In the course of these investigations, Thomas Schmid approached the WKStA in April 2022 with the wish to cooperate and obtain leniency status. In this context, a total of 15 full-day hearings have taken place at the WKStA since June 2022, during which the accused […]
Donald Trump has answered questions under oath in a lawsuit filed by E Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist who has accused the former United States president of raping her in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room. The deposition on Wednesday gave Carroll’s lawyers […]
Russia pounded Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure with missiles and “kamikaze” drones during the 34th week of the war, killing dozens of people and leaving several towns without power. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that 30 percent of Ukraine’s power stations had been destroyed […]
New York City has opened an emergency tent shelter to house an influx of asylum seekers being bussed into the city by the Republican leaders of Texas and other US states in advance of critical midterm elections early next month. The first arrivals were brought […]
A couple of years into the pandemic, Shirley Neville had finally had enough of her shoddy internet service. “It was just a headache,” said Neville, who lives in a middle-class neighbourhood in New Orleans whose residents are almost all Black or Latino. “When I was […]
World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says there is a “very narrow window now to prevent genocide” in his home region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. Tedros, who previously served as Ethiopia’s health minister and foreign affairs minister, has been sharply critical of […]
Pakistan is considering buying discounted Russian oil, its finance minister has said, as he sought to allay concerns that the country might need to reschedule its Paris Club debt following devastating floods. Credit agency Moody’s cut Pakistan’s sovereign rating by one notch on October 6, […]
Brazilian presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has published an open letter to the country’s evangelicals, as he seeks to chip away at far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s base in advance of a second round of voting in tightly contested elections. The letter, read at […]
Cooperation between Ankara and Vienna is to be intensified over the next four years. Therefore, Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig received the mayor from Ankara, Mansur Yavaş. The exchange and subsequent agreement will focus on topics important for a sustainable future. Specifically, the two cities agreed […]
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has announced her resignation after sending an official document from her personal email account in what she called a “technical infringement” of government rules. She has been replaced by former transport minister Grant Shapps, Truss’s office said. In her resignation […]
