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Reuters Abercrombie & Fitch signed an agreement in 2014 covering any criminal or civil claims against ex-CEO Mike Jeffries Abercrombie & Fitch must pay for the legal fees of former CEO Mike Jeffries as he defends criminal charges of sex trafficking, a US court has ruled. The fashion brand, which has previously said it was … Read more
Reuters The rise is attributed to increasing scepticism about immunisation The number of measles cases in the European region doubled last year to reach the highest level in 25 years, health officials say. A joint report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN children’s fund, Unicef, said children under the age of five … Read more
Kevin Sharkey BBC News NI Dublin reporter Getty Images The Taoiseach seemed puzzled when a member of the White House press corps asked him about Rosie O’Donnell The Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) seemed puzzled when a member of the White House press corps asked him about Rosie O’Donnell. Rosie who? Micheál Martin didn’t quite say … Read more
Belgian police have raided several locations in the country as part of an investigation into corruption within the European Parliament. Prosecutors said the alleged corruption was “under the guise of commercial lobbying”, and that several people had been detained for questioning. According to officials, an address in Portugal was also searched by local police in … Read more
Southern African leaders have announced they will pull their troops out of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they have been helping the government fight rebel forces. The decision to start a “phased withdrawal” was made during a virtual summit of the 16-member Southern African Development Community (Sadc) on Thursday. The troops were sent two … Read more
A Connecticut man whose stepmother allegedly held him captive for 20 years escaped by setting fire to the small room he was held in, officials said. Authorities responded to the fire and rescued the emaciated 32-year-old man from a 72 sq-foot (6.7 sq metre) room. The alleged captive weighed 68 pounds (30 kilograms) upon his … Read more
Just nowWatch: People in Moscow react to US ceasefire proposalsUS and Russian officials are due to meet in Moscow to discuss a 30-day ceasefire proposalJust nowEurope
AFP More than 400 people were on the train when it was attacked Mehboob Hussain was riding the train home on Tuesday when the tracks under the front car exploded. In the depths of central Pakistan’s Bolan Pass, a pocket of wilderness so remote that there is no internet or mobile network coverage, the nine-coach … Read more
US President Donald Trump has threatened a 200% tariff on any wine or alcoholic drinks coming in to the US from the EU, if the bloc does not remove its tariff on US whiskey. It comes after the EU said it would impose a levy on US-produced whiskey as part of its counter-tariffs in response … Read more
Germany’s foreign intelligence service believed there was a 80-90% chance that coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab, German media say. Two German newspapers say they have uncovered details of an assessment carried out by spy agency BND in 2020 but never published. The intelligence service had indications that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had … Read more