Month: May 2019

In a display of full-on, Ministry of Truth-level insanity, the Trump administration appears to be attempting to rebrand its energy exports as “freedom gas.” It sounds like satire, but you couldn’t even make this up. In a real press release, the US undersecretary of energy Mark Menezes says that increasing export capacity from the Freeport…

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned Europe must remain united if it wants to avoid a new “cold war” in tumultuous political times. “If you want to avoid a new cold war… if you want to build a true multilateral order, we absolutely need a united and strong Europe,” Guterres said on Thursday. He…

The man who set himself on fire outside the White House was identified as Arnav Gupta, a 33-year-old suburban Maryland resident. Authorities have confirmed he died of his injuries. The motive for his action remains unknown. Gupta’s family reported him missing to the police on Wednesday, saying he was last seen leaving his home in…

England all-rounder Ben Stokes has been credited with pulling off one of the ‘greatest catches of all time’ as he single-handedly pulled an Andile Phehlukwayo drive out of the air during his side’s win against South Africa. Phehlukwayo appeared to have secured a six for South Africa with a deep midwicket drive but Stokes, who…

An international team of astronomers has announced the confounding discovery of a Neptune-like planet locked in an incredibly close orbit with its host star, in an area scientists previously believed to be a hellish death zone. The planet, which is some 920 light-years away from Earth, takes just 1.34 days to orbit its star. It’s…

The Italian Navy rescued 100 migrants stranded in the Mediterranean on Thursday, as 75 other migrants, found clinging to a tuna pen, were taken to Malta, according to officials. The navy said that it rescued “100 people, including 17 women and 23 minors,” AFP reports. Only a few of the migrants had a lifejacket. The…

President Donald Trump has said that “nothing changes,” following Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s public statement on the ‘Russiagate’ investigation. The president declared that “the case is closed.” “Nothing changes from the Mueller Report,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday. “There was insufficient evidence and therefore, in our Country, a person is innocent. The case is closed! Thank…

Jordan’s King Abdullah told US President Donald Trump’s adviser, Jared Kushner, that a lasting Middle East peace can only come with the creation of a Palestinian state on land captured by Israel in a 1967 war, and with east Jerusalem as its capital, Reuters said. Kushner is leading a US delegation to the Middle East…

Venezuela’s inflation has been soaring dramatically and reached 130,060 percent in 2018, the country’s central bank said in its first report on key economic indicators since 2015. The latest data from the watchdog released on Tuesday means that an item that cost 1 bolivar in 2017, cost 1,300 bolivares a year later. Even compared to…

Prominent Turkish journalist Kadri Gursel has been sent back to prison in connection with convictions on terror charges handed down last year to an opposition newspaper. Gursel, who previously wrote for the Cumhuriyet newspaper, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for “knowingly and willingly aiding a terror group without being a member.” He tweeted…