Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation (DBR) has announced that prosecutors consider former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko a suspect in a case about the alleged illegal transfer of valuable paintings across the border.

The DBR announced on June 10 after meeting with Poroshenko that the former president was officially served with a document informing him that his status was changed from witness to suspect in the case.

However, one of Poroshenko's lawyers, Ilya Novikov, rejected the DBR's announcement, saying that his client cannot be officially considered as a suspect in the case as the document informing him of his status was handed over with procedural violations.

"There was no questioning, because there was no plan to hold questioning to start with. In fact, the whole idea was to hand Petro Poroshenko the document recognizing him as a suspect in the case," Novikov said.

According to Novikov, in cases similar to that in question, Prosecutor-General Iryna Venedyktova must personally announce that a person is a suspect in a criminal case.

The past few weeks have seen many changes on the ground in Libya.

In order to give a good explanation of what is happening on the ground in Libya, I must return to the beginning of the destruction of the sovereign country of Libya by NATO, Clinton, Obama, the UN and others in 2011. The destruction of Libya was created by a false flag operation, there was no revolution in Libya. What there were was 250,000 terrorist mercenaries brought into Libya by NATO to cause chaos using crimes against humanity and war crimes all of which were conveniently blamed on the great Libyan leader, Moammer Ghadafi. NATO used its unfettered force against Libya and her people against the UN resolution and against all international laws, creating draconian war crimes against the Libyan people and their country. The 60,000 bombing sorties against Libya destroyed not only over a trillion dollars of infrastructure but also destroyed water supplies, power supplies, agricultural areas and more. All of this bombing in civilian areas is against the Geneva convention and the NATO embargo of food, medicine, water and gasoline to Tripoli is considered of the highest war crimes.

After NATO destroyed the country, the democratically elected House of Representatives and the General Secretariat of the Tribes (2 houses making up the Libyan government) was destroyed and NATO/UN installed their radical Islamic criminal puppet regimes. These regimes were made up of radicals, NOT supported by the Libyan people (less than 4% of the Libyan population is radical). Nevertheless, this regime was forced upon the remaining Libyans as over 2.5 million had fled Libya to save their lives. These regimes were held in place by so called "militias". Militias in Tripoli are gangs of weapon carrying thugs who roam the streets, taking what they wish from any person, raping the women, killing people, torturing and imprisoning those they do not like (a bit like the old west).

Iran has passed a law aimed at protecting children from violence days after the gruesome killing of a teenager allegedly by her father.

The legislation, which had been stalled for more than a decade, was ratified on June 7 by the hard-line watchdog Guardians Council, which must approve all bills passed by parliament to make sure they're consistent with the country's constitution and Islamic law.

The move comes following nationwide outrage over last month's beheading of 14-year old Romina Ashrafi allegedly by her father, the latest apparent case of so called "honor killings."

The killing renewed debate about the need for legal protection for children and women against violence and abuse, resulting in a call by President Hassan Rohani for the speedy passage of relevant legislation.

Some local media suggested that if the child-protection law had passed earlier, it could have saved the life of Romina, who was detained by police and sent home to her father, considered to be her legal guardian, five days after running away with a 28-year-old man.

Under Iran's Islamic penal code, Romina's father faces a maximum jail sentence of 10 years if convicted because fathers are considered guardians and, unlike mothers, are exempt from capital punishment for murdering their children.

Ukraine was supposed to prevent Russia from deepening energy ties with Germany; it didn't work out that way

Once upon a time in Pipelineistan, tales of woe were the norm. Shattered dreams littered the chessboard - from IPI vs. TAPI in the AfPak realm to the neck-twisting Nabucco opera in Europe.

In sharp contrast, whenever China entered the picture, successful completion prevailed. Beijing financed a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Xinjiang, finished in 2009, and will profit from two spectacular Power of Siberia deals with Russia.

And then there's Ukraine. Maidan was a project of the Barack Obama administration, featuring a sterling cast led by POTUS, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John McCain and last but not least, prime Kiev cookie distributor Victoria "F**k the EU" Nuland.

Ukraine was also supposed to prevent Russia from deepening energy ties with Germany, as well as other European destinations.

This news was buried under the "curiously coincidental" Antifa - Black Lives Matter riots

We have real news for you here. Hillary Clinton is to face a deposition in September. Another article on The Duran discusses the involvement of George Soros and Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation in the Antifa-spurred Black Lives Matter riots. This news piece is about one week old, yet, it was almost completely buried in the furor of demonstrations and riots being covered all across the United States and even internationally.

Hillary Clinton, for the first time, may be in real trouble. The website Where is the Buzz picked up a CNBC on June 3rd which noted that Hillary Clinton lost her legal challenge to the order for her to be deposed in regards to the now all-but-forgotten unsecured private e-mail server she used to send State-level e-mails.

