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May
14
2024
By LUC COHEN and JACK QUEEN
Cohen testifies Trump signed off on hush money payment to porn star

Cohen testifies Trump signed off on hush money payment to porn star

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 DONALD Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen told jurors that the Republican presidential candidate personally signed off on a hush money payment to a porn star to bury her story about an alleged sexual encounter before it could derail his 2016 campaign. "Just do it," Cohen said Trump told him, instructing him to figure out the best way of paying adult film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to stay quiet about the alleged 2006 encounter. The payment is at the centre of the first trial of a former U.S. president, which has entered its fifth week in New York state criminal court in Manhattan. Cohen, once one of…
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May
14
2024
By GUY FAULCONBRIDGE and ANDREW OSBORN
Putin taps civilian economist to run defense, replacing Shoigu in surprise move

Putin taps civilian economist to run defense, replacing Shoigu in surprise move

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war by trying to better utilise the defence budget and harness greater innovation to win in Ukraine. More than two years into the conflict, which has cost both sides heavy casualties, Putin proposed Andrei Belousov, a 65-year-old former deputy prime minister who specialises in economics, to replace his long-term ally, Sergei Shoigu, 68, as defence minister. Putin wants Shoigu, in charge of defence since 2012 and a long-standing friend and ally, to become the secretary of Russia's powerful Security…
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May
13
2024
By NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI
Israel pushes back into northern Gaza, ups military pressure on Rafah

Israel pushes back into northern Gaza, ups military pressure on Rafah

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ISRAEL sent tanks into eastern Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip after a night of heavy aerial and ground bombardments, killing 19 people and wounding dozens of others, Palestinian health officials said. The death toll in Israel's military operation in Gaza has now passed at least 35,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry. The bombardment has laid waste to the coastal enclave and caused a deep humanitarian crisis. The war was triggered by a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7 in which some 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 people taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies. Israel says…
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May
13
2024
By SAYED HASSIB and MOHAMMAD YUNUS YAWAR
Afghanistan floods devastate villages, killing 315

Afghanistan floods devastate villages, killing 315

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FLASH floods caused by heavy rains have devastated villages in northern Afghanistan, killing 315 people and injuring more than 1,600, authorities said, as villagers buried their dead and aid agencies warned of widening havoc. Thousands of homes were damaged and livestock wiped out, the Taliban-run refugee ministry said, while aid groups warned of damage to health care facilities and vital infrastructure, such as water supply, with streets left coated in mud. In the Nahrin district of Baghlan province, people carried their shrouded dead to a gravesite. "We have no food, no drinking water, no shelter, no blankets, nothing at all,…
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May
13
2024
By KIRSTY NEEDHAM
Former US Marine pilot arrested in Australia worked with Chinese hacker, lawyer says

Former US Marine pilot arrested in Australia worked with Chinese hacker, lawyer says

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A former U.S. Marine pilot fighting extradition from Australia on U.S. charges of training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers unknowingly worked with a Chinese hacker, his lawyer said. Daniel Duggan, 55, a naturalised Australian citizen, feared requests by Western intelligence agencies for sensitive information were putting his family at risk, the lawyer said in a legal filing seen by Reuters. The lawyer's filing supports Reuters reporting linking Duggan to convicted Chinese defence hacker Su Bin. Duggan denies the allegations that he broke U.S. arms control laws. He has been in an Australian maximum security prison since his 2022 arrest after…
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May
12
2024
By MOHAMMED ZAANOUN, MAHA HUSSAINI and MOHAMED SOULAIMANE
Gaza Snapshots: Rafah’s exodus

Gaza Snapshots: Rafah’s exodus

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GAZA Like everyone now in the Gaza Strip, photojournalist Mohammed Zaanoun, journalist Maha Hussaini, and journalist Mohamed Soulaimane have been living breath by breath, in fear of what might fall from the sky, but they continue to send photographs, video and audio clips to keep the spotlight on what people there are experiencing. Here is their latest dispatch: 9 May 2024 - Rafah’s exodus Tens of thousands of people are fleeing Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah following Israeli evacuation orders issued on 6 May. Euphoria and celebration following news that Hamas had accepted a ceasefire proposal to end seven months of war…
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May
12
2024
By SAYED HASSIB and MOHAMMAD YUNUS YAWAR
Afghanistan floods kill at least 153, Taliban interior ministry says

Afghanistan floods kill at least 153, Taliban interior ministry says

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THE official death toll from devastating flash floods in northern Afghanistan has risen to 153 people across three provinces, the Taliban's interior ministry said, while the World Food Programme said it was double that. The WFP, which operates throughout Afghanistan, said on X that floods had killed more than 300 people. It did not give a source for its figure. When asked about the WFP figure, a ministry spokesperson said its figure was still 153 - but the authorities have said the death toll could rise. At least 138 people have also been injured in the flooding across northern Baghlan,…
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May
12
2024
By NATE RAYMOND
Pharmacy exec sentenced in Michigan over deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak

Pharmacy exec sentenced in Michigan over deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak

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A former owner of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose mold-tainted drugs sparked a deadly U.S. fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for his role in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents. Barry Cadden, the former president of New England Compounding Center (NECC), was sentenced by Judge Matthew McGivney in Howell, Michigan, after pleading no contest in March to involuntary manslaughter charges related to the 11 deaths. The 10- to 15-year sentence will run concurrently with an already-imposed 14-1/2 year federal prison term that Cadden, 57, is serving after he was convicted in 2017 on racketeering and…
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May
11
2024
By NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI
UN sounds alarm over aid as Israel pushes assault into Rafah

UN sounds alarm over aid as Israel pushes assault into Rafah

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THE United Nations warned that aid for the Gaza Strip could grind to a halt in days, as Israeli troops took their ground war with Palestinian fighters into the crowded city of Rafah, a key aid corridor for the famine-threatened strip. Israeli tanks captured the main road dividing the eastern and western sections of Rafah, effectively encircling the eastern part of the city in an assault that has caused Washington to block some military aid to its ally. Residents described almost constant explosions and gunfire east and northeast of the city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip on…
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May
11
2024
By LUC COHEN and JODY GODOY
Trump lawyer questions Stormy Daniels’ account of sex with Trump

Trump lawyer questions Stormy Daniels’ account of sex with Trump

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Donald Trump's lawyer sought to show inconsistencies in porn star Stormy Daniels' various tellings of a 2006 sexual encounter she has said she had with Trump, part of an effort on Thursday to undermine her credibility as a witness in the first criminal trial of a sitting or former U.S. president. Her unflattering account of a sexual encounter with Trump in a Lake Tahoe hotel suite while he was married to his wife Melania riveted jurors on Tuesday and reminded U.S. voters of some of the more lurid aspects of his 2017-2021 presidency as he campaigns to win back the White House this year.…
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