BREAKING: Massive Celebration Erupts In Paris As Emmanuel Macron Floors Marine Le Pen To Be Re-elected French President Don't Miss economy Economy & Business Featured Highlighted News April 24, 20220 French President Emmanuel Macron was reelected Sunday with some 58 percent of the vote to defeat far-right challenger Marine Le Pen, who scored around 42 percent. Projections from multiple polling companies, published after voting stations closed on Sunday evening, all showed similar results for the decisive second round of the election, making Macron the first French president in two decades to win a second term. Official results are expected later in the evening but the projection means the centrist incumbent can be confident he has secured another five years in the Elysée Palace. The result marks continuity for France on the international stage and will be greeted with relief in Brussels and major EU capitals as a victory against Euroskepticism. The staunchly pro-EU Macron
Turkey Court Scraps Journalist, Jamal Khashoggi Murder Trial And Hands It Over To Saudi Arabia economy Economy & Business Featured Highlighted Lifestyle news April 7, 20220 A Turkish court has suspended the trial of 26 Saudi nationals accused of the gruesome killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and sent the case back to Saudi Arabia. Washington Post journalist Khashoggi, a fierce critic of the Saudi regime and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed on 2 October 2018 while visiting the consulate in Istanbul to retrieve papers to prove he was divorced from his ex-wife in Saudi Arabia. The decision to transfer the case to Saudi comes after warnings from human rights groups that turning the case over to the kingdom would lead to a cover-up of the killing, which has cast suspicion on the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. The judge told the court: "We decided to halt and hand
Confusion As UK Govt Set To Send Asylum Seekers To Rwanda For Processing Under Secret Deal Worth Millions economy Economy & Business Featured Highlighted Lifestyle News news Travel Guides April 5, 2022April 5, 20220 UK Prime minister, Boris Johnson is reportedly set to announce plans to send migrants to Rwanda to be processed under a ‘secretive deal worth millions’ to the African nation. A government source said the Prime Minister has been told the plans are not quite ready after he intended to announce them last week following a surge in the number of migrants crossing the Channel. Ministers are waiting for Priti Patel’s Nationality and Borders Bill, which would enable asylum seekers to be processed abroad, to make its way through the House of Lords, and be given royal assent before the terms of the deal with Rwanda can be finalised, the Times reported. The plan would see the government fly asylum seekers out to Rwanda for processing while the UK
Finally, US Releases Algerian Man Accused Of Being A Bomb-making Instructor After Being Held For Nearly 20 Years At Guantanamo Bay But Never Tried In Court economy Featured Highlighted Lifestyle News April 3, 20220 An Algerian man, Sufyian Barhoumi aged 48, has been repatriated from the UD to Algeria after staying in the infamous Guantanamo bay prison for almost 20 years without being tried in court. He was captured at a safehouse in Pakistan with a top al-Qaeda member in 2002, and accused by the US of taking part in a plan to bomb the US. But after 19 years in detention, the US Department of Defense said his detention was no longer considered necessary. The US also said Algeria had given assurances that he would be treated humanely. In a statement, the department added that US authorities recommended that Barhoumi could be sent back to his country "subject to security... assurance"by the Algerian government. "The United States appreciates
Bizarre World: US Citizens Free To Choose Gender Other Than Male Or Female From April 11 economy Economy & Business Featured Highlighted Lifestyle News news March 31, 20220 United States citizens are now free to choose gender other than male, female on passports from April 11. The third gender marker is for non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming individuals. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a statement, described it as another milestone in its work to better serve all U.S. citizens. Blinken said LGBTQI+community would now choose X as their gender marker and were no longer required to submit any medical documentation “even if their selected gender differed from their other citizenship or identity documents”. He said: “Starting on April 11, U.S. citizens will be able to select an X as their gender marker on their U.S. passport application, and the option will become available for other forms of documentation next year.” The Department
