George Wright

Nov 21, 2024 | yahoo.com | George Wright

Tony Blair has described John Prescott as one of the "most talented" and "unusual" people he encountered in politics after his former deputy prime minister died aged 86. "There was no one quite like him in British politics", he told the BBC. The former trade union activist served as Sir Tony Blair’s deputy for 10 years after Labour’s 1997 election landslide.

Nov 17, 2024 | yahoo.com | Sarah Rainsford |George Wright

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has urged thousands of supporters marching through central Berlin to continue their protests against President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine. "One protest will not change things. We need to keep coming out", Yulia Navalnaya said. People carried the blue and white Russian opposition flag as well as Ukrainian flags, while chanting "no to war" and "Putin is a killer" in Russian.

Nov 7, 2024 | yahoo.com | George Wright

The remains of 11 people, including two children, have been found inside a vehicle in a southern Mexican city besieged by violence, officials say. The grim discovery was made in the city of Chilpancingo, whose mayor was beheaded last month just days after taking the job, in Guerrero state. The identities of the victims are not yet known and the case is being treated as a homicide, the state's attorney general said.

Oct 26, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | George Wright

The track that caused so much chaos on the dancefloor it got bannedLethal Bizzle said DJs would send him pictures of signs in clubs telling them not to play Pow! [Getty Images]“The reaction was so crazy. I’ve never seen a song reaction like that in the club,” Lethal Bizzle tells the BBC. Every time the grime artist’s debut single Pow! blasted through speakers in UK nightclubs in the early 2000s, there was chaos on the dancefloor. Adrenaline-fuelled clubbers pushed and slammed into one another.

Sep 25, 2024 | aol.com | George Wright

September 25, 2024 at 12:25 AM[EPA]Donald Trump has been briefed by US intelligence on threats from Iran to assassinate him, his campaign said. The Republican presidential candidate was briefed "regarding real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States", the campaign said in a statement. It did not elaborate on the claims, and it was not immediately clear if the threats it referred to were new or had been previously reported.