Sudanese authorities, the United Nations and aid groups scrambled Tuesday to respond to a devastating landslide in Sudan’s Darfur region that buried an entire mountain village, killing hundreds of people. Heavy rain triggered the disaster on Sunday, flattening the village of Tarasin in the remote Jebel Marra range, the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM) faction […]
Read MoreBrazil’s Supreme Court vowed Tuesday not to bend to pressure from Washington in deciding the fate of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, a Donald Trump ally on trial for allegedly plotting a coup. Kicking off a five-day process of passing judgment in the final stage of the trial, presiding judge Alexandre Moraes said Bolsonaro had […]
Read MoreArgentine police are investigating a deceased Nazi’s daughter and son-in-law after a 17th century painting stolen from a Dutch Jewish art collector was recently spotted in a property ad before promptly disappearing. The painting, believed to be “Portrait of a Lady” by Italian baroque artist Giuseppe Ghislandi (1655-1743), was recognized by the Dutch newspaper AD […]
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A French investigating judge has ordered cinema icon Gerard Depardieu to stand trial on charges of raping and sexually assaulting actor Charlotte Arnould in 2018, legal sources said Tuesday, the latest chapter in the star’s downfall over his treatment of women. The decision, dated August 28, came after a Paris court handed Depardieu an 18-month […]
Read MoreUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Poland has played a behind-the-scenes role in Cuba as he hailed a leading dissident from the communist-run island. Poland invited Rubio as it honored Berta Soler, the leader of the Ladies in White protest movement, with an award named for Lech Walesa, the union leader who […]
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Nearly 40 years after breaking off Antarctica, a colossal iceberg ranked among the oldest and largest ever recorded is finally crumbling apart in warmer waters, and could disappear within weeks. Earlier this year, the “megaberg” known as A23a weighed a little under a trillion tonnes and was more than twice the size of Greater London, […]
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Demonstrative Geschlossenheit zwischen Russland und China: Kreml-Chef Wladimir Putin und Präsident Xi Jinping haben bei einem Treffen in der Großen Halle des Volkes in Peking den “strategischen” Charakter ihrer Beziehungen herausgestellt. “Unser enger Austausch spiegelt den strategischen Charakter der russisch-chinesischen Beziehungen wider, die sich derzeit auf einem noch nie da gewesenen Niveau befinden”, sagte Putin am […]
Read MoreIm Prozess um die gewaltsame Entführung von zwei Kindern der Steakhauskettenerbin Christina Block hat deren wegen Beihilfe mitangeklagter Lebensgefährte, der ehemalige ARD-Sportkommentator Gerhard Delling, vehement seine Unschuld beteuert. Er habe in seinem Leben “nie etwas Strafbares” getan und sich immer aus “tiefer Überzeugung” gegen Gewalt positioniert, sagte der 66-Jährige am Dienstag vor dem Landgericht Hamburg. […]
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Der frühere Präsident Brasiliens, Jair Bolsonaro, hat nach Überzeugung des Bundesrichters Alexandre de Moraes die Einrichtung einer “Diktatur” in dem südamerikanischen Land angestrebt. “Wir bedauern, dass die Geschichte der brasilianischen Republik erneut von einem Putschversuch geprägt war, der die Institutionen und die Demokratie untergräbt und darauf abzielt, einen Ausnahmezustand und eine echte Diktatur zu errichten”, […]
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