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Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Disagreements among delegates over who should head Haiti's transitional council are stalling the body's official formation, a representative told AFP Monday, while over the weekend one member quit amid death threats. Overshadowing the Caribbean nation's ongoing security crisis has been a political one: elections have not been held since 2016, with Prime Minister Ariel Henry heading the country since President Jovenel Moise's 2021 assassination. As the security situation deteriorated under Henry's rule -- culminating when armed gangs united to launch attacks and demand hi...
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Port-au-Prince (AFP) - A powerful Haitian gang leader pledged Wednesday to continue the fighting that has plunged the country into chaos, as stakeholders work toward establishing a transitional governing body to replace the outgoing prime minister. Gangs that control most of the capital Port-au-Prince launched an armed campaign almost two weeks ago saying they intended to topple Prime Minister Ariel Henry, sending the nation into violent conflict with warnings of possible famine and civil war. Henry agreed to step aside after an emergency meeting Monday that brought together US, UN and Caribbe...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Norma Anderson keeps a copy of the US Constitution in her purse. At 91, she has spent a lifetime studying the document, both during her decades as a Republican Party state legislator and when she's sitting at home watching TV. And as lead plaintiff in the case to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado, she is sure about one thing: the divisive ex-president should never hold office again. "He violated the constitution and tried to overthrow an election," she tells AFP. "And to me, that means our democracy is in trouble if he got elected" once more. On January 6, 2021, ...
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New York (AFP) - Chinese dissidents who took part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests unveiled a museum in New York on Friday dedicated to remembering the "democratic dreams of the Chinese people," two days ahead of the 34th anniversary of the uprising's "brutal suppression." "The events of 1989 had an impact on China but also on the entire world," said Wang Dan, founder of the tiny museum and a leading figure in the Tiananmen Square student movement. "Today, as we begin to wake up to the threat to human civilization posed by the Xi Jinping regime, we should remember back to 1989," he said, ...
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Washington (AFP) - Lawmakers investigating last year's assault on the US Capitol recommended Monday that Donald Trump be charged with multiple offenses including insurrection -- raising the stakes in a parallel criminal investigation that could put the former president in jail. The House of Representatives select committee called for the indictment -- as well as charges of obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States -- after an 18-month probe into the storming of Congress on January 6, 2021. At least five people died after a mob whipped up by Trump's false...
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Washington (AFP) - After a year and a half of hearings and more than 1,000 depositions, the committee that investigated Donald Trump's responsibility in the early 2021 attack on the US Capitol delivers its findings on Monday. At a public hearing at 1 pm (18:00 GMT), the elected members of the House January 6 committee will present the eight chapters of its long investigation and will vote to recommend prosecution. Here are some of the main elements of the investigation. 'An attempted coup' - The commission, comprising seven Democrats and two Republicans, was tasked with shedding light on th...
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New York (AFP) - Dozens of young Iranians and Americans gathered Tuesday in front of The New York Times building in Manhattan to demonstrate for the rights of women in Iran, and to decry "bias" at the paper. Activist Forouzan Farahani knelt on the sidewalk in front of the building and shaved her head in an act of protest following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of the notorious morality police in mid-September. Women in Iran have been leading demonstrations since September 16, defying a crackdown that a rights group says has killed more than 75 people and that ha...
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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump's former advisor Steve Bannon is due to appear in court Thursday to be charged with fraud in a case of alleged misappropriation of funds for the construction of a wall between the United States and Mexico, US media reported. Bannon, 68, a popular ideologue who was closely involved in Trump's rise to the American presidency, was en route Wednesday night to New York to surrender to the office of Manhattan's prosecutor and to face the charges, his lawyer Robert Costello told CNBC television. The Manhattan prosecutor's office did not respond to AFP's request for comm...
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Washington (AFP) - The leader of the Proud Boys, one of the main rightwing militia groups in the US, was arrested Tuesday over his role in the assault against the US Capitol last year, officials said. Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, 38, has been indicted on conspiracy and other charges along with five other members of the organization, said Matthew Graves, US attorney for the District of Columbia, who is leading the sprawling probe into the insurrection targeting the seat of US democracy on January 6, 2021. Tarrio, a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, is not accused of physically breaching the US Capi...
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Kyiv (AFP) - In the deserted centre of Kyiv where the blasts of war echo, an American couple quietly walk their dogs after deciding to stay put in the city they call home. John and Natasha Sennett heard the war sirens for the first time in their old district of Kyiv after Russian forces invaded Ukraine last month. Panic ensued. "We threw things into backpacks, we took the dogs and rushed to the basement," said Natasha, 42. A false alarm, the first in this part of Kyiv which remains spared from bombardments by Russian forces, 10 days after the invasion began. But they are at the gates of the ca...
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