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Lawyer: German journalist detained in Venezuela set free

A human rights attorney says a German freelance journalist jailed in Venezuela since November as a suspected spy has been freed.

Carlos Correa of Public Space told The Associated Press on Friday that a court ordered the conditional release of journalist Billy Six. He had been charged with espionage — accusations his relatives rejected as trumped up.

Correa said Six has to report to the court every 15 days.

He said the journalist is banned from talking to the media, but he's not being deported and can leave Venezuela if he chooses.

The release follows the arrest and deportation earlier this month of U.S. freelance journalist Cody Weddle.

Univision's Jorge Ramos was also deported with his team in late February after President Nicolas Maduro abruptly ended an interview.

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Feds' Michael Cohen investigation began nearly a year before raid, court files reveal

The federal investigation into former Trump attorney Michael Cohen began nearly a year before agents raided his home and business in April 2018, newly unsealed court documents revealed Tuesday.

The massive trove of files, pertaining to the government's search warrants, showed that federal investigators obtained a warrant for emails from Cohen’s Gmail account “on or around July 18, 2017.” The emails that were obtained and reviewed were dated between Jan. 1, 2016 and July 18, 2017.

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Weeks later, the FBI sought and obtained a search warrant -- on or around Aug.  8, 2017 -- for communications and records stored in Cohen’s iCloud account. In November 2017, the FBI sought and obtained a separate search warrant for Cohen’s Gmail account, related to communications “sent or received between June 1, 2016, and November 13, 2017.”

Cohen ultimately pleaded guilty to a range of charges related to bank and tax fraud, campaign finance violations and making false statements to Congress. The latter arose from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, but the rest of the charges came from an investigation handled by New York federal prosecutors. Cohen, who recently delivered explosive testimony to Congress critical of Trump, is expected to report to prison in May to serve a three-year sentence.

The documents unsealed Tuesday show that Mueller was investigating Cohen until February 2018, before turning the case over to prosecutors with the Southern District of New York. The documents show that Mueller’s team was reviewing all communications and records from the warrant, specifically related to Cohen’s relations with foreign entities and whether he was acting as an unregistered foreign agent.

The court files documented Mueller's handoff to the SDNY.

“The SCO has since referred certain aspects of its investigation into Cohen to the USAO, which is working with the FBI’s New York Field Office,” the court files state. “As part of that referral, on or about Feb. 8, 2018, the SCO provided the USAO with all non-privileged emails and other content information obtained pursuant to the Cohen email address and Cohen iCloud account.”

Cohen, who has been criticized for his unregistered foreign contacts and relationships, was never charged with failing to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

But Tuesday’s court filings detail Cohen’s financial exchanges with foreign entities—including Russia-linked U.S.-based company Columbus Nova; Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis; a South Korean company; and a Kazakhstani bank. All entities transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars into a Cohen bank account dubbed “Essential Consulting”—the account that ultimately paid former adult film star, Stormy Daniels. In total, between January 2017 and January 2018, Cohen received nearly $2.9 million in transfers and checks from foreign entities.

Despite getting initial warrants nearly a year prior, the FBI did not conduct the raid of Cohen’s home, office and hotel room until April 9, 2018. Agents scooped up evidence related to several issues including his relations with foreign entities, his personal business dealings involving taxi medallions, and his payments to Daniels in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election to cover up an alleged affair with then-candidate Donald Trump.

ROSENSTEIN HANGING ON AT DOJ AMID MUELLER PROBE WIND-DOWN, DESPITE PLANS TO LEAVE BY NOW

The newly released documents reference an “Illegal Campaign Contribution Scheme,” but all sections related to that topic are completely redacted. The heavy redactions signal that the hush-money payments could still be a factor in Mueller's Russia probe.

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California seeks death penalty in ‘Golden State Killer’ case

California prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty if they convict the man suspected of being a notorious California serial killer who eluded capture for decades.

The move comes less than a month after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a moratorium on executing any of the 737 inmates on the nation's largest death row.

Prosecutors from four counties announced their decision one after another Wednesday during a brief court hearing for Joseph DeAngelo, jailed as the suspected "Golden State Killer."

He was arrested a year ago based on DNA evidence linking him to at least 13 murders and more than 50 rapes across California in the 1970s and '80s.

He has yet to enter a plea on 26 charges.

He stood expressionless and defense attorney Diane Howard did not comment.