Russian Soldiers Disobeyed Orders, Accidentally Shot Down Own Aircraft – UK Spy chief Says economy Economy & Business Highlighted Lifestyle news Tech and Gadgets Travel Guides March 31, 20220 Russian soldiers have been disobeying orders and accidentally shot down one of their own aircraft, the head of Britain’s GCHQ spy agency has claimed. Vladimir Putin’s advisers are “afraid to tell him the truth” about the war in Ukraine, according to Sir Jeremy Fleming, who will say in a speech on Thursday that the Russian president made a “strategic miscalculation” in deciding to invade “We’ve seen Russian soldiers – short of weapons and morale – refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft,” the spy chief will say in a rare public address during a visit to Australia. “And even though we believe Putin’s advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, what’s going
JUST IN: Jubiliation As US Embassy Begins Interview Waiver, Drop Box Services For Visa Renewal In Abuja Don't Miss economy Economy & Business Featured Highlighted Lifestyle News news March 30, 20220 The United States embassy says the drop box service or interview waiver for persons renewing visas in the country is now available in Abuja. The development comes months after the US lifted the suspension on drop box visa applications, the suspension had lasted for 32 months. In a statement on Wednesday, the embassy said the programme, which started in Lagos in February, will take effect in Abuja from March 30, DECENCY GLOBAL NEWS understands. According to the embassy, an individual is eligible for the process if: “The visa is B1/B2, F, M, J (academic only), H, L, or C1/D (combined only). “The applicant previously received a U.S. non-immigrant visa that expired within the last 24 months or will expire in the next three months from the date
Contracts Over: Russian Government Expected To Return Back About 400 Planes By Monday Economy & Business Featured Highlighted Lifestyle News Tech and Gadgets Travel Guides March 27, 20220 The Russian government has given the military officials who are on a millitary sanction operation in Ukraine to ensure that they rap up their operations before Monday. The Russian government had hired planes which were used to carry the necessities needed by the millitary personnel in Ukraine. The owners of the the plane will require their planes back before Monday since it was stipulated by the lease contract they signed with the Russian government. The total number of planes which were leased are about 400 at a cost of about 10 US billion dollars. Due to great pressure that the Ukrainian government has imposed on the Russian militants, the owners of the planes do not want to risk their own
Danger Alart: We Have Right To Press Nuclear Button – Russian Diplomat Threatens NATO economy Economy & Business Featured news March 24, 20220 Dmitry Polyanskiy, the Russian deputy ambassador to the UN has stated that Moscow has the right to use nuclear weapons if it is ‘provoked’ by NATO. The top Russian diplomat made the chilling warning after Vladimir Putin’s spokesman refused to rule out nuking Ukraine in the face of an ‘existential threat’. Asked if Putin was right to hold the prospect of nuclear war over the rest of the world, Mr Polyanskiy told Sky News: ‘If Russia is provoked by Nato, if Russia is attacked by Nato, why not, we are a nuclear power.‘I don’t think it’s the right thing to be saying. But it’s not the right thing to threaten Russia, and to try to interfere.‘So when you’re dealing with a nuclear power, of course, you have
Zelensky Alleges Russia Is Using Its Oil And Gas Leverage To Stop West From Intervening In War, Says “At The NATO, EU Summit We Will See Who Is A Friend And Who Betrayed Us For Money” economy Economy & Business Featured Highlighted Lifestyle News news March 24, 20220 Ukraine president, Volodimir Zelensky has reacted to intelligence that Russia is using its economic might and the dependence of European countries on its gas to lobby Western nations to scuttle the West's plans of intervening in the Russia-Ukraine war. Around 40% of Europe is powered by Russian gas. European leaders have been seeking alternate sources of energy as they continue to dish out sanctions on Moscow. Zelensky will address the G7, Nato and European Union summits being held in Brussels on Thursday, March 24 where he is expected to call for more advanced weaponry, including plane and anti-aircraft systems. In his Wednesday night video address, Ukraine President Volodymr Zelensky warned western leaders meeting in Brussels that Russia is exerting its economic might to stop