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July 22, 2019
Daesh claims deadly Damascus car bomb
BEIRUT — Daesh (the so-called IS) said it was behind a deadly car bombing in Damascus on Monday, in its first such claim since regime forces expelled the militants from the capital last year.State media reported earlier that a civilian was killed when a car bomb exploded in the capital's southern suburb of Qadam.It was the latest in a spate of similar attacks to hit the Syrian capital in recent ...
July 22, 2019
Drug kingpin 'El Chapo' appeals life sentence
NEW YORK — Fallen Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, once one of the world's most powerful and notorious criminals, has appealed his life sentence, court documents published on Monday showed.Guzman, the 62-year-old former co-leader of Mexico's feared Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted in February of smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States.On Wednesday last week, he was sentenced to life in ...
July 22, 2019
Ships urged to alert navies before sailing through Strait of Hormuz
LONDON — Shipping associations have called on ship owners to inform Britain's navy of their movements before sailing into the Middle East Gulf and Strait of Hormuz because of the escalating international crisis in the region.About a fifth of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz and shipping companies are already deploying more unarmed security guards as an extra safeguard.However, in a joint note issued by the leading ...
July 22, 2019
UK calls for European naval mission to counter Iran's 'piracy'
DUBAI/LONDON — Britain called on Monday for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, days after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker in what London described as an act of "state piracy".Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt outlined the plans to parliament after a meeting of COBR, the government's emergency committee, which discussed London's response to Friday's capture of the Stena Impero tanker by Iranian commandos at ...
July 22, 2019
Trump blasts Iran, says hard to deal with top 'terror' state
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said on Monday that chances of negotiating with Iran were dwindling, as he cited increasing tensions in the Gulf and blasted the Islamic republic as the world's top "state of terror."The president cited a series of recent conflicts involving Tehran, including the downing of US and Iranian drones and, most recently, Tehran's announcement that it arrested 17 people in connection to a CIA spy ...
July 22, 2019
Ballots close in race to become Britain's next PM
LONDON — Ballots closed in the race to become Britain's next prime minister on Monday, with the favorite Boris Johnson facing more defections by ministers over his Brexit plan.The country's new leader will take the reins this week and have just three months to attempt to resolve a three-year Brexit crisis that could damage economies on both sides of the Channel and determine the fate of generations of Britons.Alan Duncan, ...
July 22, 2019
US army chief for Mideast in first visit to northern Syria
QAMISHLI, Syria — US Central Command chief General Kenneth McKenzie on Monday visited Kurdish-led allies in northern Syria for the first time since taking up the post.McKenzie — who oversees US operations in the Middle East — succeeded General Joseph Votel in late March.Votel's departure came just days after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) recaptured the last patch of territory from Daesh (the so-called IS) in eastern Syria with ...
July 22, 2019
Trump offers to mediate between India and Pakistan on Kashmir
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday offered to mediate the decades-long Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, signaling a shift in long-standing US policy that the issue must be solved bilaterally.Kashmir has been divided between both countries and China since the end of British colonial rule in 1947, and remains at the root of tensions between the two nuclear-armed South Asian countries."If I can help, I would love to ...
July 22, 2019
US working with Pakistan to find way out of Afghan war: Trump
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump voiced optimism on Monday that Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan could help broker a political settlement to end the nearly 18-year-old US war in Afghanistan and held out the possibility of restoring aid to Islamabad."I think Pakistan is going to help us out to extricate ourselves," Trump said, with Khan sitting next to him at the start of a White House meeting.Trump spoke of possibly ...
July 22, 2019
Hong Kong police criticized over failure to stop attacks on protesters
HONG KONG — Hong Kong police faced criticism on Monday for an apparent failure to protect anti-government protesters and passersby from attack by what opposition politicians suspected were gang members at a train station over the weekend.Sunday's attack came during a night of escalating violence that opened new fronts in Hong Kong's widening crisis over an extradition bill that could see people from the territory sent to China for trial ...
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