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☆ E. Jean Carroll concludes direct testimony in trial accusing Trump of rape
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Aaron Cooper | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

“I think rape is one of the most violent and horrible things that can happen to a woman or a man,” Carroll said. Getting attention for being raped is not – It’s hard. Getting attention for making a great three-bean salad, that would be good,” she said. Carroll is suing Trump for battery and defamation, alleging that he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the spring of 1996 and then defamed her years later when she went public with the allegations. And Carroll said that negative comments about her followed Trump’s statement.

☆ Kosovo war crimes court begins trial of ex-guerrilla chief and president Thaci
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

THE HAGUE, April 3 (Reuters) - Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci stands trial at a special court in The Hague on Monday for alleged war crimes during the 1998-99 insurgency that eventually brought independence from Serbia and made him a hero among compatriots. Thaci was indicted in 2020 by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers on 10 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity including persecution, murder, torture and forced disappearance of people, including after fighting ended. Thaci and three co-defendants, all former close associates in the guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and later in peacetime politics, have pleaded not guilty to all 10 counts. The trial, conducted by international judges and prosecutors, will begin with opening statements by the prosecution followed by defence lawyers and a representative of Kosovo's war Victims Council over the ensuing three days. Thaci, 54, resigned as president shortly after his indictment and was transferred to detention in The Hague.

A special Kosovo court set up in The Hague indicted Thaci in November 2020 on 10 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity including persecution, murder, torture and enforced disappearance of people among other things during the uprising. Thaci, 54, resigned as president shortly afterward and was transferred to detention in The Hague. As the fighting abated and Serbian forces withdrew under NATO bombardment from Kosovo, Thaci traded in his green uniform for a blue suit and tie. Milosevic went on trial before a separate U.N. tribunal in The Hague for war crimes against Kosovo Albanians in the conflict, but he died in 2006 before a verdict was reached. Some senior Serbian officials including then-army chief Nebojsa Pavkovic and deputy prime minister Nikola Sainovic were sentenced to long prison terms over war crimes in Kosovo.

☆ As African kids died, doctors fought for ban on toxic Indian syrup
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Maiden Managing Director Naresh Kumar Goyal told Reuters he had "not done anything wrong" and did not respond to further questions. In December, India’s health regulator said it did its own tests and found no toxins in the syrups. Yet even as the doctors’ evidence of toxins mounted, Gambian government officials told Reuters they wanted more proof. “We took their histories and asked them if they took the drugs, and we just knew” that the syrup was the culprit. If tests for toxins had been done in late July or early August, a sales ban could have saved dozens of children, she said.

☆ Steve Bannon's attack on 'oligarch' Rupert Murdoch shows just how far the rift between Fox News and Trump allies has grown
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Fox News bosses criticized Trump while promoting his election fraud claims, court papers show. The speech marks an astonishing deterioration of the once symbiotic relationship between Trump and Fox News, which remains the top-rated cable news network. They played a key role in promoting Trump's populist polices, and in denigrating the then-president's opponents and critics. Fox News faces paying a potential $1.6 billion in damages for promoting Trump's election fraud conspiracy theories in 2020. Ron DeSantis, rumored to be preparing a rival campaign to Trump's, while reportedly imposing a "soft ban" on Trump.

☆ Musk’s Twitter Reinstates Hindu Nationalist Accounts That Disparage Muslims
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Newley Purnell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Twitter Inc. under Elon Musk has reinstated several previously suspended Hindu nationalist accounts that were popular in India, one of its largest markets by users, with human-rights groups saying the move has spurred a resurgence of divisive religious material on the platform. Some of the accounts that were suspended had been reported for posting hate speech aimed at religious minorities in India, according to groups that reported them. Upon their return in recent weeks, some have tweeted material denigrating Muslims and others.

☆ It took at least 48 days for Joe Biden to find and declare all the classified material at his residence and former office
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

President Joe Biden maintains he cooperated swiftly and completely in returning classified documents. December 20: Biden's personal counsel tells Lausch that an additional batch of documents was discovered in the garage of Biden's residence, in Delaware. Biden's personal counsel tells Lausch that an additional batch of documents was discovered in the garage of Biden's residence, in Delaware. January 12 (morning): Biden's personal counsel informs Lausch that an additional classified document was found at Biden's residence. Biden's personal counsel informs Lausch that an additional classified document was found at Biden's residence.

