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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday one of its employees had been killed in a shooting in the Yemeni city of Taiz, according to a Reuters reports.

It made the announcement on its twitter feed, and said it was trying to find out more information about the incident.

Yemeni officials and the ICRC named the man as Hanna Lahoud, a Lebanese national, who was killed in Taiz in southwestern Yemen by unknown gunmen who opened fire on a car.

Lahoud was in charge of the ICRC’s detention programme in Yemen, the ICRC said in a statement. He was on his way to visit a prison this morning when he was attacked on the outskirts of Taiz, the statement said. He was taken to hospital and died from his injuries.

A Saudi-led military coalition intervened in Yemen in 2015, backing government forces fighting Iran-allied Houthi rebels.

Iran has denied supplying weapons to the Houthis. The war has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced more than two million and driven the country to the verge of famine.

MCCASKILL WAS IN ON RUSSIAN RUSE FROM START

“Late on Election Night, when it seemed Trump was going to win, Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat close to Clinton, walked past a reporter and muttered, ‘Can you believe this? The f*cking Russians,” Isikoff and Corn write.

McCaskill’s Republican opponent Josh Hawley is pointing to the Election Night comment as evidence that she is part of the Democratic effort to blame Clinton’s defeat on Russia. McCaskill last week criticized the Democratic National Committee for filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit alleging that Trump campaign officials conspired with Russia to win the election, calling it a “silly distraction.”

http:// ussanews.com/News1/2018/04/23/claire-mccaskill-immediately-blamed-fcking-russians-for-clinton-election-loss/

http:// www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43879251

Mr Bolloré's business empire includes shipping, advertising, construction and media and has large interests in Africa. He is one of France's best-known businessmen.

Investigators are looking into allegations that his Havas advertising agency provided discounted communications advice to Guinean President Alpha Condé and Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé at election time in return for the Bolloré Africa Logistics company being given licences to operate container ports in Conakry and Lomé.

After the election in Guinea, Mr Condé terminated the contract of Conakry port's existing operator and gave it to the Bolloré Group.

A spokesman for the government of Guinea said there was nothing wrong with the contract for the shipping container terminal.

The Bolloré Group says that its long record of investment in Africa was already sufficient grounds for it to have been awarded the licences.

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French Billionaire Vincent Bollore Arrested For Alleged …

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Apr 24, 2018 · French billionaire Vincent Bollore was arrested and detained on Tuesday near Paris over allegations that he indirectly influenced election outcomes for governments in West Africa and secured lucrative port contracts for his company in return.

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Bolloré was born in Boulogne-Billancourt. He attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly, before graduating with a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Université Paris X Nanterre. Bolloré started his career as an investment bank trainee at Edmond de Rothschild.