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For five days now, Mathias Pogba, 34, has been waiting in his charcoal grey suit, twisting his shoulders and turning his neck as if to shake off tension. Sitting in the front row of the courtroom at the Paris Tribunal, where the trial for kidnapping and extortion against his brother Paul Pogba is taking place, he has had to listen through all the hearings of the other five defendants, trying, unconvincingly, to clear their name. When he finally spoke on Tuesday, December 3, it was to try and justify the videos he posted on social media in August 2022, in…

  The eyes of Víctor Ángel Torres, minister of the Government of Spain, light up when he hears the question. “Is the government afraid of a possible indictment of Pilar Sánchez Acera?” they asked her this Wednesday at an event honoring the Constitution. “Fear of justice, none,” responds the Canary Islands politician before it is known that the Supreme Court refuses “for now” to investigate the senior Moncloa official in the case opened against the State Attorney General for the alleged leak of an email of the case of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s boyfriend. That exchange, however, reflects the problem facing…

The Chief of Staff of the Navy presents the ‘Armada 2050’ report, a document that has been worked on for two years. “The world’s economic centre of gravity is shifting towards the Indo-Pacific, where the sea will gain importance and it will be necessary to act within the framework of international coalitions.” This is one of the main conclusions of the Armada 2050 report presented yesterday by the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral Piñeiro , at his headquarters. A document that has been worked on for two years to project what the Navy should be like in 2050. In this…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday that he was optimistic about the second term of US President-elect Donald Trump. “I’m really very optimistic this time,” Bezos said during an interview at a New York Times event in New York. For Bezos, the main focus is on reducing bureaucracy: “We have too many regulations in this country,” he said. Trump seems to be putting a lot of energy into dismantling regulations: “If I can help with that, then I will help him,” Bezos continued. In October, Bezos banned the Washington Post – which he owns – from supporting a presidential…

It’s actually clear now: In Germany, everyone is allowed to love whoever he or she wants. Is this too good to be true? Gay Marriage, Penis and Love at Christmas: How Far We Will Go for Love

The chief executive of one of the United States’s largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed outside a New York Hilton hotel in an apparently targeted hit Wednesday. Brian Thompson was shot just before 7 am outside the hotel in the Midtown district of Manhattan. Police are searching for the killer. Police hunt for US healthcare executive’s masked killer after New York attack

News that the civil war in Syria had flared up again came as no surprise to Turkish citizens. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his right-wing nationalist coalition partner Devlet Bahceli have talked about little else than the shift in power in the Middle East and what the possible negative consequences of that could be for Turkey for more than two months now. The suggestion has been that regional changes could be advantageous to Kurds in Syria who have controlled northeastern Rojava — also known as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) — since the civil war began…

“Not recognizing stalking is a lack of respect for the victim’s family. And it is yet another confirmation that the institutions don’t care about women.” Elena Cecchettin, Giulia’s sister, returns to talk on social media. This time he does it on the first degree sentence that sentenced Filippo Turetta to life imprisonment. Judgment and reality are not the same thing “A judicial sentence does not always correspond to the reality of the facts – Elena writes on Instagram – It is called judicial truth, and that is what is reported by the verdict. And that’s it. It doesn’t take away…

The price of Bitcoin soared past the long-awaited $100,000 benchmark for the first time ever late Wednesday evening. The flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by more than 4% at $103,544.00, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it rose as high as $103,844.05. Bitcoin is now up more than 140% in 2024 and 48% since the election. The move came hours after President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to nominate Paul Atkins as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, fulfilling perhaps his most important campaign promise to the crypto industry: to replace Gary Gensler, who has become something of a villain in crypto…

A mum who was livestreaming a charity walk to raise money for Women’s Aid captured the moment a thief grabbed her phone. Cassandra Baker, 46, was livestreaming on Facebook while walking with her children in the dark on Monday. Cheerfully asking her followers about their plans for the evening, she said: ‘Has everyone had their dinner? What have they eaten for dinner?’ She then mentioned she was going to make salmon in the hole with mashed potatoes, green beans, carrots, broccoli with salmon. In the middle of her sentence, her phone is suddenly snatched by a man on a bicycle,…