Giorno: 9 Febbraio 2023

Sanremo 2023, al via la terza giornata. La classifica provvisoria: Mengoni ancora in testa

Read More Comincia la terza giornata del festival di Sanremo 2023 e la gara entra nel vivo. In testa alla classifica provvisoria data alla fine della seconda serata c’è ancora Marco Mengoni. Questa sera i 28 artisti in gara eseguiranno di nuovo le loro canzoni, votate stavolta dal pubblico attraverso il Televoto (peso del 50 […]

China’s Balloon Was Part of Planned Posturing Ahead of Blinken’s Beijing Visit

Read More Commentary The Chinese reconnaissance balloon, shot down by the U.S. Air Force last Saturday, may have been just one of numerous planned incidents by Beijing aimed at increasing its bargaining power in the negotiations scheduled with U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken for this week. Blinken was supposed to visit Beijing on Feb. […]

McCaul targets China, Afghanistan withdrawal as top oversight priorities: ‘I have subpoena power’

EXCLUSIVE: House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul is vowing to stop the export of technologies to China and hold the Biden administration accountable for the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 as his top committee priorities. McCaul, R-Texas, said one of the first actions he plans to take is requesting to view […]

President Biden’s State of the Union address gets rated by Americans

Americans in the nation’s capital assessed President Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday. Most who spoke with Fox News approved of his address. “Biden was awesome,” Craig told Fox News. “Couldn’t be better.” But Antione disagreed, saying he hasn’t witnessed any accomplishments from the Biden administration. “I haven’t seen anything yet,” he told […]

Meloni esclusa dalla cena Macron-Scholz-Zelensky. La premier paga i dissensi in maggioranza, dovrà accontentarsi di un “bilaterale”

Read More ROMA – Quando Giorgia Meloni, poco dopo il tramonto, vola a Bruxelles per il consiglio europeo, a Parigi sta per cominciare la cena fra Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz e Volodymyr Zelensky. Lei, la premier italiana, non è stata invitata. Né il presidente francese le aveva detto nulla di quest’appuntamento l’ultima volta che si […]

Act now on energy bills subsidy or see fuel poverty surge, says Martin Lewis

Read More Jeremy Hunt must act now to reverse plans to raise energy bills from April, MoneySavingExpert’s Martin Lewis has warned, saying the change cannot wait until the spring budget next month. In a letter to the chancellor seen by the Guardian, Lewis warned more than 1.7m more households could be plunged into fuel poverty […]

Firefighters postpone UK strikes after 7% pay offer

Read More Strikes by firefighters have been postponed following an increased pay offer during lengthy talks with employers, it was announced on Thursday. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said it had been offered a 7% pay rise backdated to July 2022, and then 5% from July this year. The union had warned of strikes if […]

Burma, Russia Sign Pact on Developing Nuclear Power

Read More BANGKOK—The military-led government of Burma (also known as Myanmar), working with Russia’s state atomic energy company, has inaugurated a nuclear power information center as a step toward developing atomic power to fill energy shortages in the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation. Burma’s state media reported Tuesday that the head of the military government, Senior […]

Factionalism is the nature of politics; Ramaphosa and the ANC must stop its cancerous effect on state capability

Read More Lots has been made of the importance of unity in the ANC and the end of factionalism, which will lower our blood pressures  But it’s become increasingly clear that this is a rather trivial pursuit. And not because of any uniqueness of the ANC but rather because of the nature of politics — […]

Turkey-Syria earthquake updates: death toll at least 15,000 as 72-hour ‘rescue window’ passes – live news

Read More Freezing temperatures deepened the misery Thursday for survivors of a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria that killed at least 15,000 people, as rescuers raced to save countless people still trapped under rubble. The death toll from Monday’s 7.8-magnitude quake is expected to rise sharply as rescue efforts near the 72-hour mark that […]