Top civilian commander at US air base led child sex abuse ring
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The army employee, who’s currently serving 17 years, may have been open to blackmail, says a former FBI chief, as a civil case looms

The US Army and the State of Arizona missed multiple red flags that allowed a senior civilian commander at an air base in Afghanistan to lead a child sex abuse ring over the course of a decade, according to records reviewed by AP.

The news agency has interviewed one of the alleged victims, who is suing the state in a civil case that begins next week.

David Frodsham, who pleaded guilty to abuse charges in 2016 and is serving a 17-year-sentence, led a network...

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Belgium, Ireland, and Netherlands expel Russian diplomats
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The three nations accuse Moscow’s envoys of espionage and of posing a threat to security

Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands have announced the expulsion of more than 40 Russian diplomats amid the West’s deteriorating relations with Moscow.

Belgium is to expel 21 Russian nationals who worked at Moscow’s embassy in Brussels and its consulate in Antwerp. It alleges that, while they had all been accredited as diplomats, they were in fact engaged in spying and influencing operations, according to a spokesperson.

The Dutch Foreign Ministry has announced that it is expelling 17...

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Ghana pass­es con­tro­ver­sial tax bill af­ter op­po­si­tion walk­out
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Ghana is strug­gling to re­vive its econ­o­my from the fall­out of the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic and the Rus­sia-Ukraine con­flict.
Published On 29 Mar 2022

UN Libya mis­sion un­cov­ers abuse, in­ves­ti­gates mass graves
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The sec­ond re­port of the UN fact-find­ing mis­sion doc­u­ments wide­spread abuse of mi­grants and ac­tivists in Libya.
Published On 29 Mar 2022

At least sev­en killed in at­tack on Ukraine’s Myko­laiv city
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Sev­en killed and 22 wound­ed when a Russ­ian rock­et hit a re­gion­al govt build­ing in port city, say Ukrain­ian au­thor­i­ties.
Published On 29 Mar 2022

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Of­fi­cial logs show hours-long gap in Trump calls on Jan­u­ary 6
House in­ves­ti­ga­tors are build­ing a record of what Don­ald Trump was do­ing as his sup­port­ers stormed US Capi­tol last year.
Published On 29 Mar 2022

Sufficient conditions for talks between Zelensky, Putin: Ukraine
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Russia's deputy defence minister Alexander Fomin said its forces are ready to reduce military activity in the areas around Kyiv and Chernigiv as ch

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Altering code can reduce bitcoin energy consumption by 99%, say climate groups
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Climate groups have claimed that altering codes can reduce bitcoin energy consumption by 99 per cent as a campaign called Change the Code Not the C

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'Trash has value': Kenyan inventor turns plastic into bricks
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"Plastic still has value," said Nzambi Matee of the mountains of discarded oil drums, laundry buckets, yoghurt tubs and other trash being shreddedÂ

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United States still doubts that Russia is serious in talks with Ukraine: Blinken
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday (March 29) has not seen "signs of real seriousness" by Russia in pursuing peace after its inva

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Dozens of Russian diplomats expelled
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Four states have accused Moscow’s envoys of espionage and of posing a threat to security, sending home more than 40

Belgium, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands are together to expel more than 40 Russian diplomats, having accused them of espionage.

Belgium is to send home 21 Russian nationals who worked at Moscow’s embassy in Brussels and its consulate in Antwerp. Officials allege that, while they had all been accredited as diplomats, they were in fact engaged in spying and influence operations, according to a spokesperson.

The Dutch Foreign Ministry has announced that it is...

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Macron goes on campaign trail, gets hammered over fuel prices
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Amid war in Ukraine and spiraling costs at home, the French president is facing an angry electorate

French President Emmanuel Macron took to the streets of Dijon on Monday ahead of next month’s elections, and was hammered over the rising cost of fuel and electricity. He defended his government’s efforts to keep prices down, but insisted that he has “no magical answer” to the problem, and that the public will “without a doubt” have to deal with some hardship.

Since Russian troops entered Ukraine over a month ago, Macron has portrayed himself as one of Europe’s foremost geopolitical pla...

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China issues US with ‘containment’ warning
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Washington has reportedly classified Beijing as its “most consequential strategic competitor”

Beijing has condemned US attempts to “contain and suppress” China and Russia, saying they would not succeed, after it was reported that the Biden administration had described China in its new National Defense Strategy as its “most consequential strategic competitor.”

President Joe Biden briefed members of Congress on the classified version of the new strategy on Monday, which comes as Washington looks to increase its defense budget to $773 billion. Responding to a summary of the strategy d...

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Biden used printed ‘cheat sheet’ to answer questions on anti-Putin statements – media
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The president’s detractors have repeatedly questioned his mental fitness

After an apparent call for the ouster of Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Joe Biden read from a pre-prepared ‘cheat sheet’ to assure reporters that he wasn’t actually suggesting regime change in Moscow. However, Biden, whose cognitive health Republicans say is declining, ended up doubling down on his original remarks.

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, Biden said that his declaration in Poland last week that Putin “cannot remain in power” was not a call for regime change in M...

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Workers at Southern Poverty Law Center protest discriminatory working conditions
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The Southern Poverty Law Center is a historic civil rights organization that, for 50 years, has been advancing social justice through legal, educational, and advocacy efforts, primarily in the Deep South. However, after overwhelmingly voting to unionize in 2019, staff at SPLC say the organization has been stalling negotiations over their first union contract and unfairly treating its lowest-paid and most marginalized workers. On Monday, March 28, as noted in a press release from the SPLC Union, workers held an informational picket outside the or...

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Double-dealing?: ‘Pro-life’ politicians vote to ban prayer and outreach at abortion centres in NI

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US job open­ings, quit­ting at near-record high in Feb­ru­ary
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Many Amer­i­cans are tak­ing ad­van­tage of nu­mer­ous op­por­tu­ni­ties to switch jobs, of­ten for high­er pay.
Published On 29 Mar 2022

Eu­ro­pean states ex­pel Russ­ian diplo­mats over spy­ing al­le­ga­tions
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Bel­gium ex­pels 21 Russ­ian diplo­mats over al­leged spy­ing amid sim­i­lar moves else­where in the Eu­ro­pean Union.
Published On 29 Mar 2022