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• Robert Weiner And Daniel Khan On Torture: "A Plague On Both Our Houses - the Nation Has Yet To Come To Grips With Its Own Truth" - Featured Article, #2 In Nation, In OpEd News
• Fall Movie Preview: Highlights from September to December
• Dane who shot police was 'Islamic State soldier': Amaq
• In Yemen war, could surge in violence rekindle diplomacy?
• Film Friday (9/2): This Week's New Movie Trailers
• Pakistan hit by attack on Christian colony and court bombing
• New war college institute zeroes in on maritime Russia
• Jobless rate for black Americans at lowest level since 2007
• French children return to school under police guard after summer attacks
• Women back from Syria 'a danger': French prosecutor
• Attacks across Iraqi capital kill 15 people, wound over 50
• Nine Iraq forces killed in clashes with IS north of Baghdad
• Four killed as blasts rock Baghdad
• Funding squeeze hits U.N. food program in Afghanistan
• Fewer migrants entered Germany illegally in August: police
• Weapons storage blaze fires off rockets in Baghdad, killing four
• Year after iconic photo of dead son, dad says little changed
• Islamic State's military retreat raises risk of attacks in France: prosecutor
• French prosecutor announces longer terrorism sentences
• Directed from Raqqa, Islamic State cell 'wages war' in Turkey
• In Jordan, schools to open doors to all Syrian children
• Soccer-Patience pays off for Australia striker Juric
• Soccer-Disgruntled Japan bemoan wasted chances against UAE

Robert Weiner And Daniel Khan On Torture: "A Plague On Both Our Houses - the Nation Has Yet To Come To Grips With Its Own Truth" - Featured Article, #2 In Nation, In OpEd News Posted: 02 Sep 2016 04:02 PM PDT WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Torture is "A Plague on Both our Houses" because neither party actually has moved to end it or prosecute perpetrators of the practice, while the CIA continues it in foreign countries, assert former White House spokesman Robert Weiner and policy analyst Daniel Khan in Op-Ed News.  The piece is featured as "H2", the number two op-ed in the nation.Weiner and Khan wrote the piece regarding the involvement of the CIA in torture programs.  The CIA has been outsourcing torture for years, in addition to contracting and condoning it. ...

Fall Movie Preview: Highlights from September to December Posted: 02 Sep 2016 02:48 PM PDT There's something for everyone in movie theaters this fall. The calendar is jam-packed with romance, spectacle and jaw-dropping true life stories. Some of our most familiar franchises take bold leaps into ...

Dane who shot police was 'Islamic State soldier': Amaq Posted: 02 Sep 2016 12:57 PM PDT A Danish man who shot two police officers during a drug raid in Copenhagen earlier this week was an Islamic State group member, the jihadist-linked Amaq news outlet said Friday. The 25-year-old, named by local media as Mesa Hodzic, shot two police officers and a civilian on Wednesday during a drug raid, and died Friday of gunshot wounds he sustained during his eventual arrest. "The perpetrator of the attack that targeted the police in Copenhagen is a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response to calls to target the countries of the coalition," Amaq said, citing an unnamed source, referring to the international alliance battling IS in Syria and Iraq.

In Yemen war, could surge in violence rekindle diplomacy? Posted: 02 Sep 2016 11:24 AM PDT The war in Yemen is surging back to high levels of violence. Since peace talks failed in early August, ending a tenuous, four-month cease-fire, airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition have hit a hospital, school, and other civilian targets. The result has been two-fold: The military escalation is adding to the soaring death toll of Yemen's 18-month conflict, which the United Nations last week revised up to 10,000, nearly doubling previous estimates.

Film Friday (9/2): This Week's New Movie Trailers Posted: 02 Sep 2016 10:59 AM PDT Watch all of this week's new film trailers, including new looks at Christopher Guest's Mascots, Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women, Paul Verhoeven's Elle, and more. Plus, get a quick update on the latest movie news and release date announcements. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at Metacritic

Pakistan hit by attack on Christian colony and court bombing Posted: 02 Sep 2016 10:35 AM PDT PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Northwestern Pakistan was struck by two separate militant attacks hours apart on Friday that left at least 13 people dead.

