Russian military officials are ramping up their get-out-the-vote effort in occupied Ukraine even before the presidential election begins Friday. At least 2,600 people in Luhansk, a city in the disputed Donbas region, have been drafted to visit homes and persuade residents to vote, British officials said Wednesday. Local government and education officials in the Russian-controlled […]
LONDON (AP) — A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a town in northern England with a big Muslim minority following a contest that was mired in chaos and controversy and dominated by the war in Gaza. George Galloway, 69, swept to victory in Thursday’s contest, winning almost 40% of the […]
A groundbreaking experiment with the four-day workweek has made lasting changes among British companies, with an extensive study showing the majority of the firms that participated in the trial making the shift a permanent one. In an effort to test the effectiveness of working fewer days with the same productivity expectations, 61 companies in Britain […]
When you’ve only got two big boats left, and the two of them are…well…busted, that’s gonna leave a mark. In fact, when they break down on their way out of port, with the harbor closed to other traffic, and everyone lining the quays and roadways in anticipation of watching the awesome, majestic outbound passage, and […]
In remarks that mirror the raging debate in the U.S., British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps has declared war on “divisive woke culture” and “leftist thinking” that he says has infiltrated the British military in its drive to boost diversity and inclusion in the armed forces. Writing in the British newspaper, The Express, Mr. Shapps on […]
Happy Friday, Gentle Readers, I don’t know about you, but I’m taking the weekend off to hide from the news. Thursday night’s revelation that Joe Biden is perfectly competent to remain in his position as the President of Narnia, particularly after he met with Winston Churchill during his first year in office, was enough […]
Not tonight but, maybe someday soon, the United Kingdom is gonna party like it’s 1689. As a small-r republican and a capital-A American down to my marrow, I don’t have much use for the British Royal Family. I don’t usually see anything about them aside from headlines in the Daily Mail during my morning […]
The U.S. and Britain on Monday launched strikes against several targets inside Yemen in the latest response to continuing attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels against merchant ships and naval vessels operating in the Red Sea. Source link
MEXICO CITY — Venezuela said Saturday it will continue to deploy nearly 6,000 troops until a British military vessel sent to neighboring Guyana leaves the waters off the coast of the two South American nations. In a video posted to X, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino appeared surrounded by military officers in front of a […]
BOGOTA, Colombia — President Nicolás Maduro ordered Venezuela’s armed forces to conduct defensive exercises in the Eastern Caribbean after the United Kingdom sent a warship toward Guyana’s territorial waters as the South American neighbors dispute a large border region. In a nationally televised address on Thursday, Maduro said that 6,000 Venezuelan troops, including air and […]
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