Three men accused of tricking people into investing in a bogus forestry scheme have appeared in court. Stephen Greenaway, 45, Paul Laver, 44, and Matthew Pickard, 52, all from Dorset, were directors of Ethical Forestry Ltd which collapsed in 2015. It is alleged they ran a Ponzi scheme...
A US woman has been charged with murder after shooting an Uber driver she thought was kidnapping her, police say. According to police in the border city of El Paso, Texas, Phoebe Copas believed she was being taken into Mexico. She then shot driver Daniel Piedra Garcia, the authorities...
(9/3 – 40) Kazakhstan is gearing up for snap elections of the lower house of parliament on March 19, and there is a sense of anticipation in the air. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who came to power in 2019, called for snap elections in the wake of the deadly street protests in January...
The president of Honduras has declared an immediate curfew in a town where 13 people were shot dead on Saturday. Xiomara Castro described the killings in a pool hall in Choloma as a “brutal and ruthless terrorist attack”. The victims, who were at a birthday party, were 12 men...
Paris, Washington (13/7 – 50) Kenes Rakishev (Keñes Hamitūly Raqyşev) aka Kenges Rakishev is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, former special envoy for Kazakhstan, head of the Kazakh boxing federation, a family man, and most importantly, a man of success. Under Kenges Rakishev’s...
