Jury sides with Gwyneth Paltrow in Utah ski crash trial
A jury in Utah ruled on Thursday that Oscar-winning actor Gwyneth Paltrow was not responsible for injuries sustained by a man during a ski slope collision at an upscale Park ...
UK economy avoids recession after growing in fourth quarter
Britain’s economy grew in the fourth quarter of last year, official data showed on Friday, with a jump of business at travel agents and state support for soaring energy ...
Russia’s isolation over Ukraine grows with US reporter arrest, NATO expansion
Russia charged an American journalist with spying while NATO moved closer to adding Finland as a member, deepening Moscow’s tensions with the West as the war in Ukraine reached ...
Turkish parliament ratifies Finland’s NATO accession as Sweden kept waiting
Turkey’s parliament approved a bill on Thursday to allow Finland to join NATO, clearing the way for the country to become part of the Western defence alliance as war ...
Thirty-five dead, 16 hurt in after roof of stepwell collapses in India
At least 35 people were killed and 16 were injured after the roof of a stepwell in a temple complex collapsed in central India, a local government official said on Friday.
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Trump criminally charged, a first for a US ex-president
Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former U.S. president to ...
Turkish corporates can open lira deposit protection scheme accounts without converting FX
Turkish companies facing forex payments will be able to open lira accounts protecting against depreciation without needing to convert foreign exchange, and a central bank source said on Thursday there ...
State Department confirms two U.S. citizens kidnapped in Haiti
Two U.S. citizens have been kidnapped in Haiti, State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel confirmed on Thursday, adding that Washington is in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will ...
At least six Russian missiles hit Ukrainian city of Kharkiv – governor
At least six Russian missiles hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv late on Thursday night, and officials are gathering details about damage and casualties, said regional governor Oleh Sinegubov.
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Scuffles at Kyiv monastery as Church accused of Russia ties resists eviction
Scuffles broke out outside a Kyiv monastery on Thursday after a Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox Church that the government says has ties with Russia defied an eviction order.
Tensions ...
Florida aquarium to release orca after more than 50 years in captivity
A Florida aquarium has reached a deal with animal welfare advocates to release Lolita, a 5,000-pound (2,268 kg) killer whale held in captivity for more than half a century, officials said ...
World Court rules US illegally froze some Iranian assets
In a partial victory for Iran, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICE) on Thursday ruled Washington had illegally allowed courts to freeze assets of some Iranian companies and ...
Israel is on ‘rampage’ against human rights, new Human Rights Watch chief says
Israel’s government is “on a rampage” against human rights, the new head of Human Rights Watch said on Thursday and urged the United States and other allies to do ...
Erdogan says Putin may visit Turkey in April for power plant inauguration
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin may visit Turkey on April 27 for the inauguration of the country’s first nuclear power reactor built ...
Russia detains Wall Street Journal reporter on suspicion of spying
A Moscow court ruled that a U.S. journalist for the Wall Street Journal newspaper should be detained for nearly two months on suspicion of spying for Washington, the most ...
Pope Francis getting better, hospital treatment continues
Pope Francis’s health is improving after he was hospitalised with a respiratory infection and he has resumed working while treatment continues, the Vatican said on Thursday.
The pope was ...
North Korea executes people over videos, drugs and religion – report
North Korea executes people for drugs, sharing South Korean media, and religious activities as it stifles its citizens’ human rights and freedom, its rival, South Korea, said in a report ...
Fugitive Russian father convicted of insulting army detained in Belarus
Alexei Moskalyov, a Russian who has been sentenced to two years in prison for discrediting the army and seen his daughter taken into care, has been detained in Belarus after ...
Four bankers who helped Putin’s friend set up Swiss bank account convicted
Four bankers who helped a close friend of Vladimir Putin move millions of francs through Swiss bank accounts have been convicted of failing to perform due diligence in financial transactions.
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Fraud in UK public spending soars under poor oversight
Britain’s government has lost tens of billions of pounds to fraud in recent years, with most public bodies unable to grasp the scale of the problem, the independent public ...
Several feared dead after two US army helicopters crash during training in Kentucky
The governor of Kentucky said on Thursday fatalities were expected after two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters crashed during a routine training mission over the state late on Wednesday.
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Finland’s Marin in battle over state spending to stay in power
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who in 2019 became the world’s youngest premier at 34, is battling to stay in power in an election on Sunday as the country faces a ...
Who is Stormy Daniels and what did she say happened with Trump?
Here are facts about Sormy Daniels and her alleged relationship with Trump.
STORMY DANIELS, ADULT FILM STAR
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is 44 years old and from Baton ...
Ukraine says Russian forces make progress in frontline city of Bakhmut
Russian forces have had some success in the eastern frontline city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian military officials said on Wednesday evening, adding that their fighters were still holding on in a ...