Greens emerge as kingmakers as von der Leyen vows to keep the centrist coalition strong. Pro-European forces celebrated the comfortable re-election of Ursula von der Leyen in Strasbourg’s European Parliament on Thursday. Von der Leyen relied mainly on allies to her left to secure a second term as European Commission chief – and not, as…
A faulty cybersecurity update from CrowdStrike wreaked havoc across the medical and travel industries, with flights and medical procedures canceled and delayed. Hospitals, banks, airports, airlines and broadcasters worldwide were impacted by a massive, ongoing IT outage Friday. Thousands of Windows PCs, which many companies and organizations rely on as part of their critical internet infrastructure, were…
US journalist Evan Gershkovich has been found guilty of espionage by a Russian court and sentenced to 16 years in a high-security penal colony, after a secretive trial decried as a “sham” by his employer, his family and the White House. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter was first arrested last March while on a…
Greetings from Tyler, The week we’ve just lived through will take its place in history. It is, as somebody said, beyond explanation. We came within an inch of losing President Trump. What would we be facing if they’d have killed him? They’ve tried EVERYTHING to get rid of this guy. They’ve run out of…
We believe that there is credible evidence that PTI should be banned: Minister ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government will seek to ban the political party of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, the information minister said Monday, days after a series of court decisions that favoured the former leader. Khan was jailed in the run-up to a February…
The second quarter’s 4.7 percent growth was far below the 5.3 percent pace seen in the first quarter of 2024. China’s economy expanded at a slower-than-forecast 4.7 percent annual rate in the last quarter, the government reported Monday, while emphasizing signs of improvement in factory output, income, and investment. The expansion was sharply below the…
LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) – Record immigration caused the population of England and Wales to rise by 610,000 to 60.9 million in mid-2023, the largest annual increase in 75 years, official data showed on Monday. What statisticians term ‘natural’ population growth – the difference between births and deaths – fell to just 400, the lowest…
Authorities said they had been able to access the shooter’s phone but had still not found anything pointing to a motive for opening fire on the former president. BETHEL PARK, Pa. — Authorities said Monday that they had accessed the phone of the person who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump and had completed…
Greetings from Tyler, Joe Biden’s misstatements are at the top of the list. Are these merely mix-ups which happen to everybody now and again, or something more serious. You almost hate to watch him appear some-where, because you know it will be an embarrassment, but it’s like a train-wreck. You can’t look away. To say…
The $99bn figure comes as data shows exports growing at fastest rate in 15 months while imports fell China posted a record $99bn (£76.4bn) trade surplus last month amid signs of importers bringing forward orders to beat higher tariffs on goods from the world’s second biggest economy. The latest official figures from Beijing showed exports…