‘Block everything’: Nationwide protests raise travel tensions across France
France is dealing with a day of gridlock as a grassroots movement to ‘block everything’ threatens to paralyse the country’s transport networks and create havoc for commuters and tourists in the country. The demonstrations, branded Bloquons Tout (‘let’s block everything’), are part of a nationwide strike against the now ex-Prime Minister François Bayrou’s proposed austerity…
Read MoreJihadists ‘summarily executed’ 127 people in Niger, says rights group
Nearly 130 people have been “summarily executed” by Islamist insurgents in Niger in separate attacks since March, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. The rights group says gunmen carried out a series of brutal attacks, including a mass murder at a mosque in the western Tillabéri region in June, where more than 70…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump Press Sec Seethes as Dumb New Epstein Spin Goes Awry
Sargent: Well, Steve, you’ve been covering politics a long time. There was a time at which you would have expected senior leaders of a party whose president is in such a pickle, in such a deep scandal, to go to the White House and say, Mr. President, this isn’t working. We really have to do something else…
Read MoreGerman minister links conditions faced by Jewish artists to Nazi era
German Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer believes anti-Semitism is on the rise in the German and European cultural sector, claiming the situation is similar to that under the Nazi regime when Jewish artists were banned from performing at all. Many artists are no longer allowed on stage, Weimer told the deputy editor-in-chief of…
Read Moremm2 Asia scraps stake sale; PE fund to take 29% of Vividthree stake in direct share deal instead
As a result of the new share placement, controlling shareholder mm2 Asia’s stake in Vividthree will be diluted to 23% [SINGAPORE] Vividthree Holdings will see private equity fund Hildrics Asia Growth Fund VCC take a 29 per cent stake through a S$2.2 million subscription of new shares, replacing a scrapped deal for the fund to…
Read MoreShock as Kenyan lawyer killed in drive-by shooting in Nairobi
Kenya has been left in shock after the killing of a senior lawyer in a drive-by shooting on a busy street in the capital Nairobi. Mathew Kyalo Mbobu, a respected lawyer and former head of a political parties’ dispute tribunal, was driving home on Tuesday evening when a gunman on a motorcycle pulled alongside his…
Read MoreCenturion wins shareholder support for Reit listing plan
The Reit will accelerate the group’s growth and support sustainable capital recycling, says chief executive Kong Chee Min [SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listed Centurion Corp won overwhelming support at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on Wednesday (Sep 10), for its planned listing of Centurion Accommodation Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) and related transactions. This includes the divestment of…
Read MoreSocial Media Is Navigating Its Sectarian Phase
On September 1st, the author and statistician Nate Silver wrote a post on X diagnosing a new condition: “Blueskyism,” so named for the decentralized social network that has emerged as a competitor to what used to be Twitter. According to Silver, Blueskyism embodies a newfangled ideology comprising “all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to…
Read MoreThe One Percent’s Fear of Death Is Wreaking Havoc on the World
Once you start to see it, you see it everywhere. First, there is the spectacle of Bryan Johnson, who is spending millions to stay young, injecting his son’s blood plasma into his veins, electroshocking his penis, following a strictly regimented diet that looks for all the world like an eating disorder. When Katie Drummond interviewed…
Read MoreTesla continues its skid in mainland China as August electric car sales, market share fall
Tesla is gradually losing its appeal in China’s premium electric vehicle (EV) segment as its sales and market share fall. The US carmaker handed 57,152 Shanghai-made Model 3 and Model Y vehicles over to customers on the mainland last month, down 9.9 per cent from a year earlier, according to the China Passenger Car Association…
Read More3 migrants die trying to cross the English Channel from France
PARIS (AP) — Three migrants have died after attempting to cross the English Channel from northern France, and at least three others are believed to be missing, local authorities said on Wednesday. The Pas-de-Calais department’s prefecture said the three people who died overnight were trying to reach Britain through the perilous waterway. Local authorities believe…
Read MoreProtesters clash with police in Paris as ‘Block Everything’ movement gains momentum
PARIS (AP) — Protesters clashed with police early Wednesday in Paris, where garbage bins were set on fire, as the government deployed an exceptional 80,000 police for a day of nationwide action under the slogan “Block Everything.” The protesters, angry at French President Emmanuel Macron over his leadership and austerity policies, are planning to disrupt…
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