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- House votes to remove Republican extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene from committee roles
- Aung San Suu Kyi aide arrested after saying Myanmar coup was 'not wise'
- Coronavirus live news: Von der Leyen says UK vaccine rollout is 'speedboat' compared with EU's big ship
- 'Let's learn about national security': Hong Kong rewrites school rules
- Biden announces end to US support for Saudi-led offensive in Yemen
- Live farm animal exports to mainland EU at a standstill post-Brexit
- Alexei Navalny in court again on charge of defaming war veteran
- Orthodox Church under fire in Romania after baby dies following baptism
- Future of Pacific Islands Forum in doubt as Palau walks out
- World's biggest battery with 1,200MW capacity set to be built in NSW Hunter Valley
- Insults and expletives turn parish council Zoom meeting into internet sensation
- Gout drug could reduce Covid hospital stays, new research finds
- Covid: could Britain have been more like New Zealand?
- Up to 100 UK children a week hospitalised with rare post-Covid disease
- Vaccinated Israeli grandparents play with grandchildren again
- Jesse Plemons: 'I enjoy going down rabbit holes'
- What is Clubhouse? The invite-only audio chat app used by Elon Musk
- 10 short video games to play with your partner (or housemate)
- Disco pioneer Tom Moulton: 'People thought I was from another planet!'
- From Barry's Bootcamp to horror director: 'I wrote 21 scripts in 18 months'
- Fox lurches further to the right to win back ‘hard-edge’ Trump supporters
- How Covid could be the 'long overdue' shake-up needed by the aid sector
- Biden to meet House Democrats to push Covid relief plans – live updates
- Shares in TikTok rival Kuaishou almost triple on market debut
- Allegations against man accused of running prostitution ring in Brisbane 'particularly sinister'
- ‘I make $2.50 on a very good day’: the Zimbabweans grafting through lockdown
- 'I have to do this to survive': a night with Jakarta's silvermen
- African nations fear more Covid deaths before vaccination begins
- Covid has played out like a blockbuster film. Biden should hire some scriptwriters to end it
- New Zealand's wahine Māori have more to contend with than ordinary sexism | Tina Ngata
- Confinement: photographic responses to the pandemic
- Scott Morrison announces increase to international flight caps – video
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib deliver emotional speeches on US Capitol attack – video
- House majority leader Hoyer walks poster of Greene's AR-15 post across House floor – video
- 'America is back': Biden pledges return to diplomacy in US foreign policy – video
- Nancy Pelosi 'profoundly concerned' by Republican reaction to Marjorie Taylor Greene – video
- Turkey student protests: teargas, pepper spray and pot-banging – video
| House votes to remove Republican extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene from committee roles Posted: 04 Feb 2021 04:06 PM PST Vote largely along party lines serves as rebuke over congresswoman's incendiary and racist statements The US House of Representatives has voted to strip the extremist Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia of her committee assignments, in a stark rebuke over her incendiary and racist statements. Related: Republicans take no action against Cheney or extremist Greene after vote Continue reading... |
| Aung San Suu Kyi aide arrested after saying Myanmar coup was 'not wise' Posted: 04 Feb 2021 06:30 PM PST Party stalwart Win Htein detained at his daughter's house in Yangon as students protest on the streets A key aide of Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been arrested on Friday, days after a coup that has sparked outrage and calls by US President Joe Biden for the generals to relinquish power. The arrest of Win Htein follows that of Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar president Win Myint who were detained on Monday as the military seized the levers of government, granting army chief Min Aung Hlaing control of the country. Aung San Suu Kyi is facing two years in jail. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2021 02:33 AM PST EU commission president says EU should have thought more of vaccine production challenges; US records 40,000 deaths in two weeks
Hotels will reopen in Poland from mid-February, as well as cinemas and theatres with half of the seats available, prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said. Morawiecki said restaurants and fitness clubs would remain closed.
