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Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:34
During a meeting in Paris last month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry promised the foreign minister of Bahrain that the U.S. would work to lift its four-year ban on delivering weapons to the Gulf kingdom, imposed because of Bahrain’s brutal crackdown on protesters, activists and political opponents that began during the Arab Spring of 2011 and continues to this day.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:31
The US government issued a congratulatory statement on June 9, praising the Mexican people after June 7 elections, despite large protests and boycotts held by activists and teacher unions across the nation. The elections were marked by violence, but the US Department of State considered the process democratic, saying: “We congratulate the people of Mexico for exercising its democratic right to vote and choosing its leaders.”
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:30
Kenya's military Monday said they had killed the commander of al-Shabab extremist group responsible for two attacks a year ago that killed at least 60 people.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:30
As the U.S. prepares to send an additional 450 personnel to Iraq, the Iranian-backed militias say that coalition assistance only hurts their efforts, contradicting statements by the Iraqi government that more international support is needed.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:28
In an exclusive interview as part of an investigation supported by the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley, former Magistrate Judge Ulises Bernabé García describes what he says really happened in the Iguala police station that night.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:25
The United States carried out an airstrike in Libya early Sunday against the mastermind of the 2013 terrorist seizure of an Algerian gas plant that left 38 foreign hostages dead, American and Libyan officials said on Sunday.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:23
Sen. Susan Collins wants the Obama administration to hand over a strategy to tackle Boko Haram.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:19
Defense Secretary Ash Carter ends a five-month pause in transfers as the White House and Congress battle over the future of the U.S. military prison.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:11
A senior State Department official has downplayed the threat of Central Asian fighters joining ISIS amid heightened concerns after a high-ranking Tajikistan police official announced that he had joined the radical Islamist group.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:10
Rundown of Mexican affairs since mid-May.