News bulletin 2024/04/11 08:29
News bulletin 2024/04/11 08:29
News bulletin 2024/04/11 08:29
“Shipping – it’s one damned thing after another,” the editor of Lloyds’ List wrote last week.
KEVIN Bridges had fans in stitches with his take on the chaos caused by Humza Yousaf booting the Greens out of government.
The US shared “gobsmacking” evidence with Britain at the height of the Covid pandemic suggesting a “high likelihood” that the virus had leaked from a Chinese lab, The Telegraph can reveal.
Trump may be trying to wriggle his way out of testifying, which he'd previously pledged to do.
Mayor Khan fails to thank or pay tribute to Susan Hall in his victory speech
Fighting has intensified in the Donetsk region in recent months as Russia pushes to take more ground around Avdiivka.
As nights go, the local elections heralded a great one for Labour. Think after-work drinks, kissing the colleague you’ve flirted with for months and ending up back at theirs. That was Labour in the early hours of Friday morning while the Tories were left looking like the halitosis-ridden bloke who’s worked at the office for years that no one wants to talk to, let alone snog.
In the context of a sprawling global leviathan that has just posted profits of $7.7bn (£6.1bn) in the last three months alone, Shell’s decision to close a small power generation unit in China amounts to little more than a rounding error on its books.
At best, Britain’s asylum system is inefficient and ineffectual. At worst – and I fear this is probably closer to the truth – it is incredibly dangerous, studiously working against the country’s best interests from economic flourishing to public safety.
The SEC said Trump Media's accounting firm, BF Borgers, committed fraud in more than 1,500 filings and was banned from accounting.
The Wisconsin political reporter challenged the former president, who has repeatedly made the false claim about his hush money trial.
Londoners will now have to wait until Saturday when they are due to find out who their new mayor is
Andrea Leadsom raged at the broadcasters sat next to her, saying she was "indignant".
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Everett CollectionAn off-hand remark—or a terribly misconstrued one—by a federal prosecutor at a private meeting with a defense attorney in Donald Trump’s classified documents case may add yet another delay to the former president’s already severely delayed trial.U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon has already earned a reputation for making bizarre rulings that favor the man who appointed her to the bench, pushing back a trial th
Ukraine is preparing for peace talks with Russia as there is “no way to win on the battlefield alone”, Kyiv’s deputy spy chief has said.
The Conservative defeat this week could have been worse, but that’s not saying much. The re-election of Tory mayor Ben Houchen in Tees Valley, winning the smallest majority in the hotly contested Harlow council election – these are the saving graces for a party that lost hundreds of councillors and another MP this week. There were many signs that the 2019 coalition that propelled the Tories to victory has come fully undone.
Conflict rages in Gaza and Ukraine, and tensions heighten over Taiwan. In Beijing, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has just held difficult talks with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi. Despite Xi Jinping’s statement at a joint press conference that the US and China should “seek common ground … rather than engage in vicious competition”, efforts at detente seem to have been fruitless.
In 2017, when Britain began its disengagement talks with the EU, Ireland laid down two inviolable principles. First, no border: not so much as a matchstick to mark where the EU’s customs territory began. Second, no direct talks between the London and Dublin. If the Brits had anything to say, they should talk to Michel Barnier.
Being elected president shortly after surviving the publication of the leaked “Access Hollywood” tape in 2016 is the moment in which Donald Trump defied political gravity.
Joseph Stiglitz was applauded for calling out Bim Afolami on BBC Question Time.