Category: News

Nigel Farage has branded the EU Parliament’s code of conduct advisory committee as a “kangaroo court,” after declining their request to appear before them to explain why he allegedly failed to declare nearly £500mn in gifts.. The MEP and Brexit Party leader now faces the prospect of an EU Parliament ban, having failed to meet…

Paulie Malignaggi has slammed UFC superstar Conor McGregor and his team as “punks”, claiming the Irishman acts tough to be “worshiped” and to hide the fact that he “looks for the first window to jump out of” when under pressure. The former two-weight boxing world champion-turned bareknuckle fighter has a storied history with the Irishman…

A Polish historian has taken Facebook to court over the company’s increasingly heavy-handed censorship practices, accusing the social network of discrimination based on nationality, political views and religion. Maciej Swirski, president of the Polish League Against Defamation, has complained that Facebook suspended multiple accounts that posted information about a 2016 Independence Day march sponsored by…

The lawyer for Kathryn Mayorga, the woman who accuses Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo of a 2009 rape in a Las Vegas hotel room, has denied reports the case have been dropped, insisting it has been moved to federal court. Mayorga’s lawsuit filed in Las Vegas last September, which accuses the football superstar of paying her…

US President Donald Trump has raised eyebrows in Ireland by comparing the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic to the US’s southern border with Mexico. During a press conference with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar just minutes after landing at Shannon Airport, Trump was asked by a reporter about the complications Brexit had caused…

Thousands of anti-Trump protesters thronged the streets of London to greet the US president. However, despite many of them carrying placards decrying climate change, they seemingly forgot to take their trash home with them. Climate change protesters, peace activists, and feminists showed up en masse to express their disagreement with and disgust at the controversial…

South Korea approved $8 million in humanitarian aid for the North on Wednesday, authorities said. The move comes as negotiations over Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal are deadlocked and inter-Korean relations at a standstill. It will be the first such aid Seoul has provided Pyongyang since 2015 and follows the North’s lowest recorded harvest for a decade,…

Arriving 14 years too late for the Hurricane Katrina conspiracy theories, an American rabbi has claimed that the devastating storm was divine punishment for a gay pride parade, and was “a foretaste of God’s anger.” As the LGBT community (and corporations keen for the diversity dollar) deck themselves up in rainbows for Pride Month celebrations,…

Xi Jinping visits Russia more than any other country – and his great personal relationship with Vladimir Putin is one of the reasons for that, the Chinese President revealed after talks with his Russian counterpart in Moscow. “This is my eighth trip to Russia since 2013,” Xi told the journalists, who gathered at the Kremlin…

Chinese telecom giant Huawei has purchased the intellectual property rights to facial recognition systems designed by a Russian developer and manufacturer of high-tech security technology. Some employees of Moscow-based Vokord will also be transferred to Huawei as part of the $50-million agreement, according to sources close to the deal, as quoted by Vedomosti. Tit-for-tat: Beijing…