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Kabul, Afghanistanmdash; At least three rockets hit near the presidential palace on Tuesday shortly before Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was to give an add adidas originals ress to mark the major Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. There were no injuries and the rockets landed outside the heavily fortified palace grounds, said Mirwais Stanikzai, spokesman for the interior minister. The ISIS branch in Afghanistan took responsibility for the rocket attack, claiming it had launched seven rockets and that all had struck their targets. The group often greatly exaggerates its success both on the battlefield and with bomb and rocket attacks.Police quickly fanned out across the area after the rockets struck. One car parked on a nearby street was completely destroyed, and police said it was used as launching pad for the rockets. asics gel Afghan crocs security forces inspect a damaged vehicle which was used to fire rockets in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 20, 2021. Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency/Getty The palace is in the middle of a so-called Green Zone that is fortified with giant cement blast walls and barbed wire, and streets near the palace have long been closed off.President Ashraf Ghani was on the palace grounds on Tuesday, attending an Eid al-Adha prayer service with a number of other dignitaries that was broadcast on Afghan national television.Several members of the group jump when the first rocket is heard slamm Warl Dead, missing as parking garage collapses on workers
A Paris court on Wednesday convicted former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega of laundering drug money in France in the 1980s and ordered him to spend seven years behind bars - a sentence that comes on top of his two stanley cup price decades already spent in a U.S. stanley cups prison.The three-judge panel also ordered the seizure of euro2.3 million $2.89 million that has long been frozen in Noriega s accounts.It s a new defeat for the longtime strongman and CIA asset, who was accused of joining forces with drug traffickers - but his lawyers hope it may be a brief one, and predict he could be eligible for parole within a year.His lawyers were deciding whether to appeal, and have 10 days to do so.Noriega Goes To Trial In FranceManuel Noriega Extradited by U.S. to France Noriega, who gives his age as 76, was deposed after a 1989 U.S. invasion and w stanley kubek ent on to serve 20 years in a Florida prison for drug trafficking. He was extradited to France in April to stand trial on accusations related to his assets here.The prosecution argued that millions of dollars that passed through Noriega s French accounts during the late 1980s were kickbacks from the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel.His lawyers had pressed for an acquittal, saying the trial was part of a political plot against him and arguing that Noriega s age and poor health mean he would certainly die behind bars if convicted.Noriega has blood pressure problems and is paralyzed on the left side following a stroke, his lawyers say. There has long been c
Jjvr Cyclone Biparjoy makes landfall in India and Pakistan packing powerful rain and wind after mass-evacuations
WASHINGTON -- WikiLeaks released what it claims is the 31-page user guide for a CIA device code-named Weeping Angel. It can turn some Samsung TVs into surveillance tools with an implant for recording audio from a TVrsquo built-in microphone. CIA hunts for traitor who gave top-secret documents to WikiLeaks 02:07 Posted online Friday, the release is the latest dump of classi adidas originals ultraboost fied documents stolen from U.S. government agencies. Those thefts include thousands of pages taken by Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange -- currently living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London -- has all but dared U.S. officials to come after him. The Obama Justice Department decided not to, but new Attorney General Je air max 98 ff Sessions says he has re-opened the case.Wersquo;ve seen too many breaches, and hopefully wersquo;ll be able to strike back against those who violate our systems, Sessions said.CBS News has learned the CIA and the FBI believe the rec air max 2 ent theft at the CIA was an inside job. Investigators say the materials were stolen from a highly secure section of the intelligence agency where it takes two people to access information. But even that security measure was apparently not enough to stop the leaks. Michael Morrell Ogwi Bush: Troops To Shift Into Support Roles
High-level military officials from North Korea and the U.S.-led U.N. Command held urgent talks at the border Monday amid heightened tensions in the region and concerns that the North intends stanley cup to test-fire a long-range missile.The talks at the village of Panmunjom inside the Demilitarized Zone divi stanley cup usa ding North and South Korea - the first meetings between general-level military officials since 2002 - were hastily arranged after the North proposed them last week, U.N. command spokesman Kim Yong-kyu said. These talks can be useful in building trust and preventing misunderstanding as well as introducing transparency regarding the intentions of both sides, the U.N. command said in a statement. Kim said his office would disclose details about the meeting after it was stanley flask over.Relations between the two Koreas are at their lowest point in a decade, with North Korea bristling over South Korean President Lee Myung-bak s hard-line policy toward Pyongyang. The two Koreas technically remain at war because their three-year conflict in the 1950s ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.The tensions have intensified in recent weeks amid reports that North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile believed capable of reaching U.S. territory. Analysts say communist North Korea also wants to capture President Obama s attention at a time when international disarmament talks with the regime remain stalled.Mr. Obama is dispatching his envoy for North Korea, Stephen W. Bosworth, to Asia this week
