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1 month ago | 
southernmarylandchronicle.com | Mennatalla Ibrahim |David Higgins
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board issued urgent safety recommendations Tuesday, warning that helicopter flights near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport pose serious safety risks and one helicopter route should be closed during airport operations. Hours later, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy accepted the recommendations on behalf of the Federal Aviation Administration, promising long-term changes.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
moco360.media | Mennatalla Ibrahim
When Montgomery County police Cpl. Phil Brower’s wake-up alarm buzzed at 4 a.m. on workdays, his K-9 partner Monte would attempt to drag him out of bed with a nuzzle from a wet nose and an eager stare. Monte, an 8½-year-old Belgian Malinois-German shepherd mix from Slovakia, was so excited to start the day that he sometimes skipped breakfast to avoid delaying their departure in a police cruiser, according to Brower.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
capitalgazette.com | Shaun Chornobroff |Mennatalla Ibrahim
WASHINGTON — Throughout his campaign for a second term, President-elect Donald Trump promised his administration would carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history. If successful, Trump’s move would put the estimated more than a quarter-million Maryland residents without legal status at risk of deportation, which experts say could damage the state’s economy long-term.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
baltimoresun.com | Shaun Chornonroff |Mennatalla Ibrahim
WASHINGTON - Throughout his campaign for a second term, President-elect Donald Trump promised his administration would carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history. If successful, Trump's move would put the estimated more than a quarter-million Maryland residents without legal status at risk of deportation, which experts say could damage the state's economy long-term.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
cnsmaryland.org | Mennatalla Ibrahim
With his health deteriorating and without medication, journalist Victor Ruiz Ticay spent 517 days and nights sleeping on a cement floor in the suffocating heat of an overcrowded Nicaraguan prison cell. The 6-by-9-foot cell, which he said he shared with 24 other inmates, was a nightmare of inhumane conditions: Toilets were little more than holes infested with insects. The food sometimes arrived rotten or with fragments of cockroaches.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
cnsmaryland.org | Mennatalla Ibrahim
Behind the white bars of the defendant's cage in Korolyov City Court, journalist Roman Ivanov stood handcuffed and expressionless in March, as the prosecutor presented evidence that he had spread false information by criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine, according to a widely circulated photograph by Getty Images.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
cnsmaryland.org | Mennatalla Ibrahim
During a visit to his friend in California 11 years ago, Truong Huy San, one of Vietnam's most influential journalists and historians, debated whether to stay in the United States or return to Vietnam, concerned he would one day be imprisoned for his work. "No free man would ever choose prison. But, in some cases, to defend a right to freedom, prison cannot be avoided," San told Peter Zinoman, a history professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert on Vietnam.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
cnsmaryland.org | Mennatalla Ibrahim
Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi, 65, was released from prison in late October after serving 22 months of detention. He was pardoned by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, along with 4,000 other prisoners, marking the anniversary of the war of independence in which El Kadi's father played a pioneering role. 677 jours en prison!Une pensée pour Nabil Mellah et les autres détenus politiques.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
cnsmaryland.org | Mennatalla Ibrahim
A 3-year-old girl in braided pigtails stood between her father, journalist Aziz Orujov, and masked police officers inside their Baku, Azerbaijan, apartment in November 2023. Dressed in polka-dot pajama pants, she clung to her father's leg as her mother recorded the scene which was later posted on Orujov's news service Kanal 13. Orujov lifted her up, kissed her on the cheek and attempted to distract her before officers took him away. More than a year later, Orujov is still in pretrial detention.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
somdnews.com | Shaun Chornobroff |Mennatalla Ibrahim
Throughout his campaign for a second term, President-elect Donald Trump promised his administration would carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history. If successful, Trump’s move would put the estimated more than a quarter-million Maryland residents without legal status at risk of deportation, which experts say could damage the state’s economy long-term.
