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Trump’s Former Personal Lawyer Pleads Guilty

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08/22/2018

08/22/2018

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Trump’s Former Personal Lawyer Pleads Guilty

Top News: U.S. President Donald Trump’s former allies had a rough day in court Tuesday.

Michael Cohen, the president’s former personal lawyer, admitted in court that he made illegal payments to two women to buy their silence about affairs with Trump “in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office,” and “for the principal purpose of influencing the [2016 U.S. presidential] election.”

His guilty plea to eight charges (including campaign finance violations) implicates the president and could have legal and/or political ramifications for the Trump administration.

In a separate trial, Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, was convicted on eight charges including bank fraud and tax fraud.

India: The state of Kerala is weathering the worst flooding it has seen in a century. Nearly 400 people are dead, thousands are stranded, and more than 1 million displaced. As monsoon rains ease up, rescue and relief efforts have increased.

AFRICA

•  The Spanish Civil Guard reported that seven police officers were injured in an acid attack as about 100 migrants scaled a fence to enter its African exclave of Ceuta.

•  Mgwagwa Gamedze—the president of eSwatini, formerly known as Swaziland—said his country, Taiwan’s final remaining ally in Africa, will not switch sides from Taiwan to China, despite Chinese expectations.

•  Somalia has hired U.S. lobbyists in an effort to lift the Trump travel ban and secure military funding.

AMERICAS

•  Colombia claims that about 30 armed Venezuelan soldiers were illegally dropped by helicopter across the Colombian border.

•  Far-right Brazilian presidential front-runner Jair Bolsonaro is widening his lead over jailed former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, according to a poll released on Wednesday.

•  China and the United States are set to return to trade talks on Wednesday.

ASIA

•  Vietnam jailed 12 people, including two U.S. citizens, for distributing anti-government materials and calling for protests.

•  After nearly a year behind bars, Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha was denied bail. He faces treason charges that Human Rights Watch called “fabricated” and “preposterous.”

•  After surviving a no-confidence vote, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faces a new leadership challenge from within his own cabinet.

EUROPE

•  Human rights groups accused Hungary of using starvation tactics to force detained asylum-seekers to drop their appeals.

•  British hospitals have for the the most part not begun planning for a no-deal Brexit, which could pose a potential need to stockpile medicines.

•  The United States deported a 95-year-old alleged former Nazi concentration camp guard to Germany.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Facebook said it had taken down 652 pages, groups, and accounts “for coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated in Iran.”

•  Iran released footage the Kosar, its new, domestically made fighter jet.

•  U.S. intelligence helped Turkey take out Ismail Ozden, a leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), in Iraq’s Sinjar province earlier this month, a Turkish diplomat told Middle East Eye. Both Turkey and the United States consider the PKK a terrorist group.

- By Benjamin Soloway

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