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‘Escaping hell’: Myanmar scam centre workers plead to go home
AFP, Published on 27/02/2025
» MYAWADDY, Myanmar - Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night.
Trump would have been convicted if he wasn’t elected: special counsel report
AFP, Published on 14/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump would have been convicted for his alleged effort to overturn the 2020 US election result if he hadn’t been elected as president four years later, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Special counsel who led Trump prosecutions leaves US Justice Dept
AFP, Published on 12/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump for his alleged effort to overturn results of the 2020 election, has left the US Department of Justice, prosecutors said Saturday in a court filing.
Star witness at US crypto trial says Bankman-Fried ordered fraud
AFP, Published on 11/10/2023
» NEW YORK - Disgraced crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried was the mastermind behind a scheme to defraud FTX clients of billions of dollars, the star witness in his US trial testified on Tuesday.
Federal judge to set date for historic US versus Trump trial
AFP, Published on 28/08/2023
» WASHINGTON: A federal judge is expected to set a date on Monday for what could be one of the most momentous trials in American history: the United States of America versus Donald J. Trump.
Georgia indictment raises new dangers for Trump
AFP, Published on 16/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump has been indicted four times this year but the latest charges -- in Georgia -- may carry particular peril for the former president.
Trump says prosecutors seeking to restrict his free speech rights
AFP, Published on 08/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump pushed back on Monday against a bid by government lawyers to restrict what he can share publicly about his historic prosecution for allegedly conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Trump to seek new judge in election conspiracy trial
AFP, Published on 07/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - Former US president Donald Trump said Sunday he will petition to have a different judge oversee his historic criminal trial and for the case to be moved out of Washington.
Washington braces for Trump court date
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» WASHINGTON: Donald Trump is expected to appear in court later on Thursday to answer charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, a case that will cast a dark and volatile cloud over the 2024 White House race for which he remains the presumptive Republican nominee.
Trump set to appear in court to face election conspiracy charges
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is expected to appear in court on Thursday to answer charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, a case that will cast a dark and volatile cloud over the 2024 White House race for which he remains the presumptive Republican nominee.