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Stormy ordered to pay Trump $293,000
12Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

Stormy ordered to pay Trump $293,000

    A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Stormy Daniels must pay President Trump more than $293,000 (£233k) in legal fees in her failed defamation lawsuit, a decision that the president’s team hailed as a total victory but that Daniels’s attorney vowed would never hold up on appeal. U.S. District Judge S. James Otero ruled that Daniels must pay Trump $293,052.33 in attorneys fees, costs and sanctions, a figure representing 75 percent of the amount Trump had been seeking. Daniels had claimed in the lawsuit that Trump defamed her when he suggested that she had lied about being threatened to keep quiet about their alleged past relationship. Otero dismissed the suit in October, ruling that Trump’s rhetorical hyperbole was political in nature and ordering Daniels, whose given ...
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London is a mess: EU to wait and see before rethink on Brexit timetable
12Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

London is a mess: EU to wait and see before rethink on Brexit timetable

    EU leaders will want to see who emerges as British prime minister from the Conservative party’s leadership contest before considering an extension of the negotiating time allowed under article 50. A special summit could be held in January to assess the situation, EU diplomats said, but agreement on a prolongation beyond 29 March 2019 would be far from certain. In her response to the vote of confidence in her leadership, Theresa May had claimed on the steps of Downing Street that whoever took her job would have to scrap or extend article 50, the mechanism taking Britain out of the EU on 29 March, “delaying or even stopping Brexit”. Brussels has repeatedly warned it would not countenance an extension of the two-year negotiating period to simply allow a “managed no-de...
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Should you stop eating blood avocados
11Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Life Style

Should you stop eating blood avocados

    Avocado on toast might be off the menu. British and Irish restaurants are increasingly ditching them over concerns that Latin American imports are damaging the environment and funding Mexican drug cartels. Growers in Michoacán, west Mexico, have had their land seized by drug lords who are reported to be earning £150m a year by selling the so-called blood avocados to British traders. The Wild Strawberry Cafe in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, once served 1,000 avocado dishes each week. The owner, Katy Brill, made the controversial decision to stop because of ethical concerns over imports, the cartel reports among them. Primarily I just felt that it didn’t fit with my ethos of using local food, she says. If you can eat with the season and source your food locally, ...
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Facebook tech could guess where you’re going next
11Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Technology

Facebook tech could guess where you’re going next

    Facebook might not only know where you are in the future, but also where you're going next. Buzzfeed News has discovered that the social network has filed a patent application entitled Offline Trajectories for a technology can predict where you're going based at least in part on previously logged location data. Based on the application's wording, it'll be able to use your previously logged location, as well as other people's, to make predictions. Say, you typically go to a specific restaurant after spending time at the gym. The technology starts by determining your current location, and if you're at the gym, it will compute for the probability that you're going to that restaurant next. If it determines that you are indeed heading to that restaurant and that locat...
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EU chief declares no room whatsoever for renegotiation about Brexit
11Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

EU chief declares no room whatsoever for renegotiation about Brexit

    Theresa May's whirlwind Brexit tour has been left in tatters moments after it began after the head of the EU declared there is no room whatsoever for renegotiation. The Prime Minister barely had breakfast with the Dutch PM on a 1,500-mile trip before her bid to reshape her withdrawal deal was attacked by Jean-Claude Juncker. The European Commission President said he was surprised Mrs May had dropped a vote in Parliament on her deal which 27 EU leaders had already agreed last night. He warned it would appear that there are problems right at the end of the road, adding: The deal we have achieved is the best deal possible, it is the only deal possible. Theresa May Mrs May is seeking assurances today in visits to Dutch PM Mark Rutte, German leader Angela Merkel, Mr Ju...
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Macron caves in to rioters with minimum wage rise
11Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

Macron caves in to rioters with minimum wage rise

    Emmanuel Macron has promised to raise the minimum wage as he acknowledged he was partially responsible for weeks of nationwide protests. The French president addressed the country for the first time since anti-tax protests by the Gilet Jaunes (yellow vests) turned into violent rioting in Paris two weekends ago after rolling on since 17 November. He acknowledged anger and indignation among the public over the cost of living, but warned no indulgence would be given to people behind the violence. The beleaguered leader said no anger justifies looting shops or attacking police, adding that both threaten France's cherished liberty. They include a €100 (£90) a month increase to the minimum wage from next year, which the prime minister had promised before. The minimum w...
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May holds emergency call with Cabinet
10Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

May holds emergency call with Cabinet

    The Prime Minister was set to address the Commons at 3.30pm after the emergency call with her ministers on Monday morning. Just minutes after a Downing Street spokesman insisted the vote would go ahead, the Bloomberg news agency and the BBC cited sources as saying that Tuesday's vote had been cancelled. Speculation had mounted that the vote on the Withdrawal Agreement could be postponed or scrapped in the face of an open revolt by Conservative MPs and fierce opposition from other sides of the House.
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Britain worst record for antisemitism
10Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Britain worst record for antisemitism

    Four out of five Jews in the UK believe antisemitism is a major problem in British politics, the worst record within the EU, and nearly a third are considering leaving Britain out of fears for their safety, according to the world’s largest survey of Jewish people. The report from the EU’s agency on fundamental rights has found antisemitic hatred and discrimination on the rise across Europe, with attitudes in France, Germany, Belgium and Poland said to be the most disturbing. The survey of 16,300 Jewish people in Europe found that almost a third avoid attending events or visiting Jewish sites because they do not feel safe. In France, 95% of Jews believe antisemitism is a very or fairly big problem, up from 85% when the poll was last run six years ago. And nine out o...
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How Turkey Created a Debt Crisis
9Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, Featured

How Turkey Created a Debt Crisis

    Everybody has a bankruptcy story, says Cem Sari, who’s just lived through his own version, in a year that turned into a national trauma. Turkey’s economy roared into 2018 with growth rates that were the envy of the world and vulnerabilities that had been building over years. It was like a car that could still reach high speeds, so long as the driver ignored the multiple warning lights flashing on the dashboard. And then it crashed, suffering a classic run on its currency and a brutal credit crunch. Somewhere along the way, Sari’s textile business went under, along with hundreds of other companies. Many more, including some of the country’s biggest corporate names, are still struggling to contain the fallout. The government and banks are still figuring out how to ...
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Corbyn could be PM in days if Brexit deal rejected
9Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Corbyn could be PM in days if Brexit deal rejected

    Jeremy Corbyn could take over as prime minister of a minority government on Wednesday morning if MPs reject Theresa May's Brexit deal, Labour has told Sky News. A party spokesperson vowed to reset negotiations with Brussels and take the country forward should the prime minister be defeated in parliament. It came as Brexit minister Kwasi Kwarteng insisted the crunch vote would go ahead on Tuesday, amid reports it could be pulled to spare the government a large loss. The split could have deeper implications after Brexit is settled, former attorney-general Dominic Grieve also warned. There is a risk that the party will split and cannot continue in its current form, he told Sky News. And Nigel Dodds, deputy leader of the government's confidence-and-supply partners th...
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