German far-right party assailed over report of extremist meeting
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing parties assailed a resurgent far-right opposition party on Thursday over a report that to discuss the deportation of millions of immigrants, including some with German citizenship, which has led to a string of protests in recent days.
Media outlet Correctiv last week reported on the alleged far-right meeting in November, which it said was attended by figures from the extremist Identitarian Movement and from the far-right , or AfD. A prominent member of the Identitarian Movement, Austrian citizen Martin
NATO to start biggest wargames in decades next week, involving around 90,000 personnel
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO will launch its biggest military exercises in decades next week with around 90,000 personnel set to take part in months of drills aimed at showing the alliance can defend all of its territory up to its border with Russia, top officers said Thursday.
The exercises come as Russia’s war on Ukraine bogs down. NATO as an organization is not directly involved in the conflict, except to supply Kyiv with non-lethal support, although many member countries send weapons and ammunition individually
Israeli envoy joins calls for Canada to clarify its stance on ICJ genocide case
Israel’s envoy to Canada is joining calls for the federal Liberals to clearly state Ottawa’s position as the International Court of Justice considers an allegation that his country is committinggenocide against Palestinians.
“Israel urges Canada to leave no room for misinterpretation on a matter that is crystal clear,” Ambassador Iddo Moed said in a Thursday news release.
And as the Israeli government rejects the idea of a two-state solution to the protracted conflict, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists he won’t be deterred from calling for one
US sanctions a United Arab Emirates shipping firm for allegedly violating Russian oil price cap
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Thursday hit a United Arab Emirates shipping firm with sanctions after it transported Russian crude oil above the $60 per barrel price cap.
This is Treasury’s first of 2024 — imposed on Hennesea Holdings Limited and its 18 vessels that the U.S. Treasury now considers blocked property. U.S. firms and people can no longer conduct business with them.
“Today’s actions once again demonstrate that anyone who violates the price
A court of appeals in Thailand hands an activist a 50-year prison term for insulting the monarchy
BANGKOK (AP) — A court of appeals in Thailand has handed a political activist what is believed to be a record sentence for the criminal offense of insulting the monarchy, giving him a 50-year prison term after finding him guilty of 25 violations of the law, a lawyers’ group said Thursday.
Mongkhon Thirakot, 30, had originally been sentenced last year to 28 years in prison by the provincial court in the northern province of Chiang Rai for 14 of 27 posts on Facebook for
Trump sex accuser faces cross-examination in a New York courtroom
NEW YORK (AP) — With former President Donald Trump no longer in the courtroom Thursday, a columnist who accused him of sexually attacking her concluded her testimony with an emphatic denial that she had benefited from the publicity that followed the allegations.
A Trump attorney tried to show the jury that E. Jean Carroll has achieved the fame, if not the fortune, she desired after the publication of a memoir accusing Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.
Carroll responded: “
Wisconsin Republican leader derides GOP impeachment attempt targeting state’s top elections official
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican Wisconsin’s nonpartisan top elections official is nothing more than “a big show for the cameras” and will be ignored, the Assembly’s GOP majority leader said Thursday.
Several Republican lawmakers, including the state Senate president, have called for Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe to be impeached over her handling of the 2020 election won by President Joe Biden. The Senate in October to fire Wolfe but later that the vote was symbolic and had no legal
Shares in Birchcliff Energy down more than 10% after cutting dividend in half
CALGARY — Shares of Birchcliff Energy Ltd. fell more than nine per cent in trading on Thursday after the company cut its quarterly dividend in half and lowered its expectations for capital spending and production for the year.
Birchcliff chief executive Chris Carlsen says the company is reducing its payment to shareholders in order to protect its balance sheet during what he says is a current period of low natural gas prices.
The company says it will pay a quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share, down from 20 cents per share.
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NJ governor renews vows to close detention center where 50 men say they were sexually abused as boys
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s governor recommitted on Thursday to closing down the state’s largest youth detention center, and the state attorney general vowed a prompt investigation after .
Attorney General Matt Platkin said hours after the lawsuit was filed Wednesday that the allegations would be “swiftly and thoroughly” investigated. The suit contends that from the 1970s to the 2010s that officers, counselors and other staff sexually assaulted boys under their authority at the New Jersey
After courthouse stabbing, Quebec prosecutors, constables call for more security
MONTREAL — Organizations representing workers in the Quebec justice system called on the provincial government Thursday to increase security at courthouses.
The letter released by 10 groups is in response to a knife attack on Jan. 9 that seriously injured an interpreter at the courthouse in Longueuil, Que., south of Montreal.
Alexandre Garces, 44, faces a number of charges including attempted murder, assault with a weapon, aggravated assault and possession of a weapon in connection with the attack on Hai Thach, 68.
The letter’