Canada’s employment minister has resigned from the cabinet after weeks of scrutiny over his business dealings and his shifting claims of Indigenous ancestry. Moments before question period on Wednesday, Justin Trudeau’s office said Randy Boissonnault would “step away from cabinet effective immediately” and will “focus on clearing the allegations made against him”. Boissonnault’s claims to…
Rudy Giuliani should be held in civil contempt for continuing to lie about two election workers to whom he already owes $148m for defaming, lawyers for the two women wrote in a court filing Wednesday. The request comes months after Giuliani agreed in court to never again accuse Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss…
Sarah McBride, the incoming congresswoman and first openly transgender person elected to the US House of Representatives, on Wednesday shared a statement on social media in response to the House banning trans people from using single-sex bathrooms on Capitol Hill that match their gender identity. Earlier in the day, the House speaker, Louisiana Republican Mike…
A Thai woman alleged to be among the worst serial killers in the kingdom’s history has been convicted and sentenced to death for poisoning a friend with cyanide, in the first of 14 murder trials. Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, 36, described as an online gambling addict, is accused of swindling thousands of dollars from her victims before…
The mayor of a small town in Sardinia has said thousands of Americans keen to escape Donald Trump have expressed an interest in moving there after he offered homes to them for as little as €1. Francesco Columbu, the mayor of Ollolai, has staged similarly enticing initiatives in the past as a way to combat…
A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire. Ewan Methven, 26, made no plea to the murder charge when he appeared at a private hearing at Hamilton sheriff court on Wednesday. The body of Phoenix Spencer-Horn, 21, was found at a property on Glen Lee…
Trump ‘deserves a cabinet that is loyal’, says Vance Vice president-elect JD Vance has said that Donald Trump “deserves a cabinet that is loyal to the agenda he was elected to implement.” In a post to X, Vance credited Trump’s “major” electoral victory for the Senate’s Republican majority. “His coattails turned a 49-51 senate to…
Rust, the western whose production became notorious after the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, has been screened for the first time at the Camerimage cinematography festival in Torun, Poland. Hutchins was shot by a prop gun held by the film’s star and producer Alec Baldwin on set in New Mexico. Baldwin was charged with involuntary…
River communities in Argentina fear that Javier Milei’s plans to privatise operations on a key shipping route could lead to environmental damage and destroy their way of life. Since taking office almost a year ago, the self-styled “anarcho-capitalist” president has pledged to privatise a number of the state’s assets. The latest is the Paraguay-Paraná waterway…
The international criminal court has sentenced an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader to 10 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out when he headed the Islamic police in Timbuktu in Mali, west Africa. Al-Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud was convicted in June of torture, religious persecution and other inhumane…
