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He takes the floor for the first time since Giovanni Toti, Aldo Spinelli and Paolo Emilio Signorini were arrested. Moreover, explains Genoa’s chief prosecutor Nicola Piacente shortly after the GUP’s approval of the plea bargains, with deputy Vittorio Ranieri Miniati at his side, «we have always tried to keep a low, sober profile. Plea deal Toti, the prosecutor Piacente: “Quick investigation. And not even a seized trowel” https://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/19/news/patteggiamento_toti_corruzione_il_procuratore_piacente_inchiesta_rapida_neppure_una_cazzuola_sequestrata-423895252/?rss

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. The Bank of Japan kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged while sticking to its view that it’s on track to achieve its inflation target, an outlook that points to the possibility of another rate hike in the coming months. Getty ImagesThe Bank of Japan on Thursday held its benchmark interest rate steady at 0.25%, opting to take the time to assess the impact of financial and foreign exchange markets on Japan’s economic activity and prices.The yen weakened 0.3% against the dollar after the rate decision, trading at…

Sir Keir Starmer will face an end-of-term grilling from senior MPs on Thursday after an opening few months in office which have seen Labour’s poll ratings plummet. The Prime Minister will take questions from the Liaison Committee for the first time since being elected in July. The panel is made up of the chairs of Commons select committees, and Sir Keir will face questions across a range of Government departments. Among the members of the committee are former Conservative cabinet minister Steve Barclay, and chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench Tories Bob Blackman. Among the Labour seats are former…

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Rudy Giuliani to appear in court in early January to face claims that he should be held in contempt for failing to turn over assets including a New York apartment lease and a signed Joe DiMaggio shirt to two Georgia election poll workers who won a libel case against him. Judge Lewis J Liman in Manhattan signed the order calling for the former New York City mayor and onetime personal lawyer to President-elect Donald Trump to appear before him on January 3. Lawyers for the election workers who won a 148 million dollar (£117…

The fruit of a singular history of emancipation of the State from the Catholic Church, the French understanding of secularism, known as secularismis difficult for many foreigners to grasp. As the supreme guardian of the Catholic faith, the pope is obviously not in the best position to promote it. But he could be expected to give a fair reading of a principle and legislation designed to allow the cohabitation of all forms of belief and non-belief, and which sanctions any infringement of the freedom not to believe but also to believe. By choosing Corsica for his third trip to France,…

France’s highest appeals court on Wednesday, December 18, confirmed a verdict against former president Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling, ordering him to wear an electronic tag for a year, a first for a former head of state. Sarkozy, who had earlier been found guilty of illegal attempts to secure favors from a judge, will “evidently” respect the terms of the conviction after the Court of Cassation’s verdict, his lawyer Patrice Spinosi said. But he will take the case to the European Court of Human Rights within weeks, Spinosi added. This move at the Strasbourg-based ECHR will, however, not…

Tomás Merina (Córdoba, 69 years old) savors the honeys of success this Wednesday morning. A little over twelve hours ago he won the elections to preside over the Madrid College of Physicians and he sits down to talk to this newspaper at the same table where he followed the results the night before with his campaign team. He has several plates in front of him with Werther’s candies and Kit Kat chocolates that he does not touch during an hour of conversation, perhaps because he already has enough sweets with his victory: “For me this is a chocolate that offers…

Génova maintains that he cannot attend for “agenda reasons” since there is a vote in Congress, but in Brussels they focus on the internal criticism that the EPP leader is receiving for supporting the PP Read Feijóo’s first absence from the EU after the ‘Ribera case’: his ally Weber discussed and Mitsotakis approaches Sánchez

The number of homeless families is rising sharply this year, federal government figures show. The left sees a “social catastrophe”. But does this mainly have to do with the fact that many families can no longer afford the rent? A differentiation according to nationality provides information. Around 220,000 people in single-parent and couple households were homeless in Germany as of January 31, 2024. This emerges from the federal government’s response to a request from the Left group in the Bundestag. The letter is available to WELT. “Homeless” are not homeless people who live on the streets, but rather all those…

Thousands of Amazon employees in the USA want to stop working. The trading group had refused to negotiate. In Germany, a Christmas strike in another industry was averted. There is no better time for the workers to go on strike, their leverage is great: The US online retailer Amazon is facing a massive strike in the crucial days before Christmas. Thousands of Amazon employees in the USA plan to stop work on Thursday at 6 a.m. local time, shortly before the busiest days of the year, the Teamsters union announced. On the short message service X (formerly Twitter), the union wrote that…