Description
Added on the 02/12/2015 16:38:19 - Copyright : NouvelObs Montage
Kremlin critic Boris Nadezhdin submits the documents to Russia's Central Election Commission needed to register as a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections in March. The would-be challenger to Vladimir Putin shot to fame with promises to end the conflict in Ukraine and the previous week announced he had passed the 100,000 signature threshold to register. Russia's Central Election Commission will review his application and make a decision about whether he can run. IMAGES
The prosecutor in the unprecedented criminal case against former president Donald Trump pledges to pursue a speedy trial. SOUNDBITE
Special Counsel Jack Smith announces that an indictment accusing former US president Donald Trump of illegally taking highly classified documents was unsealed. SOUNDBITE
Images showing the exterior of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts, where 21-year-old national guardsman, Jack Teixeira, is due to appear, after he was arrested on suspicion of leaking a trove of sensitive US government secrets. IMAGES
The US Department of Defense "is taking the issue of this unauthorized disclosure very seriously," Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder tells reporters after the leak of a cache of sensitive US documents. "This is a law enforcement matter, it would be inappropriate for me or any other DOD official to comment at this time," Ryder adds. SOUNDBITE
The classified documents found at Joe Biden's former office and private residence were "inadvertently misplaced," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters as she reads a statement from Richard Sauber, senior advisor to the White House Counsel's Office. SOUNDBITE