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HABEUS CORPUS The former president’s daughter Sara Duterte, the country’s vice president, boarded a morning flight to Amsterdam, her office said, but it did not say what she intended to do there or how long she planned to stay in the Netherlands. Silvestre Bello, a former labour minister and one of the former president’s lawyers, said a legal team would meet to assess options and seek clarity on where Duterte would be taken and whether they would be granted access to him. Duterte’s youngest daughter, Veronica, plans to file a habeas corpus request with the Philippine Supreme Court to compel…

Putin hails advances in Kursk during a rare visit, promising to fully liberate the region from Ukrainian forces soon.Ukrainian troops appear on the point of losing their hard-won foothold inside Russia’s Kursk region as Moscow claims further advances there and military bloggers on both sides say Kyiv’s forces are withdrawing. Ukraine sprang one of the biggest shocks of the war on August 6 last year by storming across the border and seizing territory inside Russia, boosting citizens’ morale and gaining a potential bargaining chip. But after clinging for more than seven months to a gradually shrinking area, Ukraine has seen…

Washington — Less than two months since President Trump’s inauguration, the Republican-led Senate has confirmed nearly every one of his Cabinet nominees. A vote has yet to be scheduled for the final nominee — Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, who is poised to become the ambassador to the United Nations. House Republicans, who are operating with a one-vote majority, can’t risk losing another member. Special elections to fill two vacant seats will be held on April 1, creating more breathing room for Stefanik’s expected departure. There are 22 Cabinet positions, each requiring Senate confirmation. CBS News also included the divisive…

A new court filing reveals the defense team for Idaho college quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger is planning to argue at trial that the knife sheath found at the crime scene was potentially planted by the real killer. In the state’s filing released on Tuesday, prosecutors summarized a defense filing that appears to be sealed.”Instead of challenging the conclusion that the DNA on the knife sheath belonged to Defendant, the defense’s expert disclosures reveal that the defense plans to argue the DNA on the knife sheath does not prove Defendant was ever at the crime scene and the knife sheath itself…

The U.S. government says its rule that will require foreign nationals, including some Canadians, visiting for 30 days or more to register will come into force next month. The rule was part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Protecting the American People Against Invasion” executive order, which was signed on Jan. 20 and applies to anyone who is not an American citizen or permanent resident. What are we now learning? On Wednesday, an interim final rule was posted to the U.S. Federal Register and said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) was amending regulations…

Payne Haas is tipped to become an even bigger nightmare for defenders as the Brisbane prop reboots the prodigious offloading skills he has long held in his arsenal.In last week’s 50-14 win over Sydney Roosters, the rampaging front-rower unleashed four offloads and set up a try with a silky pass for hooker Cory Paix to score.”He’s a freak of nature and can pull that out of his arsenal. Payne just keeps getting better and better,” Broncos lock Kobe Hetherington said.In the early years of his NRL career Haas did not offload the ball often. In the club’s grand-final year of…

The arrest warrant was delivered to President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. of the Philippines in Manila at 3 a.m. Monday. The person named on it: his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, the firebrand whose war on drugs left thousands of people dead.But acting on the warrant from the International Criminal Court was not straightforward, since the Philippines is not a member of the court. So at 6:30 a.m., Mr. Marcos’s government received another warrant for Mr. Duterte, this time from Interpol, which was acting on the court’s behalf and of which the Philippines is a member.Mr. Marcos recalled his next step in…

For months now, President Trump has been threatening to deport foreign students who took part in last year’s campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war.Behind the scenes, his administration got to work.Investigators from a branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that typically focuses on human traffickers and drug smugglers scoured the internet for social media posts and videos that the administration could argue showed sympathy toward Hamas, administration officials said. The investigators handed over reports on multiple protesters to the State Department, which used an obscure legal statute to authorize the arrest over the weekend of a 30-year-old lawful permanent resident:…

The Senate Democratic leader said on Wednesday that Democrats would refuse to back a stopgap bill to fund the government through Sept. 30, significantly raising the chances of a government shutdown at the end of the week.After a private party meeting, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, instead urged Republicans to consider another extension to allow time to consider individual spending bills.“Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11 C.R. that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass,” Mr. Schumer said, using the shorthand for a continuing resolution to…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 12, 2025 4:16 pm Updated March 12, 2025 4:17 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Toronto woman who faced multiple charges in a dog attack that seriously injured a child has pleaded guilty to some of them, including a criminal charge of negligence. Court records show Patrycja Siarek entered the pleas in a Toronto court last Friday.She had also been charged with infractions under the provincial Dog Owners’ Liability Act and Toronto’s municipal code. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world,…