Europe’s migrant crisis, Kentucky marriage licenses, protests in Guatemala | Sept. 3
The day in photos around the world.
Quinn Kelley 0 Comment Daily Brief Donald Trump, european migrant crisis, Guatemala, Italy, Kim Davis, Libya, Venice Film Festival
The day in photos around the world.
Steve Earley 0 Comment Daily Brief, World Afghanistan, Animals, Australia, Bangladesh, Benghazi, disasters, earthquakes, Germany, gorillas, Indonesia, Japan, labor, Libya, Movies, Nepal, Portugal, Star Wars, transportation, zoos
The day in photos from around the world.
Patrick Maynard 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun Baltimore Blast, India, Italy, Libya, Pakistan, Serbia, soccer, Virginia, week ahead
A look at what’s coming up on the East Coast and around the world. This week, that includes dry faucets in India, a visit to Serbia and three Baltimore Blast games.
Stokely Baksh 0 Comment Daily Brief Bangladesh, China, Cronuts, England, George Zimmerman, Germany, giraffe, Libya, mining, NASA, Palestine, space, Turkey, wrestling
Cronuts are all the rage, protests continue in Turkey, George Zimmerman murder trial begins and more in today’s daily brief. | Warning: Photos may depict death or injury.
Stokely Baksh 0 Comment Daily Brief 40th Show of the Best, Beijing, Brazil, India, Jack Lew, Libya, Mali, Palestine, Paris, pollution, Pope Benedict, Portugal, sequester, Somalia, South Korea, U.S. Secretary of State, United States, Vatican
Pope Benedict bids an emotional farewell, pollution in Beijing, 40th Show of the Best, the sequester in the United States and more in today’s daily brief.
Stokely Baksh 0 Comment Daily Brief Germany, Iberia, India, Libya, Mutter Museum, Olympics, Pakistan, Russia, Sochi, Spain, Syria, Vatican
A year to go until the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, Libya celebrates second anniversary of uprising, Iberia workers on strike and more in today’s daily brief.
Stokely Baksh 1 Comment World Afghanistan, Amr Abdallah Dalsh, Benghazi, Cairo, Christopher Stevens, Egypt, Esam Al-Fetori, Hezbollah, Innocence of Muslims, Islam, Libya, Mohammad, Prophet of Muslims
Updated: Anger over a film about Prophet Mohammad escalated Tuesday in the Middle East when protests erupted in Egypt and Libya. While protesters shouted slogans and ripped apart an American flag in Cairo to condemn the anti-Islam film being produced in America; in Libya, protests turned violent at the compound of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Four men including U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens were killed.
Stokely Baksh 1 Comment Nation, World Africa, Al-Qaida in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb, Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, Central Intelligence Agency, China, Defense Clandestine Service, Defense Department, Defense Intelligence Agency, Iran, Libya, Mali, Nigera, nuclear weapons, Pentagon, Somalia, terrorism
Don’t sound the alarm buttons just yet over the shake up at the Pentagon. This week, a senior defense official said that a reorganization was coming to the Defense Intelligence Agency with the creation of the Defense Clandestine Service. The new service will expand the agency’s espionage operation beyond war zones and step up its engagement in human intelligence — an arena dominated for years by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Matthew Hay Brown, The Baltimore Sun’s military affairs reporter, writes “that the officers — some military, some civilian — will work alongside CIA counterparts in places such as Africa, where al-Qaida has grown more active, and Asia, where Chinese military expansion and North Korean and Iranian weapons ambitions are drawing increasing U.S. concern.”
Here’s a look at some hotspots that the Pentagon’s new spy agency will likely keep an eye on. We’ll continue to look at intelligence and military trends in upcoming posts on The Darkroom.
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