Sentences with phrase «armed groups from»

In the years that followed, armed groups from both sides of Colombia's civil war have intensified their incursions in pursuit of their cut of the profit, including the introduction of illicit crops such as coca, causing terrible and widespread devastation.

In December, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi declared victory over ISIS and marked the end of a three - year effort to drive the armed group from Iraq.

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Well, that brings up the second surprise: The presence of armed guards tends to dramatically increase the likelihood of violence and injury during a robbery, as the Center for Investigative Reporting found when it analyzed detailed FBI crime incident reports from 2007 to 2011 — which the group got through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Sticking with the sector, Vivendi jumped 4.4 percent, after a strong performance from the media group's music arm UMG and Canal Plus division in its third - quarter results.

The latest backing came from a group which included Richard Branson's The Spaceship Company — the manufacturing arm of Virgin Galactic — as well as other «tech bosses, engineers, and astronauts,» according to The Daily Mail.

On Saturday, March 26, Caspersen, a former managing director at PJT Partners» private - equity arm, Park Hill Group, was arrested at New York's LaGuardia Airport upon returning from a family vacation in Florida.

The two leaders discussed fighting the terrorist group ISIS and Iran - backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, as well as Saudi Arabia's arms purchases from the US.

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For instance, battery startup Stem raised $ 45 million from investors last year, including from the energy trading arm of big German power company RWE Group.

Israeli sports technology company PlaySight Interactive has announced today that it has extended its Series C financing round to $ 21 million with $ 10 million in new investments from SoftBank Ventures Korea, a SoftBank Group early stage venture capital arm based and CE Ventures from Hong Kong.

Claure is stepping down from the top job at Sprint to become the chief operating officer at SoftBank Group and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group International, the technology and telecoms company's sprawling international investments arm.

Bain Capital Ventures, which headed up Reonomy's Series B in 2015, also lead this round, with additional investment from Softbank, Barry Sternlicht's family office JAWS, Marcus & Millichap's venture arm, and John Catsimatidis» Red Apple Group.

Gaana.com, the music streaming service from the stable of Times Internet (the digital arm of the Times of India group), has rolled...

Bengaluru - based relocation service provider Pikkol has received seed funding from a group of angel investors, including Ajay Nanavati, former chairman of 3M India, the Indian arm of US multinational conglomerate 3M Co. and Afsal Salu, co-founder of hyperlocal delivery company Delyver, which was acquired by BigBasket.

Earlier this year, in April, Sharara and El Feel both stopped pumping after an armed group blocked the pipeline from Sharara — the bigger field supplies electricity to El Feel.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah also successfully made the transition from armed insurgent group to legitimate political party.

That, as well as its significant lobbying arm, has often been credited with blocking gun reforms and bringing to heel politicians who benefit from NRA money and are reluctant to cross the group's vocal base.

... Even by the standards of Apollo, one of the world's largest private equity firms, the previously unreported transaction with the Kushners was a big deal: It was triple the size of the average property loan made by Apollo's real estate lending arm... An even larger loan came from Citigroup, which lent the firm and one of its partners $ 325 million to help finance a group of office buildings in Brooklyn.

Wanda Hotel Development, a Hong Kong - listed arm of Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group, plans to buy businesses worth more than $ 1 billion from other units of its parent company, while selling out of four property projects.

HONG KONG (Reuters)- Dalian Wanda Group's commercial property arm has snagged a $ 5.4 billion investment from a group led by tech giant Tencent Holdings, one of the Chinese conglomerate's biggest deals aimed at easing financial strains and streamlining operatGroup's commercial property arm has snagged a $ 5.4 billion investment from a group led by tech giant Tencent Holdings, one of the Chinese conglomerate's biggest deals aimed at easing financial strains and streamlining operatgroup led by tech giant Tencent Holdings, one of the Chinese conglomerate's biggest deals aimed at easing financial strains and streamlining operations.

Armed men abducted a German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday evening from a compound in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the aid group said Thursday.

It also prevents the long arms of absolute equality from dabbling in the insignificant groupings and daily» to do's» of college kids.

As truckloads of equipment arrived at the fair organised by the Defence and Security Equipment International in East London in September 2017, Quakers were among faith groups protesting against arms trade and profiting from war.

The group of bishops addresses many needs of the church, from how to handle changes in the liturgy to acting as the public policy arm of the church.

From CNN's Kelly Marshall: Hours before the Senate Armed Services Committee passed a measure Thursday that would repeal «don't ask, don't tell,» a group of pastors, priests and rabbis gathered in the Capitol to encourage lawmakers to retain the ban on gays in the military.

Formed toward the end of the 1950s, two of these groups remain active today: the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), which draws its primary strength from campesinos in the south, and the ELN (Army of National Liberation), whose strength is greater in the north among oil workers, indigenous groups defending their habitat against encroachment by the oil industry, and the Afro - Colombian population.

