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Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Monday that she was quitting her job and resigning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet. She said she differed with Trudeau over charting the best path forward for the country on questions of addressing US President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats against Canadian goods. “Our country today faces a grave challenge,” Freeland said in her resignation letter to Trudeau, pointing to Trump’s planned 25% tariffs on imports from Canada. “For the past number of weeks, you and I have found ourselves at odds about the best path forward for Canada,” she added. What caused Trudeau and Freeland to…

Tbilisi – During yesterday’s demonstrations at the parliament, some citizens have brought diplomas – to mark the fact that the “Georgian Dream” presidential candidate, ex-footballer Mikheil Kavelashvili, is just a puppet of the pro-Kremlin party and lacks the needed education to bear the title of “President of Georgia.” The protesters stated that the ongoing presidential elections in the Parliament of Georgia are an illegitimate process. Protesters marching to the Georgian Parliament from various locations in Tbilisi on Monday 16 December President Salome Zurabishvili has also arrived at Parliament, and police and special forces have been mobilized. Ministry of Internal Affairs personnel are…

Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother will be sentenced later for killing the 10-year-old after years of horrific abuse. Last week, Urfan Sharif, 42, and stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, were found guilty of her murder following a trial at the Old Bailey. Her uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, who lived with them, was convicted of causing or allowing her death after a jury deliberated for nine hours and 46 minutes. The three defendants will return to the Old Bailey on Tuesday when Mr Justice Cavanagh’s sentencing is expected to be broadcast from the court. Beinash Batool speaking alongside Sara Sharif’s father, Urfan…

A lawyer defending rapper Jay-Z in his fight against rape allegations has outlined a range of evidence to prove accusations levied against the hitmaker are “provably, demonstrably false”. The woman, identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, told NBC News last week that Jay-Z, also known as Shawn Corey Carter, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs both sexually assaulted her when she was 13 at an after party for the 2000 MTV Music Awards. She has since acknowledged certain inconsistencies in her claims made against the two men. In a press conference at Jay-Z company Roc Nation’s New York headquarters, lawyer Alex…

Mass rape trial: 50 defendants make their final statements One last word each. After three and a half months, on the 64th day of the hearing, the defendants in the Pelicot rape trial had the floor one last time on Monday, December 16. These 50 men – a 51st defendant is currently on the run – answered a final question from the judge presiding the criminal court in Avignon, Roger Arata: “Do you have anything to add in your defense?” Usually, this exercise rarely lasts more than a minute. In this trial with its 51 defendants, it lasted an hour…

France’s central bank on Monday, December 16, downgraded its 2025 growth forecast to 0.9% from 1.2%, citing “increased uncertainty” for the economic outlook both at home and abroad. The bank also reduced its forecast for 2026 by 0.2 percentage points to 1.3% – a figure it also expects for 2027. The latest forecasts come two days after Moody’s downgraded France’s credit rating to Aa3 on the back of months of political crisis and a budget standoff that brought a change of prime minister. For 2024, the bank maintained its projection at 1.1%, as in 2023, based on a fourth quarter…

The leadership of the Madrid PP met this Monday at a wedding palace, Negralejo, on the Mejorada road, to celebrate their traditional Christmas dinner and remind themselves that they are “a big family”, an expression that they repeated no less than a dozen times. The first member to whom they gave a plaque of “recognition” for her work was, curiously, called Casado, but there is no evidence that she is related to the former leader of the party, the first elected in primaries, defenestrated another cold night a couple of years ago by its acronym relatives.The bride, the hostess, the…

Updated Tuesday, December 17, 2024 – 03:29The commission agent Victor de Aldama placed a dozen Spanish construction companies and a technological advisor for Correos in the murky field of commission payment, during his statement in the Supreme Court.The most relevant one that made a splash is the Acciona groupwhich is listed on the Ibex 35 and which, according to Aldama, “has a series of agreements for the Basque Country” related to the PSOE to obtain works. So much so that Aldama says he was forced to pay Become Premium from €1 the first month Take advantage of this limited time…

On Monday afternoon the time had come it was due to be a hard but fair day for Olaf Scholz. Who asked the question of trust one he lost it emphatically, clearing the way for new elections in Germany. He took care of the first campaign images in the plenary hall of the German Bundestag. SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich shook Scholz’s hand, SPD party leader Saskia Esken approached from the side. Scholz looked in her direction, then turned pointedly away from her and left the meeting room with Mützenich. Then Esken who was left behind just raised her…

Almost 40 years ago, A23a broke away from the Antarctic ice shelf, the iceberg hung on the sea floor for decades and was later caught in circulating ocean currents. Now the giant is free again. The world’s largest iceberg is on its way north, decades after breaking off from the Antarctic ice shelf, according to the British Antarctic Survey. The iceberg, scientifically known as A23a, broke away from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986. However, it remained stuck to the sea floor for decades. After breaking away in 2000, it remained trapped in circulating ocean currents – with…