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The attack on the former US President Kennedy has been intensively investigated. Another part of the secret files has now been published. The US government has released numerous other sealed documents relating to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The nearly 1,500 documents of the US foreign intelligence service CIA and the Federal Police FBI have now been published on the website of the National Archives of the USA.  They show the extent of the efforts of the US investigators to find possible accomplices or clients of the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Possible connections to secret services of the Soviet Union, communist groups in Africa and the Italian mafia were examined. The documents also show how the US spied on Fidel Castro's communist government in Cuba, with which Oswald was in contact and whose overthrow was a goal of Kennedy. Numerous conspiracy theories The US Democrat Kennedy was fatally shot while driving in an open car in Dallas, Texas on No...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy  has been sentenced to one year in prison for illegal campaign funding. The Paris court ruled that the sentence would take the form of electronically monitored house arrest. The allegations go back to the 2012 presidential election campaign. "As a candidate, he failed to control costs," said the presiding judge in Paris.  Sarkozy stayed away from the verdict. According to his lawyer Thierry Herzog, he wants to appeal and contest the decision. The public prosecutor has asked for a year in prison, including six months on probation. Sarkozy's lawyers pleaded for acquittal for the Conservative who ruled the Élysée Palace from 2007 to 2012. 13 other defendants were found guilty with him. Read also: France Is Calling Back Ambassadors From The USA And Australia Prosecutors argued that 66-year-old Sarkozy knew weeks before the 2012 election that campaign funding was approaching the cap. He ignored two warnings from his financial advisors. I...

The government of the Caribbean state is hoping for support from foreign soldiers after the presidential assassination in Port-au-Prince. The US reacts dismissively. A representative of the Haitian government has requested US and UN troops to secure strategically important locations after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise. "We made this request during a conversation with the US Secretary of State and the United Nations," said Electoral Minister Mathias Pierre. The soldiers were to be used, among other things, to secure the ports and the airport. Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph confirmed the request. "We definitely need support and we have asked our international partners for help." His government hopes that the allies could help the national police bring the situation under control and stabilize the country. The State Department and the Pentagon both confirmed receipt of a request for "security and investigative assistance" and stated that ...

After the assassination of the Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, chaos threatens the Caribbean country. The country has been in a deep political crisis for years. Following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, four suspects were killed and two others were arrested. Police chief Léon Charles announced this on television. Three police officers have been captured in the meantime, but have since been released. Further details about the manhunt were initially not known.  After the fatal assassination attempt on Haiti's president, the government initially announced the arrest of suspects. The "alleged murderers" were caught by the police on Wednesday evening (local time), wrote Deputy Communications Minister Frantz Exantus on Twitter. Well-trained and heavily armed group Strangers had entered the Jovenel Moïses residence on Wednesday night and shot him. His wife Martine Moïse was injured in the attack on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince , said the for...