'Africa's richest woman' Isabel dos Santos suspected of graft in Angola
Africa's reputed richest woman is a formal suspect in an investigation into mismanagement and the siphoning off of funds during her time with Angola's state-run oil company, the country's attorney ...
British children get the right to know if parents are spying on them online
British children will get the right to know when their parents are spying on them online under a binding code for technology firms, a data watchdog announced on Wednesday. Companies must ...
U.S. Senate approves Trump impeachment trial plan, rejecting Democrats on documents and witnesses
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate voted early on Wednesday on party lines to approve the rules for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, rejecting Democratic efforts to obtain evidence and ensure witnesses ...
GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell abruptly eases impeachment limits
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell abruptly changed his proposed rules for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial , backing off the condensed two-day schedule to add a third for opening arguments after protests from senators, including Republicans. The trial quickly burst into a partisan fight at ...
Prosecutors in Weinstein case likely to use sex crimes expert as defense targets victims
When his trial opens in the coming days, Harvey Weinstein's defense team is expected to go on the offensive against the women who have accused him of rape and sexual assault, in part by questioning if they acted like victims afterward. New York City prosecutors ...
U.S. Justice Department memos back defiance of impeachment subpoenas
The White House on Monday released Justice Department legal opinions meant to bolster its case for defying subpoenas from Congress in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. One opinion, dated Sunday, says Trump administration officials were free to disregard subpoenas sent last fall before ...
Italy's Matteo Salvini loses immunity and faces trial for holding rescued migrants offshore
An Italian senate committee voted Monday to strip former interior minister Matteo Salvini of his parliamentary immunity, opening the way for him to stand trial for allegedly illegally detaining migrants at sea last year. "They'll have to find a very large courtroom, for it will ...
Monument to Holocaust victims vandalized in Ukraine ahead of remembrance day
Vandals have damaged a monument to the victims of the Holocaust in Ukraine a week before International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27. Joel Lion, the Israeli ambassador in Ukraine, tweeted a picture Monday of the monument in Kryvyi Rih, a city in eastern Ukraine, ...
French police arrest seven for Islamist extremist-linked terror plot
Security forces on Monday arrested seven men believed to be planning a terror attack in France and preparing to travel to conflict zones in Iraq and Syria, according to sources close to the case. They were detained by France's DGSI domestic intelligence agency in the ...
As trial nears, Trump lawyers call impeachment case 'flimsy'
President Donald Trump's legal team asserted Monday that he did "absolutely nothing wrong," calling the impeachment case against him "flimsy" and a "dangerous perversion of the Constitution." The lawyers decried the impeachment process as rigged and insisted that abuse of power was not a ...
Senators must stay quiet and unplugged during Trump impeachment trial
No cellphones. No talking. No escape. That's the reality during the Senate's impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, which will begin each day with a proclamation: "All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment." After that, 100 senators will sit at their ...
French trial exposes how church was long aware of predator priest and covered for him
One of the first people to notice Bernard Preynat's unhealthy obsession for young boys was the supervisor at the seminary where, still a teen, the future priest started training for his career in the church. "At 14, 15 years old, I became interested in the ...
