Starmer says UK strengthening defence partnership with Saudi Arabia Keir Starmer has agreed “a step change in defence partnership with Saudi Arabia today”, Downing Street has said. In a news release, No 10 said this would “pave the way for greater defence industrial cooperation”. It said it would cover “all aspects of the UK-Saudi defence…
Syrian civil war LIVE updates: Opposition fighters in Syria have reached the outskirts of Capital Damascus for the first time since 2018, the year country’s troops had recaptured the area after years of siege. The fighters closing in on capital are led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS. Syrian opposition fighters drive past…
NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to decades as a literary celebrity sharing her blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died. She was 81. WATCH: Nikki Giovanni reads…
The end of the year has a few necessary evils: the return of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” best-album lists that start more X feuds than should be legal, and a feeling of nostalgia for the 11 or so months that just passed. As a fashion fiend, I’ve been preparing our…
BEIRUT — Isatta Bah wakes up from a nap in a crowded shelter on the outskirts of Beirut, clutching her baby, Blessing. The 24-year-old from Sierra Leone spends her days waiting for an exit visa that could put her and her 1-year-old on a plane back to the West African nation. She wants to reunite…
One question that’s loomed over the disturbing allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs is the culpability of his famous friends. Will anyone else be exposed during his upcoming trial or named in the growing pile of civil lawsuits against him? In the months since the hip-hop mogul was federally charged with sex trafficking and racketeering in…
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Office holiday parties are back — and all the fashion politics that come with them. Now that most companies have found their groove with hybrid work models — often three days in-office and two days remote — there’s a renewed sense of workplace stability that is bringing the office holiday party back into focus. All…
President-elect Donald Trump vowed to make immediate and sweeping changes after he takes office on Jan. 20, such as pardons for those convicted in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and said he wants to find a legislative solution to keep Dreamers in the country legally. In an interview with Kristen Welker, moderator of NBC…
This is WESA Politics, a weekly newsletter by our political reporters providing analysis about Pittsburgh and state politics. If you want it earlier — we’ll deliver it to your inbox on Thursday afternoon — sign up here. Pittsburgh’s mayoral race had to start some time, obviously, but a lot of Democrats wouldn’t have minded putting it…