The crackpot president of the United States of America has so snarled up the gangplank to truth these past 29 months that no matter how much “evidence” he and his crew produce to prove that the Iranians have been trying to blow up oil-tankers in the Gulf – or not quite blow them up – the pictures have a kind of mesmeric quality about them ... 1/8 ... 2/8 ... ....
The wife of Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu asked a court Sunday to approve a plea bargain convicting her of fraudulently using state funds for meals, an AFP reporter said ... In a small room at the Jerusalem magistrates' court, packed with journalists, Netanyahu told the judge she was aware of the charges ... ....
A massive, power-grid failure has left both Argentina and Uruguay without electricity. The outage has affected around 50 million people across the two countries in the south of South America... ....
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner took in as much as $135 million in revenue during their second year as aides to PresidentDonald Trump, generated from their vast real estate holdings, stocks and bonds and even a book deal, according to their financial disclosures released Friday ...Disclosure forms vague ... Legal, conflict of interest questions ... Less debt....
Italian national Francesco Galdelli is taken into custody by Thai police after being arrested on charges he posed as actor George Clooney to sell clothes online. An Italian who allegedly posed as Hollywood superstar George Clooney to sell clothes online has been arrested with his wife in Thailand after years on the run, police said Sunday ... ....
Saudi Arabia’s Crown PrinceMohammed bin Salman said in remarks published Sunday that the kingdom is not seeking war in the region but warned it will not hesitate to confront threats to its security ... Advertising ... Iran has also been accused of being behind the May 12 attacks on four oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates ... Bihar ... ....
Only a few hundred people were present to commemorate the anniversary of the execution of Imre Nagy on Sunday morning in Budapest, a far cry from 30 years ago when his reburial drew more than 100,000 people to the city’s Heroes Square... He was arrested and hanged on 16 June 1958 ... “Then, he was a defender of freedom ... ....
Six years on, the violent scene remains imprinted in the minds of Georgia’s LGBT community. dozens of gay rights demonstrators being beaten in the streets of Tbilisi by black-frocked priests and far-right protesters, some bearing clubs and other weapons....
At least eight Kenyan police officers have died after their car hit a roadside bomb near the Somali border. Eleven people were in the car when it hit the device in east Wajir county. The fate of the others is unclear ... ....
Reduction of marine plastic trash was one of the major issues at the G20 summit of environment ministers in Japan. Delegates also discussed the future of energy security following the tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman... ....
Maurizio Sarri has left Chelsea and signed a three-year deal to become manager of Juventus, both clubs have confirmed. Chelsea announced on Thursday that they had agreed a compensation fee, understood to be in excess of £5million, for the 60-year-old, who told the club he wanted to return to Italy in order to be closer to his family ... Chelsea added ... ....
Tory leadership hopeful Dominic Raab has warned the party will be finished unless it takes Britain out of the EU by the October 31st deadline. “The Tory Party will be toast unless we are out by the end of October. The Conservatives cannot win an election unless we have delivered Brexit, he told Sky News’s Ridge On Sunday programme ... BREXIT. The Facts ... ....