While officials still urge caution over Covid, many older people in Israel are going out to see their families amid the success of the state's vaccination roll-out. More and more, in playgrounds across Jerusalem, a grandparent can be seen strolling along while a grandchild rushes ahead to slides and climbing frames. Continue reading... |
| 'Let's learn about national security': Hong Kong rewrites school rules Posted: 04 Feb 2021 09:25 PM PST Animation features an owl teaching young children about the need for the controversial law in crackdown on education Hong Kong students as young as six will be taught about the national security law under a dramatic overhaul of the education curriculum. Notices sent out on Thursday require schools to prevent participation in political activities, increase monitoring of employees and teaching materials, remove books and flyers deemed to endanger national security, and to report to authorities if necessary. Continue reading... |
| Biden announces end to US support for Saudi-led offensive in Yemen Posted: 04 Feb 2021 03:20 PM PST Biden said 'this war has to end' in state department speech outlining overhaul of Trump's foreign policies Joe Biden has announced an end to US support for Saudi-led offensive operations in Yemen, as part of a broad reshaping of American foreign policy. In his first foreign policy speech as president, Biden signaled that the US would no longer be an unquestioning ally to the Gulf monarchies, announced a more than eightfold increase in the number of refugees the country would accept, and declared that the days of a US president "rolling over" for Vladimir Putin were over. Continue reading... |
| Live farm animal exports to mainland EU at a standstill post-Brexit Posted: 04 Feb 2021 11:00 PM PST Lucrative live shellfish trade also hit hard, with consultation over further restrictions on live animal exports ending soon Livestock and live shellfish exports from the UK to mainland Europe are at a standstill as producers struggle with post-Brexit transport conditions. National Pig Association (NPA) data shows about 12,000 breeding pigs were shipped from the UK to the EU in 2020. The UK does not export pigs for slaughter, the NPA said, although 1,000 to 2,000 pigs are sent from Great Britain to Northern Ireland each year when extra slaughter capacity is needed. Continue reading... |
| Alexei Navalny in court again on charge of defaming war veteran Posted: 05 Feb 2021 01:44 AM PST Russian opposition leader criticises latest hearing as 'disgusting PR trial' by Kremlin Alexei Navalny has appeared in a Moscow court for the second time this week, this time on a charge of defaming a second world war veteran. The Russian opposition leader, who was ordered earlier this week to serve two years and eight months in prison, criticised the latest hearing as a "disgusting PR trial" intended by the Kremlin to disparage him. Continue reading... |
| Orthodox Church under fire in Romania after baby dies following baptism Posted: 04 Feb 2021 02:37 PM PST Six-week-old suffered cardiac arrest during ceremony, which involves three immersions in holy water The Orthodox Church in Romania is facing growing pressure to change baptism rituals after a baby died following a ceremony which involves immersing infants three times in holy water. The six-week-old suffered a cardiac arrest and was rushed to hospital on Monday but he died a few hours later, the autopsy revealing liquid in his lungs. Prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation against the priest in the north-eastern city of Suceava. Continue reading... |
| Future of Pacific Islands Forum in doubt as Palau walks out Posted: 04 Feb 2021 04:45 PM PST Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and Nauru had questioned whether to remain members amid bullying claims At least one Micronesian country has abandoned the Pacific Islands Forum – and others could follow – after a fractious vote for a new secretary general sidelined the north Pacific countries, who say they are bullied by larger nations, and left with "crumbs". The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is the Pacific region's most important political body and a powerful voice for the Pacific on the global stage, but the election of former Cook Islands prime minister Henry Puna as secretary general has exposed a deep fracture between north and south Pacific nations. Continue reading... |
| World's biggest battery with 1,200MW capacity set to be built in NSW Hunter Valley Posted: 04 Feb 2021 08:18 PM PST The announcement by CEP Energy is the latest in a flurry of major energy storage projects for Australia's national electricity grid Developers plan to build what they say will be the world's biggest large-scale battery in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, the latest in a flurry of major energy storage projects announced for the national electricity grid. CEP Energy said its $2.4bn battery at Kurri Kurri, north-west of Newcastle, would have a power capacity of up to 1,200 megawatts – about eight times greater than the battery at Hornsdale in South Australia, which was the biggest when it began operating in 2017. Continue reading... |
| Insults and expletives turn parish council Zoom meeting into internet sensation Posted: 05 Feb 2021 01:45 AM PST Swearing, hysterics and a heroically stoic clerk transform Handforth meeting into absurdist drama A town council meeting which descended into chaos - with councillors trading insults and ultimately getting booted off the Zoom call has become an internet sensation and a metaphor for the UK's woes under lockdown. A video of the Handforth council meeting in Cheshire showed it starting badly when one unseen councillor apparently muttered swear words under his breath as the clerk tried to bring the session to order. Continue reading... |
