Thursday, September 21, 2023

World

Trump’s fraud trial will last three months: New York judge

A civil trial over allegations that Donald Trump and his sons fraudulently overstated the company's net asset value by billions of dollars will last...

Derna, Libya, devastated by floods, in grisly search for thousands of people still missing

Emergency teams on Friday continued the search for the thousands of people still listed as missing after the tsunami-sized flash flood that devastated the...

S.Leone president says the United States pressured him to interfere in the vote

Sierra Leone's president on Friday accused the United States of pressuring him to interfere in the recount of his country's June 24 election, a...

Erdogan pressures Musk for a new Tesla factory

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged tech tycoon Elon Musk to open his next Tesla factory in Turkey, becoming the latest leader to lobby...

France will not cut cultural ties with Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso – Minister

France has no intention of cutting cultural ties with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, said Culture Minister Rima Abdul-Malak. Abdul-Malak said this after entertainment companies...

Trump pleads not guilty to election conspiracy charges

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal charges of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election and defraud the...

Elections in Zimbabwe are neither free nor fair, says HRW

An upcoming national vote in Zimbabwe will take place under a "seriously flawed electoral process" that does not meet global standards of freedom and...

AFP sues Musk’s X for copyright

The AFP news agency launched a French copyright case on Wednesday against social media giant Twitter, recently renamed X, as part of a global...

Turkish strike in Iraq kills 4 militants: Kurdish officials

Four “fighters” from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed by a drone strike in northern Iraq, officials in the autonomous Kurdistan region...

Rwanda rejects ‘false’ DR Congo claims of border incursion

Rwanda’s defence ministry on Friday dismissed as “baseless” claims by the Democratic Republic of Congo that forces from Kigali had staged an incursion across...