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World Donald Trump ‘orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election’ a prosecutor said as the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president got underway. The defence hinted at blaming Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for any wrongdoing. Prosecutor for Manhattan district attorney says Trump signed 11Continue Reading

World The head of Israeli military intelligence, who last year accepted responsibility for the failures that allowed the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, has resigned, the military said in a statement on Monday. ‘I have carried that black day with me ever since,’ Maj.-Gen Aharon Haliva says inContinue Reading

World Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 22 people, including 18 children, health officials said Sunday, as the United States was on track to approve billions of dollars of additional military aid to Israel, its close ally. Israel conducting near-daily air raids on city whereContinue Reading

Every year, Alon Gat’s mother led the family’s Passover celebration of the liberation of the ancient Israelites from Egypt thousands of years ago. But this year, Gat is struggling with how to recognize a holiday commemorating freedom after his mother was slain and other family members abducted when Hamas attackedContinue Reading

Hello, royal watchers. This is your regular dose of royal news and analysis. Reading this online? Sign up here to get this delivered to your inbox. When cancer pulled King Charles away from the most public side of his role, an immediate question arose: Who might stand in for him as he undergoesContinue Reading

World Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, while an ambulance driver was killed as he went to pick up wounded from a separate attack by violent Jewish settlers, Palestinian authorities said. Israeli military said a number of militants were killed orContinue Reading

World The overnight attacks, which were confirmed by the Defence Ministry in Moscow, came amid a Russian airstrike campaign that has battered Ukraine’s energy system and pounded its cities in recent weeks. Kyiv hits fuel depot, power substations as it targets Russia’s energy system in response to ongoing airstrikesThomson ReutersContinue Reading

U.S. lawmakers react after House passes aid package for Ukraine, other alliesWith broad bipartisan support, the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday passed a $95-billion US legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan over bitter objections from Republican hardliners. Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told reporters afterwardContinue Reading

World Federal transportation officials in the U.S. are investigating an unauthorized in-flight cockpit visit by a coach for the Colorado Rockies baseball team during a United Airlines charter flight last week from Denver to Toronto. U.S. transportation officials investigating unauthorized in-flight cockpit visitThe Associated Press · Posted: Apr 19, 2024Continue Reading