LISBON: Voters in Portugal return to the polls Sunday for a third general election in three years, as the country’s increasingly fragmented political landscape defies efforts to unite behind policies on pressing national issues such as immigration, housing and the cost of living.Hopes that the ballot might end the worst spell of political instability in […]
Who is Grigory Melkonyants? Russian election watchdog leader sentenced to five years in prison (Photo: AP) A Moscow court on Wednesday sentenced Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the independent election monitoring group Golos, to five years in prison on charges of organizing the activities of an “undesirable” organization, a charge widely condemned by human rights advocates […]
Attorney Mark Geragos, center, representing Erik and Lyle Menendez, speaks in front of family and supporters of the brothers after their resentencing hearing in Los Angeles. (Picture credit: AP) Lyle and Erik Menendez, convicted of the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, were resentenced on Tuesday, making them eligible for parole […]
A British man who served 38 years in prison for murder had his conviction overturned on Tuesday after forensic evidence from the crime scene was tested and found not to match his DNA. The man, Peter Sullivan, 68, is thought to be the victim of the country’s longest miscarriage of justice involving a living prisoner. […]
Trump says he and MBS like each other very much. 39-year-old Crown Prince of Saudi ArabiaMohammed bin Salman received heaps of praise from President Donald Trump as Trump said he was very impressed with MBS. Trump said he believes he and MBS like each other “a lot” and called MBS “very wise, wise beyond his […]
The debate whether Elon Musk had a lot of family money surfaced on X as a post went viral. Elon Musk‘s mother Maye Musk reacted to a post on X about the Tesla CEO’s early struggles, which created a ripple as Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, earlier claimed that they were not poor and Elon […]
A Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago is returned from South Korea (Photo: AP) A 14th century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago was returned on Monday, following a years long legal battle between Japan and South Korea over its ownership that had further […]
Russia marks 80 years since WWII with largest Victory Day celebration since Ukraine invasion (Photo: AP) Russia on Friday, celebrated the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II with a Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square.President Vladimir Putin marked the event with a display of tanks, missiles, and over 11,000 troops, […]
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (Left)US President Donald Trump (File Photo AP) The German Wehrmacht surrendered on May 8, 1945. This marked the end of World War Two in Europe, which had begun on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland; in Asia, it continued for a few more months until Japan’s surrender.Germany’s Nazi dictator […]
PARIS: With the lights kept on 24 hours a day and allowed outside for just 30 minutes a few times a week, a French couple held in Iran since May 2022 on Wednesday marked three years of incarceration in the Islamic republic, with no immediate prospect of an end to their ordeal.Cecile Kohler and Jacques […]