☆ French far-right party chooses 27-year-old to replace Marine Le Pen as leader
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Bardella, 27, won an internal party vote with 85% support, marking a symbolic changing of the guard at the resurgent National Rally party. Marine Le Pen is still expected to wield significant power in the party’s leadership and run again for France’s presidency in 2027. Le Pen said Bardella’s main challenge will be pursuing the party “roadmap” of taking power in France. Bardella had been the interim president of the National Rally since Le Pen entered the presidential race last year. Le Pen lost to French President Emmanuel Macron on her third presidential bid in April but earned her highest score yet.

A Republican is going to win the Alaska Senate race, but that hasn’t stopped Mitch McConnell from plowing millions of dollars into the deep-red state. Herschel Walker, the Senate candidate in Georgia backed by both Trump and McConnell, also says he would back McConnell. Apart from Tshibaka, Senate Republican candidate Don Bolduc in New Hampshire has said he would vote against McConnell for leader. (The Republican senator who requested anonymity voiced surprise at McConnell’s prediction and thought it betrayed some nervousness on his part. Although he voted to acquit Trump, McConnell called him “practically and morally responsible” for the assault on the Capitol.

A sprawling online propaganda campaign that pushes pro-China messaging has been trying to influence American voters, researchers say. Two companies that study large-scale online influence operations published research this week showing that a pro-China campaign was active and targeting the U.S. midterm elections as recently as this month. But such efforts show that pro-China influence operations targeting the West are experimenting with new tactics and are increasingly aimed at shaping American elections. The other report, from social media analytics firm Alethea, found 165 Twitter accounts that misled users about who they were and posted pro-China messages in English. “Speculating or accusing China of using social media to interfere in the US midterm elections is completely groundless and malicious speculation.

When I read that New York restaurateur Keith McNally had banned “The Late Late Show” host James Corden from famed restaurant Balthazar for allegedly abusive behavior, I was shocked. Not at hearing accusations that a wealthy celebrity had been rude to people in the hospitality industry, but at something far less common: a restaurant owner’s criticizing and barring a client, in public no less. Unfortunately, online reservation systems have also magnified one of the reasons diners used to end up being shunned: the reservation no-show. Few would dare to speak to podiatrists or electricians that way, but most restaurant servers tolerate it because they depend on tips — which can be upward of 70% of their earnings. What doesn’t is a restaurant owner’s publicly standing up for employees by telling bad customers that they have been banned.

☆ Popular ex-Peloton instructor alleges executive mocked him for being Irish and seeking Covid exemption
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A popular former Peloton instructor sued the company for $1.8 million Wednesday, alleging an executive disparaged his Irish ethnicity and ridiculed him for seeking a Covid-19 vaccine exemption. The leave was at odds with the culture of “corporate America,” the suit alleges Cotter said. McKenna was invited to audition for the company after building a following as a personal fitness instructor, the suit says. He experienced an "80 percent growth in followers and highest percentage growth of any Peloton instructor," the suit claims. After McKenna was vaccinated, the suit alleges Cotter "forced" him to observe a 14-day quarantine while he repeatedly tested negative.

☆ Vlad Țurcanu about risks faced by candidates in runoff vote
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-12 | by ( ) www.ipn.md time to read: +3 min

Indirectly, this could help Maia Sandu, communication expert Vlad Țurcanu stated in IPN’s public debate “Strong and weak points of the two finalists”. Vlad Țurcanu said that even if Igor Dodon has experience to resist such attacks, it is not easy for him to do this. Society in Moldova, which is dependent on foreign assistance, including mentally, realizes that Maia Sandu is the political figure who can attract funds to Moldova. Vlad Țurcanu noted Moldovan society believes that the voters of the right, the pro-European ones are more active between elections and are sometimes absent from elections. Without this support, Igor Dodon seems vulnerable,” concluded Vlad Țurcanu.

Persons: Vlad Țurcanu, Maia Sandu, Igor Dodon, Renato Usatyi, “, ”, didn’t, Dodon, Vladimir Plahotniuc, Hanns Seidel Organizations: . Society, Russian Federation, Hanns, Hanns Seidel Foundation Locations: IPN’s, Russia, Russian, Moldova, Soviet Union, West

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