Trump's tax returns released after years-long effort
Former President Donald Trump's tax returns have been released, ending a bitter six-year long battle to gain greater insights into his finances.
The returns stretch from 2015 through 2020, covering Mr Trump's candidacy and time in the White House.
They give details of various entities through which he would have paid tax, including holdings companies and personal income.
The BBC is reviewing the documents.
Responding to Friday's release of hundreds of pages of tax returns, Mr Trump's camp warned that the disclosure will lead to the US political divide becoming "far worse".
China bridles as EU states prepare to scale up Covid monitoring
Spain joins Italy in requiring arrivals to show a negative result as Chinese state media call move ‘discriminatory’
European countries are preparing to scale up the monitoring of potential new coronavirus variants from China, as Spain becomes the second EU state to bring back mandatory testing at airports in response to Beijing’s rapid rollback of anti-infection measures.
Spain on Friday followed Italy’s lead by requiring arrivals from China to show a negative test result, though unlike Rome it makes exceptions for those who can prove they are fully vaccinated.
At a press conference announcing the new measures, the Spanish health minister, Carolina Darias, also said she was pushing to revise the conditions that had to be met in order for travellers to obtain the EU’s digital Covid certificate.
Germany sees record-breaking heat, drought, and sun in 2022
Scientists said Germany was an average of 1.7 degrees C warmer than when record-keeping began. They reiterated warnings that allowing climate change to continue unchecked would have devastating consequences.
The German Weather Service (DWD) published its annual summary on Friday, confirming that 2022 will have at least tied for the hottest year on record.
Only when all the final data from every weather station in the country are collected in January, the DWD said, can the organization say if 2022 was hotter than 2018, the current record holder.
One thing was certain, however: in 2022, the country has been on average 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.06 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than it was since recordkeeping began in 1881.
With advances and setbacks, a year of struggle for women's rights
From the US revoking the federal right to abortion to Afghanistan mandating the burqa and gradually banning women from public spaces, FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the main events that marked the struggle for women’s rights around the world over the past year.
From one continent to another, women both achieved milestones and encountered setbacks in 2022.
Iran has been dominated by riots and demonstrations provoked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurdish woman who died in custody after the country’s morality police arrested her for violating hijab laws.
Palestinians watch on as far-right Israeli gov’t comes into power
While some Palestinians see the new government as no different from previous ones, others are worried.
The Israeli parliament has sworn in Benjamin Netanyahu as the new prime minister, inaugurating the country’s most far-right, religiously conservative government in history, leaving Palestinians worried about what comes next.
The year 2022 was already the deadliest for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2006, as Israel conducted near-daily military raids, and the Gaza Strip faced three days of Israeli bombardment in August.
Suspect in Abe slaying may face raft of additional firearms charges
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 30, 2022 at 18:31 JST
The suspect in the slaying of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may face at least five additional charges concerning suspected firearms violations after police decided to refer him to prosecutors for the offenses.
The possible charges against Tetsuya Yamagami, 42, that will be referred by Nara prefectural police to prosecutors include suspected breaches of both the Firearm and Sword Possession Control Law and the Weapons Manufacturing Law, according to sources.
The Firearm and Sword Possession Control Law prohibits the firing of “handguns or other firearms” in public places.
Police concluded the handmade gun that police say Yamagami used to shoot Abe on July 8 while he was campaigning in Nara city falls into the category of “handguns or other firearms” under the law.
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