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‘Original sin': Torture of 9/11 suspects means even without plea deal, they may never face a verdict
A Defense Department disagreement over how to bring to justice the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four others has thrown the cases into disarray.
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US will keep aid flowing to an Israeli unit accused of rights abuses, citing remediation efforts
The State Department says it’s opted against what would have been its first-ever blocking of aid to an Israeli military unit over rights abuses.
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US and other frustrated mediators call on Israel, Hamas to resume Gaza talks, saying, ‘no excuses’
Leaders of the United States, Egypt and Qatar are jointly demanding that Israel and Hamas return to stalled talks on the war in Gaza.
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9/11 hearings at Guantanamo Bay in upheaval after surprise order by US defense chief
Military-run hearings for accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are in upheaval following Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to throw out a plea agreement.
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Defense chief defends decision to throw out plea deal for 9/11 defendants
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has spoken for the first time on his decision to throw out a plea deal for the accused mastermind of al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks and two other defendants.
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Defense secretary overrides plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind and two other defendants
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has overridden a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death penalty cases.
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US warns a famine in Sudan is on pace to be the deadliest in decades as the world looks elsewhere
U.S. officials are warning that a newly confirmed famine in Sudan’s Darfur region is on pace to become the world’s worst in decades.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter of 9/11 attacks, agrees to plead guilty
The man accused of being the main plotter in al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has agreed to plead guilty. That’s according to the Defense Department.
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Killing of Hamas political leader points to diverging paths for Israel, US on cease-fire
Israel’s suspected killing of Hamas’ political leader in the heart of Tehran points to an Israeli government ever more openly at odds with diplomatic efforts by the Biden administration to calm the region.
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Netanyahu meets with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, offering measured optimism on a Gaza cease-fire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu worked to mend ties with Donald Trump on Friday and offered measured optimism about progress toward a cease-fire deal for Gaza.
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In fiery speech to Congress, Netanyahu vows ‘total victory’ in Gaza and denounces US protesters
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged in a scathing speech to Congress to achieve “total victory” against Hamas and criticized American opponents of the war in Gaza as “idiots.”
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Netanyahu is in Washington at a fraught time for Israel and the US. What to know about his visit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week is looming as a particularly fraught one between two allies.
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Blinken points to wider pledges to support Ukraine in case US backs away under Trump
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Ukraine is on its way to being able to “stand on its own feet” militarily and more than 20 other countries have pledged to maintain their own military and financial aid to the country even if the U.S. were to withdraw its support under a different president.
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US says Iran moving forward on a key aspect of developing a nuclear bomb
Two top Biden administration officials say Iran is talking more about getting a nuclear bomb, and has made strides in developing one key aspect of a weapon in recent months.
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Blinken points to wider pledges to support Ukraine in case US backs away under Trump
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Ukraine is on its way to being able to “stand on its own feet” militarily and more than 20 other countries have pledged to maintain their own military and financial aid to the country even if the U.S. were to withdraw its support under a different president.
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Former Trump defense secretary urges Biden to do more to stop Iran’s threats on officials
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says it was time for the Biden administration “to do better than just playing defense” to Iranian threats on Trump administration officials.
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Ukraine defense chief says his nation will find a way no matter who wins US election
Ukraine’s defense minister said his country will find a way to withstand Russia’s invading forces even if Donald Trump wins a second term, jeopardizings vital U.S. support for its defense.
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With words, deeds and arms deals, allies make the case for NATO in terms that would appeal to Trump
European allies in NATO are stepping up their military spending, just as Donald Trump wanted. They’re pointing to common interests, such as security concerns with China.
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Zelenskyy says to win the war, US needs to lift limits on striking military targets inside Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is embracing the support of international allies even as he pushed for the help to arrive faster and restrictions to be lifted on the use of U.S. weapons to attack military targets inside Russia.
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Poland hopes new NATO training center could prepare Ukrainians living abroad to fight Russia
Poland is hoping a new NATO training center in the country can help recruit more volunteers for the fight in Ukraine.
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Ukraine is on an ‘irreversible’ path to NATO. But only after war with Russia ends
The 32-members of NATO are formally declaring that Ukraine is on an “irreversible” path to membership in the Western military alliance, offering a bare but more binding assurance of protection once its war with Russia ends.
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Zelenskyy says the world cannot wait until the US election in November to take action to repel Putin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the world must not wait for November to drive back Russia’s offensive against his country.
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Can you ‘Trump-proof’ NATO? As Biden falters, Europeans look to safeguard the military alliance
NATO allies are gathering in Washington for a summit this week, and the prospect that Donald Trump, the military alliance’s most prominent critic, may return to power is dominating discussions.
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US and Europe warn Lebanon’s Hezbollah to ease strikes on Israel and back off from wider Mideast war
U.S., European and Arab mediators are pressing to keep stepped-up cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants from spiraling into a wider Middle East war that the world has feared for months.
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UN tells Israel it will suspend aid operations across Gaza without improved safety
Senior U.N. officials have told Israel they’ll suspend aid operations across Gaza unless urgent steps are taken to better protect humanitarian workers.
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NATO allies hitting their defense spending target jump from 6 to 23 as Ukraine war grinds on
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says a record 23 of NATO’s 32 member nations are hitting the Western military alliance’s defense spending target this year as Russia’s war in Ukraine has raised the threat of expanding conflict in Europe.
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US-built pier in Gaza is facing its latest challenge — whether the UN will keep delivering the aid
The U.S.-built pier to carry food to Gaza is facing one of its most serious challenges yet. The United Nations is deciding if it can keep safely and ethically deliver supplies from the U.S. sea route to starving Palestinians.
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US will store aid on secure beach in Gaza as UN pauses distribution from pier
The U.S. military says it plans to stockpile humanitarian aid shipments on a secure beach in Gaza during a U.N. pause on distributing food from the American-built pier.
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UN food agency pauses its aid work at US pier in Gaza over security concerns, in latest setback
The director of the U.N. World Food Program says the program has “paused” its distribution of humanitarian aid from an American-built pier off Gaza out of concern for the safety of its workers.
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Aid is delivered to Gaza from newly repaired US-built pier, US military says
The U.S. military says the first aid from an American-built pier arrived in Gaza since storm damage required repairs to the project. U.S.
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