The United States has authorized the extradition of former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, who served from 2001 to 2006, to face charges of corruption in his home country, Peru's prosecutor's office said Tuesday.. "We have been informed that the US State Department authorized the extradition of Alejandro Toledo Manrique for the crimes of collusion and money laundering," the prosecutor's office said on Twitter.
Born an orphan under the rubble in north Syria after a devastating earthquake, Afraa al-Suwadi has been given a new lease on life when relatives took her in.. "She is my soul, my life, and my whole world," her uncle Khalil al-Suwadi told AFP from his tent in the town, cradling the newborn.
US space agency NASA and SpaceX on Tuesday pushed back by 24 hours the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket that is to carry four astronauts to the International Space Station.. "And so we need a little bit more time," said Stich, speaking to reporters after the agency and SpaceX completed what is known as a flight readiness review of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon crew capsule.
Rescuers in southeastern Brazil scrambled Tuesday to find survivors among dozens of people still missing after record rainfalls caused flooding and mudslides that killed at least 44 people over the weekend. . "We left the car there and had to return by boat," the 19-year-old law student told AFP. Residents of nearby Juquehy, still shaken by the weekend storm, spent another night in anguish when rains caused fresh landslides early Tuesday.
A once-powerful Mexican government minister was convicted by a US jury Tuesday of aiding the very drug smuggling he was tasked with cracking down on.. Garcia Luna was convicted of receiving vast sums of money to allow the very traffickers he was tasked with clamping down on to smuggle tons of cocaine.
The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary outfit on Tuesday accused Moscow's military chiefs of refusing to supply the group with munitions and seeking to destroy it, saying this amounted to "treason".. On Tuesday, Prigozhin also accused the military high command of having even prohibited the delivery to Wagner fighters of "shovels which allow them to dig trenches". bur/ea/ach
Mexico's once-powerful former public security minister Genaro Garcia Luna was found guilty of US drug trafficking charges by a jury in New York on Tuesday following a high-profile trial.. Nine of the 26 witnesses who testified against Garcia Luna are accused drug traffickers extradited from Mexico and collaborating with US prosecutors in exchange for possible leniency in their own trials.
He may be 80 and facing questions over his fitness to serve a second term, but a rock star-style speech in Warsaw and daring visit to wartime Ukraine saw President Joe Biden rebuff those who think America -- or he -- have grown weak.. The Ukraine visit, long considered too risky for a US president, given the usually enormous staffing and security footprint, was an outlandishly dramatic gesture.
A powerful tropical Cyclone Freddy lashed the south eastern of Madagascar on Tuesday, killing at least one person as it moved in packing winds of around 130km per hour, officials said. . Last month a powerful storm named Cheneso smashed into northeastern Madagascar bringing heavy winds and triggering downpours that caused extensive flooding, and killed at least 33 people after affecting more than 90,000.
Suspected jihadists killed at least 15 soldiers in troubled northern Burkina Faso, just three days after an ambush that claimed the lives of 51 troops, security sources said Tuesday.. Fifty-one soldiers died and 160 jihadists were killed in that action and the aftermath, according to army figures.
