US President Joe Biden has said it was “reckless” for his predecessor, Donald Trump, to call his trial rigged, a day after the historic conviction. In his first public remarks about the guilty verdict for Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records, Mr Biden defended the US justice system. “The American principle that no-one is above the law was reaffirmed,” said Mr Biden of the outcome. Earlier on Friday, Trump delivered a fiery news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan, calling the judge “crooked”, the trial a “sham” and Democrats “thugs”. Mr Biden’s comments on Friday afternoon came at…
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Pope Francis has apologised following reports that he used extremely derogatory language towards gay men.
At least 35 people have been killed and scores injured in an Israeli air strike on a camp for displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Videos from the scene in the Tal al-Sultan area on Sunday night showed a large explosion and intense fires burning. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had killed two senior Hamas officials and that it was reviewing reports that civilians were harmed. Hours earlier, Hamas had fired eight rockets from Rafah towards Tel Aviv – the first long-range attacks on the central Israeli city since January.…
South Africa’s former president, Jacob Zuma, has made a surprise comeback by running in May’s elections against his former party, ANC.
Pope Francis, 87, presided over an Easter Sunday Mass on March 31, in St. Peter’s Square and later used his Easter message on Christianity’s holiest day to invoke prayers for victims of war.
The US State Department has announced a charter flight for its citizens stranded in Haiti, as gang violence and hunger continue to grip the country. Police in the capital Port-au-Prince are trying to recapture areas held by notorious gang leader Jimmy Chérizier. Chérizier, known as “Barbecue”, has a stronghold in the Delmas neighbourhood and police are trying to arrest him. On Saturday police spokesman Lionel Lazarre said several “bandits” had been killed in the operation. Mr Lazarre said police units entered the neighbourhood on Friday evening. In another statement, the police said they fired shots at members of Barbecue’s gang,…
The House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday, March 13, to approve a bipartisan bill that would require ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to sell the social media app or face a ban on all US devices.
Five photo agencies retracted the image over concerns it had been “manipulated”. The Associated Press issued a “kill notification” – an industry term used to make a retraction – late on Sunday, saying: “At closer inspection it appears that the source has manipulated the image. No replacement photo will be sent.”
By Associated Press Officials saw the crescent moon Sunday night, March 10, in Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest sites in Islam, marking the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan for many of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims. The sacred month, which sees those observing abstain from food and water from sunrise to sunset, marks a period of religious reflection, family get-togethers and giving across the Muslim world. Seeing the moon Sunday night means Monday is the first day of the fast. Saudi state television reported that authorities there saw the crescent moon. Soon after, multiple Gulf Arab…
NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination. Haley didn’t endorse the former president in a speech in Charleston, South Carolina. Instead, she challenged him to win the support of the moderate Republicans and independent voters who supported her. “It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And I hope he does that,” she said. “At its best, politics is…
