First Look In surprise move, David Cameron returns to U.K. government Former British prime minister David Cameron, who resigned after the Brexit vote, was named U.K. foreign secretary on Nov. 13. Home Secretary Suella Braverman, divisive for her hard line against pro-Palestinian protests, was fired. | View caption Hide caption | Former British Prime Minister…
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US preparing nuclear bomb that could kill 300,000 in Moscow sparking WW3 fears
Joe Biden’s administration is developing a nuclear bomb that could be 24 times more powerful than the atomic bomb used to decimate Hiroshima in 1945. The bomb is so powerful it could kill more than 300,000 people if dropped on Moscow, analysis has suggested. reports: “Anything within roughly a half-mile radius from the bomb’s detonation…
Iran, tormentor of US presidents, tests Joe Biden
Iran, tormentor of US presidents, tests Joe Biden | View caption Hide caption In an address to the nation Thursday night – seeking to explain the stakes for Americans and for democracy in both conflicts – President Biden put the Iranian regime on notice. “We’ll continue to hold them accountable,” Mr. Biden said, without providing…
Chinese EV sales are soaring in Europe. The EU doesn’t love it.
First Look Chinese EV sales are soaring in Europe. The EU doesn’t love it. Chinese automakers are winning over drivers in Europe’s electric vehicle market – a key industry in Europe’s green energy transition. The European Union says China is artificially driving down its prices, adding tensions between the West and China. | View caption…
Vladimir Putin ‘sent body double to China’ to meet Xi as he has ‘days to live’
sent a body double to meet to meet counterpart because the real president “is living out the last days of his earthly life”, a Russian political analyst has claimed. with many of his critics claiming president is suffering from a life-threatening illness. There have also been numerous theories that on occasions when These extraordinary claims…
North Carolina groundskeeper mows around dead body after mistaking it for prop, police and family say
A North Carolina family is demanding answers after their loved one’s body was found facedown on the lawn of an empty home where a groundskeeper saw it, mistook it for a prop dummy and mowed the grass around it. The body of Robert Paul Owens, 34, was found Oct. 10 at an abandoned log cabin…
EU fears ‘significant harm’ as it goes to war with China over electric cars
The European Commission has officially opened an investigation into China’s electric vehicle sector. It says it is “in possession of sufficient evidence” that Beijing has provided subsidies that would damage the electric vehicle (EV) market in the EU. Should member states agree with the severity of the Commission’s finding, it could lead to an import…
India police search NewsClick journalists’ homes and offices
NEW DELHI — Indian police raided the offices of a news website that is under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from China, as well as the homes of several of its journalists, in what critics described as an attack on one of India’s few remaining independent news outlets. The raids came months after Indian authorities searched…
Russia hosts Taliban for talks on regional threats and says it will keep funding Afghanistan
Moscow will keep helping Afghanistan on its own and through the U.N. food agency, Russian officials said Friday as they hosted Taliban representatives for talks on regional threats. The talks in the Russian city of Kazan came as Moscow is trying to maintain its influence in Central Asia even as it wages war on Ukraine.…
Kosovo and Serbia were on the brink of detente. Why is it unraveling?
First Look Kosovo and Serbia were on the brink of detente. Why is it unraveling? A standoff between ethnic Serbs and Kosovo police left four dead on Sunday, including a Kosovar police officer, threatening to sink negotiations between the two neighbors. Kosovo split from Serbia in 2008, a decade after it endured a bloody civil…