The Hong Kong government is on the defensive for its extensive quarantine exemptions that have now been identified as causing much of the current outbreak. More than 1,400 people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 this month, more than half of Hong Kong’s total infections in the coronavirus pandemic. The medical …
Read More »The fight to clear Johnny Depp’s name exposes a totally more unpleasant agenda | Catherine Bennett | Opinion
Two weeks after Johnny Depp’s libel hearing, a subset of supporters arrived with a gigantic mobile reading of the Fathers4Justice ad, over a photo of the actor and his ex-wife Amber Heard: “Ditch the Witch.” That these American celebrities are long divorced and had no children together, and that the …
Read More »Johnny Depp wanted Amber Heard “barefoot, pregnant and at home,” court said | Movie
Johnny Depp wanted Amber Heard “barefoot and pregnant, and at home,” his acting coach told the London superior court as he described his growing suspicions that the Pirates of the Caribbean actor was beating his wife. Kristina Sexton, Heard’s friend and later interim coach, said she had not seen Depp …
Read More »‘We look like fools’: the ties between the United Kingdom and the United States threatened by corruption | Law
British anti-corruption investigators accused their US counterparts of cheating on them during a dispute over a criminal investigation that threatened cooperation between countries and led the UK to complain that “we look like fools.” The extraordinary dispute is uncovered in a series of confidential exchanges, watched by The Guardian, between …
Read More »Britain and the United States accuse Russia of launching ‘weapon’ into space | World News
The United States and the United Kingdom accused Russia of testing an anti-satellite weapon in space, in the latest sign that a space-based arms race is heating up. General John Raymond, head of the new US Space Force, said the alleged test of a projectile, conducted on July 15, was …
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