Ajax have suspended chief executive Alex Kroes over allegations of insider trading before his appointment at the Eredivisie club. Kroes, who only started the role last month, was announced as chairman and CEO in August 2023 but the Dutch giants claimed in a statement that the 50-year-old had purchased 17,000 club shares a week earlier. […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government will start suspending the licenses of striking junior doctors next week as they refuse to end their weekslong walkouts that burdened the country’s medical services, officials said Thursday. More than 90% of the country’s 13,000 medical interns and residents have been on strike for about a month […]
South Korea’s government will start suspending the licences of striking junior doctors next week as they refuse to end their walkouts, officials said on Thursday. More than 90% of the country’s 13,000 medical interns and residents have been on strike for about a month to protest the government’s plan to sharply increase medical school admissions. […]
GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who had vowed to continue her campaign despite losing nearly every state in this year’s Republican nominating primary, will announce Wednesday morning that she plans to suspend her campaign, according to a source familiar with her plans who was granted anonymity to discuss Haley’s decision. However, Trump’s former United Nation’s […]
Here are where things stand as Super Tuesday comes to a close. Donald Trump has won Republican elections and caucuses in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Maine, Alabama, Massachusetts, Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota and California. Nikki Haley, however, scored an upset win in Vermont. The Alaska caucuses and Utah caucuses have not yet been called […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida Democrats on Monday suspended three county chairs, citing repeated violations of party rules and lack of cooperation in a first-of-its kind move as the party is staring down a tough election year in the red-shifting state. The party suspended Miami-Dade chair Robert Dempster, Palm Beach chair Mindy Koch and Franklin County […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government began steps Monday to suspend the medical licenses of thousands of striking junior doctors, days after they missed a government-set deadline to end their joint walkouts, which have severely impacted hospital operations. Nearly 9,000 medical interns and residents have been on strike for two weeks to protest […]
JERUSALEM — As crowds of hungry people crowded around a food distribution point in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, Magdy Hussein waited patiently in line, a dignified figure amid the chaos. His wait proved in vain — the food ran out before he reached the front. “For the love of God, every time we come, […]
LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s governing Conservative Party has suspended ties with one if its lawmakers after he accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan of being controlled by Islamists, as tensions over the Israel-Hamas war roil British politics. The party said on Saturday that Lee Anderson was suspended after he refused to apologize for remarks made […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York judge Friday to suspend an $83.3 million defamation verdict against the former president, saying there was a “strong probability” that it would be reduced on appeal, if not eliminated. The lawyers made the request in Manhattan federal court, where a civil jury in late […]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs has announced that Ireland will give €20 million in support for the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) as he urged countries that have suspended funding to resume and expand support to the agency. UNRWA, which provides healthcare, education and other services, has been pitched into crisis since Israel alleged that […]
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egypt is threatening to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if Israeli troops are sent into the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah, and says fighting there could force the closure of the besieged territory’s main aid supply route, two Egyptian officials and a Western diplomat said Sunday. The […]