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NAIROBI, May 29 (Reuters) – A Kenyan high court has ordered the temporary suspension of plans for the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility in the country. High Court Judge Patricia Nyaundi said in her orders late on Thursday that Kenya was also not allowed to admit anyone exposed to or infected …
NEW YORK (AP) — The former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll has been battling President Donald Trump in court for nearly seven years over her allegation that he sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of a fancy Manhattan department store in 1996. But numerous news organizations, citing anonymous sources, have reported that Trump’s Justice …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Local TV stations owned by ABC across the United States blasted the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday for launching an “unlawful, arbitrary and unconstitutional” early review of their broadcast licenses as a dispute between the network and the Trump-controlled agency intensifies. “It is an extraordinary demonstration of power and coercion directed at …
HAVANA (AP) — Nearly 3 million Cubans experience water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade, authorities said late Wednesday during a roundtable discussion regarding the impact of the ongoing blockade. The island’s water system is operating with only 37% of the required fuel …
TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian man accused of selling lethal substances online to people who took them to end their own lives is expected to plead guilty Friday to 14 counts of counseling or aiding suicide, his lawyer said. Kenneth Law is scheduled to appear in a Newmarket, Ontario, court to enter the plea and …
SYDNEY, May 29 (Reuters) – An appeal against an Australian woman’s murder conviction for killing three relatives with a meal laced with toxic mushrooms will be heard in August, a court said on Friday. A jury in July found Erin Patterson, 51, guilty of murdering three elderly relatives of her estranged husband and attempting to …
May 29 (Reuters) – One person was killed and two injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Volgograd region, governor Andrey Bocharov said on Friday. Fires at a chemical plant and energy facilities were put out after the attack, he added. Fuel storage facilities also caught fire following a Ukraine drone attack in Russia’s …
By Greg Torode, Laurie Chen and Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa May 29 (Reuters) – In a remote Chinese desert, a vast military complex is taking shape that some security scholars say appears built to ensure no American first strike on China’s nuclear arsenal could reliably knock out Beijing’s ability to hit back. China’s nuclear missiles can …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The death toll from the Trump administration’s monthslong series of strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean has risen to at least 199 people after survivors of recent attacks were not found. The total includes at least 22 people who had survived an initial strike …
By Jonathan Landay and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday leveled unusually harsh criticism against Russia and called for it to refrain from its promised “systematic strikes” against Kyiv, but Moscow brushed off the appeal and reiterated a warning to foreign diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital. The statements …