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Tony Podesta's firm failed to file legally required disclosures after emails with his WH adviser brother A high-dollar lobbyist and fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign failed to file legally required disclosures for his advocacy on behalf of a foreign government in discussions with Clinton’s future campaign chairman, according to a political law expert. High-powered Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta emailed his brother John, a top White House adviser who would later chair the Clinton campaign, in January 2015. Tony wondered if John would attend a meeting with the Indian ambassador to the United States. “I’m at Camp David Friday,” John...

CORRECTED: Japanese embassy, airlines staff nabbed for aiding smuggling+ Nov 1 12:36 AM US/Eastern smuggling+ (AP) - CHIBA, Japan, Oct. 31 (Kyodo)—Police have arrested a local staff member of the Japanese Embassy in Indonesia and a Garuda Indonesia Airline flight attendant on suspicion of helping three compatriots enter Japan illegally in September, they said Wednesday. The two are Rosita Yulia Patricia Rembeth, 50, a member of the embassy staff, and the 39-year-old flight attendant Carrand Christo Tangka. The two, together with the three entrants, have already been indicted for violating Japan's immigration law. According to the Chiba prefectural police, Rembeth...

(15:20) Terror suspect tells German court: 'You're all Jews.' By Melissa Eddy, The Associated Press April, 16 2002 FRANKFURT, Germany - The trial of five Algerian men charged with plotting to blow up a French holiday market opened with a flourish today when a defendant disrupted the proceedings and was removed from court. While the other defendants shielded their faces from a TV camera allowed to tape the opening five minutes, 31-year-old defendant Lamine Maroni, speaking in Arabic, recited Koranic verses, swore and urged the others not to testify. He was warned not to continue, but went on in English...