WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is putting out the word in advance that an expected unofficial stopover in the United States by Taiwan PresidentTsai Ing-wen would fall in line with recent precedent and should not be used as a pretext by Beijing to step up aggressive activity in the Taiwan Strait... (AP) .
Paltrow denies being at fault in the Feb ... Buhler said the sole eyewitness to the crash, CraigRamon, was in a group that went skiing with Sanderson and roughly 35 feet uphill at the time ... An instructor then approached the group and was "very hostile" to Sanderson, who was still facedown in the snow, Ramon said ... .
Iran vows to reciprocate the European Union and the UK's recent repetitive move to impose sanctions on Iranian targets over, what Brussels and London have called, human rights violations ... The riots erupted in September following the tragic death of the woman, named Mahsa Amini ... Dozens of people and security personnel were killed during the riots ... ....
Thunberg and 600 other young activists in a group called Aurora sued the Swedish state in November, claiming it had to do more to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) in order to live up to the European Convention on Human Rights.
Homosexual acts are already illegal in the east African country... A small group of Ugandan MPs on a committee scrutinising the bill disagreed with its premise ... It included making it illegal to promote and fund LGBT groups and activities, as well as reiterating that homosexual acts should be punished by life imprisonment ... .
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Donald Trump would become the first former or sitting president to be charged with a crime if an indictment over the 2016 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels is filed ... In an online group named "The Donald," some Trump supporters called for a "national strike" and "Civil War2.0" to protect Trump and protest any arrest.
PARIS, March 21 (Reuters) - French PresidentEmmanuel Macron will break his silence on Wednesday to outline plans after his administration survived a no-confidence motion in parliament over a deeply unpopular pension reform, the government spokesman said ... The failure of the vote will be a relief to Macron ... That prompted the U.N ... Our Standards ... Video.
KABUL/ISLAMABAD, March 22 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 on Richter scale has jolted parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, causing panic. The official number of casualties is not yet available at the time. The quake hit the Afghan capital Kabul and several more provinces in the country at 09.17 p.m ... ■ ... .
Athens, Greece — GreekPrime MinisterKyriakos Mitsotakis said Tuesday that the country would hold a general election in May, as his government faces widespread anger over a train disaster that killed 57 people in February ... .
The Memphis Grizzlies anticipate that Ja Morant will return to action Wednesday when they play the first of back-to-back home games against the Houston Rockets...Combined with the Sacramento Kings' road loss to the Utah Jazz, the Grizzlies (44-27) reclaimed sole possession of second in the West with 11 games remaining in the regular season. ... .
UN report predicts water demand will increase by 80% as crisis threatens to get out of control The number of people lacking access to safe drinking water in cities around the world will double by 2050, research has found, amid warnings of an imminent water crisis that is likely to “spiral out of control” ...It’s a triple crisis.”. .