The UK satire show Spitting Image has explained its reasons for including a puppet of teen climate activist Greta Thunberg in its new series, following a fierce backlash from politically correct keyboard warriors. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has found herself at the center of a twitterstorm, after she reportedly mulled an idea of sending refugees to a small island in the South Atlantic while their applications are being processed. Read Full Article at RT.com

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was spied on via bugs planted at London’s Ecuadorian embassy at the request of the security firm’s US contacts – who even considered poisoning or kidnapping the journalist, a UK court has heard. Read Full Article at RT.com

This Briefing concerns a portfolio change in the European Commission in mid-mandate and takes the same format and approach as those Briefings published in September 2019 to give Members of the European Parliament an overview of major issues of interest in the context of the Hearings of the Commissioners-designate. Source : © European Union, 2020 - EP

TEHRAN – Following the British government’s order on schools to not use resources from any organization that has advocated abolishing capitalism, critics believe that the country’s blaming others for not respecting freedom of speech is now engineering young minds to omit anti-capitalism in future generations.

TEHRAN – In recent years, increased life expectancy has led to a growth in the elderly population of the country, an adviser to the health minister has said.

TEHRAN – The first museum of psychiatry in the country will be officially inaugurated in Tehran’s Roozbeh Hospital next week.

TEHRAN – The tourism ministry has introduced new travel credit cards with the aim of facilitating domestic travel, as the outbreak of the coronavirus has brought the tourism sector into a standstill.

TEHRAN – Today, a photo exhibit opens in Tehran, aiming to resonance the audience with the splendors, architecture, ancient rituals, and everyday life in Uraman rural landscape in western Kordestan province, which is a candidate for becoming a World Heritage site in 2021.

Survivors of a tour bus crash in Jasper National Park that killed three people and injured 24 others have filed a lawsuit against the vehicle operator, seeking more than $17 million in damages. 

Following the heated duel between US President Donald Trump and his Democrat challenger Joe Biden, the NGO that organizes the presidential debates said it was considering “additional structure” for the two remaining events. Read Full Article at RT.com

A short CNN cartoon about how the two major US parties are unwilling to find middle ground has prompted an avalanche of mockery towards the network, for what many said was a gross oversimplification of American politics. Read Full Article at RT.com

Nearly 100,000 New Yorkers have received defective absentee ballots, the latest in an improbable series of screwups by the city Board of Elections that have the government scrambling to restore faith in the mail-in voting process. Read Full Article at RT.com

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sparked an avalanche of angry pushback from Democrat supporters by yearning for a restoration of the Republican Party as the force for good she thought it was before being “hijacked” by Donald Trump. Read Full Article at RT.com

La question du mariage à la coutume fait couler beaucoup d'encre et de salive au sein de la société gabonaise. Firmin Michel E.N, observateur de la vie politique, fait remarquer que la loi sur la légalisation du mariage coutumier semble avoir omis certains points. GABON : « La loi sur le mariage civil et coutumier devrait être plus rigoureuse comme en Guinée Équatoriale… » FMEN " Je pense pour ma part que les politiques devraient réconforter cette loi qui tombe à point nommé, déjà sur le point (...) - LIBRE PROPOS / SUJET_ECRIT_MAISON

Agriculture Minister, Floyd Green, has hailed the late Allan Rickards as a passionate advocate of farmers and one who viewed the sector as a transformative tool.  “Allan dedicated his life to serving the farmers of Jamaica, especially...

President of the People’s National Party (PNP) and Leader of the Opposition, Dr Peter Phillips, says he’s saddened by the news of the passing of Allan Rickards. Rickards, who was ailing for some time, died on Tuesday night. He was 79....

Jamaica on Tuesday recorded six more COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 107. Four more fatalities are under investigation, increasing that figure to 10. Further, one case, a 28-year-old male from St Catherine, was listed as a coincidental death...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is to implement a $37-million staff welfare progromme for health workers. Portfolio Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, told Parliament on Tuesday that the one-year initiative will provide greater support to workers...

A ticketing system is to be developed by the Government to enforce breaches of the COVID-19 restrictions. This was announced in Parliament on Tuesday by Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton. Tufton said Prime Minister Andrew...

Даже если мир перейдет на жесткую "энергетическую диету", темпы таяния ледников Гренландии к концу столетия останутся выше всех рекордов прошлых 12 тысяч лет. Но если выбросы парниковых газов будут расти прежними темпами, то скорость таяния будет в четыре раза выше всех известных максимумов.

Labour lawmakers called the suggestion «heartless» and «inhumane.»

US gross domestic product (GDP) fell by a 31.4 percent annualized rate last quarter, marking the steepest drop in output since the government started keeping records in 1947, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Генетическое наследие неандертальцев имеет трагические последствия во время нынешней пандемии, сообщает журнал Nature. Ученые выявили кластер генов, который связывают с более высоким риском дыхательной недостаточности у пациентов, инфицированных коронавирусом.

Киев намерен официально обращаться к Лукашенко без указания его должности. Глава МИД Украины Дмитрий Кулеба также сообщил, что в официальном общении не будут применяться формулировки, которые могли бы указывать на то, что Лукашенко якобы "незаконно избранный, нелегитимный президент".

Даже если мир перейдет на жесткую "энергетическую диету", темпы таяния ледников Гренландии к концу столетия останутся выше всех рекордов прошлых 12 тысяч лет. Но если выбросы парниковых газов будут расти прежними темпами, то скорость таяния будет в четыре раза выше всех известных максимумов.

It was business as usual as Rafa Nadal continued his quest for a record-extending 13th French Open title with a 6-1 6-0 6-3 crushing of American Mackenzie McDonald on Wednesday to reach the third round.

Federal Aviation Administration Chief Steve Dickson began an evaluation flight at the controls of a Boeing 737 MAX Wednesday in Seattle just before 9 a.m. PDT, a key milestone as the U.S. planemaker works to win approval to resume flights, the agency said.

Jihadists have killed 10 Nigerian soldiers in an ambush near the town of Marte in the Lake Chad region, two security sources said Wednesday.