US super-rich 'pay almost no income tax'
Details claiming to reveal how little income tax US billionaires pay have been leaked to an news website.
ProPublica says it has seen the tax returns of some of the world's richest people, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett.
The website alleges Amazon's Mr Bezos paid no tax in 2007 and 2011, while Tesla's Mr Musk paid nothing in 2018.
A White House spokeswoman called the leak "illegal", and the FBI and tax authorities are investigating.
Russian court expected to outlaw Alexei Navalny’s organisation
Court likely to effectively liquidate opposition politician’s movement by classifying it as ‘extremist’
A Russian court is soon expected to outlaw opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s nationwide political organisation on the grounds it is “extremist”, in a landmark step forward for Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on political dissent.
The highly anticipated court decision will effectively liquidate Navalny’s non-violent opposition movement and bar his allies from running for office for years, as the Kremlin seeks to erase the jailed opposition leader from Russian political life.
Legal aides representing the Navalny movement said they believed the court was attempting to fast-track a hearing and deliver a verdict on Wednesday but would be slowed down by their “numerous appeals”.
Life sentence for 'Butcher of Bosnia' upheld, but will it change Serbia's nationalist narrative?
The Hague has upheld Ratko Mladic's life sentence. But that's unlikely to make Serbia admit responsibility for its own role in the Yugoslav Wars, says human rights activist Sonja Biserko.
The Serbian General Ratko Mladic is infamous — not only for his crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, for which he was given a life sentence in 2017, but also because he was able to hide and escape justice for 16 years thanks to the support of various democratic governments of Serbia.
On Tuesday, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMTC) in The Hague upheld the conviction and the sentence against Mladic. The judges of the successor to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found him guilty of 10 out of 11 counts, including of genocide, crimes against humanity, violations of the laws or customs of war and sentenced him once again to life imprisonment.
Iraqis give blood in hope of identifying mass grave victims
Dozens of Iraqis gave blood samples in Baghdad on Wednesday as the country carries out a campaign to identify hundreds of victims of the Islamic State group found in a mass grave.
The Badush prison massacre was one of the worst crimes IS carried out after it seized control of a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014.
In June that year, IS fighters attacked the prison, located in the country's northwest, freeing Sunnis and loading the remaining 600 mainly Shiite inmates onto trucks, before driving them to a ravine and shooting them.
Egypt in ascendency amid Middle East reset
Egypt played a leading role in Israel-Palestine ceasefire in latest sign Cairo is re-emerging from over a decade in the cold
As a key player in the recent Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire and with its diplomats more active than they have been in years, Egypt is back as a major influencer in Middle Eastern affairs.
From Gaza to Libya, the Eastern Mediterranean to the Horn of Africa, Cairo is now key in a host of contentious disputes that will make the difference between regional war and peace.
This comes after a long period in which Egypt was almost ignored by many neighbors and partners, as a string of domestic crises overwhelmed the country’s presidents.
UN warns of ‘mass deaths’ in Myanmar after 100,000 flee fighting
UN says people fleeing military’s ‘brutal, indiscriminate attacks’ in eastern Kayah are in dire need of food and water.
A United Nations rights expert has warned of “mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure” in eastern Myanmar after “brutal, indiscriminate attacks” by the military forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in Kayah State.
In a statement on Wednesday, Tom Andrews, the UN special rapporteur for Myanmar, called for urgent international action, saying attacks by the military – which took power after a February coup – were “threatening the lives of many thousands of men, women and children” in Kayah or Karenni state.
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