Second Lady Karen Pence, the wife of the US vice-president, will return to teaching art at a school that requires employees to oppose LGBT lifestyles. The school in Springfield, Virginia, bars teachers from engaging in or condoning “homosexual or lesbian sexual activity” and “transgender identity”. Mrs Pence previously taught art at the school for more […] Read more
By Cheyenne Haslett The broader impact of the shutdown on the U.S. economy may be double what was projected, White House economists confirmed on Wednesday, Day 26 of the political standoff. Meanwhile, thousands of employees have been called back to work without pay because of the risks posed for their agencies if, for example, airports continue […] Read more
An enormous search and rescue operation to find a toddler who fell down a borehole in Malaga, Spain, entered its third day on Wednesday. Julen, 2, was reported to have been out walking with his family in the small town of Totalan in Malaga on Sunday afternoon when he fell down the narrow 107-metre-long hole, […] Read more
President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee William Barr appeared to dismiss one of the president’s most consistent attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller: that his probe of Russian election interference is a “witch hunt.” Barr, who on Tuesday faced questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings, was asked by Chairman Lindsey Graham, […] Read more
The mayor of a city in Poland has died the day after he was stabbed while on stage during the finale of a large charity event, the health minister said on Monday. Pawel Adamowicz, mayor of the city of Gdansk, was attacked in the city during the finale of an event organised by the Great […] Read more
Saudi Arabia has been a victim of terrorism since 1979, a reality that contradicts the claim that Saudi Arabia supports or enables terrorism in any way, said Ambassador Al-Mouallimi in a Washington DC May 2017 Middle East Policy Council’s panel discussion on the “Impact of US and Saudi Arabia Cooperation on Counter-terrorism”, adding that the […] Read more
President Donald Trump promised to hold firm to his border wall pledge Thursday morning ahead of a trip to a Texas town near the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico. As a partial government shutdown entered its 20th day, the president showed no signs of relenting on his promise to secure more than $5 billion […] Read more
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a blunt put-down Tuesday against White House national security advisor John Bolton over his pledges to ensure Turkish nonaggression against Kurds who fought against the Islamic State in Syria. “We cannot accept Bolton’s messages given from Israel,” the Turkish president said, adding that Bolton made a “serious mistake,” Reuters […] Read more
Tonight, on Day 18 of the government shutdown, President Trump is set to deliver a prime-time address to “address the nation on the humanitarian and national security crisis on our southern border.” Being president may give you the right to ask networks for time for an Oval Office address. But on immigration — perhaps more […] Read more
Russian Orthodox Christians have marked Christmas with a special midnight mass held in churches and cathedrals across the country. President Vladimir Putin attended a service in Saint Petersburg’s Transfiguration Cathedral, where his mother had him baptised in secrecy during Soviet times. In Moscow the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, led the mass […] Read more
