South African traders with China are illegally selling thousands of wild animals threatened with extinction and endangered, under the guise of legal exports, according to an investigation. Monkeys have been stolen from the wild, and together with cheetahs, tigers, rhinos, lions and meerkats, they have been trafficked to circuses, theme parks, laboratories, zoos and “safari…
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White House adviser Peter Navarro downplayed the firing of the State Department's inspector general in a TV appearance on Sunday, linking him to the “deep state” and saying that those who are not loyal to the administration must go. Steve Linick became the fourth inspector general Donald Trump has fired in two months, following his…
“There is bound to be rust,” the understandable and expected analysis went, almost on loop, as the Bundesliga became the first major football league to resume amid the coronavirus crisis. On social media, the return was largely marked with unsurprising ‘this is just not football’ rhetoric as though the game could magically scrub away the…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s new unity government has finally been sworn into power – after three deadlocked and divisive Israeli elections, 18 months of political paralysis, and a further three-day delay due to his party’s infighting over cabinet posts. The Likud leader and his rival-turned-partner Benny Gantz, a former military chief, announced their appointments for the new…