(ORLY, France) — Soldiers at Paris’ busy Orly Aiport shot and killed a man who wrestled one of their colleagues to the ground and tried to steal her rifle Saturday, officials said. No one else was hurt, but thousands of travelers were evacuated and at least 15 flights were diverted to the city’s other airport, Charles de Gaulle. Police did not immediately provide a motive for the attack ... It happened around 8.30 a.m ... ....
Beijing. The United States' top diplomat will press a tougher new line on North Korea in talks with a wary China on Saturday, in a tense atmosphere after PresidentDonald Trump accused Beijing of failing to rein in Pyongyang... Trump upped the pressure on China to get tough in a Friday Twitter blast accusing Beijing of failing to use its leverage as North Korea's key diplomatic and trade partner to put a leash on Pyongyang ... ....
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingPresident Donald Trump and others couldn’t contain themselves when a video showed Snoop Dogg shooting a clown dressed as the president. The controversial – and deeply intrusive – video, which had reached two million YouTube viewers, showed the rapper firing a toy pistol at a clown-faced impersonator of the U.S. president... The first was when the world’s people depended on agriculture....
The Trump administration is crafting a big new arms package forTaiwan that could include advanced rocket systems and anti-ship missiles to defend against China, U.S. officials said, a deal sure to anger Beijing, Reuters reports.The package is expected to be significantly larger than one that was shelved at the end of the Obama administration, the officials told Reuters on the eve of a visit to Beijing by U.S....
The Viennese authority announced on February 14 that there was no forensic evidence that the 52-year-old Aliyev, in custody over murder charges when his body was found hanging from a wall-mounted clothes hook in his cell in February 2015, was murdered ... Several 'Irregularities' ... Aliyev was also accused of money laundering while in Europe and of ordering the assassination of Kazakh opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbaev in 2006 ... ....
A Kyrgyz filmmaker says the fear of offending Moscow has thus far prevented officials from approving his film about the 1916 revolt against tsarist Russia that resulted in the deaths of at least 150,000 ethnic Kyrgyz ... St ... Medina Uchukeeva, who directed the film, said the screenplay had been completed with the approval of historians, scholars, the Kyrgyz film department, and with ex-Culture MinisterAltynbek Maksutov ... Petersburg museum ... ....
"War and violence are never seen as holy in Islam... The forum started on Wednesday ... Altynbek Utiskhanuli, head of the general department of youth affairs in the ReligiousAdministration of Kazakhstan's Muslims, said religious extremists may pose as Muslims but they don't really know about Islam, instead twisting the teachings to serve their own purposes ... ....
A court in Bishkek has sentenced a former Kyrgyz prime minister's son, Altynbek Muraliev, to 12 years in prison on espionage charges ...Altynbek Muraliev ......
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. A court in Kyrgyzstan has jailed the son of a former prime minister for 12 years for treason, a spokesman said Wednesday, while a source said he was accused of spying for neighbouring Kazakhastan. Altynbek Muraliyev, whose father headed the ex-Soviet Central Asian country's government from 1999 to 2000, received the sentence Tuesday from a court in the capital Bishkek... ....
Ministry of Culture, Information, and Tourism of the Kyrgyz Republic has presented a draft order of the Government on approval of the draft agreement with the Russian Government on cooperation in the field of mass communications. MinisterAltynbek Maksutov said the draft law is aimed at strengthening and developing friendly relations between the two countries and cooperation in the field of information and communications ... ....
A ministry spokesman said police had killed Altynbek Itibayev, who had been convicted of murder and faced more charges, after he barricaded himself inside an apartment on the top floor of a three-story building and shot at policemen ... Itibayev was freed from prison in a 2014 amnesty, then detained again in July after security forces killed six gunmen in clashes in Bishkek ... ....
A spokesman for the ministry said police believed Altynbek Itibayev, who has been convicted for murder and faces more charges, including those of terrorism, had barricaded himself inside a small building with another unidentified men. He said no casualties had been reported. (Reporting by Olga Dzyubenko; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by AlexanderWinning)Crime & JusticeSociety & CultureInterior Ministry ....
The incident followed two similar gunbattles between police and militants in July, a sign of deteriorating security in the Central Asian nation that hosts a Russian military air base. A ministry spokesman said police had killed Altynbek Itibayev, who had been convicted of murder and faced more charges, after he barricaded himself inside an apartment on the top floor of a three-storey building and shot at policemen....
Two Kazakhs who were co-accused along with Rakhat Aliyev over the murder of two bankers in 2007 have been acquitted of the charges and walked free out of court this afternoon ... His lawyers say they doubt this was a case of suicide ... Both men denied the charges ... ... MrAliyev has also been investigated over money laundering, the murder of Kazakh opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbayev and TV presenter Anastasiya Novikova ... ....
Two Kazakhs who were co-accused along with Rakhat Aliyev over the murder of two bankers in 2007 have been released from pre-trial detention after an Austrian judge found inconsistencies and contradictions in the evidence brought against them, their lawyer has confirmed ... MrAliyev has also been investigated over money laundering, the murder of Kazakh opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbayev and TV presenter Anastasiya Novikova....
He had long insisted that this allegation – and various others – were politically motivated ...Multiple suspicions flagged ... In February 2006, opposition politician Altynbek Sarsenbaiuly was shot dead with two aides, and a month later, Ms Nazarbayeva published an article alleging that her husband was one of the main suspects, among other things, creating a rift between her and her father in the process ... ... ....
Rakhat Aliyev, the ex-husband of Kazakh PresidentNursultan Nazarbayev’s eldest daughter, was charged in Austria in connection with the murder of two Kazakh bankers. Vienna prosecutors filed the charges Dec. 29, a spokesman, Thomas Vecsey, said in a telephone interview ... Their bodies were discovered on the outskirts of Almaty in May 2011 ... Altynbek Sarsenbayev was gunned down in February 2006 along with his assistant and driver ... Courts....