WORLD - The African Mirror

Jun

12

2023

Child, 11, dies after Turkish Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Budapest

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AN 11-year-old child died after losing consciousness on board a Turkish Airlines flight en route to New York from Istanbul, with medical services unable to resuscitate the child after the plane made an emergency landing in Budapest, news agency MTI reported. MTI said the Airport Medical Service was scrambled to the scene after flight TK003 landed in Budapest on Sunday, but the child could not be saved despite prompt medical attention. Thomson Reuters Foundation

Jun

12

2023

By SARAH N. LYNCH

What is the Espionage Act and what might it mean for Donald Trump?

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FORMER U.S. President Donald Trump has become the most high-profile person to ever face criminal charges under the Espionage Act for the unlawful retention of sensitive national defence records. In all, Trump faces 37 criminal counts, 31 of which relate to secret or top-secret classified documents. He is also charged with obstructing justice, conspiracy, concealment and false statements. WHAT IS THE ESPIONAGE ACT? The Espionage Act is an anti-spy law enacted by Congress shortly after the start of World War One. The statute criminalizes a broad array of conduct related to the mishandling of sensitive government records connected to the "national defence,"…

Jun

12

2023

By KYLIE MACLELLAN

Former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon quizzed by police in SNP funding probe

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FORMER Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested and held for more than seven hours after voluntarily attending an interview over a police probe into the fate of funds for her pro-independence Scottish National Party. The police investigation is looking at what happened to more than 600,000 pounds ($754,140) in funding which was raised by Scottish independence campaigners in 2017 and was supposed to have been ring-fenced but may have been used for other purposes. The arrest is deeply embarrassing for the SNP, which has dominated Scottish politics for most of the last two decades. Sturgeon stood down earlier this year and…

Jun

11

2023

By The African Mirror

Trump faces difficult odds in classified-documents case

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JACK QUEEN DONALD Trump faces a formidable task defending against charges that he illegally kept top-secret documents upon leaving the White House in 2021, according to legal experts, who said neither the law nor the facts appear to be on his side. The former U.S. president, who is a candidate to run again in the 2024 election, was charged in an indictment unsealed in Florida federal court on Friday. The 37 counts against him include violations of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice conspiracy and false statements. National security law experts were struck by the breadth of evidence in the indictment which…

Jun

10

2023

By GEERT DE CLERCQ

French ‘backpack hero’ says his faith gave him strength to fight knifeman

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A modern-day pilgrim on a walking tour of France's cathedrals told journalists on Friday his Catholic faith gave him the strength to fight a man who stabbed four children in a park in Annecy. Dubbed "the backpack hero" - "le héros au sac a dos" - by media, the 24-year-old who only gave his name as Henri said he was near a playground when he saw the man attacking children in a stroller as their mother tried to shield them on Thursday. It was God's will that he was there and able to intervene, he suggested. "All I know is that I…

Jun

11

2023

By The African Mirror

Four Colombian children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash

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LUIS JAIME ACOSTA FOUR children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country's south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in a thick jungle, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said. The siblings were rescued by the military near the border between Colombia's Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to where the small plane had crashed. The plane - a Cessna 206 - was carrying seven people on a route between Araracuara airport, in Caqueta province, and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare province, when it issued a mayday…

Jun

10

2023

By The African Mirror

Trump faces 37 criminal counts in classified documents case

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SARAH N. LYNCH FORMER U.S. President Donald Trump faces 37 criminal counts that include charges of unauthorized retention of classified documents and conspiracy to obstruct justice after he left the White House in 2021, according to federal court documents made public on Friday. The Justice Department made the charging documents public on a tumultuous day in which two of Trump's lawyers quit the case and a former aide faced charges as well. The charges stem from Trump's treatment of sensitive government materials he took with him when he left the White House in January 2021. Trump is due to make…

Jun

11

2023

By The African Mirror

Annecy knife attack suspect detained, prosecutor says

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DOMINIQUE VIDALON and CECILE MANTOVANI THE suspect in a knife attack in which four toddlers and two pensioners were wounded in the southeastern French town of Annecy on Thursday has been placed in detention, the local prosecutor said. The suspect, a Syrian refugee born in 1991, is under formal investigation for attempted murder and resisting arrest with a weapon, the prosecutor said. The injured are no longer in critical condition, Annecy Prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis told a news conference, adding that the four children were still in the hospital. The stabbing was the first violent attack targeting children since 2012 when…

Jun

09

2023

By GABRIELLE TÉTRAULT-FARBER

France stabbing: Four children wounded in Annecy knife attack

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FOUR toddlers and two pensioners were stabbed in a knife attack in the tranquil French mountain town of Annecy and the government said the suspected assailant was a Syrian refugee. A video of the attack, taken by a bystander and verified by Reuters, showed the assailant jump a low wall into a children's playground and repeatedly lunge at a child in a stroller, pushing aside a woman who tries to fend him off. Two of the wounded children and one adult were in hospital in a life-threatening condition, while the other victims were less seriously hurt. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne…

Jun

09

2023

By MICHAEL HOLDEN and SAM TOBIN

Prince Harry: It would be injustice if court rules I’m not hacking victim

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PRINCE Harry said he would feel a sense of injustice if London's High Court did not conclude he was a phone-hacking victim, as he completed more than eight hours giving evidence against a British tabloid newspaper group. Harry, King Charles' younger son, spent a day-and-a-half in the witness box being grilled over allegations he had been unlawfully targeted by Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) titles for 15 years from 1996 when he was a child. Asked by his lawyer David Sherborne about the experience of appearing in court in front of the world's media, a clearly-emotional Harry exhaled deeply and replied: "It's a…