Peshawar, Pakistan After decades of work, polio was eradicated almost everywhere in the world. What was left were pockets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Medical experts had hoped that 2020 would be the last year that the main form of the virus, which could permanently paralyze or cause death, was at …
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran on Saturday hanged a once-deported journalist for his workline work, which helped provoke a nationwide economic protest in 2017, officials said, just months after he returned to Tehran under mysterious circumstances. Ruhullah Zam, 47, was hanged early Saturday morning, according to Iranian state television and …
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A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee provides a treasure trove of new details about Donald Trump’s relationship with Moscow, saying that a Russian national who worked closely with Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 was a career intelligence officer . The bilingual report runs to nearly 1,000 pages and goes …
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A former CIA officer has been arrested and charged with selling secrets to China over several years, the justice department announced. According to prosecutors, the former US spy – identified as Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67 – conspired with an unnamed family member, also a former CIA officer, to sell …
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This story originally appeared on CBSNews.com’s sister site ZDNet.com. Newly dropped Tuesday on espionage charges against two former Twitter employees and one other person, the US government has dropped a new replacement indictment charging the three people with even more crimes. The two former Twitter employees, Ahmad Abouammo and Ali …
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