One of Japan's most popular comedians, who denied sexual assault allegations published in a prominent magazine, said Friday that he was withdrawing a libel case against the magazine.

Japanese comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto drops libel suit over sexual assault article

Two women in France went on trial on Wednesday (June 19) over false claims that the country's first lady, Brigitte Macron, was transgender. These claims, propagated by conspiracy theorists and the far right, alleged that Brigitte Macron had once been a man named "Jean-Michel".

Defamation trial begins for women who claimed Emmanuel Macron's wife Brigitte was transgender

Prince Harry lost a preliminary round Friday in his libel case against the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid over an article that said he tried to hide his efforts to retain publicly funded protection in the UK after walking away from his role as a working member of the royal family.

Judge rules against Prince Harry in early stage of libel case against Daily Mail publisher

Prince Harry agreed with Associated Newspapers, one of the giant media publishers of Britain, to pause his libel claim temporarily so that an attempt can be made to settle the case, heard the High Court of London on Tuesday.

Prince Harry, UK publisher to temporarily pause libel case, try to reach a settlement

Rebekah Vardy, who claimed the judge "got it wrong," lost her libel case against Coleen Rooney and now must pay millions of pounds in legal fees.

Coleen Rooney wins ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case against Rebekah Vardy

libel-case

Libel Case, News on Libel Case, stories on Libel Case, articles on Libel Case, Libel Case stories at Wion, Libel Case news, Libel Case latest news