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Pakistanʼs former President Zardari arrested for money laundering Pakistanʼs anti-graft body, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), arrested former President Asif Ali Zardari at his home in Islamabad on Monday in connection with a highprofile money laundering case that saw hundreds of millions of dollars siphoned out of the country. Zardari and his sister are facing allegations of operating fake bank accounts for money laundering. Both deny these charges against them, and instead accuse the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan of "political victimization," as Shazia Marri, a lawmaker from Zardariʼs party, put it. Pakistanʼs anti-graft body has arrested several politicians and businessmen on corruption charges since Khan took office last year.
Helicopter crashes into Manhattan skyscraper The New York Fire Department announced the crash landing and said there had been one fatality. The accident took place in rainy weather. A helicopter crashed into a building on 7th Avenue in New York killing the pilot on Monday afternoon. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) said on Twitter that they were operating at the scene in Manhattan following a crash landing. Smoke was seen billowing out from the rooftop of the building but the fire was soon brought under control by the emergency services. "The fire has been extinguished. There is currently one fatality reported," tweeted the FDNY. The exact cause of the accident is not yet known. New York GovernorAndrew Cuomosaid there had been "casualties" on board the helicopter. "People who were in the building said they felt the building shake," Cuomo added.
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Zelenskiyʼs Servant of the People party vows ʼradical changesʼ Ukraine:
Ahead of Ukraineʼs parliamentary election, the party of newly elected President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has pledged to fight corruption and increase defense spending. Zelenskiyʼs new party is well ahead in polls.
BMW opens Mexico plant despite Trump tariff threats The huge new factory is the automakerʼs first in Mexico. And despite US President Donald Trumpʼs threat of imposing new tariffs on imports from the country, the German firm pledged it was "here to stay." German car manufacturerBMWopened a new $1 billion (€890 million) production facility in the central Mexican city of San Luis Potosi on Thursday, the companyʼs first in the country. Oliver Zipse, a board member in charge of production, said, "From here, we will deliver BMW 3 Series cars to the world." The new plant will employ 2,500 workers and is slated to
produce 175,000 mid-sized sedans annually. The vehicles will be exported to some 40 countries around the world. Zipse said that "Mexicohas a key geographical position, situated between North and South America, the Atlantic and the Pacific." The move comes amidescalating threats by US President Donald Trump, who has vowed to slap new tariffs on Mexican imports to the USif Mexico does not stop the flow of Central American immigrants arriving at the US border. Zipse said that BMWʼs strategy of a balanced approach to production and sales "is the right answer tovolatile marketand political developments."
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Mali: Nearly 100 die in attack on Dogon village Unknown gunmen attacked a central Malian village inhabited by the Dogon community overnight to Monday and killed dozens of people, a local official and a security source have said. "Right now we have 95 dead civilians. The bodies are burned; we are continuing to look for others, " an official in Koundou district told the news agency Agence France-Presse. He said the village had had a population of 300 before the attack. A security source at the massacre site in the village of Sobane-Kou told AFP that "a Dogon village has been virtually wiped out." A survivor of the attack said that some 50 men had arrived on motorbikes and in pickups and killed residents indiscriminately.
Heiko Maas in Tehran: Why Germany canʼt concede too much to Iran Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Monday that he and his German counterpart, Heiko Maas, held "frank and serious" talks on his countryʼs nuclear deal with world powers, adding that "Tehran will cooperate with EU signatories of the deal to save it." Last year, US President Donald Trump pulled his country out of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), labeling it a "terrible deal" that does not do enough to curtail Iranian nuclear development.
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