Month: September 2022

Liz Truss did not discuss the Northern Ireland Protocol or migrant crossings of the Channel during her meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Downing Street has said. Number 10 said the prime minister had a “constructive” conversation lasting around half an hour with the French leader, but it focused on energy security rather than the
0 Comments
When Liz Truss was vying to be the Conservative Party leader and our next prime minister, some of her colleagues worried that, as the anointed choice of Prime Minister Johnson, she was going to be the Boris Johnson continuity candidate. On the economy, they could not have been more wrong. Since becoming the prime minister
0 Comments
Valery Polyakov, the Russian cosmonaut who set the record for the longest single stay in space, has died aged 80. Polyakov spent 437 days between January 1994 and March 1995 on the Mir space station. He orbited the Earth more than 7,000 times before returning. Polyakov had trained as a physician and wanted to demonstrate
0 Comments
A Ukrainian man has alleged he was tied up, beaten and shocked with an electric charge during Russia’s occupation of his village. But instead of Russian soldiers abusing him directly, Andrii Matiazh, 46, alleged it was local Ukrainian policemen who had switched allegiance. “Someone tortured me,” he said, speaking at his home in Volokhivka, which
0 Comments