Category: Foreign

Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, was found guilty on Monday of criminal charges linked to the misuse of public funds during her time as France’s Finance minister. The judges did not impose a fine or sentence on Lagarde, a move that may allow her to keep her IMF post. But the verdict is likely to add to the debate over the Fund’s role as international elites and their institutions face growing populist criticism. New York Times reported that the board of the IMF was already…

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In order to save a kidnapped woman, the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he killed three kidnappers in 1988 when he was Davao City mayor. “There were three of them; I didn’t really know how many bullets from my gun went through inside their bodies,” Duterte told reporters in Singapore Friday evening before his flight back home, according to a transcript e-mailed by his office. “They were not suspects. Those are people who dared to fight the law. And because I had an M16, I carried one because Davao was…

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UN official has been quoted as saying that Jammeh would face “strong sanctions if he clings to power.” President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia will not be allowed to remain head of state if he refuses to go after his elected term ends next month, the top United Nations official in West Africa has said on Wednesday. Jammeh, who took power in a coup in 1994, initially conceded defeat in the December 1 election to Adama Barrow, raising the prospect of an end to 22 years of autocratic rule tainted by…

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Barack Obama, the outgoing U.S. President has disclosed that he ‘absolutely’ suffered racism in office, adding Americans’ ‘primary concern about me has been that I seem foreign’. “The concept of race in America is not just genetic, otherwise the one-drop rule wouldn’t have made sense”. “It’s cultural. It’s this notion of a people who look different than the mainstream, suffering terrible oppression. “But somehow being able to make out of that a music and a language and a faith and a patriotism,” Obama said, in a special looking back on…

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Not less than 45,000 people have been displaced after a devastating earthquake in Indonesia killed more than 100 people, an official said Saturday, leaving communities in ruins as aid trickled into the disaster-stricken province. “We have 45,300 people evacuating in several places as of Saturday morning,” national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said, adding that the number of displaced had almost doubled since Friday due to an influx of new data. The shallow 6.5-magnitude quake earlier this week levelled hundreds of homes, mosques and businesses across Aceh province, one…

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Marine Le Pen, French far-right leader has proposed on Thursday that the children of illegal immigrants should be refused public school places as part of tough proposals to restrict state services. “I’ve got nothing against foreigners but I say to them: if you come to our country, don’t expect that you will be taken care of, treated (by the health system) and that your children will be educated for free,” Le Pen said. “That’s finished now, it’s the end of playtime,” she told an audience at a conference organised by…

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