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Windows were broken as crowds gathered at the Indian High Commission in London on Sunday
Man arrested after protest at Indian High Commission in London
LONDON —Police were called to the building in Aldwych, Westminster, on Sunday.Videos on social media showed a crowd waving yellow "Khalistan" banners and a man detach the Indian flag from the first-floor balcony of the building.The Metropolitan Police said two security guards were injured and an investigation has been launched.PA news agency said crowd members were believed to be supporters of a Sikh separatist movement.Officers were called to the Indian High Commission at about 13:50 GMT on Sunday.Upon arrival "the majority of those present had dispersed prior to the arrival of police", said the Met.The force's spokesperson said "windows were broken" and two members of security staff sustained minor injuries which did not require hospital treatment.The...
March 20, 2023

Man arrested after protest at Indian High Commission in London

European Commissioners Frans Timmermans and Thierry Breton unveiled the “Net-Zero Industrial Act.” — courtesy EU
EU’s new industrial strategy will aim to have 40% of its green technology homegrown by 2030
BRUSSELS — The European Union will aim to have 40% of the key technology it needs to combat climate change built within its own borders by 2030.The goal is the centerpiece of a new strategy designed to boost domestic industry and cut dependencies on foreign suppliers, mainly China, a country that enjoys a vastly comfortable lead in the production of batteries, solar panels and wind turbines.The strategy is also a response to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed last year by US President Joe Biden.The IRA includes a $369-billion envelope of tax credits and direct rebates to promote investment in green technology, but only if these products are predominately manufactured in North America.The generous injection of American money sent Brussels policymakers into a panic, resulting in a...
March 19, 2023

EU’s new industrial strategy will aim to have 40% of its green technology homegrown by 2030

Russian President Vladimir Putin takes a drive around occupied Mariupol.
Putin pays visit to occupied Mariupol, state media reports
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has paid a surprise visit to Mariupol, a Ukrainian port captured by Russia after its forces pounded much of it to ruins.An official video shows Putin driving a car through streets at night and speaking to people. The Kremlin said it happened late on Saturday.It is believed to be his first trip to a newly-occupied Ukrainian territory.Exiled Ukrainian city officials said Putin had visited at night so he would not see the destroyed city in daylight.The Kremlin said Putin’s decision to go to Mariupol had been “spontaneous”. The Russian leader is also reported to have met top military commanders in Rostov-on-Don, a Russian city just east of Mariupol.Tass news agency says he traveled to Mariupol by helicopter. In the video he is in the car with...
March 19, 2023

Putin pays visit to occupied Mariupol, state media reports

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives to attend the National Roundtable on Diplomacy at the Foreign Ministry in Paris on March 16, 2023. — courtesy AFP
Is Macron’s government doomed by pension crisis?
PARIS — “What this crisis goes to show,” veteran political commentator Alain Duhamel said recently, “is that there are two Frances out there. They live in completely separate mental worlds, and find it impossible even to communicate.”As the country teeters on the edge of civil unrest, his verdict echoes like a gloomy premonition. France’s demons are back, and stalking the land.The anger and mutual incomprehension over President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed reform of the pension age show how dangerously polarized the two factions have become.The government says pushing back the pension age from 62 to 64 is vital in order to preserve France’s much-prized “share-out” system — based on a single fund that workers pay into and pensioners draw out of.With people living longer,...
March 19, 2023

Is Macron’s government doomed by pension crisis?

Logos of the Swiss banks Credit Suisse and UBS are seen on two buildings in Zurich, Switzerland, Saturday, March 18, 2023.
UBS to acquire troubled rival Credit Suisse in Swiss government-brokered deal
GENEVA — Banking giant UBS is to acquire its smaller rival Credit Suisse for $3.25 billion (€3.05 billion euros), in an effort to avoid further market-shaking turmoil in global banking.The announcement came at a news conference Sunday evening, where the Federal Council, Switzerland's seven-member governing body that includes President Alain Berset, said this was the best solution to restore confidence.Swiss authorities pushed for UBS to take over its smaller rival after a plan for Credit Suisse to borrow up to 50 billion francs ($54 billion) failed to reassure investors.The Swiss central bank is extending a line of credit up to CHF 100 billion (€100 billion) to UBS and Credit Suisse.In a press release, the Swiss National Bank said "with the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS,...
March 19, 2023

