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President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers on Tuesday formally urged a New York state judge to drop the criminal case where he was convicted on 34 counts related to hush money paid to a former pornographic film actress in May this year. 

Actress Rose Ayling-Ellis, who made history on Strictly Come Dancing as the show’s first deaf contestant, is to receive a royal honour at Windsor Castle.The former EastEnders actress will be honoured by the Princess Royal on Wednesday alongside 60 others, including Hari Budha Magar – the first above-the-knee double-amputee to summit Mount Everest.Born deaf, Ayling-Ellis, 30, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours for voluntary services to the deaf community.Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice (Jacob King/PA) The first deaf contestant to ever take part in Strictly, she won the 2021…

  South Korea’s main opposition party on Wednesday urged president Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or face impeachment, hours after Mr Yoon ended short-lived martial law that prompted troops to encircle parliament before lawmakers voted to lift it. On Tuesday night, Mr Yoon abruptly imposed the emergency martial law, vowing to eliminate “anti-state” forces after he struggled to push forward his agenda in the opposition-dominated parliament. But his martial law was effective for only about six hours, as the National Assembly voted to overrule the president. The declaration was formally lifted about 4.30am during a cabinet meeting. The liberal…

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Tuesday, December 3, said it was possible his government could survive a no-confidence vote in parliament, evoking a possible “reflex of responsibility” from MPs. With no majority in the Assemblée Nationale, Barnier used Article 49.3 of the Constitution on Monday to pass his social security budget bill without a vote.

The quarrel over contemporary stained-glass windows at Notre-Dame de Paris could well one day be the subject of a play. Act I, scene 1. 2019. Location: Elysée Palace. Stéphane Bern, a high-profile heritage advocate, followed Brigitte Macron to the office of General Georgelin, a few meters away from the first lady’s residence. Gorgelin was leading the reconstruction of the cathedral with a firm and commanding presence. That day, in the former chapel that serves as his headquarters, they met architect Jean-Marie Duthilleul, who had been called in to rethink the liturgical layout. In the background was a priest with the…

Feijóo, about his desire to fire Sánchez: “Me, anxiety? None. “Anxiety belongs to the Spanish”The leader of the PP has rejected being eager to evict the President of the Government from La Moncloa. “Me, anxiety? None. Anxiety belongs to the Spanish.” Meanwhile, he has recognized that none of the democratic scenarios exist for a change of Government to be possible. Neither the motion of censure – for which he has denied contacts with Junts – nor the resignation of Sánchez, nor the early call for elections, “which is not in his interest [a Sánchez]because I would lose them.”Therefore, Feijóo is…

Abascal aligns his councilors to define his strategy against the arrival of “illegals” and redoubles the warning to the ‘popular’ in the midst of the negotiation of the regional and municipal budgets. Read Vox’s wake-up call to the PP on the eve of the meeting on immigration: "committee of wise men" and regional deployment in the midst of budget negotiations

Christian Lindner between crisis and hope: While the D-Day affair puts him under pressure, he appeals for more risk-taking and innovation in Germany at the start-up scene awards – and also gives an insight into his inner life. These are turbulent days for Christian Lindner. First the traffic light coalition fell apart, now he is under increasing pressure in the wake of the D-Day affair. He is now even confronted with calls from within his own ranks to resign as FDP chairman. A visit to the Axel Springer high-rise in Berlin on Tuesday evening was probably a welcome change for…

The man had abused and strangled a fourth-grader: a 49-year-old was executed for this in the US state of Missouri. In his last words he accepted his punishment. A 49-year-old convicted murderer was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Missouri . US media reported that the man was declared dead in the prison in Bonne Terre nine minutes after the injection. The man had been sentenced to death for raping and murdering a nine-year-old girl in 2007. Shortly before his execution, the governor and the Supreme Court refused to stop the execution of the death penalty. The…

Thousands of people attended a memorial on Tuesday morning in West Palm Beach, Florida, for three Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputies who were killed in a crash nearly two weeks ago. Deputy Sheriff Ignacio “Dan” Diaz, Deputy Sheriff Ralph “Butch” Waller, and Corporal Luis Paez were struck by a Jeep SUV on Nov. 21 while stopped with their motorcycles on the shoulder of Southern Boulevard, just west of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road near Wellington. Waller and Paez were pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after the crash, while Diaz was in critical condition and underwent surgery at the hospital…