WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Voters across Poland are casting ballots in local elections Sunday in the first electoral test for the coalition government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk nearly four months since
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On 25 July 1945, the new U.S. President Harry Truman decided to accept the advice from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and especially from Truman’s personal hero, General Dwight Eisenhower, that if the U.S. Government would not ultimately take over (create the world’s first global empire to include) the entire […]
The government must listen to the likes of Monzo, Revolut and Oaknorth and scrap stamp duty to help boost the London Stock Exchange.
Ginnie Atkinson, a former chief executive of the Filmhouse, and one of the people spearheading the move to save the cinema, said when the money was announced: “When we applied for UK Government funding the amount we went for was aspirational. To get this will be absolutely transformational for the Filmhouse.” And a new pot of money from the UK Government looks set to transform this year’s Fringe. It has just promised a million pounds to support hundreds of performers from across Britain to...
“As a policy statement, it’s completely toothless,” State Senator Ghazala Hashmi (D-Chesterfield), who wrote one of the bills, told 8News about the amendments. “It doesn’t address the issues that we were fighting for in the Right to Contraception Act and quite frankly, it’s not worth the paper it’s written on.”
Pyrite, the yellow metal known as fool’s gold, has another trick up its sleeve: it can contain lithium, a crucial element in the world’s quest for greener energy, according to a team of researchers that studied rock deposits in the eastern United States. The researchers examined 15 rock samples that formed during the middle-Devonian, about […]
State and private actors, including Abu Dhabi, should be exceptionally careful with Altman’s proposals.
Buenos Aires, Apr 5 (Prensa Latina) Former Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Friday deplored the submission of Javier Milei's government to the United States and warned about the provocations to other countries in the region. The post Former president regrets Argentine government’s submission to the U.S first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Vietnam is keen to paint Truong My Lan's death sentence for fraud as a
Small brewers are being squeezed, with a flurry of insolvencies hitting the sector despite strong salesNeither Rishi Sunak nor Gordon Brown is a beer aficionado. The former is teetotal and his predecessor all but gave up booze during his time in office.Yet the two prime ministers loom large over the turbulent saga of the UK craft beer scene. Continue reading
Rules governing political campaigning on terrestrial television don’t apply to streaming or online – and parties are starting to play dirtyOne of my favourite jokes in The Simpsons concerns the unhinged nature of US political advertising. “Mayor Quimby supports revolving-door prisons,” a growly voice narrates over footage of exactly what you imagine. “Mayor Quimby even released Sideshow Bob, a man twice convicted of attempted murder.” And then, a final disclosure at a noticeably faster pace:...
The student exchange program began in 2002 as part of the sister-city partnership formed by Reading and Reutlingen more than a quarter-century ago.