Month: May 2019

Britain may have to take back hundreds of tonnes of unwanted plastic waste from Malaysia after the country’s environment minister said it would not be “UK may have to take back hundreds of tonnes of plastic as Malaysia says it is not the world’s ‘dumping ground’”

A driver in Germany had a lucky escape when a passing dove blocked his face from being photographed by a speed camera. Police joked that “Speeding driver saved by ‘divine intervention’ after dove obscures his face on camera”

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has rejected an appeal by the Foreign Office to hand over £400 million allegedly owed to Iran for a tank “Row over debt ‘hampers’ bid to secure release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from Iranian jail”

As the full scale of his win in the European elections became apparent, a beaming Matteo Salvini sent out a photograph to his millions of “How a triumphant Matteo Salvini plans to build a new coalition of eurosceptics with Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen”

Angela Merkel’s plans for her succession have been reportedly thrown into disarray by her party’s poor performance in the European elections. There were unconfirmed reports “Angela Merkel in reported rift with chosen successor”

The family of a man who died of “profound dehydration” inside a jail run by prominent Trump supporter and former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke “Lawsuit Over Dehydration Death In David Clarke’s Jail Settles For $6.75M”

WASHINGTON, May  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether the family of a Mexican teenager fatally shot while on Mexican “Supreme Court To Weigh In On Mexican Border Shooting Dispute”

Although Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) seems to be the only Republican willing to consider the possibility that President Donald Trump “engaged in impeachable conduct,” he’s not “GOP Rep. Amash Drags Bill Barr For Using Position To Sell Trump’s ‘False Narrative’”

Active-duty service members were pictured wearing Donald Trump-themed morale patches as the president made his Memorial Day address aboard the USS Wasp at the Yokosuka “Service Members Pictured Wearing Donald Trump-Themed Patches”

Lynne Patton, a regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, wrote last week that she may have broken a federal law meant “Trump HUD Official: ‘I Honestly Don’t Care’ If I’m Breaking Federal Law”