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North Korean official arrives in NY for talks with Pompeo
While Pompeo has traveled twice to North Korea in recent weeks, the meeting will be the highest-level talks between the two sides in the USA since 2000, when Vice Marshal Jo Myong Rok flew to Washington to meet with then-President Bill Clinton. [Full Article...]
Victim Crushed by Rock Found at Pompeii
Massimo Osanna , the site's general director, described it as "an exceptional find", that contributes to a better "picture of the history and civilisation of the age". Instead, a vast cloud of hot gas and fragments - called a pyroclastic flow - surged over the city, killing its inhabitants wherever they were, and burying them in ash, preserving their final moment. [Full Article...]
Spanish police release Bill Browder
Browder has dismissed the accusations. Magnitsky was exposing how corrupt officials and police officers orchestrated a multi-million tax fraud scheme when he was arrested in 2008. The financier has expressed fears that he could be targeted by Russian assassins saying in the past: 'If I'm killed, you will know who did it'. Conservative MP Sir Peter Bottomley told the Press Association: 'I have ... [Full Article...]
'Murdered' Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is alive :: Kenya
He said: "Four years ago General Kulchitsky wouldn't take me on his helicopter because there wasn't the space". They had claimed he was found bleeding by his wife. Writing on Twitter , the security service said it chose to conduct the operation to collect evidence of terrorist activity by the Russian special services on Ukrainian territory. [Full Article...]
Blast, gunfire heard near interior ministry in Kabul
Just after midday, a vehicle bomb exploded at the entrance to the ministry compound, said Hashmat Stanekzai, spokesman for Kabul police. Another early morning attack struck the capital of Kandahar province, when a suicide auto bomb blast killed three civilians and wounded 13 others, a provincial official told reporters. [Full Article...]
Italy president readies nation for fresh polls seen fought on EU
Wednesday afternoon, 5-Star leader Luigi Di Maio met informally with Mattarella, followed by Cottarelli. The new prime minister is known as "Mr. Scissors" for his cuts to public spending in Italy . "It's just the last gasp of the strong powers who want Italy as a frightened, precarious slave". After more than two months of failed negotiations, Mattarella then turned to former Internationa... [Full Article...]
Gowdy: Trump Should Be 'Glad' FBI Ran Down Leads on Russia Op
Trump quoted Rep. Trey Gowdy's (R-S.C.) defense of the president's frustration with Sessions over his decision to recuse himself from the Russian Federation probe. Gowdy and House intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., received a secret briefing last week about the FBI's use of the confidential human source . [Full Article...]
Russian Federation critic Browder says he's been arrested in Spain
In December, Browder was sentenced in Russian Federation to 9 years in prison after he was found guilty in absentia for deliberate bankruptcy and tax evasion. The financier has expressed fears that he could be targeted by Russian assassins saying in the past: 'If I'm killed, you will know who did it'. In December, Browder called for Interpol to "suspend Russia's membership for flagrant abuse of ... [Full Article...]