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Liz Cheney: Dems Caving in to Anti-Israel Elements of Party

Democrats are "enabling the anti-Semitism in their party" and caving to radical, anti-Israel elements who have "seized control," Rep. Liz Cheney, who chairs the House GOP Conference, said Tuesday.

"It is really scary," the Wyoming Republican told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "It's dangerous. When we are at the point where the Democrats will not even put a resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives condemning the anti-Semitic remarks by naming Rep. [Ilhan] Omar. They continue to let her sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee."

Anti-Semitism, she continued, "begins with words and ends with things far worse than that, and we all have an obligation to stand up against it, to call it evil."

The matter should not be a partisan issue, Cheney said, but the "radical left of the Democratic Party has seized control and the Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives are enabling it by standing silently by."

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., did speak out against Omar's comments, noted Cheney, but now that he's being attacked by the left, he has said he was not condemning her specifically, so "it's not a profile in courage."

The argument should not be so complicated, Cheney said.

"Put a resolution on the floor, condemn her words and take her off the House Foreign Affairs Committee," said Cheney. "They have the power to show the world that we won't stand for anti-Semitism. They are refusing to do it because they are catering to the far left of their party to this radical anti-Israel faction."

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U.S. House judiciary panel told to expect Mueller report at 5 p.m.: reports

FILE PHOTO: Robert Mueller listens at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the FBI on Capitol Hill in Washington
FILE PHOTO: Robert Mueller, as FBI director, listens at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Larry Downing/File Photo

March 22, 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has been told to expect notification by 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report has been delivered to Attorney General William Barr, according to media reports.

Mueller had been investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election and if the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow, allegations that Russia and Trump denies.

(Reporting by Makini Brice; Editing by Eric Beech)

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Sudan may face counter coup if no accord on transition: opposition leader

FILE PHOTO: Sudanese opposition figure Sadiq al-Mahdi meets his supporters after he returned from nearly a year in self-imposed exile in Khartoum
FILE PHOTO: Sudanese opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi meets supporters in Khartoum, Sudan December 19, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo

April 25, 2019

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan could face a counter coup if military rulers and the opposition don’t reach agreement on a transition of power, opposition leader Sadiq Al Mahdi told Reuters on Thursday.

Al Mahdi said he believed Sudan’s military council would hand over power to civilians if the current stalemate were broken. He also said he would consider running for president only in an election, not during the transition period.

(Reporting by Michael Georgy and Khalid Abdelaziz; Editing by Gareth Jones)

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Florida man squirts urine at woman walking dog, says he’d ‘do it again,’ police say

A Florida man was arrested Saturday after allegedly using a squirt gun to shoot his urine at a woman walking her dog past his home in Gulfport, which is outside Tampa.

FLORIDA MAN NABBED FOR ALLEGEDLY SPEEDING TELLS COPS, ‘THE CAR IS A FERRARI AND IT GOES FAST’: REPORT

Seventy-one-year-old Joel William Benjamin was taken into custody and charged with one count of misdemeanor battery for squirting a woman “several times” with a water gun that contained his own urine at around 9:30 p.m., the Tampa Bay Times reported.

Police said Benjamin allegedly admitted to shooting his bodily fluids at the woman and told officers he’d “do it again” when asked, WFLA reported. The Pinellas County Sheriff's arrest report, which was posted online by The Smoking Gun, stated the incident “did not cause bodily harm” to the victim.

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Benjamin was booked into the Pinellas County Jail on a $500 bail, posted bond and was released.

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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during the inauguration of the newly-elected parliament in Kabul
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during the inauguration of the newly-elected parliament in Kabul, Afghanistan April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

April 26, 2019

By Rupam Jain and Hameed Farzad

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani encouraged newly-elected lawmakers to participate in the peace process with the Taliban as he opened on Friday the first session of parliament since a controversial election.

Ghani has invited thousands of politicians, religious scholars and rights activists to an assembly known as a loya jirga next week to discuss ways to end the 17-year war.

Several opposition leaders have said they will boycott the four-day assembly in Kabul, saying it was pulled together without their input and is being used by Ghani as he seeks a second term in a September presidential election.

“We have presented the peace plan on a regular basis and we are committed to it,” Ghani said in the first session since parliamentary elections marred by technical problems, militant attacks and accusations of voting fraud last year.

“Based on this plan, there will be no peace deal and negotiation that does not have the green card of the parliament,” he added.

Officials from the United States and the Taliban have held several rounds of talks to end the Afghan war.

