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Month: March 2023

Justice Department pushes back on Trump’s sweeping claims of presidential immunity for January 6 speech

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department on Thursday urged an appeals court to reject sweeping claims of presidential immunity put forward by former President Donald Trump in the civil litigation surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol. The department told the appeals court — which is considering several private lawsuits brought

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Peter Obi vows to challenge Nigerian election result: ‘We won and we will prove it’

By Nimi Princewill, Bethlehem Feleke,and Larry Madowo, CNN Nigeria’s third-placed presidential candidate, Peter Obi, strongly rejected the results and vowed to contest them in the courts, in his first public address since Saturday’s election. Obi said he rejected the victory of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress party, who was declared the

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Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi implicated in a ‘kidnapping and torture’ investigation

By Joseph Ataman and Sammy Mngqosini, CNN Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi has been implicated in a “kidnapping and torture” investigation in France, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed to CNN on Wednesday. This follows allegations that Al-Khelaifi was involved in the transfer of “likely compromising” documents from a French-Algerian citizen, Tayeb Benabderrahmane, who claims to

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DeSantis says GOP will not ‘mess with Social Security,’ as Democrats and Trump slam his past support for privatization

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday distanced himself from his past support for privatizing Social Security and raising the retirement age as potential future political foes seize on his previous ideas for the popular retirement program. “We’re not going to mess with Social Security as Republicans,” DeSantis told Fox News. “I

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Putin accuses Ukraine of border attack, as Kyiv dismisses Russian ‘provocation’

By Anna Chernova, Olga Voitovych, Vasco Cotovio, Nathan Hodge and Rob Picheta, CNN Russian security officials claimed on Thursday that a small Ukrainian armed group had crossed the Russian border into the southern Bryansk region, allegations dismissed by Kyiv as a “classic deliberate provocation” by the Kremlin. The Security Service of Russia (FSB) said in

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