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The United States is redirecting 230 million dollars in aid funds for Syria to other purposes. The State Department's Friday announcement emphasized that the US is not withdrawing from support for Syria but has found funding from other nations like Saudi Arabia to the tune of 300 million dollars.
The Saudis have been deeply involved in Syria funding jihadist opposition groups that are on the verge of total defeat in the Syrian Civil War that began seven years ago.
The money will be poured into the northeast parts of Syria devastated by coalition forces in their offensive against the Islamic State.
US District Judge T.S. Ellis III, who's presiding over the fraud trial of Paul Manafort in Alexandria, Virginia, says he's received death threats because of the case. Ellis says he's under the protection of the US Marshals Service everywhere he goes.
His revelation comes as major media organizations are seeking to have the names of the jurors, which the judge has refused to give to them. Judge Ellis says such information may subject them to the same threats he's received.
The jury is now deliberating 18 counts of fraud that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office has charged Manafort with.
Two have been arrested in Chile following bomb threats that grounded nine commercial airline flights in Chile, Peru and Argentina on Thursday.
A 29-year old Chilean man was arrested early Friday morning in a northern Chilean city by police using cell phone triangulation to locate him and is charged with making threats to use explosives.
Another man was arrested in Santiago, Chile for joking about a bomb in his bag as he went through security at the airport.
Its been a deadly day on the Gaza border with Israel with Palestinian rioters approaching Israeli positions and drawing fire. Two are dead with more than 100 injured. Incendiary kites were also launched into southern Israel,
A few days ago Israel's security cabinet spoke of a more peaceful situation along the Gaza border allowing 700 trucks of supplies in amid talk of a cease fire deal.
But word from the Palestinian side is that talks will continue later this month on a cease fire plan with Israel's Haaretz newspaper reporting on a plan.
Some Israeli political leaders including Jewish Homeland party leader and Education Minister Naftali Bennett say that Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman is being too soft on Hamas, the militant group that runs Gaza.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was questioned for four hours Friday by police looking into a corruption case against him.
Case 4000 is one where its alleged that Mr. Netanyahu gave regulatory favors to a major Israeli firm BEZEQ when he held the porfolio of Minister of Communications alongside his Prime Minister's position. BEZEQ got the favors so that it would give Netanyahu more positive news coverage on its news website.
There are three separate corruption investigations underway where Netanyahu is named as a suspect and the Prime Minister denies any wrongdoing. Today his spokesman said that Case 4000 is collapsing and the news coverage of him was always negative during the period in question.
A state funeral is set for Genoa,Italy Saturday. Italy's President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will be at the ceremony for 18 of the 38 confirmed dead in Tuesday's superhighway bridge collapse.
Some families are angry at the government over the collapse and will not participate.
Meanwhile, the search for a cause of the collapse is underway led by a government commission. One of its members is suggesting that broken cable rod was a serious possibility. He said videos and eyewitness accounts point to the notion that a rod to the cables that run from the deck of the bridge to the top of its towers broke.
When Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl marries businessman Wolfgang Meilinger at a vineyard in Austria Saturday there will be surprise guest.
The Kremlin announced earlier this week that Russia's President Vladimir Putin will be attending. He was invited by Kneissl earlier this year. Austria's Foreign Minister is a political independent but was selected for her post by the anti-mass immigration Freedom Party, the junior partner in the coalition government.
The left-wing Green Party has called on Kneissl to resign over Putin's presence at her wedding.
By the way, President Putin will travel on to Germany after the nuptials to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
President Trump says that a large military parade planned for Washington DC this November 11th to celebrate the centennial of World War One's end will have to be postposed.
The President says that local officials in the nations capital wanted too much money for the event.
He hopes that it can happen next year.
The jury is now deliberating 18 counts of fraud that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office has charged Manafort with.
Two have been arrested in Chile following bomb threats that grounded nine commercial airline flights in Chile, Peru and Argentina on Thursday.
A 29-year old Chilean man was arrested early Friday morning in a northern Chilean city by police using cell phone triangulation to locate him and is charged with making threats to use explosives.
Another man was arrested in Santiago, Chile for joking about a bomb in his bag as he went through security at the airport.
Its been a deadly day on the Gaza border with Israel with Palestinian rioters approaching Israeli positions and drawing fire. Two are dead with more than 100 injured. Incendiary kites were also launched into southern Israel,
A few days ago Israel's security cabinet spoke of a more peaceful situation along the Gaza border allowing 700 trucks of supplies in amid talk of a cease fire deal.
But word from the Palestinian side is that talks will continue later this month on a cease fire plan with Israel's Haaretz newspaper reporting on a plan.
Some Israeli political leaders including Jewish Homeland party leader and Education Minister Naftali Bennett say that Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman is being too soft on Hamas, the militant group that runs Gaza.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was questioned for four hours Friday by police looking into a corruption case against him.
Case 4000 is one where its alleged that Mr. Netanyahu gave regulatory favors to a major Israeli firm BEZEQ when he held the porfolio of Minister of Communications alongside his Prime Minister's position. BEZEQ got the favors so that it would give Netanyahu more positive news coverage on its news website.
There are three separate corruption investigations underway where Netanyahu is named as a suspect and the Prime Minister denies any wrongdoing. Today his spokesman said that Case 4000 is collapsing and the news coverage of him was always negative during the period in question.
A state funeral is set for Genoa,Italy Saturday. Italy's President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will be at the ceremony for 18 of the 38 confirmed dead in Tuesday's superhighway bridge collapse.
Some families are angry at the government over the collapse and will not participate.
Meanwhile, the search for a cause of the collapse is underway led by a government commission. One of its members is suggesting that broken cable rod was a serious possibility. He said videos and eyewitness accounts point to the notion that a rod to the cables that run from the deck of the bridge to the top of its towers broke.
When Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl marries businessman Wolfgang Meilinger at a vineyard in Austria Saturday there will be surprise guest.
The Kremlin announced earlier this week that Russia's President Vladimir Putin will be attending. He was invited by Kneissl earlier this year. Austria's Foreign Minister is a political independent but was selected for her post by the anti-mass immigration Freedom Party, the junior partner in the coalition government.
The left-wing Green Party has called on Kneissl to resign over Putin's presence at her wedding.
By the way, President Putin will travel on to Germany after the nuptials to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
President Trump says that a large military parade planned for Washington DC this November 11th to celebrate the centennial of World War One's end will have to be postposed.
The President says that local officials in the nations capital wanted too much money for the event.
He hopes that it can happen next year.
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