U.S. negotiator, Zalmay Khalilzad, has reported some progress toward an accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal and on how the Taliban would prevent extremists from using Afghanistan to launch attacks as al Qaeda did on Sept. 11, 2001.

The insurgents have so far rejected U.S. demands for a ceasefire and talks on the country’s political future that would include Afghan government officials.

The loya jirga, a centuries-old institution used to build consensus among competing tribes, factions and ethnic groups, is an attempt by Ghani to influence the peace talks and cement his position for a second term, Afghan politicians and Western diplomats say.

Amid growing political divisions in Kabul, opposition politicians have demanded that Ghani step down when his mandate ends next month, and give way to an interim government to oversee peace talks with the Taliban. Ghani has ruled that out.

The country’s top court said last week Ghani can stay in office until the presidential election in September.

(Reporting by Hameed Farzad, Rupam Jain, Editing by Darren Schuettler)

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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Thursday defended special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation while slamming former President Barack Obama’s administration for being slow to take action on Russian interference in U.S. elections and ex-FBI Director James Comey for telling Congress the agency was investigating collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

“Our nation is safer, elections are more secure, and citizens are better informed about covert foreign influence schemes,” Rosenstein said in a speech to the Armenian Bar Association, marking his first public remarks after the Mueller report was released, reports CBS News.

He also pointed out that the investigation revealed a pattern of computer hacking and the use of social media to undermine elections as “only the tip of the iceberg of a comprehensive Russian strategy to influence elections, promote social discord, and undermine America, just like they do in many other countries,” reports The Wall Street Journal.

The Obama administration also made “critical decisions,” including choosing not to publicize the full story about Russian hackers and social media trolling, “and how they relate to a broader strategy to undermine America,” said Rosenstein.

He noted that the Mueller probe began after Comey disclosed during a hearing before Congress that President Donald Trump “pressured him to close the investigation and the president denied that the conversation occurred.”

Rosenstein said two years ago, when he was confirmed, he was told by a Republican senator that he would be in charge of the probe and that he’d report the results to the American people.

However, he said he didn’t promise to do that, because it is “not our job to render conclusive factual findings. We just decide whether it is appropriate to file criminal charges.”

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FILE PHOTO: The Huawei logo is pictured outside its Huawei's factory campus in Dongguan, Guangdong province
FILE PHOTO: The Huawei logo is pictured outside its Huawei’s factory campus in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China, March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo

April 26, 2019

By Ben Blanchard

BEIJING (Reuters) – Britain must get to the bottom of the leak of confidential discussions during a top-level security meeting about the role of China’s Huawei Technologies in 5G network supply chains, British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Friday.

News that Britain’s National Security Council, attended by senior ministers and spy chiefs, had agreed on Tuesday to bar Huawei from all core parts of the country’s 5G network and restrict its access to non-core elements was leaked to a national newspaper.

The leak of secret discussions has sparked anger in parliament and amongst Britain’s intelligence community. Britain’s most senior civil servant Mark Sedwill has launched an inquiry and written to ministers who were at the meeting.

“My understanding from London (is) that an investigation has been announced into apparent leaks from the NSC meeting earlier this week,” said Hammond, speaking on the sidelines of a summit on China’s Belt and Road initiative in Beijing.

“To my knowledge there has never been a leak from a National Security Council meeting before and therefore I think it is very important that we get to the bottom of what happened here,” he told Reuters in a pooled interview.

British culture minister Jeremy Wright said on Thursday he could not rule out a criminal investigation. The majority of the ministers at the NSC meeting have said they were not involved, according to media reports.

Hammond said he was unaware of any previous leak from a meeting of the NSC.

“It’s not about the substance of what was apparently leaked. It’s not earth-shattering information. But it is important that we protect the principle that nothing that goes on in national security council meetings must ever be repeated outside the room.”

Allowing Huawei a reduced role in building its 5G network puts Britain at odds with the United States which has told allies not to use its technology at all because of fears it could be a vehicle for Chinese spying. Huawei has categorically denied this.

There have been concerns that the NSC’s conclusion, which sources confirmed to Reuters, could upset other allies in the world’s leading intelligence-sharing network – the Five Eyes alliance of the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

However, British ministers and intelligence officials have said any final decision on 5G would not put critical national infrastructure at risk. Ciaran Martin, head of the cyber center of Britain’s main eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, played down any threat of a rift in the Five Eyes alliance.

