A New York jury has reached a verdict in journalist Elizabeth Jean Carroll's libel suit against Donald Trump — the former president must pay $83.3 million in damages. The New York Times reports on the jury's decision. In 2019, Carroll published a column in which she told about meeting Trump in a store in the mid-nineties. According to her, in the fitting room, the billionaire kissed her forcibly, pulled down her underwear and raped her.

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, has decided not to participate in the European Parliament elections in July 2024, which could lead to his early resignation. Michel announced his decision on his Facebook page. According to him, the decision to remain as President of the European Council was due to the “strong reaction” caused by the prospect of his early resignation. “My choice has generated intense media attention and speculation.

How the Kremlin feels about the sudden popularity of Boris Nadezhdin, Russia’s anti-war presidential hopeful Artem Pryakhin / SOPA Images / ZUMA Press Wire / Scanpix / LETA A line to provide signatures for Boris Nadezhdin’s candidacy. St. Petersburg. January 21, 2024. Barring an act of God, there’s no question who the official winner of Russia’s upcoming presidential election will be.

Russia's Investigative Committee has published a video that allegedly captures the moment Ukrainian prisoners of war boarded an Il-76 that crashed in the Belgorod region on January 24. The video, which lasts just over a minute, consists of two parts. Presumably, the recording was made by a surveillance camera at a military airfield, writes Mediazona. In the first part of the video you can see a convoy of cars approaching the plane.

The UN Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has launched an investigation into several of its employees who are suspected of involvement in the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the agency's press service reports, citing UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini. According to Lazzarini, the relevant information was provided to the agency by the Israeli authorities.

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The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the register of “foreign agents”, including journalist and editor of the “Ideas” column, Maxim Trudolyubov.

In Russia’s Vologda region, police are searching for Alexander Kurtyshev, a former prisoner who was recruited to fight in Ukraine, reports head of the Vologda’s Kaduysky district Svetlana Gracheva. The document says 39-year-old Kurtyshev is suspected of “causing bodily harm.” He was previously convicted for the murder of two or more persons.

In his first statement about the downed Il-76 Russian military transport aircraft , Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian military hit the plane using air defenses. “Under no circumstances could this have been ‘friendly fire’ as they say in such cases. Because the plane was hit by air defense missiles, not by military means. This is clear from the signs of impact. Our air defenses, by design, can’t strike our own aircraft.

The Russian army almost completely destroyed the city At the end of January, excerpts from a documentary dedicated to the real estate market in the occupied Mariupol began to spread in Tiksa and Ixa (formerly Twitter). The Russian army seized the city in the spring of 2022. For two and a half months of siege and incessant shelling, he was almost entirely destroyed, along with the Azovstal metallurgical plant, where military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine held the defense.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put the writer Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili) on the wanted list. Mediazona drew attention to the wanted card. In December 2023, a criminal case was opened against the writer under articles about “fakes” about the army and public justification of terrorism.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has commented for the first time on the crash of a Russian Il-76 aircraft in the Belgorod region. According to him, the plane was hit by Ukrainian military using a foreign-made air defense system - American or European. "This could not have been 'friendly fire' under any circumstances, as they say in such cases. Because the plane was hit by air defense missiles, not military weapons. This is evident from the elements of the damage.

Activist Dim Davletkildin, a defendant in the case of mass unrest in Baymak, was hospitalized after his arrest, his relatives reported, citing the results of examinations at Clinical Hospital No. 21 in Ufa. “Documents unequivocally confirm that he was severely beaten by security forces and was forced to testify under duress,” says a post published on an activist support group.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that polling stations for the upcoming presidential election will be opened in all countries where Russia maintains a diplomatic mission, including in countries deemed “unfriendly” by the Kremlin. There will be fewer polling stations compared to previous elections in a number of countries where Russian foreign offices have been closed in recent years, said Zakharova.

The district court in the Croatian city of Split decided to transfer to Ukraine the 92-meter Royal Romance yacht of Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, said the head of the Agency for Tracing and Asset Management of Ukraine Elena Duma. “Assurance has been received that Croatia expects the speedy transfer of the vessel to Ukraine. According to the Croatian side, there are no legal obstacles to the implementation of this intention,” the Duma wrote.