Mes: agosto 2019

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...

“The gun component is critical here because it would increase Simpson’s prison time if he ultimately is convicted,” says CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen. “That’s why he’s already claimed that he had no idea that guns would be used to as he put it get back his stuff.” Bruce Fromong said he had expected to meet with an anonymous buyer on Sept. 13, when Simpson arrived and shouted that the items belonged to him. “O.J. was screaming, ‘This is all my s–. This all belongs to me. You stole this from me. Let’s pack up. Let’s get out of here,”‘ Fromong said. “The hearing so far is not so much a dress rehearsal as it is a recited outline of what the trial is likely to look like from the prosecution’s side of the fence,” said Cohen. “Simpson and his lawyers are sitting, watching, listening and mostly staying silent as the DA puts on a streamlined case to establish probable cause that a crime was committed.” Fromong, 계룡출장마사지 who testified he has known Simpson since the early 1990s, said the confrontation lasted no more than five or six minutes and ended with the group stuffing hundreds of items into pillowcases and leaving the hotel room. At one point, as everything was being packed up, Fromong said he told Simpson: “O.J., those are my Joe Montana lithos. “I said,...

(AP) BEIJING — A territorial flare-up between China and Japan intensified Tuesday as Beijing sent patrol ships near disputed East China Sea islands in a show of anger over Tokyo’s purchase of the largely barren outcroppings from their private owners. The arrival of the two patrol ships of the China Marine Surveillance off the islands was meant to assert China’s claims, said the Chinese government’s official news agency, Xinhua. The marine agency is a paramilitary force whose ships are often lightly armed, and Xinhua said it had drawn up a plan to safeguard China’s sovereignty of the islands. The rocky islands, known as Senkaku to Japanese and Diaoyu to Chinese, have been the focus of recurring spats between the two countries, and also are claimed by Taiwan. The dispute has been heating up in recent months, in part because the nationalist governor of Tokyo had proposed buying the islands and 여수출장샵 developing them. Japan’s central government announced its own deal this week with the Japanese family it recognizes as the owner. Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura told reporters the government budgeted 2.05 billion yen ($26 million) for the purchase “to maintain the Senkakus peacefully and stably.” Public broadcaster NHK said the government and the family signed a deal Tuesday. The government does not plan to develop the islands. Experts in Japan said the move was meant to block the...