By Nora Buli
OSLO, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Norway's foreign ministry on Sunday said a prominent ambassador, Mona Juul, would step down due to a "serious failure of judgement" over ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, part of a growing scandal in the Nordic country and across Europe.
The ministry earlier this week suspended Juul from her position as ambassador to Jordan and Iraq pending an internal inquiry of links to Epstein found in a... (continue reading...)
DUBAI, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Iranian activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned repeatedly in her three-decade campaign for women's rights, was sentenced to a new prison term of 7-1/2 years, a group supporting her said on Sunday.
Mohammadi, 53, was on a week-long hunger strike that ended on Sunday, the Narges Foundation said in a statement. It said Mohammadi told her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, in a phone call on Sunday... (continue reading...)
Feb 8 (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa has been freed from jail, his family said in a statement on Sunday, the latest high-profile release by the government in Caracas, which is under pressure from the U.S. to free political prisoners.
Rights group Foro Penal said 11 political prisoners were released on Sunday and that it was verifying additional cases. The organization previously confirmed that 383 political prisoners... (continue reading...)
By Sheila Dang
Feb 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump criticized American Olympic skier Hunter Hess on Sunday, days after the athlete expressed mixed feelings about representing the U.S. at the Winter Olympics in northern Italy.
"If that's the case, he shouldn't have tried out for the Team, and it's too bad he's on it," Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social media platform, referencing Hess' comments. "Very hard to root for... (continue reading...)
By Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Wendell Roelf
CAPE TOWN, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Angola is pursuing a 20%-30% stake in Anglo American's diamond unit De Beers, a proposal being discussed with other diamond-producing African nations, a senior official from Angola's mining ministry told Reuters on Sunday.
De Beers, one of the world's leading diamond companies with operations spanning Botswana, Namibia, Angola, South Africa and Canada, has been put... (continue reading...)
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