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Iran Focused On Nuclear Deal Despite Yemen Crisis

Yemen is “the hot issue of the day” and has come up at the talks but “it doesn’t mean that we negotiated about it,” Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister told reporters.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
From left: Robert Malley, of the US National Security Council, US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, US Secretary of State John Kerry, US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Head of Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wait for a meeting, Friday, March 27, 2015 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Iranian and US officials are in Switzerland to continue negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

From left:  Robert Malley, of the US National Security Council, US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, US Secretary of State John Kerry, US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Head of Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

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Citing US Airstrikes, Reports Indicate Some Militia Forces May Abandon Battle For Tikrit

The reluctance of key Shiite militias to fight alongside US in Iraq contradicts Pentagon’s official version of events

Sarah Lazare
بواسطة Sarah Lazare
Iraqi security forces prepare to attack Islamic State extremist positions in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Iraqi troops started the final phase of an offensive to recapture Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Thursday, a military official said, just hours after the United States launched airstrikes on the Islamic State held city. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi security forces prepare to attack Islamic State extremist positions in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Marking another twist in a faltering offensive on Tikrit, key Shiite militias involved in the operation expressed anger that the U.S. is launching air strikes to back the operation,

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As Saudi Arabia And Allies Continue Airstrikes, Sorrow And Rage In Yemen

Saudi Arabia discusses deploying as many as 150,000 troops and 100 warplanes in operation receiving coordination from the Pentagon and supported by Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally
People carry the body of a woman covered with a blanket from under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi airstrikes near Sanaa Airport, Yemen, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes Thursday targeting military installations in Yemen held by Shiite rebels who were taking over a key port city in the country's south and had driven the embattled president to flee by sea, security officials said. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

People carry the body of a woman covered with a blanket from under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi airstrikes near Sanaa Airport, Yemen, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Airstrikes led by Saudi Arabia, and supported by other members of Gulf Cooperating Council and the U.S. government, continued to hit Yemen on Thursday as the situation in

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Colombian Drug Cartel Funded Sex Parties For DEA Agents

Federal law enforcement agencies were linked to 26 allegations involving the solicitation of prostitutes abroad during a four-year review ending in 2012. Of that total, the DEA was involved in 19 such alleged offenses.

Kevin Johnson
بواسطة Kevin Johnson

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Deputy Administrator Thomas M. Harrigan, left, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado John Walsh, are sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2014.  (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) WASHINGTON — For years, Drug Enforcement Administration agents posted in Colombia engaged in sex parties

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How The Flood Wall Street Trial Changed The Game Of Policing

“By ordering protesters to leave the entire Wall Street area, police violated protesters’ First Amendment right to carry their message directly to its intended recipients: the Wall Street bankers who bankroll climate change,” Judge Mandelbaum said in his decision.

Shawn Carrie
بواسطة Shawn Carrie
A protester is cuffed during the 'Flood Wall Streets protests.

A protester is cuffed during the 'Flood Wall Street' protests.  A judge recently exonerated ten Flood Wall Street protestors, commending the climate activists’ protest as “honorable.” NEW YORK --- It was an unwinnable case. The motley pack of defendants making up the “Flood Wall Street Ten” didn’t even deny the charges against them. Hoping

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Google Bullies, Censors MintPress and AntiWar.com Over Abu Ghraib Photos

MintPress News and AntiWar.com have both been targeted by Google AdSense with threats to kill ad revenue for publishing the infamous photos of Abu Ghraib detainee torture by American troops. Many are left wondering if this is an attempt to control the narrative on the war in Iraq.

Mnar Adley
بواسطة Mnar Adley
A man walks past a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google recently noted ‘Usage of our services have increased every year, and so have the user data request number.’

On March 12, 2015, Google AdSense contacted MintPress News threatening to disable our Google Ads if we did not remove gruesome and now infamous photos of American soldiers torturing Iraqis in the Abu Ghraib prison. These same photos have been published by hundreds of news organizations across the world since they surfaced over a decade ago,

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