‘QAnon Shaman’ pleads guilty over part in US Capitol riot
Jacob Chansley was among the first people to storm the building following Donald Trump’s rally in Washington DC on 6 January.
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September 3, 2021 The tail of Storm Ida has been worse than its eye: Communities ripped apart by flooding in US northeast
The strange thing about these “weather events” as they are now so often referred to, is that you can drive through a place said to have been hit hard and not immediately notice the damage.
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September 3, 2021 Reflection from Metropolitan Gerasimos for the Feast of Indiction 2021
SAN FRANCISCO – “On September 1, when the Church begins the new ecclesiastical year, we commemorate the day as the Day of the Protection of the Environment. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has championed this issue of ecological awareness and environmental healing for the entirety of his thirty-year ministry as our Ecumenical Patriarch,” His Eminence Metropolitan […]
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September 2, 2021 Japan’s Princess Mako to turn down £1m state wedding payment as she plans US move with fiancé
Princess Mako, a niece of the Japanese Emperor, has reportedly turned down a £1-million handout from the government and shunned traditional royal ceremonies as she prepares to marry her boyfriend before moving to New York.
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August 31, 2021 Civil society and media organisations call on the G7 to protect and evacuate journalists and media workers in Afghanistan
Ahead of the G7 summit on the situation in Afghanistan, civil society and media organisations present key recommendations to ensure the urgent protection of journalists, media workers and their families.
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August 31, 2021 Australian imports of ivermectin increase tenfold, prompting warning from TGA
A national shortage and tenfold increase in Australians importing ivermectin in August has sparked a warning from the Therapeutic Goods Administration against the use of the medicine, which is typically used to deworm livestock, as a treatment for Covid-19.
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August 30, 2021 Hurricane Ida: New Orleans loses power as category 4 storm hits
Hurricane Ida has knocked out power in New Orleans after making landfall in Louisiana as a brutal category 4 storm, slamming the coast with 150mph sustained winds.
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August 29, 2021 Britain’s 20-year Afghanistan campaign comes to an end as last UK troops leave Kabul
The last remaining UK troops have been flown out of Kabul airport, ending Britain’s 20-year campaign in Afghanistan.
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August 28, 2021 US airstrike targets Islamic State in Afghanistan after deadly Kabul airport attack
The US has killed an Islamic State “planner” in retaliation for Thursday’s suicide bombing in Kabul.
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August 27, 2021 Advanced Chinese weapon takes down aircraft with electromagnetic pulse
An advanced Chinese weapon has taken down an unmanned aircraft with a powerful electromagnetic pulse in the first known field test of the Beijing technology.
