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Bucharest (AFP) - Romania's President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday announced his candidacy to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as chief of NATO, vowing -- as a leader of a country bordering the Ukraine war -- to bring "renewal of perspective" at a crucial time for the alliance. For the past two years, the Western defence alliance has navigated a challenging security environment in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has been tipped as the strong favourite for the job, but there have been calls for the alliance to choose its next chief from one of its newer m...
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London (AFP) - Showing off his muscles, cigars and fast cars, influencer Andrew Tate's videos on social media have captured the attention of millions of teenage boys. But the 37-year-old US-born Briton is also accused of human trafficking in Romania, and police said Tuesday that he was taken into custody on UK sex offence charges. This legal trouble follows a growing notoriety built on sexist and sometimes violent maxims, including Tate saying that women cannot be independent and placing blame on victims of rape or assaulted. The former kickboxing champion's controversial output has made him o...
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Bucharest (AFP) - Influencer Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist with a large online presence, was indicted in Romania on human trafficking and rape charges, officials said Tuesday. Tate's brother Tristan and two Romanian women were also charged in the case, which has drawn intense international attention. The defendants have been referred for trial but the timing of the next steps in the case was not immediately clear. Romania's anti-organised crime prosecution unit (DIICOT) alleged that the defendants set up a criminal organisation and sexually exploited several victims. The brothers de...
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Bucharest (AFP) - Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother were released on Friday after three months of detention in Romania and moved to house arrest while they are investigated for alleged human trafficking and rape. Tate, a British-American former kickboxer with millions of online followers, along with his younger brother and two Romanian women, are under investigation for allegedly "forming an organised criminal group, human trafficking and rape". Tate, 36, and his brother Tristan, 34, were arrested in late December, and have been held in pre-trial detention ever since, which ...
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Bucharest (AFP) - A Romanian court on Friday ordered that controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother be moved from jail to house arrest while they are investigated for alleged human trafficking and rape. Tate, 36, and his brother Tristan, 34, were arrested in late December, and have been held in pre-trial detention ever since, which was again extended last week. However, an appeals court "rejected the prosecution's proposal to extend the pre-trial detention" and ordered the pair be placed "under house arrest", according to a court ruling, which was seen by AFP. The brothers deny all ...
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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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Bucharest (AFP) - A Romanian court on Tuesday extended the detention of Andrew Tate, the controversial influencer being investigated along with his brother for alleged human trafficking and rape. Tate, 36, and his brother Tristan, 34, were arrested in late December. Their current detention order was to expire next week. But the court ordered them detained for another 30 days, Ramona Bolla, a spokeswoman for Romania's anti-organised crime and terrorism directorate (DIICOT), told AFP. The Tate brothers, who have denied all charges, are expected to appeal the ruling. Tate, a British-American form...
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Bucharest (AFP) - A Romanian court on Friday ordered the 30-day-detention of controversial influencer Andrew Tate following his arrest for alleged human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal group. Ramona Bolla, a spokeswoman for Romania's anti-organised crime and terrorism directorate (DIICOT), told AFP Friday that four suspects had been placed in pre-trial detention for 30 days following their arrest late Thursday. They are former professional kickboxer Tate, who is a British-US national, his brother Tristan and two Romanian citizens. Tate and his brother were initially detained for 24 h...
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Washington (AFP) - The US military said Friday it was repositioning a squadron of F-16 war planes from Germany to Romania, "to reinforce regional security" in the midst of flaring tensions with Russia over Ukraine. Without specifying how many F-16s were being moved, the command of the US Air Forces in Europe said the planes would arrive Friday at the Romanian air base of Fetesti, less than 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Black Sea, where they will join Italian combat aircraft that are already deployed there. The aircraft and crews will "work closely with allies in the Black Sea region to ...
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Washington (AFP) - A 22-year-old Ukrainian arrested in Poland has been indicted in the United States as part of a global operation against ransomware attacks, including the high-profile July hack of IT software company Kaseya, officials said Monday. Yaroslav Vasinskyi, who was detained in Poland on October 8, was the most prominent of several people whose arrests were announced on Monday by US and European authorities. The arrests were linked to the Russian-based hacker group REvil, also known as Sodinokibi, and the ransomware group GandCrab. Interpol said the four-year operation dubbed "Quick...
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