Day 12 of Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial took a significant turn as two longtime employees at the Trump Organization provided testimony regarding their involvement in executing payments to Michael Cohen in 2017. These payments have been linked to alleged falsified business records, which were presented as evidence for the first time in court.

Contempt charges and potential jail time

Judge Juan Merchan found Donald Trump guilty of criminal contempt after he violated his limited gag order multiple times. The judge issued a stern warning that further violations could result in incarceration for the former president.

“It appears that the $1,000 fines are not serving as a deterrent,” Merchan said. “Going forward, this court will have to consider a jail sentence.”

Merchan emphasized that despite these measures, he has no desire to imprison someone who held such esteemed positions but stressed on adhering to court ru

Last weekend, residents of the city of Yasuj in Iran were baffled by a surprising phenomenon: an unusual shower of fish that left everyone speechless. Soon, the roads and streets were filled with curious people looking for an explanation for this strange event.

Although rare, raining fish is not something new in the world. In the city of Yoro, Honduras, it occurs every few years during intense storms in May and June, where hundreds of small, sardine-like fish fall from the sky.

This type of phenomenon has also been recorded in

This time Lithuanians vote in the referendum: it will be decided whether it will be necessary to change the Constitution and allow compatriots living abroad to retain their citizenship.

Until Thursday evening, voters will be able to vote in all 60 municipalities from 7am to 8pm, regardless of where they have declared their place of residence.

For some, the choice was difficult

A news portal in the capital’s Lukiškių Square, which has become one of the pre-voting places lrytas.lt Residents interviewed said they hope for an improvement in the next five years, and admit that some of them had a very difficult choice of candidate.

Even the early morning rain did not scare the voters: around 7, when it started raining vote, a small line of people had already lined up near the early voting polling station. However, when they came in, it soon dissipated, so residents who decided to come to vote before the start of the workday could be assured that they would be able to do so in time.

Residents of Vilnius and those of other cities, when asked why they vote early, cite convenience as the reason: in this case they will no longer have to do so on Sunday, so they can calmly wait for the results.

The voting procedure itself is very simple: when a person comes to the point, he must present his identification document, then he receives a special voting sheet from the employee, with which he must approach another employee. It presents two envelopes and two ballot papers: for the presidential elections and for the referendum.

After having filled them out, it is necessary to put everything in the envelopes, return them to the employee and, after the latter has affixed a special sticker, throw it into the ballot box. This can be done by any voter who turns out, regardless of the district in which he normally votes.

After 7 hours Gitana, 53, from Vilnius, who cast her vote, said that this time she chose her namesake, the current head of the

The American magazine Foreign Policy warned, in a report, that the Israeli army would face a battle-hardened enemy as it attempted to remove tens of thousands of civilians through its advance towards the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, which Israeli officials describe as the last major stronghold of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

Despite last-minute efforts to establish a ceasefire in Gaza, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the mini-cabinet for war affairs had unanimously decided to move forward with its military operation in the city of Rafah.

The magazine’s correspondent for national security affairs, Jack Deitch, reported in his report that Israeli Defense Mi

With an extensive career in the Colombian political arena, López served as a councilor of Caramanta, Antioquia, and held key roles as a candidate for the Departmental Assembly a

The state-run Anadolu news agency reported that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to attend a ceremony to mark the completion of the General Directorate of Foundations’ projects for the preservation of 201 historical monuments, including the Chora Monastery

Today, the Byzantine church of the Chora Monastery in Istanbul is scheduled to function again as a mosque, Turkish media reports.

The state-run Anadolu news agency reported that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to attend a ceremony to mark the completion of the General Directorate of Foundations’ projects for the preservation of 20

For Iraqi justice, “terrorism”, intentional homicide, drug trafficking attract the imposition of even the ultimate punishment, which is generally carried out by hanging. Executions are authorized by presidential decrees.

Yesterday’s executions, in a prison in Nasiriyah, informally known as “Al Hut” (“the whale” in Arabic, as many Iraqis say no one comes out of its cages alive), took place two weeks after other hangings.

In that case, Amnesty International had highlighted Baghdad’s complete and “disturbing” lack of “transparency” about the executions.

Speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, a security source said there had been “11 executions at al-Houth prison in Nasiriyah”, adding that all the people killed “had been convicted under Article