Son of Angola’s ex-president, José Filomeno dos Santos, has been charged with fraud relating to a 500 million dollars transaction out of a central bank account, state radio reported on Monday. Dos Santos was the former head of Angola’s five billion dollars sovereign wealth fund. The former
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Fourteen EU states are expelling Russian diplomats in a coordinated response to the nerve agent attack on a former spy in the British city of Salisbury, EU President Donald Tusk said Monday. “As a direct follow-up to last week’s European Council decision to react to Russia within a common framework, already today 14 member states […]
The U.S. has expelled 60 Russian diplomats, including 48 employees of the Russian Embassy and 12 people who have been assigned to the UN in New York. “The total number today that we’re talking about is 60. That includes 48 members of the Russian embassy in New York … and 12 at the UN,” Administration’s […]
Russian businessman Sergei Mavrodi, whose MMM pyramid scheme deprived millions of Russians of their savings in the 1990s, has died of a heart attack, according to Russia media. Reports said the 62-year-old was rushed to the hospital late on March 25 with pain in his chest and died several hours later. Mavrodi’s MMM financial pyramid […]
A suicide bomber on Wednesday killed at least 26 people, many of them teenagers, in front of Kabul University, officials said, as Afghans took to the streets to celebrate the Persian new year holiday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the deadly attack — the fifth suicide bombing in the Afghan capital in […]
Pope Francis will wash the feet of 12 inmates at Rome’s central prison during a Holy Week ritual meant to show his willingness to serve others. The Vatican said Tuesday that Francis will meet March 29 with inmates at the Regina Coeli prison, including those in the special “protected” wing where sexual predators are housed. […]
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