Asked to comment on the fraught national debate over the fitness of Brett Kavanaugh to sit on the Supreme Court, given credible accusations of sexual assault, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, “It’s a very scary time for young men in America.” Ignoring the possibility that Kavanaugh’s three accusers could be telling the truth about […]
Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock By Andy Coghlan EXTREME storms have caused destruction and taken lives across the globe this week, with Hurricane Florence forcing millions to evacuate in the US, and Typhoon Mangkhut wreaking havoc in the Philippines and southern China. Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Advertisement Florence brought torrential rain to the south-eastern coastline of the US, forcing this […]
Hundreds of Muslims in north-western China are engaged in a standoff with authorities to prevent their mosque from being demolished. Officials said the newly built Weizhou Grand Mosque in the Ningxia region had not been given proper building permits. But worshippers refused to back down – one resident said they “won’t let the government touch […]
Ballots are still being counted in Ohio’s nail-biting special election in the 12th Congressional District, but it looks like Republican Troy Balderson will narrowly defeat Democrat Danny O’Connor. As of the time of publication, the vote tally is 101,772 for Balderson and 100,208 for O’Connor. But with Green Party candidate Joe Manchik garnering 1,129 votes votes, […]
A member of Russia’s Central Elections Commission has told reporters that the country might introduce online voting, similar to systems used in Switzerland and Estonia, for the 2021 parliamentary elections. “Considering the scale of the Russian Federation’s territory we have to start using internet voting. I think that we will possibly do something already in […]
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – “Cold War”, by Oscar-winning Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, will open the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) on Friday, the largest film competition and industry platform in a region stretching from Vienna to Istanbul. Workers prepare the red carpet for 24th Sarajevo Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina August 9, 2018. Picture […]
The clock did not look like this one An alarm clock owner in the Cambodian second-city of Battambang has told of how he awoke late this morning, after his normally-reliable alarm clock failed to wake him up at the normal agreed time. Moys Kenwood, 55, sets his gray-colored Tesco alarm clock to wake him at […]
Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, says the use of a Russian link to recent UK poisoning incidents to justify fresh US sanctions against the Kremlin is a violation of international law. “In general, of course it’s necessary to say that we consider it categorically unacceptable that the new restrictions, that […]
Fresh off the accolades for last year’s tax cuts, the Trump administration is mulling another one. This time the target is the capital gains tax, which the administration may try to reduce without approval from Congress by changing the definition of investment profits to take inflation into account. The capital gains tax applies to profits […]
The moment president Donald Trump invited the neocon John Bolton to run his foreign policy it was obvious Iran would fall between the crosshairs. Bolton has advocated killing Iranians since his days as US ambassador (unconfirmed) to the UN. Last month, Trump threatened Iran and president Rouhani. The Donald felt it was necessary to use […]