Epstein Secrets

d of this month. "This makes it impossible to speak of a transfer to civilian rule at the end of June," Heba Morayef, a Cairo-based researcher with Human Rights Watch, said Sunday night. "It was a soft coup to start with, but now it's pretty blatant." Trading fraud allegations Shafiq's campaign issued a statemen

ming its most public fracture since its founding. The Gaza faction sees little reason to make concessions and is particularly skeptical about Hamas Politburo chief Khaled Meshaal's sudden embrace of Palestinian reconciliation with the West Bank-based rival Fatah party, fearing the move will end the group

ne people of one country." But inside Syria those =hanting "Christians to Beirut, Alawites to their graves!" have become =ore than a fringe element. Human Rights Watch and other groups have docume=ted cases of rebels executing Syrian soldiers and Alawites regarded as gov=rnment collaborators. Growing numbers of fo

less substantial job. His pr=decessors, Jiang Zemin and the late Deng Xiaoping, both kept the military =ost for a couple of years after leaving the Politburo, ostensibly to ensur= a smooth transition. Not since Hua Guofeng took over on Mao's death hav= both jobs been transferred simultaneously. Hua turne

n the transit zone where they emerged from a door marked “authorized personnel only” shortly before 5 PM. The room was packed with representatives of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Wikileaks and other Moscow-based activist groups. They had been invited the previous day by an emails signed “Edward Snowden”

t provided to journalists in Hong Kong. Before meeting with Kucherena, I had met with Sophie Shevardnadze, the previously-mentioned grand-daughter of Politburo member Edward Shevardnadze and widely-followe3d television journalist. She told me that Kucherena had personally approved the translation of the inte