“About 12 minutes ago, the aircraft carrying Michael Kovrig and Micheal Spavor left Chinese airspace and they are on the way home,” Trudeau announced in a televised statement late on Friday. The announcement came hours after Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was released from Canadian custody after striking a …
Read More »No fuel shortage? Motorists queue for petrol across UK, nearly 400 stations impose £30 limit amid ‘unprecedented demand’
Long queues of cars at petrol stations were spotted across the UK on Friday, with hundreds of motorists seeking to top off their tanks amid fears of fuel shortages. Some petrol stations ran out of fuel and closed, while many others lacked at least one brand of fuel, according to …
Read More »‘War criminal! Out!’ Protesters greet Hillary Clinton as she becomes chancellor of university in Northern Ireland
Clinton was inaugurated on Friday as the first-ever female chancellor of Queen’s, a public university dating back to the 1840s. She was actually appointed to the five-year term in 2020, but her installation was delayed on account of the Covid-19 pandemic. Cries of “Shame on Queen’s! Shame on you!” and …
Read More »‘Bodies with vaginas’?! Lancet slammed for ‘erasing women’ after promoting latest issue with controversial quote
“Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected,” says the pull quote on the cover of its latest issue, with the publication date of September 25. By Friday evening, it had accumulated fewer than 300 likes and retweets combined – against the 4,600-plus replies and quote-tweets …
Read More »Makeshift camp in Texas CLEARED, leaving observers wondering where migrants went
The last group of migrants has been bused out and the camp bulldozed, Fox News correspondent Jeff Paul tweeted on Friday afternoon. Citing the US Border Patrol, Paul said seven flights had returned 1,949 migrants to Haiti. Another 3,901 have been moved to other Customs and Border Patrol facilities in …
Read More »Imposing an ill-conceived vaccine mandate on the US Armed Forces falls right in step with our military’s disastrous leftward march
The United States military is facing a serious disease that puts its readiness at risk, but it isn’t viral – it’s ideological. As the Pentagon imposes a Covid-19 vaccination mandate on our armed forces, it’s spreading a malaise of leftist identity politics that threatens their very coherence and competency. On …
Read More »Canada frees detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou after US drops extradition bid
A Canadian judge ordered Meng released from custody and vacated the bail requirement on Friday afternoon. The Chinese executive was “in tears” as she hugged her lawyers, according to Canadian reporters. “My life has been turned upside down,” Meng told reporters. “It was a disruptive time for me.” She added …
Read More »US Treasury Department authorizes aid transactions with the Taliban
“The Treasury is committed to facilitating the flow of humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan and other activities that support their basic human needs,” Andrea Gacki, director of the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, said in a statement on Friday. Though US sanctions on the Taliban remain in …
Read More »Biden is hosting a Quad summit to counter the influence of Beijing. How might China respond to being left out in the cold?
The group of four nations is, in all but name, a strategic anti-China pact set up to counter Beijing’s influence over the region, and the foundation stone of the so-called “Indo-Pacific strategy”. That strategy includes not only military co-operation, but also an array of joint initiatives on investment, infrastructure, technology …
Read More »Biden blasts horseback Border Patrol officers, vows they ‘WILL PAY’ for trying to stop illegal migrants from crossing
“It’s horrible what you saw. To see people like they did, with horses, running them over, people being strapped, it’s outrageous,” the president said in his first public remarks on the situation on Friday. Tens of thousands of Haitians have attempted to illegally enter the country at the Del Rio …
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