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Putin calls poisoned ex-spy Skripal ‘scumbag’
3Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Russia

Putin calls poisoned ex-spy Skripal ‘scumbag’

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Sergei Skripal, the ex-spy who was poisoned with a military grade nerve agent in Britain, a traitor and a scumbag. It was the first time Mr Putin has directly condemned Mr Skripal, who spent weeks in hospital with his daughter Yulia after both were poisoned in the city of Salisbury in March. Britain put the blame squarely on Russia but Moscow has denied any role in the incident. Asked about sanctions on Russia triggered by the attack, Mr Putin called the ex-spy just a scumbag who betrayed his country. He reiterated Russia’s claim that it has nothing to do with the poisoning. Mr Putin said the former agent was of no interest to the Kremlin since he was tried in Russia and exchanged in a spy swap in 2010.
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Donald Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser to cheers at rally
3Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

Donald Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser to cheers at rally

    In a raucous campaign-style rally in Mississippi on Tuesday night, Donald Trump mocked Dr Christine Blasey Ford, who in wrenching testimony before the Senate judiciary committee last week said that the supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager. Kavanaugh has denied the incident. As hundreds of supporters cheered, Trump delivered a crude imitation of Ford from her testimony, in which she vividly described a violent sexual assault by Kavanaugh in the early 1980s but admitted that details of the time and place were lost to memory. Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 20 women, whose allegations he has denied and dismissed. But last week he called Ford a very credible witness and said: I thought her testi...
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Duke and Duchess of Sussex make first official visit to home of their titles
3Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Duke and Duchess of Sussex make first official visit to home of their titles

    The couple are on a whistle-stop tour of Sussex, arriving first at Edes House, in Chichester, on a busy day of engagements. The Duchess is wearing a camel Armani coat, a dark green Hugo Boss skirt and shirt from And Other Stories paired with nude suede stilettos. The Duke and the Duchess, the US-born former actress, will view the rare Sussex copy of the American Declaration of Independence. Crowds gathered early in Chichester ahead of the couple's arrival, with Ros Gentle among those waiting to catch a glimpse. She said: I think they are a great advert for the Royal family. In the afternoon, the couple will travel to East Sussex. The Duke, who was given the title the Duke of Sussex by the Queen on the morning of his wedding, will tour Brighton's historic Royal Pav...
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Man shot by police during dawn raid for firearms
2Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Man shot by police during dawn raid for firearms

    The man was taken to hospital with an arm injury. It is not believed to be life threatening, West Midlands Police said. Six people four men and two women were arrested for firearms offences at a property in Shepherds Gardens, Edgbaston, at around 5am. The men aged 21, 35, 45 and 52 and women aged 59 and 64 all from Birmingham have been arrested on suspicion of firearms offences and remain in police custody. A firearm was recovered by police and has been seized for forensic examination. Police had entered the property looking for a man wanted in connection with a firearms offence. The incident has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. Police said inquiries are at an early stage and investigations are continuing. Police issued a statement to ...
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The Queen jokes about the problems of sitting cross legged
2Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

The Queen jokes about the problems of sitting cross legged

    The Queen has joked about how she is not built for sitting cross-legged in a documentary about her global role. In the second part of ITV’s Queen Of The World, the monarch is seen chatting about a trip she made to the Pacific island of Tonga. She recalls how she was welcomed with a performance of Polynesian nose flutes, and that she found it difficult to sit cross-legged, as is the custom in Tonga. Asked by Elizabeth Kite, winner of a Queen’s Young Leaders Award, if she enjoyed her time in Tonga, the Queen replies: It was wonderful. We had people playing the nose flute outside the window. Just the most extraordinary thing. Sounds awfully uncomfortable but they play it rather well The only thing I found difficult was sitting cross-legged. She adds: It’s quite painf...
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Not the same: PM disowns Foreign Secretary’s Soviet Union comparison
2Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Not the same: PM disowns Foreign Secretary’s Soviet Union comparison

    Theresa May has slapped down her Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt by publicly disowning his comparison of the EU with the Soviet Union. Mr Hunt’s comments have been widely condemned by politicians and diplomats from across Europe, with particular disdain expressed in countries formerly under Soviet domination. Lithuania’s European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, who was born in a Siberian labour camp after his family’s deportation by Stalin and was later arrested by the KGB secret police as a dissident, offered to give the Foreign Secretary a history lesson. And Estonia’s ambassador to London, Tiina Intelmann, described Mr Hunt’s comments as insulting to all those who lived under the Soviet yoke before the collapse of the communist regime in 1991. In his keynote s...
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Did Boris mocks Theresa by running through a field of wheat
1Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Did Boris mocks Theresa by running through a field of wheat

    Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson today appeared to be mimicking Theresa May's naughtiest moment as he was caught running through what looked like a field of wheat. The former Foreign Secretary, who is in the midst of a bitter row with the Prime Minister over her Brexit policy, was photographed in the field while out jogging in Oxfordshire today. The Prime Minister who is infamously awkward and was dubbed the Maybot during the last election memorably said that running in a field of wheat was the naughtiest thing she has ever done. It comes after he launched another scathing attack on the PM's Chequers plan branding it deranged in an interview with a Sunday newspaper. Mr Johnson's volley of onslaughts against Mrs May's Brexit plans have overshadowed To...
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Jeremy Hunt compares the EU to Soviet PRISON
1Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Jeremy Hunt compares the EU to Soviet PRISON

    Jeremy Hunt has likened the EU to a Soviet prison warning that trying to lock Britain in could destroy the bloc. Jeremy Hunt on Sunday likened the EU to a Soviet prison warning that trying to lock Britain in could destroy the bloc. The Foreign Secretary made the striking comparison as he delivered a stark message that the UK would 'fight' if Brussels tried to block a fair divorce deal. He insisted the EU must learn the lessons of history and not try to keep countries in line with dirty tactics. Mr Hunt also issued a plea for Tories to come together behind Theresa May's Chequers plan, saying infighting only risked handing power to Jeremy Corbyn. The combative comments came in a speech to party conference in Birmingham that will fuel speculation Mr Hunt sees himself...
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Man charge over village murder
30Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Man charge over village murder

    A man has been charged with murder after two women died in a stabbing in a quiet village. Jack Ralph has also been charged with attempted murder after a man was taken to hospital with serious injuries during the incident in Hadlow, near Tonbridge, on Saturday, Kent Police said. Police were called by paramedics to a house in Carpenters Lane just after 7.40am. Three people were found with injuries consistent with a stabbing, police said. Two women, aged in their 50s and 70s, died at the scene. The man, also in his 70s, is in a stable condition in hospital, according to a force spokeswoman. The 28-year-old, who lives on the street, remains in custody and will face two counts of murder and one of attempted murder when he appears via video link at Medway Magistrates’ Co...
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FBI contacts second Kavanaugh accuser
30Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

FBI contacts second Kavanaugh accuser

    The FBI has begun contacting people as part of an additional background investigation of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, including a second woman who alleges that the Supreme Court nominee sexually assaulted her, according to people familiar with the unfolding investigation. The FBI also is following up on allegations by Christine Blasey Ford, a California psychologist, who testified to the Senate this week that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s when they were in high school in suburban Washington, D.C. Ford recounted in detail how Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge allegedly attacked her in a bedroom during a small gathering at a house when the teen boys were both drunk. Ford said the alleged attack had caused her lasting trauma, and she was visibly an...
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