Giorno: 9 Giugno 2023

Mkhwebane cries foul over lawyers, money and alleged extortion

Read More Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Leila Dougan/Daily Maverick/Gallo Images) She says her impeachment probe can’t go on until the state gets her a new attorney but has privately briefed one to demand the recusal of the chair of the process This article is only available to subscribers. View subscription options If you are […]

Lucy Letby denies being a ‘very calculating’ serial killer in court

Read More Lucy Letby has denied she is a “very calculating” serial killer who has deliberately misled the jury in her trial over the alleged murder of babies. On a tense final day of cross-examination, the nurse admitted she was “drinking fizz and going to the races” and was very active socially at a time […]

Third-party presidential candidate Cornel West rips ‘mediocre, milk toast’ Biden: ‘Get off the crack pipe’

People’s Party presidential candidate Cornel West, a progressive activist, went after President Biden Thursday, referring to him as “mediocre” and “milquetoast” in his first interview since announcing his long-shot third-party run for the White House. Appearing on KBLA’s Tavis Smiley podcast, West pushed back on the notion his candidacy was potentially “pulling votes away from […]

North Carolina gives final approval to Farm Act with limits on wetland protections

The North Carolina General Assembly approved the annual Farm Act on Thursday, a bill containing the usual hodgepodge of agriculture provisions, along with a contentious item involving limiting wetlands protections. The Senate voted 37-6 for the bill containing changes made by the House, which approved its version on Wednesday by a vote of 77-38. Those […]

Kosovo becomes second Muslim-majority country to endorse organization’s definition of anti-Semitism

Kosovo became the second Muslim-majority country to endorse the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA), an intergovernmental organization, definition of anti-Semitism, joining 43 other countries. The southeastern European country passed the resolution on adopting the definition defined by the IHRA on Thursday, June 8. The decision was announced on Twitter by the country’s Charge d’Affairs to […]

Whatever happened to… Syria’s civil war?

Fighting among various opposition groups in Syria has declined, but the war is not officially over. “Syria is living through what we can call a frozen conflict,” Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Qutaiba Idlbi said. “Basically, the war itself has not been over, but we’ve been seeing a steady cease-fire since 2020.” Turkey and Russia agreed […]

Would-be liquor store thief stopped in his tracks by locked door: video

A would-be bourbon thief was left visibly dejected when his grab-and-go liquor store robbery was foiled by locked automatic doors, security cam footage shows. An unidentified man was caught on camera trying to steal a 10-pack of Wild Turkey 101 from The Bottle-O Beechboro liquor store near Perth, Australia, on Tuesday. Kellie Gordon, who was […]

Ukraine claims intercepted phone call proves Russian ‘sabotage group’ blew up Kakhovka dam

Ukraine is claiming Friday that an intercepted phone call between two men talking in Russian proves that a Russian “sabotage group” is behind this week’s destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant and dam, which has caused extensive flooding. The domestic Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) posted a one-and-a-half-minute clip of the alleged conversation on […]