consarvative party The Conservative Party will launch its campaign for May’s local elections in England later, promising to “build back better from the pandemic”. Co-chairman Amanda Milling will also warn that Labour could see a “post-Corbyn bounce” under Sir Keir Starmer. And she will tell the Conservatives’ virtual spring forum the Lib Dems are looking
Month: March 2021
Getty Images Beverly Cleary, the American children’s author who created the feisty characters of Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins, has died at the age of 104. Cleary died on Thursday at her home in Carmel, California, publisher HarperCollins said in a statement. At a time when children’s literature told the stories of genteel English schoolchildren,
If Deshaun Watson ever had a chance to land with the Miami Dolphins, that outlook got a little more bleak Friday. And this time it was a football development, not another onslaught of civil lawsuits. Watson’s preferred NFL team in a trade scenario — the Dolphins — made a pair of dramatic trades Friday, flipping
Seaport Freight Services British businesses are getting worried as Egypt’s Suez Canal continues to be blocked by a Taiwanese mega-container ship for the fourth day in a row. Seaport Freight Services, a shipping and freight forwarding company based at the Port of Felixstowe, has 20 containers of goods stranded on The Ever Green. “We’re waiting
Baseball executives love all their players equally. That’s what they’ll say, anyway. It’s a defensive position, and not without merit. As bosses, presidents of baseball operations and general managers balk at being asked to single out an employee — both because of how it might seem to the others, and the pressure it might put
EPA The blockage of Egypt’s Suez canal by a giant container ship is causing a “traffic jam” in the Red Sea, according to a merchant seaman on a nearby ship. Joe Reynolds, chief engineer of the Maersk Ohio, told the BBC the number of vessels waiting at the canal’s southern entrance was “growing exponentially”. “It’s
A state lawmaker in Georgia has been arrested and charged amid protests over a new election bill. Democrat Park Cannon was handcuffed and removed from the state capitol for banging on Governor Brian Kemp’s office door as he signed the bill. Republicans say the new voting laws are “common sense”, but Democrats slammed the measures
Former SNP leader Alex Salmond has announced the creation of a new pro-independence party which will contest the Scottish Parliament election. The former first minister said he would be among the candidates who will stand for the Alba Party on regional lists. Mr Salmond said the aim was to build “a supermajority for independence” at
Reuters Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.6bn (£1.2bn) defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing it promoted baseless claims of vote-rigging. Conservatives and Trump campaigners had claimed last year that the US company had altered its voting machines to deny re-election to Donald Trump. The false claim of a stolen election was promoted by Mr
Reuters France has accused the UK of “blackmail” over its handling of coronavirus vaccine exports, amid continuing tensions over supply chains. Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was asked whether the EU had been “scammed” by sending millions of doses to the UK while its own rollout stuttered. “We need to build a co-operative relationship,” he
EPA At least 32 people have been killed and more than 60 injured in a train crash in southern Egypt, the country’s railway authority said. Two carriages were derailed and overturned when two passenger trains collided in the province of Sohag. Emergency brakes were activated on the train in front by “unknown individuals”, causing the
VCG Chinese state media and netizens are championing local brands while targeting more Western retailers as the Xinjiang cotton backlash grows. Western brands have come under fire for expressing concern about the alleged use of Uighur forced labour in cotton production in the north-west region. A campaign that started against H&M and Nike has widened
Reuters North Korea has claimed the missiles it launched Thursday were a “new-type tactical guided projectile”, in its first statement since the test. It was the country’s first ballistic launch in almost a year and the first since Joe Biden became US President. Mr Biden has said the US will “respond accordingly”. The US, Japan
Reuters At least five people have been killed in Alabama, as tornadoes continue to batter the southern US state. The deaths were in the small town of Oatchee in Calhoun County, the local emergency agency said, as the storm damaged houses and uprooted trees. The tornadoes later hit Chilton County and were nearing Shelby Country.
AFP China has imposed sanctions on nine UK citizens – including five MPs – for spreading what it called “lies and disinformation” about the country. It comes in retaliation for measures taken by the UK government on Monday over human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority group. Sir Iain Duncan Smith is among the
Reuters The vaccine producer AstraZeneca must “catch up” on its promised deliveries to the EU before exporting doses elsewhere, the bloc’s chief has said. “The company… has to honour the contract it has with member states,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday. She spoke after EU leaders held a summit to
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