Mes: septiembre 2019

SANAA, Yemen — A Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Shiite rebels expressed on Saturday its regret and pledged to hold to account those responsible for “mistakes” in a deadly airstrike it carried out last month that killed dozens, including many children, drawing wide international condemnation. The coalition’s statement comes after its investigative body, known as the Joint Incidents Assessments Team, found that an August airstrike conducted in the northern Saada province hitting a bus carrying children in a busy market involved “mistakes,” including failing to take measures to minimize collateral damage. At least 51 people, including 40 children, were killed and 79 others, including 56 children, were wounded in the airstrike. The statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency said the coalition accepts the findings of its investigative body and that “it will take all the legal measures to hold accountable those who were proven to have committed mistakes” once it officially receives the findings. It also pledged to coordinate with Yemen’s government to compensate civilians. More in Yemen’s Civil War Mansour Ahmed al-Mansour, JIAT’s legal adviser, said earlier the airstrike was launched based on intelligence that senior Houthi rebels, a legitimate military target, were on the bus. He noted however that the operation involved errors, including a delay in carrying out the airstrike and another in issuing a no-strike order. He called on coalition forces to take legal...

Jeff Glor talks to Ben Loory about “Stories for Nighttime and Some For Day,” his newly released collection of 40 short stories. Jeff Glor: What inspired you to write the book? Ben Loory: Before I wrote stories, I was a screenwriter– though never a very successful one. I made a living, writing X”-Files”-y kinda stuff, but knew I wasn’t getting something. Then one day I saw a flier in my favorite bookstore (the Mystery & Imagination Bookshop in Glendale, Calif.) that said that Dennis Etchison was coming to teach a class for a few months on story writing. Dennis Etchison is a writer I admire– he’s won both British and World Fantasy Awards– and it seemed like a sign, so I went to the class, and it was like he flipped a switch, and I started writing. Originally I thought I was writing outlines for screenplays, just one after another, like story treatments. It was only after I’d written 10 or 20 of them that I realized they were actually short stories. At that point I suddenly had a vision of a book– a collection of colorful Twilight Zone-y fables. So I just wrote and wrote until one day it was done. It was almost like being possessed. JG: What surprised you the most during the writing process? BL: Well, that I was writing, mainly! I’d spent so long...

(CBS/AP) LONDON – Just when the hacking scandal in the United Kingdom takes a couple days off, a fresh accusation ramps things up again. This time, the accuser is Heather Mills, the second (and now ex) Mrs. Paul McCartney. Pictures: Heather MillsPictures: UK hacking scandal’s famous targets Mills on Wednesday accused a senior 토토사이트추천 newspaper journalist of boasting that his colleagues had intercepted her voicemail messages, a potentially explosive allegation that could widen the scope of Britain’s phone-hacking scandal. In an interview with BBC’s “Newsnight” program, the ex-wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney claimed that in 2001 she was called by a senior editorial figure with the Trinity Mirror group of newspapers about a fight she’d had with McCartney, her then-boyfriend. Mills quoted the journalist as telling her: “Oh, I hear you’ve had a big argument with your boyfriend. “And I said: ‘Why would you know this?’ And he started quoted verbatim the messages from my machine.” Mills said that when she accused the journalist of hacking into her phone and threatened to call the police, the journalist admitted that the story had been obtained by eavesdropping and pledged not to publish it. Mills named the journalist in her interview, but the BBC bleeped out his name, citing legal reasons. It was left unclear exactly which newspaper the journalist worked at — the Trinity Mirror PLC publishes about 165...