Mes: agosto 2019

(AP) BAGHDAD – U.S. auditors have concluded that more than $200 million was wasted on a program to train Iraqi police that Baghdad says is neither needed nor wanted. The Police Development Program- which was drawn up to be the single largest State Department program in the world — was envisioned as a five-year, multibillion-dollar push to train security forces after the U.S. military left last December. But Iraqi political leaders, anxious to keep their distance from the Americans, were unenthusiastic. A report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, released Monday, found that the American Embassy in Baghdad never got a written commitment from Iraq to participate. Now, facing what the report called Baghdad’s “disinterest” in the project, the embassy is gutting what was supposed to be the centerpiece of ongoing U.S. training efforts in Iraq. According to the report, the embassy plans to turn over the $108 million Baghdad Police College Annex to Iraqis by the end of the year and will stop training at a $98 million site at the U.S. consulate in the southern city of Basra. Additionally, the number of advisers has been cut by nearly 90 percent — from 350 to 36. “A major lesson learned from Iraq is that host country buy-in to proposed programs is essential to the long-term success of relief and reconstruction activities. The PDP experience powerfully underscores...

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(CBS) Jon Favreau’s sci-fi Western “Cowboys & Aliens,” based on a popular graphic novel and 부여출장만남 starring A-list actors Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, makes its debut at the box office this weekend. The action movie’s debut, one of the highlights in the coming week in entertainment, follows two high-profile releases – the last “Harry Potter” film, which broke all kinds of records, and “Captain America,” which had the biggest midnight box office gross so far this year. So the bar for “Cowboys & Aliens” is set pretty high. Also opening this week is Neil Patrick Harris in “The Smurfs” and Steve Carell and Julianne Moore in “Crazy Stupid Love.” (See review here) And out on DVD will be Jake Gyllenhaal’s thriller “Source Code.” On the small screen, “Project Runway” starts a new season on Thursdays on Lifetime and the fishermen head back to port Tuesday on the season finale of Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch.” Music fans can look for the release Tuesday of new albums by British R&B singer Joss Stone (“LP1”), former Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland (“Here I Am”) and country singer Eric Church (“Chief”). Mystery fans wills see the publication Friday of “Dick Francis’s Gamble,” a novel by Felix Francis, son of the late suspense writer and jockey Dick Francis. Felix who co-wrote some of the later novels before his father’s death in February of...

(AP) KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO says a suicide attack has killed three coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan, and 온라인 홀덤 a regional Afghan security official tells CBS News the slain troops were...

(CBS) Jon Favreau’s sci-fi Western “Cowboys & Aliens,” based on a popular graphic novel and 구미출장만남 starring A-list actors Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, makes its debut at the box office this weekend. The action movie’s debut, one of the highlights in the coming week in entertainment, follows two high-profile releases – the last “Harry Potter” film, which broke all kinds of records, and “Captain America,” which had the biggest midnight box office gross so far this year. So the bar for “Cowboys & Aliens” is set pretty high. Also opening this week is Neil Patrick Harris in “The Smurfs” and Steve Carell and Julianne Moore in “Crazy Stupid Love.” (See review here) And out on DVD will be Jake Gyllenhaal’s thriller “Source Code.” On the small screen, “Project Runway” starts a new season on Thursdays on Lifetime and the fishermen head back to port Tuesday on the season finale of Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch.” Music fans can look for the release Tuesday of new albums by British R&B singer Joss Stone (“LP1”), former Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland (“Here I Am”) and country singer Eric Church (“Chief”). Mystery fans wills see the publication Friday of “Dick Francis’s Gamble,” a novel by Felix Francis, son of the late suspense writer and jockey Dick Francis. Felix who co-wrote some of the later novels before his father’s death in February of...