Ex-Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has sent a parting message to the club and its fans after finally selling the Premier League giants. Abramovich put the west Londoners up for sale on March 2 just days before his assets were frozen by the UK government for alleged links to Russian President …
Read More »More ‘frostpolitik’ than ‘Ostpolitik’? Merkel’s farewell Moscow summit with Putin rounds off a tumultuous era in European politics
What might come out of the head-to-head is anyone’s guess, but it is clear that regional affairs are firmly on the agenda, with the chancellor set to fly to Kiev on her way back to Berlin from Moscow. The farewell tour of Eastern Europe comes as Merkel prepares to stand …
Read More »As Nord Stream 2 nears completion, Germany’s Merkel to make farewell Russia & Ukraine visits next week – will meet Putin, Zelensky
In a statement issued on Friday, the Kremlin said the summit between the two leaders would go ahead on 20 August, and that a number of international and regional issues would be up for discussion. A German cabinet spokesperson confirmed that Merkel would visit Moscow before then traveling to Ukraine …
Read More »Farewell to anti-virus guru John McAfee, the wild, high-living, paranoid, millionaire genius I was glad to call my neighbour
The death of McAfee is the final chapter in the mad, bad life of a man who became my neighbour 13 years ago. We were both living on Ambergris Caye, a tropical island 16 miles off the Caribbean coast of Belize in Central America. He’d picked up what had been …
Read More »Man City confirm ‘emotional farewell’ to Aguero as club commission statue of star with Barca and PSG reportedly plotting moves
“Manchester City will bid a fond and emotional farewell to legendary striker Sergio Aguero when his contract expires this summer,” the club announced in a statement on Monday. “Treasured by City fans and a global icon of the game, Aguero is one of the most decorated and respected footballers to wear the …
Read More »Farewell and thank you, Larry King, a man from an era of more civil, respectful and insightful journalism
The entire field of broadcast media is shaped to its core by the gold standard that he established, and the debt owed him by all practitioners of his craft can never be repaid in full. Larry attained national prominence as host of ‘The Larry King Show’, taking calls from listeners …
Read More »Trump says he ‘will be back in some form’ & wishes Biden’s administration luck in farewell ceremony
The outgoing US president and first lady spoke to a group of supporters on the day of Joe Biden’s inauguration as Trump’s successor in the White House. Trump, who decided to snub the ceremony, asserted that his administration had been a success and claimed credit for the future successes of …
Read More »Farewell Melania Trump, you never stood a chance as FLOTUS but, like everyone else, you never thought you’d get the job anyway
The media worldwide has revelled in giving Melania Trump a pasting over the last four years, with online trolls continuing the diatribe, giving the most unpopular FLOTUS (First Lady of the United States) of all time a raucous raspberry-blowing send-off, spouting the sort of bile and insults only true liberals …
Read More »‘The movement we started is only just beginning’ defiant Trump says in farewell speech (VIDEO)
“We did what we came here to do — and so much more,” Trump said in the speech on Tuesday afternoon. He argued that his administration restored American strength at home and leadership abroad, “built the greatest economy in the history of the world,” and achieved a “series of historic …
Read More »Parting is such tweet sorrow… A fond farewell to Donald Trump’s Twitter feed
Donald Trump governed by social media. Tweeting from bed in his teddy bear pyjamas or on his sofa in front of a huge TV screen, sometimes from a buggy on his golf course. It was never gonna end well, and now it’s all over. Twitter permanently suspended his account yesterday, and …
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