Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has been booed out of a Black Lives Matter demonstration after refusing to defund the city’s police department – as Rep. Ilhan Omar calls for it to be disbanded. Frey on Saturday proved to be at odds with activists fighting police brutality just two days after he sobbed uncontrollably at the … Read more
Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez becomes the latest Premier League star to be targeted by thieves as ‘he has three luxury watches stolen in £500,000 raid on his penthouse’ Man City winger Riyad Mahrez has had three luxury watches stolen from home The £500,000 haul included a prized Richard Mille timepiece as well as cash Thieves … Read more
Chinese state media has claimed a controversial national security law bill that could ban people in Hong Kong from inciting and participating in protests will ‘protect’ instead of restricting the freedom of the semi-autonomous city. ‘By adding greater national security protection, Hong Kong’s status as a special administrative region will be consolidated,’ wrote the Global … Read more
Leaked: Some of the City’s best known grandees set to attend controversial Davos in the desert Conference was boycotted last year following the murder of Jamal Khashoggi Bosses from HSBC, Standard Chartered and the LSE are expected to attend Sir Martin Sorrell and Aberdeen Asset Management founder Martin Gilbert also By William Turvill For The … Read more
Sadiq Khan has used the coronavirus lockdown to roll out a drastic new layout of the Capital’s roads as he warned there will be ‘no swift return to normal’ across the transport network. The Mayor of London and TfL have today unveiled their ‘London Streetspace’ programme which will transform London’s streets to accommodate a possible ten-fold … Read more
Moscow’s real coronavirus infection toll is more than 250,000 says the city’s mayor despite official figures saying the figure is 57,300 Moscow mayor says the infection rate is far higher than officials have recorded If he’s right, 2 per cent of Moscow’s population would be infected with Covid-10 Before the mayor’s revelation Russia had reported … Read more
A spike in heart attacks in mid-February could have been an early sign that the coronavirus was starting to spread in New York City before it became the epicenter for the illness in mid-March. Data from New York shows that there was an uptick in 911 calls for cardiac arrest in Brooklyn and Queens in … Read more