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Hezbollah leader says he warned Iran's Soleimani of U.S. assassination threat

World Jan 6, 2020

Hezbollah leader says he warned Iran's Soleimani of U.S. assassination threat

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday he had warned Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani of the risk of assassination and met him in the Lebanese capital Beirut on New Year's Day before he was killed in a U.S. attack in Baghdad. Nasrallah, in ...

Carlos Ghosn met Lebanese president after fleeing Japan, sources say

National / Crime & Legal Jan 2, 2020

Carlos Ghosn met Lebanese president after fleeing Japan, sources say

Fugitive former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn met Lebanon's president after his escape from Japan, where he was smuggled out of house arrest by a private security company, two sources close to Ghosn said on Wednesday. One of the sources said Ghosn was greeted warmly by ...

Ghosn with the wind: Theories abound in ex-Nissan chief's escape debacle

National Jan 1, 2020

Ghosn with the wind: Theories abound in ex-Nissan chief's escape debacle

by Dana Khraiche and Brian Bremner

How did Carlos Ghosn do it? The former head of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA, who was awaiting the first of two trials in Tokyo, somehow evaded almost round-the-clock manned and video surveillance and heavy restrictions on his freedom of movement to flee to ...

Parents of American journalist kidnapped in Syria in 2012 appeal to U.S., Syria

World Dec 5, 2018

Parents of American journalist kidnapped in Syria in 2012 appeal to U.S., Syria

The parents of an American journalist kidnapped in Syria six years ago appealed on Tuesday for the United States and Syria to work together to find their son and said they had applied for Syrian visas to lobby there for his release. Austin Tice was ...

World / Crime & Legal Apr 21, 2016

Iran bank must pay $2 billion to U.S. kin of 1983 Beirut bomb victims: Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that almost $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets must be turned over to American families of people killed in the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut and other attacks blamed on Iran. The court's ...

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