DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The United States called Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates “major security partners” early Saturday, a previously unheard of designation for the two countries home to major American military operations. A White House statement tied the designation to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates normalizing ties to Israel, saying …
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has accused the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of fabricating drug trafficking charges against the country’s former defense secretary even as his government published hundreds of pages of U.S. files that purported to show detailed evidence of the man’s close links with a drug gang. The …
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MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico on Friday published 751 pages of evidence it received from the United States against Mexico’s former Defense Secretary, Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, whom U.S. prosecutors had charged with drug trafficking. The unprecedented move came a day after Mexico announced it was dropping the case against Cienfuegos, whom the U.S. arrested …
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Gov. Tim Walz sharply criticized the federal government on Friday for the sudden uncertainty over whether states would receive increased shipments of coronavirus vaccines from the national stockpile, accusing the Trump administration of “lying” earlier this week about speeding up the supply. At a briefing for reporters that focused mostly on security …
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As thousands of National Guard troops flood into Washington, D.C., coronavirus cases have spiked among them. Of the roughly 7,000 Guardsmen currently deployed to the District of Columbia, there are now 43 positive cases of COVID-19, Air Force Capt. Tinashe Machona, spokesman for the D.C. National Guard, said in a statement. The spike in cases …
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