Montreal: Four people have died and over 900,000 homes have lost power in the eastern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, authorities said Saturday. According to Ontario police, three individuals were killed and several more were injured as a result of a powerful summer thunderstorm. A tree collapsed on the trailer he was staying in, … Read more
Lyon (France): Five people were killed in a tourist plane crash in the French Alps on Saturday, including four members of the same family, according to rescue officials. The crash occurred in the afternoon, shortly after takeoff from the Versoud airstrip near Grenoble in southeast France, for a half-hour flight. Eyewitnesses to the crash alerted … Read more
Last Monday, the Democratic Party of the United States encouraged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to follow the conditions of the Northern Ireland Treaty, which he negotiated with the European Union in 2019. She also cautioned the Prime Minister that if the UK government unilaterally changed the protocol, the Good Friday peace accord would be imperilled, … Read more
According to the government’s newest warning, Northern Ireland would not be able to reap the full benefits of “freeports” — locations near shipping ports or airports where firms may import goods tariff-free – that are accessible in England, Scotland, and Wales. The government is emphasising that Northern Ireland is “missing out” as a result of … Read more
Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, has signed a number of post-Brexit trade agreements, including one with Australia, and is currently entangled in a dispute over the Northern Ireland Protocol. Ms Truss, on the other hand, has already faced criticism for initially backing Remain in the Brexit referendum in 2016. “I am backing remain as I … Read more
Ministers want to exploit post-Brexit freedoms to restructure the public contract bidding process, letting small firms to compete against huge multinationals that understand how to “game” the system. “We’re moving away from 350 different European procurement regulations to one British one, and we’re making the system as fast, transparent, and light-touch as possible, with a … Read more
Conservative supporters hope that the publishing of senior civil servant Sue Gray’s investigation into pandemic-era rule-breaking this week will lead MPs to call a confidence vote. A senior Conservative MP told his colleagues that continuing to support Mr Johnson might cost them their jobs. The conclusion of the Metropolitan Police’s investigation into “partygate” without the … Read more
The Russian president has two daughters from his marriage to Lyudmila Putina, which terminated in 2014. Katerina Tikhonova, the younger of the two, is claimed to be dating Igor Zelensky following her divorce from her spouse in 2017. Tikhonova’s relationship with Zelensky, a professional ballet dancer, was investigated by Der Spiegel and Russian news outlet … Read more
According to accounts, at than 20 people have been injured, and at least one person has died. A tornado warning was issued for Antrim and Otsego counties in Michigan, including Gaylord, at 3:38 p.m. local time (8:38 p.m. BST). According to the National Weather Service, the tornado warning for Otsego County was revised about 10 … Read more
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office stated Thursday that a Los Angeles man is facing various charges after prosecutors believe he was part of a group of anti-abortion activists who targeted a women’s health facility and stalked a doctor who provides abortion services. Prosecutors said in a press release that Aaron Jonathan Hurley is suspected … Read more
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador threatened to boycott the Summit of the Americas next month, saying on Tuesday that his presence will not be confirmed unless the host country, the United States, invites Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. “Participation in the Los Angeles Summit has not yet been resolved because we are proposing that no … Read more
According to data from the Interior Ministry’s National Registry of Missing People, Mexico has officially registered over 100,000 people as missing or disappeared. From 1964 until the present, the government has reported more than 100,023 missing people, with more than 24,700 being women and more than 74,700 being men. The gender of 516 individuals is … Read more
DAKAR, Armed men kidnapped an Italian couple and their son in southern Mali overnight, according to their church, as violence escalates in a country racked by an Islamist insurgency. The couple is in their 70s, according to a spokeswoman for the Jehovah’s Witnesses church in neighbouring Senegal, and their son is around 50. He said … Read more
On the same day that a delegation of Taiwanese legislators went for Switzerland to advocate for Taiwan on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly, Germany’s Bundestag passed a resolution urging Berlin to push for Taiwan’s participation in WHO operations (WHA). The resolution, which has bipartisan support, urges the German government to cooperate within the … Read more
