,1,Donald Trump has arrived in Miami as he prepares to become the first former US president in history to face federal criminal charges in court.
Accused of wilfully retaining classified documents containing national security secrets, including details of nuclear programmes, Trump faces a potential sentence of decades behind bars if convicted.
The sudden departure of two lawyers who had been working on the case led to a last-minute scramble to find defence attorneys registered with the Southern District of Florida Bar as required by the court, it was reported last night.
Trump’s extremely aggressive personal attacks on Jack Smith, the special counsel who compiled the 37 criminal charges, combined with the former president’s long history of run-ins with his own lawyers, were complicating the last-minute recruitment attempted, the Washington Post reported.
Trump will go before the US District Judge Aileen Cannon, a public servant he appointed himself, who was criticised for her handling of his civil case earlier this year, which challenged the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago and the seizure of the documents now at the centre of the charges.
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,1,Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are sharing their “innermost thoughts” at a summit in North Korea, at which they have resolved to build “a new multi-polar world” and to unite against the US-led international order.
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North Korea “fully supports” Russia’s war in Ukraine, Kim told Putin, who in turn thanked his host for his “consistent and unwavering support” after a warm greeting on the red carpet laid out for Putin’s arrival. It is the Russian leader’s first visit to North Korea for 24 years.
The pair will spend the day together in ceremonial events and face-to-face discussions in the course of which they are expected to sign a “comprehensive strategic partnership treaty”. It will formalise a friendship that has already resulted in North Korean munitions being fired by Russian troops on the battlefields of Ukraine.
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