Section: The Week (The United Kingdom)
Instant Opinion: Tories won’t ‘take the knee’ for Black Lives Matter – but will voters care?
Description Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he would only ‘take the knee’ for ‘the Queen and the Mrs when I asked her to marry me’ Credits Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images Alt Text Dominic Raab outside 10 Downing Street Your guide to the best columns and …read more Source:: The...
Why Trump may well lose the 2020 US election
Description Election model predicts president will lose office in ‘landslide’ defeat in November Credits Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Alt Text US President Donald Trump Election model predicts president will lose office in ‘landslide’ defeat in November In …read more Source:: The...
‘Open anti-Semitism’: Ukrainian police request names and addresses of city’s Jews
Credits Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images Alt Text Ultra orthodox Jews pray at the tomb of Reb Nachman of Breslov, founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement Jewish leader says last such demand was ‘during the German occupation’ One-Minute Read The Week Staff …read more Source:: The...
Reaction: Donald Trump denies links to failed military coup in Venezuela
Description President Nicolas Maduro claims the US and Colombia are behind the attack Credits Andrew Burton/Getty Images Alt Text Maduro has banned opposition parties from the 2018 election Two Americans reportedly arrested following ‘inept’ bid to overthrow Nicolas Maduro …read more Source:: The...
Coronavirus: what will happen to foreign nationals in the UK?
Description Home Secretary Priti Patel Credits Leon Neal/Getty Images Alt Text Priti Patel Priti Patel urged to give NHS workers and their families indefinite right to stay In Depth The Week …read more Source:: The...
Divorce, baby boom, domestic violence: predictions for families in virus lockdowns
Alt Text Baby’s feet UK households asked to go into 14-day lockdown if any members have symptoms In Depth Gabriel Power Wednesday, March 18, 2020 – 12:25pm The UK government is trying to …read more Source:: The...
Putin’s plan to rule for longer than Stalin
Description Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a meeting on March 11 Credits Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images Russia’s parliament approves new constitution that allows Putin to stay on for another 16 years In Depth William Gritten Thursday, March 12, 2020 …read more Source:: The...
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 9 Mar 2020
Johnson convenes Cobra meeting on coronavirus outbreak Prime Minister Boris Johnson is chairing a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee today to discuss bringing in “social distancing” measures to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. The move follows the UK’s third death linked to the virus, as the number of confirmed cases rises to...
Flight MH17: Four men go on trial for murder
Credits Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images The accused are not expected to appear in Schiphol court One-Minute Read Monday, March 9, 2020 – 6:59am Four men will go on trial today in the Netherlands in the first criminal case resulting from the murder …read more Source:: The...
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 21 Feb 2020
Backpacker murder: Millane’s mother faces killer The mother of murdered British backpacker Grace Millane confronted her daughter’s killer by video link to a New Zealand courtroom yesterday. Gillian Millane told the 28-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, that her daughter had died “terrified and alone”. The killer has...
