Former Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu was arrested on Monday as part of a police investigation into last year’s BarcaGate scandal, a source with knowledge of the case told AFP. Bartomeu, who resigned as president in October, was among several arrests made, just six days before the club holds presidential elections on Sunday. Details later.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of corruption on Monday and handed a three – year prison sentence after a court in Paris convicted him for trying to illegally influence a judge during his time in office . The sentence includes two years suspended , which means it is unlikely Sarkozy will physically […]
Four Ugandan soldiers were handed prison sentences of up to three months by a military court on Thursday for taking part in the brutal beating of local journalists covering the country’s opposition leader. The seven injured journalists were covering an effort by opposition leader Bobi Wine to file a petition on Wednesday with the United […]
Iran’ s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday the US must “ completely lift ” sanctions first , followed by verification by Tehran, before the Islamic republic returns to its nuclear deal commitments . “ If they want Iran to return to its commitments … America must completely lift sanctions , and not just […]
The leader of Al – Qaeda ’ s Yemeni affiliate has been under arrest for several months , according to a United Nations report released on Thursday, in what will be seen as a huge breakthrough in the fight against the global jihadist threat . The document said Khalid Batarfi, the leader of Al -Qaeda […]
Iran hanged a man for murder, abduction, and “terrorist” links on Saturday, the judiciary’s website said, despite international calls for the execution of the ethnic Baluch to be halted. Javid Dehghan Khalad was put to death early in the morning in the restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, Mizan Online reported. It comes a day after […]
A Japanese woman who said she hid her mother’s corpse in a freezer in her apartment for a decade told police she feared eviction if the death was discovered, media reported Saturday. Police told AFP that Yumi Yoshino, 48, was held “on suspicion of abandoning and hiding a female body” found Wednesday in a freezer […]
Mali has officially disbanded its military junta, according to a government decree seen by AFP on Tuesday, over five months after the army deposed president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The junta briefly governed the country after the August 18 coup and formally remained in place even after the putschists handed power to a civilian interim government. […]
The toll in a twin suicide bombing in an open -air Baghdad market on Thursday morning topped 20 dead and 40 wounded , an interior ministry official told AFP. The ministry said the first suicide bomber had rushed into the market and claimed to feel sick so that people would gather around him . He […]
The Economic and financial crimes commission EFCC) has objected to a fresh bail application filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja by the former Chairperson of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. Mr Maina had earlier evaded trial and fled to Niger Republic. The defendant, who is being prosecuted on money […]
