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(AP) BEIRUT – Missiles fired by Syrian warplanes hit Lebanese territory Monday in one of the most serious cross-border violations since Syria’s crisis began 18 months ago, security officials in Beirut and Lebanese state media said. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said four missiles fired by two Syrian jets hit a rugged and remote area on the edge of the Lebanese border town of Arsal. No casualties were immediately reported. Lebanese President Michel Suleiman ordered an investigation into the border shelling Monday, without openly blaming Syria. Foreign fighters making Syrian rebels radicalIran edmits to elite troops in Syria “advising”Egypt hosts 2-way summit with Iran More in After the Arab Spring Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that the warplanes fired three missiles that fell on the outskirts of Arsal about 500 meters (yards) from the border between the two countries. “I heard several explosions and saw four clouds of dust billowing from the area,” Arsal resident Nayeh Izzedine said by telephone referring to the border. “I don’t know if it was an air raid but there was a plane in the sky.” He added that the town had been quiet two hours after the 10 a.m. attack. The Syrian forces were believed to be chasing rebels in the area, which has been the site of clashes in the past between opposition fighters battling...

For the first time ever, U.S. attorneys say they have successfully prosecuted a top pharmaceutical executive in the government’s fight against opioids. A federal jury on Thursday convicted Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor 포커사이트 and four other former executives of the company. Prosecutors accused them of bribing doctors to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray – called Subsys. One-time billionaire Kapoor was once one of the country’s biggest pharmaceutical executives. Thursday’s verdict is a sign of the government’s mounting efforts to hold drugmakers and distributors accountable for the nationwide opioid crisis. Among the pieces of evidence presented during the 10-week trial: a five-minute video promoting the fentanyl spray Subsys, featuring an Insys company salesman rapping about prescribing higher drug doses using a process known as “titration.” Prosecutors say the video was just one of the dubious tactics Insys used to boost profits which also included bribing doctors by paying them for sham speaking engagements. In 2017, CBS News learned Insys made 18,000 payments to doctors in 2016 totaling more than $2 million. Michael Canty, a former federal prosecutor who has advised states on suing opioid companies, said the prosecution’s case had “very good evidence.” “I think that this will send a message to other prosecutors that, look, these are cases that can be brought. If you have the evidence and you can put it before a jury, there’s hope...

According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life, in its most recent poll, there were 1.6 billion Muslims in the world in 2010, and 2.18 billion Christians. It should be noted, though, there have been probably fewer than 50,000 Muslims demonstrating around the world against the United States since a 14 minute trailer for the film, the “Innocence of Muslims,” was uploaded onto YouTube on July 1. According to a timeline published on Sept. 21 by the Arab network al-Jazeera, the turmoil started when a Coptic Christian activist in the U.S. sent a link to Gamel Girgis, an Egyptian reporter who writes about Coptic Christians for al-Youm al-Sabaa, a Cairo newspaper. On Sept. 8, Khaled Abdullah, a prominent fundamentalist television host famous for his finger-wagging fire-brand statements on al-Nas, a station favored by fundamentalist Salafis, showed the clip dubbed into Arabic. Three days later, on Sept. 11, about 75 terrorists, who according to some reports were members of Ansar al-Shari’ah (Followers of Islamic law), 실시간 축구 a fundamentalist Libyan militia, surrounded and breached the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. There has been much debate about whether it was a spontaneous outburst, a crime of opportunity, but the U.S. has now acknowledged was a terrorist attack. U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed. The flame was lit. Since then, thousands of mostly young men and boys...