Stormy Daniels case: Trump repaid lawyer 'hush money', says Giuliani
President Donald Trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was used to buy an adult film actor's silence about an alleged affair, his legal aide Rudy Giuliani has said.
It appears to contradict Mr Trump, who said he did not know about the payment made by lawyer Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
Mr Trump has denied Ms Daniels' claims of an affair in 2006.
Mr Giuliani said no campaign finance was used, a key issue in the matter.
What did Mr Giuliani say and why?
The former New York City mayor recently joined Mr Trump's legal team and was talking to Sean Hannity on Fox News.
The campaign finance issue appeared to be one his main motives for appearing on the programme - to deny that there was any wrongdoing.
The toxic legacy of Canada's CIA brainwashing experiments: 'They strip you of your soul'
Sarah Anne Johnson had always known the broad strokes of her maternal grandmother’s story. In 1956, Velma Orlikow checked herself into a renowned Canadian psychiatric hospital, the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, hoping for help with postpartum depression.
She was in and out of the clinic for three years, but instead of improving, her condition deteriorated – and her personality underwent jarring changes.
More than two decades passed before Johnson and her family had an explanation, and it was much stranger than any of them could imagine: in 1977 it emerged that the CIA had been funding experiments in mind-control brainwashing at the institute as part of a North America-wide project known as MK Ultra.
At the time, the US agency was scrambling to deepen its understanding of brainwashing, after a handful of Americans captured during the Korean war had publicly praised communism and denounced the US.
War reporters — the great silence
Journalism is increasingly a "suicide mission," with foreign correspondents in places like Syria and Yemen the victims of warring factions. And so, others are stepping into the void.
Sometimes his work can be dangerous, Husam concedes. The Syrian man, who goes by "Syrian activist against Assad brutal regime & ISIS" on Facebook and Twitter, has been posting videos from Idlib on social media for several years.
This has made him a target. In 2015, he was kidnapped by Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian offshoot of al-Qaida, which split from the terror network in 2016. They held him for 25 days, he told DW via WhatsApp, "on charges of communicating with British intelligence."
War zones riskier for healthcare when a red cross can be attacked
By Michael Bachelard
Australian nurse Ruth Jebb was feeding malnourished children in the midst of Sudan's civil war when her car was stolen at gunpoint by a militant tooling up for the next fight.
Clearly marked on the car's doors was a red cross, a symbol which, by powerful international conventions, should have granted her immunity from this kind of violence.
Anaesthetist Dr Jenny Stedmon was just starting her long career in war zones for the Red Cross when one of her best friends was killed by masked militants as she slept in a hospital compound.
New Zealand nurse Cheryl Thayer was one of six who died that night in Chechnya.
Prelude to unfree, unfair elections in Malaysia
State-controlled Election Commission is pulling all stops to hobble the Mahathir Mohamad-led opposition's chances at May 9 polls
SINGAPORE, MAY 3, 2018
Campaigning is off to a controversial start in Malaysia ahead of May 9 elections pitting premier Najib Razak’s ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition against ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad’s upstart Pakatan Harapan opposition alliance.
Expectations of a tight race abound as opposition parties ramp up their bid to win over voters in key constituencies across the country in an attempt to oust Najib’s ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO), which has governed the country continuously for over six decades.
Egypt's jailed journalists: In numbers
On World Press Freedom Day, jailed journalists continue to pay the price for media crackdowns in Egypt.
The UN cultural agency, UNESCO has awarded its World Press Freedom Prize to imprisoned Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, despite criticism from the government of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi following the announcement last week.
The president of the independent jury that selects the award's recipient, Maria Ressa, said the honour pays tribute to the "courage, resistance and commitment to freedom of expression" of Abu Zeid, who is more commonly known as Shawkan and who has been in jail since August 2013.
Arrested while covering deadly clashes between security forces and supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, in Cairo, he is potentially facing the death penalty.
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