Month: April 2019

The US has announced it will no longer exempt countries from sanctions that aim to impose a complete oil embargo on Iran. Officials said the “US toughens stance on Iran, ending exemptions from oil sanctions”

Click:fuego artificial Sofie Hagen no longer tells fat jokes. “I did at the beginning of my career,” she says, a bit regretfully. “Nothing negative, just “Sofie Hagen: ‘Fat is a neutral word – I want us to reclaim it’”

Inside the prison waiting room, we were greeted with a threat. An official at Lancaster, the California state prison in a desert town outside of “Grief behind bars: prisoners on Nipsey Hussle and the cycles of violence”

A 57-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the killing of the journalist Lyra McKee in Derry last Thursday. The Police Service of Northern “Lyra McKee: woman, 57, arrested over journalist’s killing”

‘I always try to say this without sounding like a nutter,” says Cathy Brown, “But I remember when I first knocked someone out, it felt “‘They wanted to see if I could take a punch without crying’: female boxers’ battle stories”

On Sunday 21 April a series of coordinated bombings took place in Sri Lanka. The explosions targeted Christians at Easter Sunday church services in Colombo, “Sri Lanka bombings – a timeline and visual guide”

The billionaire fashion tycoon behind the online clothing retailer Asos lost three of his four children in the Sri Lanka terrorist attacks, a spokesman has “Three children of Asos billionaire killed in Sri Lanka attacks”

Tesla has been granted a temporary restraining order to prevent an alleged harasser from approaching the carmaker’s California factory. The electric carmaker claimed in its “Tesla gets restraining order against alleged harasser”

I love a bed of anything. Bed of lettuce? Here for it. Raised beds for boosted drainage? Take me there. You made your bed, so “Can a bed of nails really relieve stress and insomnia – or just make me squeal?”

When a stranger arrives in Bartiébougou, the Kalashnikov-wielding men in charge check his ID. But first they check his forehead. They are looking for the “Kalashnikovs and no-go zones: east Burkina Faso falls to militants”