Donald Trump ordered to pay journalist Carroll $83.3 million for rape, reputational hurt

Donald Trump ordered to pay journalist Carroll $83.3 million for rape, reputational hurt

Carroll’s case has become an issue in Trump’s campaign to retake the White House in the November US election. Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden, who beat him in 2020.

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Trump walks out on opponent’s closing at defamation trial in a huff, returns to hear his lawyer

Trump walks out on opponent’s closing at defamation trial in a huff, returns to hear his lawyer

Early in her closing, Habba showed the jury a video in which Trump said a jury’s verdict last year finding that he had sexually abused Carroll was “a disgrace” and “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.”

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No reciprocal arrangement: High Court declines plan to deploy Kenyan police to Haiti gangland

No reciprocal arrangement: High Court declines plan to deploy Kenyan police to Haiti gangland

The United Nations said this week that it had documented 4,789 people killed by gang violence in Haiti last year, an increase of 119 per cent from 2022, and that another 3,000 were kidnapped.

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World Court concurs with South Africa Israeli military attacks in Gaza are genocidal

World Court concurs with South Africa Israeli military attacks in Gaza are genocidal

Israel had sought to have the case thrown out when it was brought to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) earlier this month. South Africa accused Israel of state-led genocide in its offensive, begun after Hamas militants stormed into Israel killing 1,200 and kidnapping more than 240.

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Grumbling aside in US, China and Russia critics agree South Africa’s genocide case is a diplomatic win

Grumbling aside in US, China and Russia critics agree South Africa’s genocide case is a diplomatic win

Grumble they might, but they can scarcely afford to alienate Africa’s industrial and diplomatic heavyweight – especially with the United States’ main superpower rival, China, wooing the continent with money, railways and tech transfers.

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All eyes on The Hague as world awaits UN top court’s verdict on South Africa’s case against Israel

All eyes on The Hague as world awaits UN top court’s verdict on South Africa’s case against Israel

An Israeli official said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu huddled with top legal, diplomatic and security officials on Thursday in anticipation of the ruling. He said Israel is confident in its case but discussed “all scenarios.” Israel’s war cabinet was meeting later on Thursday as well.

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Ethnic cleansing is not a crime on its own, but a general description of a string of crimes

Ethnic cleansing is not a crime on its own, but a general description of a string of crimes

To name just a few recent examples, ethnic cleansing has been used to describe: Israel’s mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza; the flight of nearly the entire ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan seized control of the contested enclave; the killing of civilians in Darfur in Sudan’s on-going civil war; and the Ethiopian military’s forced expulsion of people from the country’s Tigray region.

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Was Museveni, NRA’s 1981-1986 armed revolt in Uganda an occupation, liberation, revolution or counter-revolution?

Was Museveni, NRA’s 1981-1986 armed revolt in Uganda an occupation, liberation, revolution or counter-revolution?

Every year on February 26, the army and NRM government remind Ugandans and the world that the celebration is a celebration of the liberation of Uganda. Many times both liberation and revolution are used to glue Ugandans to activities of NRA in the bushes of Luwero from 1981 to 1986 rather than the future in a complex century 2021 and beyond, with numerous wicked problems requiring thinking, rethinking and pertinent actions. Such problems include green land grabbling and climate change and their causes.

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China warns Iran to rein in Houthi attacks in Red Sea or risk business relations with Beijing

China warns Iran to rein in Houthi attacks in Red Sea or risk business relations with Beijing

Chinese officials have asked their Iranian counterparts to help rein in attacks on ships in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthis or risk harming business relations with Beijing, four Iranian sources and a diplomat familiar with the matter said. The discussions about the attacks and trade between China and...

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