Giorno: 8 Ottobre 2022

There’s Something About J …

Read More Award-winning musician J’Something has partnered with hotel and apartment network BlackBrick, and entrepreneur Ricardo da Costa,to conceptualise Artistry. This is a three-level entertainment hotspot planned for Sandton which will take guests on a journey from a downstairs lounge, through a mid-level 100-seater theatre to a rooftop restaurant to experience the party life. J’Something […]

Who is Peter Obi, and why is he making the Nigerian establishment so nervous?

Read More It is not easy to get 2 000 Nigerians to sing the national anthem as if they mean it. On a Monday evening earlier this month, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, Peter Obi did exactly that. He was there to give a speech on the role of the Nigerian diaspora in […]

Newsom to Call Special Legislative Session Over Gas Prices

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday he will call a special session of the state Legislature in December to pass a new tax on oil company profits to punish them for what he called “rank price gouging.”

Ireland gas station explosion leaves at least 7 dead, more injured and missing: ‘Very traumatic situation’

A gas station explosion in a small village in northwest Ireland on Saturday left at least seven people dead and more injured, local police said. Authorities confirmed another four people died overnight following an explosion destroyed the Applegreen service station in Creeslough, County Donegal, adding to the initial three that were reported dead from the […]

King Charles’s former school pays ex-pupils ?500,000 for abuse claims

Read More The King’s former school, Gordonstoun, has reached out-of-court settlements totalling more than ?500,000 with two ex-pupils who alleged rape, bullying and severe sexual abuse at its junior school in the 1990s. The stories of Kate (not her real name) and John Findlay were first told in the Observer Magazine in 2015. Kate, who […]

Anti-Communist Writer ‘Hong Kong’s Voltaire’ Lee Yee Dies At 86

Read More Lee Yee, a famous Hong Kong writer, died of illness in Taipei on Oct. 5 at the age of 86. His daughter posted an obituary on her Facebook page. “The funeral arrangements will be announced soon,” she said. Hong Kong columnist Chip Tsao and scholar Simon Shen pointed out that Lee had recently […]

Convicted con artist Anna Sorokin released from jail, attorney says

Read More Anna Sorokin, the convicted con artist who masqueraded as a German heiress and swindled wealthy New Yorkers, has been released from jail but must steer clear of social media, her attorney has confirmed. The 31-year-old, who also went by the name Anna Delvey and is the subject of Netflix’s Inventing Anna, has been […]

‘Bad smell’: Mick Lynch criticises Liz Truss government as rail workers strike

Read More Union chief Mick Lynch has compared Liz Truss’s government to a “bad smell” as more than 40,000 RMT members joined a national rail strike on Saturday. Speaking at a picket line outside Euston station in London, the RMT general secretary criticised the “incompetence” of the new prime minister and chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, claiming […]

Ucraina – Russia, le news dalla guerra oggi: colpito il ponte della Crimea, “Sono stati gli ucraini con un camion-bomba”. Kiev: “È solo l’inizio”. Mosca: “Siete regime terrorista”

Read More Un’esplosione è avvenuta questa mattina sul ponte di Kerch, che collega la Russia alla Crimea ed è il fiore all’occhiello dell’occupazione. Per il consigliere di Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, “è solo l’inizio”. Ieri il Nobel per la Pace ha premiato i protagonisti della battaglia per la libertà contro il regime russo e quello bielorusso. Sale […]

Governo dopo le elezioni: Zangrillo: “Grazie, ma non voglio fare il ministro della Salute”. Letta: “Con la Cgil per l’anniversario dell’assalto alla sede nazionale”

Read More Giorgia Meloni, negli ultimi giorni incessantemente al lavoro per definire il programma e la squadra di governo, oggi cercherà di fare una pausa – per quanto possibile – così da restare in casa con la figlioletta Ginevra.  A Roma intanto si mobilita il mondo del lavoro. Alle 13 prende il via la manifestazione […]