Pompeo Urges UN Arms Embargo on Iran’s ‘Terrorist Regime’
Calling Iran “the world’s most heinous terrorist regime,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the UN Security Council on Tuesday to extend the UN arms embargo against Tehran, which expires in October, and reject “extortion diplomacy.” Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif countered calling President Donald Trump’s administration “an outlaw bully” that is waging “economic terrorism” on his country to satisfy domestic constituencies and “personal aggrandizement.” He called for the United States to compensate the Iranian people for the damage and vehemently opposed any extension of the arms embargo, warning that Iran’s options “will be firm” if it is maintained and the United States will bear full responsibility. The United States has circulated a draft Security Council resolution to extend the arms embargo indefinitely, and Pompeo said the United…
Three judges have dismissed an appeal by Nationwide News against a finding it defamed Geoffrey Rush and against the awarding of $2.9 million in damages.
The Daily Telegraph’s publisher and journalist Jonathon Moran were found to have been reckless regarding the truth when they reported Rush had been accused of inappropriate behaviour during a Sydney theatre production of King Lear in 2015.
In the Federal Court in 2019, Justice Michael Wigney ruled a poster and two articles contained several defamatory meanings – including that Rush was a pervert and a sexual predator – and the publisher hadn’t proved they were true.
The Oscar winner was awarded $850,000 general damages and about $2 million in special damages to cover past and future economic loss.
Justices Richard White, Jacqueline Gleeson and Michael Wheelahan on July 2 dismissed the appeal.
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UK Offers Path to Citizenship to 3 Million Hongkongers After China Imposes National Security Law
LONDON鈥擳he United Kingdom said China’s imposition of a security law on Hong Kong was a “clear and serious” violation of the 1984 Joint Declaration and that London would offer around 3 million residents of the former colony a path to British citizenship. Hong Kong police fired water cannons and tear gas and arrested nearly 200 people as protesters took to the streets in defiance of sweeping security legislation introduced by China that they say is aimed at snuffing out dissent. “The enactment and imposition of this national security law constitute a clear and serious breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson told parliament on July 1. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London, UK, on June 23, 2020. (Toby Melville/ Reuters)Johnson said Britain…
