Category: World

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) — A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official was sentenced on Friday to more than two years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from a businessman with ties to the Albanian government — and trying to conceal their corrupt financial relationship. Charles McGonigal, 55, supervised national security operations…

[ad_1] THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top UN court on Friday rejected a South African request to impose urgent measures to safeguard Rafah in the Gaza Strip, but also stressed that Israel must respect earlier measures imposed late last month at a preliminary stage in a landmark genocide case. The International Court of Justice…

[ad_1] MUNICH (AP) — Top diplomats from the U.S. and China on Friday held a “candid and constructive” discussion on issues vexing their strained relations over Taiwan, the situation in the South China Sea, Russia’s war against Ukraine and synthetic opioids, the State Department said. The meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and…

[ad_1] ISLAMABAD (AP) — The legal team of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday appealed his recent convictions and sentences in three controversial legal cases, a defense lawyer said. Khan was sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison on charges of corruption, revealing official secrets and marriage law violations in…

[ad_1] Sudan’s armed forces have ordered an investigation into a video that purportedly shows some of its troops carrying the severed heads of members of the rival paramilitary faction in the country’s civil war, the military said Friday. The military released a statement that denounced the “shocking content” of the video, which has recently gone…

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[ad_1] The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook on Saturday to almost all online platforms in the bloc, in the next phase of its crackdown on toxic social media content and dodgy ecommerce products that began last year by targeting the most popular services. The EU’s trailblazing Digital Services Act has already kicked…

[ad_1] State public health workers in Rio de Janeiro are addressing a surge in dengue fever cases, a mosquito-borne illness, during Brazil’s tourist season. The team is searching for standing water where mosquitoes may have laid eggs. Brazil is vulnerable to dengue outbreaks due to frequent rains and high temperatures that accelerate mosquito breeding. The…

[ad_1] Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan took to social media to slam the latest outrage from a senior United Nations official who said Hamas was a political group during a recent television interview. Erdan slammed U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA) Martin Griffiths, calling his organization “a terror-excusing, Hamas-promoting, victim-blaming…

[ad_1] Christian Bruckner, 47, a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, has gone on trial for unrelated sexual offenses in Portugal. The charges include three counts of rape and two of sexual abuse of children. Bruckner, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for a 2005 rape in Portugal, denied involvement…