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The mother of a U.S. Army soldier who has been detained in Russia after visiting a girlfriend tells Fox News Digital that if she could write a letter to her son, she would say "I love you, I miss you, [and] I hope you get to come home soon." Melody Jones is speaking out as it is approaching two weeks since Staff Sgt. Gordon Black was taken into custody by Russian authorities in the far eastern city of Vladivostok. Black, 34, has been charged with criminal misconduct and is accused of stealing from his girlfriend. "I think he worries about shaming us, and I would tell him in a letter, no you haven’t," Jones told Fox News Digital. She added that this past Mother’s Day without him was "really hard" and that she isn’t aware of his current condition. MOTHER OF DETAINED US SOLDIER SAYS RUSSI...

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A sticky bomb exploded in northeastern Afghanistan, killing at least three police officers on Wednesday, officials said.Abdul Mateen Qani, a spokesman for the Taliban’s interior ministry, said the bomb which was "attached to a motorcycle, exploded in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan province," while a convoy of security forces was passing through, adding that five other officers were wounded.6 FATALLY SHOT IN SHIITE MOSQUE IN AFGHANISTAN: TALIBANQani said the officers were on their way to destroy poppy crops in the area.No group claimed responsibility for the attack. This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo)A few days ago Badakhshan witnessed violent protests against the Taliban’s poppy eradication campaign, propelling a high-ranking delegation led b...

Several thousand Jews, including Holocaust survivors personally affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, walked through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp on Monday for the annual March of the Living ceremony in Poland.Walking along the 1.8 mile path towards the crematoria of Birkenau, they paid tribute to the millions of Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War Two.This year's ceremony was overshadowed by the events last year when 1,200 people were killed in a Hamas-led rampage through Israeli towns and 253 hostages were taken, according to Israeli tallies.HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS CONFRONT RISING DENIAL, ANTISEMITISM IN NEW DIGITAL CAMPAIGNDaniel Louz, a 90-year-old whose hometown Kibbutz Beeri lost a tenth of its residents to the Palestinian attackers, came to the Ausch...

The European Union announced Thursday an aid package for Lebanon of 1 billion euros — about $1.06 billion — much of which will go to boost border control to halt the flow of asylum seekers and migrants from the small, crisis-wracked country across the Mediterranean Sea to Cyprus and Italy.The deal follows other EU aid packages for countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Mauritania to fortify their borders. It comes against a backdrop of increasing hostility toward Syrian refugees in Lebanon and a major surge in irregular migration of Syrian refugees from Lebanon to Cyprus.UN MIGRATION AGENCY CHIEF WARNS NUMBER OF SYRIAN REFUGEES LEAVING LEBANON WILL KEEP RISINGEuropean Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said during a Beirut visit with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides t...

Oleksandr Syrsky, participait, samedi, à une réunion du Groupe de contact pour la défense de l’Ukraine. Cette alliance incluant les 31 Etats membres de l’OTAN et 23 autres pays soutient l’Ukraine par l’envoi d’équipements militaires. Source link

Des Palestiniens devant des bâtiments détruits de l’UNRWA, dans la ville de Gaza, le 10 février 2024. OMAR ISHAQ / PICTURE-ALLIANCE / DPA / AP IMAGES Premier effet concret du rapport Colonna sur l’UNRWA : l’Allemagne, l’un des plus importants bailleurs de cette agence des Nations unies chargée des réfugiés palestiniens, a décidé de reprendre ses versements à l’organisation, gelés après qu’Israël l’avait accusée d’être infiltrée par le Hamas. L’audit publié lundi 22 avril, mené par l’ancienne ministre française des affaires étrangères Catherine Colonna, a blanchi en grande partie l’agence, tout en suggérant des pistes pour renforcer sa neutralité. Deux jours après sa présentation, Berlin a annoncé, mercredi, son intention de reprendre son aid...

A ship traveling in the Gulf of Aden came under attack Thursday, officials said, the latest assault carried out by Yemen's Houthi rebels over Israel's ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.The attack comes after the U.S. military said early Thursday an allied warship shot down a Houthi missile targeting a vessel the day before near the same area. The Houthis claimed that Wednesday assault, which comes after a period of relatively few rebel attacks on shipping in the region over Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.YEMEN'S HOUTHI REBELS CONTINUE TO LAUNCH ATTACKS DESPITE MONTH OF US-LED AIRSTRIKESIn Thursday's attack, a ship was targeted just over 25 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Aden, the British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said. In this...

L’eurodéputé allemand d’extrême droite Maximilian Krah, le 24 avril, à Berlin. FABRIZIO BENSCH / REUTERS La justice allemande a annoncé mercredi 24 avril avoir ouvert deux enquêtes préliminaires, pour des soupçons de financements russes et chinois, à l’encontre de Maximilian Krah, tête de liste de l’extrême droite allemande (AfD) aux élections européennes. Ces investigations doivent « vérifier s’il existe un soupçon de corruption du député », a précisé le parquet de Dresde à la tête de ces enquêtes. L’eurodéputé est déjà au centre d’une tourmente à la suite de l’arrestation de l’un de ses assistants au Parlement européen, Jian G., suspecté d’être un agent chinois. M. Krah l’a depuis renvoyé. Le chancelier allema...

One of China's top military leaders took a harsh line on regional territorial disputes, telling an international naval gathering in northeastern China on Monday that the country would strike back with force if its interests came under threat.The 19th biennial meeting of the Western Pacific Naval Symposium opened in Qingdao, where China’s northern naval force is based, providing a vivid backdrop to China's massive military expansion over the past two decades that has seen it build or refurbish three aircraft carriers.CHINA'S MILITARY TARGETS AMERICAN TROOPS, VETERANS FOR EXPLOITATION CAMPAIGN, GENERAL SAYSThe two-day talks have drawn representatives from partners and competitors including Australia, Cambodia, Chile, France, India and the U.S. and comes amid heightened tensions over Chin...