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New York (AFP) - Twenty-two years after the September 11 jihadist attacks on the United States, the remains of two people who died in the collapse of the World Trade Center have been identified through DNA analysis, the authorities said ahead of the latest commemoration of the 2001 disaster. The identities of the two, a man and a woman, are being withheld at the request of their families. They bring to 1,649 the number of victims whose remains have been identified, of the total 2,753 who died when an Al-Qaeda commando crashed two hijacked civilian airliners into New York's twin towers, the ci...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court this week examines a quarter-century old law that has protected tech companies from lawsuits and prosecution for content posted by their users, with a chance that the rules governing the internet will no longer stand. Enacted when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was just 11 years old and Google’s creation still two years off, Section 230 is seen as a fundamental law of the internet and considered inviolable by its staunch defenders. Section 230 was part of the Communication Decency Act, an anti-pornography law signed in 1996, that helped set the rules o...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court appeared on Wednesday to support reinstatement of the death penalty for 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, but one justice questioned how the case jibed with the Biden administration's opposition to federal executions. Tsarnaev's conviction six years ago in the deadly bombing, carried out with his older brother Tamerlan who was killed while fleeing, earned him sentences of both life imprisonment and capital punishment. But his lawyers won an appeal of the death sentence on grounds that jurors had not sufficiently heard arguments about how Tsa...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden's opposition to capital punishment will be put to the side Wednesday when the US Justice Department tries to convince the Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev, 28, was 19 when he and his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev planted two home-made bombs near the finish line of the April 15, 2013 race, killing three people and injuring 264 others. On the run, the two also killed a policeman. Tamerlan was then killed in a gunfight with police. In 2015 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on 30 counts and gi...
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New York (AFP) - In one Brooklyn firehouse, there is only one survivor of the September attacks still active, but the memory of 12 "brothers" lost in the twisted and smoking debris of the World Trade Center is still achingly alive. The words "We will never forget" now appear on a metal plaque affixed to the facade of the Squad Co. 1 firehouse in Brooklyn's fashionable Park Slope neighborhood. The names of the 12 firefighters from the unit who died that day are inscribed there as well. Their retired colleagues, family members and active firefighters gathered around an American flag on Saturday ...
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New York (AFP) - Anish Shrivastava's life has been molded by the events of the day he was born: September 11, 2001. From his uncle skipping work at the World Trade Center that day to attend his birth to how Shrivastava celebrates his birthday, 9/11 is never far away. Shrivastava was one of approximately 13,000 children born in the United States the same day al-Qaeda hijackers crashed two planes into the twin towers killing almost 3,000 people. But few can likely claim that their arrival helped save a life. Shrivastava was born at 10:05 am on that Tuesday morning 20 years ago in a hospital in ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether to reinstate the death penalty for one of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers -- setting up a potential dilemma for President Joe Biden who opposes capital punishment. The previous Donald Trump administration asked the high court to weigh in on the case after a federal appeals court overturned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence. Tsarnaev, 27, was 19 when he and his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev planted two home-made bombs near the finish line of the April 15, 2013 race, killing three people and injuring 264 others. On the...
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Shanksville (United States) (AFP) - US President Donald Trump struck a somber tone Friday on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks as his Democratic rival Joe Biden comforted relatives of victims -- in dueling bids to unite a deeply-divided nation. Nineteen years after the devastating Al-Qaeda attacks, former vice president Biden began the day in New York for an annual event honoring the nearly 3,000 who died in the destruction of the World Trade Center.Trump did not attend the ceremony in his home city, sending Mike Pence instead. Biden and the vice president tapped elbows and cha...
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New York (AFP) - With crime on the rise, shops and apartments increasingly vacant and homeless people on the sidewalks, New York on Friday will mark the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and a bitter fight with the White House.The city will hold its annual ceremony in memory of the nearly 3,000 people who died in the bloodiest terrorist attack in US history, punctuated by a minute's silence at the exact moments that Al-Qaeda jihadists crashed two hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center towers.Instead of reading out the roll call...
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