BETHESDA, Md. (Reuters) – President Donald Trump, who has avoided wearing a mask in public even as the coronavirus pandemic spread, donned one on Saturday at a military medical facility outside Washington where he was to meet with wounded soldiers and front-line health-care workers. The visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center marked Trump’s […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The First Minister chose July 15 as the date to allow tourism businesses including pubs, restaurants and hotels to welcome back customers. Next Wednesday’s reopening will come nearly two weeks after Boris […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Sir Ed retweeted an article which reported that the Government is launching a multi-million pound “Get Ready for Brexit” campaign, with the acting Lib Dem leader blasting the cost. But Mr Daubney […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone, sparing him from prison after he was convicted of lying under oath to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Trump’s decision to commute Stone’s sentence days before he was due to report to prison marked […]
Even before a single vote was cast and before he had any notion of whether he would be returning to Parliament, Progress Singapore Party (PSP) chief Tan Cheng Bock was already talking about succession in the party leadership. At his last press conference of the campaign, he had made clear that his party – just […]
SINGAPORE – The People’s Action Party team led by National Development Minister Lawrence Wong in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC has defeated a Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) team with 63.18 per cent of the votes on Saturday (July 11). The four-member lineup includes Minister of State for Manpower and National Development Zaqy Mohamad, 45, two-term MP Alex Yam, […]
SINGAPORE – Amid the ongoing pandemic, the question as Singaporeans headed to the polls was this: Would they prioritise bread-and-butter issues in a flight to safety and leadership? In the end, the flight turned out to be more of a shuffle. And voters – especially younger ones – sent a strong signal that they wanted […]
Ministers have been urged to “come clean” after Sir Keir Starmer said a Sky News report revealing the confusion over coronavirus test numbers was “very concerning”. The Labour Party leader piled pressure on the government to release the results of an internal audit which showed some figures on the COVID-19 tests do not add up. […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The fund will subsidise six-month work placements for people on Universal Credit aged from 16 to 24, who are at risk of long-term unemployment. The CBI praised the scheme as “a much-needed […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. As the UK Government scrambles to seal a deal with the EU over fishing after Brexit, UK Fisheries has warned Boris Johnson not to lose sight of the nation’s Nordic non-EU neighbours. […]