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US supreme court fails to act to block near-total ban that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers. The most radical abortion law in the US has gone into effect, despite legal efforts to block it. A near-total abortion ban in Texas empowers any private citizen to sue an abortion provider who violates the law, opening the floodgates to harassing and frivolous lawsuits from anti-abortion vigilantes that could eventually shutter most clinics in the state. “Abortion access will be thrown into absolute chaos,” says Amanda Williams, executive director of the abortion support group the Lilith Fund, a plaintiff in the…

Fujimori, who conceded last month after a failed presidential run, is accused of taking illicit money from Brazil’s Odebrecht firm. Corruption proceedings against Peruvian opposition politician Keiko Fujimori kicked off with a preliminary court hearing on Tuesday, just weeks after she conceded defeat in her third unsuccessful presidential run. Fujimori lost the June 6 runoff against leftist Pedro Castillo with 49.87 percent of the vote to his 50.12 percent. Keiko Fujimori, the 46-year-old daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori, denies the allegations against her [File: Sebastian Castaneda/Reuters] Keiko Fujimori, the 46-year-old daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori, denies…

Real Madrid have reportedly had a bid worth €215 million for top target Kylian Mbappe being accepted by Paris Saint-Germain. According to Italian journalist Rudy Galetti, Real Madrid are inching closer to finally secure the services of Kylian Mbappe before the summer transfer window slams shut. The Spanish giants have had an offer worth €215 million being accepted by Paris Saint-Germain, bringing them closer to signing their top target. Mbappe has been nothing short of sensational since his breakout campaign in senior club football, back in the 2016/17 season with AS Monaco. Over the last four seasons, following his move…

U.S. forces preparing the final civilian evacuations amid tightened security at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport intercepted as many as five rockets aimed at them Monday morning, CNN reports. No one has claimed responsibility for Monday’s attempted attacks, but military experts say it is likely retaliation for U.S. drone strikes that took out two ISIS-K operatives and quashed a car bomb attempt Saturday after the Islamic State terror group offshoot claimed responsibility for sending a suicide bomber to the airport Thursday. That attack killed 13 U.S. service personnel and more than 180 civilians who had hoped to be evacuated to…

President Joe Biden, his voice breaking with emotion, has vowed the US will hunt down those responsible for twin explosions at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan.Mr Biden asked the Pentagon on Friday morning (Australian time) to develop plans to strike back at those responsible. The blasts killed at least a dozen American troops and scores of civilians in what was the worst day of casualties for US forces there in a decade. Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), an affiliate of militants who previously battled US forces in Syria and Iraq, claimed responsibility for the attack. “We will not forgive, we will…

The baby was born on August 21 after her mother went into labor while being flown to the U.S. military’s Ramstein Air Base in Germany following an evacuation from Kabul airport. An Afghan baby born aboard a U.S. military plane after her family fled Kabul has been named after the aircraft, a U.S. military official said. The girl was named Reach after the plane’s call sign, said General Tod Wolters, head of the U.S. European Command, at a briefing on August 25. The baby’s mother went into labor on August 21 while being flown from Qatar to the U.S. military’s…

Kathy Hochul takes a dig at the former Governor Andrew Cuomo by forcing all government employees to take a live sexual harassment training course so they can’t just ‘click through.’ In her first address to New York, Governor Hochul outlined her new agenda. On the list: getting kids back to school and enforcing a universal mask policy, giving renters eviction aid, changing the culture of Albany, and making it mandatory to have all government employees attend a live sexual harassment training. She told the people of New Yorkers: ‘Today, I am directing an overhaul on state government policies on sexual…

Viola Ford Fletcher, one of the three last known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is finally getting the trip of a lifetime. Both “Mother” Fletcher, as she is known, along with fellow survivor Hughes Van Ellis, known as “Uncle Red”, are leaving for Ghana, Africa, this week.  The journey is considered a homecoming for the pair, both of whom are over 100 years old. Mother Fletcher, now 107, has memories of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that left Greenwood and Black Wall St decimated, with hundreds of Black men, women, and children killed, while Uncle Red, aged…

Hashmat Ghani Ahmadzai, brother of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani who fled the country, has joined the Taliban (outlawed in Russia) after the movement seized power in Afghanistan, reads the message posted on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s Twitter page on Saturday. “Hashmat Ghani, brother of former President Ashraf Ghani, pledges allegiance to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan with the help of Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani [nephew of the leader of the Haqqani network],” says the tweet, while a photo attached to it shows Hashmat Ghani shaking hands with Talibs. After the US announced it was withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and wrapping…

Morrisons bosses are set to scoop a jackpot of almost £40m after accepting a £7bn takeover bid from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. Morrisons was founded as a market stall in Bradford by William Morrison, whose son Sir Ken transformed it into a national grocer within 50 years. The US private equity giant, which is being advised on the deal by Sir Terry Leahy, offered to pay 285p per share for the supermarket group. This trumped an earlier £6.7bn agreement with Fortress – a private firm owned by the Japanese investment group Softbank. The deal will land Morrisons’ top dogs tens…