NewsBiden pardons son; Georgescu backed by Kennedy and Carlson. This is your overnight news breakdown
Biden pardons son; Georgescu backed by Kennedy and Carlson. This is your overnight news breakdown
It happened while you were sleeping. Here’s what global agencies reported overnight from Sunday to Monday.
- U.S. President Joe Biden announced that he pardoned his son. Hunter Biden was found guilty by a court of making false statements regarding firearms and illegal possession of firearms. He also pleaded guilty to tax charges.
- The Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu will receive support from Robert Kennedy Jr. and Tucker Carlson, who will come to Romania on 5 December for the premiere of Georgescu's book, reported the Realitatea portal on Sunday. Georgescu unexpectedly won the first round of the presidential elections in Romania. According to the current electoral calendar, the second round of elections should take place on 8 December unless the elections are annulled by the Constitutional Court, which is set to decide on 2 December. In the Sunday parliamentary elections in Romania, the co-governing post-communist Social Democratic Party (PSD) won, garnering 26% of the votes, according to the exit poll by CURS. The radical right-wing AUR came in second with the support of 19% of voters.
- In battles between Islamist rebels and government forces in northern Syria, 417 people have been killed, including 61 civilians, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Sunday. The rebels launched an offensive on Wednesday, which has already covered three provinces. The government forces are being supported by Russian aviation in the battles. The jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other militias entered Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city, on Friday. After capturing most of this city, the Islamists began taking over towns and villages in the nearby Hama province, the Associated Press reported on Sunday.
- Portuguese police agencies seized an 800-kilogram load of cocaine hidden on a Brazilian fishing vessel. It was heading from the Cape Verde Islands to Portugal. According to the newspaper "Jornal de Notícias," the drug shipment was attempted to be smuggled into the EU via Portugal by one of South America's largest criminal organisations, the so-called First Capital Command (PCC) from Brazil. The paper discovered that a criminal group, monitored by the authorities for several months, managed to place "their man" within the structures of the Portuguese police to facilitate a large drug shipment.
