Month: April 2019

Hugo Chavez’s former spy chief appeared in a Madrid court on Saturday and refused voluntary extradition to the United States. Hugo Carvajal, 59, was arrested by Spanish police at 3:30pm local time on Friday, on the request of US authorities, who have been trying to detain him on drug trafficking charges for many years. A…

Steve Bannon has used a new interview to attack the Pope over his anti-populism, as the former Trump adviser ramps up his message ahead of the European elections. In an interview with NBC News, to be broadcast in the US on Sunday night, Mr Bannon said the Pontiff should stay out of politics. “He’s the…

An anti-abortion film which major Hollywood studios refused to fund was screened at the White House on Friday night, amid jubilation from conservatives who believe the film industry will now wake up to their perspective. “Conservatives had given up on Hollywood,” said Phelim McAleer, the Irish producer of the film. “People told us they hadn’t…

1. Iraq Apache helicopter attack Horrifying video footage showing 15 people including two Reuters journalists being shot dead by a US Army Apache helicopter gunman, taken from the helicopter’s gun camera, appalled the world when it was released on Wikileaks. The crew were heard laughing at the "dead b—–ds" and saying "light ’em up!" and "keep shooting, keep shooting".…

One of America’s first Muslim congresswomen has vowed not to be silenced after Donald Trump led an attack on her for controversial remarks she made about 9/11. Rep Ilhan Omar of Minnesota sparked a furious row after she characterised the atrocity by saying “some people did something” during a speech in Los Angeles last month to the…

The noise outside must have been deafening. All week, Sudan’s generals had heard the repeated call “just fall, that’s all,” eventually yielding to it by toppling Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s military dictator, and placing him under arrest. But as night fell on Friday, the chants wafting through the windows of Khartoum’s military headquarters were directed at them.  Hundreds of thousands, more than at…

Georgetown University students have voted to pay a $27 (£20) per semester fee in reparations to the descendants of slaves sold by the elite institution in the 1800s. The ‘Reconciliation Contribution’ fee would create one of the first reparation funds of its kind in the US and provide money for the education of the slaves’…

British and other foreign children of the Islamic State have been left in limbo in Syria’s squalid refugee camps, their governments unwilling to accept them back. There will be some who have little sympathy for them, preferring to save it for the group’s countless victims. But their own children should, and must be, counted among…

A former Pope has blamed the Catholic Church’s abuse scandal on the effects of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Former Pope Benedict XVI, who was born in Germany, published a rare essay in a Bavarian Catholic journal saying that the clerical abuse crisis was brought about by a general “collapse” in morality. He also…

Donald Trump yesterday said he was still considering releasing detained migrants onto the streets of “sanctuary cities” despite 24 hours of outcry after the proposal was revealed.  The US president tweeted that he was giving “strong considerations” to taking the move, which had been criticised as a form of political retribution when it first emerged…