Panel to tackle racial policing: Barrister is tasked with improving relations between police and black community after inquiry finds ‘deep-rooted’ racial issues Report found stop and search more racially disproportionate than 20 years ago Black people nine and a half times more likely to be stopped than white people A Commons committee found no evidence … Read more
The EU has agreed to reset its relations with Northern Ireland ‘to put the people first’ after it backed down from its decision to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol, according to Michael Gove. The Cabinet Office minister said the union had ‘recognised they made a mistake’ in pursuing Article 16 – which … Read more
Shaquille O’Neal is named director of community relations for Georgia county’s Sheriff’s Office By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 02:55 GMT, 22 January 2021 | Updated: 02:55 GMT, 22 January 2021 Shaquille O’Neal has been hired to work for Georgia’s Henry County Sheriff’s Office as director of community relations. The former Los Angeles Laker, 48, was put … Read more
Relations between Russia and Nato are ‘at their lowest since the end of the Cold War’, while there is a ‘growing risk’ of military conflict, it has today been warned. Former Russian and western diplomats have warned that treaties between the two military powers that have ‘safeguarded us for 30 years’ are ‘gone or fraying’. … Read more
A joint American-Israeli delegation landed in Bahrain Sunday, where officials will be signing a number of bilateral agreements following an announcement last month to normalize relations. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser, Meir Ben-Shabbat, led the delegation that flew out of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport on … Read more
April, 2017: Donald Trump welcomes China’s President Xi Jinping for two-day summit at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump hails the ‘tremendous progress’ made at the meeting and Xi references further understanding and trust between the countries. In May, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross reveals a ten-part agreement between Beijing and Washington to build up … Read more
Chinese foreign minister warns Washington that it’s pushing relations to ‘the brink of a new Cold War’ China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday rejected Washington’s ‘lies’ over the coronavirus ‘It has come to our attention that some political forces in the US are taking China-US relations hostage,’ Wang told reporters during a press conference … Read more
Pictured: Hu Xijin, the editor of the state-run Global Times The editor of a Chinese state media publication has described Australia as ‘gum stuck to the bottom of our shoe’ as the relationship between the once-friendly nations wanes during the coronavirus crisis. Australia is standing firm in its calls for an independent probe into the origins … Read more