- Harvey Weinstein agrees to $25 million settlement with sexual assault accusers: lawyer
Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has reached a $25 million settlement with dozens of his alleged sexual misconduct victims, one of the women's lawyers told AFP on Wednesday.
read more ...6 hours ago - Israel heads for third election in a year as deadline to form government expires
Israel is heading for an unprecedented third election within a year after a deadline to create a coalition government ran out at midnight local time on Wednesday.
read more ...7 hours ago - International group demands ‘credible’ reforms in exchange for Lebanon aid
Diplomats met behind closed doors in Paris on Wednesday to consider measures to help Lebanon as it grapples with ongoing political turmoil and its worst economic crisis in decades.
read more ...11 hours ago - India passes contentious citizenship bill amid violent protests
India's ruling Hindu nationalist government on Wednesday secured parliamentary approval for a controversial citizenship law that critics say undermines the country's secular constitution, as protests against the law intensify in some parts of the country.
read more ...13 hours ago - EU outlines ‘Green Deal’ to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050
The European Union's new executive launched a Green Deal policy package to tackle climate change on Wednesday, trumpeting it as the bloc's “man on the moon moment” – but fossil fuel-reliant eastern European states looked set to stall the initiative.
read more ...13 hours ago - Jersey City mayor says kosher store targeted in deadly shooting
Police in the New York metropolitan area were put on high alert to protect Jewish neighborhoods after an hours-long gunbattle with two men around a Jersey City kosher market that killed six people, authorities said.
read more ...19 hours ago - Myanmar’s Suu Kyi says no proof of ‘genocidal intent’ in Rohingya case
Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday denied "genocidal intent" as she defended Myanmar's military operation against Rohingya Muslims in the UN's top court.
read more ...19 hours ago - Suicide bomber detonates explosives outside main US base in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber in Afghanistan detonated explosives on Wednesday outside the United States' main military base of Bagram in an attack that wounded five people, Afghan and NATO officials said.
read more ...1 day ago - US grounds Saudi pilot trainees after deadly Pensacola base shooting
The Pentagon announced on Tuesday it was halting operational training of all Saudi Arabian military personnel in the United States until further notice after a Saudi Air Force lieutenant shot and killed three people last week at a base in Florida.
read more ...1 day ago - French women may be the biggest losers under Macron’s pension reform plan
France’s high commissioner for pension reform has repeatedly maintained that women will be the "big winners" of the government’s new pension reform proposals. But advocates of economic gender parity are not so sure.
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