Weapons for Syrian rebels sold on Jordan's black market
CIA plan to arm Syrian rebels undermined by theft of weapons by Jordanian intelligence agents, officials say.
Ali Younes & Mark Mazzetti
Amman, Jordan - Weapons shipped into Jordan by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia intended for Syrian rebels have been systematically stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, according to American and Jordanian officials.
Some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November that killed two Americans and three others at a police training facility in Amman, FBI officials believe after months of investigating the attack, according to people familiar with the investigation.
The existence of the weapons theft, which ended only months ago after complaints by the US and Saudi governments, is being reported for the first time following a joint investigation by Al Jazeera and The New York Times
Israel and Turkey to announce end of six-year standoff
The animosity began when nine Turkish activists on a flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip were killed by Israeli forces
Israel is planning on Monday to announce a reconciliation deal with Turkey ending a six-year diplomatic standoff that started when Israeli naval commandos shot dead nine Turkish activists travelling on an aid flotilla making for the Gaza coast.
A deal negotiated in Rome yesterday is expected to restore full ambassador-level relations, provide for about $20m in compensation for the families of those killed and wounded aboard the Mavi Marmara in 2010, and clear the way for potentially lucrative contracts for Israel to transmit natural gas to Turkey.
While the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem refused to comment last night, Reuters reported that journalists travelling to Rome with the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, were told the deal had been reached.
Brexit campaigners admit 'there is no plan' for what comes next as rivals plan Tory leadership bids
Figures on both sides of the debate have suggested the next Prime Minister should come from the Vote Leave campaign
The next Prime Minister must be a backer of Brexit, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has said, as a number of leading Conservatives geared up to be the ‘Stop Boris’ candidate in the leadership election triggered by David Cameron’s bombshell resignation.
As the Tory party wrestled with the implications of the Brexit vote, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove continued to maintain a low profile, amid calls for them to take responsibility and spearhead Britain’s exit negotiations with the EU.
However, one senior Conservative MP and Johnson ally reportedly admitted to Sky News that for Vote Leave “there is no plan” for managing the aftermath of Brexit, in the expectation that Downing Street would have made a contingency plan.
Kidnapped in Karachi: A survival guide from the man who's seen it all
Jameel Yusuf, the founder chief of CPLC, helps us better understand kidnappings in Karachi.FAHAD NAVEED
It would not be unfair to deem 2016 the year of high-profile kidnapping news.
It was mainly good news: five years after being abducted, Shahbaz Taseer, son of slain former Punjab governor Salman Taseer, was recovered in March. More celebrations followed in May when Ali Haider Gilani, son of ex-prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, was recovered from Afghanistan.
But as the Taseers and Gilanis sigh with relief, the family of Barrister Awais Ali Shah — son of sitting Sindh High Court Justice Sajjad Ali Shah who was picked up in Karachi just last week — is plunged into a terrifying, unpredictable ordeal.
The African migrants giving up on the Chinese dream
Updated 0816 GMT (1616 HKT) June 27, 2016
Guangzhou, China The heart of Little Africa -- or Chocolate City, as it has been dubbed by some -- is not easy to locate without a tip-off.
At the foot of an unremarkable tunnel, peeling off the busy Little North Road, in Guangzhou, stands a place that just two years ago was totally unlike the rest of China.
Angolan women carried bin bags of shopping on their heads, Somali men in long robes peddled currency exchange, Uygur restaurateurs slaughtered lamb on the street, Congolese merchants ordered wholesale underwear from Chinese-run shops, Nigerian men hit the Africa Bar for a Tsingtao and plate of jollof rice.
Dengfeng -- a previously quiet urban village, or chengzhongcun, in central Guangzhou -- had been electrified by migration, both from internal Chinese migrants and those from Africa.
How do EU people in the UK feel about Brexit?
One of the most visible signs of Britain's membership of the EU in recent years has been the Polski Sklep.
Polish grocery stores have popped up on the High Streets of most big towns, responding to the growing population of Eastern Europeans in the UK.
Pod Orlem, in Cambridge, is one of them. Inside the shop, the shelves are packed with expat favourites like Goralki chocolate wafers, Winiary pasta sauces and spicy ketchups. Two Polish football shirts are pinned high in the window in honour of Euro 2016.
The staff and customers smile and chat as if it's a normal Friday. But it's soon apparent that hurt and anger lie close beneath the surface as a result of Britain's decision to leave Europe. It's never been suggested that people already in the UK would have to leave but there is a measure of fear nonetheless.
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