| Gout drug could reduce Covid hospital stays, new research finds Posted: 04 Feb 2021 03:29 PM PST Colchicine also found to reduce need for extra oxygen and has potential to be used in outpatient settings A cheap drug normally used to treat gout has been found to have the potential to significantly reduce hospital stays among Covid-19 patients and the need for extra oxygen. The results of new research into colchicine conducted in Brazil come after an international trial published on Wednesday found that it reduced hospitalisations and deaths among Covid-19 patients by more than 20%. Continue reading... |
| Covid: could Britain have been more like New Zealand? Posted: 05 Feb 2021 02:26 AM PST Island nation status could facilitate border controls to eradicate virus and ease lockdown restrictions The UK's physical isolation sets it apart from its continental neighbours, but could its island status have protected it from the full horror of Covid-19, had it closed borders in early 2020, as New Zealand and Taiwan did? Both have been applauded for their efficient handling of the pandemic, with just 33 Covid-19 deaths between them. Other island nations such as Tonga, in the South Pacific Ocean, have reported no infections. Continue reading... |
| Up to 100 UK children a week hospitalised with rare post-Covid disease Posted: 04 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST Exclusive: 75% of children worst affected by paediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome are BAME Up to 100 children a week are being hospitalised with a rare disease that can emerge weeks after Covid-19, leaving them in intensive care, doctors have said. In a phenomenon that is worrying paediatricians, 75% of the children worst affected by paediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome (PIMS) were black, Asian or ethnic minority (BAME). Almost four out of five children were previously healthy, according to an unpublished snapshot of cases. Continue reading... |
| Vaccinated Israeli grandparents play with grandchildren again Posted: 05 Feb 2021 01:45 AM PST While officials still urge caution over Covid, many older people are going out to see their family It was a sight as common as birds chirping in trees or cars idling in traffic. Nobody would do a double-take when they saw children playing with their grandparents. That was before the pandemic, when it was simply a routine image of daily life and not a potentially fatal activity. But more and more, in playgrounds across Jerusalem, a grandparent can be seen strolling along while a grandchild rushes ahead to slides and climbing frames. Continue reading... |
| Jesse Plemons: 'I enjoy going down rabbit holes' Posted: 04 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST The actor who rose to fame as 'Meth Damon' on Breaking Bad has fast become Hollywood's favourite new character actor. He talks about his 'sick enjoyment' of pressure, his fiancee, Kirsten Dunst, and his latest role, as an FBI officer hunting the Black Panthers Jesse Plemons has a square, pink face, the unassuming air of a neighbourhood handyman and a tendency to sigh as he speaks, so it sounds as if he is hoisting each sentence up on to a high shelf. At 32, he has already starred in two Spielbergs (Bridge of Spies, The Post), a Scorsese (The Irishman) and a Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master). He and his fiancee, Kirsten Dunst, who met in 2015 when they played happily married murderers in the second series of Fargo, will also be seen later this year in Jane Campion's western, Power of the Dog. Most recently, Plemons and Jessie Buckley were stunning as a couple cracking up on a road trip in Charlie Kaufman's largely car-bound horror-comedy I'm Thinking of Ending Things, which made for perfect pandemic viewing. "Time didn't exist for us," he says from the Los Angeles home he shares with Dunst and their two-year-old son, Ennis, who at one point during our conversation bursts in before being scooped up and whisked off by his mother. "We were in that car for four days, but you could have told me it was two years or 20 minutes and I'd have believed you. The vehicle was being rocked like a boat – it wasn't even on a sound stage, it was in this warehouse filled with antiques and oddities. There were guys throwing fake snow at the windscreen for the entirety of these 15-minute takes. And I thought to myself: 'This is exactly why I do this.' I mean, who else gets to do that in their job, you know? I enjoy being pulled in different directions and going down all these rabbit holes." Continue reading... |
| What is Clubhouse? The invite-only audio chat app used by Elon Musk Posted: 04 Feb 2021 08:01 PM PST Exclusive app is a hybrid of conference calls, talkback radio and Houseparty Part talkback radio, part conference call, part Houseparty, Clubhouse is a social networking app based on audio-chat. Users can listen in to conversations, interviews and discussions between interesting people on various topics – it is just like tuning in to a podcast but live and with an added layer of exclusivity. Continue reading... |
