Mes: agosto 2019

Yemen defense minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed escapes assassination attempt in Sanaa

(CBS/AP) SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni officials say a car bomb targeting the motorcade of the country’s defense minister has killed at least 13 people, but the minister escaped unharmed. The security officials say the blast hit the minister’s convoy Tuesday as he was traveling through the capital to attend a Cabinet meeting. The say the minister, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, was unhurt but that eight of his security guards were killed. The other five dead were civilian bystanders. No one claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack, but it bore the hallmarks of the al Qaeda and came a day after Yemeni authorities announced the death of al Qaeda in Yemen’s No. 2 leader in an apparent U.S. air strike. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. Al Qaeda No. 2 in Yemen killed in airstrikeYemen: 보령출장업소 Land mines planted by fleeing al Qaeda militants kill 73Yemen: General leading fight against al Qaeda killed by bomber The airstrike killed al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader, Saeed al-Shihiri, along with six others travelling with him in a car on Monday, U.S. and Yemeni officials said, a major breakthrough for U.S.-backed efforts to cripple the group in the impoverished Arab nation. Al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was killed by...

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The ISIS affiliate that emerged in Afghanistan in 2014 has carried out scores of attacks targeting security forces and the country’s Shiite minority. Even with U.S

KABUL, Afghanistan — Twin bombings at a wrestling training center in a Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday killed at least 20 people, including two reporters, and wounded 70, Afghan officials said. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said a suicide bomber struck at the center and then a car bomb went off nearby. Sediqullah Tawhidi, a senior member of the Afghan journalists federation, said a reporter and a cameraman working for Tolo TV were among those killed, and that another local TV reporter was wounded. No one immediately claimed the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of the country’s affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, which has carried out a wave of deadly bombings against minority Shiites. The Sunni extremists of ISIS view Shiites as apostates deserving of death. ISIS last struck in the area, Dasht-e-Barchi, in December, with three back-to-back explosions that left more than 40 people dead. More in Afghanistan: The way forward Gen. Daud Amin, the Kabul police chief, said at least seven police were among those wounded in the car bomb explosion. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a roadside bomb killed a district police chief and another policeman in the northern Badghis province, according to Jamshid Shahabi, spokesman for the provincial governor. No one claimed the attack, but Shahabi said it was likely carried out by the Taliban, who are active in...

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Gross’ lawyer, Jared Genser, told The Associated Press that Gross has formally petitioned Cuba’s Supreme Court to be allowed to return home temporarily to visit his elderly mother, who is dying of cancer. Earlier this year, a U.S. judge granted a similar plea to Rene Gonzalez, a Cuban agent who is on parole in the United States but was allowed to visit his dying brother in Cuba before returning to the United States. Genser has also filed a petition with the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. The body has no enforcement power, but a ruling in Gross’s favor could add to international pressure on Havana in the case. Genser said Cuba has 60 days to respond, and that the working group will next meet on Nov 14. Gross was on a USAID-funded democracy building program when he was arrested at Havana’s Jose Marti airport. He says he was only trying to provide internet service to the island’s small Jewish community. Cuba says the multi-million dollar programs are a veiled attempt by Washington to undermine the government, and has noted that Gross was carrying sophisticated communications equipment. He was sentenced to 15 years, and has lost his final appeal, leaving him out of legal options. U.S. diplomats were initially hopeful Cuba would release Gross on humanitarian grounds. In addition to his health problems, his elderly mother and adult daughter are battling cancer, and his family has suffered financial hardship since his incarceration. But officials in Havana have become increasingly insistent that Gross’s plight be linked to that of five Cuban agents sentenced to long jail terms in the United States. Washington has said repeatedly it will not consider a trade. The Cold War enemies have been at odds for more than half a century. A short-lived thaw following President Obama’s inauguration has stalled and American diplomats say no progress in possible as long as Gross remains behind bars.

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The Syrian government has increasingly been using helicopters and other aircraft in its fight against the rebels. Rebels have claimed to have shot down helicopters and warplanes in the past, although the regime has blamed most of the problems on mechanical difficulties. In Thursday’s incident, the helicopters rotor clipped the tail of a Syrian Arab Airlines jet, the state TV said. The passenger plane “landed safely at the airport and none of the 200 passengers were harmed,” the report said. The helicopter crashed southeast of Douma, a Damascus suburb that has witnessed repeated military crackdowns to purge fighters seeking to topple Assad. No further details were made available. “We heard the sound of several explosions and some gunfire, and a few minutes later, we were told that a helicopter had crashed,” said Mohammad Saeed, an activist in Douma.

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Seoul says Pyongyang torpedoed the vessel

(AP) SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea’s navy fired warning shots Friday toward North Korean fishing boats that crossed a disputed maritime boundary, but the shots didn’t hit the fishing boats, which retreated, a South Korean official said. No North Korean navy ships were involved in the incident along a tense western sea boundary that the North has long refused to recognize, an official with South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, speaking anonymously because of office policy. Violence often erupts in the seafood rich Yellow Sea waters claimed by both countries. Boats routinely jostle for position during crab-catching season, and three deadly naval clashes since 1999 have taken a few dozen lives. The disputed sea boundary is not clearly marked, and incursions by North Korean military and fishing boats are not unusual. Russia writes off most North Korean debtNew U.S. missile defense site slated for JapanHints of reform in North Korea Just last week North Korean fishing boats crossed the boundary but retreated soon after being warned by the South. Seoul says North Korean fishing boats also crossed the boundary in April. The Korean War ended nearly 60 years ago with a truce, not with a peace treaty, so the U.S.-led U.N. Command divided the Yellow Sea without Pyongyang’s consent. The boundary favored South Korea, cutting North Korea off from rich fishing waters and boxing in one of...

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