Month: May 2023

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are preparing to launch a legal battle over the secrets of COVID, just hours before the deadline to hand over sensitive material to the official pandemic inquiry. Mr Johnsonprime minister during the pandemic, is fighting to prevent the Cabinet Office releasing all your unedited WhatsApp messages and journals to the Chair of the Inquiry, Baroness Hallett. With the clock ticking towards the 4pm deadline, Baroness Hallett is demanding to see all the government’s messages, which she says are vital to the inquiry’s deliberations. covid decisions She is said to have warned the government that failure…

Rishi Sunak’s approval rating among voters has sunk to its lowest level in three months as Labor extended its lead in the polls over the Tories. A May 28 Redfield & Wilton Strategies poll found 44 percent of voters disapproved of Sunak’s performance as prime minister, a three-point increase from last week, while 30 percent approved that didn’t change. This gave the Prime Minister an approval rating of minus 14, which was his lowest rating since February 26, when he was minus 17. His worst rating was minus 22 on February 18. In contrast, Sir Keir Starmer was in positive…

Fiji’s Electoral Office confirmed this afternoon that all political parties that are under suspension have only submitted their list of sources of funds. Acting Supervisor of Elections Ana Mataiciwa says, however, apart from the New Generation Party, the others are yet to submit their audited accounts. Mataiciwa says they are still verifying New Generation’s filing to see if it meets the auditing standards of the Fiji Institute of Accountants. Article continues after announcement Acting Supervisor of Elections, Ana Mataiciwa. She confirms that New Generation’s suspension will only be lifted based on confirmation received from the FIA. Mataiciwa reiterates that the…

Norwegian officials believe the beluga may have been trained by the Russian navy and is used to humans. A beluga whale that surfaced in Norway in 2019, sparking speculation it had been trained by the Russian navy because of an artificial harness it was wearing, has reappeared off the coast of Sweden, an organization that tracks its movements has said. . When it first appeared in the Finnmark region of Norway’s northern Arctic, marine biologists from the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries pulled out a harness attached with a suitable mount for an action camera and the words “Equip St Petersburg”…

WASHINGTON – The reviews are starting to come in as details emerge about the debt ceiling agreement President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Even before those details were seen, some lawmakers criticized the deal as not doing enough to address the nation’s debt, while others worried it was too austere and would hurt many low-income Americans. The legislation will likely need the support of a significant number of lawmakers from both parties to clear the closely divided House and get the 60 votes needed to advance in the Senate. Many lawmakers said they were withholding judgment…

El Paso, Texas – An estimated 60,000 migrants were waiting near the US-Mexico border when the Biden administration ended Title 42 Pandemic Era Rule that has allowed authorities to deport those entering the country illegally, a senior US official told CBS News on Thursday. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said his agency was preparing for some of the tens of thousands of migrants currently on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border to try to cross into the US. Title 42 has expired Thursday at midnight. “More than 60,000 migrants that we project are staged in and around the immediate…

AUSTIN — Lawmakers ended a 140-day session Monday that answered the questions they asked at the start: Would they work on Texans’ kitchen-table concerns or focus on bigger issues? Answer: They did both. But it wasn’t enough to satisfy Gov. Greg Abbott, who at 9 p.m. Monday night promptly went back into session in the Legislature only to lower school property tax rates and tighten penalties for human trafficking and the operation of a storage house. Abbott acted after spending the Memorial Day weekend trying to quell bickering between the other two top Republicans on Capitol Hill, Lt. Gov. Dan…

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s eldest son, Shotaro Kishida, will be removed as his father’s political secretary on Thursday, following media reports of a controversial New Year’s Eve party at the prime minister’s official residence last December. Last week, footage emerged in the media of Shotaro Kishida and family members taking pictures at symbolically important locations in the residence, including the staircase used to unveil the latest cabinet while impersonating members of the political body. The government had initially reacted by saying that the prime minister had reprimanded his son for inappropriate behavior but had no intention of impeaching him. The…