New war college institute zeroes in on maritime Russia Posted: 02 Sep 2016 09:33 AM PDT PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The U.S. Naval War College has opened a new institute to zero in on Russia's approach to maritime issues as that country continues to assert itself in Ukraine, Syria and elsewhere.

Jobless rate for black Americans at lowest level since 2007 Posted: 02 Sep 2016 09:30 AM PDT Black Americans made strides in the job market in August, while those without high school diplomas lost ground. The unemployment rate for black Americans fell to 8.1 percent, their lowest level since July ...

French children return to school under police guard after summer attacks Posted: 02 Sep 2016 08:13 AM PDT By Lucien Libert and Clotaire Achi PARIS (Reuters) - More than 12 million French children went back to school under heightened security on Thursday after a summer vacation marked by further deadly attacks in a country that is one of the prime targets of Islamic State militants. Armed police patrolled outside schools around the country as children, parents and teachers converged at entrance gates. "The difference is we can unfortunately no longer access the school," said Faiza Teaboui, whose young son was going to school for the first time.

Women back from Syria 'a danger': French prosecutor Posted: 02 Sep 2016 07:56 AM PDT Women who have joined Islamic State fighters in Syria are facing closer scrutiny when they return to France as the potential danger they represent was underestimated, the country's top prosecutor said Friday. Francois Molins told the daily Le Monde that "hundreds" of women would return from Syria in the next few months. French authorities had probably been wrong "at first to say that they were just following their husbands and that they were restricting themselves to domestic chores in Syria", he said.

Attacks across Iraqi capital kill 15 people, wound over 50 Posted: 02 Sep 2016 07:22 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of attacks across Baghdad, including an explosion at a weapons warehouse that set off munitions and sent a huge plume of smoke over the Iraqi capital, killed 15 people and wounded over 50 on Friday, according to Iraqi officials.

Nine Iraq forces killed in clashes with IS north of Baghdad Posted: 02 Sep 2016 06:14 AM PDT Fighters from the Islamic State group killed nine members of the Iraqi security forces in clashes that broke out in a remote area north of Baghdad, security officials said Friday. The clashes broke out when IS fighters based in the Hamreen mountain range attacked army and police forces in an area called Mutaibijah, 110 kilometres (70 miles) north of Baghdad. "We have nine killed and 24 wounded among the security forces," an army lieutenant colonel from the Samarra operations command told AFP.

Four killed as blasts rock Baghdad Posted: 02 Sep 2016 06:10 AM PDT At least four people were killed and 16 wounded on Friday when blasts, including at a weapons storage facility, rocked northeastern neighbourhoods of Baghdad, security sources said. Accounts of the incident differed and it was not immediately clear whether the blasts were accidental or caused by an attack. The largest blast sent a ball of fire into the sky at a weapons depot used by the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary organisation in the Obeidi neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the city.

Funding squeeze hits U.N. food program in Afghanistan Posted: 02 Sep 2016 05:10 AM PDT A squeeze on funding caused by the spread of crises across the Middle East and Africa has left the World Food Programme (WFP) unsure about whether it can continue its planned operations in Afghanistan, the U.N. food organization said on Friday. "We met donors and implored them to continue their support to this country to ensure we don't lose momentum," Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the WFP, told reporters during a four-day visit to Kabul. Angeline Rudakubana, the WFP's deputy country director for Afghanistan, said the organization had been forced to reduce rations in its school meals program and cut other support.

