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LOS ANGELES — Kevin Spacey must pay the “House of Cards” production company roughly $9.75 million in a landmark sexual harassment case. A jury in Los Angeles awarded roughly $2.86 million in punitive damages,…
Ontario’s new Opposition leader told a rally in Richmond, British Columbia, on Wednesday that construction on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion should be halted. B.C. New Democrat Jagmeet Singh, whose party won a…
Halloween is the latest weapon in Israel’s Silicon Valley cold war. Israeli government officials are suing the NSO Group in a Jerusalem court, alleging the spyware maker profited from spying by denying payments to…
Written by Saima Haldar, CNN Canberra, Australia Australia’s Defense Minister Marise Payne announced Wednesday the deployment of 1,500 military personnel to Solomon Islands after being inundated with public comments about the need for assistance….
Image copyright @Jacqueline_Jocelyn (Twitter) Image caption Jacqueline’s husband Thomas also died The Paris prosecutor has opened a manslaughter investigation into a US military aircraft tragedy in which a British soldier died. Jacqueline Jocelyn Maillon,…
A San Francisco-based billionaire couple have announced the sale of nearly $676 million worth of art, including a majority stake in Pablo Picasso’s iconic painting “Guernica.” The announcement came Saturday after Jose Ignacio Vieira…
CNN’s Political Editor Jonathan Mann was along with other CNN journalists in Qatar on Saturday covering conditions for migrant workers building infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup. Mann and CNN’s Tabitha Shiflett (formerly of…
Peggy Downing, an assistant professor of law at the University of Toronto, has won the Judith King Memorial Prize for Negotiation in the book “Emotion and the Interests of Business.” She is the first…
The idea is to float on “water just afloat on an exclusive indoor and outdoor pool” The high-end rental pool opened at the Sukhumvit Hotel in Dubai. A total of $3,000 per night gets…
Ilham Ahmed In July 2013, the Indian government handed down the dreaded Section 66A (b) of the Information Technology Act to Khurram Parvez of Civil Rights Organisations. He had been photographing the human rights…