NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for sexual assault and rape was overturned by New York’s highest court, reopening the landmark case that fueled the #MeToo movement and highlighting the challenges of holding powerful men accountable.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Two million people across England and Scotland are still suffering from long COVID symptoms, of whom 381,000 have had their day-to-day activities limited a lot, according to an official study published today.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran’s judiciary confirmed the death sentence of well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi but added that he is entitled to a sentence reduction, state media reported today.
(Reuters) – Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, is among 18 people charged in Arizona with illegally seeking to claim the state’s 2020 electoral votes for the then-U.S.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel’s military is poised to evacuate Palestinian civilians from Rafah and assault Hamas hold-outs in the southern Gaza Strip city, a senior Israeli defence official said yesterday, despite international warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A ceremony to install a stalled presidential transition council in Haiti will take place this morning on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince, the office of outgoing Prime Minis-ter Ariel Henry announced in a statement yesterday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes yesterday closed an investigation into whether former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro sought asylum at the Hungarian embassy in February, citing lack of evidence.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said yesterday he would step back from public duties “for a few days” to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a business corruption probe into his wife’s private dealings.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said today he would step back from public duties for a week to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a business corruption probe into his wife’s private dealings.
LISBON, (Reuters) – President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said late yesterday that Portugal was responsible for crimes committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, and suggested there was a need for reparations.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Protests against Israel filled streets in Brooklyn and escalated at universities across the United States, some of which included Jewish Passover Seders, as demonstrators demanded an end to civilian casualties in Gaza.
(Reuters) – Israeli strikes intensified across Gaza yesterday in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, residents said, and the army ordered fresh evacuations in the north of the enclave, warning civilians they were in a “dangerous combat zone”.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A sweeping foreign aid package easily passed the U.S. Congress late yesterday after months of delay, clearing the way for billions of dollars in fresh Ukraine funding amid advances from Russia’s invasion force and Kyiv’s shortages of military supplies.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian police deployed tear gas to move people back from a security perimeter around the National Palace while soldiers gripping rifles patrolled the international airport’s diplomatic entrance on Tuesday, ahead of a planned change of government.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Mongolia’s government and a coalition of partners have signed a nature finance agreement aimed at protecting 35.6 million acres (144,000 square km) of the country’s lands and waters, including the world’s last great tract of temperate grassland.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The first witness in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, testified yesterday that he used his supermarket tabloid to suppress stories that might have hurt Trump’s 2016 presidential bid.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – U.N. rights chief Volker Turk said today that he was “horrified” by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there, according to a spokesperson.
UNITED NATIONS/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Israel has yet to provide evidence for its accusations that hundreds of staff with the U.N.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York prosecutors said on the first day of Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial that the former president broke the law and corrupted the 2016 election by trying to cover up sexual encounters with a porn star and a Playboy model, while his defense lawyer said he committed no crime.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised yesterday to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks as the upper house of parliament finally passed required legislation, delayed for weeks by attempts to alter the plan.
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