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Globe Trot: Emails, emails, emails

International | The leaked documents show communication between Clinton camp and DOJ about email server litigation
by Mindy Belz
Posted 10/12/16, 02:15 pm

RUSSIA: The U.S. intelligence community “is confident that the Russian government directed the recent compromises of emails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavros today denied the claim.

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Globe Trot: Obama arms sales and Yemen’s war

International | Emails indicate the president wanted to soothe Saudi concerns over the Iran nuclear agreement
by Mindy Belz
Posted 10/10/16, 03:25 pm

YEMEN: The Obama administration approved $1.3 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia last year, despite warnings from legal advisers the sale could implicate the United States—and U.S. military personnel—in war crimes over the Saudi-led air assault on Yemen. Typically, secretaries of defense and state and the director of intelligence sign off on such arms sales, and at that scale and with this tightly controlled White House, with presidential assent.

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Globe Trot: Gruesome ISIS video marks ‘festival of the sacrifice’

International | The Syrian victims are accused of being ‘U.S. spies’
by Mindy Belz
Posted 9/14/16, 11:18 am

SYRIA: Islamic State militants marked Eid al-Adha, the Muslim holiday known as the “festival of the sacrifice,” by hanging prisoners upside down from meat hooks and “butchering them like sheep” in a gruesome new execution video.

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Globe Trot: A 9/11 dilemma for President Obama

International | Despite veto threat from White House, Congress passes bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia

Mindy Belz | 9/09/16, 01:43 pm

9/11: President Obama will mark the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at the Pentagon, while Hillary Clinton plans to visit Ground Zero in New York. Obama faces a dilemma over 9/11 legislation the House passed this morning. Both parties support the legislation, which would allow 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S.

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The Saudi connection to 9/11

Terrorism | Saudi Arabia opposes a bill in Congress that could hold it responsible for having a role in the terrorist...

Cal Thomas | 4/19/16, 03:02 pm

The Mafia, in its heyday, ran lucrative protection rackets. Pay them and your business would be kept safe from “unforeseen” threats. Don’t pay them and your business might go up in smoke with you inside.

Today, things are more sophisticated.

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Globe Trot: Iraq begins to rebuild Ramadi after retaking it from ISIS

International

Mindy Belz | 1/04/16, 01:08 pm

IRAQ: Iraqi forces retook Ramadi from ISIS last week and now face the monumental task of rebuilding both the city and its devastated population.

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Midday Roundup: Saudi Arabia, Iran begin new year with war of words

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Leigh Jones | 1/04/16, 11:45 am

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Globe Trot: Slovenia votes against same-sex marriage

International

Mindy Belz | 12/21/15, 01:05 pm

SLOVENIA: Two-thirds of voters rejected a referendum to legalize gay marriage.

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Globe Trot: Former Gitmo prisoner now heads al-Qaeda branch

International

Mindy Belz | 12/14/15, 03:05 pm

SUDAN: One of the freed Guantanamo Bay detainees has turned up in a new video claiming to be the new leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Ibrahim Qosi is a veteran jihadist rated as posing a “high” risk to the United States but was released and transferred to Sudan in 2012.

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Globe Trot: Saudi women prepare to vote for the first time

International

Mindy Belz | 12/11/15, 02:20 pm

SAUDI ARABIA: Women will vote for the first time this weekend as Saudis go to the polls.

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