Tokyo prosecutors Wednesday searched the office of a lawyer who used to represent Carlos Ghosn, in connection with the former Nissan Motor Co. chairman's recent escape from Japan to Lebanon. Junichiro Hironaka had earlier refused to hand over to prosecutors a computer Ghosn used at ...
Peru's Keiko Fujimori vows aggressive 'response to political persecution' as she's jailed again
As Peruvian authorities detained opposition leader Keiko Fujimori on Tuesday night for a new 15-month jail term, the politician published a pre-recorded video alleging "persecution" and vowing to "end her silence" on the case. A judge on Tuesday afternoon ordered her detention as prosecutors continue ...
Netanyahu formally charged with graft after dropping immunity bid
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was Tuesday formally charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, the justice ministry said, shortly after the embattled politician dropped his request for parliamentary immunity. The indictment came as Netanyahu was in Washington for a meeting with President Donald ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu withdrew his request for immunity from prosecution on Tuesday, hours before parliamentary proceedings on the subject were set to begin. Netanyahu, who was visiting Washington ahead of the launch of President Donald Trump's long-anticipated peace plan, said he "decided not ...
'Football Leaks' whistleblower also behind 'Luanda Leaks,' Rui Pinto's lawyers say
The Portuguese hacker involved in the "Football Leaks" revelations is also the whistleblower behind the "Luanda Leaks" scandal embroiling the daughter of an ex-president, his lawyers said Monday. Rui Pinto handed over "a hard-drive containing all data related to the recent revelations concerning Ms. Isabel ...
Leading officials from opposition parties on Sunday urged the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to disclose information related to a state-funded cherry blossom-viewing party at the center of cronyism allegations involving his administration. "Prime Minister Abe and the ruling bloc are totally to blame ...
Iraq cracks down on protesters after cleric Muqtada al-Sadr withdraws support
Iraq cracked down on anti-government protesters who have been occupying key public squares for months, leaving four demonstrators dead Saturday in a country reeling from political turmoil and violence. Security forces set fire to protesters' tents in southern Iraq and reopened public areas in Baghdad ...
Radio reporter says U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cursed at her after testy interview
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cursed at a National Public Radio reporter and repeatedly "used the F-word" in a shouted diatribe after she questioned him about Ukraine and the ousted American ambassador to Kiev in an interview on Friday, the reporter said. Mary Louise ...
French investigators to move ahead with Ghosn prosecution over Versailles party
The prosecutor’s office will assign one or more judges to probe the party ex-Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn threw for his wife at the Palace of Versailles.
Heat on Kawais as wife admits huge cash injection from Japan ruling party HQ
The alleged ¥150 million payment from the LDP is considered unusually high, especially for an election in a nonswing district.
'Africa's richest woman' Isabel dos Santos suspected of graft in Angola
Africa's reputed richest woman is a formal suspect in an investigation into mismanagement and the siphoning off of funds during her time with Angola's state-run oil company, the country's attorney general announced Wednesday. The remarks by Helder Pitta Gros to reporters in the capital, Luanda, ...
Mayor of Saga town that hosts nuclear plant admits he got cash from firm tied to Kepco scandal
Shintaro Wakiyama said that the money was received days after he was elected, in July 2018, from a then executive of Shiohama Industry Corp.