| 10 short video games to play with your partner (or housemate) Posted: 05 Feb 2021 01:00 AM PST From detective missions to prison breakouts, playful puzzles to cosy diversions, here are some great games perfect for two As the long, boring Covid winter drags on and sitting in front of Netflix together has long since lost its appeal, video games remain one of the few social pleasures allowed to us. Though most of the best multiplayer games are online – meaning you need two consoles at home if you want to join someone you live with – there are still plenty you can enjoy together on the couch. Some of these recommendations are two-player games you can play cooperatively, others are shorter story-based games that are fun to play with company, and all will happily fill an evening or two. Continue reading... |
| Disco pioneer Tom Moulton: 'People thought I was from another planet!' Posted: 05 Feb 2021 01:00 AM PST He invented the 12in single and introduced Grace Jones to the world – and at 80 years old is busy pumping out new remixes from quarantine In his heyday, disco DJ Tom Moulton was known as the Doctor: a cantankerous ex-model whose editing scalpel could turn near-misses into hits, and hits into classics. His extended mixes were the toast of New York DJs a decade his junior, nearly all of whom he has outlived. Today he surveys his years with old-Manhattan pizzazz, unruffled, half-yelling and aghast at talk of retirement. "People say: 'We know you're 80 and you're going to stop,'" he says from his Upper West Side apartment. "No. When I stop, that means I died.'" Moulton is video-calling from his music room, the nerve centre of the home he shares with two cats and a bounty of Eurodisco singles. He moved there in 1972, the decade that would lead him to create the dance mix, introduce a young Grace Jones to the world and – when his pressing plant ran out of smaller acetates – invent the 12in single by accident. Continue reading... |
| From Barry's Bootcamp to horror director: 'I wrote 21 scripts in 18 months' Posted: 05 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST Barry Jay, the co-founder of the gym chain, on turning his back on the fitness industry to make films – and why his own traumatic childhood is the source of his gruesome inspiration In 1998, Barry Jay co-founded a gym called Barry's Bootcamp in West Hollywood. It went well. There are now 70 Barry's across 14 countries. But two years ago, aged 55, he retired to make horror films. "There was an attraction to that feeling of chills running down my spine," he says. "Of seeing people in peril." Therapists have credited this to his traumatic childhood. "I lived in a lot of fear growing up. I was under height, underweight, quite a target at school and in the neighbourhood." Continue reading... |
| Fox lurches further to the right to win back ‘hard-edge’ Trump supporters Posted: 04 Feb 2021 11:00 PM PST Hosts have dabbled in conspiracy theories and aggressively attacked the Joe Biden administration as network's ratings drop For two decades, Fox News has reigned supreme as America's number one cable news channel. Until January, that is, when the network dropped to a once unthinkable third place in the ratings. The response from Fox News has not been a period of sombre self-reflection. Instead, the network seems to have made a chaotic lunge towards the right wing in recent weeks as hosts have dabbled in conspiracy theories and aggressively attacked the Joe Biden administration. Continue reading... |
| How Covid could be the 'long overdue' shake-up needed by the aid sector Posted: 05 Feb 2021 12:30 AM PST Analysis: as need outstrips funding, experts are making the case for overhauling 'old-fashioned' donor-recipient narratives This year one in every 33 people across the world will need humanitarian assistance. That is a rise of 40% from last year, according to the UN. More than half of the countries requiring aid to help deal with the coronavirus pandemic are already in protracted crises, coping with conflict or natural disasters. Even before Covid-19 threw decades of progress on extreme poverty, healthcare and education into reverse, aid budgets were heading in the wrong direction. In 2020, the UN had just 48% of its $38.5bn (£28bn) in funding appeals met, compared with 63% of $29bn sought in 2019. Continue reading... |
| Biden to meet House Democrats to push Covid relief plans – live updates Posted: 05 Feb 2021 02:39 AM PST President will meet leaders and committee chairs ahead of monthly jobs report release
If your question was "I wonder what Mike Pence did next?", then today is a good day. This morning the former vice president has announced that he will be joining the Young America's Foundation as the Ronald Reagan Presidential Scholar. In a statement Governor Scott Walker, president of Young America's Foundation, said "Vice President Pence has been a stalwart defender of individual freedom, traditional values, free markets, and limited government throughout his career of distinguished service to our country. Now, by partnering with YAF, the Vice President will continue to attract new hearts and minds to the conservative cause, passing along the ideas of freedom—just as President Reagan did before, during, and after his time in office. Vice President Pence's energy and enthusiasm for Ronald Reagan's values has and will continue to inspire a new generation of young people." Long before I became Vice President to President Donald Trump, the vision and leadership of Ronald Reagan inspired my youth and I am humbled to continue the work of advancing the Conservative cause from a position bearing his name.
