Bolivia's US-sanctioned Attorney General Roger Mariaca was arrested on suspicion of money laundering and drug trafficking, with police finding $300,000 in cash smuggled out of his house in an ambulance, the government said Thursday.
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US-sanctioned Bolivian Attorney General Roger Mariaca has been arrested on suspicion of money laundering and drug trafficking, with police finding bundles of cash smuggled out of his house in an ambulance, the government said Thursday.
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In Libya, a teachers' strike over pay has shut schools and delayed the start of the school year, rallying educators across the oil-rich but politically divided country.
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A proposed sugar tax in Germany on Thursday provoked the latest row in the unsteady governing coalition of the conservative CDU/CSU and the centre-left SPD.
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Four new crew members for the International Space Station blasted off Thursday for the orbital laboratory where they will stay for approximately six months.
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk will make a return to officially advising US President Donald Trump's government by co-leading what the Pentagon called a study on the future of war.
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US and European stocks slid Thursday as yields on government debt spiked higher and as crude prices rose despite a recent improvement to oil supplies.
An unprecedented botched execution that left a female murderer alive after two lethal injections triggered international calls Thursday for the US state of Tennessee to abandon capital punishment.
Thousands rallied in Kosovo on Thursday against the war crimes convictions of former president Hashim Thaci, as EU chief Ursula von der Leyen urged respect for the court during a visit to Pristina.
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Algerian lawmakers adopted on Thursday a law imposing the death penalty on convicted forest arsonists, after deadly wildfires ripped through swathes of the country in recent weeks.
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UAE airline Etihad, Manchester City's main sponsor, has said it is considering legal action against the Premier League after the bombshell ruling against the English football giant over Premier League financial rule breaches.
The French government defended on Thursday its plans to cut spending and raise taxes as it tries to thread the needle between jittery debt markets and public discontent over the rising cost of living.
The family of Renee Good, an unarmed US citizen shot dead by an immigration agent during a sweeping federal crackdown, sued President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday, alleging wrongful death and civil rights violations.
Brazil's electoral court has ordered the takedown of social media posts accusing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro of planning to strip the country's patron saint of her title if elected.
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