Giorno: 28 Gennaio 2023

Fiji’s New Leader Scraps Police Training Deal With China, Fires Top Cop

Read More Fiji’s newly-elected leader said on Thursday that the Fijian security force would cease working with personnel from China, signaling the end of a policing agreement signed between the two nations in 2011. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who took office in December 2022, deemed it unnecessary for the Pacific Island nation to continue its […]

Revealed: child migrants racially abused and threatened with violence at Home Office hotel

Read More Children seeking asylum in the UK were threatened and subjected to racist abuse by staff at a Home Office-run hotel, a whistleblower has claimed as pressure grows on the government to act over the growing crisis in the system. The source, who worked in the Brighton hotel for more than a year, said […]

Rep. Elise Stefanik: House GOP ‘Examining’ DirecTV’s Deplatforming Newsmax

The Republican-led House is “examining” the “deplatforming” of Newsmax by DirecTV, according to the House GOP’s third-ranking member.

Democratic darlings Schiff and Porter kick off an ugly, expensive fight for California’s Senate seat

Post Content The race for California’s coveted Senate seat has kicked off, and it’s shaping up to be an expensive, ugly battle between two of the top political fundraisers in the House chamber. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who announced his bid for the Senate seat on Thursday, joins Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., in a competitive […]

AP Apologizes for Its ‘the French’ Tweet

The largest newswire in the United States, The Associated Press, apologized following the ridicule it endured for its tweet referencing “the French.”

Climate change protesters in The Hague block highway, get detained and hauled away by bus

Hundreds of climate activists on Saturday blocked one of the main roads into the international criminal court, The Hague, in a show of protests over fossil fuel linked tax breaks before being hauled away. Activists reportedly blocked the road for an hour before authorities began detaining them and removing them by bus. The move comes […]

White House Criticizes China for Not Being ‘Fully Transparent’ About COVID Numbers

Read More During a White House press briefing on Jan. 25, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said that China hasn’t been “fully transparent” about COVID numbers. “And we cannot speak to the veracity of those numbers. We urge China to be fully transparent about what’s going on.” Under increasing international pressure […]

‘We’re tired of being beaten’: protesters across US call for justice for Tyre Nichols

Read More Protests took place in multiple US cities late Friday after police released footage of Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating at the hands of Memphis police. The video released late Friday shows several Memphis officers kicking Nichols repeatedly in the head, punching him in the face, and hitting him with a baton. Officers and medical […]

Clare Drakeford, wife of Wales’s first minister, dies

Read More Clare Drakeford, the wife of Wales’s first minister, Mark Drakeford, has died suddenly, the Welsh government announced on Saturday. A Welsh government spokesperson said: “It is with deep sadness that we confirm the sudden passing of Clare Drakeford, wife of the first minister. “The thoughts of everyone in the Welsh government are with […]

Sunak was warned of Zahawi reputational risk in October, say sources

Read More Rishi Sunak was told there could be a reputational risk to the government from Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs when he appointed him as Conservative party chair in October, sources have told the Observer. During the period when the prime minister was drawing up his new cabinet, senior government officials gave him informal advice […]