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Mueller Recommends No Prison for Ex-Trump Advisor Flynn

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12/05/2018

12/05/2018

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Mueller Recommends No Prison for Ex-Trump Advisor Flynn

Top News: Special Counsel Robert Mueller, in charge of the probe into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, recommended no prison time for Trump’s former national security advisor Mike Flynn, citing his cooperation with investigators.

In heavily-redacted court filings submitted Tuesday, the special counsel’s office said Flynn met Mueller’s team 19 times after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contact with Russian officials. The filings said Flynn gave “substantial” cooperation on Mueller’s probe, and also cited his cooperation on a separate criminal investigation, though the special counsel’s office gave no details on the separate investigation.

Flynn said in the plea deal that other senior Trump associates, including his son-in-law and White House advisor Jared Kushner, were involved in his actions in the run-up to Trump’s inauguration, including communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States.

Flynn is set to be sentenced by a federal judge in Washington on December 18.

NATO: The foreign ministers of all 29 members of NATO issued a statement accusing Russia of violating a key Cold War-era arms control treaty and threatening European security. The United States threatened to start the process of withdrawing from the treaty in 60 days if Moscow did not begin to comply with the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty.

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AFRICA

•  Burundi’s security services run a network of secret sites to imprison and torture critics of the government, a BBC investigation revealed.

•  The United Nations said over 150 women and girls were sexually assaulted or raped in a spike of violence in recent days in South Sudan.

•  Gabonese President Ali Bongo appeared in a video for the first time to address the country following a stroke six weeks ago.

AMERICAS

•  Canada’s intelligence chief, David Vigneault, said cyber threats and foreign spying is a greater threat to the country than terrorism.

•  In Brazil, a woman gave birth to a healthy baby using a transplanted womb from a dead body—an unprecedented medical milestone.

•  An American tourist who went missing in Costa Rica is feared murdered after the discovery of a body.

ASIA

•  In a visit to Syria, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said both his country and Syria face the same “enemy” and should increase cooperation.

•  The U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan peace efforts, Zalmay Khalilzad, met on Tuesday with Pakistani officials and a Taliban official.

•  Thailand’s Phi Phi islands, a well-known tourist destination, is grappling with a drinking water shortage.

EUROPE

•  French protesters say the government conceded on tabling tax hikes too late, following the worst riots Paris has seen in decades.

•  A Dutch court denied a request by a 69 year-old man to be designated as 20 years younger.

•  Belgium’s parliament is set to vote on whether to sign the U.N. migration compact as a debate on migration has divided the government.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Matthew Hedges, a British academic jailed in the United Arab Emirates on suspicion of spying, said after being released the UAE asked him to spy on Britain.

•  An estimated 150,000 migrants crossed from Africa to war-torn Yemen in an effort to reach other Gulf states in 2017, according to the International Organization for Migration.

•  Tens of thousands of Israelis took part in demonstrations in Tel Aviv protesting what they saw as the government’s inadequate response to violence against women.

- By Robbie Gramer

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