One of the signature elements of Joe Biden's Covid relief plans – the $15 an hour federal minimum wage – suffered a setback in the Senate overnight, as the New York Times notes: By a voice vote, senators backed an amendment from Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, to "prohibit the increase of the federal minimum wage during a global pandemic." It was a signal that the wage hike would be difficult to pass in an evenly split Senate, where at least one Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, was on record opposing it. "A $15 federal minimum wage would be devastating for our hardest-hit small businesses at a time they can least afford it," Ernst said on the Senate floor. "We should not have a one-size-fits-all policy set by Washington politicians." Good morning. We are still voting in the Senate. And @KamalaHarris has just arrived in the chamber to help us advance COVID relief. Continue reading... |
| Shares in TikTok rival Kuaishou almost triple on market debut Posted: 05 Feb 2021 12:49 AM PST Chinese video app valued at $180bn on first day of trading in Hong Kong Shares in the Chinese video app Kuaishou almost tripled on the first day of trading in Hong Kong, giving TikTok's chief rival a market value of $180bn. The debut of the short-form video site on Hong Kong's stock exchange on Friday has been one of the most eagerly anticipated initial public offerings this year and raised $5.4bn (£4bn). Continue reading... |
| Allegations against man accused of running prostitution ring in Brisbane 'particularly sinister' Posted: 05 Feb 2021 02:05 AM PST Court hears Matthew James Markcrow, 35, used tattoos to mark the women as his 'property' A man accused of drugging and recruiting women into forced prostitution in Brisbane, and of marking their bodies as his "property", remains behind bars while his co-accused has been released on bail. Matthew James Markcrow, 35, and Crystal Marie Sawyer, 23, appeared in Brisbane magistrates court on Friday after a four-month investigation into the alleged prostitution ring. Continue reading... |
| ‘I make $2.50 on a very good day’: the Zimbabweans grafting through lockdown Posted: 04 Feb 2021 11:15 PM PST Selling chicken heads is a means of survival for one Harare grandmother, in an area where staying home means starvation Pammula Chiunya, 68, is sitting under an open-sided shed outside a makeshift beer hall in Hopley settlement, six miles (10km) west of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. She is not happy. Chiunya serves roasted chicken heads in a twist of old newspaper to a visibly drunk man, then settles to wait for someone else to emerge from the shebeen, which is crammed with animated revellers dancing to loud music. Customers are elusive, even with her prices: four heads for a dollar. Continue reading... |
| 'I have to do this to survive': a night with Jakarta's silvermen Posted: 04 Feb 2021 06:35 PM PST Indonesian men, women and children are risking their health wearing metallic paint to earn money as the economic impact of coronavirus worsens It was 8pm on one of the busiest intersections in western Jakarta. Three men in metallic paint from head to toe stood on the footpath. Each was holding a silver can. Alfan, 25, was one. When the light turned red, he walked in silence, barefoot, and stood in front of the stopped traffic. He bowed deeply for a few seconds and then struck a pose like a statue: standing straight, he raised his right hand to his temple and gave a salute in silence for about a minute without blinking. Continue reading... |
| African nations fear more Covid deaths before vaccination begins Posted: 04 Feb 2021 04:57 AM PST Campaigners call for vaccines to be prioritised to frontline health workers and people at highest risk Communities across Africa are reeling as a second wave of Covid infections recedes, leaving thousands dead amid fears of further surges before mass vaccination campaigns can begin to make a difference. Few countries in Africa will start immunising even frontline health workers until much later this year, prompting accusations that large orders by wealthy nations are costing the lives of medical staff in poorer parts of the world. Continue reading... |
| Covid has played out like a blockbuster film. Biden should hire some scriptwriters to end it Posted: 04 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST It's time to resolve the narrative – otherwise we'll be stuck in act two for ever, says Veep writer Ian Martin For a year now, the reality of humanity's global struggle against the coronavirus has felt oddly fictional. Very much, in fact, like a blockbuster movie. Covid-19: The Reckoning follows all the movie cliches. The story starts somewhere in the world requiring subtitles. Patient Zero eats a what? An infected bat? OK, maybe it's a pangolin (what's a pangolin? Who cares, never mind). Then the contagion spreads like a slow-motion tsunami across the planet as dumbass politicians first play it down, then panic. Or, in America's case, dismiss it, blame China, promise it'll go away, ignore it some more, commend the ingestion of light and disinfectant, ignore it again, actually get it, shrug it off, host a series of superspreader events, repeatedly lose an election then scuttle off to become a human pathogen infecting civilian life. Again. