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US prosecutors seek a 15-year prison term for Senator Robert (Bob) Menendez on Thursday, following his convictions of bribery, corruption and acting as an unregistered foreign agent on July 16. The charges stemmed from a years-long process in which Menendez utilized his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to benefit the government…
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The Sverdlovsk Regional Court announced on Thursday that the treason trial of Ksenia Khavana, a dual citizen of the US and Russia, had reached its final stage. During closing arguments, the prosecutor requested that Khavana be sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony, followed by a two-year restriction of freedom…
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Augentic has agreed a deal with the government of Cameroon to produce a new generation biometric national ID card for the country under a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) arrangement that will last a decade and a half.
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Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of Miami, a former U.S. Department of State employee who served on the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995 and as U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, pleaded guilty today to secretly acting for decades as an agent of the government of the Republic of Cuba. Immediately thereafter,…