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Bashir trial defence keeps up fire against Sudan prosecutor

Defence lawyers in the trial of Sudan's ousted president Omar al-Bashir over a 1989 coup Tuesday kept up accusations that the prosecutor general was ineligible for the case. "The prosecutor general has been politicised, he is exploiting his authority," a member of the defence team charged...

Lebanon PM urges central bank to hand over documents for audit

Lebanon's caretaker prime minister Hassan Diab urged the central bank on Tuesday to hand over missing documents needed for a forensic audit demanded by international creditors. In September, New York based firm Alvarez and Marsal started a forensic audit of the Bank of Lebanon as part of...

Turkey: 3-year-old girl rescued 91 hours after quake

A three-year-old girl was pulled out of the rubble alive on Tuesday days after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit Turkey's Aegean region. Ayda Gezgin was rescued in the Bayrakli district of the Aegean Izmir province 91 hours after the quake. Ayda, the 107th survivor to be rescued,...