Mexico Hit by Trade Arbitration Proceedings by US, Canadian Firms
Mexico has been hit with three sets of trade arbitration proceedings in the past few days, according to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
Post-Brexit fall in English ownership of European second homes, figures show
Read More They used to go wild for villas by the Med and ski chalets in the Alps; now they are forking out for views of the Channel and hilly walks in Shropshire. According to figures released this week by the English Housing Survey, the proportion of English owners of second homes who have properties […]
More than 1,000 people forced to flee wildfires on Greek island of Rhodes
Read More More than 1,000 people were forced to flee homes and hotels on Rhodes after an uncontrolled wildfire swept across the Greek island on Saturday. The fire had been burning for most of the past week but had been confined to the island’s mountainous interior until strong winds, high temperatures and dry conditions swept […]
‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camps on Channel Island finally to be officially investigated
Read More The full horrors of the only Nazi concentration camps to exist on British soil will finally be investigated in an official government inquiry, the Observer can reveal. Eighty years on from one of the darkest episodes in British history, the government is to carry out a review into the numbers of prisoners murdered […]
Revealed: drug firms funding UK patient groups that lobby for NHS approval of medicines
Read More Drug companies are systematically funding grassroots patient groups that lobby the NHS medicines watchdog to approve the rollout of their drugs, the Observer can reveal. An investigation by the Observer has found that of 173 drug appraisals conducted by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) since April 2021, 138 involved […]
Dropping green pledges would be ‘political suicide’, Sunak and Starmer warned
Read More Britain’s leaders have been warned against a “politically suicidal” lurch away from their green pledges as concerns grow that both major parties may dilute their plans to combat the climate crisis in the wake of a shock byelection result. Senior figures from business, the scientific community and across the political divide warned that […]
Georgia Gov. Kemp Contacted in Special Counsel Hunt for Trump Crime
President Joe Biden’s Justice Department pursuit of former President Donald Trump, through special counsel Jack Smith, has reached one of the Republicans who drew Trump’s ire in the attempt to investigate allegations of election fraud.
House GOP committees probe retaliation claims after Border Patrol official’s reassignment
House Republicans on the House Oversight and Homeland Security Committees are investigating whistleblower claims that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) may have retaliated against a top Border Patrol official after testifying to the two committees — a claim that the agency called “categorically false.” “We write with deep concern that U.S. Customs and Border Protection […]
Trump calls for death penalty for human traffickers, vows to revive Title 42 to end child trafficking
Former President Donald Trump on Friday vowed to pursue the death penalty for human traffickers and to revive a now-defunct immigration measure to combat child trafficking, if he’s re-elected to the White House. “I will use Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all trafficked children to their families in their home […]
Top Obama strategist warns Democrats about another third-party threat to Biden re-election: ‘Alarm bells’
A previous senior adviser to former President Barack Obama is warning Democrats about a potential threat to President Biden’s re-election campaign from third-party candidates like Cornel West, a 2024 Green Party presidential candidate. David Axelrod, who served as a top adviser to Obama for two years in the White House before becoming the senior strategist […]