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Chief prosecutor in Haiti SACKED after he tried to charge PM for alleged role in president’s murder

Chief public prosecutor Bed-Ford Claude was terminated on Tuesday, with a new replacement sworn in just hours after Claude asked…

3 years ago

WHO chief calls for worldwide pause on vaccine boosters until 2022, to allow ‘every country’ to inoculate 40% of population

“I’m calling for an extension of the [booster] moratorium until at least the end of the year, to enable every…

3 years ago

Israeli public must support its troops or there’ll be no one left to protect it, IDF chief warns

“A society that doesn’t back its soldiers and commanders, including when they make mistakes, will discover that it has nobody…

3 years ago

EU foreign affairs chief proposes new reactive force, as Afghan crisis highlights bloc’s military shortfalls

In an interview with Corriere Della Sera, Josep Borrell said the EU must be better prepared in the future, after…

3 years ago

‘We’ll have to go back to Afghanistan’ to get ISIS & Al-Qaeda, Obama’s security chief Panetta says after US deaths in Kabul

Panetta, who headed the CIA between 2009 and 2011 before moving to replace Robert Gates at the helm of the…

3 years ago

CIA chief held secret in-person talks with Taliban leader in Kabul, media says, as evacuation deadline looms

Burns conducted face-to-face talks with the Taliban's de facto leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul on Monday, the Washington Post…

3 years ago

‘Country boys’ who respect tribal ways: UK army chief calls on countries to give Taliban ‘space to show their credentials’

General Sir Nick Carter, who leads the British armed forces, issued his assessment on Wednesday after speaking to former Afghan…

3 years ago

EU foreign policy chief: Taliban ‘WON THE WAR,’ we’ll have to talk to them – and acknowledge mistakes

Any cooperation by Brussels with the new government of Afghanistan “will be conditioned on a peaceful and inclusive settlement and…

3 years ago

Goldman Sachs hiring ex-MI6 chief highlights dark alliance between business and intelligence that’s bordering on criminal

The UK government’s Advisory Committee on Business Appointments last week approved US banking giant Goldman Sachs’ hiring of Alex Younger,…

3 years ago