Recent Posts

US polls risk becoming Brexit vote II: Hollande

  Bloomberg French President Francois Hollande, who last month endorsed Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential race, said the November ballot threatens to play out along similar lines to the U.K.’s European Union referendum. Just as U.K. voters rejected calls from political leaders and institutions to stay in the EU, a similarly anti-establishment sentiment may be brewing in the U.S., ...

Read More »

Corbyn defiant as party cracks, joining Tories in UK disarray

  Bloomberg Jeremy Corbyn said he’ll confront a challenge to his U.K. Labour Party leadership head on as the fallout from the referendum to leave the European Union sparks a splintering of his opposition group. Corbyn, 67, has been battered since the June 23 vote. Dozens of his front-bench team have quit, he lost a no-confidence vote by a 172-40 ...

Read More »

US racial tensions flare-up as protesters arrested

  Dallas / AFP Police arrested scores of people in demonstrations overnight Saturday to Sunday in several US cities, as racial tensions simmer over the killing of black men by police. Protesters led by the Black Lives Matter movement are demanding justice for two African-American men shot dead by cops, their dying moments captured in video that went viral online. ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend