Sir Richard Sutton, an 83-year-old hotelier worth hundreds of millions of pounds, was attacked at his home in the Higher Langham area, near Gillingham, Dorset on Wednesday night. Sutton was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after the attack, while a woman in her 60s is seriously ill after being …
Read More »Over 100 whales to be killed in Japan as country starts controversial commercial whaling season
On Saturday, four ships – two in Miyagi Prefecture on the east coast of Japan’s main island of Honshu and two in Aomori Prefecture in its north – departed from ports to coastal Pacific waters. A fifth vessel will join them later, leaving from Hokkaido, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported. …
Read More »France shuts schools for three weeks and whole country heads for lockdown amid Covid-19 spike as Macron defends measures
All face-to-face teaching in schools will be suspended from Monday for a week ahead of the two-week spring break, with schools set to return on April 26, Macron announced, in a televised national address on Wednesday evening. The tougher lockdown measures, which had been in place in 19 areas including …
Read More »Latvia begins blocking RT news site aimed at country’s Russian-speaking minority as outlet accuses Riga of attack on free press
RT confirmed on Wednesday morning that authorities had started to implement restrictions on access to its Russian website, in line with a decision by the Latvian National Electronic Media Council. The ruling, issued in June last year, has already seen seven separate RT channels officially banned from the airwaves in …
Read More »Venezuelan President Maduro offers ‘oil for vaccines’ as country sees spike in Covid-19 cases
“Venezuela has the oil vessels and has the customers who will buy our oil,” Maduro said, as cited by the media. “We are ready and prepared for oil for vaccines, but we will not beg anyone.” He added that in addition to oil shipments, Caracas could pay for the vaccine provided …
Read More »Has the West lost Russia? ‘European’ identity is collapsing in the continent’s largest country, with the youth leading the charge
It has been common to predict that Russia’s post-Soviet generation would feel a closer affinity to the West and embrace a shared identity with Europe. All the West had to do was to wait out Vladimir Putin’s period in power and the gravitational pull of the European identity would result …
Read More »Tesla will ‘get shut down’ if used for spying in any country, Musk says after reports of restrictions on vehicles in China
“If a commercial company did engage in spying, the negative effects to that company would be extremely bad,” Musk said at the China Development Forum, which he attended via video link. “For example, if Tesla used the cars to spy in China – or anywhere, any country – we will …
Read More »Former Ukrainian president Kravchuk says country will be invaded by Russia as Moscow seeks to solve Crimea’s water-supply problem
Speaking on Wednesday to US state-run media outlet RFE/RL, Kravchuk noted that the disastrous water situation on the Black Sea peninsula could be used as an excuse for a military incursion into Ukraine. For seven years, the Kiev government has blockaded a vital channel that once provided around 85% of …
Read More »In 13 years, number of Russians who consider their country to be European has dropped by almost half, survey reveals
That’s according to a new poll from the Levada Center, a Moscow-based pollster and registered foreign agent. The survey revealed that the number of Russians who believe the nation to be European has almost halved in less than a decade and a half, with just 28% of Russians now considering …
Read More »Myanmar is a strategic headache for Beijing, but anti-China feeling in the country is not as strong as Western media claims
As unrest rages in Myanmar, over the weekend a number of Chinese-owned factories and businesses were torched by demonstrators in what was a deliberate attempt to blame Beijing for the coup, which saw a Military Junta take power earlier this year. Although China has not officially supported the overthrow of …
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