It is about time for this criminal to face the music.

The International Criminal Court has never done much for Palestinians, but it will do even less under intimidation

In the near-two decades since the International Criminal Court was set up to try the worst violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, it has faced harsh criticism for its highly selective approach to the question of who should be put on trial.

Created in 2002, the court, it was imagined, would act as a deterrent against the erosion of an international order and help to prevent a repetition of the atrocities of the Second World War.

Such hopes did not survive long.

The court, which sits in The Hague in the Netherlands, almost immediately faced a difficult test: whether it dared to confront the world's leading superpower, the United States, as it launched a "war on terror".

The ICC's prosecutors refused to grasp the nettle posed by the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Instead, they chose the easiest targets; for too long, it looked as though war crimes were only ever committed by Africans.

The foundation stone of the Dutch prosecution of the Russian state, three Russian soldiers and a Ukrainian from Donbass for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 is the US satellite imagery of the missile launch, trajectory, and detonation. The US Government publicly laid this foundation within hours of the incident, on July 17, 2014, following the destruction of the 298 people on board.

If the satellite images are not presented in the trial, which began hearings again this week, the prosecution case fails, either because the US refuses to declassify and release the images, or because they don't exist. If it can be proved that the US has lied about the satellite evidence, and that Dutch prosecutors are repeating this lie in court, then the defence will have the foundation for summary dismissal of the charges.

On March 23, the presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis issued an order for the prosecution to produce in court the US satellite images. This week, on June 8, Steenhuis announced the prosecution had responded with a memorandum prepared by another Dutch prosecutor interpreting the satellite images but without revealing them. "The American authorities informed us that they cannot provide any additional information regarding the launch of the missile... and the court understands from this that no further information is to be added to the file as a result."

The judge did not say this is a violation of his disclosure order. The defence lawyers have not announced the evidence is hearsay, unverifiable, and inadmissible in a court of law. Neither the defence lawyers nor Steenhuis himself have charged the prosecution with contempt of court. The prosecution lawyers, who are continuing this week with an outline of their case, are preparing to repeat the US lie.

Jonathan Latham of Independent Science News joins us to discuss his 2017 article, "Gates Foundation Hired PR Firm to Manipulate UN Over Gene Drives." We talk about gene drives, the dangers inherent in this technology, how the UN is involved, and why the Gates Foundation and DARPA are so interested in introducing genetic modifications into various species.


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Dr James Haslam (lead image) was the doctor in charge at Radnor Ward, the intensive care unit of Salisbury District Hospital, when Dawn Sturgess was admitted on June 30, 2018, and died on July 8. She is the woman whom the British Prime Minister, Metropolian Police, Crown Prosecution Service, and Wiltshire county coroner David Ridley, have all declared to have died from poisoning by a Russian-made nerve agent called Novichok. This, they all say, was brought to the UK by Russian soldiers who have been named and officially charged, not with killing Sturgess, but with trying to kill Sergei and Yulia Skripal, and leaving behind their weapon, a counterfeit bottle of perfume, where Sturgess and her companion found it several weeks later.

Haslam is so important to the story of this Russian weapon, which hadn't existed until Sturgess used it on her herself and then died from it, that the state British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) assigned Haslam a part in each of the three episodes of the film called "The Salisbury Posionings". Haslam is the only doctor from the intensive care unit treating the Skripals and Sturgess who is depicted in the BBC drama. The film will be broadcast next week.

Haslam himself claims he "led the team who cared for the critically ill patients during the Salisbury Nerve Agent Incident." A committed Christian, Haslam also gives public lectures on "how his faith and interests in challenging medicine and ethics played a role at the centre of this major incident."

Before the make-believe Haslam does what the BBC scripted him to do in the movie, Haslam prepared a research report for his medical colleagues entitled "Organophosphorus nerve agent poisoning: managing the poisoned patient." It was published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, on April 5, 2019, with three co-authors. These three are military agents - one from the Royal Navy working on a Defence Ministry grant; one from the Ministry's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the chemical warfare establishment at Porton Down; and one from the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, an armed forces hospital in Birmingham. Discovered by Liane Theuer, the report can be read here.

India and China held talks on their recent border conflict and have agreed during bilateral talks between army commanders to peacefully settle tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said in a press release on Sunday.

"Both sides agreed to peacefully resolve the situation in the border areas in accordance with various bilateral agreements and keeping in view the agreement between the leaders that peace and tranquility in the India-China border regions is essential for the overall development of bilateral relations," the press release said, according to Sputnik.

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs added that the sides also agreed that an early resolution of the dispute would contribute to the further development of the 70-year-long relationship between the two countries.