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US, UK In Row Over Diplomat’s Wife, Cyclist Death

December 21, 2019 10:00 am
British prosecutors’ authorisation to charge the wife of a U.S. diplomat with causing the death of a young motorcyclist has sparked a row.

British 19-year-old Harry Dunn was killed on Aug. 27 after Anne Sacoolas’ car allegedly crashed into his motorcycle in Northamptonshire in central England.

Dpa reports that Sacoolas was interviewed by police but she subsequently left the country, arguing that she was immune from prosecution.

Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said extradition proceedings had begun as they announced the go-ahead for charges to be brought for causing death by dangerous driving.

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that

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Germany Kicks Out Russian Diplomats Over Berlin Murder

December 4, 2019 2:29 pm

Germany expelled two Russian diplomats on Wednesday after prosecutors said Moscow could be behind the killing of a former Chechen rebel commander in a Berlin park.

Russia’s foreign ministry immediately pledged unspecified “retaliatory measures”, saying the accusations were “groundless and hostile”.

Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a 40-year-old Georgian national, was shot twice in the head at close range in Kleiner Tiergarten park on August 23, allegedly by a Russian man who was arrested shortly afterwards.

The suspect in the killing was said to be riding a bicycle and was seen by witnesses afterwards throwing the bike and a stone-laden bag with a …

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