Britain must take in 100,000 asylum seekers a year, says immigration lawyer

Britain should take in 100,000 asylum seekers a year as part of a global programme to fix the refugee crisis, according to a top legal expert. Ivon Sampson, principle immigration lawyer at PRIVATUS, argued the UN High Commissioner for Refugees … Read More

China crushes mass protest by bank depositors demanding their life savings back

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Hong Kong (CNN) – Chinese authorities on Sunday violently dispersed a peaceful protest by hundreds of depositors, who sought in vain to demand their life savings back from banks that have run into a deepening cash crisis. Since April, four … Read More

GOP hammers Biden for allowing emergency oil reserves to go to China: ‘compromising our energy security’

The top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee says Americans ‘deserve answers’ on China receiving oil from U.S. stockpiles. Several GOP lawmakers sharply criticized President Joe Biden on Thursday following reports of emergency U.S. oil being sent to … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 8 July 2022

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Greetings from Tyler, News of the shooting in a Copenhagen mall has circled the globe.  Maybe if they only had stricter gun laws this wouldn’t have happened.  Do you think somebody intent on killing people is going to care about … Read More

The wrong NATO signals to Russia could mean more war for Europe

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Since the USSR’s collapse, the Russian Federation’s strategic goal has been to maintain a buffer zone over its western neighborhood that includes NATO territory. A weakened Russia was unable to stop the sovereign aspirations of former Soviet republics in the … Read More

Following NATO Summit, North Korea Denounces US-South Korea-Japan Joint Military Cooperation

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North Korea’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the country will beef up its self-defense capabilities against the U.S. and its allies. North Korea’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson denounced the “hostility” it said the United States, South Korea, and Japan showed during the … Read More

One scandal too many: British PM Boris Johnson resigns

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday amid a mass revolt by top members of his government, marking an end to three tumultuous years in power in which he brazenly bent and sometimes broke the rules … Read More

Current drought in southern Europe ‘could become its worst ever’

The European Union is bracing itself for a difficult wildfire season with hundreds of firefighters from different member states being deployed as the drought in southern European countries could become “the worst ever”. “Since 2017, we have witnessed the most … Read More

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