The Philippine Senate convened as an impeachment court Monday for the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte over criminal charges, in a time of deep divisions that erupted into an exchange of gunfire last week in the chamber. The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to impeach Duterte last Monday over alleged unexplained wealth, misuse of...
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Palestinian Man Shot By Israeli Troops While Trying To Cross Into Israel For Work Dies Of Wounds
A Palestinian man who was shot by Israeli soldiers as he tried to cross the barrier between the occupied West Bank and Israel in search of work died of his wounds Monday, Palestinian health officials said. It was the second case in less than a week that a Palestinian trying to cross the barrier for...
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Justice Department Announces Nearly $1.8B Fund To Compensate Trump Allies In A Deal To Drop IRS Suit
The Trump administration announced Monday the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate allies of the Republican president who believe they have been unjustly investigated and prosecuted, an arrangement that Democrats and government watchdogs derided as “corrupt” and unconstitutional. The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” of $1.776 billion is part of a settlement that resolves President...
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Hungary’s Magyar Kicks Off His First Foreign Trip As Prime Minister To Ally Poland
Hungary’s new prime minister headed on Tuesday to Poland, a longtime ally whose recent political transformation has plenty of lessons to offer on how Péter Magyar’s government can go about reversing his country’s authoritarian drift. Magyar, whose center-right Tisza party defeated far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his nationalist-populist Fidesz in an earthquake election last...
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Hong Kong Court Hears Final Arguments In Trial Of Tiananmen Vigil Organizers, Hopes For July Verdict
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday concluded final arguments in a national security trial for two former organizers of the city’s vigils remembering the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Judge Alex Lee, one of the three government-vetted judges, said that they hoped to deliver a verdict in July for Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan, two former...
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Finnish Divers Will Try To Recover 2 Of The Dead Italians From An Underwater Cave In The Maldives
Three Finnish divers on Tuesday will attempt to recover the bodies of two of the four Italians who died deep inside an underwater cave in an atoll in the Maldives, five days after they were reported missing. The bodies were located on Monday, when searches resumed after being suspended following the death of a local...
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Ebola And Hantavirus Have Africa Talking ‘Health Sovereignty’ As Donor Support Fades
A new and deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda is the latest health emergency forcing African governments to break free of dependency on global donors like the United States as international support has been slashed in half over the past five years. Shrinking assistance worsened by the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts is colliding with...
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Congo Opens More Centers To Treat Rare Type Of Ebola That Has Killed Nearly 120
Congo will open three Ebola treatment centers in the eastern Ituri province, and the World Health Organization is sending a team of experts to the country, following an outbreak of a rare type of the virus that has killed nearly 120 people. An American doctor in Congo is among the newly confirmed cases of the...
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Israel Defenses Forces announces elimination of the Commander of the Islamic Jihad’s Beqaa region in Lebanon, Wael Mahmoud Abd al-Halim.
IDF: “🔴ELIMINATED: Wael Mahmoud Abd al-Halim, the Commander of the Islamic Jihad’s Beqaa region in Lebanon, in a strike in the area of Baalbek. “Al-Halim led the integration of Islamic Jihad terrorists into combat operations alongside Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon and operated to advance terrorist attacks against IDF soldiers in recent weeks.”