Giorno: 9 Giugno 2023

It’s Boris Johnson’s disheartening, shoddy honours list – and it becomes him | Hugh Muir

Read More If nothing became Boris Johnson more than the manner of his leaving No 10, nothing says more about the political rot he accelerated than the honours list that trails behind him and his announcement tonight that he will quit parliament having been told he faces ignominious suspension. To scan the list that was […]

‘It is sad to be leaving … for now’: Boris Johnson’s resignation statement in full

Read More Here is the full text of Boris Johnson’s resignation statement: Johnson wrote: I have received a letter from the privileges committee making it clear – much to my amazement – that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of parliament. They have still not produced a shred […]

Boris Johnson resigns as MP with immediate effect over Partygate report

Read More Boris Johnson is standing down immediately as a Conservative MP after an investigation into the Partygate scandal found he misled parliament and recommended a lengthy suspension from the House of Commons. The former prime minister angrily accused the investigation of trying to drive him out, and claimed there was a “witch-hunt under way, […]

Hillary Clinton Mocks Trump for Indictment

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic opponent of Donald Trump in 2016, mocked the former president Friday on Twitter following news of his indictment.

Trump-appointed judge is assigned to oversee classified documents indictment

The historic indictment and criminal case against former President Donald Trump will be overseen, at least initially, by a federal judge he appointed who has faced criticism for her handling of the case in its earlier stages. Judge Aileen Cannon, a former federal prosecutor who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, has […]

ICJ lets 32 countries back Ukraine in genocide case against Russia

The International Court of Justice has accepted requests from 32 countries to back Ukraine in a genocide case against Russia, the United Nations’ highest court said Friday. It’s the largest number of countries to join another nation’s complaint at the world court based in The Hague, Netherlands. Ukraine’s government filed the legally creative case days […]

Ex-Italian PM Berlusconi readmitted to hospital for routine leukemia checks

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was readmitted to a Milan hospital Friday for planned medical checks related to his chronic leukemia, his doctors said in a statement. FORMER ITALIAN PREMIER SILVIO BERLUSCONI SAYS HE’LL ‘ONCE AGAIN’ RECOVER FOLLOWING LEUKEMIA DIAGNOSIS Berlusconi’s doctors, Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri, said the tests being conducted at San Raffaele […]

11 UN peacekeepers accused of sexual exploitation, abuse in Central African Republic

Eleven U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Central African Republic have been accused of sexual exploitation and abuse, the United Nations said Friday. Investigations were still underway, but preliminary evidence gathered by the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services revealed that the members of a Tanzanian peacekeeping unit deployed in the country’s west were implicated in the […]

Reagan-era Interior Secretary James Watt dead at 85

James Watt, the Reagan administration’s sharp-tongued, pro-development interior secretary who was admired by conservatives but ran afoul of environmentalists, Beach Boys fans and eventually the president, has died. He was 85. Watt died in Arizona on May 27, son Eric Watt said in a statement Thursday. In an administration divided between so-called pragmatists and hardliners, […]

Man at Center of AG Paxton’s Impeachment Faces Charges

Federal prosecutors on Friday leveled charges of making false statements to financial institutions against a real estate developer who is at the center of allegations that led to the impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.