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Release: Côte d’Ivoire. Overview: Côte d’Ivoire was added to the 2021 Country Report on Terrorism because a significant increase in attacks from violent extremists in the North spilled over the porous border from Burkina Faso. The Government of Côte d’Ivoire assesses the Macina Liberation Front (aka Katiba Macina),...
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News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Troy Wilson Wheatley, 42, of Boone County, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a series of upcoming virtual listening sessions on EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap. Beginning on February 28 and continuing through late April, EPA will be holding a virtual session on the PFAS Strategic Roadmap focused on ...
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Release: Türkiye. Overview: Türkiye experienced a significant decrease in terrorist incidents within its borders in 2021, compared with prior years. However, it has expanded its counterterrorism operations in Iraq and Syria and provided counterterrorism support to Somalia. Media reported that Turkish airstrikes ...
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News Release: Jean Baptiste Chalifoux - Old Spanish Trail[1].
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Release: Chad. Overview: In 2021, Chadian President Déby was killed during a battlefield engagement with rebels; the Transitional Military Council that assumed control after the longtime president’s death has maintained Chad’s prior commitments to regional counterterrorism efforts. Chad has experienced persistent...
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Release: Indonesia. Overview: Indonesia continued to detect, disrupt, degrade, and deny safe haven for terrorist groups operating within its borders. ISIS-affiliated Mujahidin Indonesia Timur (MIT), Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), and ISIS-inspired lone actors targeted police and other symbols of state authority.
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Release: Trinidad and Tobago. Overview: The threat from ISIS sympathizers in Trinidad and Tobago and the possible return of individuals who traveled, or attempted to travel, to Syria or Iraq to fight with ISIS is the primary terrorism concern in the country. Trinidad and Tobago and the United States continue...
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News Release: Des Moines, IA - A West Des Moines man was sentenced today to 60 years in prison for multiple child exploitation offenses.
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Release: Belgium. Overview: Belgium had an active counterterrorism policy that included robust domestic security efforts, international information sharing, and support for multilateral efforts. The country’s greatest terrorism threat remained homegrown terrorism carried out by lone actors, whether inspired by...
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Release: Germany. Overview: Germany continued its counterterrorism cooperation with the United States and the international community as a member of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS (and co-leader of the coalition’s Stabilization Working Group) and the Global Counterterrorism Forum and in multilateral CT operations ...
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Release: Chad. Overview: In 2021, Chadian President Déby was killed during a battlefield engagement with rebels; the Transitional Military Council that assumed control after the longtime president’s death has maintained Chad’s prior commitments to regional counterterrorism efforts. Chad has experienced persistent...
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News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Dennis Daniels, 73, of Romulus, NY, who was convicted of mail fraud and willful failure to file an income tax return, was sentenced to serve two years’ probation, and pay restitution, including $22,440 to the U.S. Coast Guard and students, and $115,757 to the Internal Revenue Service, by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr.
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News Release: Quick Facts. Significance: Landscape Architect. Place of Birth: Florence, Italy. Date of Birth: February 5, 1875. Place of Death: Manhattan, New York. Date of Death: Feb. 26, 1933. Place of Burial: Bourne, Massachusetts. Cemetery Name: Cataumet. As chief designer for the planting plan, and later as a member...
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News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Jennifer Campbell, 48, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to serve 36 months in prison and pay restitution totaling $371,332.11 by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
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News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - George Michael Thayer, 52, of St. Albans, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute a quantity of oxycodone.
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News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev.- The Humboldt River Field Office of the BLM has finalized the Water Canyon Recreation Area Environmental Assessment and has signed a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Decision Record (DR) for the project. The Water Canyon Nature Trail has been closed since the recreation area bridges were removed in 2016 and 2020.
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Release: Mali. Overview: The transition government, installed following the 2020 coup d’état, undertook another extraconstitutional change in government on May 24, when military forces arrested transition President Bah N’Daw and transition Prime Minister Moctar Ouane. Assimi Goita, who led the 2020 coup and had...
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, TYRESE HARRIS, age 19, a resident of Orleans Parish, pled guilty to a five-count superseding indictment for conspiracy, carjacking, and weapons violations. Count 1 charged HARRIS with conspiracy to commit...
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News Release: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed removing the radiation portion of the Aircraft Components, Inc. (D&L Sales) Superfund site in Benton Harbor, Michigan from the National Priorities List (NPL). EPA deletes sites- or parts of sites- from the NPL only when no further cleanup is required. ...