She Instagrammed her exotic drug-smuggling vacation. Now ‘Cocaine Babe’ is going to prison. A Canadian woman who tried to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into Australia has been convicted and sentenced to eight years behind bars. Melina Roberge, 24, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to smuggling 95 […]
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Dozens of new Windrush cases being investigated after helpline set up’ Forty-nine new cases are being looked into after a helpline was set up for Windrush generation immigrants, the Home Office has said. It comes after Downing Street defended the decision in 2010 to destroy the landing cards that recorded […]
Bolton dealing to build an Arab military force in Syria President Donald Trump’s newly minted national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo are among those spearheading a push to build a coalition of Arab military forces that could replace US troops in Syria and serve […]
Castro’s successor seen as unlikely to bring sweeping change to Cuba The man likely to become Cuba’s next president is from a younger generation of leaders and has advocated modernizing the island but he is also a longtime Communist Party apparatchik who is not expected to push for sweeping political […]
Scientists can’t explain why diplomats in Cuba are suffering from ‘traumatic brain injury or two years, diplomats posted to Cuba have been suffering a mysterious illness. They say they have heard painful, high-pitched noises and lost their hearing. “Some were asleep and awakened by the sound, even as others sleeping […]
US struck Syria without certainty on sarin Even though US intelligence agencies did not have absolute certainty Syria’s regime had used the nerve agent sarin against civilians, the Trump administration still felt there was enough evidence to justify retaliatory strikes last Friday, several intelligence and defense officials tell CNN. The […]
C.I.A. Chief’s Meeting With Kim Jong-un Is Latest Step in Winding Path to Talks Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director and nominee to be the next secretary of state, traveled to North Korea and met with its leader, Kim Jong-un, the strongest indicator to date that plans for direct talks between […]
New war authorization from Congress unveiled following Syria strikes A bipartisan group of senators on the Foreign Relations Committee late Monday unveiled a major rewrite of the Authorization for Use of Military Force, which would give President Donald Trump robust new abilities to fight ISIS and other terrorist groups while […]
The Latest: Russia praises Syrian air defenses after strikes The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local): 8:30 p.m. The Russian military says Syria’s Russian-made air defense systems proved highly efficient in fending off missile strikes by the U.S. and its allies. Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, the Russian Defense […]
Israel destroys Hamas’ ‘longest and deepest’ border tunnel yet A massive tunnel built by the Hamas terror group in northern Gaza — the “longest and deepest” one ever found — has been destroyed after the Israeli military infiltrated the territory, officials said. The passage near Nahal Oz was reported to […]
