[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. The BBC faces a spiraling revolt by its top sporting presenters amid a row over the broadcaster’s impartiality standards, after star football host Gary Lineker was chastised for tweets criticizing the U.K. government’s new asylum policies. Calls of hypocrisy were also leveled at … Read more
[ad_1] To sell the new policies to voters, as well as the mental health and homelessness advocates who have overwhelmingly panned them, lawmakers have employed a strikingly similar vocabulary to the one advocates used in the 1960s and 1970s to empty psychiatric institutions across the U.S. They speak of a moral responsibility to provide a … Read more
[ad_1] Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he is suspending Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States. Russia will halt its participation in the New START Treaty, Putin announced in a lengthy speech to his country’s parliament. “I am forced to announce today that Russia … Read more
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. MUNICH — China is trying to drive a fresh wedge between Europe and the United States as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine trudges past its one-year mark. Such was the motif of China’s newly promoted foreign policy chief Wang Yi when he broke the … Read more
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in London to meet the U.K. prime minister and King Charles III as Britain announces new training programs for fighter pilots and marines. Zelenskyy’s surprise trip includes a visit to see Ukrainian troops being trained by the … Read more
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Beijing’s top envoy to the EU on Wednesday questioned the West’s call to help Ukraine achieve “complete victory,” on the eve of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s possible arrival in Brussels. Fu Cong, the Chinese ambassador to the EU, also criticized the bloc for … Read more
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — With Ukraine’s partners racing to send more weapons to Kyiv amid an emerging Russian offensive, fulfilling Ukrainian requests is becoming trickier. Ukraine is still waiting for promised deliveries of modern tanks. Combat jets, though much discussed, are mired in the throes of … Read more