innosreport

US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions  President Donald Trump’s extraordinary public denouncement of Attorney General Jeff Sessions reflected a long-simmering frustration with one of his staunchest allies, but was not a calculated attempt to force Sessions from the Cabinet, according to two Trump advisers.

*Family members of the killed soldiers were in the courtroom to hear the verdict (Photo AFP) A Jordanian military court sentenced a soldier to life imprisonment with hard labour on Monday for killing three U.S. military trainers at the gate of a major air base in 2016, a judicial source said.

Amnesty International on Tuesday said tactics used by Iraqi forces and their United States-led coalition allies in the battle for Mosul violated international humanitarian law and might amount to war crimes.

The WikiLeaks whistleblowing platform released on Thursday a new package of CIA documents from the so-called Vault VII project, in particular the documents on two separate CIA projects aimed at stealing users’ login details for remote access to a server of a website.

*President Donald Trump of the U.S President Donald Trump of the United States of America, expressed frustration with China on Wednesday for failing to do more to cut off support to North Korea and exert pressure to curb its nuclear pursuits.

*Kim Jong Un  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed Wednesday his nation will “demonstrate its mettle to the United States,” and never put its weapons programs up for negotiations, a day after successfully testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his United States  counterpart Donald Trump will take place on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Hamburg on Friday.

*Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, Lagos (Nigeria) An American national,  Marco Ramirez, who allegedly obtained $565,000 under false presences from three Nigerians in an American Green Card scam, is to remain behind bars until July 10, a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has ruled.

*US Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell In a bruising setback, Senate Republican leaders are delaying a vote on their prized health care bill until after the July 4 recess, forced to retreat by a GOP rebellion that left them lacking enough votes to even begin debating the legislation.

*Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed a claim by the White House that the Syria government, a longtime Russian ally, was planning a chemical attack similar to one in April that killed dozens of civilians.

*President Bashar Assad of Syria The involvement of external powers in the Syrian war continued to accelerate Tuesday as President Bashar Assad’s government and Russia dismissed White House allegations that it was preparing a new chemical weapons attack.

The Supreme Court is letting a limited version of the Trump administration ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries to take effect, a victory for President Donald Trump in the biggest legal controversy of his young presidency.

Thousands of South Koreans staged a protest rally in central Seoul on Saturday demanding the withdrawal of the deployment of an American high-tech anti-missile defence system. The protest came as President Moon Jae-in and his United Statescounterpart Donald Trump are set to meet in Washington D.C. next week. “The deployment of THAAD, which is unnecessary for the defence of the Korean Peninsula, should be pulled back,” the protesters said in a rally held in Seoul Plaza at the heart of Seoul. The rally’s organiser put the number of participants at 3,000. The rally came ahead of the first Moon-Trump summit to be held from June 29, which is expected to feature the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, THAAD. After taking office last month, Moon ordered the deployment to be delayed until an environmental impact assessment is carried out at its deployment site. “The South Korea-U.S. summit to come next week should be an avenue where the review of the THAAD deployment s

US Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell smiles as he leaves the chamber after announcing the release of the Republicans' healthcare bill which represents the party's long-awaited attempt to scuttle much of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, at the Capitol in Washington on  Thursday. (Photo AP) enate Republicans released their long-awaited bill Thursday to dismantle much of Barack Obama’s health care law, proposing to cut Medicaid and erase tax boosts that helped Obama finance his expansion of coverage. 

*Yemeni businessman Ali Awad Habib recounts the torment he suffered in prison   They call it the “grill”: The victim is tied to a spit like a roast and spun furiously within a circle of fire. It is just one of the terrors inflicted by interrogators on detainees in Yemen who are routinely beaten with wires and were kept in filthy shipping containers, blindfolded for months — all by one of America’s closest counterterrorism allies.

*Bill Priestap A sinister portrait of Russia’s cyberattacks on the United State emerged Wednesday as current and former U.S. officials told Congress Moscow stockpiled stolen information and selectively disseminated it during the 2016 presidential campaign to undermine the American political process.

*President Donald Trump of the US (Nigeria) The Trump administration is considering banning travel by U.S. citizens to North Korea, officials said Tuesday, as outrage grew over the death of American student Otto Warmbier and President Donald Trump declared it a “total disgrace.”

The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday in a show of force against North Korea, South Korean officials said.

The spokesman of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Ramazan Sharif speaks with media members at the conclusion of his press conference in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (Photo AP) The United States military said it shot down an Iranian-made, armed drone in southern Syria on Tuesday, marking the third time this month that that the U.S. has downed aircraft affiliated with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government.

There was no official comment from North Korea as of Tuesday on the death of American Otto Warmbier. He died on Monday, days after he was returned to the U.S. from North Korea, where he had been held prisoner for 17 months. Warmbier returned with severe brain damage. It’s unknown what caused it. (June 20) A coroner’s office in Ohio is investigating the death of a 22-year-old college student who died less than a week after his return to the U.S. after nearly a year and a half in North Korean detention, a spokesman said Tuesday.