As of now (hours after the president's tweet), the official defense.gov website says, «Transgender Service members may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military solely for being transgender individuals» and «This policy was crafted through a comprehensive and inclusive process that included the leadership of the Armed Services, medical and personnel experts across the Department, transgender Service members, outside medical experts, advocacy groups, and the RAND Corporation.»

In my own church, I see how several times during the month, groups of fellow Christians, armed with a list of local homes in disrepair, go at no cost to fix a front porch, or gutters, or save a poor widow from having her house condemned.

's «program» (as it was reported by Frank Amos to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1938), it does illustrate Mel's awareness of the confusion that was set in motion almost as soon as Wilson returned from Akron in the summer of 1935 and fell back into the arms of his Oxford Group friends in New York, the counsel of Rev. Sam Shoemaker at Calvary Church, and the bizarre «higher powers» mentioned in the writings of Professor William James.

Israel considers Hamas responsible for all rocket fire emanating from Gaza, which is home to other armed groups.

Police had been called to the scene because of reports of an armed man threatening suicide — the man had actually wandered away from a group home and only had a toy truck in his hands.

The focus on the Palestinian as «terrorist» is partly due to the rise of commando groups from the refugee camps of the 1960s, who decided that armed struggle was necessary to recover their homeland.

US wheat growers in the states that helped elect Mr Trump are up in arms after analysis by their powerful lobby groups showed Japanese tariffs on wheat imports from Australia will drop by $ US65 a tonne.

This past June I was invited to a press event at the NFL headquarters, where representatives from a group of national governing bodies for team sports talked about their safety initiatives, which showed just how far behind the NFL and its youth football arm, USA Football, had been until recently.

@gerrit: There are indeed many similarities to the Irish - vs English case: A different religion of the colonizers; a history including a period of not - genocide - but - not - incredibly - far - from it; and the fact that Irish armed groups never (to my knowledge) targeted Protestants from other countries.

«We do see evidence of international terrorist groups benefitting from... illicit trafficking and money laundering» in South America, he said in written testimony during a March 13 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

Lawmakers who publicly supported honoring a co-founder of the FALN terror group at this year's Puerto Rican Day Parade say they felt strong - armed by an offer from the Council speaker that they couldn't refuse.

In southern Colombia, armed groups exert strong social control over large areas, impeding any information, including on human rights violations, from leaving the region.

The architect of the uprising, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, was arrested and hauled before a court martial, but before the dust could settle on the issue, a group of officers and men from the Ghana Armed Forces, on June 4, 1979, seized the reins of power and ousted the SMC.

One group which has benefited from the rise of Isis is the arms companies, with the outgoing BAE chief executive having tastelessly described its growth as a «call to arms».

Without the FARC's protection, civilians» lives are at risk if they are exposed to violence from any of the other armed groups still active in Colombia.

These could come from armed groups such as the ELN, or one of the many right - wing and criminal groups involved in the illicit drug trade and other forms of transnational organised crime that plague the country.

Even the stuff that some might be tempted to write off as ancient history is very much present for some: a 2010 statement by the Alliances des patriotes pour un Congo libre et souverain (APCLS — another armed group, this time from Masisi) declares, «We, the indigenous Congolese from Masisi, Rutshuru, and Walikale in North Kivu province, denounce the Machiavellian plan to exterminate [the people] in the land of their ancestors».

In the past, where the police deployed fewer men than expected while at the same time police threaten from high roof to deal with miscreants, posed little or no deterrence to «macho» men and armed or militia groups loyal to political parties to visit mayhem on voters.

Mr. Bharara returned the favor from his seat in the second row, behind a group of Cuomo administration veterans that included Lawrence S. Schwartz, the former secretary to the governor, whose strong - armed interactions with the Moreland panel were documented by The New York Times.

Scores of heavily armed police stormed the party's headquarters five minutes after the violence to forestall any reprisal, after the Invisible Forces repelled attacks from the group from Kasoa, Afreh said.

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Government watchdog groups slammed CUNY's bypassing of bidding requirements and noted the Buffalo Billion bid - rigging scandal that has engulfed Gov. Cuomo's administration emanated from a contract managed by not - profit arm of SUNY, Fort Schuyler Management.

Balance New York, an independent expenditure committee formed by veterans of the Senate Republicans» fundraising arm, received a $ 200,000 contribution from a Washington - D.C. - based group that supports GOP candidates in state races.

A statement from Army headquarters on Friday noted that «Similarly, troops of 7 Division Garrison, in a joint operations with 112 Battalion, Army Headquarters Support Group and Armed Forces Special Forces at Gajibo, Maula, Gamai, Gamare, Maiwa, Warsale, Tangli, Tushi, Sowa, Hasanari, Changuwa, Malamaja, and Marya in Dikwa and Mafa Local Government Areas rescued 350 people including 5 Cameroonian girls that were held hostages by the Boko Haram terrorists in those areas.