PARIS: The robbery was over in minutes, the fallout long: Nearly a decade after robbers stormed Kim Kardashian’s luxury residence and tied her up at gunpoint, a Paris court will decide the verdict Friday in one of the most audacious celebrity heists in modern French history. Nine men and a woman stand accused of carrying […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) The Philippine Senate will convene the impeachment court that will decide the future of vice-president Sara Duterte on June 3, according to a document seen by AFP on Friday. Duterte was impeached by the House of Representatives in February for “high crimes” including corruption and an alleged assassination plot against former ally […]
Italy’s constitutional court ruled on Thursday that both women in a same-sex relationship can be legally recognised as parents on a child’s birth certificate, declaring it unconstitutional to limit parental recognition solely to the biological mother.The court found that denying recognition to the non-biological mother who consented to the medically assisted pregnancy and shares in […]
Italy’s constitutional court rules in favour of same-sex mums (AP) ROME: Italy’s highest court ruled on Thursday it was unconstitutional not to legally recognise non-biological mothers on the birth certificates of children born to same-sex couples through IVF.The finding was hailed “historic” by opposition parties in Italy, which is governed by self-declared “Christian mother” Giorgia […]
LONDON: A British court blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, to Mauritius, hours before the agreement was due to be signed on Thursday. The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty to Mauritius of the Indian Ocean archipelago, which is home to a strategically important naval and bomber base on the largest […]
The headquarters are located in Washington DC, US (Image: AP) The US Institute of Peace retook control of its headquarters Wednesday, two days after a federal judge said the firing of its board and employees by Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency was illegal. The institute’s acting president, George Moose, entered the organization’s headquarters with […]
UK court frees singer Chris Brown freed on $6.7 million bail in assault case (Photo: AP) Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown was released on 5 million-pound ($6.7 million) bail Wednesday while facing allegations he beat and seriously injured a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023. The decision by a London judge […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Maine legislators to temporarily restore the voting power of a state lawmaker after she had been censured for a social media post that criticized transgender athletes’ participation in girls’ sports. The order was unsigned and did not provide the court’s reasoning, as is typical in such emergency applications. No […]
Supreme court rules in Trump’s favour regarding deportations The US Supreme Court on Monday gave the green light to the Trump administration to remove legal protections from nearly 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants.These individuals were previously shielded from deportation under a programme called Temporary Protected Status (TPS), designed to help people from countries hit by war or […]
The US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Monday to end legal protections that have shielded some 350,000 Venezuelans from potential deportation.The top court granted a request by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for the Venezuelans while an appeal proceeds in a lower court.The United States grants TPS […]
