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Jury: Kevin Spacey didn't molest actor Anthony Rapp in 1986

Friday, 21 October 2022, 14:20 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

A jury sided with Kevin Spacey on Thursday in one of the lawsuits that derailed the film star’s career, finding he did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp, then 14, while both were...

EU leaders avoid deep rift on gas price cap at energy summit

Friday, 21 October 2022, 08:02 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

European Union leaders struggled to find immediate practical solutions on how to deal with the energy crisis but avoided an open rift between Germany and France on Friday that would have exposed a...

Truss quits, but UK's political and economic turmoil persist

Friday, 21 October 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

British Prime Minister Liz Truss quit Thursday after a tumultuous and historically brief term marred by economic policies that roiled financial markets and a rebellion in her political party...

EU leaders head into divisive summit on energy crisis

Thursday, 20 October 2022, 11:37 Last update: about 5 years ago

European Union leaders were heading into a two-day summit Thursday with opposing views on whether, and how, the bloc could impose a gas price cap to contain the energy crisis fueled by...

Truss faces clamour to quit amid UK government chaos

Thursday, 20 October 2022, 09:27 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss was hanging on to power by a thread on Thursday, after a senior minister quit her government with a barrage of criticism and a vote in the House of...

Putin declares martial law in annexed regions of Ukraine

Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 14:23 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared martial law Wednesday in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed and given additional emergency powers to the heads of all regions of...

UK inflation accelerates to 40-year high as food prices rise

Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 12:23 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

British food prices rose at the fastest pace since 1980 last month, driving inflation back to a 40-year high and heaping pressure on the embattled government to balance the books without...

‘Ricchi e poveri’ member Franco Gatti dies

Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 10:46 Last update: about 5 years ago

Franco Gatti, a member of the Italian singing group Ricchi e poveri, has died, Italian media report. He was 80 years old. Gatti had left the group in 2013 after the death of his son Alessio...

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