PARIS (AP) – Police in southern France have arrested four women and a girl as part of an anti-terrorist investigation into a suspected attack plot targeting the city of Montpellier. A police official in the Herault region confirmed the overnight arrests in the city of Beziers, and said Sunday that … View original article
The officer who Cassandra Quinto-Collins says kneeled on her son’s neck for over four minutes assured her it was standard protocol for sedating a person experiencing a mental breakdown. “I was there watching it the whole time,” Quinto-Collins told The Associated Press. “I just trusted that they knew what they were doing.” Angelo Quinto’s sister …
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ISTANBUL (AP) – A group of retired Turkish admirals came under fire Sunday for issuing a statement that government officials tied to Turkey’s history of military coups. The 103 former navy officers criticized a suggestion that Turkey could withdraw from the international treaty that regulates shipping through the Bosporus and … View original article
Editor’s note: This article by John Vrolyk originally appeared on The War Horse. It’s early spring 2017 and I’m somewhere in Syria, north of the city of Raqqa. I’m part of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, itself a part of the grandly named Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. The mission is to “degrade and defeat” …
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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) – The half-brother of Jordan’s King Abdullah said Saturday he has been placed under house arrest by Jordanian authorities and accused the country’s leadership of corruption and incompetence. In a videotaped statement leaked to the British Broadcasting Corp., Prince Hamzah said he was visited early Saturday … View original article
