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Swiss seize Monet, van Gogh works amid US probe of fund 1MDB
The state fund, known as 1MDB, was created in 2009 by Najib shortly after he took office to promote economic development projects. The lawsuit does not name Najib but refers to a "Malaysian Official 1" - described as a high-ranking government official - who received some of the misappropriated funds, including US$681 million in March 2013.
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Kalashnikov found in raid linked to Nice attack
The respected broadcaster said the man with Bouhlel is of the six people arrested following last Thursday's attack. Already disturbing details are beginning to emerge about the plans conducted in the lead-up to the Nice attack by Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the man who killed 84 people who were celebrating Bastille Day.
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Pakistan to observe "Black Day" on July 19, India rejects
Activists of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and People's Students Federation (PSF) staged separate protests here on Friday to condemn the Indian forces' brutalities in Kashmir. The occupied territory is on the boil after the extrajudicial killing of top commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, on July 8. India said it was dismayed at Pakistan's efforts to interfere in its internal matter even as Islamabad continued to internationalise the Kashmir issue with its foreign ...
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Nice attacker plotted for months with 'accomplices'
These records also revealed photos of last year's Bastille Day fireworks in Nice and a crowd of onlookers from another fireworks display several days later. Police found a Kalashnikov and a bag of ammunition as they searched a cellar of one of Ramzi A's associates, but for what the weapon was intended was unclear.
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Truck attacker had accomplices, planned for months
One suspect allegedly sent Bouhlel a Facebook message saying, "Load the truck with tons of iron and cut the brakes". The newspaper Libération reported Thursday that only one municipal police auto was positioned at the spot where Lahouaiej Bouhlel barreled through and on to the promenade, and it said that although state and city officials had agreed on - and stuck to - a security plan for Bastille Day , the government misrepresented those measures after the attack.
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Cruz's convention snub latest in tense rivalry with Trump
Trump won the nomination on Tuesday with 1,725 delegates, followed by Cruz with 475 delegates. " Vote your conscience ", Cruz, the junior USA senator of Texas, told the Republican National Convention crowd in Cleveland, Ohio. Eileen Collins, a former astronaut and the first female commander of a space shuttle flight, was supposed to end her speech with, "We need leadership that will make America first again".