Abbott provides update on Operation Lone Star – 1 April 2021
BEIRUT/AMMAN, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Israel is carrying out an unprecedented wave of deadly strikes in Syria targeting cargo trucks, infrastructure and people involved in Iran’s weapons lifeline to its proxies in the region, six sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The sources, including a Syrian military intelligence officer and a commander…
SIESTA KEY, Fla. − Hurricane Milton howled across the Florida Peninsula on Thursday, tearing a path of destruction from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic, killing at least 11 people and knocking out power to millions yet averting the “worst-case scenario” meteorologists, officials and residents had feared. Milton did not go quietly, though, flooding…
A multi-year investigation by U.S. officials revealed an alleged alliance between one of the world’s most pervasive drug cartels and an underground Chinese banking group in Southern California that laundered money from drug trafficking proceeds, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Associates of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel conspired with a money-transmitting group linked to an underground banking system…
Taking of vessel relates to dispute over sanctioned oil but will worsen tensions over marine navigation in Middle East The Iranian navy has seized a US-linked oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman as part of a long-running dispute with the US over an American court order a year ago that seized Iranian oil on…
After key regional elections on Sunday in Germany conservatives and right-wing populists are celebrating. But the results are a blow for all three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s left-wing-led national coalition. The ramifications will be felt across Germany. A quarter of voters were able to go to the polls in regional elections in two of…
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (UPI) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for strengthening the country’s nuclear weapons capacity “without limit” and completing war preparations against what he claimed was a “frantic” military buildup led by the United States, state media reported Monday. Kim made the remarks during a speech to battalion commanders and political…