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Senior Blinken aide is taking a top job with Austin after Senate confirmation holdup
6 months ago

Senior Blinken aide is taking a top job with Austin after Senate confirmation holdup

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Monday that one of his most senior aides is leaving for a top job with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and will be replaced by a brother of President Joe Biden’s national security adviser. State Department counselor Derek Chollet, a veteran of national security positions in Democratic presidential administrations, will become Austin’s chief …

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The state of exception in Honduras is endangering innocent lives
1 year ago

The state of exception in Honduras is endangering innocent lives

Al Jazeera  

When Honduran President Xiomara Castro was elected in November 2021 after running on an anticorruption platform and promising to tackle the country’s disastrous human rights record and sky-high homicide and extortion rates, hopes ran high. In December 2022, less than a year after taking office as Honduras’s first woman president, Castro declared a state of exception covering parts of the …

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Cities taking security measures again around Morocco's last World Cup match
2 years ago

Cities taking security measures again around Morocco's last World Cup match

NL Times  

Cities in the Netherlands are again taking measures on Saturday to prevent unrest after Morocco's World Cup match against Croatia. In Utrecht, part of the Lombok district was designated as a security risk area from 2 p.m. to 12 a.m. Additional lighting will also be installed in the neighborhood and traffic measures will be taken. "The efforts of all parties …

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Kareena Kapoor gets mobbed at the airport: Celeb managers, security staff and paps say fans need to be respectful
2 years, 2 months ago

Kareena Kapoor gets mobbed at the airport: Celeb managers, security staff and paps say fans need to be respectful

Hindustan Times  

The recent video of actor Kareena Kapoor Khan getting mobbed at the Mumbai airport has irked many. Though Khan, visibly uncomfortable, obliged for selfies despite people invading her personal space, the incident has shed light on fans’ insensitive behaviour. Ask why Khan was spotted without any security and he says, “Many stars move around without security thinking fans won’t harm …

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Trump accuses FBI of mishandling top secret docs he took in new Truth Social rant
2 years, 3 months ago

Trump accuses FBI of mishandling top secret docs he took in new Truth Social rant

Raw Story  

Former President Donald Trump has come up with yet another defense of his decision to stash top secret national security documents in his Mar-a-Lago resort -- and now he's saying that it's actually the FBI that is mishandling classified information. Writing on Truth Social Wednesday morning, the twice-impeached former president attacked the FBI for taking photographs at Mar-a-Lago showing that …

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'I don't really like a bully': Meet Roberta Kaplan -- the lawyer taking on Donald Trump and the far-right
3 years, 10 months ago

'I don't really like a bully': Meet Roberta Kaplan -- the lawyer taking on Donald Trump and the far-right

Raw Story  

"I don't really like a bully," says Roberta Kaplan, explaining what drove her to become a lawyer -- and is what is driving her now to sue Donald Trump and figures on the American far-right, even though it has led to multiple threats against her. Co-founder of the Time's Up movement that provides legal aid to victims of sexual assault, …

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Officials: Washington being targeted by phishing campaign
4 years, 3 months ago

Officials: Washington being targeted by phishing campaign

Associated Press  

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state is among those being targeted by a “large-scale, highly sophisticated” nationwide phishing campaign, the office of Gov. “We’re using every resource at our disposal to prevent these criminals — and that’s what they are — from potentially putting us in that position,” Inslee said. Inslee and other officials wouldn’t provide specifics about the phishing activity, …

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