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Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director, is facing a tough confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday over her controversial role in the Bush-era torture program. But her latest critic isn’t a human rights group or…
The president is tweeting again. He’s mad at the “negative (Fake)” coverage of TV network news. And he’s using Twitter to float a new idea for striking back — which, if it actually happened, would be very worrisome indeed. Trump’s…
Three people have had their throats slit at a mosque on Old Main Road, in South Africa’s Kwa-Zulu Natal province, according to Reaction Unit SA. “Eyewitnesses said three attackers with guns had used knives to slit the victims’ throats. One knife was…
The United Nations is calling for more protection from people smugglers for migrants entering Yemen. It’s estimated 7,000 African migrants are arriving in Yemen each month; leaving home on foot and walking through Djibouti before catching a boat across the Gulf of Aden where they head…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Thursday that Russia should exert its influence on the sides operating in Syria in order to end, what he called, their “destabilizing activity” and help reach a political settlement. “We also…
The future of China’s No.2 maker of phones and networking gear is uncertain, as the seven-year US blockade is sending US-China trade tensions up a notch. ZTE, which accounts for about 10 percent of the global telecoms equipment market, and 30 percent…
