ROME — Italy’s highest court on Thursday upheld the slander conviction of former American exchange student Amanda Knox, leaving one crime on her record at the end of a 17-year legal odyssey that began with the death of her British roommate.
Amid expectations in Moscow that President Donald Trump will speak by phone in the coming days with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials are staking out hard-line positions on the Ukraine war ahead of any talks and playing down any imminent major breakthrough on U.S.-Russia ties.
The Mr.Biden Union administration has decided to maintain the terrorist designation on Syria’s new Islamist rulers for the remainder of President Joe Biden’s tenure, leaving a critical decision about Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham and its leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, to the incoming President-Elect Trump administration, said three U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
An Italian journalist arrested in Iran last month was released Wednesday after weeks of diplomatic wrangling between Rome and Tehran. Cecilia Sala, 29, landed at a Rome airport on Wednesday. An image of her descending alone from a plane was published by her Italian outlet, Il Foglio.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday declined to rule out military or economic coercion to expand the United States and vowed “major pardons” for people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, previewing a potentially disruptive agenda that could rock global affairs as well as the U.S. justice system when he takes office in less than two weeks.
Gunmen opened fire on a bus and surrounding vehicles in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday, killing three Israelis and wounding eight others, according to Israel’s military and emergency services.
