independent– Add Mother Nature to the pile of crises on President Joe Biden s plate. A month into the job and focused on the coronavirus, Biden is seeing his disaster management skills tested after winter storms plunged Texas Oklahoma and neighboring states into an unusual
independent– Naomi Osaka reasserted her position as queen of the hard court with a straight sets victory over the American Jennifer Brady at the Australian Open. Osaka pinched a tight first set 6-4 and dominated the second to win 6-3 and close out her second title in Melbourne, and her fourth grand slam. After dispatching Serena Williams in the […]
independent– In case you haven’t been paying attention to the latest in millennial-shaming, the zoomers are roasting us once again. This time it’s for our skinny jeans, which make us instantly known to the younger generation as “olds”–don’t even get me started on their hatred for side parts. Now, there are absolutely better things to […]
africanews– Nigerian security forces on Thursday said they were tracking the armed gang that kidnapped more than 40 people from a school a day earlier, as families and a survivor described how students fled gunfire during the early morning attack. The kidnapping in Kagara in central Niger state was the latest mass abduction in Nigeria, […]
republicworld– The U.N. Security Council has given a green light to keep the U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik Hariri operating and funded for at least this year. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a letter to the council circulated Friday that the president of the Special Tribunal for […]
theguardian– Pub and travel bosses have demanded that the prime minister produce a detailed roadmap for easing lockdown restrictions in England, amid mounting friction between the government and business leaders. Ahead of an update on the government’s plans, due on Monday, increasingly irate pub executives urged Boris Johnson to mend fences with the industry by
theguardian– A Moscow court has rejected an appeal from Alexei Navalny that virtually guarantees the Russian opposition figure will be sent to a prison camp for two and a half years. In a widely expected ruling, the judge upheld a decision to imprison Navalny by reversing a parole handed down in 2014 for embezzlement in a […]
africanews– Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi appointed Monday Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde as Prime Minister. Mr. Sama Lukonde Kyenge, 43, was until Monday the General Director of the state mining company Gécamines (General Quarries and Mines), the country’s mining flagship project, a position to which he was appointed by Tshisekedi in June 2019. Lukonde was
independent.ie– A catastrophic explosion and fire at an Afghan customs depot has destroyed hundreds of fuel tankers and caused traders tens of millions of dollars of losses. A series of blasts hurled lorries hundreds of yards into the air and deposited the crumpled remains of fuel tanks as far as half a mile from the […]
independent– There is no denying that Meghan Markle has become a style icon. Her clothing choices were scrutinised long before she became the Duchess of Sussex and continue to cause a stir even now – even with Zoom ensuring we can only see her top half. Markle has consistently demonstrated her sartorial flair. When first becoming a royal, she stuck to […]