On February 14, 1979 a largely overlooked news story flashed briefly across the wires–about a shootout in a hotel in Kabul. As it turned out, what happened there had enormous implications for the world. At the time though, the story was nudged off the front pages by events happening elsewhere… more>>
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- Carney names broad team to advise on tense US-Canada trade talks
- ‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out
- Canadian woman killed after gunman opens fire at Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramids
- Carney says Canada’s strong economic ties to US are ‘weakness’ to be corrected
- US and Mexican officials assigned to cartel case killed in car accident
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- EXPOSED: 2 CIA Officers Die After Anti-Drug Op in Mexico
- House Ethics Panel Asks for Info About Any Sexual Misconduct by Members of Congress
- Who Pays the Bills? What Drives Journalistic Independence
- Is Trump’s Iran War Like a Katrina Moment?
- Michigan Officials Rebuff DOJ as Trump Admin Election Deniers Zero in on Wayne County
- Kash Patel Quickly Sues Over Devastating Story
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The Intercept- U.S. Personnel Who Died in Mexico Were Working For the CIA, Sources Say
- ICE Is Looking For Parking in New York City — For a 150-Vehicle Deportation Fleet
- How the Lebanon Ceasefire Could Make It Harder to End the War on Iran
- Progressive Group Founded by Bernie Sanders Endorses Billionaire for California Governor
- LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest
- These Middle Eastern News Sites Are Actually U.S. Government Propaganda Operations
- Democrats Are Split Over What It Means to Block Israel Weapons Deals
- Crypto Critic Maxine Waters’s New Primary Foe Got Over Two-Thirds of Money From Crypto
- Israel’s “Black Wednesday” Massacre Leaves Lebanese Families Giving DNA to ID Loved Ones’ Remains
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France24- Why supporters of Burkina Faso’s junta leader are campaigning against a Sky News journalist
- 'Mood shifting' in Europe: Public opinion and governments 'turning against Israel'
- Brazil's Ava-Guarani fight for justice
- UK: No 10 had "dismissive attitude" to Mandelson's vetting
- Macron to host Lebanon's PM Nawaf Salam
- Why France’s far right is dining with the country’s business elite
- Top Lebanese official makes warning
- Iran's participation in US talks unclear
- Occupied West Bank: Israeli forces uproot hundreds of olive trees
- UK police make eight further arrests after arson attacks on Jewish sites
Media Matters For America- Megyn Kelly: Trump's rhetoric on Iran isn't "playing the way his normal too-cute-by-half routine plays"
- A tale of two right-wing networks on Joe diGenova
- Ben Shapiro: "The president in going after Democrats over all this saying they're undermining the war, he is right about that"
- Fox News host Jesse Watters' lewd, misogynistic, and perverted remarks
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