Trump Russia inquiry: Kushner under FBI scrutiny - US media
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, is under FBI scrutiny as part of the Russia investigation, according to US media.
Reports say investigators believe he has relevant information, but he is not necessarily suspected of a crime.
The FBI is looking into potential Russian meddling in the 2016 election and links with Mr Trump's campaign. The president denies any collusion.
Mr Kushner's lawyer said his client would co-operate with any inquiry.
President Trump has described the Russia investigations as "the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history".
Uluru talks: Indigenous Australians reject 'symbolic' recognition in favour of treaty
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples say they will also push for constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have rejected the idea of constitutional recognition and will instead push for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice in parliament and a commission that will lead to a treaty.
After a meeting of more than 250 community leaders at Uluru, referendum council member Professor Megan Davis delivered a powerful statement from the group asserting that sovereignty had never been ceded or extinguished.
The statement said that the high rates of incarceration, youth detention and child removal showed the need for a significant practical change, not a symbolic reform.
DR Congo opposes international probe into deaths of UN investigators
Democratic Republic of Congo opposes an international investigation into the deaths of two U.N. investigators, the foreign minister said on Thursday, amid mounting criticism of the Congolese authorities' own probe.
Congolese military prosecutors announced last weekend that two suspected militiamen would soon face trial for the March killings of U.N. investigators Zaida Catalan, a Swede, and American Michael Sharp in the insurrection-plagued Kasai region.
Rights groups, however, say they suspect Congolese forces could have been involved in the deaths.
A U.N. spokesman on Tuesday cast doubt on the credibility of the Congolese investigation, saying the world body was "taken aback at the rapidity at which it was done".
$300m spent, three men convicted: cloud over Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal
Phnom Penh: He has been convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in jail over the deaths of at least 1.7 million people.
But though he is ailing and frail, 90-year-old Nuon Chea has still been able to latch onto the latest media trend, recently lashing out at the partly Australian-funded tribunal into Khmer Rouge crimes in Cambodia by labelling its allegations "fake news".
In a leaked confidential 550-page closing paper, Pol Pot's second-in-command attempts to rewrite the history of the Khmer Rouge's demented pursuit of an agrarian utopia in the 1970s.
The tribunal had "blindly regurgitated" historically inaccurate and false claims by Vietnam, the former US-backed Cambodian government and a handful of Anglo-French books, films and exhibitions that painted the organisation as a "monstrous regime intent on harming its people", Nuon Chea's lawyers write.
Iraqi artist depicts life under ISIL
Mostafa Taei's paintings became a record of gruesome atrocities: beheadings, injured children and hangings.
Hammam al-Alil, Iraq - Ask anyone in the northern Iraqi town of Hammam al-Alil where Mustafa Taei lives and they will direct visitors down increasingly narrow streets through the bazaar towards a vibrantly painted breeze-block house.
Outside, a mural depicts painted palm trees and Iraqi flags fluttering over a mosque and a church. Standing alongside are a winged Assyrian deity, the Ziggurat of Ur and the ancient Babylonian Ishtar Gate. They are symbols of Iraq's cultural heritage and historic plurality. Taei, a resident of Hammam al-Alil, says he was briefly jailed by fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and
Yomiuri report on ex-official's visit to 'date bar' sparks charges of gov't intimidation
(Mainichi Japan)Opposition lawmakers and a ruling party insider are crying foul over a recent Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper report that a former top education ministry official had visited a so-called "date bar," published after education ministry in-house documents linking Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to a scandal-hit private school operator emerged.
The reports, carried by the Yomiuri and other outlets, emerged on and around May 22 -- less than a week after the emergence of documents mentioning Abe's "will" in connection with plans by Okayama-based Kake Educational Institution to set up a new veterinary department, which required education ministry approval. Kake Educational Institution is helmed by Kotaro Kake, a man Abe referred to as a "soul mate" in a 2014 speech.
In an apparent response to the reports, former Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Kihei Maekawa held a news conference on May 25 to declare that the documents mentioning Abe's "will" are genuine. Maekawa also admitted that he visited the "date bar" in question, but denied that he visited there for sexual purposes. The bars are often criticized as fronts for prostitution.
No comments:
Post a Comment