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Guantánamo prisoner 'was waterboarded'; agents omitted it from memo
New York Times, Published on 29/07/2022
» GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba: A prisoner accused of plotting al-Qaida’s bombing of the USS Cole warship in 2000 told federal interrogators years later that he was waterboarded by the CIA, an interpreter testified Thursday. But that detail was omitted from the official account of the interrogations that prosecutors want to use at his death-penalty trial as evidence that he confessed.
Kentucky man shoots 6 officers, killing 2
New York Times, Published on 02/07/2022
» Two law enforcement officers were killed, and four other officers were shot Thursday night after a man barricaded in his home opened fire with a rifle in Allen, Kentucky, a rural town so small that it lacks its own police force, authorities said.
Giuliani on defensive after uproar over assault claim
New York Times, Published on 29/06/2022
» NEW YORK: Two days after Rudy Giuliani claimed a worker had assaulted him at a Staten Island supermarket, the once-vaunted former mayor was spending Tuesday morning like many men his age: complaining about his aches and pains.
Nonbinary airline passengers ask: What’s gender got to do with it?
New York Times, Published on 25/06/2022
» In late May, chef Silver Cousler flew to Miami from Asheville, North Carolina, to have a “last hurrah” party before getting married and a new restaurant opening. While booking the flight, Cousler, who identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronoun “they,” felt like they had “a split-personality disorder” when the Delta Air Lines website required them to choose either “male” or “female.”
Two dead, one hurt in church shooting in Alabama
New York Times, Published on 17/06/2022
» An assailant opened fire at a church in Alabama on Thursday evening, killing two people and wounding one other, authorities said.
Decades after infamous beating death, recent attacks haunt Asian Americans
New York Times, Published on 16/06/2022
» MADISON HEIGHTS, Michigan: When Vincent Chin, a Chinese American man who lived near Detroit, was beaten to death with a baseball bat after being pursued by two white autoworkers in 1982, it horrified and mobilised Asian Americans across ethnic and linguistic lines.
Canada, Denmark settle ownership of an Arctic island
New York Times, Published on 14/06/2022
» Hans Island is just a desolate, kidney shaped piece of rock in the Arctic. But for 49 years, it has been the source of a rare territorial dispute for Canada because it sits right in the middle of the international boundary between that country and Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
19 children, 2 adults killed in Texas school massacre
New York Times, Published on 25/05/2022
» UVALDE, Texas: A gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults on Tuesday in a rural Texas elementary school, a state police official said, in the deadliest American school shooting since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary a decade ago.
Monkeypox: A rare virus on the rise
New York Times, Published on 21/05/2022
» The rare monkeypox virus, usually confined mostly to Central and West Africa, has spread in unusual ways this year and among populations that have not been vulnerable in the past.
Marcos win prompts protests in the Philippines
New York Times, Published on 10/05/2022
» MANILA: Angry young voters gathered in the Philippines on Tuesday to protest against Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the former dictator, who clinched a landslide victory this week in one of the most divisive presidential elections in the country’s recent history.