Former Trump adviser Micheal Flynnhas requested a sentence of a year's probation for lying to FBI agents in a case stemming from a probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. The retired Army general's lawyers made the case that he was not warned before a meeting with FBI agents that it was a crime to lie to them. He will be sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Dec. 18.
Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohenis set to be sentenced today for his role in the payment of hush money to women who said they had affairs with Trump and for lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower project in Russia that was discussed during the 2016 election campaign. The sentencing will cap the stunning about-face of a lawyer who once said he would “take a bullet” for Trump but has now directly implicated the president in criminal conduct.
Myanmar
Today marks one year that Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been imprisoned in Myanmar.In September 2017 they exposed a massacre of Muslims by soldiers and civilians. They were set up and falsely arrested on December 12th 2017. More than 100 Myanmar activists observed the anniversary by releasing balloons at a rally in the country’s largest city Yangon. “The fact that they remain in prison for a crime they did not commit calls into question Myanmar’s commitment to democracy, freedom of expression and rule of law,” said Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen J. Adler. Read the story that prompted their arrest here.
Time's 'Person of Year' goes to journalists,including Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. The publication also honoured slain Saudi Arabian writer Jamal Khashoggi, the founder of a Philippines news website critical of the country’s authoritarian government Maria Ressa and the staff of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, where a gunman shot and killed five people in June.
Our jailed Reuters colleagues Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have spent a year in jail for a crime they didn't commit. We cannot see them, but they are still with us. And we are still with them. Here's why. #FreeWaLoneKyawSoeOo
Commentary: Why is the EU still so determined to save the Iran nuclear deal?The answer lies in European fears of the security and economic consequences if the JCPOA collapses – and perhaps also in how Tehran might be able to pressure Europe to salvage the deal, writes columnist Maysam Behravesh. European powers seem to be less concerned about a nuclear Iran per se than what would happen if the United States or Israel and its Arab allies went to war to prevent that outcome.
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer was granted bail by a Canadian court on Tuesday, 10 days after her arrest in Vancouver at the request of U.S. authorities. Meng's arrest has put a further dampener on Chinese relations with the United States and Canada at a time when tensions were already high.
Amazon has opened a compact version of its cashier-less Amazon Go food stores, broadening its footprint in the bricks-and-mortar world. Gianna Puerini, vice president of Amazon Go, said the tiny format could serve office lobbies, communal floors inside tall buildings and perhaps a hospital.
