The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 4 in Trump v. Anderson, reversing a Colorado Supreme Court decision that had deemed Donald Trump, the former U.S. president, ineligible for Colorado's 2024 presidential Republican primary due to involvement in the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot.
During her annual New Year's Eve address on December 31, Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark, informed the public that she planned to step down on January 14. Crown Prince Frederik, her oldest son, will succeed her.
On the afternoon of November 19 local time, The Carter Center announced, former First Lady of the United States Rosalynn Carter, wife of former President Jimmy Carter, died.
On November 4, Russian Wikinews attended Russian photographer Viktor Pinchuk's exhibition The Architectural Art of the Vanished Civilizations of Mesoamerica at the Central Museum of Taurida, in Simferopol, Crimea.
Multiple earthquakes over the Easter weekend around El Hierro Island, one of the Canary Islands, have raised some parts of the island by as much as 11 centimetres (4.3 inches). This includes a 4.9 magnitude earthquake Sunday, following 129 quakes below 1.3 magnitude through Saturday.
250 protesters gathered today at the Faslane Naval base in Scotland to call for the UK's Trident nuclear weapons programme to be scrapped. A number of protestors chained themselves to the gates of the base and were cut free by Police Scotland officers. Around 47 people were arrested including the Green PartyEdinburgh councillor Chas Booth.
France's upper house voted yesterday to approve a bill to allow same-sex marriage to be legal following protests for and against the bill. The bill also makes it legal for gay couples to adopt children, and is scheduled to return to the lower house next Wednesday.
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