Author: Daily Sabah With Reuters
Nadine Menendez, the wife of former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, was convicted on Monday of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bribes in exchange for her husband doing favors for Egypt and New Jersey businessmen. Nadine Menendez, 58, was found guilty on all 15 counts she faced, including bribery, honest services wire fraud, and conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent. She had pleaded not guilty. Menendez will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein in Manhattan on June 12. Bob Menendez, a Democrat who represented New Jersey for 18-1/2 years, was sentenced…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times reported on Sunday, raising more questions about his use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly-sensitive security details. Hegseth allegedly shared the same details of the attack that were revealed last month by The Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in a separate chat on the Signal app by mistake, in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump’s most senior national security officials. The…
The Palestinian Red Crescent called on Monday for a “serious investigation” into the killing of 15 aid workers in Gaza last month, a day after the Israeli military admitted “professional failures” and disciplined two officers over the incident. Younish Al-Khatib, chairman of the Palestinian Red Crescent, said he did not consider the measures taken by the Israeli military, which reprimanded one officer and dismissed another from his position, as sufficient. “This looks like the management of a company taking administrative measures against its employees who made some kind of a mistake,” he told Reuters. “When you kill 15 medical staff…
When Pope John Paul II died on the evening of April 2, 2005, the whole world knew it would be coming at any moment. He had been on his deathbed for days and the light in the window of his bedroom overlooking St. Peter’s Square had become a tangible connection with the faithful. Twenty years later, the death of Pope Francis on Monday at the age of 88 came as a surprise even though he was still convalescing after a hospital stay for double pneumonia. In the past few days, Francis made several public appearances. Although very brief, they sent…
Asian crime syndicates behind the multibillion-dollar cyberscam industry are expanding globally, including to South America and Africa, as raids in Southeast Asia fail to contain their activities, the United Nations said in a report on Monday. Criminal networks that emerged in Southeast Asia in recent years, opening sprawling compounds housing tens of thousands of workers, many trafficked and forced to scam victims around the world, have evolved into a sophisticated global industry, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said. Even as Southeast Asian governments have intensified a crackdown, syndicates have moved within and beyond the region, the…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will attend Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome. “Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome,” Trump said on Truth Social.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Uber Technologies, accusing it of signing up some Uber One subscribers without their knowledge and making deceptive claims about the service. The service costs $9.99 a month and offers discounts on fees associated with Uber’s ride hailing and food delivery apps. Uber falsely claimed that users would save about $25 a month through the service and deceived users about how easy it was to cancel, the FTC said in the lawsuit filed in San Francisco. “Americans are tired of getting signed up for unwanted subscriptions that seem impossible to cancel,” FTC Chairman…
Manchester United suffered their 15th Premier League defeat of the season on Sunday as Pablo Sarabia’s late free kick sealed a 1-0 win for Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford. Still riding the high of Thursday’s dramatic 5-4 Europa League victory over Olympique Lyonnais, United produced a flat first-half performance, managing just one shot on target to the frustration of the home crowd. Bruno Fernandes injected some life after coming off the bench, but United failed to capitalize – and paid the price when Sarabia curled a sublime free kick into the top corner with 13 minutes remaining. Mason Mount wasted…
Manchester United suffered their 15th Premier League defeat of the season on Sunday as Pablo Sarabia’s late free kick sealed a 1-0 win for Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford. Still riding the high of Thursday’s dramatic 5-4 Europa League victory over Olympique Lyonnais, United produced a flat first-half performance, managing just one shot on target to the frustration of the home crowd. Bruno Fernandes injected some life after coming off the bench, but United failed to capitalize – and paid the price when Sarabia curled a sublime free kick into the top corner with 13 minutes remaining. Mason Mount wasted…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has not issued an order to extend the Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, TASS news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Sunday. The ceasefire expires at midnight (2100 GMT) on Sunday.