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The TelegraphGreta Thunberg’s descent from climate darling to militant pro-Palestine mouthpiece
In 2019, Time magazine named Greta Thunberg its youngest-ever Person of the Year, as world leaders and commentators all hastened to bask in the reflected glory of this new environmental star. Thunberg’s powerful influence was even dubbed the “Greta effect” thanks to thousands of students remaking themselves in her climate-warrior image. But, five years on, that blind hero worship of an increasingly militant Thunberg looks naïve at best and dangerous at worst.
- HuffPost
Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices
The president-elect walked back what was always a wildly unrealistic campaign promise.
- The Independent
Biden commutes 1,500 sentences and issues 39 pardons in biggest single-day act of clemency in history
‘America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,’ Biden said in a statement
- The Telegraph
‘You’ll lose,’ Russian agents told Assad as they organised his escape
Russia organised for Bashar al-Assad to flee to Moscow via its air base on the Syrian coast as rebels broke into Damascus on Sunday, Kremlin sources have said.
- CBC
Ford threatens to cut off Ontario's energy supply to U.S. if Trump follows through on tariffs
Premier Doug Ford says Ontario could cut off energy to the U.S. if president-elect Donald Trump makes good on a threat to impose steep tariffs on Canadian goods.Ford told reporters at Queen's Park that federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will put together a list of items upon which Canada could impose retaliatory tariffs and so will the Ontario government."We will go to the full extent depending how far this goes. We will go to the extent of cutting off their energy, going down to Michiga
- The Daily Beast
Bill Clinton Tells ‘The View’ How He’d Feel About Biden Pardoning Hillary
Bill Clinton weighed in on whether he believes President Joe Biden should preemptively pardon his wife Hillary Clinton ahead of Trump’s re-taking office in January during his Wednesday sit down on .The View Co-host Sunny Hostin asked Clinton whether he thinks Hillary Clinton should receive a pardon, especially following threats to further investigate her from Trump’s pick for the head of the FBI, Kash Patel. “They got a problem with her because,” Clinton began, laughing, “first, she didn’t do an
- The Telegraph
Taxpayers to foot £1bn pensions boost for civil servants
Public sector workers will be handed another £1bn a year in pension contributions on top of their latest pay rise.
- France 24
Russia threatens to retaliate after Ukrainian ATACMS strike in Rostov
Moscow on Wednesday accused Kyiv of firing US-supplied ATACAMS missiles on a military airfield in its southern Rostov region and threatened to retaliate. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine's "destructive" approach made peace impossible. Russia on Wednesday vowed retribution against Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of firing Western-supplied missiles on a military airfield in its southern Rostov region.President Vladimir Putin has previously threatened to launch a hypersonic ballistic missi
- AFP
Russians suffer rising costs of Ukraine conflict
In the small town of Dedovsk, just outside Moscow, pensioner Zinaida Kudriavtseva is struggling to pay the bills."Everything is expensive," Kudriavtseva told AFP on a recent visit to the town, 30 kilometres (20 miles) outside the centre of the Russian capital.
- The Guardian
Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
- People
Barron Trump Is a 'Ladies Man' at New York University, Source Says: 'Even Liberal People Like Him' (Exclusive)
"He’s really popular with the ladies," a source says of Donald Trump's youngest son, who is studying at NYU's Stern School of Business in Manhattan
- The Independent
Keir Starmer claims fresh Brexit reset victory as UK strikes £360m EU fishing deal
Fishing rights were a constant source of tension following the UK’s exit from the EU
- The National
UK Government splashes £1200 of taxpayer cash on two folders
A UK Government department splashed £1200 of taxpayers’ money on two folders, figures show.
- CNN
Video points to Assad regime’s involvement in large-scale trafficking of illicit drugs
Social media video surfaced Wednesday allegedly showing a warehouse in Syria stacked with captagon, an illicit drug that had transformed the country into a narco-state under former President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
- The Independent
Fox News host floats idea Trump could expand America through a land purchase
The suggestions comes as Donald Trump has been trolling Canada about becoming a U.S. state
- HuffPost
Donald Trump Jr. Reacts To Kimberly Guilfoyle Ambassador News Amid Breakup Rumors
The president-elect's son congratulated Guilfoyle after he was apparently pictured holding hands with another woman.
- HuffPost UK
Nigel Farage Loses His Cool With Beth Rigby Over Reform MP's Assault Conviction
The Reform UK leader insisted James McMurdock's conviction was now "irrelevant".
- The Telegraph
Russia ‘close to’ deal with rebels to retain military bases in Syria
Russia is close to securing a deal to retain control of two military bases in Syria following talks with rebels who overthrew dictator Bashar al-Assad last week, officials close to the Kremlin believe.
- Reuters
Demoralised and abandoned by allies: why Assad’s army failed to fight in Syria
Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. For years, the Islamist rebels of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) had sat behind the nearby frontline, with Syria's long civil war frozen.
- Bloomberg
Assad’s Fall Jolts Iran’s Increasingly Vulnerable Leadership
(Bloomberg) -- The tanker carrying oil from Iran had been sailing to Syria with critical supplies when it was forced into a U-turn just before entering the Suez Canal. Word of President Bashar al-Assad’s downfall had reached the vessel, with the cargo’s sender reduced from a powerful, longtime sponsor of his regime to a mere spectator of its demise.Most Read from BloombergBrace for a Nationwide Shuffle of Corporate HeadquartersCloud Computing Tax Threatens Chicago’s Silicon Valley DreamSan Franc