Tue 21 October 2023: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday he is opening an investigation into the left-wing watchdog group Media Matters for publishing a report that said the social media platform X was placing pro-Nazi content next to ads. The repercussions to X were felt immediately after major advertisers such as Apple, Disney, […]
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Tue 21 October 2023: The U.S. on Monday announced $100 million in new security assistance to Ukraine as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin paid an unannounced visit to Kyiv. The package includes additional air defense capabilities, artillery ammunition, anti-tank weapons, and other equipment, including one High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), TOW anti-tank missiles, 155mm […]
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Mon 20 October 2023: Around 2 million UK homes have been forced to turn off their fridge or freezer to save money as they continue to face “frightening” levels of hardship, according to poverty campainers, The Guardian reported. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), nearly half of those households have had to unplug their […]
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Mon 20 October 2023: Argentina has elected libertarian outsider Javier Milei as its next president, taking a chance on the eccentric economist’s programme of radical economic reform after decades of stagnation. Milei’s win heralds a dramatic shake-up of the Latin American country’s economy and institutions amid public anger over high inflation and record poverty rates […]
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Sun 19 October 2023: Fifteen government agencies have been keeping an eye on possible critics’ social media activity and gathering “secret files” to prevent them from speaking at public gatherings, a new Observer report has claimed. According to the report, several government departments, including the departments of health, culture, media and sport, and environment, food […]
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Sun 19 October 2023: Russia on Friday added The Moscow Times, an online publication covering Russia, to its list of foreign agents, a label authorities commonly use to stifle critics. Russia’s justice ministry also added an artist and journalists to the list that it traditionally updates on Fridays. “The online publication The Moscow Times disseminated […]
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Sun 19 October 2023: Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through Madrid in opposition to a controversial Catalan amnesty law that enabled Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to form a government for a second term. Sanchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) secured the backing of the Catalan separatist Junts party by offering amnesty to those linked […]
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Sat 18 October 2023: In the third quarter of this year, global debt surpassed $307 trillion, according to a report by the Institute of International Finance (IIF). “Global debt reached a staggering $307 trillion in Q3 2023, with a big increase across the board in both mature markets, the US, Japan, France, and the UK, […]
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Sat 18 October 2023: Russian authorities have filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ “international public movement”, in the latest crackdown against the country’s beleaguered community. The Ministry of Justice said it had “lodged an administrative legal claim” aimed at recognising the LGBTQ movement “as extremist and banning its activity in […]
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Fri 17 October 2023: In an alarming letter obtained by the British media, sixty senior women within the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have highlighted a workplace culture plagued by allegations of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse perpetrated by male coworkers. The letter, which was apparently delivered last month to the UK Ministry of Defence’s […]
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