Fewer migrants entered Germany illegally in August: police Posted: 02 Sep 2016 05:06 AM PDT Fewer migrants entered Germany illegally in August than during any other month this year, a police spokeswoman said on Friday, a consequence of border closures and an EU-Turkey deal to stop sea arrivals in Greece. In August, around 4,200 migrants crossed into Germany, down from around 4,550 in July and a tiny fraction of the 64,700 migrants registered in January, the spokeswoman said. Germany took in hundreds of thousands of migrants last year, mainly people fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Weapons storage blaze fires off rockets in Baghdad, killing four Posted: 02 Sep 2016 04:28 AM PDT A blast caused by a fire at a weapons storage depot in eastern Baghdad on Friday set off rockets that hit neighboring districts, killing at least four residents and injuring 14 others, police and hospital sources said. Video footage showed a large plume of smoke rising above the depot. The depot belonged to one of the Shi'ite paramilitary groups of the Popular Mobilization Force (PMF), a police officer said.

Year after iconic photo of dead son, dad says little changed Posted: 02 Sep 2016 04:13 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — The father of a 3-year-old boy whose lifeless body photographed on a Turkish beach drew the world's attention to the plight of refugees says little has changed in the year since.

Islamic State's military retreat raises risk of attacks in France: prosecutor Posted: 02 Sep 2016 03:09 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Islamic State's military pullback in Iraq and Syria increases the risk of Islamist attacks in France like the ones the country suffered this year and last, France's anti-terrorism prosecutor Francois Molins was quoted saying on Friday. "We see clearly in the history of terrorism that when terrorist organizations are in difficulty on their own turf they look for an opportunity to attack abroad," he said in an interview with Le Monde newspaper, adding that the military pressure IS faces could result in more French jihadis and their families returning home. ...

French prosecutor announces longer terrorism sentences Posted: 02 Sep 2016 03:07 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor has announced harsher prison sentences for returning French jihadis, saying the country faces an increased risk of attacks as the Islamic State group weakens in Iraq and Syria.

Directed from Raqqa, Islamic State cell 'wages war' in Turkey Posted: 02 Sep 2016 01:56 AM PDT By Humeyra Pamuk GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - As U.S.-led coalition jets from a Turkish air base began to pound Islamic State targets in Syria in the summer of 2015, Ilhami Bali passed on what appeared to be an order from the militant group's leadership in Raqqa: unleash war on Turkey. Bali, identified by Turkish prosecutors as the most senior Islamic State figure in Turkey, asked a fellow militant in the border city of Gaziantep to draw up a list of potential targets. Cash, suicide bombers and equipment would be sent from Syria, he said.

In Jordan, schools to open doors to all Syrian children Posted: 01 Sep 2016 11:17 PM PDT ZARQA, Jordan (AP) — Intissar Ghozlan's two youngest boys haven't been in school since the family fled from Syria to Jordan two years ago. There's no space in local classrooms, and the boys, 12 and 14, can "barely write their names," having forgotten most of what they learned back home, she says.

Soccer-Patience pays off for Australia striker Juric Posted: 01 Sep 2016 10:32 PM PDT By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Tomi Juric has long been touted as a possible successor to veteran Tim Cahill at the apex of Australia's attack. Juric finally broke an international scoring drought dating back to the 2015 Asian Cup on Thursday with a second-half volley that sealed the Socceroos' 2-0 win over Iraq in their World Cup qualifier. Latching onto a corner from midfielder Aaron Mooy, the 25-year-old's celebration showed more relief than joy, as he jogged away from the goal and glanced up at the night sky at Perth's Rectangular Stadium.

Soccer-Disgruntled Japan bemoan wasted chances against UAE Posted: 01 Sep 2016 08:47 PM PDT Japan forward Keisuke Honda felt the Samurai Blue were robbed of a clear goal in the shock 2-1 home defeat to United Arab Emirates in their World Cup qualifier but captain Makoto Hasebe said his profligate team had signed its own 'death warrant'. Japan lost 2-1 to their Asian Group B rivals at Saitama on Thursday but were denied a 77th-minute equaliser when a close-range shot from substitute Takuma Asano was controversially ruled out by Qatari referee Abdulrahman Al-Jassim. Television replays were unequivocal, showing the ball floating behind the goal-line in mid air before keeper Khalid Eisa could lay a glove on it and parry it back into play.

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