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A top Honduras businessman and four-time presidential candidate Jaime Rolando Rosenthal has been charged in the United States with drug trafficking and money
laundering. Leonardo Rocha has more.
“The US treasury department said the three men made illegal money transits for international drug cartels operating across Central America. They come from one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Honduras. Jaime Rolando Rosenthal is the head of the powerful continental group, which owns a bank, a newspaper and a number of other businesses. His son Yani is a high profile politician. And his nephew Yankelserved as minister of investment until June. He’s made his name in
Honduras as president of Marathon, one of the country's biggest football clubs.”
A Brazilian court has ruled that president Dilma Rousseff broke the law in her management of last year's budget accounts. The government was accused of borrowing money illegally from state banks to make up for short falls in the federal budget. The oppositions say the court's decision paves the way for an impeachmentprocess against president Rousseff, who was reelected less than a year ago.
The lawyers for the president of FIFA Sepp Blatter say he has not been notified of any action by the organizations' ethic committee to provisionally suspend him. He is accused of signing a contract unfavorable to football's governing body and making a 2 million dollar payment to president of UEFA Michel Platini.Mr. Blatter denied any wrongdoing. Richard Convoy reports.
“The fates of both Sepp Blatter as FIFA president since 1998 and Michel Platini the man who wants to succeed him, now, hang in the balance. FIFA's ethics committee is said to have requested Mr. Blatter be provisionally suspended for 90 days given he is the subject of Swiss criminal inquiry. There are reports that Mr. Platini, who was questioned on the same day as Mr. Blatter would, also be suspended, the decision which will prevent him from standing as a candidate in next February’sFIFA election.”
The international medical charity MSF has reiterated its demand for an independent investigation into the US airstrike on its hospital in Afghanistan despite a personal apology by president Obama. MSF said the bombing in Konduzon Saturday must be investigated by international fact finding commission under the Geneva
Conventions. The charity said it could not rely on internal probes by the US, NATO or Afghanistan. Earlier president Obama telephoned the head of MSF to apologize what he described as a mistaken air strike which killed 22 staff and patients.
The spokesman for the UN secretary general says that rebel forces in Yemen have agreed to stop fighting. Stephane Dujarric said that the Houthi rebels had accepted a UN Security Council resolution aimed at ending the conflict which has devastated Yemen in the past six months.
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Head of Volkswagen in the United States is expected to apologize to congress when he appears on Thursday to answer questions about the scandal concerning rigged engine emissions test. In testimony submitted in advance of his appearance, Michael Horn said he only found out about the cheating software over the past several weeks.
A simple blood test refined by researchers in Scotland and United States could rule out a diagnosis of heart attack from majority of people attending hospital because of chest pains. Dominic Hughes has more.
“Chest pains can be a symptom of heart problems, they can also have other causes. A blood test which detects high levels of the protein troponin can confirm a heart attack is taking place. Now research carried out in Scotland and United States has led to the development of a much more sensitive troponin test that means many more patients could be quickly reassured their chest pain is nothing to worry about.The next step is studying the results of a wider clinical trial that involves 26,000 people.”
Activists from a British feminist group have disrupted the European premiere of the films Sufferagette in London. About a dozen women climbed over railings and lay
down on the red carpet shouting slogans and displaying posters condemning domestic violence. Sufferagette described the struggle to win the vote waged by Britishwomen in the first part of the 20th century. Some of the film stars expressed support to the protestors, among them, actress Helena Bonham Carter. “This is actually what the film is promoting. If you have a voice, you know, if you want it happen, you have the courage to lie down as they are doing, instead of laying down what you believe in. This is great.”
And a group of inmates from a New York prison have beaten Harvard University's prestigious debating team, the top ranked clever in the world. The competition took
place last month at the eastern New York correctional facility and maximum security prison.