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand's wahine Māori have more to contend with than ordinary sexism | Tina Ngata Posted: 04 Feb 2021 05:59 PM PST Colonisation has had a particular effect on Indigenous wahine that disadvantages them to this day The Mana Wahine Kaupapa Inquiry hearings will begin this week, investigating claims regarding the specific tiriti violations of the crown that have led to injustice against wahine Māori across social, physical, spiritual, economic, political and cultural dimensions. It has been a long time coming, having first been filed in 1993 and led out by the Māori Women's Welfare League, and then initiated as an inquiry in 2018. While it can be said that all Waitangi inquiry hearings are traumatic, frustrating and difficult, it's expected that this one in particular will reveal a history that is as foundational, on a national scale, as it is disturbing. Continue reading... |
| Confinement: photographic responses to the pandemic Posted: 04 Feb 2021 11:00 PM PST Prix Pictet, the world's leading prize for photography and sustainability, gathered responses to Covid-19 by 43 artists from 20 nations. A featured collaboration of four photographers with the Guardian, in the summer of 2020, draws on themes of isolation, confinement and political instability, and includes laureates and shortlisted photographers from the prize's eight editions Continue reading... |
| Scott Morrison announces increase to international flight caps – video Posted: 04 Feb 2021 08:42 PM PST The prime minister says Australia will increase the number of international arrivals after national cabinet agreed to raise the limits in certain states. Almost 40,000 Australians registered with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as wanting to return remain overseas, with arrival caps and limited flights restricting their opportunities. From 15 February the number of arrivals in New South Wales and Queensland will return to previous levels while South Australia and Victoria will also increase their numbers Continue reading... |
| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib deliver emotional speeches on US Capitol attack – video Posted: 04 Feb 2021 06:59 PM PST The congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib have delivered powerful testimonies about the 6 January US Capitol breach on the House floor. Ocasio-Cortez called for the House to avoid quickly moving on from the insurrection, saying it would diminish the impact on survivors and avoid accountability for those killed. Tlaib referenced the death threats she had received before she was sworn in and pleaded for the rhetoric that led to the attack to be taken seriously Continue reading... |
| House majority leader Hoyer walks poster of Greene's AR-15 post across House floor – video Posted: 04 Feb 2021 05:27 PM PST A fiercely divided House removed the congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from both her committees Thursday, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she'd earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories. During the debate, the House majority, leader Steny Hoyer, exhibited a Facebook post in which Greene is holding a gun next the faces of progressive congresswomen of color
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| 'America is back': Biden pledges return to diplomacy in US foreign policy – video Posted: 04 Feb 2021 02:33 PM PST Joe Biden outlined his vision for America's foreign policy agenda in a speech at the state department. The president reiterated the need for America to strengthen its global alliances after four years of Donald Trump belittling those relationships. 'We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again - not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's,' Biden said. 'We can't do it alone.' Continue reading... |
| Nancy Pelosi 'profoundly concerned' by Republican reaction to Marjorie Taylor Greene – video Posted: 04 Feb 2021 12:34 PM PST House speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House of Representatives would vote to remove Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from committee positions after House Republican leaders declined to proactively discipline her. Pelosi said she was 'profoundly concerned about House Republican leadership's acceptance of an extreme conspiracy theorist' Continue reading... |
| Turkey student protests: teargas, pepper spray and pot-banging – video Posted: 04 Feb 2021 11:25 AM PST Escalating protests over the appointment of a state-approved rector at a prestigious Istanbul university have become an unexpected catalyst for Turkey's disillusioned and underemployed youth to vent their frustrations at President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government. Demonstrations by both staff and students erupted last month after the former political candidate Melih Bulu was appointed. The decision was denounced as undemocratic Continue reading... |
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