(Writing by Michael Holden; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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President Trump on Friday said “no money” was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, after reports that the U.S. received a $2 million hospital bill from Pyongyang for the late American prisoner’s care.

“No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else. This is not the Obama Administration that paid 1.8 Billion Dollars for four hostages, or gave five terroist[sic] hostages plus, who soon went back to battle, for traitor Sgt. Bergdahl!” Trump tweeted Friday.

NORTH KOREA GAVE US $2M HOSPITAL BILL OVER CARE OF AMERICAN OTTO WARMBIER, SOURCES SAY

The Washington Post first reported that North Korean authorities insisted the U.S. envoy sent to retrieve Warmbier, 21, who was a student of the University of Virginia, sign a pledge to pay the bill before allowing Warmbier’s comatose body to return to the United States. Sources confirmed the bill and the amount to Fox News on Thursday.

Sources told the post that the envoy signed an agreement to pay the medical bill on instructions from the president, but a source told Fox News that the U.S. did not ever pay money to North Korea.

The White House declined to comment when asked on the bill, with Press Secretary Sarah Sanders saying in a statement that: “We do not comment on hostage negotiations, which is why they have been so successful during this administration.”

Meanwhile, the president added: “’President[sic] Donald J. Trump is the greatest hostage negotiator that I know of in the history of the United States. 20 hostages, many in impossible circumstances, have been released in last two years. No money was paid.’ Cheif[sic] Hostage Negotiator, USA!”

Warmbier was on tour in North Korea when he allegedly stole a propaganda sign from a hotel. He was arrested in January 2016 and sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor in March 2016. Warmbier, for unknown reasons, fell into a coma while in custody and was held in that condition for an additional 17 months.

North Korean officials did not tell American officials until June 2017 that Warmbier had been unconscious the entire time. He died less than a week after he returned to the U.S. North Korean officials, though, have repeatedly denied accusations that Warmbier was tortured, instead claiming that he had suffered from botulism and then slipped into a coma after taking a sleeping pill.

AMERICAN PRISONERS HELD IN NORTH KOREA ON THEIR WAY HOME AFTER POMPEO VISIT, TRUMP SAYS

Fred and Cindy Warmbier sued North Korea over their son’s death and in December were awarded $501 million in damages – money that the Hermit Kingdom will probably never pay.

While the Warmbiers blamed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump has said he believes Kim’s claims that he did not know about the student’s treatment.

Trump and Kim have met in two separate summits. The most recent, held in February, ended without an agreement on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, told Fox News: “Otto Warmbier was mistreated by North Korea in so many ways, including his wrongful conviction and harsh sentence, and the fact that for 16 months they refused to tell his family or our country about his dire condition they caused.  No, the United States owes them nothing. They owe the Warmbier family everything.”

Last year, the Trump administration was also able to save three American prisoners held by North Korea. Kim Dong Chul, Tony Kim, and Kim Hak Song were all detained in North Korea. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brought the three Americans home last May, and said they were all in “good health.”

Fox News’ John Roberts, Rich Edson, Nicholas Kalman, and Mike Emanuel contributed to this report.

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Park Yoo-chun, a K-pop idol singer, arrives at the Suwon district court in Suwon
Park Yoo-chun, a K-pop idol singer, arrives at the Suwon district court in Suwon, South Korea, April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

April 26, 2019

SEOUL (Reuters) – K-pop and drama star Park Yu-chun was arrested on Friday on charges of buying and using illegal drugs, a court said, the latest in a series of scandals to hit the South Korean entertainment business.

Suwon District Court approved the arrest warrant for Park, 32, due to concerns over possible destruction of evidence and flight risk, a court spokesman told Reuters.

Park is suspected of having bought about 1.5 grams of methamphetamine with his former girlfriend earlier this year and using the drug around five times, an official at the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency said.

Park has denied wrongdoing, saying he had never taken drugs, and he again denied the charges in court, Yonhap news agency said.

Park’s contract with his management agency had been canceled and he would leave the entertainment industry, Park’s management agency, C-JeS Entertainment, said on Wednesday.

Park was a member of boyband TVXQ between 2003 and 2009 before leaving the group with two other members, forming the group JYJ.

A scandal involving sex tapes, prostitutes and secret chat about rape led at least four other K-pop stars to quit the industry earlier this year.

The cases sparked a nationwide drugs bust and investigations into tax evasion and police collusion at night clubs and other nightlife spots.

(Reporting by Joyce Lee; Additional reporting by Heekyong Yang; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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