The date has been set to the initial set date May 31.
MESSI: Trial date set for his tax evasion charges
The date has been set to the initial set date May 31.
Putin: Panama Papers is an effort by U.S to destabilise Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. government of attempting to destabilize Russia with Panama allegations against his cabinet member.
Speaking at the All-Russia People’s Front media forum in St. Petersburg, Mr. Putin said articles published by news agencies around the world earlier this week constitute
“one more attempt to destabilize the internal situation [and] make us more accommodating,” Russian news agencies Interfax and Tass reported.
“Our opponents are above all concerned by the unity and consolidation of the Russian nation. They are attempting to rock us from within, to make us more pliant,” He said.
Papers reporting so far is renowned cellist Sergei Pavlovich Roldugin — a long-time friend of the Russian president and godfather to one of Mr. Putin’s daughters.
“Many creative professionals in Russia — probably half of them — are trying to do business and, to my knowledge, Sergei Pavlovich has been trying, too,” He is a minority shareholder in one of our companies, and he is making some money but definitely not billions of dollars. Nonsense, there is nothing of the sort.” - Putin
Referencing recent remarks made by WikiLeaks, the whistleblower group, Mr. Putin went on to suggest that the U.S. government is spearheading the Panama Papers reports.
“When officials from the U.S. State Department or the White House announce certain ridiculous things, it means that they’re designating themselves as a stakeholder,” Mr. Putin said. He said that Russia welcomes this, however, “because [then] we know who ordered the whole thing.”
On Wednesday, WikiLeaks said in a tweet that included among the dozens of media organizations involved in the Panama Papers reporting is the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), “which targets Russia & former USSR and was funded by USAID and [George] Soros,” the Hungarian-American philanthropist known for bank-rolling liberal efforts.
“WikiLeaks has showed us that official people and official organs of the U.S. are behind this,” Mr. Putin said on Thursday.
Their alleged efforts, he added, aimed to weaken Russia “by infusing some mistrust in society toward government bodies and the government, and by setting people against each other.”
The Open Society Foundations and the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation — two pro-democracy groups started by Mr. Soros — were labeled as “undesirable” by the Kremlin last year and are no longer allowed to operate within Russia on account of allegedly posing a threat to the country’s national security and public order.
Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, claimed earlier this week that “former representatives of the [U.S.] State Department and the CIA,” are involved in the Panama Papers reporting; and Victor Zvagelsky, a lawmaker in the State Duma, has separately threatened to file a libel lawsuit against Novaya Gazeta, a liberal newspaper in Russia that has reported on the leaks this week with the help of the OCCRP.
Artyom Kiryanov, a member of Russia’s public chamber, asked the federal tax service on Thursday to investigate whether the newspaper received foreign funding through OCCRP, The Guardian reported.
OCCRP founder Drew Sullivan told The Guardian that his group has “never given a penny to Novaya Gazeta, nor would they take it if we offered.”
In addition to funding from USAID and Mr. Soros, the OCCRP also receives financial support courtesy of the United Nations Democracy Fund and the Center for Public Integrity, as well as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) — the group responsible for managing the Panama Paper documents.
“Claims that #PanamaPapers themselves are a ‘plot’ against Russia are nonsense. However hoarding, DC organization & USAID money tilt coverage,” WikiLeaks clarified in a later tweet.
source: washingtontimes
NIGERIA: Army arrests suspected Boko Haram members with poisoned fish
While disclosing this to newsmen, the Brigade Spokesperson, Captain Eze Ikechikwu, said the sect members were intercepted with the poisoned fish at Hadeja Local Government Area of Jigawa State with the intent to sell it to unsuspected members of the public. 11 suspected members of the sect group were being interrogated. He added that Boko Haram members have devised another means of attacking members of the public through traditional biological weapon.
source:lindaikejisblog
FOOTBALL: Wolfsburg player Vieirinha loses tooth during UCL clash with Real Madrid
Charlie Sheen investigated by LA Police for 'Felony Threat Investigation' and 'stalking'
"Actor Charlie Sheen is the subject of a felony threat investigation triggered by his ex-fiancée. Los Angeles police and the woman's lawyer told NBC News on Wednesday."Scottine Ross, a retired pornographic film star, has previously accused Sheen, 50, in a civil suit of assault, battery, intentional inflection of emotional distress, false imprisonment and negligence for failing to disclose that he was HIV-positive during their engagement, which ended in 2014.
David Ring, an attorney for Ross, 26, who performed under the name Brett Rossi, told NBC News that his client returned to Los Angeles police recently to seek a protective order against Sheen.
The order was sought after The National Enquirer and Radar Online published excerpts on March 31 of what they said was an audiotape in which Sheen confesses to having lied about his HIV status and having threatened to kill Ross.
