Following six weeks of intense fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia, a cease-fire brokered by Russia will see territory formerly controlled by Armenia handed over to Azerbaijan.
Massive crowds have thronged Washington DC for a ‘Million MAGA March’ as supporters of President Donald Trump continue to call for an audit of the November 3rd election. The President has not yet conceded the closely fought election, though most media outlets have called it for the Democrat candidate, Joe Biden. The landslide for Biden […]
A British nurse has been charged with eight counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder in relation to baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Police say children’s nurse Lucy Letby was originally arrested and questioned over the killing of the babies in 2018, but was released. After further investigation she was re-arrested and charged yesterday. […]
Police shot rubber bullets at Polish nationalists marching through Warsaw in celebration of the country’s Independence Day yesterday.
The Austrian government is set to outlaw the deliberate spreading of “political Islam” in the country following last week’s terror attack in Vienna.
Secretary of State for Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, has announced that there will be a full recount in his state by-hand, in an attempt to audit the election. He says that vote counters will aim to complete the count by November 20th, which is the certification deadline. Raffensperger expressed support for the local election officials, saying […]
The Japanese suicide rate has risen to the highest rate in at least half a decade, police data revealed this week. While suicide has long been a serious and widespread issue in Japan, numbers have skyrocketed in recent months as the covid-19 pandemic wears on. As of October of 2020, over 13,000 lives have been […]
In the week since American voters went to the polls, most things about the result have become clear, and a few things remain outstanding. Joe Biden has been declared, by the media, Democrats, and more than a few Republicans, to be the President-Elect. He has spent the last few days beginning to assemble an administration, […]
Despite laicizing McCarrick in 2019, the report is unlikely to be the final word on the question of how much and when Pope Francis knew about the crimes.
Over 17 million mink are being culled in Denmark following the discovery of a new strain of Covid-19 that is thought to pass through the animal.
To be fair, they didn’t say the first bit. But it’s hard to argue that politics didn’t influence the timing, for reasons we’ll come to shortly. But first, the news: As I type these words, stock markets are surging globally. And why wouldn’t they? A 90% effective Coronavirus vaccine means, well, the end of the […]
A stark image here, via Gavan Reilly: pic.twitter.com/QxyaTuWiLy — Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 7, 2020 This is, of course, an absolutely terrible development, but most people seem incapable of understanding why. That’s largely because attitudes to Trump fall into two camps, and they are almost irreconcilable. The first camp includes almost every Irish journalist, and […]