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Donald Trump is about to become the first ex-US president to face a criminal trial, and a New York judge overseeing his upcoming hush money trial has hit him with a gag order. Indeed, New York judge Juan Merchan has barred Trump from attacking – or directing others to attack – potential witnesses, jurors, prosecutors or court staff. Which is going to be a tall order, for anyone familiar with Trump’s particular brand of... well, being. This comes as Trump has faced a serious money woes amid mounting legal bills while he fights four criminal indictments along with a series of civil charges. He w...
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The new president of Hungary will be the current president of the Constitutional Court, Tamás Sulyok, after parliament elected the 67-year-old as expected on Monday with 134 votes. Five members of parliament voted against Sulyok's election, and several opposition groups stayed away from the vote. Sulyok, who was put forward by the Fidesz party of right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, was the only candidate for the post. His predecessor, Katalin Novák, resigned just over a fortnight ago due to the uproar caused by her pardon of a man convicted of being an accomplice to child sex abus...
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The new president of Hungary will be the current president of the Constitutional Court, Tamás Sulyok, after parliament elected the 67-year-old as expected on Monday with 134 votes. Five members of parliament voted against Sulyok's election, and several opposition groups stayed away from the vote. Sulyok, who was put forward by the Fidesz party of right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, was the only candidate for the post. His predecessor, Katalin Novák, resigned just over a fortnight ago due to the uproar caused by her pardon of a man convicted of being an accomplice to child sex abus...
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The new president of Hungary will be the current president of the Constitutional Court, Tamás Sulyok, after parliament elected the 67-year-old as expected on Monday with 134 votes. Five members of parliament voted against Sulyok's election, and several opposition groups stayed away from the vote. Sulyok, who was put forward by the Fidesz party of right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, was the only candidate for the post. His predecessor, Katalin Novák, resigned just over a fortnight ago due to the uproar caused by her pardon of a man convicted of being an accomplice to child sex abus...
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Polls have closed in the first round of Indonesia's presidential elections, as early, unofficial vote counts suggest that Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto could secure enough votes to avoid a runoff. The 72-year-old former general is the only candidate with ties to the Suharto dictatorship, which he served as a special forces commander. He also has close ties to the immensely popular current president, Joko Widodo, whose second and final term is coming to a close. Unofficial tallies suggest he could be in the lead at 58% of the vote, comfortably ahead of the 50% needed to avoid a second roud ...
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Poland’s president said Tuesday he was once again pardoning two politicians who were arrested earlier this month amid a bitter standoff between the new centrist government and the previous conservative administration. President Andrzej Duda made the announcement shortly after the new justice minister refused Duda's motion for a pardon procedure to be applied to two senior opposition members who served in the previous right-wing government until December. Duda is closely aligned with the Law and Justice party that ruled then. Duda made an appeal to Justice Minister Adam Bodnar, who is also the ...
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After an uncertain journey, Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in as Guatemala's president minutes after midnight on Monday. Despite months of efforts to derail his inauguration, including foot-dragging and rising tensions in the run-up to the transfer of power, the 65-year-old was finally sworn in during a long day in Congress that started nine hours late and lasted more than 12 hours. Arévalo assumes the presidency after having won the August elections by a comfortable margin. But nothing has been easy since then, as the controversial Attorney General Consuelo Porras - whom Arévalo accuses of orches...
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Miami (AFP) - The US Justice Department announced four new arrests Tuesday in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, including a US financier for the operation. Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla and Frederick Bergmann were accused of involvement in the July 7, 2021 murder that was carried out by a group of military-trained Colombians recruited by Haitians in Florida. That added to seven others already charged in the plot, including four who were transferred from the Caribbean country to the United States last month to stand trial. The plot was hatched a...
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Washington (AFP) - Four men were transferred from Haiti to the United States Tuesday to face criminal charges in the July 7, 2021, assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, the US Justice Department announced. The department said Haitian-American dual citizens James Solages, 37 and Joseph Vincent, 57, and Colombian citizen German Alejandro Rivera Garcia, 44, are charged with conspiring to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States. A fourth man, Haitian-American Christian Sanon, 54, is charged with smuggling ballistic vests from the United States to Haiti for use in the assa...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House on Saturday condemned former president Donald Trump for meeting at his Florida estate with a renowned white supremacist and with rapper Kanye West who is embroiled in a storm over anti-Semitic remarks. Trump acknowledged having dinner with West, who now is known as Ye, on Tuesday night at Mar-a-Lago, and said he brought along friends, one of whom was Nick Fuentes, an outspoken anti-Semite and racist. "I didn't know Nick Fuentes," Trump posted on his Truth Social account late Friday. White House deputy press secretary Andrews Bates condemned Trump's meeting wi...
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