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Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, has been found guilty of witness tampering and lying to Congress about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid. Stone was convicted, in a decision released Friday, of all seven counts in an …

Roger Stone is just the latest associate of U.S. President Donald Trump to face legal consequences. Stone, a longtime friend and ally of the president, was found guilty of witness tampering and lying to Congress about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid. Trump associate …

The Chinese and Hong Kong governments condemned on Friday an attack by a “violent mob” on the city’s justice secretary in London, the first direct altercation between demonstrators and a government minister during months of often violent protests.’ Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng, who was in London to promote Hong …

Career diplomat Marie (Masha) Yovanovitch got to elaborate in public testimony Friday before the U.S. House intelligence committee about her removal as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, an event that clearly left her disappointed and puzzled. Yovanovitch was removed from her post just over two months before a now-infamous July 25 …

The Venezuela migration crisis has now entered a new stage in which many of those fleeing their country’s devastating economic downturn and political turmoil are increasingly unlikely to return, a United Nations special envoy said. Eduardo Stein told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the exodus of over 4.6 million …

The House will hear from a singular witness Friday in the Trump impeachment hearings: Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was targeted by the president’s allies in a “smear” campaign now central to the inquiry. The career diplomat, who served both Republican and Democratic presidents, is expected …

Brexit Party Leader Nigel Farage said he would not withdraw any more candidates beyond the 317 Conservative seats his party has already stood down from. When asked if he would stand down any further candidates, he said he would not. “No. That’s just a sort of attempt at intimidation that …

The U.S. House of Representatives opened impeachment hearings Wednesday into a president’s actions for just the fourth time in history, as the public began to hear about allegations that Donald Trump and his backers mounted an improper pressure campaign on the Ukraine government. The first day of hearings provided hours …

Prosecutors delivered closing arguments in the trial of U.S. President Donald Trump’s adviser Roger Stone on Wednesday, saying the Republican operative lied to Congress about his efforts to keep abreast when WikiLeaks might dump damaging emails on Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election campaign because he knew it would make …

Renewed clashes rocked Bolivia’s capital on Wednesday as the country’s self-declared interim president, a second-tier lawmaker thrust into the post because of a power vacuum, faced challenges to her leadership claim from supporters of ousted Evo Morales. A day after Jeanine Anez claimed the presidency, violent clashes broke out between …