The best court docket within the Maldives has rejected a plea from the nation’s jailed former president that he be made eligible to contest subsequent month’s presidential election FILE – Abdullah Yameen speaks to the media outdoors his house in Male, Maldives, July 3, 2010. The best court docket within the Maldives on Sunday, Aug. … Read more
Imprisoned Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny is because of hear the decision in his newest trial on extremism costs FILE – Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny appears at photographers from behind a glass cage within the Babuskinsky District Court docket in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 20, 2021. Navalny as a consequence of hear the decision … Read more
TALLINN, Estonia — A outstanding journalist in Belarus was sentenced Wednesday to 6 years in jail, the newest step in a years-long crackdown on opposition figures, unbiased journalists and human rights activists. On trial within the metropolis of Grodno in western Belarus, Pavel Mazheika, 45, was discovered responsible of “complicity in extremist exercise” for overlaying … Read more
JOHANNESBURG — A former Mozambique finance minister who has been held in jail in South Africa for almost 5 years was extradited Wednesday to america to face a fraud and corruption trial over a $2 billion scandal involving fraudulent authorities loans. South African authorities stated that Manuel Chang, who was Mozambique’s finance minister from 2005 … Read more
TOKYO — Critics of the deliberate redevelopment of a beloved centuries-old Tokyo park and historic sports activities stadiums accused the federal government in courtroom on Thursday of ignoring the needs of residents and catering to business pursuits. A complete of 59 plaintiffs, a lot of them longtime residents, filed a lawsuit in February towards the … Read more
JERUSALEM — Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan was testifying Sunday at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial to reply questions on an alleged “provide line” of champagne and cigars funneled to the Israeli chief and his spouse mentioned to have been in alternate for assist with Milchan’s private and enterprise wants. Milchan, who appeared by … Read more
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Flying from Florida to Buenos Aires normally takes about 10 hours, however the turboprop touchdown in Argentina on Saturday was no regular aircraft. It had been en route for 20 days, and plenty of Argentines eagerly refreshed flight monitoring software program to maintain tabs on its progress. The Quick SC.7 Skyvan … Read more
MELEKHOVO, Russia — Imprisoned Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny went on trial Monday on new prices of extremism that might maintain him behind bars for many years. The trial opened at a most safety penal colony in Melekhovo, 250 kilometers (150 miles) east of Moscow, the place Navalny, 47, is serving a nine-year sentence for … Read more
SYDNEY — An Australian man who admitted to killing a homosexual American by punching him off a cliff prime in Sydney in 1988 was sentenced on Thursday to 9 years in jail. Scott Phillip White, 52, had pleaded responsible within the New South Wales state Supreme Court docket to Los Angeles-born Scott Johnson’s manslaughter. White … Read more
The president of Belarus has pardoned the girlfriend of a dissident journalist arrested in 2021 after being pulled off a industrial flight that was diverted to the nation The president of Belarus has pardoned the girlfriend of a dissident journalist arrested in 2021 after being pulled off a industrial flight that was diverted to the … Read more