TEHRAN, Iran—An Iranian appeals court has upheld a verdict sentencing an Iranian-British woman long-held in Tehran to another year in prison, her lawyer said on Saturday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has already served a five-year prison sentence in the Islamic Republic. Her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told The Associated Press that the appeals court upheld a verdict issued…
Ex-Taliban Commander Pleads Not Guilty to Killing U.S. Troops
NEW YORK—A former Taliban commander previously accused of kidnapping an American journalist pleaded not guilty on Friday to murdering three U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in 2008, telling a federal judge that the “accusations are incorrect.” Haji Najibullah, 45, appeared in federal court in Manhattan to enter the plea after prosecutors last week unveiled new charges…
Ex-Taliban Commander Pleads Not Guilty to Killing US Troops
NEW YORK—A former Taliban commander previously accused of kidnapping an American journalist pleaded not guilty on Friday to murdering three U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in 2008, telling a federal judge that the “accusations are incorrect.” Haji Najibullah, 45, appeared in federal court in Manhattan to enter the plea after prosecutors last week unveiled new charges…
33 Killed, 73 Wounded as Another Blast Hits Afghan Shiites Mosque
A large explosion rocked a Shiites mosque in southern Afghanistan on Oct. 15, killing at least 33 people and wounding 73 others, the Taliban terrorist group said. “We are saddened to learn that an explosion took place in a mosque of the Shiite Brotherhood in the first district of Kandahar city in which a number…
Oil Prices Scale $85 per Barrel on Back of Supply Deficit
October 15, 2021
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LONDON—Oil prices hit a fresh three-year high on Friday, climbing above $85 a barrel on forecasts of a supply deficit over the next few months as rocketing gas and coal prices stoke a switch to oil products. Brent crude futures were up 80 cents, or 0.95 percent, to $84.80 a barrel at 0930 GMT. Front-month…
US Working to Make Charter Flights From Afghanistan More Routine: State Department
WASHINGTON—The United States has no plans to resume military-led evacuation flights from Afghanistan, but is working to ensure that the existing charter flights become more frequent, the State Department said on Thursday. “The idea that we’re restarting evacuation flights, à la what we had prior to Aug. 31, is not accurate,” State Department spokesperson Ned…
World’s Tallest Woman Says It’s OK to Stand Out
SAFRANBOLU, Turkey—At 7 feet, 0.7 inches (2 meters 15 centimeters) tall, Rumeysa Gelgi has always stood out. Now officially recognized as the world’s tallest woman, she wants to use that record to celebrate differences. The 24-year-old, who was confirmed this week as the world’s tallest living female by Guinness World Records, was born with Weaver…
Air Force Says Commercial Evacuation Flight From Kabul Was Nearly Hijacked
October 14, 2021
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The United States Air Force (USAF) on Tuesday said that a commercial flight from Kabul’s international airport was nearly hijacked during evacuation efforts that followed the Taliban takeover. Lt. Col. Kristen Duncan, a public affairs officer for the 23rd Wing, wrote in a statement on the Air Force’s website that several people aboard a commercial…
Deadly Shooting Rocks Beirut as Tensions Over Blast Probe Erupt
BEIRUT—Six Shi’ites were shot dead in Beirut on Thursday, in an attack on supporters of Hezbollah and its ally who were gathering to demand the removal of the judge investigating the explosion that ripped through the city’s port last year. The shooting, which took place on a front-line of Lebanon’s 1975–90 civil war and evoked…
Spain Evacuates 160 More Afghans via Pakistan
MADRID—Spain’s defense ministry has completed the evacuation of another 160 Afghans who had initially been left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. The new group joins the 83 people Spain flew into an air base near Madrid on Monday. The defense ministry said that the mission was able to extract the Afghan workers and…
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