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Iraq’s oil revenues are even lower than projected in the country’s already austere 2015 budget, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Saturday, spelling more financial trouble for cash-strapped Baghdad. “So far, our oil revenues are below what was passed in the budget,” Abadi said in televised remarks, without providing exact figures on the shortfall. Iraq’s parliament approved a budget of 119.5 trillion Iraqi dinars in January (about $99.6 billion at the
Every think, “Why should I give up diet soda?” Here are some great reasons.
Every think, “Why should I give up diet soda?” Here are some great reasons.
DALLAS (AP) — A police sniper shot a cornered suspect in an overnight attack on the Dallas Police Department’s headquarters, and authorities were checking Saturday to see if he was alive or dead.
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — The massive manhunt for two convicted killers resumed Saturday on the morning after a worker at an upstate New York maximum-security prison was charged with smuggling in hacksaw blades, chisels, a punch and a screwdriver bit to help the men escape.
A man suspected of attacking setting off bombs outside the Dallas Police headquarters and spraying the building with gunfire in the early hours of Saturday was shot and possibly killed by snipers a few hours later, police said. Dallas Police Chief David Brown said police snipers shot the suspect through the windshield of a van in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant about 10 miles (16 km) south
By Barbara Goldberg and Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman employee of an upstate New York prison on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges that she helped two inmates stage a daring escape from the maximum security facility. Joyce Mitchell, an industrial training supervisor at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, was arrested on suspicion of having smuggled contraband into the prison, from which convicts Richard Matt and
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton stages the first big rally of her presidential campaign on Saturday, trying to cast herself as a fighter for ordinary Americans and build a clearer case for why she wants to lead the country. Running to be the first female president, Clinton will trumpet her record on women’s rights and talk about her mother’s tough upbringing in a speech
The latest law enforcement officer to fuel the national uproar about race and policing once jailed an African-American man for a defective headlight and was sued by another man for racial profiling, excessive force and other civil rights violations.
