Month: February 2020

Timo Werner has fueled rumours of a possible summer move to Liverpool by addressing speculation after RB Leipzig’s 1-0 victory over Tottenham on Wednesday night. A report in January from Bild said that Liverpool was Werner’s ‘preferred goal’ as he weighed up a summer move to the Premier League. Before SportBild claimed this month that ‘Liverpool are serious’ over…

Lionel Messi admits he sees “weird things happening” at Barcelona after the club president was forced to deny accusations of unethical social media practices. A Spanish radio station claimed the LaLiga champions hired a social media firm to criticise key figures associated with the Catalonia side in a bid to protect president Josep Maria Bartomeu’s…

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is set to air live after both the upcoming 2020 Democrat primary debates to comment immediately after the events, Comedy Central announced. The pair of specials, entitled “World War D: Let’s Get Ready To Ramble – Part I & II,” will be part of Noah’s “Votegasm 2020” campaign coverage.…

It’s a Brussels murder mystery that would flummox even Hercule Poirot: Who killed the Spitzenkandidat? Accusations are flying over the death of the “lead candidate” system for choosing the president of the European Commission, the EU’s most powerful job. It’s a crime story that’s also a political drama — played out over multiple summits including…

While the EU battles American tech giants on earth, it helps them with free data beamed down from orbit. Brussels pitches its Copernicus Earth observation space program as a force for global good, helping emergency responders worldwide and boosting the EU’s soft power. But it’s also giving a crucial boost to U.S. tech companies like…

Far-left comedienne and TBS late-night host Samantha Bee has compared “racist monster” President Donald Trump to the man allegedly behind the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. Responding to recent shootings in both El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, on her weekly show Full Frontal, Samantha Bee joined the plethora of progressive activists demanding stricter gun…

Amal Clooney, the British-Lebanese human rights attorney married to Hollywood star George Clooney, issued veiled criticism of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, claiming his frequent self-defense against partisan media attacks leaves reporters open to “abuse” worldwide, the Daily Mail reports. Appearing alongside Jeremy Hunt, the British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth, Clooney lamented what she described…

Nothing in The Hague. Nothing in Berlin. Nothing in Brussels. At each stop, Theresa May came up empty. On the day she had hoped the House of Commons would vote to ratify her Brexit deal, the U.K. prime minister instead scrambled to meet EU leaders after postponing the vote to avoid certain defeat. But her…

Brussels has a — slightly repetitive — message for the bloc’s most fragile economies: They need to get serious about fiscal discipline or remain vulnerable to an economic shock. Italy, Cyprus and Greece are all experiencing “excessive” imbalances in their economies because of high debt and the number of soured loans on their bank balance…

LONDON (AP) — British police have travelled to the U.S. to interview Kevin Spacey about sexual assault allegations. The Metropolitan Police is investigating six claims of sexual assault and assault against the former “House of Cards” star, who ran London’s Old Vic Theatre between 2004 and 2015. Variety reported Saturday that British detectives interviewed Spacey…