Author: Daily Sabah With Reuters
Elon Musk said Nigel Farage should quit as leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party in an abrupt withdrawal of support by the U.S. billionaire for the Brexit campaigner who is trying to shake up the British political establishment again. “The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage doesn’t have what it takes,” Musk said on his social media platform X on Sunday, a few hours after Farage described him as a friend who made Reform look “cool”. Musk – a close ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump – had seemingly backed Farage and posed for a photograph with him…
Thousands of Montenegrins gathered in the town of Cetinje on Sunday to commemorate the 12 victims of a mass shooting last week, with many accusing police of not having done enough to stop the gunman’s rampage. In a crime that shocked the small Balkan nation, 45-year-old Aco Martinovic went on a shooting spree that lasted for hours on Wednesday. When he was finally cornered by police, he turned his gun on himself, and later died of his injuries. People lit candles on Sunday in front of a church in Cetinje close to where the shooting began and stood in silence…
A 52-year-old woman has died in hospital from injuries sustained after a man drove his car into a German Christmas market last month, a spokesperson for the local public prosecutor’s office said on Monday, bringing the death toll from the attack to six. The attack on Dec. 20 in the central city of Magdeburg that also left scores injured shocked the country and stirred up tensions over the charged issue of immigration. Officials have described the suspect as a 50-year-old psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia with a history of anti-Islamic rhetoric and a sympathy for the far-right Alternative for Germany party.…
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that the Iranian nuclear programme was approaching the point of no return, adding that France would need to have a strategic discussion regarding Iran with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. Macron said that leaders would need to ask themselves if they should launch a sanctions restoration mechanism on Iran before October 2025. Iran ‘main strategic and security challenge’ in Middle East: Macron Macron said Iran was the main strategic and security challenge in the Middle East, citing the acceleration of its nuclear programme and support for Russia’s war against Ukraine. “Iran is the…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that people spreading lies and misinformation online were not interested in supporting those affected and were only interested in themselves. “Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible are not interested in victims, they are interested in themselves,” Starmer said. Starmer was responding to a question about Elon Musk’s recent attacks on his handling of child rape cases although he did not criticise Musk individually. Musk – a close ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump – last week backed calls for a national inquiry into the…
A Russian drone attacked a civilian passenger bus in Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson on Monday, killing at least one person and injuring nine more, the Kherson regional governor said. The bus with shattered windows and pools of blood on its floor could be seen on a video from the site, shared by the governor alongside his statement on Telegram. A 49-year-old man was killed, the regional prosecutor’s office said. Civilians in Kherson region, which Russian forces partially occupy, and its capital constantly come under Russian drone attacks. Local authorities report casualties from such strikes on an almost daily basis.…
Australia reclaimed the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a decade by defeating India 3-1 in a thrilling five-Test series that concluded Sunday. In keeping with a pulsating series where momentum swung back and forth by the session, the fifth Test remained on a knife edge until the final hour when Australia eased to a six-wicket triumph. Perhaps helped by Jasprit Bumrah’s inability to bowl because of a back injury, Travis Head and debutant Beau Webster guided Australia to their victory target of 162 runs with an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 58. The win in front of a packed house at a Sydney…
Australia reclaimed the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a decade by defeating India 3-1 in a thrilling five-Test series that concluded Sunday. In keeping with a pulsating series where momentum swung back and forth by the session, the fifth Test remained on a knife edge until the final hour when Australia eased to a six-wicket triumph. Perhaps helped by Jasprit Bumrah’s inability to bowl because of a back injury, Travis Head and debutant Beau Webster guided Australia to their victory target of 162 runs with an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 58. The win in front of a packed house at a Sydney…
Australia reclaimed the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a decade by defeating India 3-1 in a thrilling five-test series that concluded Sunday. In keeping with a pulsating series where momentum swung back and forth by the session, the fifth test remained on a knife edge until the final hour when Australia eased to a six-wicket triumph. Perhaps helped by Jasprit Bumrah’s inability to bowl because of a back injury, Travis Head and debutant Beau Webster guided Australia to their victory target of 162 runs with an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 58. The win in front of a packed house at a Sydney…
Italy is in advanced talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX over a 1.5 billion euro ($1.55 billion) deal for the company to provide secure telecommunications to the government, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday. Discussions are ongoing and a final agreement on the five-year contract has not been reached, but the project has already been approved by Italy’s Intelligence Services and Defence Ministry, the report said, citing unnamed sources. SpaceX and Italy’s Defence Ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment outside regular business hours. The report said the deal involves SpaceX supplying Italy with a full range of encryption…