Australian High Court agrees to hear ex-Vatican treasurer’s sex offences appeal
Australia’s High Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a final appeal from Vatican treasurer George Pell over his conviction for sexually assaulting two teenaged choir boys.
Over 100 people leave Mexican Mormon village after massacre
More than 100 members of a U.S.-Mexican community of Mormon origin have left their homes in northern Mexico after an ambush killed nine of their number, relatives said on Tuesday.
Puerto Rico gets near-failing grade on infrastructure report card
Puerto Rico’s roads, ports, energy grid and other infrastructure scored an overall D-minus in the first report card issued for the U.S. commonwealth on Tuesday by an engineering group, which put a price tag of as much as $23 billion over 10 years on ne…
U.S. senators draft NBA’s Kanter to push bill against Turkey’s Erdogan
Turkish NBA player Enes Kanter, a vocal critic of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, teamed up with two Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday as they introduced a bill to condemn the alleged violation of human rights in Turkey.
Chinese national pleads guilty in U.S. court to stealing Phillips 66 trade secrets
A Chinese national pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stealing trade secrets from U.S. petroleum company Phillips 66 , where he worked on the research and development of next generation battery technologies, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Soldier opens fire to disperse protest in Lebanon’s Khaldeh, wounding one: army
A Lebanese soldier opened fire to disperse protesters blocking a road in Khaldeh south of Beirut on Tuesday night, wounding one person, the army said in a statement.
Man killed as protests sweep Lebanon after Aoun interview
President Michel Aoun said on Tuesday Lebanon faced a catastrophe if protesters did not go home, igniting a new wave of demonstrations during which a protester was shot and killed after an altercation with Lebanese soldiers near Beirut.
Lebanese man shot dead near Beirut: local media, security source
A man was shot dead at a roablock in the town of Khaldeh south of Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Tuesday night, local media and a security source said.
UK Prime Minister Johnson to declare Britain can end ‘the groundhoggery of Brexit’
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Wednesday declare that the UK can “end the groundhoggery of Brexit” if he wins next month’s election, saying the rest of the world was wondering why so much time has been spent agonizing over whether to leav…
Paris protest disrupts Polanski film debut over rape accusations
Protesters disrupted the first screening in France of Roman Polanski’s new film on Tuesday, following the publication of a new rape accusation against the French-Polish director.
