UK LEADER STARMER BATTLES TO KEEP JOB AS MANDELSON-EPSTEIN REVELATIONS TRIGGER CRISIS. (PHOTO).

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 UK leader Starmer battles to keep job as Mandelson-Epstein revelations trigger crisis    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was fighting for political survival on Monday as his authority within the Labour Party sharply eroded less than two years into his term. Under mounting pressure from party lawmakers, Starmer was scrambling to head off a potential revolt that could cost him the leadership after a damaging scandal involving his appointment of Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to Washington. The crisis deepened over the weekend when Starmer lost his chief of staff, and it intensified further on Monday with the resignation of his director of communications, Tim Allan, who said he was stepping aside to allow a new team to be formed. Starmer was scheduled to address Labour lawmakers behind closed doors in a bid to stabilize his leadership and regain trust. At the center of the turmoil is Starmer’s 2024 decision to appoint Mandelson to one of Britain’s most senior d...
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SOUTH SUDAN ACTIVIST JAILED IN US FOR ATTEMPTING TO EXPORT ARMS FOR COUP. (PHOTO).

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 South Sudan activist jailed in US for attempting to export arms for coup


A South Sudanese activist living in exile in the United States has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for attempting to traffic military-grade weapons to his country in order to carry out a coup, US authorities announced.


Peter Biar Ajak, a government critic and Harvard-educated economist who has worked for the World Bank, was arrested in March 2024 along with Abraham Chol Keech, a South Sudanese national who had become a US citizen.


Ajak had lived in the United States since 2020, having sought asylum after accusing South Sudanese President Salva Kiir of trying to have him killed.


Both defendants pleaded guilty to violating laws controlling the export of arms and military equipment, the US Department of Justice said in a statement, Reuters reported.


A federal court in Arizona sentenced Ajak to 46 months in prison. Keech was sentenced in December to 41 months in prison.


‘Install himself’


"From a suburb of our nation's capital, Ajak conspired to export US weaponry to South Sudan, where he planned to lead a coup and install himself in power," said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg.


Between February 2023 and February 2024, the two men "amassed a $4-million arsenal of military-grade weapons," including Stinger missiles, grenade launchers and more than a thousand machine guns and rifles, the statement said.


They were arrested after a year of negotiations with people they believed to be potential suppliers, but who were in fact undercover US federal agents.


Ajak, a prominent South Sudanese activist, had been arrested in his home country in July 2018 for calling on Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar to step down and make way for new leaders, after a civil war that left 400,000 people dead.


Sentenced to two years in prison for "espionage," he was pardoned in January 2020 by Kiir.

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