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Missing British-Somali Man Reappears In New York Court

In this April 11, 2010 photo, people are handcuffed in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) Mahdi Hashi, the British-Somali man who disappeared from east Africa shortly after being stripped of his British citizenship, appeared yesterday in a New York federal court alongside two Swedish men. All three appear to have been rendered by the United States from Djibouti, […]

Alice Ross
بواسطة Alice Ross
In this April 11, 2010 photo, people are handcuffed in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Mahdi Hashi, the British-Somali man who disappeared from east Africa shortly after being stripped of his British citizenship, appeared yesterday in a New York federal court alongside two Swedish men. All three appear to have been rendered by the United States from Djibouti, and have now been charged with terrorism offences. Hashi, 23, is accused

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IG Report: Senior Justice Department Official Shares Blame In Botched Clemency Case

In this view looking out from the condemned inmate’s holding cell at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., Thursday, June 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) In blasting the Justice Department’s pardon office earlier this week, the agency’s inspector general said senior department officials shared responsibility for failures in the case of Clarence Aaron, […]

Dafna Linzer
بواسطة Dafna Linzer
In this view looking out from the condemned inmate's holding cell near the new death chamber, Captain Ernie Facio Jr., right, talks during a tour of the area that was under construction at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., Thursday, June 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

In blasting the Justice Department's pardon office earlier this week, the agency's inspector general said senior department officials shared responsibility for failures in the case of Clarence Aaron, a federal inmate serving a triple life sentence for his role in a drug conspiracy. The inspector general's report found that David Margolis, an

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Iraq: New Protests Break Out In Sunni Heartland

Protesters chant slogans against the Iraq’s Shiite-led government as they wave national flags and hold posters of Sunni Finance Minister Rafia al-Issawi during a demonstration in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed) Thousands of Iraqi demonstrators massed in a Sunni-dominated province west of Baghdad […]

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Protesters chant slogans against the Iraq's Shiite-led government as they wave national flags and hold posters of Sunni Finance Minister Rafia al-Issawi during a demonstration in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Thousands of Iraqi demonstrators massed in a Sunni-dominated province west of Baghdad Wednesday, determined to keep up the pressure on a Shiite-led government that many accuse of trying to marginalize them. It was the third major protest in less than a week in Anbar, Iraq's largest province, once the heart of the deadly Sunni insurgency that

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NY Firemen’s Killer Mapped Out Plan For Slayings

A house burns Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 in Webster, New York. (AP Photo/Democrat & Chronicle, Jamie Germano) The ex-con turned sniper who killed two firefighters wanted to make sure his goodbye note was legible, typing out his desire to “do what I like doing best, killing people” before setting the house where he lived with […]

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A house burns Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 in Webster, New York. (AP Photo/Democrat & Chronicle, Jamie Germano)

The ex-con turned sniper who killed two firefighters wanted to make sure his goodbye note was legible, typing out his desire to "do what I like doing best, killing people" before setting the house where he lived with his sister ablaze, police said. Police Chief Gerald Pickering said Tuesday that the 62-year-old loner, William Spengler, brought

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The Dakota War Of 1862: America’s Genocide 150 Years Ago Lingers On

This photo is entitled “People escaping from the Indian massacre of 1862 in Minnesota, at dinner on a prairie.” (Photo by Adrian J. Ebell) (MintPress) – As the world responds with shock as thousands of Palestinians are uprooted from their land by the hands of the Israelis constructing thousands of new settlements and attempts by […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak
This photo is entitled "People escaping from the Indian massacre of 1862 in Minnesota, at dinner on a prairie." (Photo by Adrian J. Ebell)

(MintPress) – As the world responds with shock as thousands of Palestinians are uprooted from their land by the hands of the Israelis constructing thousands of new settlements and attempts by the Burmese government to rid their land of the Rohingya people, a conflict waged against the native population in the U.S., just 150 years ago, goes largely

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South African ANC To Bring Economic Pressure On Israel, Calls For Full Boycott, Divestment

Friends of Palestine living in South Africa, chant anti-Israel slogans during a stand off between Palestinian supporters and Hebrew students from Israel at Nasrec Exposition Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2002, during the World Summit on Sustainable Development nearby. (AP Photo/Obed Zilwa) (MintPress) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party voted on […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels
Friends of Palestine living in South Africa, chant anti-Israel slogans during a stand off between Palestinian supporters and Hebrew students from Israel at Nasrec Exposition Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2002, during the World Summit on Sustainable Development nearby. (AP Photo/Obed Zilwa)

(MintPress) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party voted on Thursday in favor of full boycott, divestment, sanction (BDS) policies against Israel, an unprecedented move that could bring significant economic pressure to stop the blockade of Gaza and illegal settlement activity on the West Bank. Although the burgeoning BDS

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