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Former French PM Fillon embezzled public funds, court rules
His wife, Penelope Fillon , whose payment for fictitious parliamentary work was at the centre of the case, was given a suspended jail term of three years, and fined 375,000 euros. The paper alleged Fillon's wife, Penelope, had been his parliamentary assistant for 15 years-except there was no evidence she did any work. "Mrs. [Full Article...]
Coronavirus pandemic: Global death toll reaches half million; elderly at higher risk
In just five months, the number of people who have died with COVID-19 has overtaken the number of people who die every year from malaria - one of the most deadly infectious diseases. While the overall death rate has flattened in recent weeks, health experts have expressed concerns about record numbers of new cases in countries including the US, India and Brazil, as well as new outbreaks in parts o... [Full Article...]
Couple draw guns on crowd heading to St. Louis mayor's home
The names of certain organisations and individuals are masked, including. "While this is public information, I did not intend to cause distress or harm to anyone. Another called it "a move created to silence dissent". "I think we need our police department". As the magazine described in 2018, they spent years obsessing over a 45-foot-high limestone dome, a house organ so large its pipes lead to ... [Full Article...]
Sama el Masry sentenced to 3 years in prison on immortality charges
Masry's shameful acts violate public morals and are an open invitation to prostitution, the attorney said, adding that she went against the principles and values of Egyptian society. El-Masry has confirmed that she will be appealing the ruling. According to the country's prosecutor-general's office, cited by Egypt Today, it had received a number of complaints from the public over the woman's posts... [Full Article...]
Arrest warrant issued for Trump: Iran's Judiciary official
Tehran's prosecutor, Al-Qasimehr made the remarks in a meeting with high-ranking judicial officials and said, "Iran's Judiciary has issued an arrest warrant for a total of 36 individuals involved in the assassination of Lt". Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a United States strike, was one of the most popular figures in Iran and seen as a deadly adversary by ... [Full Article...]
Chinese lawmakers review Hong Kong security bill as protests continue
When asked which officials exactly the restrictions target, Zhao said that they "knew this themselves, instinctively". Global critics and opposition politicians in Hong Kong have voiced fears that the law will effectively end the "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement granting the former British colony freedoms unseen on the mainland. [Full Article...]
Florida's Miami-Dade County to close all beaches for July 4th weekend
There are now more than 132,000 reported cases of the coronavirus in the Sunshine State, with 3,390 deaths. But they are just among the worst cases of America's pandemic, which is once again appearing to spiral out of control even as the White House has touted its reopening plans and claimed the country has overcome the worst of the threat. [Full Article...]
U.S. thinks Russian Federation spies aided Taliban attacks
USA intelligence has concluded that a Russian unit offered rewards to Taliban-linked militants to kill troops of the US-led coalition in Afghanistan, The New York Times reported Friday. In a separate report by CNN , an unnamed European intelligence official said Russian Federation also offered bounties for the killing of soldiers from the United Kingdom. [Full Article...]