UBS to acquire troubled rival Credit Suisse in Swiss government-brokered deal

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson seen in this file photo.
Ex-PM Johnson to reveal evidence in his defense over Partygate
LONDON — Boris Johnson will publish evidence in his defense ahead of a grilling by MPs over whether he misled Parliament about COVID rule-breaking parties.The former prime minister faces a crucial televised evidence session in front of the Commons Privileges Committee on Wednesday.The committee is yet to publish its final verdict — but its initial update earlier this month said Johnson may have misled Parliament multiple times. Johnson denies misleading MPs.Wednesday’s session, which could last up to five hours, will be a key chance for Johnson to persuade the seven cross-party MPs who make up the committee that he did not mislead MPs in December 2021.That would include when he told the Commons that he had “been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no...
March 19, 2023

Ex-PM Johnson to reveal evidence in his defense over Partygate

Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting Crimea on Saturday.
Putin visits Crimea on anniversary of Russia’s illegal 2014 annexation
MOSCOW —Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea on Saturday, to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation.The trip comes the day after the International Criminal Court’ issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.Putin visited an art school and a children’s center, locations that appeared to have been chosen in response to the court’s action on Friday.The court specifically accused him of bearing personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine during Russia’s full-scale invasion of the neighboring country that started almost 13 months ago.Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move that most of the world denounced as illegal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded that...
March 18, 2023

Putin visits Crimea on anniversary of Russia’s illegal 2014 annexation

L-R Humza Yousaf, Ash Regan, Kate Forbes: contenders to replace Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland’s first minister. — courtesy AFP
Accusations and resignations in chaotic campaign to replace Sturgeon
EDINBURGH —The campaign to replace Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the Scottish National Party — and as Scotland’s first minister — has been engulfed in chaos that has led to the resignations of two senior SNP figures in just 24 hours.On Saturday the SNP’s powerful chief executive Peter Murrell resigned after it became clear he had provided false membership numbers to the party’s media boss in response to a journalist request, although in a statement he claimed “there was no intent to mislead”.Murrell, who has been in charge of the party’s backroom operations for more than 20 years, is also married to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and the way the party’s executive has run the ongoing leadership contest has been criticized in recent weeks.There have also been some...
March 18, 2023

Accusations and resignations in chaotic campaign to replace Sturgeon

Pope Francis seen in file photo.
Pope ‘authorized hundreds of thousands’ to pay ransom for kidnapped nun
VATICAN CITY — A second high-ranking Holy See official told a Vatican court on Friday that Pope Francis had authorized spending hundreds of thousands of euros in ransom payments to try to free a nun who was kidnapped by Al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali.Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra, the Holy See’s third most senior Vatican figure, told the tribunal that he had sought, and received Francis’ approval to wire the money soon after he took up his duties as the “substitute” in the secretariat of state in late 2018.Pena Parra was answering questions for a second day Friday after being called by defense attorneys representing the ten people on trial for a host of alleged financial crimes.One tangent of the Vatican trial concerns €575,000 wired from the Vatican’s Swiss Bank account to...
March 18, 2023

Pope ‘authorized hundreds of thousands’ to pay ransom for kidnapped nun

A man (top) walks past a pile of garbage bags that have been piling up since waste collectors went on strike. — AFP
10,000 tons of uncollected trash in Paris as unions call for more action against pension reforms
PARIS — There’s an estimated 10,000 tons of uncollected trash piling up on the streets of the French capital, as unions call for more weekend protests and strike action against controversial pension reforms.Hundreds of people have been arrested in Paris after two nights of protests, according to the Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, while demonstrations spread to Rennes, Nantes, Lyon and Marseille after President Emmanuel Macron used a legislative loophole to force through reforms of French pension laws which would see the retirement age raised to 64.French opposition parties have now submitted a no-confidence motion in an attempt to topple Macron’s government over his pension reform. Unions have called for more localized protests over the weekend with strikes are already planned...
March 18, 2023

10,000 tons of uncollected trash in Paris as unions call for more action against pension reforms

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