Police arrest Trump’s campaign manager
Dawn.com, Milwaukee
Police in Florida arrested Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Tuesday for grabbing a reporter.
A police statement, issued in the town of Jupiter, Florida, said they had charged Mr Lewandowski with misdemeanour battery in connection with an incident at a March 8 news conference. Michelle Fields, then a reporter for the conservative Breitbart News website, accused Mr Lewandowski of grabbing and yanking her arm as she tried to ask the Republican presidential front-runner a question.
Russia running ‘shadow government’ for east Ukraine
AFP, Berlin
Russia is running a “shadow government” in rebel-held territories of eastern Ukraine under the control of the FSB intelligence service, German daily Bild reported yesterday, citing minutes from an official commission. The report said that basic administrative functions of the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk are being run by six working groups at five Russian ministries.
ISIS threat raises stakes for US Nuclear Summit
AFP, Washington,
The specter of the ISIS group obtaining a “dirty bomb” will loom over a top-level nuclear security summit hosted by President Barack Obama in Washington on Thursday and Friday.
Obama welcomes several leaders from countries as diverse as China and Nigeria, as well as representatives from nearly 50 other nations, for the summit aimed at elevating the problem of shaky safeguards from the desks of technocrats to the highest corridors of power.
Dawn.com, Milwaukee
Police in Florida arrested Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Tuesday for grabbing a reporter.
A police statement, issued in the town of Jupiter, Florida, said they had charged Mr Lewandowski with misdemeanour battery in connection with an incident at a March 8 news conference. Michelle Fields, then a reporter for the conservative Breitbart News website, accused Mr Lewandowski of grabbing and yanking her arm as she tried to ask the Republican presidential front-runner a question.
Russia running ‘shadow government’ for east Ukraine
AFP, Berlin
Russia is running a “shadow government” in rebel-held territories of eastern Ukraine under the control of the FSB intelligence service, German daily Bild reported yesterday, citing minutes from an official commission. The report said that basic administrative functions of the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk are being run by six working groups at five Russian ministries.
ISIS threat raises stakes for US Nuclear Summit
AFP, Washington,
The specter of the ISIS group obtaining a “dirty bomb” will loom over a top-level nuclear security summit hosted by President Barack Obama in Washington on Thursday and Friday.
Obama welcomes several leaders from countries as diverse as China and Nigeria, as well as representatives from nearly 50 other nations, for the summit aimed at elevating the problem of shaky safeguards from the desks of technocrats to the highest corridors of power.
