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Construction materials OK after deadly flotilla raid JERUSALEM – Israel agreed Thursday to ease its three-year-old land blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory hoping to quell international outrage over its deadly raid on a flotilla bound for the Palestinian territory. In one of the major changes, Israel will allow in more desperately needed construction materials for…
Agency’s Cold War documentary debuts for a very limited audience Far from the glare of Hollywood lights, the CIA on Tuesday premiered a nonfiction film produced by the agency that recounts the mystique and the misery of a botched James Bond-like spy mission in China. The film, which combines documentary footage and actors re-enacting events,…
I am a snake, says Van der Sloot . In this photo taken June 11, 2010 and obtained by The Associated Press via Peru’s America Television channel, Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot holds his inmate number before been transferred to the Miguel… (AP Photo/America Television Channel, Domingo al Dia) Accused murderer ‘afraid I will…
OSH, Kyrgyzsta “We are definitely hearing more and more horrific stories and are interviewing victims who tell us about young girls being gang-raped during the conflict and even these days.” Anna Neistat, Human Rights Watch About 400,000 minority Uzbeks fleeing mobs of Kyrgyz massed at the border , an Uzbek leader said, as the deadliest…
Taliban militants accused a seven-year-old boy of spying and hanged him earlier this week in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, a local government official tells CBS News. Provincial government spokesman Daud Ahmadi confirmed the incident which took place on Tuesday in the Taliban stronghold of Sangin, in Helmand. Ahmadi told CBS News’ Fazul Rahim the boy…
Hannah Elliott is a Lifestyle Reporter at Forbes. A new memoir, A Time To Betray, puts author Reza Kahlili at such risk that it is published under a pseudonym. Kahlili was an Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who worked uncover as a CIA agent during the 1980s and 1990s. The book chronicles the horrors Kahlili witnessed…