Thursday finally saw the conclusion of one of the most complex, all-encompassing takeover sagas football has ever seen. After dragging on for 18 months – and involving geopolitical rivalries, TV piracy rows, and outrage over human rights abuses – a consortium bankrolled by the largesse of the Saudi Public Investment …
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The world is on fire, literally, even Siberia. In Australia, they shot rescue dogs and their gruesome reason was so that people would not venture out breaking Covid lockdown to pick them up. In the late August heat, in Afghanistan, people are being left behind desperate at an airport, getting …
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“I saw with my own eyes how [the security forces] were using explicit photos, from the girls’ phones they stole, as blackmail,” a Palestinian journalist tells me, speaking anonymously, hoping to expose a scandal. If true, it adds to the long list of damning accusations which seem to be leading …
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Netanyahu, who is facing corruption charges, made a proposal to form the next Israeli government with Naftali Bennett of the right-wing Yamina alliance and Gideon Sa’ar, who leads the center-right New Hope party. Between the two, they control 13 seats in the Knesset after the inconclusive March election. Netanyahu’s own …
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House Republicans today voted to remove Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney from her leadership position in the chamber. While some might paint Cheney’s ousting as a fracture within the GOP, it’s important to note that her supporters don’t actually appear to be from within the Republican Party. Rather, the only figures …
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“I believe deeply in the principle of an apolitical US military,” Milley said in a letter to Representatives Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan) and Mikie Sherrill (D-New Jersey). The two members of Congress did not release the letter, but quoted excerpts from it in a statement on Friday. “In the event of …
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