Peter Sloly has been under fire over the force’s apparent inability to dislodge trucker-led protests Ottawa Police chief Peter Sloly has resigned amid criticism of the force’s handling of the ongoing Freedom Convoy trucker-led protest against federal Covid-19 vaccination mandates in the Canadian capital, local media said on Tuesday. He is expected to formally announce […]
Etichetă: pressure’
Bolsonaro responds to reports of US pressure to cancel Russia visit
The Brazilian leader said he would be “pleased” to visit Washington – if he is ever invited Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro offered a cryptic comment about whether Washington is pressuring him to ditch an upcoming visit to Russia, saying he’d be glad to come to the US if he ever received an invitation. “Brazil is […]
Why Boris Johnson is under pressure to resign
The British prime minister is facing calls to step down over a Downing Street garden party amid a Covid lockdown UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under increasing pressure to leave his post after admitting that he was briefly present at a gathering of colleagues in the Downing Street garden during a 2020 lockdown. […]
Prison term reduced from 110 to 10 years under public pressure
Around 5 million people signed a petition asking for the commutation of the harsh sentence given to a US truck driver over a deadly accident Following public outcry, the governor of Colorado commuted the sentence of truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, who was involved in a crash that killed four in 2019, from to 110 to […]
Hezbollah rejects Saudi pressure in Yemen comments row
Hezbollah’s secretary-general has accused Riyadh of escalating tensions with Beirut and rejected calls for the resignation of a minister who sparked a diplomatic row over his comments on the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen. In a live broadcast on Thursday, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said events in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is backing the government in […]
Not stopping at ‘provocative military activity,’ US demands China halt even ‘diplomatic & economic pressure’ towards Taiwan
In a threatening statement on Beijing’s “destabilizing” military moves that was published on Sunday, the US State Department warned China against even diplomatically and economically pressuring Taiwan in its own interests. In the statement, United States spokesperson and former CIA intelligence officer Ned Price warned China that the US was “very concerned” by its “provocative […]





