Seven jurors selected in Trump hush money trial

Seven jurors selected in Trump hush money trial

More details are emerging about the jurors selected in Donald Trump's hush money trial. Seven jurors have already been chosen - jury selection resumes on Thursday, after a pause on Wednesday. This is the first criminal case of any US president in history. The former US president faces 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records - he's pleaded not guilty. Sally Patterson reports from New York.

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World

U.S. government gives assurances over Assange

The U.S. government has offered assurances to a British court over the treatment of Julian Assange if he is extradited. The WikiLeaks founder faces espionage charges for publishing thousands of classified documents.

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Sport

Paris starts Olympic countdown with 100 days until opening

Wednesday marks 100 days to go until the start of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The final arenas are being readied in Paris, and to mark the date another 250,000 tickets have gone on sale. Ross Cullen reports.

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German police target China-linked human smuggling gang

Dawn raids have taken place across Germany, with police saying they busted a people smuggling ring. From Berlin, Trent Murray has the details.

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Environment

Advancing the rights of girls and women promotes justice and is also effective climate action

By Grace M. Jaramillo, University of British Columbia Across the world, climate change disproportionately impacts the lives of girls, yet children are often forgotten in climate policy. I recently led a team of student researchers from the University of British Columbia to better understand why this is the case during field research in the Dominican Republic. Our team talked to 45 people, including key policy decision-makers on social […]

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Development finance: how it works, where it goes, why it’s needed

By Abdul Latif Alhassan, University of Cape Town and Bomikazi Zeka, University of Canberra Development finance is the invisible glue that connects public and private financing for projects that have social, economic and environmental outcomes. These include improved infrastructure, better waste management and sanitation, financial inclusion, clean energy and sustainable agriculture. The goal of development finance is to create positive social, economic or environmental outcomes through […]

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World

Serbia Is Resisting a UN General Assembly Plan to Mark the Srebrenica Genocide

By Dulcie Leimbach Less than a week after the Rwandan genocide of 1994 was marked in a somber, candelit ceremony in the United Nations General Assembly Hall, the creation of an international day to commemorate a genocide that happened in Europe in 1995 — Srebrenica — is going to be considered by countries at the UN this week. Although an independent international tribunal found that genocide occurred in 1995 in […]

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U.S and Chinese defence chiefs talk for first time in more than 2 years

U.S Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has spoken to China's defense minister in the first engagement the two have had in more than a year. The return of military-to-military contact is the latest in a series of improved contacts between the U.S and China since the summit between President Joseph Biden and President Xi Jinping last November followed, two weeks ago, by a phone call. Laura Westbrook has more from Hong […]

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World

Petitioners questioning reliability of Indian electronic voting machines

India's Supreme Court is hearing petitions that are calling for every vote cast using electronic voting machines to be cross-checked against a verifiable paper trail. India's two month-long voting exercise gets underway this week, and it will see nearly 1 billion eligible voters cast their ballot in what is the world's largest election. Neha Poonia has the latest from New Delhi.

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