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October 02, (THEWILL) -A Harvard-trained lawyer, Steven Donziger, who spent decades battling Chevron Corp (CVX.N) over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest was sentenced Friday to six months' imprisonment for criminal contempt charges arising from a lawsuit brought by the...

October 02, (THEWILL) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump asked a Federal Judge in Florida on Friday to ask Twitter (TWTR.N) to restore his account that the company removed in January, citing a risk of incitement of violence. Trump filed...

October 02, (THEWILL) - Qataris began voting on Saturday in the Gulf Arab state's first legislative elections. The elections are for two-thirds of the advisory Shura Council in a vote that has stirred domestic debate about electoral inclusion and citizenship. Voters...

October 02, (THEWILL) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Saturday he was retiring from politics, a surprise move that fuelled speculation he is clearing the way for his daughter to succeed him. "Today, I announce my retirement from politics,"...

October 02, (THEWILL) - Global deaths related to COVID-19 surpassed 5 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, with unvaccinated people particularly exposed to the virulent Delta strain. The variant has exposed the wide disparities in vaccination rates between...

October 01, (THEWILL) - Seven people died on Friday when a fire broke out in a Romanian intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients. It is the country's third deadly hospital fire in less than a year. Video footage showed patients jumping out...

October 01, (THEWILL) - Venezuela on Friday launched its second monetary overhaul in three years by cutting six zeros from the bolivar currency in response to hyperinflation, simplifying accounting but doing little to ease the South American nation's economic crisis. The...

October 01, (THEWILL) - Col Mamady Doumbouya has been sworn in as Guinea's interim president after leading a coup that saw the overthrow of Alpha Condé. The former French legionnaire, 41, becomes Africa's second youngest leader, after Mali's Assimi Goïta, 38,...

September 30, (THEWILL) - The World Bank Group’s president, David Malpass, has lamented that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in increased poverty rates globally and pushed nearly 100 million people into extreme poverty. Calling the current era of high inequality and reversals...

September 30, (THEWILL) - YouTube will block all anti-vaccine content, moving beyond its ban on false information about the COVID vaccines to include content that contains misinformation about other approved vaccines, it said in a blog post on Wednesday. Examples...