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Russia's Defense Ministry says it has kicked off air force exercises in the Ural mountains and western Siberia involving 12,000 soldiers and 250 aircraft.
Australia to Pass Law to Strip Citizenship for Terror Crimesby webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)
Australia plans to pass a law within weeks to give the government power to strip citizenship from dual nationals who are suspected terrorists even if they are not convicted of a crime, the prime minister said Tuesday. More than 100 Australians are suspected to be fighting with the Islamic State movement and other terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq. Up to 50 percent of those fighters were estimated to be dual citizens, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. The amendments to the Citizenship...
China Outlines More Assertive Military Policyby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
China said Tuesday it will continue expanding its military strength further from its borders, including in disputed areas at sea, but insisted it does not want a confrontation with any of its neighbors. In a policy paper, China's cabinet said the People's Liberation Army will shift its focus "from territorial air defense to both defense and offense." It also will put a greater emphasis on "open seas protection." The paper was released as China and the United...
The trial, which is not open to the public, began in a Tehran courtroom, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported. The charges include espionage.
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American Journalist Jason Rezaian Goes on Trial in Iran
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KIEV (Reuters) - One Ukrainian serviceman was killed and another wounded when pro-Russian separatists attacked a military ambulance near Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, the head of the Kiev-controlled regional administration said on Tuesday.
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BEIRUT (AP) -- The honeymoon was a brief moment for love, away from the front lines of Syria's war. In the capital of the Islamic State group's self-proclaimed "caliphate," Syrian fighter Abu Bilal al-Homsi was united with his Tunisian bride for the first time after months chatting online. They married, then passed the days dining on grilled meats in Raqqa's restaurants, strolling along the Euphrates River and eating ice cream....
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A Chinese draft law treats the entire sector of foreign nonprofits as potential enemies of the state, reflecting a gathering sense of siege within President Xi’s administration.
Honeymoon in the 'New York' of the caliphate points to Islamic State's welfare for ...
Fox News BEIRUT – The honeymoon was a brief moment for love, away from the front lines of Syria's war. In the capital of the Islamic State group's self-proclaimed "caliphate," Syrian fighter Abu Bilal al-Homsi was united with his Tunisian bride for the first time after ... and more » |
The 83-year-old's son and agent confirm the news but give no details about the Doctor Zhivago star's condition.
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian went to trial Tuesday on espionage charges , according to Iran’s official news agency. The Tehran courtroom was closed to the public, including his family.Martin Baron, executive editor of The Post, said in a statement released Monday that both Rezaian’s mother and his wife, a journalist who also faces related charges and will be tried separately, have been barred from attending. The Post tried to obtain a visa for an editor to be in Iran during Rezaian’s trial, but its inquiries were not answered, Baron said.Read full article >>
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq formally announced on Tuesday the start of a military operation to liberate the western province of Anbar from Islamic State insurgents.
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Organisers of 2015 Toronto's Pan American Games stepped back in time in Mexico on Monday with a lighting ceremony at the famed Teotihuacan pyramids . Report by Louise Hulland.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - A 14-year-old Austrian boy will face charges on Tuesday of preparing to join militants in Syria and researching how to build a bomb, after downloading plans onto his Playstation games console, his lawyer said.
The attacks happened near Garissa, where the terrorist group massacred 148 university students in April.
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Iraq launches counterattack against Isis near Ramadiby Associated Press in Baghdad
State TV says troops will be backed by Shia and Sunni paramilitaries as Iraq attempts to retake western Anbar province
Iraq has announced the launch of a military operation to drive Islamic State out of the western Anbar province, where the extremists captured the provincial capital, Ramadi, this month.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban suicide bombers attacked a court in Wardak province on Tuesday, killing two police officers before being shot dead as they entered the compound, the police chief said.
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Australia Secretly Processed Asylum Seeker Claims At Seaby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Australia's military held 46 Vietnamese asylum seekers at sea for nearly a month and rejected their refugee claims following brief interviews, Australian officials said Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Andrew Bottrell, who oversees Australia's border security operations, told lawmakers that an Australian vessel intercepted the asylum seekers on March 20. Following interviews that lasted as little as 40 minutes, the men, women, and children were determined to not qualify for refugee...
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Many Iraqi commanders and some American officers say that exercising caution with airstrikes has harmed the coalition’s larger effort to destroy the Islamic State.
The Oscar-nominated actor has been threatened with a lengthy sentence after failing to declare his pets when flying to the country
After illegally bringing his two dogs to Australia, Johnny Depp could face up to 10 years behind bars.
The actor, who is currently filming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, landed himself in trouble earlier this month when he brought his two Yorkshire terriers to the country on his private jet. He failed to declare them and therefore broke the country’s quarantine laws.
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Authorities in Bangladesh have banned a radical Islamist organization suspected of involvement in the murder of three secular bloggers who were hacked to death in the majority-Muslim South Asian nation earlier this year.
The attacks on Avijit Roy and Washiqur Rahman, who were murdered in the country’s capital city, Dhaka, in February and March, respectively, and Ananta Bijoy Das, who was killed earlier in May innortheastern Bangladesh, sparked domestic and international concern about the rise of fundamentalist violence in the country.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki called the murder of Roy, a Bangladesh-born U.S. citizen who was hacked to death by masked men carrying machetes while he was returning with his wife from a book fair, a “shocking act of violence” that was “horrific in its brutality and cowardice.”
Rahman and Das were killed in similar attacks by machete-wielding men.
On Monday, Bangladesh’s Home Ministry responded by banning Ansarullah Bangla Team, a radical group that is suspected by the Bangladeshi police of being involved in the three killings. Members of the group had previously been charged with the murder of the blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in 2013, AFP reports.
“The [Junior Home Minister] today signed a government order, outlawing the militant organization Ansarullah Bangla Team,” Sharif Mahmud, a Home Ministry spokesman, told the news agency.
The move comes days after the writers’ organization PEN International released a letter signed by 150 prominent writers from around the world — including Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Salman Rushdie — condemning the murder of the bloggers and calling on Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed to ensure that the attacks are not repeated.
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