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ICC Prosecutors: US Likely Committed War Crimes In Afghanistan

U.S. armed forces and the CIA may have committed war crimes by torturing detainees in Afghanistan, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said.

Jason Ditz
Par Jason Ditz
In this Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 photo, a U.S. soldier, left, with Apache Company of Task Force 3-66 Armor, out of Grafenwoehr, Germany, fingerprints a man passing through a police checkpoint at Gulruddin pass in Sar Hawza district of Paktika province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Heidi Vogt)

Prosecutors from the International Criminal Court (ICC) today revealed that the results of a preliminary probe have suggested the US likely committed war crimes during the occupation of Afghanistan, saying that the probe suggested troops and the CIA tortured at least 61 detainees. The United States has made a point of not becoming a member of

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Moscovici: Anti-Establishment Populism Pushing EU Into Unknown

French police officers detain a man during a demonstration of extreme-right activists and supporters of PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West), in front of the train station in Calais, northern France, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler) The current revolt against the political establishment and globalization in Europe could send the […]

Sputnik News
Par Sputnik News
French police officers detain a man during a demonstration of extreme-right activists and supporters of PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West), in front of the train station in Calais, northern France, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016. Hundreds of extreme-right activists demonstrated Saturday to "save" Calais from homeless migrants inundating the French port city in hopes of crossing the English Channel to Britain. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

The current revolt against the political establishment and globalization in Europe could send the EU into a US-style leap into the unknown and potentially rip apart the European Union, EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici has warned. Moscovici, the EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs, acknowledged the growing sense of disillusionment

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Trump, Putin Agree To Normalize US-Russia Ties

The agreement was for a dialogue on the basis of equality, mutual respect, and non-intervention in each other’s domestic affairs.

Jason Ditz
Par Jason Ditz
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with defense officials in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015. (Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Officials have confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the phone on Monday evening. Putin is said to have called Trump to congratulate him on winning last week’s presidential election. The two are said to have agreed on the need to resolve “extremely unsatisfactory” Russo-American relations,

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Sweden Finally Questions WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange At Ecuador’s London Embassy

‘There was no need for the Swedish authorities to delay for over 1,000 days before agreeing to carry out this interview, given that the Swedish authorities regularly question people in Britain,’ noted Ecuador’s foreign minister.

MintPress News Desk
Par MintPress News Desk
Swedish prosecutor Ingrid Isgren passes a banner put up by a supporter of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as she walks to a vehicle, on the second day at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. Isgren went to the embassy Monday and Tuesday to question Wikileaks founder Julian Assange about allegations concerning possible sexual misconduct committed in Sweden six years ago. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

LONDON --- On Monday, Swedish prosecutors finally began questioning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside Ecuador’s Embassy in London, where he’s lived on asylum for more than four years. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/798110156336676864 Assange entered the embassy on June 19, 2012 under threat of extradition to Sweden, where he was

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Clinton Leads Trump By 1.8 Million Votes As Counting Continues

Clinton’s lead in the popular vote has been widening from a few thousand votes to millions as people continued protested for the fifth day straight since the elections.

teleSUR
Par teleSUR
Protesters hold banners during a rally outside the CNN studios, in opposition to President-elect Donald Trump, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov .13, 2016. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Clinton’s lead in the popular vote has been widening from a few thousand votes to millions as people continued protested for the fifth day straight since the elections. Hillary Clinton has so far secured a 1.8-million-vote lead over President-elect Donald Trump in the popular vote of the U.S. elections, a significant lead that would boost

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Assange Questioned At Ecuadorean Embassy In London

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appears at the window before speaking on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was being questioned by prosecutors on Monday about possible sexual misconduct committed in Sweden six years ago. Assange was being interviewed at the Ecuadorean Embassy […]

Associated Press
Par Associated Press
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appears at the window before speaking on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.

LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was being questioned by prosecutors on Monday about possible sexual misconduct committed in Sweden six years ago. Assange was being interviewed at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London where he sought refuge more than four years ago. The questioning was being led by an Ecuadorean prosecutor in the

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