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Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican Party nominee for the November 2024 US presidential election, is no stranger to the courtroom. In January 2024, a jury in New York ruled that he would have to pay writer E. Jean Carroll millions of dollars in damages for sexually abusing and then defaming her, a decision that Trump is appealing. That was a civil case. Now, Trump has become the first former US president to be convicted of criminal charges. The case centerd on whether he paid hush money to bury stories about an extramarital sexual encounter with a porn star to protect his 2016 campaign for the White House. It…

President Joe Biden has partially lifted a ban on Ukraine using American weapons in strikes on Russian territory, according to US officials.The change in American policy is understood to apply only to defend the area of Kharkiv, according to reports. Follow live:Trump guilty of all counts in hush money trialIt comes as Ukrainian officials have stepped up calls on the US administration to allow its forces to defend itself against Russian attacks.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and others have been increasingly vocal in making the case that the restriction was putting Ukrainian forces in an untenable situation as Russia has intensified…

US President Joe Biden has reportedly given the go-ahead for Ukraine to use American weapons for strikes inside Russia. News agencies cited US officials in reports and said it would be for the limited purpose of defending Kharkiv. The reports come amid growing calls for Kyiv to be allowed to use weaponry supplied by allies to conduct strikes inside Russian territory. More to follow… kb/fb (AP, Reuters) Source link

French Open organisers have banned alcohol in the stands after complaints by players, including one who claimed a spectator spat chewing gum towards him.Amelie Mauresmo, director of the tennis tournament in southwest Paris, also said that security would be tightened around the site of the Grand Slam. “Until now, alcohol was allowed in the stands. Not in every stand… But now it’s over. Everywhere,” she said. Image: Amelie Mauresmo is the French Open’s tournament director. Pic: AP Belgian player David Goffin complained after his first-round victory in five sets on Tuesday against Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard on court 14, saying…

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said that he believes allies need to look at lifting restrictions on the use of weaponry provided to Ukraine. “I believe that the time has come to consider some of these restrictions to enable the Ukrainians to really defend themselves,” Stoltenberg said ahead of informal talks of NATO foreign ministers in Prague over the next two days. Ukraine war has ‘evolved’ — Stoltenberg The NATO chief explained that “in light of how this war has evolved, in the beginning almost all the fighting took place … deep into Ukrainian territory” however this had…

A government college in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad last year planned to merge its journalism and English departments, but an angry backlash from students forced it to backtrack on the idea.    “The administration claimed the merger of departments was necessary to cut costs, but it reconsidered the move after we protested,” student Ammara Rajpoot told DW. Students who want to pursue a career in journalism in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are not so lucky. Several universities there have shelved their journalism programs due to declining demand — and at least five others are at risk. “Nine teachers for 12…

It felt like a watershed moment. During his state visit to Germany earlier this week, French President Emmanuel Macron called for Ukraine to be allowed to strike military targets within Russia with Western weapons. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz did not object and stressed that international law does allow for Ukraine to hit targets on Russian territory. Prior to this, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg had also expressed support, along with government representatives from the United Kingdom, Poland, and the Baltic countries. The United States and Germany so far had argued against it, citing fears of escalation. Calls grow to allow Ukrainian strikes inside…

The Mekong River, which traverses over 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) of Asian countryside, is a crucial source of fishing, farming and transportation for around 65 million people. The Mekong originates in the Tibetan Plateau in China and flows to the South China Sea through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. However, infrastructure projects designed to meet the energy demands of Southeast Asia’s rapidly growing societies are on the rise in the Mekong. The intervention is being felt downstream and is putting increasing pressure on the river’s ecosystems and livelihoods. Cambodia to begin work on controversial canal Cambodia announced on Thursday…

Diego Maradona’s Golden Ball trophy will be sold at auction, despite his heirs claiming the current owner has no right to sell it.A French court ruled the auction go ahead, despite the opposition from his heirs, their lawyer said on Thursday. The trophy was awarded to the late Maradona after he was named the best player of the 1986 World Cup.But it went missing for decades and only recently resurfaced.The footballer’s heirs tried to stop the auction of the trophy by starting an urgent judicial procedure. Their lawyer Gilles Moreu said the court’s ruling “was not favourable to the heirs…

Sunshine at last! Time to go out to the park or lake and make the most of the nice weather. But at some point, enough is enough and our bodies need a break. If you spend too much time in the sun, you can get heat exhaustion. And those who work hard in the heat can even suffer a heat stroke. The terms heat exhaustion and heat stroke are often confused. Rather than two distinct things, you can see them more as two different degrees of severity of your body getting hotter. How does it happen, and how you can recognize both?…