Notorious Islamic State leader killed in airstrike, Pentagon says
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook confirmed that a May 6th coalition airstrike targeted and killed Abu Wahib and three other jihadists in Iraq's Anbar Province. (Reuters) One of the Islamic State’s top leaders in Iraq’s Anbar province was killed in a U.S. airstrike last week, the Pentagon said Monday. Abu Wahib, the “military emir” of Anbar, and three other Islamic State members were killed May 6 while traveling in a vehicle near the town of Rutbah in western Iraq, Pentagon Press Secretary Pe..>> view originalIn Pyongyang, the calm before the sanctions storm?
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Pyongyang is either a city bracing for the full force of international sanctions or a city blissfully immune to outside pressure. On the ground in the North Korean capital, it’s hard to tell which is true. Ask a North Korean businessman, and he’ll brush off any suggestion that international restrictions imposed after North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests are hurting even a pinch. “Sanctions don’t work on our country,” said Kim Sok Nam, the manager of the Pyongyang E..>> view originalWhat the new Muslim mayor of London has to say about Donald Trump
Newly elected London's mayor Sadiq Khan, center, is greeted by well wishers outside City Hall in London on his first day as mayor May 9. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP) Last week, London elected its first ever Muslim mayor. Sadiq Khan, the son of working-class Pakistani immigrants, triumphed over a Conservative challenger who controversially attempted to implicate Khan with connections to Islamist extremists. The attacks — considered by many to be ill-judged smears — proved futile, and Khan is n..>> view originalAssailant shouting 'Allahu Akbar' stabs at least 4 people at Munich train station, witnesses say
DEVELOPING: At least four people were injured Tuesday morning when a knife-wielding man attacked people indiscriminately at a commuter rail station outside Munich, Germany. Investigators told the Suddeutsche Zeiting newspaper that witnesses had reported that the unidentified attacker had shouted "Allahu Akbar!", the Arabic phrase meaning "God is Great!" during the assault. However, authorities said they had not yet confirmed those witness statements. The incident happened in Grafing, east of..>> view originalUS sails warship near Chinese-claimed reef in South China Sea
A U.S. navy warship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea on Tuesday, a U.S. Department of Defense official said, days after China warned criticism of its claims in the crucial waterway would rebound like a coiled spring.The freedom of navigation operation by the USS William P. Lawrence, traveling within 12 nautical miles of Chinese-occupied Fiery Cross Reef, was to "challenge excessive maritime claims of some claimants in the South China Sea", Defense Department spokesman Bil..>> view originalEffort to impeach Brazil's president plunges into chaos
RIO DE JANEIRO — The fight over President Dilma Rousseff’s future has taken a strange twist in Congress, with the leader of the lower house saying senators can’t go ahead with an impeachment vote and the Senate leader insisting they will. The latest chapter in Brazil’s political drama began Monday when the acting speaker of the Chamber of Deputies announced that he had annulled a majority vote by his own colleagues last month that favored ousting Rousseff and sent the matter to the Senate for a..>> view originalThe Improbable Happiness of Israelis
The World Happiness Report 2016 Update ranks Israel (Jews and Arabs) 11th of 158 countries evaluated for the United Nations. Israel also shines as No. 5 of the 36 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries on the OECD’s Life Satisfaction Index—ahead of the U.S., the U.K. and France. How can this be so? Israelis live in a hostile and volatile neighborhood, engaged in an endless conflict with the Palestinians and under the threat of nuclear annihilation by Iran. If you crunch..>> view originalPhilippines' likely president Duterte vows to be 'dictator' against evil
"I will be strict. I will be a dictator, no doubt it. But only against forces of evil -- criminality, drugs and corruption in government," Duterte said Tuesday morning in his hometown of Davao City, in the southern Philippines."My message to all government employees -- the police, the military, everyone, including cabinet secretaries -- stop. You just stop (corruption)." Duterte's closest rival Mar Roxas conceded defeat Tuesday, following Grace Poe out of the race, though official results are ye..>> view originalIsraeli police say 2 Israeli women stabbed in Jerusalem
Israeli police say 2 Israeli women stabbed in Jerusalem May 9, 2016 Updated: May 10, 2016 12:17am JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police says two masked attackers have stabbed two Israeli women in Jerusalem, setting off a manhunt that led to the arrest of the assailants. To continue reading this story, you will need to be a digital subscriber to SFChronicle.com. Click here to subscribe now to get the best Bay Area news! AP: Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reser..>> view originalDrug kingpin 'El Chapo' can be extradited to US, Mexican judge rules
A Mexican judge says the extradition of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman can move ahead, but the country's foreign ministry must still approve it and the defense can appeal. The federal Judiciary Council said Monday the judge had agreed that the legal requirements laid out in the extradition treaty between the two countries had been met. The judge was not named. The ministry has 20 days to decide whether to approve Guzman's extradition to the United States. Any extradition attempt can be del..>> view original
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