Imprisoned Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova has resurfaced after more than 20 months without any communication with relatives or friends and met with her father, a human rights group said Tuesday. Kolesnikova, one of the most popular and charismatic figures who helped lead protests of Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, was last heard from in February 2023. Viasna, Belarus’ leading rights group, said Kolesnikova met her father, Alexander Kolesnikov, at a prison hospital.
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A loyal dog that refused to leave his dead owner's side helped solve the case of her murder by allowing detectives to identify her body, prosecutors said.
Protesters waved Nazi flags outside of a community theater production of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” leaving performers "understandably shaken" by the hateful display in Michigan, officials said Monday.
The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority began a crusade on Tuesday to confirm as many new federal judges nominated by President Joe Biden as possible to avoid leaving vacancies that Republican Donald Trump could fill after taking office on Jan. 20. With Republicans set to take control of the chamber on Jan. 3, the Senate is set on Tuesday to hold a confirmation vote on one of Biden's judicial nominees - former prosecutor April Perry - for the first time since Trump won the Nov. 5 presidential election.
The three plaintiffs testified that they were subjected to beatings, sexual abuse, forced nudity and other cruel treatment at the prison.
President-elect Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is joining venture capital firm 1789 Capital, which focuses on investing in conservative companies, according to three sources familiar with his plans. 1789 Capital is a roughly $150 million venture capital firm based in Palm Beach, Florida, and owned by entrepreneur Chris Buskirk, financier and Trump donor Omeed Malik and hedge fund heiress Rebekah Mercer, Reuters previously reported.
November is usually a weak month for gas consumption, OPIS global head of energy analysis Tom Kloza said.
One week after Election Day, control of the U.S. House rests on just over a dozen races where winners have not yet been determined. This isn’t unusual or unexpected, as the nation’s most populous state is consistently among the slowest to report all its election results. Compare it to a state like Florida, the third-largest, which finished counting its votes four days after Election Day.
A federal jury on Tuesday ordered a US defense contractor to pay $42 million in damages to three Iraqi men who were tortured at Abu Ghraib prison, their lawyers said."For 20 years, CACI has refused to take responsibility for its role in torture at Abu Ghraib." cl/nro
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a direct message to Iranians on Tuesday that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's government feared the people of Iran more than Israel. In his message, he referred to Iran's Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack on Israel, saying it cost about $2.3 billion of "your precious money" but caused marginal damage in Israel.
As Israel faced a U.S. deadline to ramp up access to aid in Gaza on Tuesday, leading humanitarians were warning that only a fraction of the desperately needed help was reaching the Palestinian enclave.
They may be out of a job when Donald Trump takes office in two months, but US officials kept a busy schedule at UN climate talks, reminding jittery countries that global action had survived his first term.He added that developed countries were still able to meet a target of providing $100 billion in annual climate aid to poorer countries in 2022, a year after Trump left office.
For a man who loves the spotlight, Donald Trump has been conspicuously out of view since his triumph in last week's presidential election. Instead, Trump has spent most of his first week as president-elect behind closed doors at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida, where he's working the phones, reconnecting with foreign leaders and building his new administration. Trump is hardly in seclusion.
The flies were found in and around the cities Santa Ana and Garden Grove, prompting officials to block off an 87-square mile quarantine zone.
The city of Florence took new measures Tuesday to crack down on overtourism, just as the Italian government hosts the Group of Seven tourism ministers in the Renaissance city and seeks to significantly boost the country’s place as a top visitor destination. In a recent protest, Florentines taped red Xs over the keyboxes, outraged at the transformation of the city center and its magnificent palazzi and narrow streets into a collection of short-term vacation rentals that have displaced local residents and the long-standing businesses that served them. According to national statistics bureau ISTAT, 2023 saw the most visitors ever in Italy with 134 million arrivals and 451 million people staying in hotels or other registered lodgings.
Boeing delivered just 14 planes in October as a worker strike by its biggest union hampered the aerospace giant's production.
Russia on Tuesday sentenced a 68-year-old paediatrician to five-and-a-half years in prison for allegedly criticising the Ukraine campaign, after she was denounced by the ex-wife of a soldier killed in combat.Arrested in February, the Moscow doctor was accused by Anastasia Akinshina, the ex-partner of a soldier, of calling the man a "legal target" of Ukraine, in comments allegedly made during a medical appointment for her son.
A committee of Guinean opposition groups, civil society organisations and activists known as the Forces Vives called on Tuesday for the West African country to establish civilian rule by Jan. 1. The top bauxite producer has witnessed sporadic protests against the authorities and military leader Mamady Doumbouya since he took office. In July, Guinea's transitional authorities presented the draft of a new constitution which would potentially allow Doumbouya to participate in the next presidential election.
Georgia House Republicans decided Tuesday to keep their leadership team for the next two years. At the gathering inside the state Capitol, Republicans renominated Jon Burns of Newington Tuesday as speaker, a position that is traditionally the second-most influential post in state government behind the governor. The full House will vote on the position when it reconvenes in January.