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Washington (AFP) - Washington voiced concern Friday after Venezuela's leftist authorities issued an arrest warrant for leading opposition figure Juan Guaido, who lives in exile in the United States. "The United States remains deeply concerned about political persecution against members of the democratic opposition," a State Department spokesperson said. The United States recalled an August 2021 agreement signed in Mexico between President Nicolas Maduro's government and the opposition, which used to consider Guaido the interim president. Under that agreement, "both parties agree to work toward...
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Washington (AFP) - A Massachusetts man has been arrested for providing information about Chinese dissidents in the United States to China's government, the Justice Department said Monday. Litang Liang, 63, of Brighton, was arrested on May 9 on charges of acting as an agent of the People's Republic of China (PRC) without notifying US authorities, according to the department. The announcement of Liang's arrest came on the same day as a court in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou revealed that a 78-year-old US citizen, John Shing-wan Leung, had been sentenced to life in prison for espionage. The ...
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Washington (AFP) - A man accused of massacring five neighbors after they asked him to stop firing his rifle in his yard was captured Tuesday after a days-long manhunt, Texas law enforcement said. Francisco Oropesa had eluded authorities since the shooting Friday in the small town of Cleveland in southeastern Texas. "We now have this man in custody," San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told reporters at a press conference Tuesday night. "He was caught hiding in a closet underneath some laundry." The 38-year-old Mexican national is accused of attacking his neighbors after they allegedly asked...
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Beijing (AFP) - China said on Tuesday that "political manipulation" was behind the arrests of two men the United States accused of setting up an unauthorised Chinese police station in New York. Authorities in the city also charged dozens of Chinese security officials over a campaign to monitor and harass US-based dissidents. "China firmly opposes the US side's slandering, smearing, engaging in political manipulation, and maliciously concocting the so-called transnational repression narrative," foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters. "We urge the US to immediately reflect on itse...
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New York (AFP) - US authorities arrested two men Monday for allegedly setting up a Chinese "police station" in New York and charged dozens of Chinese security officials over a campaign to monitor and harass US-based dissidents. The arrests of Harry Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, are the first anywhere over a suspected campaign by China to establish surreptitious police posts in countries around the world, said Breon Peace, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn. The two men set up the office in Manhattan's Chinatown last year at the behest of the Fuzhou branch of the Ministry of Public...
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Moscow (AFP) - Russia's foreign minister on Sunday condemned Western "hype" over the arrest of US journalist Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges, dismissing Washington's latest call for his release and saying his fate would be decided in court. In a rare call from his US counterpart Antony Blinken, Sergei Lavrov said Gershkovich had been "trying to receive secret information" when he was arrested this week. "Under the cover of his journalist status, he was collecting information classified as a state secret," Russia's foreign ministry said Lavrov told Blinken. A State Department spokesperson...
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Bucharest (AFP) - Romanian police have arrested the leader of an American white supremacist group wanted in the United States in connection with rioting, they said Friday. The 33-year-old was arrested on Wednesday in Bucharest, police said without identifying him. Local media named him as Robert Rundo, who co-founded and led the Rise Above Movement. Rundo, together with several others of the California-based group, has been accused of inciting riots at far-right political rallies, including the deadly march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. A Bucharest court on Thursday ordered the detent...
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Washington (AFP) - A cyber specialist who worked at the US National Security Agency and an army doctor and her wife were charged Thursday in separate cases with seeking to sell US secrets to foreign governments. In one case, cybersecurity expert Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, spent less than four weeks working at the NSA, the government's huge and powerful signals intelligence agency, before he suddenly quit, citing family problems at the end of June. In the few weeks he was at the NSA, he printed out top secret documents, and after leaving he offered them for sale in encrypted online communicatio...
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Caracas (AFP) - A military contractor known as "Fat Leonard" who pleaded guilty in the US Navy's worst ever corruption scandal has been captured in Venezuela after fleeing the United States, the Interpol office in Caracas said. Leonard Francis cut off his GPS monitor and escaped house arrest in California in early September. "The fugitive was arrested at the Simon Bolivar de Maiquetia International Airport when he was about to leave the country," a post shared on Instagram Wednesday by the Caracas Interpol office said. Leonard "entered the country coming from Mexico with a stop in Cuba" and ai...
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Washington (AFP) - A California man upset about mass shootings and the looming Supreme Court rulings on abortion and gun rights was charged Wednesday with attempting to murder conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Nicholas John Roske was arrested in the early morning hours outside Kavanaugh's house in the Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland carrying a semi-automatic Glock 17 pistol, a knife and tactical vest, according to documents filed in federal court. Roske was spotted outside Kavanaugh's house by two US Marshals standing guard. He walked away and called emergency services, telling ...
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