Mes: septiembre 2019

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(AP) RAMALLAH, West Bank – Yasser Arafat’s body may be exhumed to allow for more testing of the causes of his death, the Palestinian president said Wednesday, after a Swiss lab said it found elevated levels of a radioactive isotope in belongings the Palestinian leader is said to have used in his final...

(CBS/AP) BEIRUT – A video emerged Friday showing more than a dozen bloodied corpses in Syria, some of them piled on top of each other and in military uniforms, in what the government said was a “massacre” by rebels in the northern province of Aleppo. The circumstances of the killings were not immediately clear. But in the video — which could not be independently verified — the narrator said the dead were members of the “shabiha,” or pro-regime gunmen. Syria’s state-run news agency, SANA, said terrorist groups had killed and mutilated at least 25 people in Daret Azzeh, a rebel-held area in the Aleppo countryside. The government refers to rebels as terrorists. Activists report high-ranking Syrian army defectionsSyrian pilot defects to Jordan in fighter jet “The terrorist groups in Daret Azzeh committed a brutal massacre against the citizens, whom they had kidnapped earlier in the day,” SANA said. The report said at least 25 people were killed, but others were missing. Although the city of Aleppo, Syria’s largest, has been relatively quiet since the uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime began in March last year, towns and villages around it have witnessed intense clashes between troops and opposition fighters. Activists say more than 14,000 people have been killed since the uprising began. Daret Azzeh has endured intense government shelling over the past two weeks as Assad’s forces try to...