Israeli PM vows not to shirk corruption trial after election
AP, Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday he will face corruption accusations against him head on in court and will not seek to pass legislation to derail his upcoming trial if he wins re-election this week.
After failing to secure parliamentary immunity last month, insiders had speculated that Netanyahu would attempt to pass alternative legislation if he secures a parliamentary majority.
We’ll use ‘all means’ to defend Nile
interests: Egypt
AP, Cairo
Egypt on Saturday said it would use “all available means” to defend “the interests” of its people after Ethiopia skipped the latest round of U.S.-brokered talks on a disputed Nile dam project with Egypt and Sudan.
A final deal on the massive Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam was expected in the two-day, U.S.-brokered talks in Washington, which were concluded Friday.
Police shooting video ‘extremely disturbing: Chicago mayor
AP, Chicago
Chicago’s mayor said video footage of police shooting and wounding a suspect inside a downtown Chicago train station is “extremely disturbing” and that she supports the interim police superintendent’s request for prosecutors to be sent directly to the scene – an unusual or perhaps unprecedented action in the nation’s third largest city. After watching what she called the “widely shared footage” of the Friday afternoon shooting inside the Red Line L station, Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted that although “one perspective does not depict the entirety of the incident.
Guaido denounces attack on Venezuela opposition rally
AFP, Barquisimeto
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said he could have been killed during a shooting attack on a protest march in the country’s west that wounded a teenage boy.
Guaido had been leading around 2,000 supporters through Barquisimeto city on Saturday when the incident occurred.
