October 2019

Jennifer Arcuri ‘not answering’ Boris Johnson affair questions

Businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri says she will not reveal whether she had an intimate relationship with Boris Johnson because any answer would be “weaponised” and used against her and the prime minister. Ms Arcuri has been at the centre of a row over whether Mr Johnson failed to declare a conflict of interest over their relationship […]

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Malaysia fines 80 people, groups for alleged 1MDB payments

Malaysia’s anti-graft agency on Monday ordered 80 people and groups to pay fines totaling about $100 million for allegedly receiving funds from the 1MDB state investment fund. Former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s brother Nazir Razak, who heads the country’s second-largest bank, was among those listed. So was a former deputy minister, Ahmad Maslan, and the

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Trump Endorses Turkish Military Operation in Syria, Shifting U.S. Policy

WASHINGTON — In a major shift in United States military policy in Syria, the White House said on Sunday that President Trump had given his endorsement for a Turkish military operation that would sweep away American-backed Kurdish forces near the border in Syria. Turkey considers the Kurdish fighters to be a terrorist insurgency, and has

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