Month: May 2019

Leading Palestinian businessmen announced on Tuesday they would boycott an economics-focused conference next month in Bahrain that is part of the US’s Middle East peace “Palestinian business leaders to boycott US-led conference in Bahrain”

The reason humans walk upright could be because of a series of apocalyptic lightning strikes caused by ancient star explosions millions of years ago, exciting “Ancient star explosions unleashed APOCALYPTIC storms and caused humans to WALK UPRIGHT – study”

A woman who casually dropped £30,000 on luxury Godiva chocolates at Harrods as part of an epic 10-year-long, £16 million spending spree is being forced “Next level retail therapy: Wife of jailed banker spent £16 MILLION on decade-long Harrods spree”

The results of the European Union election are the most dramatic upheaval in the politics of Europe since the first European Parliament elections 40 years “EU vote results are the most dramatic upheaval in European politics in 40 years – Ken Livingstone”

Ukraine’s newly minted President Volodymyr Zelensky has restored the Ukrainian citizenship of Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president and onetime governor of Odessa. “Thank you “Guess who’s back? Ukraine returns citizenship to eccentric former Georgian president Saakashvili”

The latest indictments of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange are a blueprint for making journalists into felons, a test case for dismantling the First Amendment that “US crusade against Assange a ‘blueprint’ for criminalizing journalism – Greenwald”

Irish independent politician Clare Daly showed her support for jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during the vote count for the European elections in Dublin on “‘Free Assange’: Irish politician wears t-shirt supporting WikiLeaks founder as she becomes MEP”

American logistics giant FedEx has apologized to Chinese tech firm Huawei after several of their packages were re-routed to the United States, where authorities are “FedEx apologizes to Huawei for ‘mis-routing’ its packages to US ‘in error’”

When history of the present US-Iran stand-off in the Persian Gulf is written, future scholars may note how it was Tehran that saved the day “As US ramps up military force, Iran shows leadership with regional diplomacy”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday appointed former finance minister Oleksandr Danylyuk as the top official of the body responsible for coordinating national security. The “Ukraine’s ex-finance minister Danylyuk to head security & defense council”