INVESTIGATION: Nuclear smugglers sought extremist buyers
By DESMOND BUTLER and VADIM GHIRDA In the backwaters of Eastern Europe, authorities working with the FBI have interrupted four attempts in the past five years by gangs with suspected…
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Turkish Foreign Ministry to allow multiple air bases to be used for IS strikes
By SUZAN FRASER and DESMOND BUTLER The Turkish Foreign Ministry says Turkey has agreed to allow U.S.-led coalition forces to use its air bases in the southern part of the…
Turkey police bill raises fears of new clampdown on dissent
By SUZAN FRASER and DESMOND BUTLER Chairs flew and lawmakers traded punches. A brawl in Parliament over a new security bill has forced the spotlight on mounting suspicions that President…
US co-opted Cuba’s hip-hop scene to spark change
By DESMOND BUTLER, MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ In early 2009, a U.S. government contractor sent a Serbian music promoter to Cuba with these covert marching orders: Recruit…