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Moscow (AFP) - A Moscow court on Tuesday denied US journalist Evan Gershkovich's appeal against the extension of his pre-trial detention in the espionage case that he and American authorities have rejected as false. Gershkovich, 32, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has been in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo prison for more than a year after he was arrested while on a reporting trip to Russia. He is the first Western journalist since the Soviet era to be arrested by Moscow on spying charges -- accusations that he, his employer and the US government reject. "The first court of appeal ruled ...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he was "considering" a request by Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on espionage charges. Australia's parliament passed a motion in February with the prime minister's support calling for an end to the legal saga surrounding Assange, who has been held in Britain since 2019 while fighting extradition to the United States. "We're considering it," Biden replied at the White House when asked by a reporter if he had a response to Australia's request. Biden, who took the question while walking with visiting J...
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New York (AFP) - Disney's leadership prevailed Wednesday in a high-profile and costly proxy contest against activist investors who had sought to shake up the company's board over concerns about successorship planning. The entertainment giant said its full slate of 12 company nominees had been reelected by a "substantial margin," turning back efforts by Trian Fund Management and Blackwells Capital. "I want to thank our shareholders for their trust and confidence in our Board and management," longtime Chief Executive Bob Iger said in a press release. "With the distracting proxy contest now behin...
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New York (AFP) - Disney shareholders will deliver a verdict later Wednesday in the company's long-running struggle over leadership at one of the spring's most costly and closely-watched annual meetings. At issue is an effort by billionaire investor Nelson Peltz of Trian Capital, who has blasted the Disney board over botched leadership planning after the entertainment giant reinstated long-running chief Bob Iger as CEO and ousted Iger's successor. Peltz has nominated himself and former Disney chief financial officer Jay Rasulo to the board -- an outcome that the company has fought vigorously. I...
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Kazan (Russia) (AFP) - A Russian court on Monday extended until June 5 the provisional detention of US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, who faces 15 years in prison on charges of spreading "false information," according to her employer. A journalist at the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Kurmasheva was arrested last year for failing to register as a "foreign agent". RFE/RL says she was subsequently charged with spreading false information under new censorship laws introduced after Russia launched its military offensive on Ukraine in 2022. In court in the central city of...
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Washington (AFP) - Normally they're the ones grilling Washington power players. But the tables have been turned on the White House press corps. A news report made waves Friday in the US capital with its humorous -- but detailed -- investigation into rampant theft from the press section of Air Force One, the president's official plane. "For years, scores of journalists -- and others -- have quietly stuffed everything from engraved whiskey tumblers to wine glasses to pretty much anything with the Air Force One insignia on it into their bag before stepping off the plane," Politico reported. Last ...
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Washington (AFP) - One year after American journalist Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on espionage charges, his family vowed Friday to continue fighting for his release, a pledge echoed by President Joe Biden. "We never anticipated this situation happening to our son and brother, let alone a full year with no certainty or clear path forward," his family said in a letter to the readers of the Wall Street Journal, Gershkovich's employer. "But despite this long battle, we are still standing strong." The 32-year-old reporter was detained by Russian security service agents on March 29, 2023...
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Paris (AFP) - Years after false posts began circulating on social media purporting Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman, the French first lady remains the target of fake claims with the transphobic disinformation spreading to the United States. President Emmanuel Macron, 46, has in recent weeks lashed out at the false information spread about his wife, 70, who is taking legal action against those behind the allegations. Prominent US conservative commentator Candace Owens vehemently attacked the first lady in a now-deleted YouTube video posted on March 11, propagating a false claim that first...
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Moscow (AFP) - Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has spent a year behind bars in Russia, is awaiting a trial on espionage charges the White House says are fabricated but could still see him jailed for decades. The US-born son of Soviet emigres covered Russia for six years, including a stint with AFP, as the Kremlin made independent, on-the-ground reporting increasingly dangerous and illegal. His arrest in March 2023 on charges of spying -- the first such charge against a Western journalist since the Soviet era -- showed that the Kremlin was prepared to go further than ever b...
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London (AFP) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces a weeks-long wait to learn if he can make a last-ditch appeal against extradition to the United States, after a UK court on Tuesday delayed a decision. The High Court in London gave the US government three weeks to provide further "assurances" on his treatment if he is sent there to face charges over Wikileaks' 2010 release of secret military and diplomatic files. Washington has spent several years trying to extradite the 52-year-old Australian citizen to stand trial for the publication, which related to the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanis...
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