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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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Washington (AFP) - The rapper and fashion designer Kanye West has suggested he will run for president and wants Donald Trump to be his running mate. Trump, for his part, brushed aside a recent meeting with West as of no significance. The artist, who goes by the name Ye, posted Thursday a swirling symbol on his Twitter account with "Ye" and the number 24, apparently representing 2024, the year of the next US presidential election. Then the rapper posted a video of himself speaking about a meeting this week with the former president in Florida. "I think the thing that Trump was most perturbed ab...
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Miami (AFP) - The US Justice Department charged a Haitian-Chilean man Thursday with conspiracy to commit murder for his role in the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise last July. The charges were unveiled in federal court in Miami against Rodolphe Jaar, 49, after he was arrested in the Dominican Republic and transferred Monday to the United States. An FBI affidavit filed in the case said that, in an interview in December, Jaar admitted that he had provided guns and ammunition to the group of Colombians who carried out the murder. On July 7, 2021, the Colombians and others went to...
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Washington (AFP) - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump's chief rival in Congress, proposed a commission Friday to assess a president's capacity for carrying out his duties -- a move that highlights concerns about Trump's health weeks before the election.Despite the conspicuous timing of the unveiling, Pelosi insisted that "this is not about President Trump," who has been treated for Covid-19 for the past week and is desperate to return to campaigning."He will face the judgment of the voters," the top Democrat said. "But he shows the need to create a process for future presidents."Pelos...
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Washington (AFP) - US Democrats on Thursday proposed a commission to investigate whether Donald Trump is mentally fit for office -- and look at the constitutional options for his removal if necessary.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, told reporters that on Friday she and other Democrats would introduce a measure relating to the US Constitution's 25th Amendment, which allows for the vice president to take over should it be determined that the president "is unable" to fulfill his duties.Pelosi's office said Friday's bill would "help ensure effective and uninterrupted leadership in the highest office i...
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