Category: Politics

Russia’s presidential elections were marked by a number of incidents across polling stations on Friday, as people used dye, molotov cocktails and fires to protest against the elections which are certain to extend Vladimir Putin’s 24-year rule until at least 2030. The Kremlin also released footage of what it said was Putin casting an online […]

More than a dozen prominent authors and literary figures have withdrawn from PEN America’s flagship World Voices Festival in protest of what they see as an inadequate response by the organization to the “genocide” being committed against Palestinians by Israel in Gaza. The group of writers, which includes Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar, Isabella […]

Mike Pence will not endorse the US presidential campaign of Donald Trump, the man for whom he served as vice-president for four years but whose supporters chanted for Pence to be hanged as they attacked Congress on 6 January 2021. “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this […]

The driver of a school bus that crashed on a Merseyside motorway last year died of natural causes, a coroner’s office has said. Stephen Shrimpton, 40, died when the coach he was driving crashed on the northbound M53 in Wirral on 29 September. One of the passengers, Jessica Baker, 15, was killed in the crash. […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Kick off delayed The match won’t begin at 7pm as scheduled, apparently because of a kit clash. Eh? Don’t they wear blue and red? Share Updated at 19.58 CET “Blackstenius rather than Russo – not a choice many Arsenal fans would nod […]

A 20-year-old man has been found guilty of the “brazen” rape of a 15-year-old girl after he took her out of her depth in the sea off Bournemouth beach. A jury found Gabriel Marinoaica, of Darlaston, Walsall, guilty of the three charges of sexual assault and rape. He was acquitted of a further charge of […]

We’re at the fag-end of this government, but it’s going to burn for a while longer yet. Those who hoped it might finally be stubbed out of its misery on 2 May were set straight by Rishi Sunak on Thursday, when he killed off speculation that he might add to the clutch of local elections […]

Judge reproaches Fani Willis for ‘tremendous lapse in judgment’ In his ruling, Fulton county superior court judge Scott McAfee wrote that district attorney Fani Willis had demonstrated “tremendous lapse in judgment”, noting that even if the romantic relationship between her and Nathan Wade developed after Wade was appointed as special prosecutor in November 2021, Willis […]

László Nemes, the director of acclaimed film Son of Saul, has criticised The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars acceptance speech. Speaking at the ceremony on Sunday, Glazer said he and his producer, James Wilson, “stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led […]

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