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State Department alarmed at rising anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic waves worldwide
The United States on Monday denounced what it called a rising tide of both anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish sentiment around the world as it urged all nations to ensure freedom of religion. In a wide-ranging annual report on religious freedom, the State Department voiced alarm at growing attacks against minority groups…
Report: Republicans were source of bogus Benghazi quotes
Republicans provided the erroneous quotes linked to White House emails regarding how to address the September 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya, CBS News reported on Thursday. According to the report by chief White House correspondent Major Garrett, a quote leaked on May 10 attributed to then-Deputy National…
CNN debunks ABC’s Benghazi ‘scoop’ with new email evidence
CNN’s Jake Tapper has obtained an email from one of President Obama’s top advisors which formed the onus of ABC News’ “scoop” on the purported mishandling of the Benghazi attack. The email, which CNN reprinted in full Tuesday, was characterized by ABC’s Jonathan Karl as a smoking gun in the…
McCain insists Benghazi attack was covered up by the White House
Senator John McCain accused the White House of a “coverup” over Benghazi on Sunday, ratcheting up Republican pressure over the administration’s handling of last September’s consulate attack. Speaking on ABC’s This Week, the GOP grandee alleged that there had been a “wilful removal of information” over the attack in Libya,…
Blueprints for 3-D printable handgun take refuge in Pirate Bay file-sharing site
Blueprints for the world’s first 3D printable handgun took refuge Friday at file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, upsetting a US government attempt to get them off the Internet. Defense Distributed, a Texas non-profit that promotes the open-source development of firearms using 3D printers, withdrew the files needed to make the…
State Department takes down blueprints for 3D-printable handgun
The State Department on Thursday ordered the nonprofit Defense Distributed to remove blueprints for the world’s first 3D-printed gun from its website. “All such data should be removed from public access, the letter says. That might be an impossible standard. But we’ll do our part to remove it from our…
John Kerry blasts politicized Benghazi misinformation
Secretary of State John Kerry Tuesday denounced an “enormous amount of misinformation” about a deadly attack on a US mission in Libya amid a report four US officials are set to leak secrets. Questions about the September 11 assault on the US mission in Benghazi in which four Americans were…
Canadian Minister promoting the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline: ‘Our objective is to have zero serious spills’
Though the State Department officially closed the final comment period for the final stretch of the Keystone XL pipeline earlier this week, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver continued to make the rounds to press for approval and public acceptance of the controversial project in New York City this…
House Republicans blame Hillary Clinton for deadly Benghazi attack
A report by the US Congress on Wednesday faulted former secretary of state Hillary Clinton over the deadly attack on the US mission in Benghazi, saying she rejected requests for greater security. The report by the Republican chairmen of five committees in the House of Representatives said that the Democratic…
Kerry to push U.S. peace efforts at Abbas meeting
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Istanbul on Sunday, the State Department said, as a US-led peace push focusing on the Palestinian economy steps up. Kerry and Abbas, who have met several times recently, will “continue the conversation that they’ve been having for…
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