Los Angeles police served a search warrant Tuesday at the magazine's New York headquarters seeking the audiotape and confirmed Wednesday to NBC News that Sheen was the subject of a "felony threat investigation." They would provide no further details.
The magazine's parent company, American Media Inc., said in a statement to NBC News that it believes the warrant
"violates federal and state law prohibiting the use of search warrants against media companies who are reporting news and information."The allegations included in the warrant match those made in a civil lawsuit Ross filed Dec. 3 in Los Angeles County Superior Court. In the suit, Ross alleges that in addition to concealing his HIV status from her, Sheen on numerous occasions erupted in violent fits, often accompanied by threats.
MURDER: Secular activist who was critical of radical Islamists hacked to death in Bangladesh
Syed Nurul Islam, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police to AFP said :
"They hacked his head with a machete. As he fell down, one of them shot him in the head with a pistol from close range. He died on the spot,"The master’s student of the state-run Jagannath University’s Law Department, who was critical of radical Islamists was killed by suspected Islamist militants in Old Dhaka’s Sutrapur area.
He was attacked by three assailants while walking to his home in Gendaria with another youth after completing classes at the university, near Bahadur Shah Park.
While murdering Samad, the killers shouted Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest), witnesses said. The youth accompanying the victim has been missing since the incident, a police official said.
Nazim, who hailed from Sylhet, was the information and research secretary of Sylhet district unit of Bangabandhu Jatiya Jubo Parishad. He was also an activist of Gonojagoron Moncho’s Sylhet wing.
His friends said Nazim used to campaign for secularism on Facebook and was critical of radical Islamists. A day before the murder, he expressed concerns over the country’s law and order in a Facebook post.
The police cordoned off the crime scene. They recovered a bullet shell from the spot.
Nurul Amin, Assistant Commissioner of Sutrapur division, was quoted as saying that the police went to the spot and found the body in a pool of blood.
Nurul said it was clear that the assailants kept an eye on Nazim’s activities for long.
University Proctor Nur Mohammad said Nazim got admitted to the university two months ago.
"We have informed his family about the murder and are taking detailed information about him," he said.
U.S.A: Azealia Banks condemned for wishing Sarah Palin gets gang raped by big black men and have it posted on the Internet
Rapper Azealia Banks obviously missed that it wasn't real and went off on Sarah Palin, saying Sarah Palin should be gang raped by the biggest, burliest black men and have it posted on the internet. Read her tweets...
Palin responded to Banks on Tuesday, saying she was 'not exercising enough intelligence' and later added; 'Why don't we strengthen both our platforms and work together on something worthwhile.'
She then wrote that 'condemning racism' was one of the things that the women could work on before editing it to in the post.
Palin also announced that she plans on suing Banks over the comments she made on Twitter.
She said:
'So, for the first time I'm going to enjoy the only retribution some protected "celebrities" seem to understand – I'm suing Azealia Banks and can't wait to share my winnings with others who have gone defenseless against lies and dangerous attacks far too long.'
'Azealia engages in a form of racism and hate that is celebrated by some in the perverted arm of pop culture, but is condemned by those who know it's tearing our country apart.
'Others may keep turning a blind eye to problems like Azealia's mouth; I choose to take a stand against it and the double standards that result in her actually being rewarded for her divisive tactics and aggressively inciting violence.'
Then when she realized her mistake she sent an apology letter to Sarah Palin online.
'Now since learning that the article was not published officially, I sincerely apologize for any emotional distress or reputational scarring i may have caused you.
'In my honest defense, i was completely kidding. I happen to have a really crass, New-York-City sense of humor, and regularly make silly jokes in attempts make light of situations which make me uncomfortable.
'As the fabric of the American Nation is EMBEDDED with racism, I merely made a raCIALly driven joke to counter what i believed to be real, raCIST rhetoric.'
She said later in her letter; 'I cherish my ability to express myself freely, yet remain totally aware that for every action, there will be a reaction.
'All in All, Woman to Woman, I hope you will accept my sincerest apology.'
Banks then included multiple PS additions to the letter, writing in one; '“Hey Female Rapper,” was your way to euphemize what you REALLY wanted to say. What you wanted to say was, “Hey little Stereotypical Black, Thing!”'
In another she said; 'Twitter is not real, neither is your opinion of me!'
And in her final line, she quoted the Peaches song 'F*** the Pain Away,' writing; 'If Bristol Palin listened to my music she probably wouldn’t have all those cotdamn kids!!!! ;-P #sis #iud #stayinschool #causeitsthebest'
Some of the comments:
@SarahPalinUSA Why hasn't she been arrested for a terrorist threat?
@winatdelmr @SarahPalinUSA Blacks are a protected species. They walk like gods.
@Hailey_Lonowski @the_magic_m sick.chick this rapper I hope she gets arrested
Banks is constantly in the news for fights with different people. 2 weeks ago, she attacked the paparazzi who were taking her picture outside Manhattan Criminal Court.
