Giorno: 5 Febbraio 2023

Chinese spy balloons over US during Trump admin ‘discovered after’ he left office: senior Biden official

Information suggesting that Chinese spy balloons traveled over the continental United States during the Trump administration was “discovered after” former President Trump left office, a senior administration official told Fox News. A defense official on Saturday said Chinese spy balloons briefly traveled over the United States at least three times during the Trump administration. TRUMP, […]

Chinese surveillance balloon: Pentagon to brief US Senate on Feb. 15, Schumer says

The Pentagon will give the full senate a briefing on the Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday after traversing the continental United States, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on Sunday. The Gang of Eight, which consists of eight Republican and Democrat leaders from both […]

Tory MPs expected to

Read More Conservative MPs are about to make a renewed push for the UK to leave the European convention on human rights (ECHR), amid reports that Rishi Sunak is considering the move in order to allow a harsh crackdown on migration. The proposals were backed by the home secretary, Suella Braverman, during her leadership campaign […]

Deadlock over NHS pay putting patients in danger, chief nurses warn

Read More Deadlock over NHS pay is putting patients in danger and risks hardening the position of unions, 10 chief nurses have warned on the eve of the biggest strikes in the health service’s history. Unions have warned that the government is making no moves towards resolving the strikes, with one general secretary accusing the […]

9 Missing After Fishing Boat Capsizes in South Korea

Read More Members of the rescue team search for people from a capsized boat in waters off the country’s southwestern coast in South Korea on Feb. 5, 2023. (Jung Hee-sung/Yonhap via AP) SEOUL, South Korea—South Korean coast guard vessels and aircraft on Sunday were searching for nine fishermen who disappeared after their boat capsized off […]

Return train tickets expected to be scrapped in UK rail shake-up

Read More Return tickets will be scrapped and new digital ticketing introduced under reforms of the British rail system expected to be announced this week. The two-way tickets, which offer a discounted rate, will be replaced by “single-leg pricing” which will mean that the price of two singles will be the same as the current […]

Liz Truss’s claim she was not warned about mini-budget risks ‘misleading’

Read More Senior economists and the former chancellor George Osborne have cast doubt over Liz Truss’s account that she was not warned about the risks to the UK economy as she prepared her mini-budget. Truss, in her first major intervention since leaving office, wrote that she had “not [been] given a realistic chance to enact […]

Sunak thought to have spent thousands on helicopter trips since becoming PM

Read More Rishi Sunak has taken private helicopter trips to his constituency in North Yorkshire costing thousands of pounds since he became prime minister, the Guardian understands. The commute to Richmond from a London heliport is likely to raise further questions about the prime minister’s commitment to tackling the climate crisis. Sunak is understood to […]

Talk of resignation and retreat swirls in Ukraine as Bakhmut enters endgame

Read More Ukraine’s defence minister sought to dismiss speculation in Kyiv that he would be forced to resign or be reshuffled at a lengthy press conference where he also claimed that Russia was taking 500 casualties a day in Bakhmut. Oleksii Reznikov, one of Ukraine’s better known figures internationally, has been under pressure after it […]