Month: July 2020

A ban on tourists sitting on Rome’s famous Spanish Steps has divided the capital, with critics describing it as excessive and even “Fascist”. Under new “Rome bans tourists from sitting on the Spanish Steps in move condemned as excessive and even ‘Fascist’”

A Russian vigilante activist who freed hundreds of people from slavery has gone missing while trying to bring a woman and two children out of “Russian anti-slavery activist disappears trying to bring woman and children out of rebel-held Syria”

Donald Trump warned that China was moving troops to the Hong Kong border as protesters clashed with riot police at the city’s international airport for “Beijing ‘preparing tanks at Hong Kong border’, warns Trump as protesters clash with police at airport”

Zimbabwe’s opposition movement vowed to continue a campaign of anti-government protest after police violently broke up a demonstration in Harare.  At least one person was “Zimbabwe police fire tear gas and beat protesters as they disperse opposition march “

The New York Police Department on Monday fired the white officer who used a deadly chokehold on Eric Garner, an African American, while trying to arrest “New York police officer fired for deadly chokehold on Eric Garner”

The Duke of York must "answer questions" about allegations he had sex with Jeffrey Epstein’s teen "sex slave," the girls’s father said. Virginia Giuffre alleged “Duke of York should ‘answer questions,’ father of alleged Epstein victim says”

A Dutch doctor who carried out euthanasia on a 74-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s has been accused of murder, in the first court case since the “Dutch doctor on trial for murder after euthanising Alzheimer’s patient”

James Comey, the former FBI director, violated the agency’s rules by keeping memos about conversations with Donald Trump after being fired and releasing one to “James Comey broke FBI rules by leaking Trump memo to press, watchdog rules”

There was relief for Angela Merkel on Sunday as the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) failed to make a widely forecast breakthrough in key regional “Relief for Angela Merkel as AfD held at bay in German regional elections”

Jeffrey Epstein’s friends are facing a nervous wait after a judge in New York laid out a schedule for releasing court documents which mention “literally “Nervous wait for Jeffrey Epstein’s associates as court mulls release of 10,000 pages of documents”