The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner was reportedly “taken” and escorted away early Monday morning, Reuters reported, citing spokesman for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, Myo Nyunt. Nyunt added that several other senior officials, including formal head of the state – Myanmar’s President Win Myint – were allegedly …
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Sturgeon likened UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to a “cowering tim’rous beastie” – a line from the poem ‘To a Mouse’, about a scared mouse, by Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns – during an interview with the BBC on Sunday. The Scottish leader also accused Johnson of being “frightened of …
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Davies insisted that his consumption of alcohol at the Welsh Parliament did not constitute a breach of Covid-19 restrictions, and that his decision to resign was motivated by a wish to avoid “distraction” from criticizing the Labour-led government of the country, which the scandal caused. “For the sake of my …
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Olena Semenyaka, who has been called “The First Lady of Ukrainian Nationalism,” was due to take up a Junior Visiting Fellowship at the Vienna-based Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in January. However, on Monday, the college told RT that the arrangement was now under review in response to allegations raised …
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Khamenei’s remarks were posted to his multiple accounts, run in different languages, late on Friday. The Twitter thought police, however, were quick to react, purging the messages it deemed “misleading.” “Importing vaccines made in the US or the UK is prohibited. They’re completely untrustworthy. It’s not unlikely they would want …
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“What the Americans witnessed [on Wednesday] was a small result of the crimes that Donald Trump committed during his four years of presidency in Syria, Iraq and Yemen,” Nasrallah said in a TV appearance, also recalling the assassination of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike …
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Union area vice president Sarah Chambers has been claiming that re-opening Chicago’s public schools next Monday would put students, teachers and the wider public at risk due to widespread Covid-19 infections. But these apparent concerns for public health didn’t stop her jetting off to Puerto Rico, despite the small Caribbean …
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Speaking on Wednesday, Ian Blackford, SNP leader in Westminster, said that Scotland would soon be heading back into the European Union, having seen the PM’s “bad Brexit deal.” “It’s the people of Scotland that are sovereign, and it’s the people of Scotland that will determine to take them back into …
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Competitors are eager to “discredit each other,” Fernandez told TV Publica in an interview broadcasted on Monday, adding that the coronavirus vaccine market is worth “tens of billions of dollars.” “A trade war has been unleashed and, as everyone hopes for a vaccine, there is a geopolitical debate about who …
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The chairman of the controversial group, Enrique Tarrio, admitted to the stunt in a post to Parler early on Friday morning, saying that while he did burn the BLM banner during a political rally last week, “there was no hate crime committed.” “Against the wishes of my attorney I am …
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