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Turkey’s top court has ruled that 10 academics had their rights violated when they were sentenced on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda for signing a petition that called for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish s…
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Mexican officials say the shooting death of two Israelis at an upscale shopping mall in Mexico City is likely linked to drug cartels and money laundering. Mexico’s top police official won’t say which cartel may have been involved in the brazen assault…
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(Bloomberg) — Boris Johnson has made clear he wants to renegotiate the Brexit deal secured by his predecessor, Theresa May. But has Britain’s new prime minister made it a precondition for talks with the European Union?Johnson told French President Emm…
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An American traveller captured by Syrian government forces while completing a “round the world tour” has been released following negotiations. Sam Goodwin, 30, from Missouri, had been walking around the Kurdish-held northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Saturday, May 27, when he is understood to have been apprehended by regime troops. The Christian travel blogger was trying to travel to every country in the world and only had 10 of 193 left. On his website, Searching4Sam.com he describes himself as “an American expat, entrepreneur, former Division I athlete and world traveler.” The Niagara University graduate wrote: “Some unique memories from around the globe include paragliding over Queenstown, tracking white rhinos on foot in Swaziland, ringing in New Years on a party boat in Iran, running with the bulls in Pamplona and coaching North Korea’s National Hockey Team.” After failing to get a visa from the government, he entered through a border controlled by the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) militia, local sources told the Telegraph. Ignoring advice, he wandered the streets the day he arrived and was believed to have been stopped by regime soldiers. According to a friend, he had only planned to stay for three days and had been hoping to attend a Mass service at a church in Qamishli on the Sunday. The northeastern Syrian city is under the control of the Kurds Credit: Sam Tarling for the Telegraph While the city, the largest in the autonomous Kurdish region, is under the control of the YPG, the regime mans checkpoints dotted around. Mr Goodwin was released back to his family this week after nearly two months in detention. A Lebanese security official revealed on Friday that Beirut managed to mediate the release with the Syrian government. “Lebanon has worked on mediating through General Abbas Ibrahim to release an American and he was handed over to his family already,” the official said. Mr Goodwin’s family said in a statement released on Friday: “Sam is healthy and with his family. We are forever indebted to General Abbas Ibrahim and to all others who helped secure the release of our son. We will have more to say at a later date.” The Syrian government considers anyone entering the country without a visa to have entered illegally. The US government warns citizens against any travel to Syria. Several US citizens have been held in Syria since the war began there in 2011, including journalists and aid workers held by jihadist groups such as Islamic State. Austin Tice, a journalist who disappeared in Syria while working for the Washington Post in 2012, is believed to be being held by the regime. Layla Shweikani, an American-Syrian humanitarian worker, was arrested by government forces in February 2016. She later died in a regime-held prison, some claim of torture. Last year the family of another American, clinical psychologist Majd Kamalmaz, told the Wall Street Journal that he had disappeared at a government checkpoint in Damascus in 2017. He has not been heard from since.
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“Our death rate is rising alarmingly,” a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokesperson says. Aid agencies continue rescue efforts off the shore of Libya, hoping to save anyone else who survived.
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A former longtime MSNBC anchor lashed out this week at her former employer over its coverage of the Russia investigation.In a Thursday segment on The Hill’s online streaming service, Krystal Ball, the former host of MSNBC’s now-cancelled midday show The Cycle admonished the network for its incessant coverage of the Russia investigation. “MSNBC built segment after segment, show after show on building anticipation for a big reveal when we would learn the true depths of Trump’s fealty and direct conspiracy with Putin,” she said.She later argued that the network’s left-leaning anchors and personalities have wasted their time making Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe the primary focus of MSNBC coverage over the past several years—in effect diverting attention away from policy issues like health care and wages. As Ball spoke, an over-the-shoulder graphic blared “Immeasurable Harm.”“Consider this whole setup has done more damage to the Democrats chances at winning the White House than anything that Trump could ever have dreamed up,” Ball declared.“Trump really is the crook that we said all along,” she continued, “but by trying to make this spectacular case, we set the bar unimaginably high and made Trump’s actual corruption, broken promises, and casual cruelty seem ordinary by comparison.”Elsewhere in the six-minute monologue, Ball accused MSNBC of cynically following the Russia story in pursuit of ratings, making journalistic compromises along the way.She directly criticized hosts like Rachel Maddow (“You’ve got some explaining to do,” Ball said to her) and on-air analysts like Mimi Rocah (a Daily Beast contributor) for leading viewers to believe that there was a strong possibility that Trump and his family would be indicted. Ball also suggested that the “fevered speculation” of guests like New York columnist Jonathan Chait and former British MP Louise Mensch would have been more at home on conspiracy network Infowars.“Russia conspiracy was great for ratings among the key demographic of empty nesters on the coasts with too much time on their hands,” said Ball, who now hosts an inside-baseball streaming political talk show for The Hill.This is not the first time Ball has knocked her former employer.During a segment on her program last year, Ball criticized the cancellation of former host Ed Schultz’s show following his death.“I find it really ironic that they took this incredibly pro-working-class voice off the air right before the Trump era when obviously you had a lot of working class voters who didn’t feel like they had a home in the Democratic party any more,” she said.MSNBC declined to comment. Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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Britain’s European partners Friday warned Boris Johnson that his hardline Brexit stance was putting the UK on a “collision course” with the EU and called on the new premier to avoid “provocations”. Johnson is planning meetings with French President Em…
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Bloomberg/GettyXi Jinping’s choices on Hong Kong are all atrocious, so the Chinese ruler could just enlarge the problem and cause an incident elsewhere. An audacious act would not be out of character for Xi.For many, an invasion of Taiwan or some other…
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Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have agreed to begin free trade talks as soon as the UK leaves the European Union, according to Downing Street.The two world leaders spoke during a call on Friday evening, in which Downing Street said the men discussed th…
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A Cyprus court on Friday extended the detention of seven of the 12 Israeli teenagers initially arrested as suspects in the rape of a 19-year-old British woman. The court ordered the suspects to remain in police custody for another six days to give inv…
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Earlier this year the Trump administration, while stoking an atmosphere of crisis with Iran, withdrew “nonemergency” personnel from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq. It is unclear what specific development, if any, triggered this move….
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