His criticism raises the prospects of the Nord Stream 2 project, which is backed by Chancellor Angela Merkel, could be slapped by US sanctions. Asked about the pipeline, Mr Biden told reporters: “I’ve been opposed to Nord Stream 2 for a long
The Ukrainian navy threatened to shoot Russian coast guard vessels near the Kerch Strait just hours before Putin closed the waterway to foreign warships in the latest sign of mounting tensions in eastern Europe. The standoff took place between three Ukrainian Gyurza-M-class
Vladimir Putin is sending a chilling message to the world. For this naked aggression threatens to re-ignite the conflict in the region – Europe’s only major war – which began in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea and supported armed, Russian-speaking separatists in
Brazil is facing a ‘biological Fukushima’ and is seeing lethal new Covid variants every week that could threaten to destabilise the world, one of the country’s leading health experts has warned. The country’s P1 variant – believed to be 150 times more contagious
Mr Salmond, leader of the new pro-independence Alba Party, is bidding to make a dramatic return to Holyrood almost seven years after stepping down as SNP leader and First Minister. Speaking this morning, he claimed there is a “range of options” open
Model threatens to blow up a plane on a flight from Melbourne to Auckland in an explicit-laden rant – because flight attendants wouldn’t get her a glass of wine Hannah Lee Pierson, 31, was charged over a mid-flight altercation last November She
An ‘anti-racist’ group calling itself ‘White Lies Matter’ stole a $500,000 stone chair dedicated to Confederate leader Jefferson Davis and will use it as a toilet unless a pro-Confederacy group hangs a banner outside its headquarters. The Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair was
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon addressed the country in her coronavirus briefing on Tuesday afternoon. During her briefing, Ms Sturgeon warned that Scotland could see another lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19, in the same way France has. She insisted that countries
Senator Joe Manchin threatened in an interview to hold up President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill in oder to force changes that would water down his proposed corporate tax hike. ‘As the bill exists today, it needs to be changed,’ said Manchin, who
The sweeping rewrite of Georgia’s election rules, signed into law last Thursday by Republican Governor Brian Kemp, makes numerous changes to how elections will be administered, including a new photo ID requirement for voting absentee by mail. Republican supporters say the law is