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South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma will be charged with corruption over a massive arms deal in the 1990s. The country’s chief prosecutor has said there are reasonable prospects of a successful prosecution.The 16 charges relate to a 30bn rand ($2.5bn) arms deal in the late 1990s.Chief state prosecutor Shaun Abrahams said: “After consideration of the matter, I am of the view that there are reasonable prospects of successful prosecution of Mr Zuma on the charges listed in the indictment.”Mr Zuma disputes all the allegations against him and could now appeal against the ruling on a number of grounds and…

The AA is attempting to seize a vast pot of shares from its ousted executive chairman just days after he brought a multimillion pound damages claim against the breakdown recovery group. Sky News has learnt that lawyers for the AA have written to Bob Mackenzie, who was ousted last July, to seek control of roughly 33m shares that he believes could be worth up to £220m.The order, known as a Compulsory Transfer Notice (CTN), is the latest salvo in an increasingly bitter legal battle between the AA and its former boss, who left the company after a violent altercation with…

A teenage asylum-seeker who set off a bomb on a rush hour Tube train is facing life in jail. Iraqi-born Ahmed Hassan, 18, built a bomb in his bedroom at his foster parents’ home over the summer holidays.A jury found him guilty of the attempted murder of 93 people, who escaped with their lives when a fireball engulfed a Tube carriage at Parsons Green on 15 September last year.Prosecutor Alison Morgan said it was “a matter of luck that the device did not function as intended”. Video: CGI recreation of crime scene The bomb was made from triacetone triperoxide (TATP),…

The £1bn logistics company Safestore Holdings faces a massive revolt next week over nearly £14m in share awards handed to its top two executives. Sky News has learnt that leading shareholders in the storage group are preparing to vote against its remuneration report and the chair of its boardroom pay committee, Claire Balmforth.City sources said the level of investor anger was such that it was conceivable that Ms Balmforth risked losing the vote at next Wednesday’s annual general meeting.The protest will prolong a feud between Safestore and its major shareholders over a one-off award of long-term shares to its chief…

The snow forecast for the weekend has just got worse – with the Met Office issuing amber weather warnings. Up to 20cm (8in) of snow could fall this weekend as forecasters warn of a mini “Beast from the East”.Sky News meteorologist Chris England said on Thursday that it would turn “much colder” over the next few days, with a “raw wind from the Baltic bringing widespread snow showers”.Snow has already started falling in the Grampian mountains in Scotland, he said.The Met Office says the snow and ice will begin in some places from 3pm this afternoon. The worst of the…

An arrest warrant for the sister of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince has been issued in France amid allegations she ordered her bodyguard to beat up a decorator. The alleged victim was hired to carry out some refurbishment work at Princess Hassa bint Salman’s Paris apartment in September 2016, according to AFP.She lived on Avenue Foch – an affluent street in the west of the city.The decorator is accused of taking pictures inside the apartment with the intention of selling them on to the media. Image: Earlier this month Theresa May met the Crown Prince The man, who has not been…

The US has imposed sanctions on 19 Russians for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election. The sanctions will cover five groups, including Moscow’s intelligence services. All property, and interests in property of the designated persons subject to US jurisdiction, have been blocked.Americans are also banned from engaging in transactions with them.The penalties include the first use of new powers passed by Congress last year to punish Moscow for election meddling. Image: Evgeny Prigozhin (L) assists Vladimir Putin during a dinner in 2011 Those targets include officials working for the Russian military intelligence agency, GRU, the Internet Research Agency, and…

The Defence Secretary has told Russia it should “go away and shut up” rather than contemplate tit-for-tat measures over the Salisbury nerve agent attack. After the Prime Minister announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats over Moscow’s use of novichok in the Wiltshire city, the Kremlin has threatened retaliatory action.But Gavin Williamson warned Russia against escalating the diplomatic battle over the attempted murder of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Video: May: ‘Russia is culpable’ The Defence Secretary said: “What we will do, we will look at how Russia responds to what we have done.”It is absolutely atrocious…

There will be no further investigation into the death of 13-month-old Poppi Worthington, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. The toddler’s mother is “extremely disappointed” the latest inquest was “not enough” to prompt a further review of the case by the CPS, her lawyer has said.The mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had previously called for prosecutors to look again at her daughter’s case after a third court judgement said her daughter was sexually assaulted before her death.Earlier this year David Roberts, the senior coroner for Cumbria, concluded the toddler was assaulted in her father Paul Worthington’s double…

Sky News has established the Government has been signing a series of secret agreements with companies and industry groups over highly controversial outcomes of the Brexit process for Britain’s trade border. The attempt to enforce silence about outside discussions on the changes urgently required to the border after Brexit has raised eyebrows across industry.A series of non-disclosure agreements have been forced into the process of consultation with the logistics companies that actually operate the UK border, with one industry source calculating that “many dozens” have been signed.The development was described by Meg Hillier MP, the chair of the Public Accounts…