The Ministry of Culture said on Monday that entertainment shows that do not follow safety protocols risk losing public support, citing rules it wants to introduce by September. The announcement came two months after two film crew members died while working on the TV drama series First Embrace in a ravine in Miaoli County’s Nanjhuang … Read more
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a convention of US conservatives on Thursday that the path to power requires them to have their own media outlets, calling for shows like Tucker Carlson’s to be shown “24/7.” Orban, who was just elected to a fourth term, presented a 12-point plan for obtaining and consolidating power to … Read more
As the conflict in Ukraine rages on, the United States and Russia blamed one other for the world’s worsening food situation. Washington has urged Russia to facilitate the export of Ukrainian grain that has been stranded in Black Sea ports. Ukraine is one of the world’s leading wheat producers. “Stop blocking the ports in the … Read more
The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who supports Brexit, has obtained French citizenship after applying last year, according to a French Ministry of Justice source on Thursday. Stanley Johnson, a Conservative who had worked for the European Commission in Brussels, initially opposed Brexit, but later changed his mind after his son’s narrow referendum … Read more
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka named nine new ministers yesterday to a “all-party government” tasked with guiding the country out of its economic crisis, but the critical finance job remains vacant. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe took over earlier this month after Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president’s elder brother, resigned as mounting demonstrations blamed his administration for … Read more
According to a Reporters Without Borders assessment, Greek police “regularly resort[ed] to violence” to prevent journalists from covering the immigration crisis and anti-lockdown protests. As a result, Greece fell from 70th to 108th place in the most recent European Press Freedom Index, scoring lower than any other EU country, with only Albania ranking higher. The … Read more
London police said Wednesday that they had completed their investigation into the “Partygate” controversy that has rocked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government and had issued a total of 126 fines. According to the Metropolitan Police, 73 of the penalties imposed for violating COVID-19 limits were issued to women and 53 to males, but some … Read more
Singapore would work hard to keep its borders open and connected to the rest of the globe even if a new variation of COVID-19 emerges, said Singaporean Transport Minister S. Iswaran on Wednesday. Iswaran told Bloomberg News that the city-state has learned from its previous experiences dealing with COVID-19 variations. When the Omicron variant of … Read more
Kellyanne Conway accused her husband of “cheating by tweeting” by openly criticising her boss, Donald Trump, while in the Oval Office. In her new book, the one-term president’s 2016 campaign manager and former adviser claims that George Conway’s anti-Trump tweets “violated our marriage vows.” Mr. Trump has called Mr. Conway “nasty,” and he has even … Read more
Oklahoma abortion doctors and clinics are attempting to determine their next moves after the state legislature enacted a ban on nearly all abortions beginning at the time of fertilisation. The bill, which would be the nation’s harshest abortion prohibition, is currently on Governor Kevin Stitt’s desk. The Oklahoma bill, like the six-week abortion bill passed … Read more
According to a person familiar with the situation, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby is joining the White House, bringing star power to the West Wing’s foreign policy communications team. According to a person familiar with the situation, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby is joining the White House, bolstering President Joe Biden’s National Security Council. Kirby, … Read more
A Russian soldier on trial for war crimes since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has begged his victim’s widow to forgive him. Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, testified in court in Kyiv that he was ordered by two cops to shoot Ukrainian civilian Oleksandr Shelipov. He claimed that he originally rejected the order, but that he … Read more
“It’s like hell there,” said president Volodymyr Zelensky in a bitter diatribe against Russia’s relentless bombardment of Ukraine’s Donbas on Thursday, which had left the region “completely destroyed”. Mr Zelensky accused Moscow of carrying out “brutal” and “senseless” attacks as it escalated its offensive in the country’s east following the withdrawal of its troops from … Read more
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute were disturbed by the huge levels of sucrose identified in a recent study. Seagrass, a marine flowering plant present in many coastal places across the world, could be to blame for this phenomenon. These species are especially essential in marine ecology since they are one of the world’s most … Read more
