Platinum jubilee pageant float appears to display 'Nazi symbol' during parade
Platinum jubilee pageant float appears to display 'Nazi symbol' during parade
Southampton will play host to the Queen’s Jubilee Baton as it passes through the city on its way to Birmingham for the start of the Commonwealth Games.
The Scottish First Minister said “the end might be nigh” for Boris Johnson’s time in Downing Street.
A VICTIM was left seeing flashing lights after his head was smashed in a car door in a road rage argument.
A woman who was struck and pinned under a public bus in Stamford, Connecticut, on Tuesday, July 5, was rescued by firefighters who used “high-pressure air bags” to lift the bus off the ground, according to Deputy Chief Matt Palmer.The footage shows the first half of what Palmer described as “a difficult extrication process that involved stabilization of the bus” before the air bags were used.It took 10 minutes to safely remove the woman, who was conscious and alert enough to speak to firefighters, the fire department said. She was then transferred to Stamford Hospital for evaluation and Stamford Police were investigating how the collision happened, they added.“Given the size and weight of this bus, we are very grateful that her injuries were not more serious,” said Chief Palmer. Credit: Stamford Fire Department via Storyful
Business Reporter: Navigating the rapidly evolving world of retailSource: SUSE
Boris Johnson's resignation today puts him among the top four shortest serving British Prime Ministers in the post-war period - and means he has lasted less time in office than Theresa May.
Singapore hanged two drug traffickers Thursday in what campaigners condemned as a "shameful and inhuman punishment", taking to four the number of executions in the city-state since March.
Hundreds of thousands of hajj pilgrims began streaming out of Mecca Thursday ahead of the highlight of the annual rites, which have attracted huge crowds despite the continuing pandemic and unforgiving heat.
Elisabeth Borne, who helms France's new minority government, had her 90 minutes of speech interrupted by MPs who shouted back, banged on tribunes and even booed.
Ex-minister Chris Skidmore says 1922 committee should ‘urgently reconsider rules’
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama marked his 87th birthday on Wednesday by inaugurating a library and museum in his hillside Indian headquarters. He was cheered by a large number of followers, including American actor Richard Gere, a longtime disciple.
A RESTAURANT manager has recalled how one of his waiting staff would order for an Albion star while he learnt English.
LAST week I was strolling by the Tweed near Melrose when I saw a woman ahead of me, wearing shorts and carrying a back-pack fit for Annapurna. Well into her seventies, she said she was late setting off. After hurting her leg the previous day, she had needed to wait for Boots to open.
MEPs are set to blast Boris Johnson’s approach on Wednesday
A lot has changed since Boris Johnson entered Number 10 Downing Street in 2019. For the UK's new Prime Minister, it was the end of a long journey to the top of government, and an opportunity to challenge his critics. Now it appears he's facing more of them than ever.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week announced plans to hold a referendum on October 19 2023.
Boris Johnson and Chris Bryant disagree over the reason behind Lord Geidt's resignation with Johnson maintaining he resigned over steel tariffs. Bryant accuses him of knowing "perfectly well that's not the truth" and accuses him of not reading Geidt's resignation letter. .
Boris Johnson has said he will "of course" still be prime minister tomorrow despite facing an avalanche of resignations from members of his government.
Russian President Vladimir Putin must now decide his next steps in the five-month invasion he started in February. After Russian troops captured the strategic Ukrainian city of Lysychansk on Sunday, here are five different options raised by security experts who spoke with AFP: - Grinding advance - Russian forces appear on course to take full control of the Donbas region that was already partly held by pro-Kremlin separatists before the February 24 invasion. With Lysychansk and its twin city Severodonetsk captured in the past weeks, Putin's troops "can hope to take Sloviansk and Kramatorsk and the surrounding regions," said Pierre Grasser, a researcher at Paris' Sorbonne university. Sloviansk in particular is home to "a relatively welcoming population -- at least those who have remained there" rather than fleeing the fighting, he added. But there may be limits to how far the Russians can press into their neighbour's territory. "Their steamroller works well near their own borders, their own logistical centres and their airbases. The further away they get, the harder it is," said Pierre Razoux, academic director of the Mediterranean Foundation for Strategic Studies (FMES). - Control the Black Sea - Southern Ukrainian city Kherson was one of the first to fall to Russian forces in the opening days of the war. But Russia's grip on the country's Black Sea coast is not secure. "Counter-attacks by Ukraine in the south... place Russian forces in a dilemma. Do they sustain their eastern offensive, or do they significantly reinforce the south?" said Mick Ryan, a former general in the Australian army. The question is all the more pressing as "the war in the south is a front of greater strategic importance" than the Donbas, he added. Claiming territory along the coast could allow Moscow to create a land bridge to the Crimean peninsula, which it annexed in 2014, while both sides want to control Ukraine's Black Sea ports. - Crack Kharkiv - Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv is close to the northeastern border with Russia -- and located in a pocket still controlled by Kyiv that could yet be cut off by Russian forces. "If the Ukrainians collapse and Kharkiv is completely isolated, the Russians could force them to choose between committing to defend the city or taking the pressure off in the south towards Kherson," said Pierre Razoux. It will be up to President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian commanders "to deploy their units so as to prevent a big summer breakthrough" that could encircle Kharkiv, he added. Home to 1.4 million people in peacetime, a siege of Kharkiv could be a bloody affair lasting up to a year, Razoux said. - Divide the West - While the West has so far kept up a mostly united front of sanctions and support for Ukraine, continued Russian advances could drive the allies' judgements of their interests apart. "The goal for Russia is to continue to grind down Ukrainian forces on the battlefield, while waiting for the political will to support Ukraine to fade among Western countries," said Colin Clarke, research director at the Soufan Center think-tank in New York. Deliveries of Western military aid have been too slow and too small to turn the battle decisively in Kiev's favour. Meanwhile, the war's inflationary impact on basics like food and energy may gradually turn public opinion away from the strong initial support for Ukraine. "The Americans could tell the Ukrainians 'you can't go on'," said Alexander Grinberg, an analyst at the Jerusalem Institute for Security and Strategy. - Open talks - Russia itself is suffering heavy costs from Western sanctions, battlefield casualties and losses of military materiel. "Putin will be forced to negotiate at some point, he's bitten off more than he can chew," said Colin Clarke. In late June, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov already raised the option of talks -- on condition of "applying all the conditions set by Russia", which remain unacceptable to Kiev. But his control over domestic information means the Russian leader has a free hand to tell the public that his objectives have been achieved and justify a pause in the fighting. A bigger challenge might be divisions on the Ukrainian side. Hardliners and military leaders would "refuse any compromise with Russia" even if Zelensky were willing to strike a deal, said Pierre Razoux. "They could tolerate a frozen conflict, but not a defeat." dla/tgb/jh/bp
Dozens of raids are also taking place in Germany, France and the Netherlands as part of a joint operation with Europol and Eurojust.