Mes: agosto 2019

KARACHI — Pakistan is warning that the Taliban are plotting to secure the freedom of Osama bin Laden’s wives and children by kidnapping a high-ranking government official and then offering to exchange him or her for the slain terror chief’s family. U.S. Navy seals killed bin Laden in a May helicopter-borne raid on his house in northwestern Pakistan. They took the corpse with them, but left at least two of his wives and several children in the house. They were detained by Pakistani authorities. Pakistan’s interior ministry warned of the purported kidnap plot in a letter that was sent to top security officials on Aug 23 — just three days before gunmen seized Shahbaz Taseer, the son of a wealthy provincial governor who was killed by an Islamist militant earlier this year. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said there was no evidence that the group that had seized Taseer from the streets of the Punjab provincial capital, Lahore, was hoping to exchange him for bin Laden’s family members. An Associated Press reported obtained a copy of the letter, stamped “secret” on Friday. It said the information that led to the warning was reliable. It doesn’t say which Pakistani official the Taliban plan to kidnap, but said the most likely location was one of the country’s four provincial capitals. Pakistan has reportedly released Taliban prisoners before in exchange for kidnapped government...

(CBS/AP) Here’s a full list of the winners at the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, presented on Sunday night in Los Angeles: Pictures: Emmy Awards press roomPictures: Emmy Awards show highlightsPictures: Emmys red carpetSpecial section: The Emmy Awards – Outstanding Drama Series: “Mad Men,” AMC. – Outstanding Lead Actress, Drama Series: Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife,” CBS. – Outstanding Lead Actor, Drama Series: Kyle Chandler, “Friday Night Lights,” DirecTV/NBC. – Outstanding Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Peter Dinklage, “Game of Thrones,” HBO. – Outstanding Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Margo Martindale, “Justified,” FX. – Outstanding Writing, Drama Series: Jason Katims, “Friday Night Lights,” NBC. – Outstanding Directing, Drama Series: Martin Scorsese, “Boardwalk Empire,” HBO. – Outstanding Comedy Series: “Modern Family,” ABC. – Outstanding Actor, Comedy Series: Jim Parsons, “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS. – Outstanding Actress, Comedy Series: Melissa McCarthy, “Mike & Molly,” CBS. – Outstanding Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Julie Bowen, “Modern Family,” ABC. – Outstanding Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Ty Burrell, “Modern Family,” ABC. – Outstanding Writing, Comedy Series: Steven Levitan and Jeffrey Richman, “Modern Family,” ABC. – Outstanding Directing, Comedy Series: Michael Spiller, “Modern Family,” ABC. – Outstanding Miniseries or Movie: “Downton Abbey (Masterpiece),” PBS. – Outstanding Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Kate Winslet, “Mildred Pierce,” HBO. – Outstanding Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Barry Pepper, “The Kennedys,” ReelzChannel. – Outstanding Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Maggie Smith, “Downton Abbey...

(AP) UNITED NATIONS – Syria’s civil war is worsening and there is no prospect of a quick end to the violence, international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Monday in a gloomy assessment to the U.N. Security Council. The new envoy leavened his message, however, saying he was crafting a new plan that he hoped could break the impasse, but refused to give details or say when it would be ready. Despite President Bashar Assad’s refusal to end his family’s 40-year grip on power, some tentative hope of a solution remained, Brahimi said in his first briefing to the council since he took over from Kofi Annan on Sept. 1 as the U.N.-Arab League special representative for Syria “I think there is no disagreement anywhere that the situation in Syria is extremely bad and getting worse, that it is a threat to the region and a threat to peace and security in the world,” Brahimi told reporters after the closed-door talks. Activists claim nearly 30,000 people have died in the uprising which began in March 2011, including in attacks Monday by Syrian warplanes in the northern city of Aleppo. Brahimi had just returned from Syria and refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey. His gloomy report of a looming food crisis, battle-damaged schools and shuttered factories, contradicted his insistence that he saw grounds for optimism, including “some signs” that the divided Syrian...