Month: October 2019

The Blues legend hopes that his former team-mate can help the struggling striker rediscover his best form to help them compete for trophies Dennis Wise believes fellow Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola could be key to helping Alvaro Morata rediscover his goalscoring touch. Morata has only scored three goals in 2018, and has been linked with a…

* Denmark approves Nord Stream 2 pipe in Danish waters * Pipeline has divided the EU and drawn U.S. anger * Ukraine-Russia gas transit deal ending soon * Nord Stream says project to be completed “in the coming months” (Adds Nord Stream 2 quote, background) By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Denmark on…

Saving the world is an expensive business – especially when you’re just 16 years old. But money doesn’t always talk, as the young climate activist Greta Thunberg has proven this week. Thunberg turned down an environmental award from the Nordic Council that would have netted her 500,000 kronor (£40,000), thanking the body for the honour…

Child activism has recently come under attack. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Greta Thunberg in particular has polarised audiences, attracting not only overwhelming support, but also aggressive right-wing attacks mocking her Asperger’s syndrome or comparing her to Aryan child figures in Nazi propaganda. Critics on the left have mostly avoided personal attacks, focusing their ire…

Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAYOctober 30, 2019 Greta Thunberg, the teen activist who has inspired millions to strike for action on climate change, doesn’t want awards. She wants people to listen to science. The 16-year-old Swede declined an environmental prize worth $52,000 the Nordic Council, a regional inter-parliamentary organization, awarded her. “I want to thank the…

Saudi Arabia drew top finance moguls and political leaders to its Davos-style investment summit Tuesday, in stark contrast to last year when outrage over critic Jamal Khashoggi’s murder sparked a mass boycott. Organisers say 300 speakers from over 30 countries, including American officials and heads of global banks and sovereign wealth funds, were attending the…

Tom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over. Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San…

By Stephanie Nebehay and Babak Dehghanpisheh GENEVA (Reuters) – Iran and Russia on Tuesday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to maintain a military presence near oil fields in northeastern Syria, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying any exploitation of resources would be illegal. Trump’s suggestion on Sunday that Exxon Mobil Corp or another…

GENEVA (AP) — Iran and Russia on Tuesday criticized and scoffed at Trump administration plans to protect oil deposits in Syria, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accusing Washington of “illegal” actions. Lavrov joined Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Geneva to lend support to U.N.-backed talks among…

Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas, the indicted Ukrainians helping Rudy Giuliani dig up dirt on Joe Biden, had an unnamed accomplice: the Supreme Court’s controversial 2010 Citizens United decision that opened the floodgates to unlimited spending on elections. Fruman and Parnas were arrested at Dulles International Airport this month with one-way tickets to Frankfurt. Hours before their arrest,…