WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, joining a growing chorus of Republicans and military leaders criticizing Republican President Donald Trump amid nationwide protests. Powell, a Republican who led the U.S. military during the 1991 Gulf War in Iraq under President George H.W. Bush and […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell on Sunday endorsed Democratic former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, becoming the first major Republican to publicly back Donald Trump’s rival ahead of November’s election. Powell, who led the U.S. military during the 1991 Gulf War in Iraq […]
Two regional leaders have urged millions of residents to ignore the government’s easing of the coronavirus lockdown and stay at home after the rate of infection was shown to be dangerously high in their areas. The call was made by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, after […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Richard Leonard said the party will go into next year’s Holyrood election opposed to a second independence referendum. Following a meeting of the party’s Scottish Executive Committee this week, Mr Leonard said […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The US President has been under fierce attack this week after his decision to deploy the National Guard to deal with protesters after some of them became violent. But according to an […]
SINGAPORE – Young people in Singapore are doing the right thing by standing up against racial insensitivity, said Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung on Saturday (June 6) in his first public comments about a photo of a birthday celebration taken in 2016 which depicted Raffles Institution students with their faces painted black. He stressed […]
When Colorado Rep. Kyle Mullica returned to the Capitol to resume this year’s legislative session, officers approached him about a 911 call they received. Someone had called to report him, saying he should be quarantined after treating patients with COVID-19 at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. “Nothing came from it because nothing should come […]
Denver District Attorney Beth McCann said she won’t launch new investigations into the deaths of Marvin Booker, Jessica Hernandez and Michael Marshall at the hands of Denver law enforcement. Not because she can’t reopen the cases, as previously stated, but because she won’t. All three cases — referred to as “murders” by Mayor Michael Hancock […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. David Frost, the UK’s chief Brexit negotiator and Michel Barnier have continued talks and progress towards Brexit while the deadly COVID-19 pandemic rages on. the EU representative has recently revealed there have […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. David Frost, Britain’s chief negotiator, said the UK was “reaching the limits of what we can achieve” in a thinly-veiled warning of a no deal Brexit. But he said the tone of […]