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…
WASHINGTON – Ukraine is on an “irreversible” path to NATO membership after Russia’s war on Europe’s largest country brought Kyiv and the security alliance closer than ever, member nations said in the 2024 NATO Summit’s official declaration. “Ukraine’s future is in NATO. Ukraine has become increasingly interoperable and politically integrated with the alliance,” the declaration said. “As…
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) discovered a command center this week used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists within the Gaza City headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Israel has long insisted that UNRWA supports terrorism in general, and maintains that several UNRWA employees participated directly in the October 7 terror…
WASHINGTON — Ukrainian pilots will take to the skies in American-made F-16 fighter jets in the coming weeks to deter Russian airstrikes, the leaders of the US, Denmark and the Netherlands announced Wednesday. Kyiv is set to receive 78 F-16s from a consortium of NATO countries that got President Biden’s permission last year to dispatch…
George Clooney has issued a damning call for Joe Biden to quit the US presidential race, hours after senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi swerved questions about whether he should continue. The Hollywood actor and prominent Democratic Party fundraiser said that the president had won many battles in his career, “but the one battle he cannot win…
SALAR CENTENARIO, Argentina, July 10 (Reuters) – In a dusty plain in northern Argentina’s mountains, black tubes stretching two stories high fill a massive tank with salty brine sucked from deep below ground. The brine contains lithium, a silvery white metal essential for making electric vehicle batteries and in high demand as the world shifts…
A court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on charges of extremism, according to state media. The charges brought against Yulia Navalnaya, who lives outside Russia, in absentia are to do with her alleged “participation in an extremist society”, Tass news agency said. Navalny was…