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Ukrainian official arrested over deadly acid attack
KIEV: A Ukrainian court on Friday placed a high-ranking regional official in custody after he was charged with organising a deadly acid attack on an activist.Vladyslav Manger will be held until at least March 3, with bail of 2.5 million hryvnia (US$91,800), press secretary for General Prosecutor Larysa Sargan told AFP.Manger, the head of the...
Judge: Trump aide Manafort lied in plea deal
Paul Manafort WASHINGTON: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort could face a much longer prison sentence than expected after a Washington judge ruled Wednesday that he had broken his plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Federal district judge Amy Berman Jackson agreed with prosecutors that Manafort...
In war-torn Ukraine, women get taste of combat training
MARIUPOL, Ukraine: In a gym in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, not far from the frontline with Russia-backed separatists, 20 women fall to the floor and pull back the rifle bolts of dummy Kalashnikovs.Next to them a bearded instructor in camouflage barks out orders: “Get on your knee, reload, take aim, get on the ground, reload, take aim.”A...
Judge rules that ex-Trump aide Manafort broke plea deal
WASHINGTON: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort could face a much longer prison sentence than expected after a Washington judge ruled Wednesday that he had broken his plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.Federal district judge Amy Berman Jackson agreed with prosecutors that Manafort had...
U.S. senators to try again to pass Russia sanctions bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill on Wednesday that would impose stiff new sanctions on Russia over its meddling in U.S. elections and aggression against Ukraine, the latest congressional effort to push President Donald Trump to ratchet up Washington’s response to Moscow. …read more...
Hundreds flee US-backed Syria battle for last IS holdout
Fully veiled women fleing from the Baghouz area in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor give out their name during an operation by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces to expel hundreds of Islamic State group jihadists from the region. — AFP photo NEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria: The ferocious battle for the Islamic State group’s last bastion in...
Hundreds flee US-backed Syria battle for last IS holdout
NEAR BAGHOUZ: The ferocious battle for the Islamic State group’s last bastion in eastern Syria entered its fifth day on Wednesday, as exhausted families left the ever-shrinking scrap of land where holdout jihadists have been boxed in by Kurdish-led forces.Hundreds fled day and night from Baghouz, near the enclave where diehard IS fighters...
Russia seeks to vindicate Afghan war, 30 years after pullout
Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan was justified though riddled with mistakes. (AFP pic)MOSCOW: Soviet authorities themselves condemned the USSR’s bloody occupation of Afghanistan, but 30 years later some in Vladimir Putin’s Russia are coming to see the operation in a more positive...
Britain and Bulgaria probe report of new Skripal suspect
Bulgarian arms dealer Emiliyan Gebrev was poisoned in 2015, but now Britain and Bulgaria are investigating a possible link between that attack and last year’s poisoning of the Skripals in Salisbury, England. (AFP pic)SOFIA: Britain and Bulgaria are investigating a possible third suspect in the Salisbury chemical attack who has also been...
Ukrainian official charged in acid attack on activist
KIEV: Ukrainian prosecutors said today they had charged a high-rankng regional official with organising a deadly acid attack on a prominent anti-corruption activist.Vladyslav Manger, the head of the local council in the southern region of Kherson, is accused of “organising the murder of Kateryna Gandzyuk,” Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy...