Banks was appearing in court following an incident that happened in December where she is alleged to have punched and then bitten a female bouncer at a Manhattan club.
She was also accused of assaulting a bouncer at the Break Room 86 club in Los Angeles in October.
Banks has also been in various Twitter fights, with Iggy Azalea, Eminem and Nicki Minaj.
Last month she tweeted to Iggy Azalea:
'Mentioning me is the only thing that will get you attention. Because ur music and nose job are trash.'
'Matter of fact. . Let me just kill this b****.
Twins looking for long lost mum discover she was murdered just two days earlier
Twin brothers, 19 year old Curtis and Lewis Nickle who had been desperately looking for their long lost mother, 42 year old Maxine Showers, online and everywhere else were horrified when they discovered that she had been savagely murdered just two days earlier.
Showers who was a sex worker had been killed and dumped in an alleyway by her 29 year old client Michael Williams.
According to the Liverpool Echo , Curtis, 19, told the court:
The twins said their adoptive mum Angie gave them her name, but when they went on the internet on September 30th last year, to look for her, they read reports of her tragic death two days earlier.
Williams claimed that after he had sex with Showers, she tried to steal from him. He said he didnt not murder the Liverpool mum but admitted to manslaughter. Her body was discovered in an alleyway behind Williams’ home in Hinton Street on the morning of Monday, September 28 last year.
Prosecutors said Williams killed her in a “vicious assault.
Judge David Aubrey, QC, on Minday said there was no truth to this suggestion and said it was a “brutal, savage and sustained” cocaine and alcohol-fuelled attack.
The judge said:
Showers who was a sex worker had been killed and dumped in an alleyway by her 29 year old client Michael Williams.
“How could we be so close and have it all cruelly taken away?
“If only we could have the chance to tell her we love her and have never blamed her for us being adopted.Turning to face his mum's killer in the dock, he continued:
“You have taken away from this world a beautiful, wonderful person.
“No amount of apologising will ever bring our mum back. So your remorse, if you have any, is not accepted.”Showers who was a mother of 8 children had given the twins up for adoption when she couldn't fend for them anymore.
The twins said their adoptive mum Angie gave them her name, but when they went on the internet on September 30th last year, to look for her, they read reports of her tragic death two days earlier.
Williams claimed that after he had sex with Showers, she tried to steal from him. He said he didnt not murder the Liverpool mum but admitted to manslaughter. Her body was discovered in an alleyway behind Williams’ home in Hinton Street on the morning of Monday, September 28 last year.
Judge David Aubrey, QC, on Minday said there was no truth to this suggestion and said it was a “brutal, savage and sustained” cocaine and alcohol-fuelled attack.
The judge said:
“A void and emptiness is felt by so many as they seek to come to terms with their grief.
“It was a tragedy that two 19-year-olds were seeking to ascertain the whereabouts of their natural mother, having been adopted at a very young age.
“They wished to contact their real mother they had never known. They are never to know her in consequence of what you did.Williams was jailed yesterday to life in prison with a minimum of 22 years behind bars, after jurors found him guilty.
ICELAND: TAX FRAUD: Iceland's Prime Minister resigns over Panama papers offshore funds scandal
After the news broke, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson who was granting an interview to a journalist stormed out of the interview over the weekend , amid claims he used secret offshore firm Mossack Fonseca to hide millions of dollars as Iceland's economy collapsed.
Monday night, about 24,000 people gathered outside the parliament building demanding his resignation.
Mr Gunnlaugsson has resigned as Prime Minister, but says he will stay on as leader of the Progressive Party.
FRAUD: 11 PEOPLE ARRESTED IN VIETNAM OVER $1.3 MILLION SCAM
The gangs tricked the victims by informing them they had won grand prizes or gift packages from abroad but had to pay some money as fees for collecting the prize or bribing police and customs officers since the gifts were of big value. They used bank accounts created with stolen or fake ID cards to collect the money.
Ho Chi Minh City police arrested Michael IkeChukwu Leonard, 44, on Tuesday with three Vietnamese accomplices for cheating more than 100 victims around the country out of more than VND20 billion ($900,000) over more than a year.
Earlier this month they had arrested Ihugba Augustine Chinonso, 30, Onu Chinonso Peter, 31, and five Vietnamese for tricking many victims into paying VND10 billion since late last year.
One victim from the central city of Da Nang said she had lost more than VND2.1billion. She had been promised a gift package that contained more than a million dollars from a family friend overseas.
A man from Hanoi, who works for a domestic airline, borrowed money to pay nearly VND3.5 billion to receive a prize worth $1 million from a UK company. He said he got a lot of emails, all in English, and he was trusting because it had all "seemed very professional."
The members of the latter gang said they had received instructions from two other Nigerian men, who are still at large.
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