Filmmaker, writer and activist Ukrainian Oleg Sentsov is 94 days into a hunger strike after being sentenced to 20 years of hard labour on charges of plotting terrorist attacks in Crimea after the Russian Federation annexed it in March 2015. He has allegedly been beaten and threatened with rape in ...
When you start a new job it is not always the best idea to wind up your stakeholders with threats. However after his predecessor, Boris Johnson, thought that was a good idea, Jeremy Hunt has threatened the EU. On a trip to Berlin, his first trip abroad as Foreign Secretary, ...
Britain's anti-Trump protest was the largest against any foreign leader ever in the country's history, according to MSNBC reports. More than 250,000 demonstrators took to the streets to protest against Donald Trump's visit, with Trafalgar Square and other key London landmarks bustling with campaigners throughout the day. Jeremy Corbyn joined protesters, ...
The US president arrived in Scotland on Friday evening after completing his two-day "working trip". Mr Trump, whose mother was Scottish, and his wife Melania are spending the weekend at his Turnberry hotel.
Last night social media was ablaze with speculation about what Robert de Niro may have said to get bleeped out at the live broadcast of the Tony Awards. At America’s glitzy theatre awards the movie star took to the stage to introduce a performance by rocker Bruce Springsteen. When the ...
Bill Gates and Angelina Jolie have once again topped YouGov's most admired people in the world poll. US President Donald Trump made the list too, but way behind his predecessor Barack Obama, and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. UK PM Theresa May has made the most admired women list for ...
In the light of recent tensions, and the re-election of Russian President Vladimir Putin last night, Alexandre Garese, The French investor, assesses the prospects for doing business in Russia Assessing the current relations between Moscow and Paris, French investor Alexandre Garese told journalists that, despite the external political pressure and ...
Environmental groups are upping the pressure on Whitehall to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), with the Green Alliance urging the government last week to ban petrol and diesel cars by 2030. That highly ambitious timeframe for phasing out combustion engines would do wonders for reducing air pollution. Unfortunately, ...
Credit where it is due to Theresa May. Her latest tough stance towards the Russia allegations may be rash, it may have resurfaced Cold War tensions and it may not be in the national interest, but it has done no damage to her approval ratings. A swathe of positive sentiment ...