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Brasile
Brazil’s Lava Jato Focuses on Ex-Lawmaker, Foreign Ship Owner
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Federal police officials in Brazil arrested Congressional representative, Candido Vaccarezza this morning (August 18th) as it launched the 43rd and 44th phases of Operação Lava Jato (Car Wash). The operations also include illicit dealings between Petrobras directors and Greek ship ...
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Spagna
Nadal, Pliskova face double duty to reach semi-finals
Once and future number one Rafael Nadal and top-ranked Karolina Pliskova were doing double duty Friday at the WTA and ATP Cincinnati Masters, preparing for quarter-final matches after afternoon victories. Spain’s Nadal, assured of being atop the rankings come Monday for the first time since July 2014, defeated compatriot Albert ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria produces less than 3% of potential honey output
An official of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development says the country cannot export honey because it produces less than three per cent of its current needs. A Director in the Department of Veterinary and Pest Control Services of the ministry, Dr Gideon Mshelbwala, made the statement in Abuja on Friday on ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria to start bee export by 2018
Nigeria will start exporting bees to other countries next year, the National President, Federation of Bee keepers Association of Nigeria, Dr Bidemi Ojeleye, has said. Ojeleye on Friday said that a European Union team had visited Nigeria for training and guidelines on the residue monitoring plans for bee export. Ojeleye, who ...
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Belgio
Partner opgepakt van vrouw die dood aangetroffen werd in Seneffe
De partner van de 47-jarige vrouw die maandag dood aangetroffen werd in het kanaal Brussel-Charleroi, is na bekentenissen aangehouden voor
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Finlandia
Two dead, six hurt in Finland knife attack
Updated 8.35pm A man with a knife killed two people and wounded at least six in a stabbing rampage in a market square in the Finnish city of Turku today, police said. Police shot the suspected attacker in the leg and arrested him. They said they had yet to establish the ...
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Malta
Drug mule lied under oath, says man caught in cocaine sting
A man sentenced to 13 years behind bars for conspiring to import cocaine has filed an appeal, claiming the jury's star witness lied under oath and that the guilty verdict had been reached on the basis of assumptions. Last month, Stephen Egbo, 39, of San Ġwann, was found guilty by 7 votes ...
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USA
Donald Trump fires strategist Steve Bannon
Updated 8.50pm President Donald Trump today fired Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist in the latest high-level White House shakeup, removing a powerful and controversial figure known for far-right political views. Bannon was a force behind some of Trump's most contentious policies, including a travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority nations, ...
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USA Finlandia
Updated (3): Finnish police shoot man who stabs 8 people in Turku; 2 dead
A man stabbed eight people today in Finland's western city of Turku, killing two of them, before police shot him in the thigh and detained him, police said. Authorities were looking for more potential suspects in the attack.A suspect — a man whose identity was not known — was being ...
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Malta
Man sentenced to 13 years jail files appeal based on ‘credibility’ of star witness
Lawyers have filed an appeal on behalf of Stephen Egbo, a Nigerian man fighting a 13 years jail term accompanied by a €30,000 fine for being found guilty to conspiring to import cocaine from the Netherlands in 2010.The defence team is making the case that the jury’s lead witness is ...