Eleven Yemeni detainees have been moved from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay to Oman. The move has left 15 detainees in the prison in Cuba - the smallest number at any point in its history. In a statement, the Department of Defense thanked Oman for supporting US efforts "focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing" the facility. The transfer, which reportedly happened in the early hours on Monday, comes days before the accused mastermind of the 11 September attacks on the US, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is scheduled to plead guilty, following a deal with federal officials to avoid the death penalty.
Of all the allies in the global fight for LGBT equality, Cuba may be the most unlikely. The s were especially bleak. Deemed unfit for the revolution, gay Cubans were banned from joining the military or becoming teachers. Thousands were confined to isolated labor camps.
Oliver, who is gay and a former Democrat, shrugged off the slur. That flies in the face of libertarianism, and as the leader of our ticket I had to speak out against it. He does have to reckon with the extremes of his party — not because he has any real shot at becoming president but because he wants his ideas to find a new audience. Libertarians have never won more than 3.
Throughout the fall and winter, Alexis Romero de Hernández struggled to accept a grim new routine. She lived in a small town in central Venezuela called Capacho, with her husband and the younger of her two sons. Her eldest, a thirty-one-year-old makeup artist named Andry José Hernández Romero, was being held in an immigration jail in San Diego. He called her every few days, usually late in the afternoon, to reassure her that he was safe.