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A reporter from a left British newspaper says he was detained without explanation in Mexico as he was traveling to Nicaragua to cover the Sunday election. The US threatened the country with new sanctions ahead of the poll. Steve Sweeney, international editor for the UK socialist daily Morning Star, said he had been placed in […]
After the US secretary of state claimed Taipei’s accession to the UN would be pragmatic, Beijing hit back, reiterating that Taiwan should not be granted permission to join the body because the island was part of China. Speaking on Wednesday, Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing told reporters the UN was […]
A video posted by Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro was removed by Facebook and YouTube on Monday for violating their policies against Covid misinformation over the leader’s claim that Covid vaccines are linked to AIDS. Facebook confirmed the video had been removed on Monday, stating that “our policies don’t allow claims that COVID-19 vaccines kill or […]
The actor who famously portrayed Agent 007 has said this week that he prefers to visit gay clubs over heterosexual venues because he’s less likely to run into people looking to fight. During a Tuesday appearance on SiriusXM’s Lunch with Bruce podcast, Craig told host Bruce Bozzi – who is gay – that he’s “been […]
The alleged bodyguard for former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told the British media he has security camera footage to disprove the US-backed leader’s denials of taking bags of money with him when he fled the country in August. “I have a recording which shows that an individual at the Afghan Bank brought a lot of […]
A 100-year-old man, the oldest person to stand trial in Germany for Nazi-era crimes, who is accused of aiding and abetting the killing of thousands of prisoners at a concentration camp, insists he is innocent. On Friday, Josef Schuetz appeared in court for allegedly “knowingly and willingly” assisting in the slaughter of 3,518 inmates at […]
Austrian Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler of the Green Party has questioned the ability of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to remain in his position after the prosecutor announced the country’s leader would be put under investigation. In a statement on Thursday, Green Party chief Kogler said they could not go back to “business as usual” with their […]
Social media companies should prevent users from spreading toxic content anonymously or they will face the same legal liability as if they were publishers of this information, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned. “Social media has become a coward’s palace, where people can just go on there, not say who they are, destroy people’s […]
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau sparked an online storm after he used an obscure acronym, 2SLGBTQQIA+, while commemorating missing and murdered members of ethnic and sexual minorities, prompting a collective head scratching. “People across the country are lighting candles to honour Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people who are missing or have been murdered,” Trudeau tweeted […]
Ex-MP Clement Chiwaya, who had been disabled by polio since childhood, has shot and killed himself at the clerk’s office in Malawi’s Parliament, citing a row over ownership of a specially adapted vehicle that enabled him to drive. Chiwaya, who had served as an MP for 15 years and was deputy speaker from 2014 to […]
Incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has celebrated victory in Monday’s federal election, despite his Liberal Party falling short of his desired goal of clinching a majority in the parliament. “Thank you, Canada,” Trudeau, who won his third term as PM, wrote on Twitter. The Leftist leader said he was grateful to the Canadians “for putting […]
Canberra’s long-term interests are “best served” by a military partnership with Washington and London rather than by its previous deal with Paris, the Australian PM has said, claiming the French vessels were not good enough. Proceeding with the 2016 submarine deal with France would have been “negligent” and harmful to Australia’s strategic interests, Scott Morrison […]
French FM Jean Yves-Drian has continued to criticize the US and Australia for the AUKUS submarine deal, meant to go to Paris, insisting there may be major consequences to French-US relations and for the transatlantic alliance. “There has been lying, duplicity, a major breach of trust and contempt. This will not do,” Foreign Minister Le […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on more countries in the Arab world to normalize diplomatic ties with Israel, offering rare praise to Trump’s diplomacy as he marked one year since the signing of a landmark peace deal. Speaking at a virtual meeting on Friday with his counterparts from Israel, Bahrain, Morocco and the […]
Haiti’s top prosecutor was fired and replaced after calling for charges against the country’s prime minister for the murder of President Jovenel Moise, though a dismissal letter claimed it related to an “administrative error.” Chief public prosecutor Bed-Ford Claude was terminated on Tuesday, with a new replacement sworn in just hours after Claude asked a […]