POLITICS
US kicks 35 Russian diplomats out of country over election hacking
US president Barack Obama has ordered sanctions against Russian officials and intelligence services in response to election hacking. In total 35 Russian diplomats have been told to leave the country within the next 72 hours. Intruder left looking worse for wear after getting caught Two Russian compounds in New York and Maryland...
The pollutant ammonia has been detected 15km up in the atmosphere, but it may not be all bad
The gas ammonia is usually only found in the atmosphere in tiny trace amounts, but scientists have now detected it at significant levels in the upper troposphere for the first time. The gas was at levels of 33 molecules per trillion air molecules over north India and south-east China, which have a huge consumption of...
Trump urges Israel to ‘stay strong’ and ‘hold on’ for his arrival on January 20th
US President-elect Donald Trump has created yet more diplomatic shockwaves with a pair of tweets in which he urged the nation of Israel to "stay strong" until his inauguration on 20 January. The remarks came in the wake of the Obama administration's refusal to veto a UN Security Council resolution that condemned...
White House reportedly racing to crack down on Russian hackers before Trump takes office
Еconomic sanctions, which authorised the Obama administration to punish and prevent foreign hackers who attack US national security and economy. However, according to the National Security Council, the sanctions fall short of providing the current administration enough power to punish the biggest and most controversial...
Obama, Japan’s Abe to seek reconciliation at Pearl Harbor
HONOLULU (AP) — Putting 75 years of resentment behind them, the leaders of the United States and Japan are coming together at Pearl Harbor for a historic pilgrimage to the site where a devastating surprise attack sent America marching into World War II. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit Tuesday with President Barack...
‘The Queen backed Brexit’ says BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg
Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC's political editor, has said that the Queen did back Brexit ahead of the UK's referendum on its membership of the EU. However, she said she could not report it at the time because it had only come from one source instead of the two required by BBC editorial policy. In March this year, prior to...
King Charles III: Is the Queen getting ready to hand over the reins to her son?
"You have to be seen to be believed," the Queen once observed in a reference to her need always to be in the public eye, but this week she was seen to be overshadowed by her successor. In a photographic portrait released on Sunday and redolent with symbolism, a relaxed Prince Charles looks down on a seated and...
Israel slams Obama over UN vote
JERUSALEM — An Israeli official on Friday accused President Barack Obama of colluding with the Palestinians in a “shameful move against Israel at the UN” after learning the White House did not intend to veto a Security Council resolution condemning settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem...
Fellow passenger is glad JetBlue booted ‘agitated’ Ivanka heckler
The JetBlue passenger who harassed Ivanka Trump on board a plane about to take off from JFK Airport for San Francisco was “agitated,” and the airline did the right thing in kicking him off, a passenger who witnessed the incident wrote on Facebook. “When he got on and saw her, sitting behind me, he said,...
Prince Charles urges tolerance in ‘echoes of the dark days of 1930s’ warning
Labour MP Jamie Reed to quit Commons and trigger Copeland by-election UK thinks Santa Claus would have voted against Brexit and Donald Trump "My parents' generation fought and died in a battle against intolerance, monstrous extremism and inhuman attempts to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe."...
Trump suggests he may go ahead with Muslim ban after Berlin attack
PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was “an attack on humanity and it’s got to be stopped.” He also suggested he might go forward with his campaign pledge to temporarily ban Muslim immigrants from coming to the...
Barack Obama predicts US is going to be a ‘browner country’; elicits angry response on Twitter
During his presidential campaign Donald Trump had promised to restrict migrants from entering the US and also filter out many of those already in the country. Whether Trump puts his plan into action or not, President Barack Obama is of the opinion that America will continue to become a "browner country". In an...