sweden and LithuaniaEurActiv The Independent- International Business Times- Sputnik International all 54 news articles » |
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