Giorno: 25 Maggio 2022

Partygate: what would make Tory MPs finally turn on Boris Johnson?

Read More While Boris Johnson seems safe for now from a leadership challenge, there has been inevitable speculation about what revelations within the imminent Sue Gray report could tempt more Tory MPs to send formal letters seeking his removal. Here are five potential scenarios – and the one to five risk rating for the PM. […]

Sue Gray report sent to No 10, says Cabinet Office

Read More Sue Gray’s final report into Downing Street parties has been sent to No 10, and is expected to include damning descriptions and photographs of gatherings that broke lockdown laws. A Cabinet Office spokesperson said: “We can confirm that Sue Gray has provided her final report to the prime minister.” The senior civil servant’s […]

CBS Pulls ‘FBI’ Season Finale After Texas School Shooting

The season finale of “FBI,” which featured a plotline involving a school shooting, was pulled by CBS on Tuesday following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Deadline reported. CBS will instead play a rerun of the season’s 12th episode during the…

A Pakistani group visited Israel. Then Pakistan erupted

Read More For Muslims, Jews are fellow Ahl e Kitab (People of the Book) and children of Abraham, a religious kinship that, ideally, should translate into warm ties between the world’s Muslims and Jews. But the domination of politics means religious affiliations take a back seat and more potent rhetoric comes into play. Too often, […]

How Australia’s new leaders really see Israel and the Palestinians

Read More Last week in Australia, Anthony Albanese led a center-left Labor government to victory, ending almost a decade of rule by the conservative Liberal and National party coalition. While in the United States a majority of Jews lean Democratic, only one in five Australian Jews identify as being politically closer to Labor. Despite this, […]

Boat Carrying Rohingya Fleeing Myanmar Capsizes, Killing 16

Read More Rohingya refugees bathe at a hand water pump at Kutupalong refugee camp, where they have been living amid uncertainty over their future after they fled Myanmar to escape violence a year ago, in Bangladesh, on Aug. 26, 2018. (Altaf Qadri/AP Photo) BANGKOK—At least 16 people from Myanmar’s Rohingya minority have died after a […]

PPE supplier challenges Special Tribunal’s power to impose R38M sanction

Read More The Special Investigating Unit argued that the concourt should not entertain a cynical attempt to claw back the millions made in the scandal. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G) The constitutional court on Tuesday heard argument that a R38-million forfeiture order granted against Ledla Structural Development after the Gauteng personal protective equipment (PPE) contract was found […]

Turkish FM visits Yad Vashem: Our diplomats saved countless Jews

Read More Mevlut Cavusoglu arrives in Israel, in the first visit of a Turkish foreign minister in some 15 years, and after spending Tuesday in the Palestinian territories May 25, 2022 11:13 AM The Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu with Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan, on Wednesday.Ohad Zwigenberg Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu arrived in Israel […]

In latest trouble for Bennett, Israeli lawmaker says won’t vote with coalition

Read More Israeli lawmaker Michael Biton announced Wednesday that he will no longer vote with the governing coalition, except in no-confidence votes, until he reaches an agreement with Transport Minister Merav Michaeli on public transport reform. Biton, a member of the Blue and White Party, also said he is freezing the activities of the Knesset […]