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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP) — Beleaguered South African President Jacob Zuma Tuesday faced a no-confidence vote in parliament for a second time in less than a year and a legal bid to reinstate corruption charges against him. The mounting pressure on the president comes against a background of economic crisis sparked by his firing of two finance ministers within days in December. The fallout was followed by a public row between the respected new Finance Minister […]
A suspended Guatemalan judge who was arrested last month as part of a U.S. investigation into corruption in soccer’s world governing body FIFA won the right to be released from jail on Thursday (January 07) on a $4 million (USD) bond. Héctor Trujillo, 62, was secretary general of the Guatemalan soccer federation and a Constitutional Court judge until his Dec. 4 arrest while aboard a Disney cruise ship docked in Florida. With Trujillo’s wife and […]
VP Binay decried the accusations of corruptions against him and his family, saying that these are merely recycled accusations that come out every election. Binay vehemently denied that the Makati City building two was overpriced, as alleged in the senate blue ribbon sub-committee, and stressed that his accusers and detractors used wrong data. He said the charges against him will not stand in a court of law mainly because his accusers failed to give evidence. […]
