By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – R&B singer Casandra Ventura, a onetime rising star in the New York hip-hop scene, testified that ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs abused her and derailed her career when she took the stand at the rapper’s trial on Tuesday. Ventura, who settled a civil lawsuit against Combs in 2023, has …
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(Reuters) – Norwegian prosecutors are seeking a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for Gjert Ingebrigtsen, who is accused of abusing his twice Olympic gold medallist son Jakob and daughter Ingrid, Norwegian media reported on Tuesday. The back-to-back 5,000 metres world champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen took the stand in March, where he described a childhood marked by fear and …
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden’s security service has detained a Swedish diplomat on suspicion of espionage, public television SVT reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified sources. The security service (SAPO) said it had detained a person on suspicion of spying after an operation in the Stockholm area in the last few days, but declined to give further information. …
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By Juliette Jabkhiro and Lucien Libert PARIS (Reuters) – Reality TV star Kim Kardashian told the alleged mastermind of a jewel heist in which she thought she was going to die that she forgives him, but that this took away none of the trauma from being held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room in …
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By Fatos Bytyci TIRANA (Reuters) – Albanian Prime minister Edi Rama has secured an unprecedented fourth term in power after his Socialist Party sailed to victory in Sunday’s election, official results showed on Tuesday, although the opposition claims the vote was stolen. With 98% of ballots counted, the Socialist Party (PS) had 52% of the …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Police arrested four members of a radical group seeking to replace the modern German state, the interior minister and prosecutors said on Tuesday, in the latest operation against a far-right movement flagged as a potential threat to democracy. The raids against the Koenigreich Deutschland, or ‘Kingdom of Germany’, came after the interior ministry …
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By John Irish, Lili Bayer and Julia Payne BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) – “Massive” sanctions European leaders threatened to impose on Russia if Vladimir Putin does not agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine face formidable political obstacles and would need U.S. support to succeed, officials and diplomats said. The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland declared …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland will ban Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik from entering its territory, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday, amid a political crisis in the Balkan state where he is wanted for attacking the constitutional order. The decision means that Poland joins Germany and Austria in barring Dodik, who triggered Bosnia’s biggest …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Celebrity billionaire Kim Kardashian gave evidence on Tuesday in the trial of a gang dubbed the “grandpa robbers”, who are accused of stealing jewellery worth millions of euros from her at gunpoint during Paris Fashion Week in 2016. Here is what she told the court, at times in tears: “I came to …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The easing of trade tensions between the United States and China is a step in the right direction and helps reduce European fears of being flooded with Chinese goods redirected from the U.S. market, European Economic Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said. Speaking to reporters after a meeting of European Union finance ministers on Tuesday, …
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