Month: July 2020

Defenders of genuine roquefort, France’s famed salty blue cheese, have seen red over a cheaper, pasteurised lookalike they say is eating into already dwindling sales and which they want banned. The row is the latest in a long-running battle between purists and industrial dairy groups they say are sapping the foundations of traditional cheesemaking by…

Pablo Escobar’s brother has vowed to “take down” Elon Musk after the Tesla founder started selling a flamethrower which Mr Escobar says he and his brother designed. Roberto Escobar, the 72-year-old former accountant for his drug trafficker brother, has made a career in recent years out of cashing in on the family’s infamous name. On…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Conservative rival Andrew Scheer slugged it out on Sunday on the last day of a rancorous election campaign. With Canadians going to the polls on Monday, the Liberals and Tories went into the home stretch in a dead heat, each with about 31-32 percent support after 40 days…

A steppe eagle has nearly bankrupted a Russian bird-tracking programme with roaming text messages after he flew to Iran and began transmitting backlogged GPS data.  Scientists from the Siberian Environmental Centre were forced to turn to crowdfunding, with donations flooding in since the story made national news. Named “Min” after his birthplace near the city…

Iraq’s elite counter-terrorism forces have been deployed in two of the country’s main cities as a fresh wave of anti-government protests has seen over 60 killed in the first 48 hours.  Prime Minister Abdul Mahdi ordered members of the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) on Saturday night to use “all necessary measures” to get protestors off…

A Northern Irishman has been arrested in Dublin in relation to deaths of 39 migrants in Essex last week. Eamonn Harrison, 23, from Mayobridge in County Down appeared before the High Court in Dublin this morning on foot of a European Arrest Warrant received from UK police yesterday evening. British police want to extradite Mr Harrison…

A prominent US sommelier has been accused of sexual assault by several women in a report in the New York Times. Anthony Cailan, 29, has worked at restaurants including the Usual in New York, and Bestia, and Animal, in Los Angeles. Mr Cailan was on the cover of the October issue of Wine & Spirits…

The West’s Kurdish allies say they have resumed cooperation with US forces against the Islamic State in northern Syria as American officials acknowledged little had changed in policy terms despite Donald Trump’s orders to pull out of the country. Turkey also revealed that it had been holding a wife and daughter of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,…

Suite à la mise en garde de l’agence sanitaire ANSES en janvier 2019 sur la présence de substances toxiques dans les couches pour bébé, une enquête de la DGCCFR vient de révéler que, conformément à leurs engagements, les fabricants ont réussi à améliorer la compositions de leurs couches. Aucune d’entre elles ne contient à ce…

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — There’s something about having a load of clean laundry that puts a smile on your face. Good vibes are the only currency that people need to use The Legacy Center at John L. Costley Middle School in East Orange. A free laundry room at the facility gives 1,100 students and their…