A Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death for a multi-billion-dollar fraud will learn Tuesday whether her life will be spared, as an appeal court reaches its verdict on one of the biggest corruption cases in history. Property developer Truong My Lan, 68, was convicted earlier this year of embezzling money from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) — …
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Israel conducted air strikes in Lebanon on Monday after vowing retaliation for an attack claimed by Hezbollah, the militant group’s first since a fragile ceasefire between the two sides took effect last week.Both Israel and Hezbollah faced accusations on Monday of breaching the truce, which came into force on Wednesday to end a war that …
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Romania’s constitutional court on Monday validated the results of the first round of the November 24 presidential ballot won by a far-right outsider, paving the way for a run-off on Sunday between Calin Georgescu and a centrist mayor.The top court’s decision comes one day after legislative elections produced a fragmented parliament, which has added to …
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France’s Michel Barnier faced an abrupt end to his premiership Monday after key opposition parties said they would back a no-confidence motion against his government after only three months in power.Certain that the National Assembly would deny him a majority backing the government’s social security financing plan for next year, Barnier forced through the bill …
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Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter has antagonized both sides of the US political divide, with Republicans crying hypocrisy and Democrats warning it undermines efforts to rein in Donald Trump.Biden’s announcement shocked Washington, after he entered the White House in 2021 vowing to restore the “integrity” of a justice system that Democrats said had …
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Georgia’s prime minister on Monday vowed no negotiations with the Black Sea country’s opposition, as thousands took to the streets of Tbilisi to protest his decision to shelve talks on joining the EU.The Black Sea nation has been rocked by turmoil since the governing Georgian Dream party claimed victory in October 26 parliamentary elections that …
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A man held since September over the death of a US woman inside a controversial suicide capsule in Switzerland was released from custody Monday, though he remains under suspicion.A 64-year-old woman took her own life on September 23 inside the space-age looking Sarco capsule at a Swiss woodland retreat, outside a village near the German …
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Ukraine needs more weapons and stronger diplomatic backing to reach a “just peace” with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky argued Monday as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Kyiv.Attempting to cast himself as a mediator, Scholz came to Ukraine’s capital a few weeks after becoming the first major ally of the war-torn country to speak to Russian …
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Tens of thousands of Volkswagen workers went on strike Monday in an escalating industrial dispute, with unions warning that the crisis-hit German auto giant is intent on making mass layoffs and closing factories.Waving signs reading “You want war, we are ready!” and the red flags of the powerful IG Metall Union, employees at plants across …
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A Greenland court on Monday extended the detention of US-Canadian anti-whaling activist Paul Watson for two more weeks, pending a decision on his extradition to Japan, police said.The hearing was Watson’s sixth since his arrest in July in Nuuk, capital of the Danish autonomous territory.Watson, who turned 74 on Monday, was detained on a 2012 …
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