The step-son of Malawi’s ex-President Peter Mutharika has been acquitted of all charges in a case in which he was accused of human trafficking and aggravated manslaughter. Tadikira Mafubza and seven other men were arrested in November 2022 after police said they were linked with the deaths of 29 suspected Ethiopian immigrants whose bodies were […]
Iran’s hard-line former leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered as a possible candidate for the presidential election, seeking to regain the country’s top political position after a helicopter crash killed President Ebrahim Raissi. The populist former leader’s registration puts pressure on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In office, Mr Ahmadinejad openly challenged the 85-year-old cleric, and […]
A video of an actor impersonating Imran Khan has been misrepresented online as a genuine clip of Pakistan’s former leader — in jail since May 2023 — visiting farmers in a wheat field during his tenure. Critics of the ruling coalition government shared the video with the false claim after changes to wheat procurement policies […]
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel’s memoirs will be released in late November, nearly three years after the end of her 16-year tenure at the helm of one of Europe’s biggest powers, her publisher said. The roughly 700-page volume, titled Freiheit (Freedom), will be published on November 26, publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch announced. The 69-year-old co-wrote […]
Myanmar’s ousted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been transferred from prison to another location. Local media, citing military junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun, reported that the reason for the move was concern for the 78-year-old’s health in view of the high temperatures in the capital Naypyidaw, where Suu Kyi was being held . […]
LONDON (AP) — A former leader of Scotland acknowledged on Wednesday that she deleted WhatsApp messages sent during the COVID-19 pandemic, but she insisted that anything of relevance to how policymaking was conducted had been made available for the public record. Nicola Sturgeon told the United Kingdom’s public inquiry into the pandemic that she didn’t […]
(Bloomberg) — Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma, charged with treason earlier this month, is free to travel for medical reasons, President Julius Maada Bio said Thursday. Most Read from Bloomberg “This humanitarian gesture does not in any way detract from the seriousness of the ongoing trials,” Bio said in a televised address. Koroma […]