内容摘要：Palestinian women wait with their sick children for medical care in an overcrowded clinic in Gaza City, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehand Alshrafi)

Palestinian women wait with their sick children for medical care in an overcrowded clinic in Gaza City, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehand Alshrafi)

Kažimír’s attorneys argued that he should have been acquitted because of the recent changes in Slovakia’s penal code, which reduced punishment for corruption and that recently ended a number of corruption cases and trials.Kažimír wasn’t present at the court. He said in a statement that he would appeal. His six-year term in office expires on Sunday.

Kažimír was accused of paying a bribe of 48,000 euros ($54,000) at the turn of the year in 2017-18 to the head of the country’s tax office in connection with a tax audit of several private companies.At the time, Kažimír was acquiring a luxury villa located in an upscale neighborhood of Bratislava, the capital, from the owner of the companies.Kažimír, who pleaded not guilty, had previously said that he considered the charges to be illegal and fabricated.

The case dates to when Kažimír served as finance minister in the leftist government of populist Prime Ministerfrom 2012 to 2019. He was a member of Fico’s Smer, or Direction, party before taking the central bank job.

Smer lost the 2020 general election and was replaced by a coalition government whose parties campaigned on an anti-corruption ticket.

Since that government took power, a number of people linked to Fico’s party faced prosecution in corruption scandals.Mary Miller-Duffy speaks with Dr. Robert Montgomery in the NYU Langone Health medical center in New York on Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

After decades of failed attempts, now pigs genetically modified so their organs are more humanlike are renewing interest in so-called xenotransplantation. Last year,tried to save a dying man with a pig heart — and he survived for two months.

Montgomery is getting more practice in the dead before taking a chance with a living patient. A handful of prior experiments at NYU and thehave kept pig kidneys and hearts working in donated bodies for a few days to a week, avoiding the immediate rejection that doomed many earlier attempts.