Video appears to show Taliban operating Black Hawk helicopter

A video circulating on social media appears to show a U.S.-made UH-60 Black Hawk military”>helicopter<.  “Reportedly a #Taliban captured #Afghanistan Air Force UH-60 Blackhawk at Kandahar. Important to note it is only shown taxiing not flying,” Joseph Dempsey, a research associate for defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said on…

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UN said to be poised to ax whistleblower for exposing Chinese/UN wrongdoing

A group representing over 30 whistleblower and anti-corruption groups around the world is urging the united-nations” target=”_blank”>United Nations< influence at the U.N.  Reilly fears she will be fired for her efforts. She alerted her bosses at the U.N. Human Rights office that – at the request of world-regions – her office handed over names of dissidents who were coming…

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Multiple people hospitalized with food poisoning after landing in New York from Ukraine, reports say

At least 27 people from a Jewish group were hospitalized Tuesday night for food poisoning upon returning to new-york-city” target=”_blank”>New York City<, according to media reports.  The group traveled to the Ukraine with a spiritual leader, who returned a day earlier, and became ill while on their way home, Hamodia reported. The report said 18…

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Yakuza boss first to be sentenced to death in Japan

A district judge in world-regions sentenced a top boss in the country’s notorious organized crime group, referred to as the Yakuza, to death on Tuesday, a punishment believed to be the first of its kind for the mob, according to reports. Nomura Satoru, 74, was found to have ordered four assaults between 1998 and 2014, one of…

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