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Ex-FBI chief Mueller to head Trump-Russia probe

by Michael Mathes / Paul Handley Agence France-Presse A former Federal Bureau of Investigation chief was tasked Wednesday with leading a beefed-up investigation into whether United States President Donald Trump’s team colluded with Russia to tilt the 2016 election in the president’s favor. Trump responded by once again denying any links to Moscow, but the appointment of a special counsel with sweeping powers dramatically raises the stakes in a crisis threatening to paralyze his presidency. The […]

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Malacanang defends Duterte as UN rights commissioner seeks probe of Philippine president

  MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines said Wednesday that President Rodrigo Duterte’s killing of three people in the 1980s was part of a police operation, after the United Nations rights chief urged Manila to investigate him for murder. In several speeches last week, Duterte recounted how in 1988, early in the first of his several terms as mayor of the southern city of Davao, he and local police ambushed and killed three suspected kidnappers. […]

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South Korean parliament begins probe into president’s political scandal

    SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korean National Assembly’s special committee, made up of opposition politicians and ruling party members, began investigations into the influence-peddling scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday (November 30). The committee is set to probe various government departments accused of bending under the influence of Park and her friend, Choi Soon-sil, who has been requested to attend a hearing on December 7, the parliament said. Heads of South […]

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FBI email probe should not ‘operate on innuendo’: Obama

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama implicitly criticized FBI director James Comey Wednesday, insisting US investigations should not operate based on “innuendo” or “incomplete information.” Obama’s remarks in an interview with website NowThisNews were his first public comments since Comey’s announcement Friday that the FBI had discovered a new trove of emails that might or might not be pertinent to an earlier probe of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information. […]

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De Lima declines attendance in House probe

(Eagle News)– Senator Leila De Lima on Wednesday refused to attend House of Representatives’ own investigation of narcotics trade inside National Penitentiary, and cited ‘interparliamentary courtesy’ as her right to snob the probe. “Alam naman nila iyan, ni Congressman Harry. Abugado rin siya. Interparliamentary courtesy,” De Lima said. The senator issued this statement after Kabataan Party-list Representative Harry Roque challenged her to attend the lower House inquiry. Interparliamentary courtesy is a tradition of both houses […]

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ESA’s Philae probe releases first image from landing

(Reuters) — The Philae probe on Wednesday (November 12) released a close-up image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the European Space Agency (ESA) said on-board instruments are working despite the anchors not working as planned. The picture, taken with the lander’s ROLIS camera, was taken 3km away from the target during the craft’s descent. Philae’s landing marks a first in space exploration and the climax of a decade-long mission to examine up close the remnants of the birth […]

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