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French prosecutors have recommended that cement maker Lafarge stand trial on charges of terrorism financing over its past activities in Syria, a source close to the case told AFP Friday. France’s anti-terror prosecution unit (PNAT) wants…
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The legal counsel for US President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, said late on Sunday that prosecutors had reneged on a “previously agreed-upon plea agreement.” US Special Counsel David Weiss said on Friday that Hunter Biden may be…
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French prosecutors said they have put a Lebanese banker under formal investigation, the latest move in a cross-border probe looking into whether Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh, embezzled vast sums of public funds. The…
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French prosecutors on Monday opened an investigation into alleged rape by Paris Saint-Germain full-back Achraf Hakimi, a source close to the case said. A 24-year-old woman has accused the Moroccan international of raping her at his home…
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Iranian state prosecutors stand accused of covering up rapes by two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. According to an internal judicial document, the IRGC members allegedly raped two women, ages 18 and 23, in a van in…
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Prosecutors in Taiwan said Saturday they questioned the owner of an unmanned truck that rolled onto a rail track and caused the country’s worst train disaster in decades that killed 50 people and injured 178, though no charges have been…
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US prosecutors charged 10 Iranian nationals on Friday over an alleged long-running scheme to dodge US sanctions on Tehran by disguising $300 million in transactions, including the purchase of two oil tankers. The eight men and two women…
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Lawyers representing survivors of a chemical weapons attack in 2013 in Syria have filed a criminal complaint against Syrian officials whom they blame for the deaths of hundreds of civilians in a rebel-held area. France is home to…
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