The Trump administration has moved to rewrite rules designed to prevent disasters at thousands of chemical facilities across the country. The Environmental Protection Agency filed a motion in federal court on Thursday pulling back the safety regulations, introduced last year under former president Joe Biden. The rules, which took effect in May, require sites that … Read more
55 mins agoAnalysing Russian strike on Ukraine hotelFour killed in a missile strike on a hotel in President Zelensky’s home town in central Ukraine.55 mins agoEurope
Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris Macron says France is open to extending nuclear deterrent to protect European Allies So in the end Charles de Gaulle was right. As president of France in the 1960s, it was he who launched the policy of French strategic independence. Of course, he said, Americans were more our friends than … Read more
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US Congress has voted to censure Texas Democrat Al Green, who was ejected from the House chamber on Tuesday after disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to the nation. Green, a long-serving member of the Democratic party, was punished for heckling and waving his cane at Trump during the president’s joint session of Congress. The resolution, … Read more
More must be done to make Gabonese football safer, players’ union Fifpro has said after a former youth coach convicted of sexually abusing players was handed a life ban by world football’s governing body, Fifa. On Tuesday Fifa ruled that Patrick Assoumou Eyi, who was head coach of Gabon’s national youth teams for decades, had … Read more
On Feb. 8, Colette Delawalla, a graduate student in psychology at Emory University, nervously announced to the online world that she was planning a national protest in defense of science. “I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world,” she wrote in a post on Bluesky, … Read more
Kevin Sharkey BBC News NI Dublin Reporter Social media Alan Vial and Nikita Burns had denied murdering Robert Wilkin A man and woman have been found guilty of murdering a 66-year-old man who was thrown over cliffs along the Wild Atlantic Way. Alan Vial, 39, of Drumanoo Head, Killybegs, County Donegal and Nikita Burns, 23, … Read more
About 20 countries are interested in joining a “coalition of the willing” to help Ukraine, according to UK officials. It is not thought every one of the countries, which are largely from Europe and the Commonwealth, would necessarily send troops but some could provide other support. The plan, spearheaded by the UK and France, was … Read more
Nigerian lawmakers have suspended a senator for six months, a day after she submitted a petition alleging she had been sexually harassed by the senate president. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan last Friday made the accusations against one of the country’s top politicians, Godswill Akpabio. After dismissing her petition on procedural grounds, the ethics committee recommended Uduaghan’s suspension, … Read more