Jon Gambrell Associated Press Published 7:23 PM EDT Mar 18, 2019 Dubai, United Arab Emirates — The boy is only 12 years old and looks even younger and smaller kneeling next to the wreckage of a helicopter, flanked by masked jihadis carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles with bandoliers strapped across their chests. Hamza bin Laden, with a traditional Arab coffee pot to his right and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher to his left leaning against the debris, made his worldwide television debut reciting a poem in a propaganda video just weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks planned by his father Osama. Years after the death of his father at the hands of a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan, it is now Hamza bin Laden who finds himself squarely in the crosshairs of world powers. In rapid succession in recent weeks, the U.S. put a bounty of up to a $1 million for him; the U.N. Security Council named him to a global sanctions list, sparking a new Interpol notice for his … [Read more...] about Son of Osama bin Laden finds self in world’s crosshairs
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AP PHOTOS: Rulers ride the rails across history
Updated 3:31 pm CST, Tuesday, January 8, 2019 FILE - In this March 27, 2018 photo provided by the North Korean government, leader Kim Jong Un, center, waves as he was given a send-off at a train station in Beijing. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File) less FILE - In this March 27, 2018 photo provided by the North Korean government, leader Kim Jong Un, center, waves as he was given a send-off at a train station in Beijing. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News ... more Photo: AP Photo: AP Image 1 of / 23 Caption Close Image 1 of 23 FILE - In this March 27, 2018 photo provided by the North Korean government, leader Kim Jong Un, center, waves as he was given a send-off at a train station in Beijing. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, … [Read more...] about AP PHOTOS: Rulers ride the rails across history
A look at high-profile defections from North Korea
Kim Tong-hyung, Associated Press Updated 11:22 pm PST, Thursday, January 3, 2019 FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2008, file photo, North Korean defector Hwang Jang Yop, the highest-level Pyongyang official ever to defect to Seoul, delivers a speech to South Korean dispersed families during a ceremony for reunification, and living and dying for their relatives in Seoul, South Korea. Hwang, a former senior member of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, was the chief architect of the North’s governing “juche” ideology of self-reliance and had tutored former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the late father of current ruler Kim Jong Un. less FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2008, file photo, North Korean defector Hwang Jang Yop, the highest-level Pyongyang official ever to defect to Seoul, delivers a speech to South Korean dispersed families during a ... more Photo: Lee Jin-man, AP … [Read more...] about A look at high-profile defections from North Korea
Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2018
Bernard Mcghee, Associated Press Updated 12:56 pm CST, Monday, December 17, 2018 FILE - In this April 18, 2009, file photo, Barbara Bush laughs alongside former President George H.W. Bush, right, as they attend a baseball game in Houston. Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George H.W. Bush, died Tuesday, April 17, 2018. She was 92. less FILE - In this April 18, 2009, file photo, Barbara Bush laughs alongside former President George H.W. Bush, right, as they attend a baseball game in Houston. Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady whose ... more Photo: David J. Phillip, AP Photo: David J. Phillip, AP Image 1 of / 7 Caption Close Image 1 of 7 FILE - In this … [Read more...] about Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2018
S. Korea’s Moon: Trump wants to grant Kim Jong Un’s wishes
Hyung-jin Kim, Associated Press Updated 10:33 pm CST, Sunday, December 2, 2018 In this image made from a video, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, center, prepares to leave after a wreath laying ceremony at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. Moon says U.S. President Donald Trump told him he has a "very friendly view" of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and wants to grant his wishes if he denuclearizes. (TVNZ via AP) less In this image made from a video, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, center, prepares to leave after a wreath laying ceremony at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. ... more Photo: AP Photo: AP Image 1 of / 4 Caption Close Image 1 of 4 In this image made from a video, South … [Read more...] about S. Korea’s Moon: Trump wants to grant Kim Jong Un’s wishes