Tag: accusation

Tennis: Kyrgios will have to answer for the charge of assault

Tennis: Kyrgios will have to answer for the charge of assault

(ANSA-AFP) – CANBERRA (AUSTRALIA), 23 AUG – Nick Kyrgios will have to appear before a court in Canberra in October after his appeal – in relation to an assault charge – was rejected. Kyrgios, 27, did not appear at today’s hearing, details of the allegations against him were not disclosed. His lawyer said they were […]

Equatorial Guinea in Amnesty, we have not violated rights

Equatorial Guinea in Amnesty, we have not violated rights

(ANSA) – MALABO, AUGUST 20 – Equatorial Guinea has denied Amnesty International’s accusations of having committed human rights violations during its crackdown on crime. The non-governmental organization has accused the African country’s authorities of torture, arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances since May, when a campaign to eradicate crime was launched. “Equatorial Guinea does not take […]

Card. Ouellet accused of abuse defends himself, ‘all false’

Card. Ouellet accused of abuse defends himself, ‘all false’

(ANSA) – VATICAN CITY, AUGUST 19 – Canadian cardinal Marc Ouellet, one of Pope Francis’ most important collaborators, defends himself. His name has ended up in a larger dossier to the attention of Canadian justice on alleged abuses committed by the clergy from 1940 to today. He is accused by a woman for an alleged […]

Argentina: armed robbery, former Verona Cirigliano arrested

Argentina: armed robbery, former Verona Cirigliano arrested

(ANSA) – BUENOS AIRES, AUG 16 – Ezequiel Cirigliano, 30, former great promising midfielder of River Plate (63 games in the first team), then a mysterious object of Verona in the 2013-’14 season (13 league appearances with the Gialloblù ) and in the last season in force at Cynthialbalonga in Serie D, he was arrested […]

Burma: San Suu Kyi sentenced to 6 years for corruption

Burma: San Suu Kyi sentenced to 6 years for corruption

(ANSA) – YANGON, AUG 15 – A Burmese military junta court today sentenced former leader Aung San Suu Kyi to six years in prison for corruption: this was announced by a source close to the case. Suu Kyi was sentenced to “six years in prison on four corruption charges,” said the source, who wished to […]

Kenya: allegations of fraud delay election results

Kenya: allegations of fraud delay election results

(ANSA) – NAIROBI, AUG 13 – The denunciation of widespread fraud, among the various constituencies, threatens the outcome of the elections in Kenya, forcing the electoral commission to race against time to deliver credible results within the deadline allowed by law , or Tuesday 16 August. The accusations come from the Azimio La Umoja alliance […]

Medvedev, Kiev and the West prepare ‘another Chernobyl’

Medvedev, Kiev and the West prepare ‘another Chernobyl’

(ANSA) – ROME, AUGUST 12 – “Those pieces of … in Kiev and their Western supporters seem ready to create another Chernobyl”. This is the accusation launched by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the situation at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, under the control of Russian forces, which the two sides accuse […]

Unesco Natural Park in flames in Portugal

Unesco Natural Park in flames in Portugal

These days that of the Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain massif in mainland Portugal, was the only large active fire in the country, but at the moment it is also the longest in duration, since it broke out last Saturday, 6 August, and the news coming from the front line is anything but reassuring. […]

India: Rahul Gandhi-Narendra Modi clash over ‘black magic’

India: Rahul Gandhi-Narendra Modi clash over ‘black magic’

(ANSA) – NEW DELHI, AUGUST 11 – “Our premier should stop debasing his role”: with this tweet in Hindi, Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress party reacted to the accusations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Yesterday the premier, without explicitly mentioning them, criticized the opposition party members who demonstrated against the rise in rice […]