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TAMPA, Florida: Jos Irizarry, a once-highly recognized U.S. narcotics agent, has been sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison for conspiring to launder money with a Colombian drug cartel.
While Irizarry admitted to his crimes, he blamed former colleagues at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for fostering a culture of corruption that desensitized him to the implications of violating the law.
Britain's Boris Johnson has a reputation as an escape artist - a political Houdini who defies rules and conventions and gets away with it.
Last May, he led Conservatives to an historic election victory against the country's main opposition Labour Party, making deep inroads into Labour heartlands in northern England in votes for devolved, regional and town governments, despite weeks of sleaze allegations relating
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No members of the US military involved in the Kabul drone strike that killed 10 civilians including 7 children during the retreat from Afghanistan will be penalized in any way, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reportedly decided.
The US Air Force's inspector general investigated the August 29 drone strike and found no violations of law, but left the decision to discipline, reprimand or demote th
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With relations between Belarus and the EU worsening amid the ongoing migration crisis, Minsk's long-time leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has warned he could cut off supplies of Russian gas to the West if new sanctions are imposed.
"If the measures they're imposing or will impose in the future put us in an extreme position, and we have no other measures with which to respond, we will make use of eve
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John McWhorter's latest book joins a growing library of ?anti-woke? tomes railing against an imaginary problem as a sop to an increasingly neurotic middle America.
In some respects, there's much to admire about the idea behind linguist John McWhorter's latest book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. But ideas are ten a penny. It's the execution that counts, and this piece
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will travel to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday and meet the Gulf state's de facto ruler in the highest-level visit since the countries formalized relations last year.
The trip comes amid heightened regional tension as world powers' try to renew a nuclear deal with Iran. Israel and some Gulf Arabs share concern over Iranian activities in the region.
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A military official in Tehran has warned that aggressors will pay a ?heavy price? in response to numerous reports that Israel was seeking US help, or at least approval, in preparingpotential strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
Since talks resumed last week aimed at breathing new life into the nuclear pact struck between Iran and world powers in 2015, a steady stream of reports in Israeli and US med
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Dozens have been confirmed dead after a series of season-defying tornadoes Friday night in several U.S. states, causing a wide swath of destruction from weather conditions more common in spring. Officials expect the toll to rise.
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke to the governors of the five states hit by the tornadoes: Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee. And he approved an emergency declaration f
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What is currently going on in the two eastern regions of Ukraine is ?very reminiscent? of genocide, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a journalist that Kiev had imprisoned for reporting on the conflict.
On Thursday, Putin took part in a lengthy session of Russia's Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, discussing a range of subjects from Covid-19 vaccinations to prison reform. At one poi
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WASHINGTON - U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Thursday that the United States was 'outraged' by reports that Myanmar soldiers rounded up and killed 11 people in the northwestern region of Sagaing.
The soldiers were accused of shooting the people and setting fire to their bodies. Charred remains were discovered in a village.
Video footage purporting to show the burned bodies was circulated o
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Joe Biden needed an agreement with Vladimir Putin that would help reduce tensions in Europe over Ukraine and NATO expansion. So he manufactured a crisis as an excuse for putting a US position on the table.
The news coming out of Ukraine was dire - Russia had mobilized between 95-125,000 troops along its border with Ukraine, and US intelligence agencies were predicting that an invasion was imminen
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BERLIN, Germany: In a bid to halt the spread of the fourth wave of COVID-19 in Germany, national and regional leaders have placed additional restrictions on people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19, including barring them from much of public life.
The move was described by outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel as an act of "national solidarity," adding that vaccinations could be made mandatory by February.
More than 70 years ago, Britain's Winston Churchill warned that an iron curtain was descending across Europe splitting the continent between democratic states and those in the thrall of the Soviet Union. In a speech in Fulton, Missouri, the legendary wartime leader urged the free nations "to stand together in unity" otherwise "catastrophe may overwhelm us all."
His speech drew the ire of then Soviet leader Joseph
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WASHINGTON - When Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin meet virtually on Tuesday, the two presidents will have to negotiate a history of mutual suspicion as they take up the urgent issue of a major Russian military buildup on the Ukraine border.
The key question hanging over the talks - and the subject of keen debate among analysts and political leaders - is whether Putin might actually launch a cross-border offensive, o
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AKAGERA NATIONAL PARK, Rwanda: Thirty white rhinos from South Africa were flown by conservationists to Akagera National Park in Rwanda, in the largest single relocation ever organized.
The relocation of the rhinos was conducted by non-profit conservation organization African Parks, the Rwanda Development Board and the And Beyond Phinda Private Game Reserve, funded by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
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