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The allegations against Trump  

Sources: Jury meeting canceled - no indictment expected today  

No indictment is expected against Donald Trump on Wednesday, Business Insider reports citing sources. According to the information, a planned meeting where the jury was to review evidence has been cancelled. 

The case concerns a potentially illegal payment to keep former porn star Stormy Daniels quiet about an affair. Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has testified that he transferred the money on orders from his boss. Others close to Trump claim that Cohen acted on his own initiative. 

According to the informant, the jury may meet on Thursday instead, writes Reuters. 

 

A man in a restaurant watches Macron's interview Daniel Cole / AP  

The French pension protests 

Macron: Necessary – but not fun pension reform  

The controversial pension reform is necessary for French society. This is what French President Emmanuel Macron says in a first television interview since his government implemented the reform without a vote in parliament, French media reports. 

He hopes that the reform will have followed "its democratic path towards the law book" before the turn of the year. At the same time, he says that he finds no pleasure in the matter. 

- When I sit here and talk to you, do you think I think this is funny? No, says Macron. 

 However, he admits his government has failed to convey the importance of raising the retirement age.  

 

Boris Johnson on his way into Parliament David Cliff / AP 

British partygate  

Johnson is questioned: "Hand on heart - I didn't lie"  

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson testifies before the British Parliament about his role in the so-called partygate. He began by once again denying that he deliberately misled MPs. 

- Hand on heart: I did not lie, he says when he is questioned in the British Parliament.  

Johnson says that if it had been "obvious" that the covid restrictions were broken in connection with parties during the pandemic, it would also have been so to, for example, Rishi Sunak, the current prime minister. Sunak was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Johnson and attended meetings at 10 Downing Street.  

Johnson is being grilled by a committee tasked with finding out if he knowingly. He risks suspension and, at worst, could lose his seat in parliament if the committee finds he lied.