Eskom gets a new board — and changes to management may follow
Read More Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan has announced a new Eskom board that will be chaired by previous chief executive Mpho Makwana. On Friday afternoon, Gordhan said there will also soon be changes to Eskom’s management team as the power utility undergoes restructuring. The new board will make the changes to management. “The […]
Putin’s annexation speech: more angry taxi driver than head of state
Read More Eight-and-a-half years after Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of Crimea, he gathered the elites of Russia in the Kremlin’s St George Hall for another land-grab ceremony: this time laying claim to four more Ukrainian regions. The annexation formalities were preceded by an angry, rambling speech which dwelled only briefly on either Ukraine or […]
Texas showdown: GOP Gov. Greg Abbott and Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke face-off Friday night
Post Content Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke go head-to-head on Friday evening, in the first and likely only in-person debate in the Lone Star State’s showdown for governor. The debate — which is being hosted by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, along the U.S.-Mexico […]
DeSantis: 34,000 in Florida Have Applied for FEMA Assistance
About 34,000 Floridians have already applied for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Friday.
Democrat attacks Pelosi for ‘failure of House leadership’ after STOCK Act fizzles, calls for ‘new leaders’
Post Content A House Democrat blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday for a “failure of House leadership” by refusing to call up legislation to impose tougher stock trading restrictions on members of Congress. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., said she has been working with members since 2020 to call up a bill that would strengthen […]
Democratic Senate nominee Mandela Barnes endorsed by radical anti-police, abolish ICE group
Post Content Democratic Wisconsin Senate nominee Mandela Barnes was endorsed last month by a radical anti-police group that has called for defunding and disbanding law enforcement, as well as abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). On its website, Color of Change PAC celebrated Barnes’ experience as a former field […]
Tribunal declares Iran committed “crimes against humanity” during crackdown of 2019 protests
As protests continue to sweep across Iran, a who’s who of legal experts announced in London on Friday that the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, and the current President Ebrahim Raisi, carried out a lethal plan to “commit crimes against humanity,” resulting in the mass murder of 1,500 protestors. The […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin announces annexation of 4 Ukrainian territories after ‘sham’ referendums
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed an order that will officially, in Russia’s view, annex four Ukrainian regions under the rule of the Russian Federation. The signing ceremony held at the Georgievsky Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow took place just days after referenda concluded in the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson […]
Taliban say suicide bombing in Shiite area of Kabul kills 19
A suicide bomber struck an education center in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital on Friday, killing 19 people and wounding 27, a Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief said. The explosion inside the center in the Dashti Barchi neighborhood of Kabul — populated mostly by members of Afghanistan’s minority Shiite community — […]
Covid Italia, bollettino del 30 settembre: 34.479 nuovi casi e 38 decessi
Read More Ancora in netta risalita la curva epidemica in Italia. Sono 34.479 i nuovi casi di Covid nelle ultime 24 ore, contro i 37.522 di ieri e soprattutto i 21.085 di venerdì scorso. I tamponi processati sono 183.059 (ieri 198.119) con un tasso di positività che dal 18,9% scende leggermente al 18,8%.I decessi di […]
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