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Blinken publicly confirms that US officials have been in direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that toppled Assad Blogging Sole

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that U.S. officials were in direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that led the attack. overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad government but is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States and others. Blinken is the first U.S. official to publicly confirm contacts between … Read more

Philippines vice president publicly threatens to assassinate country’s president Blogging Sole

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Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she had hired an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the speaker of the House of Representatives if she herself was killed, in a brazen public threat she said was not a joke. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin spoke of an “active threat” against President Ferdinand Marcos … Read more