Raducanu, 18, was catapulted to fame when she became the first qualifier ever to win a major title when she captured the women’s crown in New York last month. The Canadian-born starlet – who has a Chinese mother and Romanian father but has lived in the UK since the age …
Read More »Russia’s latest prison torture scandal, like Guantanamo, shows the worst human rights violations happen out of sight, out of mind
Now behind bars in Tbilisi after a dramatic arrest last week, former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili must be hoping that prison conditions have improved since his days in charge of the country. In 2012, a massive scandal rocked the small Caucasus nation after clips emerged showing physical abuse of prisoners …
Read More »The dead hand of America: Iraq vote won’t solve the failures of West’s nation-building 18 years after Saddam’s removal
Two years ago, thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to demand an end to corruption, misgovernance and a sectarian political system, imposed by the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein, that allows for the systematic plundering of the state and its national resources. The system, known as …
Read More »Australian cop quits after bombshell interview, claims most colleagues ‘suffering’ & don’t want to enforce tough Covid-19 rules
Acting Senior Sergeant Krystle Mitchell has appeared on The Discernible Interviews channel on YouTube on Friday, wearing her dark-blue uniform and revealing that she had been “troubled” by how police resources have been applied during the pandemic by state authorities. Victoria Police has been tasked with making sure that people …
Read More »Lebanon in COMPLETE DARKNESS after 2 power stations shut down, blackout will ‘continue for few days’
The blackout in the country of almost six million is expected to last for several days, the government source told Reuters. “The Lebanese power network completely stopped working at noon today, and it is unlikely that it will work until next Monday, or for several days,” the official told the …
Read More »Global debt will be nearly three times bigger than global GDP by year-end, but there is no reason to panic – S&P
Global debt rose to a record high of nearly $300 trillion in the second quarter of this year, data from the Institute of International Finance (IIF) shows. Total debt, including government, household, corporate and bank debt, soared $4.8 trillion to $296 trillion at the end of June, $36 trillion above …
Read More »Appeals court reinstates Texas abortion ban TWO days after federal judge blocked controversial law
The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals overruled the decision by a lower federal court on Friday, thus allowing Texas to resume the enforcement of its abortion law, which effectively prohibits the termination of pregnancy past six weeks of gestation. Commonly known as the “heartbeat bill,” the statewide abortion law …
Read More »If the woke mob manage to cancel Dave Chappelle, our culture will wither to a bland nothingness
I am not offended by the comedian Dave Chappelle, not even a tiny little bit. I reckon he’s just about the funniest man in the world. Chappelle is a black guy. I’m a white bloke and, if the woke mob actually listened to what he says instead of squealing and …
Read More »Zelensky’s Purge? Ukraine’s latest internal battles show how hopes of the 2014 Maidan are fading in sharp turn to totalitarianism
His decision to lead the charge to dismiss the speaker of the country’s parliament on Thursday is clear evidence of this. Zelensky’s “Servant of the People” Party pushed out Dmitry Razumkov in a move that the top MP branded as illegal over disagreements about the country’s new law targeting oligarchs …
Read More »The entente not so cordiale: Anglo-French relations are at their lowest ebb for decades thanks to Brexit
It is a very special term that entered the diplomatic lexicon more than a century ago, in April 1904: the entente cordiale, a series of “cordial agreements” between Britain and France after colonial rivalry had pushed them into several clashes over their scramble for Africa. It seemingly put an end …
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