Posts Tagged ‘Row’
ICJ Backs France In Equatorial Guinea Mansion Row
The top UN court on Friday backed France in a long-running dispute with Equatorial Guinea over a multi-million-euro Paris mansion seized during a corruption probe into the country’s vice-president. Equatorial Guinea had asked the International Court of Justice to issue emergency orders to prevent France selling the luxury building, also seized in 2012, which boasts…
Read MoreMerz To Open Munich Motor Show As Engine Row Threatens To Combust
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will open the IAA motor show in Munich on Tuesday as debate rages over the EU’s target to phase out combustion-engine vehicle sales within a decade. The country’s flagship auto sector has struggled with fierce competition from Chinese electric-vehicle (EV) makers at a time when the German economy has also been…
Read MoreBoxing Chiefs Vow To Learn Lessons After World Championships Sex Test Row
Boxing chiefs on Friday pledged to redouble efforts to get their message across about newly introduced genetic sex tests after a row overshadowed the start of the world championships. Twelve boxers have reportedly been barred from competing in Liverpool, including the five-member women’s team from France, after they missed the deadline for test results to…
Read MoreArrest Of Comedy Writer Sparks UK Free Speech Row
The arrest of an Emmy award-winning comedy writer for social media posts about transgender people has reignited a UK row over freedom of speech, with one government minister saying Wednesday “we need to look at” the law. Irish writer Graham Linehan, who co-created popular 1990s sitcom “Father Ted”, says he was arrested by five armed…
Read MoreExhausted Scottish Brothers Back On Shore After Record Pacific Row
Three Scottish brothers stepped ashore in Australia Saturday after claiming a new record for rowing non-stop and unsupported across the Pacific Ocean, “over the moon” to be back on dry land. Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan MacLean set off in a carbon fibre dinghy from Lima in Peru in April for the 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometres)…
Read MorePaetongtarn Shinawatra: Glamorous Thai PM Felled By Cambodia Row
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, scion of Thailand’s most enduring and controversial political dynasty, was touted as the youthful, glamorous future of the movement, capable of winning over a new generation of voters. Now, barely a year after becoming prime minister, she finds herself in a position all too familiar to the Shinawatra family — kicked out of…
Read MoreThai Court To Rule On PM’s Fate After Cambodia Phone Call Row
Thailand’s Constitutional Court began delivering its verdict Friday on suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who could be thrown out of office over her handling of the country’s border row with Cambodia. Paetongtarn, daughter of controversial billionaire ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was suspended from office last month after being accused of failing to stand up for…
Read MoreRow Over Bosnia’s Jewish Treasure Raising Funds For Gaza
Bosnia’s national museum has defended a decision to donate funds from the display of a precious Jewish manuscript to the people of Gaza. It said ticket sales to see the Sarajevo Haggadah, one of the most precious religious manuscripts of the Middle Ages, would be donated to “support the people of Palestine who suffer systematic,…
Read MoreUS Revokes Visa Of Brazil Justice Minister In Bolsonaro Row
Brazil said on Tuesday that the United States had revoked the US visa of the country’s justice minister, the latest official to be punished by Washington over the coup trial of former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. The US State Department has yet to confirm the measure, which was announced by President Luiz Inacio Lula da…
Read MoreUS Backs Ambassador To France In Antisemitism Row
A diplomatic row between the United States and France escalated on Monday when Washington decided to stand firmly behind its ambassador’s criticism of the French response to a rising tide of antisemitism. US ambassador Charles Kushner, the father of US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, was ordered to report to the French foreign ministry on Monday.…
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