January 2019

Survivors say up to 117 migrants may have died when a rubber dinghy capsized off Libya, a rescue official said. Via: Up to 117 migrants bound for Europe may have been killed as dinghy capsizes off coast of Libya

PETER HITCHENS: I am astonished that Jeremy Hunt, has personally raised the case of Ye Ming Yuen, now in a Singapore prison for drug trafficking, and likely to be flogged. Via: PETER HITCHENS: Think flogging drug dealers is barbaric?

GUY VERHOFSTADT SAYS: I regret that Theresa May’s deal received the defeat it did in Westminster this week. Given the red lines she set out, the deal on the table was the only possible one. Via: Lock them in a room until they agree: EU Brexit boss GUY VERHOFSTADT in Read more

Home Secretary Sajid Javid was silenced by an ‘incredibly frosty’ Theresa May at her private study in Downing Street in what Cabinet colleagues saw as a stinging rebuke for months of cabinet rows Via: Theresa May slaps down Sajid Javid in Cabinet row after months of leadership plotting and rows 

Opponent Martin Fayulu rejects ruling, saying the court has enabled a ‘constitutional coup d’etat’ The constitutional court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has confirmed Felix Tshisekedi’s presidential election win, dismissing a challenge from another opposition leader who had accused him and the ruling party of stitching up the Read more