Giorno: 14 Marzo 2023

Mining output continues to be bruised by electricity blackouts

Read More Mining output decreased by 1.9% year-on-year in January, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday, marking the 12th consecutive month of year-on-year decline and after a 3.5% contraction in December 2022. The largest negative contributors were platinum group metals (PGMs), whose production fell 15.2% decrease, while diamonds were down 15.5%. The last time the […]

Zuko Godlimpi: ANC may lose 2024 elections over energy crisis

Read More The ANC runs the risk of losing next year’s elections if it does not solve the country’s  energy crisis in the next 15 months, the newly elected deputy chairperson of its economic transformation committee, Zuko Godlimpi, has conceded. Godlimpi, the youngest member of the ruling party’s national executive committee (NEC), said there was […]

Internal government briefing admits HS2 delays will increase costs

Read More An internal Department for Transport briefing on the HS2 project has admitted delays to the high-speed railway will increase costs, appearing to undermine ministers’ claims. The document seen by the Guardian says the decision to delay the project is also likely to cost jobs, put construction firms at risk of going into administration […]

Boris Johnson to give televised Partygate evidence

Read More Boris Johnson will give his first televised evidence next Wednesday on whether he misled parliament over Partygate, the privileges committee has announced. The committee, which is chaired by the Labour MP Harriet Harman, has said the former prime minister has accepted the invite to give evidence at 2pm on 22 March. His appearance […]

Labour’s Lucy Powell says BBC’s suspension of Gary Lineker like something from ‘Putin’s Russia’ – UK politics live

Read More From 49m ago Lucy Powell, the shadow culture secretary, is asking her supplementary question now. She says ministers have got their “fingerprints all over” the BBC’s decision to suspend Gary Lineker. She says the BBC capitulated to “a Tory cancel campaign” and took Gary Lineker off air. She goes on: What does [Lopez] […]

Eleanor Williams jailed for eight and a half years after rape and trafficking lies

Read More A woman has been jailed for eight and a half years after being found guilty of lying about being raped and trafficked by an Asian grooming gang, and making false rape claims against a series of other men. Eleanor Williams, 22, from Barrow-in-Furness was convicted in January of nine counts of perverting the […]

Asylum seekers win permission for Rwanda policy legal challenge

Read More A court of appeal judge has ruled that a group of asylum seekers can bring a legal challenge against the Home Office for what they claim has been a failure to consider the dangers and risks of deporting them to Rwanda. Lord Justice Underhill, the vice-president of the court of appeal’s civil division, […]

San Francisco to Air Black Reparations Plan, $5M per Person

A controversial draft reparations proposal that includes a $5 million lump-sum payment for each eligible Black person could make San Francisco the first major U.S. city to fund reparations.

Expert: Chinese Lasers in Hawaii Could Signal Attack

An expert in Asian military affairs warned that the use of satellite-based lasers over Hawaii by China, allegedly to study pollution in the air, could also be used as a reconnaissance tool to guide a hypersonic missile strike on Pearl Harbor or other sensitive military targets there.

Hunter Biden: Treasury to give House Oversight access to suspicious activity reports, Comer says

The Treasury Department is giving the House Oversight Committee access to suspicious activity reports (SARs) related to Hunter Biden and the Biden family’s foreign business deals, Chairman James Comer said Tuesday. Comer, R-Ky., wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in January, requesting information about the Biden family and their associates’ business transactions flagged by U.S. […]