Downer says Zuma has been tripped up by his Stalingrad tactics
Read More Jacob Zuma should not be allowed further delay in his arms deal corruption trial by virtue of an application for leave to appeal an interlocutory ruling he filed to the apex court at the eleventh hour, state prosecutor Billy Downer argued before the Pietermaritzburg high court on Monday. Downer submitted that the application […]
Transnet, majority union come to agreement on wage hike
Read More After just over a week of striking, the United Transport & Allied Trade Union (Untu) has signed a three-year wage deal with Transnet. Untu — which represents 53.9% of the Transnet workforce and is the majority union at the state logistics company — went on strike on 6 October following an impasse in […]
Jeremy Hunt has taken his scalpel to Liz Truss’s budget – now the real pain starts | Gaby Hinsliff
Read More Jeremy Hunt did his best to deploy a reassuring bedside manner. But the Conservative party’s surgeon came bearing bad news. He had seen the X-rays, and it all had to come out. Not just the obviously gangrenous parts of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s budget, like her corporation rate tax cut or the […]
Trussonomics: who were doomed mini-budget’s biggest cheerleaders?
Read More In a final blow to so-called Trussonomics, the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has announced he is reversing almost all the tax measures in his predecessor’s mini-budget. In less than four weeks, it damaged the UK’s reputation across the world, caused untold carnage on the financial markets and left the prime minister clinging on by […]
Huge majority of voters dissatisfied with state of the country, want to ditch Biden, Trump: Poll
Post Content Overwhelming majorities of Americans are disappointed with the state of the country and want Republicans and Democrats to leave Donald Trump and President Joe Biden behind, according to a Monday poll. Overall, 70% of Americans say they are dissatisfied with the state of the U.S. with respect to their rights and freedoms. Meanwhile, […]
Bloomberg Heads Fall Meeting of Pentagon ‘Innovation Board’
Former New York City mayor and businessman Michael Bloomberg is heading the fall meeting of the Defense Innovation Board to help advise the Pentagon for the first time on Monday.
Top House Dems continue paying family members thousands of dollars using campaign funds
Post Content FIRST ON FOX: Top House Democrats Maxine Waters and James Clyburn have continued to shell out tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to their family members ahead of the November midterm elections. The re-election campaign for Waters, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee chairwoman, paid a total of $16,000 to the […]
Dems target Arizona’s narrow GOP majority in midterm election
Post Content The razor-thin margins in Arizona’s statehouse make it a prime target for Democrats hoping to turn the state blue in November’s midterm elections. Republicans control Arizona’s Senate with a 16-14 advantage and hold the House by a 31-29 margin. In a year with highly-competitive races for governor and U.S. Senate in the state, […]
Satellite photos show damage at Iran prison amid protests
A fire that burned through part of Iran’s notorious Evin Prison damaged one of the largest buildings at the complex, according to satellite photos analyzed Monday, as authorities raised the death toll in the still-murky incident, saying at least eight prisoners were killed. What happened on Saturday night at the prison — which houses both […]
Covid in Italia, il bollettino del 17 ottobre: 13.439 nuovi casi, 93 morti. Tasso positività giù al 16%
Read More In calo la curva epidemica in Italia. Sono 13.439 i nuovi casi di Covid nelle ultime 24 ore, contro i 30.239 di ieri e soprattutto i 15.089 di lunedì scorso.I tamponi processati sono 84.220 (ieri 175.985) con un tasso di positività che dal 17,2% scende al 16%. I decessi di oggi sono 93 […]