Minneapolis was left in ruins on Friday with dozens of businesses looted or destroyed after rioting broke out for the third consecutive night in the city and protests erupted across America over the death of George Floyd. Shocking photos show devastating aftermath of Thursday night’s riots where cheering demonstrators torched the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct … Read more
The Trump administration may soon expel thousands of Chinese graduate students enrolled at U.S. universities and impose other sanctions against Chinese officials in the latest signs of tensions between Washington and Beijing that are raging over trade, the coronavirus pandemic, human rights and the status of Hong Kong. President Trump said he would make an … Read more
The extraordinary story of a British First World War captain who became an unlikely cult hero as he fought the communist Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War has come to light after his medals and photographs sold for £7,500. Captain William Richardson was flung into the conflict along with other Allied war veterans after troops … Read more
The Tory civil war over Dominic Cummings escalated again today as an MP accused his colleagues of ‘declaring no confidence’ in Boris Johnson by demanding his chief adviser quits. Devizes MP Danny Kruger accused ‘one wing’ of the party of ‘going bonkers’ and comparing the alleged lockdown breach to ‘the invasion of Suez’. But in … Read more
Chinese foreign minister warns Washington that it’s pushing relations to ‘the brink of a new Cold War’ China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday rejected Washington’s ‘lies’ over the coronavirus ‘It has come to our attention that some political forces in the US are taking China-US relations hostage,’ Wang told reporters during a press conference … Read more
China has said that relations with the United States were ‘on the brink of a new Cold War’, fuelled in part by tensions over the coronavirus pandemic, as Muslims around the world celebrated a muted end to the holy month of Ramadan. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday that Washington had been infected by … Read more
Cold War spy satellite imagery is helping scientists track the decline of animals and their habitats in Kazakhstan over the past 50 years Images from the Cold War’s Corona programme imaged a region of Kazakhstan The photographs were declassified five years after the fall of the Iron Curtain Scientists have used them to track the impact of … Read more
The story of how a three-man tank crew escaped from behind enemy lines can be told after the radioactive compass that saved them came to light 80 years later. Brigadier Peter Vaux, Major Stewart Fernie and Lance Corporal Robert Burroughs were in a Light Mark VIB tank at the Battle of Arras in May 1940 … Read more
Da 5 Bloods first trailer: Chadwick Boseman is ‘best damn soldier that ever lived’ during Vietnam War in new Spike Lee joint for Netflix By Justin Enriquez For Dailymail.com Published: 21:25 BST, 18 May 2020 | Updated: 21:25 BST, 18 May 2020 Academy Award winner Spike Lee has released the trailer for his latest film, … Read more
There are fears Britain could be dragged into a global trade war with China after Beijing slapped an 80 per cent tariff on Australian exports as punishment for demanding an independent coronavirus inquiry – which 100 nations including the UK supported. The World Health Organization bowed to calls from most of its member states to … Read more