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Iran starts trial of female journalist who covered Amini’s death

A Revolutionary Court in Iran on Tuesday began the trial of a female journalist behind closed doors on charges linked to her coverage of a Kurdish-Iranian woman whose death in custody last year sparked months of unrest, her husband said on Twitter. Mahsa Amini's death while held by the morality police for allegedly violating Iran's strict dress code unleashed a wave of mass anti-government protests for months, posing one of the […]

today31 May 2023

International News

No prisoner swap for bin Laden hunt doctor, says Pakistan

Pakistan's foreign ministry has ruled out the possibility of a "prisoner swap" with the United States for Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to a compound in the north of the country. The denial came in response to Pakistani media reports that Afridi was either being prepared for a prisoner exchange or was facing security risks, following his recent transfer […]

today4 May 2018

International News

Iran prosecutor blames CIA, Israel, Saudi for protests

A CIA agent was the "main projector" of deadly demonstrations in Iran with assistance from Israel and Saudi Arabia, the country's chief prosecutor alleged on Thursday. Planning for the plot - dubbed "Consequential Convergence Doctrine" - was initiated four years ago by an operative from the Central Intelligence Agency, Iran's prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted by the state-run IRNA news agency as saying. The CIA operative and an agent […]

today5 January 2018

International News

CIA ‘torture psychologists’ avoid trial with secret settlement

Two psychologists who helped design the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation program settled a lawsuit Thursday by detainees alleging they were tortured. The secret settlement in the suit, brought on behalf of two living ex-detainees and one who died of hypothermia after brutal questioning in US custody, avoided what would have been the first public trial of the Central Intelligence Agency's use of torture on suspected al-Qaeda members. The American Civil Liberties […]

today18 August 2017

International News

‘Trump ends CIA support for anti-Assad Syria rebels’

The Trump administration has decided to halt the CIA's covert programme to equip and train certain rebel groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, two US officials said, a move sought by Assad ally Russia. The Washington Post was first to report the programme's suspension on Wednesday. The US decision, said one of the officials, is part of an effort by the administration to improve relations with Russia, […]

today20 July 2017

International News

Trump gives CIA authority to conduct drone strikes

President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency new authority to conduct drone attacks against suspected fighters, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing US officials. The move would be a change from the policy of former President Barack Obama's administration of limiting the CIA's paramilitary role, the newspaper reported. The White House, the US Department of Defense and the CIA did not immediately respond to requests for […]

today14 March 2017

International News

Russia ‘intervened to promote Trump’: US intelligence

US intelligence agencies believe Russia acted covertly to boost Donald Trump in the election race, US officials have told leading newspapers. A report in the New York Times says the agencies had "high confidence" about Russian involvement in hacking. A CIA assessment reported by the Washington Post made similar findings. But Mr Trump's team dismissed the CIA line, saying: "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass […]

today10 December 2016

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