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Guatemalan President Otto Perez has resigned from office days before a presidential election to face charges in a corruption scandal. Nathan Frandino reports.
Thirty-five military officers were conveyed to a courthouse in Istanbul, Sunday, to face charges related to allegations they took part in the recent anti-government coup attempt. The soldiers had been in custody in the police headquarters in the city. At least 265 people were killed, many of them civilians, and over 1,500 injured in the coup attempt. The government's response to Friday's actions has been swift with 6,000 people detained including high-ranking soldiers and judges, according to Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag.
Thirty-five military officers were conveyed to a courthouse in Istanbul, Sunday, to face charges related to allegations they took part in the recent anti-government coup attempt. The soldiers had been in custody in the police headquarters in the city. At least 265 people were killed, many of them civilians, and over 1,500 injured in the coup attempt. The government's response to Friday's actions has been swift with 6,000 people detained including high-ranking soldiers and judges, according to Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag.
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo announces in a video that he has asked Congress for legal reform to remove Attorney General Consuelo Porras from office amid a corruption investigation. "As a president directly elected by the people with an explicit mandate to fight for transparency and against corruption," he says, "I cannot allow this injustice to continue." SOUNDBITE
The day after he was sworn in as president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arevalo attended a mass at the Santiago de Guatemala Metropolitan Cathedral with his wife Lucrecia Eugenia Peinado Villanueva. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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