US President Donald Trump has repeatedly opposed the nationwide shift to absentee and mail-in voting proposed amid the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, claiming that Democrats could win the November election via sending out millions of mail-in ballots or stealing millions of votes, in what he claims would be “the greatest scam in history”. The US Department of Justice on Thursday announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating an incident of nine absentee ballots, the majority of them cast for President Donald Trump, recovered in garbage near the Pennsylvania city of Scranton. In a Thursday press release, US Attorney […]
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STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) – The Swedish Tax Agency has launched an investigation into Fazel Fazly, the chief adviser to the Afghan president, who is also a Swedish citizen, as the senior official is suspected of illegally receiving childcare benefits, national media reported on Tuesday. According to the Aftonbladet newspaper, citing the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s data, the 43-year-old official has lived in the European country and worked as a doctor since 2009. In late June 2018, Fazly was appointed as head of the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s administration, with publications featuring Fazly having appeared on the administration’s official website and related pages on […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106758/47/1067584765_0:155:2972:1826_1200x675_80_0_0_d99eccd58648530ce95e323f86c8a5e6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008221080241569-fbi-probing-breach-that-may-have-compromised-identities-of-covid-19-patients—reports/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a data breach that may have exposed the identities of novel coronavirus disease patients in the state of South Dakota, local media reported. The US Rapid City Journal reported on Friday, citing a letter from the state’s Department of Public Safety, that on 19 June there was a data breach that targeted servers belonging to a third-party database shared between the Department of Health and law enforcement. The servers belong to a web development firm called Netsential.com, Inc., the report said. The identities of […]
A two-member advance team of the World Health Organization (WHO) dispatched to Wuhan to probe the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak will undertake preliminary work with local scientists, the agency’s emergencies chief has said. The team is currently under mandatory quarantine, the WHO’s Mike Ryan said at a press briefing on Monday. After their isolation period ends, the investigators will begin their work alongside their Chinese colleagues. The WHO has previously said its team will focus only on uncovering the “zoonotic source” of the disease. The decision to send a special team to Wuhan, believed to be the source of the […]
The former real estate mogul, who fled China in 2014, has been levying allegations of corruption among his homeland’s ruling elite. While in the US, he befriended Steve Bannon, a former Trump advisor and fellow critic of Beijing. The FBI has launched an investigation into the renegade Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources with knowledge of the probe. The bureau’s agents are said to have been examining Wengui for six months for his media activities in the United States, including his work with Steve Bannon, a former senior counselor and chief political strategist to President Donald […]
As activists across the United States have united behind the slogan “defund the police,” with some using that to mean shifting a share of funding to social services while others call for the elimination of policing altogether, a new study points to the danger of an abrupt or haphazard withdrawal of policing. In a working paper released this month by Harvard economist Roland Freyer and researcher Tanaya Devi, the pair found that in five major cities where deaths of African-Americans in police-involved incidents went viral and state and federal authorities subsequently placed police departments under investigation, homicides and other forms of […]
World 19:30 GMT 02.06.2020Get short URL After a brief period of normalisation of ties between the International Criminal Court and Washington during the administration of US President Barack Obama, relations between the two entities have deteriorated, as the Trump administration strongly denies the ICC’s authority over the US and its ally Israel. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has stated that the US will go to great lengths to impede attempts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute Americans and Israelis on two separate criminal cases related to the seventeen-year US War in Afghanistan and Israeli actions on the territory of […]
World 21:49 GMT 11.05.2020Get short URL TORONTO (Sputnik) – Canadian authorities are investigating the origin of three of the firearms believed to have originated in the United States used in the deadly rampage in the province of Nova Scotia in April, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said in a statement on Monday. Of the two semi-automatic handguns and two semi-automatic rifles used by the shooter, identified as Gabriel Wortman, 51, only one is of Canadian origin, the country’s federal police agency said. “The remaining guns that were recovered are believed to have been obtained in the United States. The RCMP […]