Wed, 24 Apr 2024 The US Is no longer the arsenal of democracy For the first several decades after World War II, the United States championed free trade. Exporting sectors like agriculture benefited from it. Many economists still support it. | Much of the rest of the country has soured on it. | The economic logic behind free trade ... | Migrant small boat where five people were crushed to death was overrun by 50 penniless ... A migrant small boat where five people were crushed to death was overrun by 50 penniless men from sub-Saharan Africa who rushed the dinghy as it was due to set off across the English Channel, prosecutors have said, | The group of young men came out of the dunes and stor... | Portrait of the Week: Huw Edwards resigns, Mark Menzies resigns and Frank Field dies Home | Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said that within 12 weeks asylum-seekers could be flown to Rwanda. This followed the passing of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill. Five out of 110 people in a small inflatable boat died near the French coast. A BB... | Suez trade plunges after war forces ships to reroute Shipping volumes through the Red Sea plummeted over the past year, illustrating the scale of disruption caused to global trade flows by the conflict in the Middle East, new estimates showed. | Analysis by the Office for National Statistics revealed that ship traffic thr... | Yemen's Houthis claim targeting U.S., Israeli ships SANAA, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for launching three attacks, targeting two U.S. ships in the Gulf of Aden and an Israeli ship in the Indian Ocean. | "In support of the Palestinian people in Gaza, and in response to th... | China blasts US military aid to Taiwan, saying the island is entering a ‘dangerous situation’ BEIJING — China on Wednesday blasted the latest package of U.S. military assistance to Taiwan on Wednesday, saying that such funding was pushing the self-governing island republic into a “dangerous situation.” | The U.S. Senate late Tuesday passed $95 billion in w... | Minnesota sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to come home, 83 years later (Tribune News Service) — The remains of a Stillwater sailor killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor have been identified and will be returned to Minnesota for burial, the U.S. Defense Department announced. | William F. Gusie was a 19-year-old Navy Fire Controlman 3rd Cla... | 2nd LD-Writethru: Yemen's Houthis claim targeting U.S., Israeli ships SANAA, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for launching three attacks, targeting two U.S. ships in the Gulf of Aden and an Israeli ship in the Indian Ocean. | "In support of the Palestinian people in Gaza, and in response to th... | Why boating through Brittany is just magnifique - with miles of Napoleonic-era canals to explore Pootling along at six miles an hour was pure pleasure. Not least because, standing at the controls of our cabin cruiser, I faced a choice of three settings: slow, slower and stop. | The previous day we’d boarded the overnight ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo with our ... | | |
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