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Ex-Georgian President Saakashvili On Hunger Strike After Ukraine Arrest
Supporters of former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, angered at his detention, attend a rally outside a detention centre in Kiev late on December 8, 2017. PHOTO: Genya SAVILOV / AFP Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has gone on hunger strike to protest his arrest in Ukraine on charges of trying to stage a coup sponsored by...
Paradise Papers Reveal Offshore Deals With Apple, Trump Cabinet Member
US Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross addresses delegates at the annual Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference in east London, on November 6, 2017. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP Apple’s tax avoidance strategy which shifted profits from one fiscal haven to another. The financial links of a top Trump administration official to Vladimir...
Judge Keeps Former Trump Campaign Officials Under House Arrest
US President Donald Trump SAUL LOEB / AFP United States President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign chairman and an associate were ordered by a judge Thursday to remain under house arrest while they await trial for money laundering and other charges. Paul Manafort, 68, who managed Trump’s campaign from June to August 2016, and Robert Gates,...
Trump’s Former Campaign Chairman Charged With Money Laundering
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with members of the Senate Finance Committee and his economic team in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 18, 2017. MANDEL NGAN / AFPDonald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was on Monday charged with conspiracy against the United States and money...
Russian Helicopter Crashes At Sea In Arctic
This file picture taken on May 5, 2011 shows the Russian helicopter which crashed, in the hangar of the base Kapp Heer at Barentsburg, Svalbard. Birger Amundsen / NTB Scanpix / AFPA Russian helicopter with eight people on board crashed at sea in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic on Thursday, Norwegian rescue services said, with...
Ukraine Protesters Set Up Tent Camp Outside Parliament
Hundreds of disgruntled Ukrainian activists gathered on Wednesday in a tent camp outside parliament to demand a more forceful fight against government graft. Some had spent the night there following a rally on Tuesday that drew nearly 5,000 people and saw calls for President Petro Poroshenko to resign. The protesters have set up several dozen...
Four Dead As French Army-chartered Plane Crashes
French soldiers stand on the beach of Port-Bouet in Abidjan near the wreckage of a cargo plane that crashed off Ivory Coast, killing four, on October 14, 2017. PHOTO: AFP//ISSOUF SANOGO Four Moldovan nationals were killed and three French soldiers hurt on Saturday when a transport plane chartered by France’s army crashed off Ivory Coast,...
23-year-old Student Emerges First-ever Miss Wheelchair World
Miss Belarus Aleksandra Chichikova (C), winner of the Miss Wheelchair World contest beauty pageant, first runner-up Lebohang Monyatsi from South Africa (R) and second runner-up Adriana Zawadzinska of Poland react after the award in Warsaw. PHOTO: WOJTEK RADWANSKI / AFPA psychology student from Belarus, Aleksandra Chichikova, has won Miss...
US Treasury Announces New Iran Sanctions
Donald TrumpThe United States on Thursday imposed economic sanctions on 11 individuals and companies accused of supporting Iran’s Revolutionary Guards or engaging in hostile cyber-attacks on US banks, the Treasury Department announced. The move to toughen sanctions for Iran’s alleged destabilisation of the Middle East contrasted with...
Turkey Signs Deal To Buy Russian S-400 Missile Systems
Russian S-400 Triumph medium-range and long-range surface-to-air missile systems riding through Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow. Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFPTurkey has signed a deal with Russia to buy S-400 missile defence systems in its first major weapons purchase from Moscow, Turkish newspapers on Tuesday quoted...
