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August 03, 2024
Kamala Harris interviewing potential running mates ahead of formal announcement
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases.The move comes two days after the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, announced that the official appointed to oversee the war court, retired Brig. Gen. Susan Escallier, had approved plea deals with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two accused accomplices, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, in the attacks.Letters sent to families of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the al-Qaida attacks said the plea agreement stipulated the three would serve life sentences at most.Austin wrote in an order released Friday night that “in light of the significance...
August 03, 2024
US Defense Secretary overrides 9/11 plea deals, reinstates death penalty cases
August 02, 2024
Nigerians hit with 24-hour curfews amid protests
August 02, 2024
Mourners gather as Hamas leader Haniyeh is buried in Qatar
August 02, 2024
Israelis told to clean and prepare their bomb shelters amid heightened regional tensions
August 02, 2024
Kim Jong Un wants Donald Trump back, elite North Korean defector says
August 02, 2024
Americans freed in Russia prisoner swap reunite with families
HONG KONG — Heavy rains and floods from Typhoon Gaemi caused at least 30 deaths and left 35 people missing across eight towns in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday, citing local authorities.On Thursday, rescue teams reached eight towns that had been cut off from the outside world since last Sunday, due to destroyed infrastructure and power grids.“As of 12:00 on August 1, the roads, electricity, and communications in the eight towns in Zixing City most severely affected by Typhoon Gaemi are largely restored, and search and rescue efforts have made significant progress,” the local authorities confirmed to Xinhua.Rescue operations are still underway, local authorities said.In response to the severe flooding in Hunan, China raised...
August 02, 2024
At least 30 dead after Typhoon Gaemi cut off towns in China’s Hunan province
August 02, 2024
US says Venezuela opposition candidate won election as anti-Maduro figurehead goes into hiding
DOHA — Two Al Jazeera correspondents were killed in a reported Israeli airstrike in Al-Shati refugee camp, northern Gaza, on Wednesday, according to the news network, sparking condemnation from advocacy groups and highlighting the dangers for local reporters covering the war.Ismail Al-Ghoul and his cameraman, Rami Al-Rifi, who lived in the besieged enclave, were killed in an airstrike on their car in the al Shati refugee camp, according to the Qatar-based network. The journalists, both aged 27, were reporting live for much of the day from a location close to the family home of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Tuesday.Al-Ghoul was wearing a press flak vest when he was killed, according to his colleague. He had not seen his wife...
August 02, 2024
Al Jazeera journalists killed in reported Israeli airstrike in Gaza