The two suspects approached the television crew as they were conducting an interview with the violence prevention chief, Guillermo Cespedes, outside City Hall on Monday morning. A scuffle ensued after the two attempted to steal the crew’s camera. An armed security guard eventually stepped in and the suspects fled. There …
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The prime minister said on Friday that Yasuhiko Nishimura, the head of the Imperial Household Agency, had merely “expressed his own opinion” when he told reporters that Emperor Naruhito was worried that the Tokyo Olympics could spread the coronavirus.Similarly, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said that Nishimura was sharing his …
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Steve Ricchetti, described as one of President Joe Biden’s “most trusted advisers,” has three children working for the current administration and a lobbyist brother, the Washington Post revealed on Friday. Press secretary Jen Psaki’s sister, wife of chief of staff Ron Klain, and daughter of deputy chief of staff Bruce …
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Richard Torres-Estrada, appointed chief of diversity and inclusion for the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) in early March, lasted about a week in that role before an investigation into his social media output found a doctored image of Adolf Hitler and Trump holding up Bibles, as well as other Trump-disparaging …
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Speaking to Italian daily La Repubblica in an interview published on Wednesday, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said that bringing Iran and the US back in line with the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Tehran’s nuclear program will have to wait. “Everyone knows that, at this point, …
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The public prosecutor of the State Security Court has ratified the charges against the former royal court chief, Bassem Awadallah, and Sherif Hassan Zaid, a distant relative of King Abdullah II, the nation’s state news agency confirmed on Sunday. The two men stand accused of inciting opposition to the nation’s …
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Last July, Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility was targeted by an explosion that ripped through its advanced centrifuge assembly, with Tehran quickly accusing Israel of being behind the attack. A similar explosion was reported to have completely destroyed the power system inside another Iranian underground nuclear facility earlier this year. In November …
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“There is now famine in Tigray,” the official told representatives of UN, EU and US organizations on Thursday, warning the situation may be the worst since the 2011 famine in neighboring Somalia, which killed around 260,000 people. Lowcock said things are “going to get a lot worse”, but added that …
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Asked about the two Iranian ships, which US officials allege are headed for Venezuela to fulfill a weapons sale inked last year, Austin told lawmakers that he shares their concerns, suggesting they pose a proliferation threat in the Western Hemisphere. “I am absolutely concerned about the proliferation of weapons, any …
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The spat began when Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard slammed Luis Almagro’s leadership of the Organization of American States (OAS), a regional bloc of 35 countries in the Americas and the Caribbean. “The performance of the current OAS secretary-general, Mr. Almagro, has been one of the worst in history,” Ebrard …
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