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
Sussexes were ‘obsessed’ with secrecy which resulted in strained relations with staff and senior Royals, says Palace insider Source says Sussexes obsessed with secrecy ‘everything was completely secret’ Even own staff, Queen and Charles were out of the loop about basic information Harry was determined to protect Meghan from the media at start of relationship … Read more
China has released explicit details about female Uighurs’ fertility, sexual relations and STDs in a campaign to push back against global pressure over their treatment of the minority group. As allegations of human rights violations in Xinjiang mount, with a growing number of Western lawmakers accusing China of genocide, Beijing is focusing on discrediting the … Read more
Kosovo has established diplomatic ties with Israel, becoming the latest Muslim-majority country to do so in a US-brokered deal. The tiny Balkan state also recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel – a move that puts it at odds with the rest of the Islamic world. Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and his counterpart from … 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