Biden officially announced Austin as his pick for Defense Secretary on Wednesday, calling the former general “the right person for this job…at this moment in our nation’s history.” Austin, a four-star general, would be “the first African-American at the helm of the Defense Department in well over 200 years,” Biden …
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One idea being put forward by Greece is for the 27-member bloc to impose an arms embargo on Turkey. However, as EU leaders gather for a summit this week, foreign affairs commissioner Joseph Borrell is playing down such a move for collective sanctions against Ankara. Greece has censured Germany – …
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Tuesday marked the ‘safe harbor’ deadline for US states to certify their election results. Beyond this date, recounts, audits and lawsuits are generally required to have been performed or filed. President Donald Trump is still counting on a major Supreme Court lawsuit to overturn Joe Biden’s win, but to YouTube, …
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“We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday, noting that the Texas motion filed on Tuesday received support from several attorneys general in other states, including Alabama and Louisiana. “This is the big one,” the president wrote, adding, “Our Country needs a victory!” The …
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‘Arab sheikh buys stake in foreign football club’ is not news. Several of Europe’s biggest clubs are already owned by Gulf monarchies and funded by their petro-dollar fortunes. But the confirmation that Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Nahyan has bought 50 percent of Israeli Premier League team Beitar …
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Birmingham City Council demolished the old Birmingham City University campus in 2018 to regenerate the Perry Barr area ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. As well as developing infrastructure for the games, the council set to work building the first of 5,000 new homes. And, in the spirit of democracy, …
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For several years now, China has been developing the digital yuan, the first cryptocurrency from a central bank and government in the world. And it’s nearing completion. Chinese online retailer JD recently began accepting it as a payment method as the government trials its use by giving citizens up to $3 …
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The suit, filed in the US Supreme Court by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, calls for judicial intervention to ensure the integrity of the 2020 presidential election results. While the legal challenge focuses primarily on alleged breaches of election laws and norms by the four defendant states, it also references …
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Its Yandex.Eats app, one of several food and grocery delivery services in Moscow, is offering customers around the White Square business district the option of having meals delivered by a buggy-like delivery robot. The suitcase-sized vehicle, called the Yandex.Rover, can autonomously navigate its way along delivery routes on city sidewalks at a walking …
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Yes, you heard me. I’m talking to you. You respectable journalists and political pundits. You Intelligence officials and politicians. You fanatical liberals. You pseudo anti-fascists. All you members of the GloboCap “Resistance” who have been hysterically shrieking that “Trump is Hitler!” since he won the nomination back in 2016. Well, …
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