BANGKOK (Reuters) – A Thai court on Tuesday sentenced a 65-year-old woman to more than 43 years in jail for sharing online posts criticizing the royal family, her lawyer said, the country’s harshest ever sentence for insulting the monarchy. Her sentence comes at a time of unprecedented youth-led demonstrations in which protest leaders have openly
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A 101-year-old woman became the first German to receive a vaccine against the coronavirus on Saturday, a day ahead of the official start of the country’s vaccination campaign, local broadcaster MDR reported. The woman, from Halberstadt in the Harz hill range, lives in a care home for elderly people, where 40 residents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on Thursday denied a Guardian newspaper report in which a former model accused the New York real estate developer of sexually assaulting and groping her at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in 1997. The Guardian reported that Amy Dorris told the paper in an exclusive interview
MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) – Marseille became the latest French municipality to elect a green mayor on Saturday, in a wave that has swept the country since local elections at the end of last month. Michele Rubirola, the first female leader of France’s second city, won the most votes from city councillors, ending almost a week
(Reuters) – Police in Atlanta offered a $10,000 reward and published photos of what appeared to be a masked white woman as they sought the people who burned down a Wendy’s restaurant where a black man was fatally shot by an officer as he tried to escape arrest. The fast-food outlet was torched late on
PARIS (Reuters) – An Italian woman on Wednesday won a Pablo Picasso painting worth 1 million euros ($1.1 million) in a French charity raffle that raised money for African water projects. The winner – who received her lottery ticket as a gift – will acquire the Spanish master’s 1921 oil-on-canvas still life “Nature morte”, a
A 78-year-old woman died in a Hong Kong hospital on Friday less than 24 hours after she fell off a minibus. The Mong Kok-bound minibus stopped on Hoi Wang Road, Yau Ma Tei, for passengers to get off when the incident occurred soon after 1pm on Thursday. “The minibus was suspected to have moved forward
(Reuters) – Presumptive Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden, who has vowed to pick a woman to join his ticket, said he would appoint a committee this month to help him vet possible running mates. FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the 11th Democratic candidates debate of
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Valentina Tereshkova was hailed as a hero when she became the first woman in space in 1963. FILE PHOTO: Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman cosmonaut, attends a news conference in Star City outside Moscow, June 7, 2013. REUTERS/Sergei Remezov/File Photo Now 83, she has became a hate figure for some
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s health minister has apologized after a woman who was allowed to leave a coronavirus-infected cruise ship docked near Tokyo tested positive for the virus. The woman in her 60s disembarked the Diamond Princess in Yokohama on Wednesday following a two-week quarantine on board, but was found to be positive following another
FILE PHOTO: People relax in the warm weather near St Paul’s Cathedral in central London, Britain July 12, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – A woman has pleaded guilty to two terrorism offences, including scoping out St Paul’s cathedral in London as a possible bomb target, police said on Friday. Safiyya Shaikh, 36, of Hayes,
MADRID (Reuters) – A Spaniard has won a legal battle to include in her work record the time she spent attending a social programme for women that was created in the Franco era, enabling her to qualify for early retirement after a ruling based on gender equality. The woman had found herself seven days short
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman testified at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial on Wednesday that the film producer trapped her in a hotel bathroom in 2013 and masturbated in front of her while groping her breasts, and told her: “This is what all the actresses do to make it.” Lauren Young cries as she describes
FILE PHOTO: Israel, the uncle of Naama Issachar, and his wife look at a newspaper with an article about Naama at their home in Rehovot, Israel October 13, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen MOSCOW (Reuters) – Naama Issachar, a U.S.-Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges, has asked for a pardon, Interfax news agency reported, citing
DES MOINES, IOWA/CONCORD, N.H. (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders struggled to move past a weeklong controversy over whether he told U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren in a 2018 private meeting that a woman could not beat Republican President Donald Trump as the White House rivals campaigned over the weekend in the early-voting states of Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – Six Democrats squared off in a televised debate on Tuesday in Iowa, their last chance to make the case for their candidacies to a national audience before the party’s presidential nominating process kicks off in the state on Feb. 3. Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates (L-R) billionaire activist Tom Steyer,
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A Chinese woman has been quarantined in Thailand with a mystery strain of coronavirus just days ahead of the Lunar New Year, when Chinese tourists flock to Thailand, authorities said on Monday, the first time it has been detected outside China. A 61-year-old man has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese
KUALA LUMPUR: A British woman was among 38 women arrested in a raid on an entertainment outlet along Jalan Perak here. Kuala Lumpur CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Rusdi Mohd Isa said the women – 18 Ukrainians and 11 Russians along with three each from Kazakhstan and Belarus and with one each from Britain,
KUCHING (Bernama): A police raid on Christmas Eve here led to the detention of an Indonesian woman and two local men as well as the seizure of about 403gm of syabu and 38 Erimin 5 pills all of which were worth more than RM61,000. Sarawak Narcotics CID Head, Supt Hasnir Abdul Hamid said Thursday (Dec
SERUTHUR, India (Reuters) – Saranya was only nine when the giant waves hit her family’s village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Boxing Day in 2004. “The water took away everything,” said Saranya, who lost four siblings and her family home in the tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people across the
MIAMI (AFP) – A Chinese woman who stirred fears of espionage when she entered President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort carrying multiple mobile phones and a malware-spiked thumb drive was sentenced to eight months in prison ON Monday, US media reported. Zhang Yujing, 33, was arrested on March 30 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, where
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman’s breasts in a bar and pinched another’s buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. FILE PHOTO: Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. leaves after his arraignment in
JOHOR BARU: The Magistrate’s Court here has ordered the release of a 24-year-old woman whose car ploughed into a group of teenage cyclists, killing eight of them on Feb 18, 2017. Magistrate Siti Hajar Ali ruled that the prosecution had failed to prove a prima facie against the accused, Sam Ke Ting, and her driving
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Voters in Colombia’s capital Bogota elected a woman as mayor for the first time on Sunday in local and regional contests marked in some places by violence against candidates and the power of political clans. Left-wing Claudia Lopez, a former senator and vice-presidential candidate, won about 35% of the vote for Bogota
(Reuters) – Texas prosecutors said on Friday they would seek a murder indictment against the former Fort Worth police officer who shot dead a 28-year-old black woman in her home. Fort Worth Police Department officer Aaron York Dean is seen in a booking photo at the Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. October
(Reuters) – A Texas woman was shot dead by a Fort Worth police officer through the window of her home after she heard noises outside late at night and picked up her handgun, the officer’s arrest warrant showed on Tuesday. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew around 2:30 am on
